Hold Me Tight (ON-GOING & EDITING)

20

SUZY

Minyoung, Soojung, Taeyeon and I decided to have some girl time after spending a lot of time at work and at home. We haven't had any time for ourselves since the day we graduated college and that was pretty upsetting if you ask me.

Soojung takes a sip of her coffee before nudging me, "Why the long face, Suzy? Are you missing Mr. Oh Sehun already?" The girls chuckled and I sighed in return.

"Well,"

"Spill it, Suzy."

"Well..."

"Well?"

"Well—"

"I swear if you say that word one more time, I'll fuckin' flip this table!" Minyoung slammed her fist on the table, causing other people to look at us weirdly. I shushed her and rolled my eyes. What an impatient bitch.

"You know when you're kinda....doubting your man? And you want to ask him but you can't because you don't want him to think that you're clingy and all," I started, fiddling with my fingers.

"Ah, boyfriend problems," Minyoung sighed and signalled me to continue.

"Ye, never had one and never experienced anything you're experiencing right now, soooo yeah, I'll just listen and pretend that I know exactly what you are talking about." Taeyeon snorted and crossed her arms. Minyoung nudged and glared at her—causing Taeyeon to groan.

"What did he do this time, huh?" Soojung asked with a little bit of irritation in her tone.

"Nothing much but...you know Fei, right?" Minyoung and Soojung nodded—but the other didn't and just shook her head and told me to carry on.

"Well, they've been meeting up frequently these days and I'm not sure whether I should doubt him or trust him...because boy, it's weird." I said while I take a sip of my coffee afterwards. Minyong looked at me and Soojung with a worried look on her face. Taeyeon just sat there—clueless of what's going on.

"Suzy you might or ye, let's rephrase that—you will get mad if I tell you this but," Minyoung sighed before continuing, "Fei is—"

"Omona! Guys!" Minyoung was cut off by a loud shriek coming from the entrance of the café. We all looked at the door and got surprised when we saw Fei running towards us.

"Hi!" She said cheerily and pulled a seat near us. She sat at the side of the table—beaming weirdly at us.

"Uh, excuse me, but who are you?" Taeyeon looked at Fei with a confused look on her face.

"I'm Fei, nice to meet you!" Fei took Taeyeon's hands and forced them to handshake. Taeyeon swatted her hands away, rubbing it harshly before sitting up straight.

"She's freakin' weird!" Taeyeon mouthed—which I unbelievably understood. I put a finger on my lips before turning to Fei.

"So, what are you doing here?" Minyoung asked as nicely as she could. And I can tell by the vein coming out at the side of her neck.

"I was gonna meet up Sehun for a mov–ie meeting...yeah...a meeting." My heart raced the moment she trembled in the middle of talking. "Sehun, huh? And a movie meeting? You're going to film a movie with him?" I asked while biting my lips and my knuckles turning white.

"Y-yep!!" Fei stuttered and I can immediately see lies written all over her damn face.

"How come I haven't heard of it?" I stated.

"It was just announced today and I was about to meet him with the board members." She looked at her wristwatch and gasped, standing up,"I'm late! I gotta go now, bye friends!" Fei runs to exit the café and I was left there, sighing heavily.

"Who she callin' friends?" Taeyeon rolled her eyes and sipped on her coffee and realizing it was hot. I looked down and held my drink.

"Aish, Suzy. You really don't need to overthink. I mean—you've been dating Sehun for what? Two years already?" Soojung stated.

"Well, that's enough time for a him to get tired of me." I said as a matter-of-factly. The two rubbed their temples as Taeyeon remained clueless.

••••
MINYOUNG

"Yah, Soojung-ah." My cousin looks up from the papers that were scattered across her table.

"Yes?" I sat on the couch near her desk and sighed.

"I'm getting worried about Suzy. I mean she's the loveliest and kindest person out there and she doesn't deserve any kind of pain."

"Look, she's our friend. But! We can't change the fact that Sehun's—I don't know?—getting tired of her?" Soojung sighed and fixed the papers on her desk.

"I hope Sehun is not because she'd probably be heartbroken to death." Soojung nodded and opened the door.

"Let's talk about this later. I gotta do my rounds first," Soojung grabbed her coat and rushed out of the door.

"Being a doctor ain't easy, huh." I stated before chuckling. I sighed and stood up—walking outside Soojung's office.

I walked down the hall and noticed a familiar man walking in a room. Out of curiosity, I followed where he went and stopped, my eyes narrowing. "Neurosurgeon Kang Minhyuk?" I muttered while reading the sign plastered on the door.

I slowly opened the door, enough for me to see and hear what was going on inside. I quietly gasped when I saw Kyungsoo sitting across the room with the said doctor. I pressed my ear in and listened to their conversation.

"So, her tumor is getting quite big and will get bigger if she doesn't receive any surgery." The doctor flashed something on his computer and is what I believe—a picture of a brain?

"But there's only one problem." Kyungsoo speaks up.

"And what is that?"

"She doesn't know her illness yet." With that, the doctor's eyes widened and sighed.

"You mean, you never got the chance to talk this out? She only has a few months left to live and when are you going to tell her? When she's already dying?" I gasped. Who's going to die and who's she?

"I know. I'm sorry. I just couldn't tell her yet. She's happy and well...I don't want to ruin that." Kyungsoo sighed.

"Well, someone's happiness doesn't last long. It needs to end as well and if you don't want her to die early, might as well tell her this and go on with the treatments." Kyungsoo sighed for the umpteenth time before standing up. My eyes widened and ran towards the counter, just in time when he walked out of the room.

I released a breath of relief when he was already out of my sight, "What are you doing out here?" I nearly jumped and looked back. It was Soojung.

"Gosh, don't scare me like that!" 

"I wasn't even trying!"