signed | choi seungcheol

➢twenty-one

-Jiyeon-

Half a week had already passed and I was bored out of my mind in the hospital. I might've tried everything you could do in a hospital. Each day they had tests prepared for me, hoping for some sort of progress, at times the cars scared the hell out of me, then they had me take that medicine again and after that I would fall asleep withing the span of 5-10 minutes and then sleep for an hour or two.

Maybe God had mercy on me, because the doctors told me Seungcheol's amnesia is not permanent, he will need help to recall the missing weeks. They told me I shouldn't worry and it's not my fault but I can't help it, anyone would be as guilty as I was if they were me.

I decided to head back to my room since walking around the hospital for over an hour is not fun. Before I could walk into my room, I felt my phone in my pocket rumble. I took it out and frowned at the contact name but I picked up anyways.

"Jiyeon! Are you okay?! What happened?" Jinhwa asked frantically.

"I'm fine, don't worry," I groaned, "Don't bother calling again you late bird. Go make out with your girl or something."

"Wait!" he shouted, "About that. She broke up with me."

"So did you call me to get me back?" I raised my eyebrows, "If that is a yes, don't expect to see me again."

"No, Ji, I'm not here to whine for you to come back. I know what I did was wrong, I should've paid more attention to you, when you were in danger just less than a kilometer away from me, I turned away. I'm sorry. And I'm sorry." I hear him sniffle on the other end. I held my tears back, breathing in, holding it in.

"I wasn't there for the first time, nor was I there for you the second. I left you trapped in the hospital to fight your fear by yourself, I regret the most is that I chose to ignore you as a kid and left you to fight by yourself, this is the second time. I will never let that happen ever again, so please, understand that I'm truly sorry." 

I don't say anything but something caught my attention, in the corner of my eye, through the small window, I see Seungcheol waking up. I gasped, "Jinhwa I'll call you back." I hung up and placed my phone back into my pocket, opening the door.

I watched at the end of his bed as he opened his eyes and looked at me. For a moment, I didn't say anything and he didn't say anything either.

"Where am I?" he asked me, "Why am I here? Why do I feel like I have an empty memory but I feel something from it?" he clenched his head, trying to remember the feeling.

"You're in a hospital. You got into an accident, that's why you're here. You lost part of your memory but what feeling I don't know what you're talking about."

Then the moment of silence again before he opened his mouth and spoke quietly, "It's been a long time since I've seen you. You're as pretty as you were in that photo."

I gasped covering my mouth. Was I mistaken for someone else? Did he remember me? But I didn't know him from before, only our parents were the ones who knew each other.

And then he suddenly frowns, "Let me guess, I was in a car accident right?"

My heart stopped for a second, how did he know.

"And I saved you." he smiled, "Right Jiyeon?"

xxxxxx

Seungcheol had explained he remembered his mom introducing him to me with my photo and a short profile, he had remembered me from when we were children. I was stupid to forget he was at my father's funeral. How he guessed what happened to him was just a gut feeling.

For two days, I spent most of my day trying to help him revive his memory quicker, two weeks of his memory was fuzzy, the last part of it was blank. While I was out testing those scary tests, the boys came over to the hospital to tell him what they were working on those days he had forgotten about.

It was the third day and I had just finished screaming like crazy. I had already felt drowsy before I even got to my room. When I entered Seungcheol was ready for story hour but this time he seemed different. I pulled out the chair and sat next to his bed as he explained that he remembered a lot more.

"Jiyeon, I also remembered things you might not recall it happening." he smirked as he pinched my cheeks. [play TRACK 7]

"What is it?" I asked.

"That night after I kissed you, you were-" and before he could say anymore, my body turned off on me leaving him stunned, I fell into a dark black tunnel.