Then There's Us. [ Hyunsung ]

18

Hyunjin's POV

I was awake the entire time but I couldn't open my eyes. Maybe I was too tired or something. All I could hear was the sound of beeping as I lied on the bed. My parents must had come by as I heard sound of shuffling before the door of my room flew open. The person sitting beside me abruptly stood up and I could feel that he was bowing at my parents. "What happened?" My father had asked in a calm tone. However, I knew very well that he was angry. "He--" Jisung's voice cracked as he exhaled. "He saved me..." He said with a voice filled of shame.

"Get out" my father said cruelly to Jisung. My heart clenched again. I didn't want this. He shouldn't hear these cold words from my father. He should only be coaxed with sweet words that will make him happy. I wanted to wake up but I couldn't. It was as if I was pinned to the bed.

"Can I stay?" Jisung asked, his voice sounding a bit desperate. "How shameless can you be?" My father continued. "I know...I'm shameless but at the least...let me accompany him for a while"

"He saved me and I can't be more grateful than I already am" I could feel the insecurity from him. I wanted to wake up and hold his frail frame. "I won't repeat this again..." My father said with a stern voice. "Get out before I make you"

I could feel Jisung flinching. My father was playing no game and I knew Jisung had to obey my father. Once he left I was alone in this room with my parents. My mother didn't say anything but I knew she was there. "This stupid child...are you happy with your decision?" My mother suddenly asked as she sat beside the bed.

If I could move my body, I would have sat up and laughed at her. "I'm very satisfied with my choice" I would say and I would scold my father for telling Jisung to go. My mother must had seen the smile on my face and she just sighed. "Why are we even here for?" She asked my father.

"We should just let that kid take care of him." She stood up from the seat. "I think he will be more grateful with that" I laughed in my heart. As expected, mother knew me the best. "What are we doing here? We already paid for the hospital bill..let's go and leave the kids" I heard as she dragged my father out. "What? Wait--" even my father was vulnerable against mother. Who said woman couldn't be empowering. There's my mother as an example of a strong woman. There's also Jisung's mother who work days and nights.

Once they left, I felt drowsiness hitting me as I fell into a deep slumber. I didn't dream which was a positive thing as whenever I dream it was always just filled with nightmares.

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Jisung's POV

I felt disheartened. It seemed like I was hated by Hyunjin's parents. That was a given. If I was them, I would be more than just angry. I wouldn't just hate me...I would have loathed me. I sighed as I sat outside the hospital entrance, watching people as they come and go. I stared at the patient that had been escorted out from an ambulance. There must had been a car accident or something. I couldn't help but think of the reason as to why people came here. I had the tendency to analyze people. Like maybe that person came here because he had a fever ,that person might had came here because he fractured his hand and that man might just come here because he accidentally cut his finger off while cooking.

"What are you doing out here in cold?" I flinched as I scooted over for my mother to sit down. She stared at me as she took a sip from the can of coffee in her hand before handing it to me. "Want some?" She asked. I stared at he her hand without saying anything. I took the can from her and drank the coffee, hissing at how the warm coffee carressed my injured tongue. I needed something to sober me up or I will start crying again. My mother chuckled and ruffled my hair. "My son is all grown up now" she commented.

"Aren't you busy?" I asked, after all she had mentioned that she wouldn't be able to come home tonight. "I am but I can find some space for my son too" I frowned. I knew what she was up to. She was trying to make me open up to her. "What do you know about me?" I snapped. This was the first time in a few years I had ever snapped at her.

I felt terrible as a son. I felt terrible that I couldn't help but blow up in front of her. "A lot?" She responded. "I know that my son had problem at school but he doesn't tell me what it is, I know my son got his ankle sprained so, he went to the hospital without telling me."

"I also know that you are here because of Hyunjin" I widened my eyes and stared at her. "You like him a lot, don't you?"

She sighed. "I had never seen you smile so much but around him you always smile... Just like in the past" My mom remembered Hyunjin. Of course, she did. Hyunjin was a popular kid back then. Almost everyone in the neighbourhood knew him because of his kind and bubbly attitude. People continuously compared us for having the same bubbly character and I somehow showed that I hated him in the past but I didn't. I couldn't truely hate him.

"Smile around him? Mom...I never even talk to him in the past. So, what if I smiled a little when I saw him?"

My mother said nothing before looking at me.

"Mom is sorry" she suddenly said to me. Furrowing my eyebrows, I stared at her in confusion. "Mom knows why you suddenly wanted to transfer school"

She sighed. "I knew Hyunjin was bullied... So, I deliberately told you to stay away from danger" my mother had some tears in her eyes. "I'm afraid that you would be hurt and I didn't want that...so, I taught you how to be cold hearted"

"I was wrong as a mother. I don't deserve to be an adult nor a mother. No wonder your father leave me" She said as she held her tears in. "That's fine...I know, mom— and father doesn't hates you." She widened her eyes. " I already knew it long time ago but what happened was my choice and father just...he just — fell out of love" Right, I was blinded by my hatred towards Hyunjin. The hatred that never even existed. The hatred that was made up of others continuously comparing us.  "And father is not a kindred soul either. Do you know how he said Hyunjin is way better than me? Back then I hated myself more than I hated Hyunjin for believing in those words."

"So, there's no need to blame yourself for it" I said as I hugged her. When we both calmed down. She suddenly asked me. "How long are you going to have one sided feeling for him?" This question took me aback. I had never had this question in mind. "I never like him" I denied, I felt surge of blood in my cheeks. It felt warm.

My mother sighed, ruffling my hair. "We can talk about this later...for now, let's get your tongue treated...why did you bite your tongue so hard? You're a bit feverish too and you better tell me what really happened. Why is Hyunjin hospitalized?"

I flinched. Oh, how in the world am I going to explain to her? For sure, after I tell her...there will no longer be secrets between us. Just how it as supposed to be.

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Okei...like, I was writing some few chapters of this story and uwued. Like I'm such a sucker for fluff.

And damn Felix. Don't be like this...you're not my bias. -hunny