Second Chances

Chapter 3: Progress

Jisoo's parents did come the next day, and quite early. They came in, apologizing to their daughter for not being there when she woke up. Jisoo was confused at first, but deduced the two adults to be her parents.

They spoke with the head doctor who was in charge of looking after Jisoo. They went over all her injuries and her amnesia. Then they decided on therapy. 

Jisoo fell asleep after a little, the constant voices a bit soothing to her.

The next time she woke up, her parents were sitting in chairs next to her bed, asleep. There was also a few other people inside the room. Her friends.

They all excitedly waved to her, but kept quiet, not wanting to wake her parents.

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"We're sorry, sweetie, but we have to leave to grab some things from the office that are due tomorrow." Jisoo's mom said apologetically. She kissed Jisoo's forehead sadly before leaving the room with her husband.

It was a little before five when they woke up to their phone's ringing. Their boss apologizing, but telling them that there's important paperwork that needs to be done. 

Jisoo wasn't as upset as she initially thought she would be. She had a lingering feeling at the back of her head that this is a normal occurrence. Besides, her friends were staying. 

"Shouldn't you be doing homework or something? I don't want to come between you guys and your work," Jisoo says.

"Nah, homework isn't important. Besides, we don't have any tests coming up we need to prepare for," Taehyung smiles. 

The five of them sat and talked until it was time for them to leave once more. Jisoo noticed that out of all of them, Hoseok didn't speak to her much. She tried not to be too upset by it. She was just a bit confused.

He was there when she initially woke up, worried about her. She heard of all the memories, seemingly great ones at that, she shared with him. Even the one about ditching all her other friends when Hoseok moved to their school just to hang out with him. But now, now he's barely looking at her in the eyes. Sure they had that one very awkward moment when Jin left to get her food, but that's about it.

As the four of them were packing up all their things, Jisoo spoke up. "Hoseok?" He whipped her head towards her, the other's as well. "Um, just," she looked around at the others nervously. Not expecting them to focus their attention on her as well.

"Are you okay? Do you need anything?" he asked a bit worried. Did she need his help with something? Did she need him to call the nurse for more pain killers?

"Did I do something wrong?" her question catching him off guard. Why is she asking? "It's just... Well you haven't really spoken to me or looked at me and I just thought that I might of offended you or something, somehow. I'm sorry, that's kind of stupid and I guess I don't really know how we were before so..." she trails off, a bit embarrassed after hearing herself.

"No!" he spoke, a bit too quickly. He internally cringed at himself. "No... I'm sorry if you felt that way. Really, you haven't done anything, I'm just. Lost in thought, I guess," he tried explaining as best he could. He couldn't tell her that the whole reason she was there in the first place was because of him. He couldn't tell her how guilty he felt every time he sees her smile, but it's never been as bright as it used to be. He couldn't tell her that he still loved her and how sorry he was that he let this happen to her.

"Oh.. okay," Jisoo says, softly. "Goodnight, Hoseok," she bites her lip. She knows she should probably say goodnight to the others, but she doesn't and keeps her eyes focused on how Hoseok is initially taken aback, but nods and smiles right after.