The Wishlist

Chapter 2

Yoongi walks in the hospital with a cup of coffee in his hand, his hair is a mess because he woke up a bit late and he smiles a little to the nurses before going to his own office. He finally sits down and sips his coffee and then arranges the little things that are a bit disarray and starts working on the reports that he still has pending.

He doesn't have an appointment with anyone for another hour and it is spent in him working on his reports.

Once done there is a knock on the door of his office and he starts putting his papers away and a tall man appears with a sort of nervous smile on his face. He is wearing a backpack and appears to be very young dressed in a white T-shirt and black skinny jeans.

"Dr. Min," he asks.

Yoongi just nods and motions him to sit on the chair.

"I am Jung Hoseok," the man says as he sits down placing his backpack on the other chair. "I was scheduled an appointment for today,"

"Ah yes," Yoongi says.

"So...," the man asks. "I have been feeling very awful lately. I went to many doctors and none of them seem to understand what is wrong with me,"

"Can you elaborate your symptoms a little?"

"For starters, I always feel weak and I don't know why, I feel like I eat a pretty healthy diet and I always workout and then there is the infections I've been getting and bleeds also I seem to sweat a lot," he says.

"And what do the other doctors think?" Yoongi asks.

"They give me the stuff to treat the infections or nosebleeds but nothing seems to work for me,"

"Oh, and what made you think you have to consult an oncologist?" Yoongi asks.

"The last doctor I went to thinks it's a good idea to be checked just to be on the safe side,"

"Oh,"

"Doctor,"

"Yes?"

"I won't have cancer right?" he asks and he sounds hopeful and Yoongi has heard this tone a lot of times.

"We won't know for sure until we get you tested but these symptoms can be explained by some other condition," Yoongi says hoping he doesn't scare the poor guy.

"Yeah, I guess you are right," the man says.

"So I have to schedule you for some tests," Yoongi says. "How about tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow is okay with me," he says with a smile.

"Okay then," Yoongi says.

The man smiles again before leaving and Yoongi hopes that at least one doesn't have it.

The rest of the day is passed in making more appointments. Yoongi has the hardest time with the kids. They are too hopeful, too naïve to even understand what is going on and then he sees their mother clutching their small hands as Yoongi sticks a needle onto them and by now they have stopped crying and just have learned to live with the pain. The kids are so brave and they still have hopes but Yoongi knows the ugly truth that most of them aren't gonna make it past the age of eight and it breaks his heart when they ambitiously talk about becoming an astronaut or a firefighter and Yoongi just nods and smiles not saying much because he never has been a man of words.

Things that like really do convince him that god doesn't exist.

It's 6 pm when he finally gets off of work and today he is a bit happy as one of his patients a 13-year-old girl is going into remission and of course there is always the underlying risk but he has never seen the parents look so alive as they repeatedly thanked Yoongi and presented with him a gift of cuff links and a bouquet.