Healer (A Chanyeol Short Story)

Chapter 7 - Ferris wheel

Everything seemed to happen so fast. One moment he was about to kiss her, the next he was on the ground. Everyone turned around and gasped, yet another commotion occurring.

Nari looked down at Chanyeol who was writhing in pain on the ground, groaning from the pain that was in his leg. Nari hurried to kneel down beside him, clutching his leg with her hands.

"It's okay, just calm down." Nari voiced, trying to soothe him the best she could despite his position.

"A-Ah.. I.. damn.." he choked out, breathing heavily.

He didn't want to ask for help, but he could see now what his mom meant when she said he would become desperate enough in this situation. However, he continued to stay as silent as possible, clenching his fists and keeping his eyes shut tight.

Everyone watched in concern as Nari took a deep breath, doing what she always did when she had to heal him. She put in her everything, feeling the pain start to transfer. She wished this didn't have to happen here in front of all these people, worrying that it would cause a lot of talk to go around. She knew it wasn't her problem, but seeing how these people treated one another was enough to make her worry for them.

Not long after starting to heal him did the pain slowly fade away from his leg, eventually subsiding. He calmed down, breathing heavily with his hand laying on his chest. Nari removed her hands from her leg, feeling a great deal of pain in her own leg now, feeling weak all of a sudden. She leaned on her right arm for balance as she looked at Chanyeol, flinching slightly as the pain caused distress on her body.

After a little while of them both being on the ground, Leigha rushed over to Chanyeol and knelt down, putting her hand on his shoulder. "Chanyeol?" she called worriedly.

Chanyeol started to breath normally again and opened his eyes to look up at his mother.

Leigha cupped his cheek. "Are you okay?"

Chanyeol nodded, sitting up in his spot. He looked up, expecting to see Nari, but she wasn't there.

Chanyeol put a hand on his knee. "Where's Nari?"

As if to forget who she was, Leigha looked at him with a confused expression before it changed to slight surprise, remembering. "Oh... I don't know. She was right there a minute ago."

Chanyeol frowned, immediately getting up to go look for her. His leg felt fine like nothing had happened previously. He heard his mom apologize to the bride and groom for all the disruptions and tell her they would be leaving. Chanyeol made his way out to the lobby, looking around for Nari but unfortunately didn't see anything. He peaked into a few other rooms around the lobby but didn't see anything either, deciding to look outside for her. As he walked out the front entrance, he scanned the area and spotted Nari finally, sitting out on the ledge of the sidewalk.

Chanyeol made his way over to her, sitting beside her. He didn't notice her clutching her leg and was unable to by the time she removed her hand, looking up at him with a forced smile.

"Why are you out here?" Chanyeol questioned, feeling a bit awkward from what had happened before the pain hit.

Nari looked around, not being able to tell him that she didn't feel good. "Just getting some fresh air."

Chanyeol nodded understandingly. "It was kind of stuffy in there."

Nari stayed silent, turning her head so she was facing forward.

After a minute of staying silent, Chanyeol finally spoke. "How do you do it?"

Nari looked up at him with a confused expression. "Do what?"