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01. Game

❝ game ❞

A nurse tried her best to make him take his medicine but she failed. She had no idea what to do since Jungkook wasn't intending to even open his mouth. He wanted his doctor. It was early in the morning and his doctor was still not here.

"Jungkook, it's already half an hour late for you to take your medicine." The nurse tried to convince him.

The incident only made her feel like she wasn't good enough to take care of a patient.

"I want my doctor."

Jungkook didn't care if it was already late, his ass was stubborn. The nurse tried taking help from her friends and the senior nurse but it didn't help. No other option left, so she decided to tell about this to the senior doctor.

Sure enough, she got scolding from the doctor. Dr. Choi wasn't in fault here, he would have to answer to the chief if something goes wrong with the patient. And while the nurse was getting scolded by Dr. Choi, someone entered the room.

"Good morning Dr. Choi."

They were lucky that the person was the one who the patient wanted, Dr. Song Jihyun. Both of them sighed in relief when they saw her. "Thank god, you're here. Go and check your patient from room 191," Dr. Choi said.

And the way Dr. Choi spoke made her think that the patient was in danger, so without saying a word she ran away and the nurse followed her. Jihyun opened the door while panting, only to see a pair of eyes looking at the door as if they were waiting for someone.

A smile crept across his face when he saw her. She walked inside in a confused state and the nurse barged into the room in hurry after her. "What happened?" Jihyun asked the nurse.

The nurse nervously grabbed the box of medicine and handed to her. "He wasn't taking his medicine," the nurse spoke nervously and Jihyun sighed in relief that the patient was okay. The nurse walked out leaving them alone.

"Why weren't you taking the medicine?" she asked before she handed him the pills and a glass of water. He swallowed the medicine without hesitation.

"It tasted bitter until you arrived."

And she was kinda flustered by his words but she just shrugged it off. She was already there, so she checked if everything was alright with the injuries and plaster.

Jungkook was busy staring at her perfect facial features. Her being a doctor made him get more interested in her. The girls he used or played with were not as interesting as the doctor. And once he laid his eyes on someone, he would get that someone anyhow.

The doctor was his next target.

"Are you feeling dizzy or nauseous?" she asked, snapping him out of his wild thoughts.

"Yes- I mean no."

A person suddenly barged in leaving the doctor in surprise. He was the chief. The busy person like him visiting a patient was surprising for her. She bowed at the chief, wondering what was he doing there.

"How are you doing, Jungkook?" the chief asked him and it made one thing clear that they knew each other. "I'm doing good, uncle." Jungkook smiled widely.

The chief and Jungkook started talking to each other and Jihyun was left awkward inside the room. She had to visit the little boy, so she left the room. "Hospital is treating you well, right?" the chief asked her.

The elderly man was his father's best friend, who loved Jungkook like his own son. "Yes uncle, but I want special treatment," he said since he knew it well that his uncle would do anything he wanted.

The chief owed his father a big time.

"What kind of special treatment?" the chief asked him and a smirk formed across his face, he wanted her and he would get her anyhow.

The game of the player begun.

After the shift was over, Jihyun was about to return home when he got a call from Dr. Choi, asking her to meet him. She walked into his office and there he was waiting for her. "I just had a talk with the chief," Dr. Choi said nervously.

Every time he started a conversation like this, there would always be bad news. "You have to take care of Jeon Jungkook until he gets discharged," he spoke and she was confused by his words, of course being a doctor she would definitely take care of her patient.

There was nothing new in it.

"You have to take care of him for the whole 12 hours of your shift," he nervously spoke while she was drinking water.

As soon as she heard him, she spat out the water from her mouth on his face.

"S-Sorry."

Dr. Choi was pissed but he didn't react because he had to convince her anyhow. Jihyun pressed her lips in a thin line trying to control her laughter and burst out into laughter when he went to clean his face.

After a few minutes he returned with a calm expression and she stood there with a straight face, still laughing inside her head. "So, what do you think?" he asked.

"There are nurses to do that. Also, I have other patients to look after," she said since she couldn't spend her whole 12 hours on a patient.

"You only have one left. All of them already got discharged and that boy from room 101 will get discharged in a few days," he said and she thought of other excuses, but unlucky her brain never worked in this kind of situation.

"But why me?" she asked after she gave up on finding excuses and he sighed before speaking.

"He wants you."

"What?" she snorted after hearing his words. "I mean he wants you to take care of him and it's an order from the chief," he said and she sighed.

The doctor couldn't say anything to him. Once again it was done by the chief. She hated that old man so much but also she couldn't go against him.

Already fed up by that old man's stupid decisions which were always against her favor. She couldn't go against him but she had an option, resignation. "I won't do that. I will resign," she said without even thinking twice and her senior was shocked hearing her.

But resigning from the job was not the solution for this. "Don't even talk about resigning. The amount of respect you've earned in this hospital will not be the same in other hospitals," he tried to convince her. She thought for a while about his words and realized that he was not wrong.

"You already know it takes time to earn respect when there are already doctors who are working for years," he said and a slight smile formed across his face when he noticed that his words were affecting her.

After thinking for a while, she finally spoke. "What should I do then?" she asked her senior. She knew that he was really good at advice. It was him who helped her whenever she got confused about something and she trusted him a lot.

"His hospital stay might be a maximum of 8 weeks. I won't force or stop you to do anything. I'm just suggesting you as your senior," he spoke after a long silence.

"Please bear with him for 8 weeks."

But she was still confused and asked herself if she did have any other option than this. There was no other option at the moment and the only option was not what she wanted.

"Only eight weeks."

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