Sick | Mark Tuan

Chapter Nine

Chapter Nine

Mark's POV

  I was smiling like an idiot when I entered the car. Bambam and Jinyoung were asking me a million questions; questions which I just tuned out. All my focus was on my phone; the same phone that has A Ra's phone number in it. I unlocked my phone and searched for A Ra's number. My smile grew wider when I saw the name she saved her number under – 'I'll return your stuff the next time we meet' with a peace sign emoji. I quickly changed her name to something cuter.

  Before editing her contact, I looked around to find both Bambam and Jinyoung staring at me. I adjusted my sitting position and lower my screen brightness so that the two of them wouldn't know what I was doing on my phone.

  "Hyung, why are you being so secretive? Can't you just share with us? We won't tell the rest," Bambam begged me to give him the details of what's going on between A Ra and i.

  "Why would I tell anything to the person who has one of the biggest mouth in the group," I told him in English. "Anyways, there's nothing to tell. There is no 'something' that's going on," after I said that, I continued to go on my phone.

Hi Miss 'I'll return your stuff the next time we meet'. Hahahaha, nice name by the way – sent

  It only took a few moments for A Ra to reply to my text. Hi ahjussi who wants me to call him oppa. Having fun with your friends?

  "Ya hyung! You said there's no 'something' between the two of you. Look at the smile that's on your face hyung! There's definitely something going on!" Bambam's loud voice filled the entire car.

  "Bambam can you stop shouting. You're hurting my ears," Jinyoung complained about Bambam shouting. "Mark hyung, you can stop lying to yourself. With a smile that wide, there's definitely something going on," he looked at me seriously while saying that.

  I rolled my eyes at him and continued to text A Ra. Throughout the whole car trip to the hospital, I was busy texting A Ra. In the beginning Bambam would tease me and say all sorts of things that would potentially make me tell him about A Ra but I just ignored him. After a while Jinyoung told him off saying that he was being too noisy and Bambam just stayed quiet throughout the whole trip after that.

  Usually in car trips like this, I would play some music and sleep but today was different. A Ra and I texted each other, talking about the most random things, just like how we talked in her hospital room last week. I was tired after the all our schedule today but somehow, meeting and talking with A Ra makes me feel energized.

  'with a smile that wide, there's definitely something going on'. The feeling that I felt whenever I think of A Ra reminds me of Jinyoung's words. It's a fact that there's nothing going on between the two of us but why was I feeling this way. This feeling that I feel scares me. It scares me that I have such strong feelings for a person whom I've met for less than five times.

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  "Jackson hyung, you wouldn't believe what just happened just now," Bambam said while we were eating our snacks in Jackson's hospital room. "We saw Mark hyung with a girl," he continued then took a bite out of the bread that's in this hand.

  "A girl?" Jackson asked with a surprise tone. "Is she pretty?" He asks after he recovers from the shock.

  After Jackson asked that, the rest of the guys joined the conversation. Within seconds, everyone was trying to figure out who A Ra was. I rolled my eyes at them and went on my phone. I tuned out most of their conversation but something Yugyeom said caught my attention.