smoker // kimtaehyung [COMPLETED]

Chapter 40

I rushed out of the ambulance van alongside Taehyung who was terribly bleeding and unconscious. Once we reached the emergency centre, I was stopped before I could go in further.

"Miss, I need you to stay here while the doctors operate on him," The nurse told me. I didn't realise I almost followed him into the surgery theatre.

"Are you sure he's gonna be okay?" I cried.

"The doctors will try their best to revive his brain back. The paramedics concluded that he suffered from severe brain damage when he was hit on the head. So I need you to stay calm, and let the doctors do their work."

Severe brain damage? Hit on the head?

The nurse tried to calm me down by patting my back. "I need you to follow me and fill in some forms."

She dragged me to the counter unwillingly and handed me the forms.

Right now, the least I care about are some stupid papers with blanks I need to fill in when the love of my life is in surgery.

After I finished filling them, I was told to wait. I waited exactly in front of the surgery theatre on the floor while they operated on him.

My heart is burning not from the alcohol, but from the pain I'm feeling right now. This doesn't seem right. This is all my fault. He thought I was going to kiss Jimin and he stomped out in anger, and god knows what happened. He might have ran into a vehicle or someone might have hit him while trying to rob him.

Oh god, please just let him be safe.

I shouldn't have gone with the dare. Eventhough I didn't really kiss Jimin, it was still my fault he's like this.

The operation took longer than I thought. It was around 4 am when a nurse woke me up from my sleep.

The doctor came out of surgery and I quickly walked up to him.

"How is he, doctor?" I was hoping for good news. Don't let anything bad happen to my baby.

He sighed before he took a good look on the ceiling and then back at me, "We successfully performed the surgery to fix the main damage in his brain."

I felt a huge rush of relief flushed all over me. "Thank you so much doctor. I can't thank you enough for saving his life—"

"Hold on. Unfortunately, we can't fix his minor injury which eventhough is minor, does have an effect on his brain activity," He kept quiet before he continued. "For the time being, he will suffer from selective amnesia."

My heart dropped the moment I heard that.

"Selective amnesia? What does that even mean?" I panicked.

"It's amnesia where he loses only a certain part of his memory. Unlike full amnesia, one will completely lose his memory but in selective amnesia, he loses only some of it," He explained.

"Will he remember me?" My voice cracked at the thought of him not remembering me.

"Depends if he loses his memory after meeting you or before meeting you. I guess, you have to see him to be able to tell, isn't it?" He sighed heavily with a pity smile.

"Can I see him now?"

"Yes, but make sure you don't stress him out if he doesn't remember anything," The doctor told me.

After I got Taehyung's ward number and thanked the doctor, I quickly went to the floor with his ward and searched for the room. At last, I stood before it.

I took a deep breath and wiped away the tear at the corner of my eye. With a heavy heart, I pushed the door open.

There he was, with his head wrapped in a bandage, sleeping soundly on the bed. I softly closed the door behind me and walked to him without making any noises.

My beautiful man, I thought once I stood directly beside him.

I can't believe this happend to him. My baby is lying on the bed with bandage wrapped around his head. Just hours ago we were at that party and now we're in the hospital.

I started sobbing uncontrollably as I took his hand into mine.

"I'm so sorry," I muttered numerously when I sat down on the chair beside his bed. "Damn, I'm so sorry."

I touched his cold face and wished that some of my heat could be transferred to him.

I looked at his condition again and wished that none of this ever happened. To sum up, I spent the rest of the night crying uncontrollably until I fell asleep.

When morning came, I could feel like the sun has shone through the blinds and fell onto me. I woke up and looked at Taehyung who was still sleeping.

Just as I was about to get up and wash my face, his grip on my hand strengthened. My eyes widened in surprised when I realised that he's awake.

"Taehyung?" I called out to him.

He slowly opened his eyes and saw me.

"Jinni?"

"Oh my god, you remember me!" A huge burden had been lifted off of my shoulders. "Thank god!"

"Okay, but how did I get here? What happened?"

"You probably got hit by a vehicle at the party last night—"

"Wait, what party?"

"You know, the party we went to last night," I trailed off. No. Please god, no.

"The one in which I was dared to kiss Jimin," I continued.

"Jimin? Your ex-boyfriend? Aww, that's so sweet. You guys made up already? I guess, me acting as your fake boyfriend really did work to patch you guys back up together," He smiled.

That broke my heart. He lost his memory from when he wasn't my boyfriend yet.

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Uh oh.