Love In The Ice

#6: With Rain Comes....

Jaejoong was driving home after school alone again, as Yunho and Junsu had gone out with Yiting and Yining for dinner. As usual he didn't want to play gooseberry, so he didn't join them. Moreover it had started pouring cats and dogs when they came out from classes, he just wanted to get home soon, get a warm bath and sleep.

As it was pouring heavily, he was driving slower than usual and he had his headlights on full beam. He was driving along the route back to his house when he noticed something in the middle of the road. He slowed down his car further and stopped beside it. He squinted from inside his car to see what the thing was. His eyes widened when it dawned on him what it was...

It was a person....

Jaejoong dashed out of his car and ran towards the person on the road. He tapped the person's shoulder.

Jaejoong: Can you hear me? Are you alright?

As there was no response, he turned the person around and to his surprise it was his tutor Jaein! He shook Jaein violently, hoping to wake her up, but her eyes were kept shut. Jaejoong looked around the road for traces of blood. But there weren't any. So most likely she wasn't involved in a hit and run case. But what was she doing lying unconscious in the middle of the road in a heavy storm?!!!

Jaejoong carried Jaein into his arms and brought her back into his car, and drove back to his house. He brought her up to his room and instructed the female housekeeper to help her out of her wet clothes, while he went to get changed out of his.

Housekeeper: Young master, I think she's running a high fever... Her whole body is burning and shivering when I changed her clothes.

The housekeeper informed Jaejoong of Jaein's condition when he returned to his room. Jaein was already lying on his bed all covered up by his thick quilt blanket up to her shoulders.

Jaejoong: Why don't you get some ice packs to lower her temperature? And cook something warm for her.... And... call Dr Park to come and take a look at her...

Housekeeper: Yes young master... I'll do that right away...

The housekeeper hurried off to tend to the tasks, and left Jaejoong alone with Jaein in his room. Jaejoong walked over to his bed and sat down beside Jaein. Her face was red from the fever while her forehead was covered with beads of cold sweat, and her body was shivering.

Jaejoong's thoughts: Ms Jun... Are you a pabo?!!! You're running a fever and you still walk in the rain... Can't you take a cab back home?

The housekeeper rushed in with the ice packs, along with a towel and basin of water. She rushed beside Jaein and placed everything down, all ready to help her lower her temperature.

Jaejoong: It's okay ahjumma, let me do it... You go ahead and call Dr Park first...

Housekeeper: Alright... Change the ice pack when it's not cold anymore...

The housekeeper left to contact the doctor. Jaejoong sat beside Jaein on his bed, and took the ice pack and placed it over Jaein's forehead. Then he used the towel to dab away her cold sweat. Jaejoong looked at Jaein's face properly for the first time. Her face was oval-shaped, and she had very even lips, with a "hidden kiss" at the end, where it curved slightly even when she wasn't smiling. Her cheeks were slightly blushing and her lips red from the fever. She was sleeping soundly despite her high fever, and the cold sweat that was slowly drenching Jaejoong's t-shirt that his housekeeper had changed her into. Unconsciously Jaejoong's hand had already put down the towel and started tracing the outline of Jaein's face, all the way down to her lips...