My I「Junhao」

0.7

"Pneumonia?" She asked, disbelief evident in her voice. "Yeah. Haoie is one of those few people who sometimes get the symptoms all at once, which really is not good because what if it ends up being fatal? But it's pneumonia and I'm personally not sure about how severe it is and so the doctor gave me a script for antibiotics because it's bacterial, and told me to take him to the hospital just to be safe, so I took a taxi to the hospital." I explained.

She hummed in understanding and cleared her throat. "What are the doctors at the hospital saying?" She asked.
"Same thing, they're just running a few checks on his immune system, just to make sure there's nothing else wrong before they let us leave so that I can get him his antibiotics." I told her and I could hear the faint scratching of a pen on paper before she responded.

"I'm assuming you will not be coming back in today?" She asked and I nodded, before realising she couldn't see me. My cheeks heated up and I cleared my throat before responding, "Ah, yes, I won't be coming back in. I'll be staying home and caring for Hao. I must go now, I have to call Hao's mother to tell her what's happening. Goodbye." I hung up before she could respond. I felt bad for lying, Minghao's mum had already been notified. The real reason I had to go was because the doctor was approaching me.

The doctor was a man who seemed to be a few years older than me. He was a very good looking man, I admit. His hair was dyed red and his facial features made him look quite panda-like. He wore small, mismatched earrings and I noticed he wore a band on his left ring finger. He was married, which didn't come to me as a surprise. Whoever he was married to was a lucky person, he looked like he was a caring person. When he stopped in front of me, I saw he had a genuine smile on his face, which relieved me.

"Are you Mr Junhui? My patient Xu Minghao's boyfriend?" He visibly brightened when he asked if I was Minghao's boyfriend and I didn't have the heart to correct him. I nodded, guilt gnawing at my insides as I lied about our relationship. "I'm Dr Wu Zitao. I just came to inform you that everything is good with Minghao and he can go home. Do you know whether he's been getting enough sleep recently? He was struggling to stay awake when I was asking him questions and he's asleep now." The guilt I was feeling became worse.

I was aware that Minghao always had trouble sleeping and preferred if someone was with him, but I didn't really ever sleep with him unless he desperately needed me there. I was ignorant enough to think that sleeping with Minghao when he directly asked me would be enough. "He struggles to sleep without human contact. I'll take care of that and then it shouldn't happen again. Is there anything else?" He opened his mouth to speak but changed his mind and instead pulled a business card out of his back pocket and handed it to me.

"This is for if you want any advice on anything or if you're worried when something like this happens again. I'd prefer you contacted me directly and I checked him when something like this happens, rather than going to a doctor, or here, unless it's absolutely an emergency and you have to come here, of course." He informed me and my eyes widened. "Wait, advice? What for?" He rubbed the back of his neck almost sheepishly. "Well, if you need any help regarding your... relationship, you can talk to me. My... husband and I went through a lot of struggles and criticism, being a gay couple and I want to be able to help you two." I opened my mouth but closed it again, not having any idea of how to respond.

The guilt that was bubbling up started clawing at the blockade that was holding me back from confessing that we weren't actually dating... I'm not sure why but I didn't want to disappoint the doctor by telling him the truth because he thought that Minghao and myself were dating. "Okay... thank you for that Doctor Wu." He smiled softly at me. "Please, just call me Zitao, or even just Tao, I'd like you to consider me a friend rather than just a doctor. But back to the reason why you're here, I'll take you to Minghao now. He's in my office." I nodded and followed Zitao as he started to walk away, the smile still on his face.

Yet the guilt was still there, clawing away at me as I followed Zitao with a fake smile on my face.

What I wrote in this chapter makes it seem like Junhui is gonna do something bad to Minghao. I swear he's not he just feels really guilty for lying.