flowers [kim doyoung]

eighteen

"i'm sorry but can—can i check your stomach? please?" his voice quivered. he's still is in keiko's embrace. to scared to believe that she is actually alive there, with him.

keiko pulled off from the hug, nodding to him as a gesture that he can check her stomach.

he looked at her before he had his hands slowly pulling the fabric of keiko's shirt upwards.

he didn't see any blood or any wound that can hurt her.
it felted so real, he just can't believe it's just a dream.

he didn't ask her this time as his hands are quicker. he touch her stomach softly, grazing his fingers over it just to make him believe that he's not in his dream.

keiko gasped, she never had someone touching her stomach like this, in such relaxing manner. she knew this wasn't the time to think that doyoung wanted to see her riled up against him.

he was scared. he had his eyes swollen from his awful crying.

doyoung looked at her in the eye and he started to whimper. he also took a glimpse of his heart. it was..it was not swollen but it's faint pink. the color that is usually seen when someone is deeply in love with somebody else. and the stinging vanishes for a second.

her gaze softened. where was the bold man in front of her? "hey.. what's wrong?" she asks.

he smiled through his tears. "you're alive. i'm—i'm so happy that you're alive. i wa—was so scared. you were dying in front of—of me and i couldn't save you" he whispered when he looked at her.

she gave him a soft look, she was trying to soothe him down.

she took his hand and put his hands on her stomach, covering his hands above them.

"here, i'm fine doyoung. i'm talking here with you alright?" her eyes shines with hope that doyoung believes her.

he nodded with his tears stained his face.

keiko smiled back at him and caresses his face.

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"so she did that to you?" yuta asks him as he sips his cup of coffee. both of them just finished their operation on a 4 year old boy who had a reversed heart. like the aorta was supposed to be on the left side of the heart but the kid had it on his right side.

they managed to make the operation successful, though it was a dreadful thing to do.

doyoung sips his cup of hot chocolate. the only thing that he loved to drink after having an operation. "yeah, it was horrible. she killed keiko in front of me"

"you do realize as you speak this, she'll hear it"

"fuck her then. i don't care" doyoung rolled his eyes. he was done with everything that she did to him in his dream, and he knows that she won't stop.

he still wears the eyepatch, even at work to prevent anything suspicious happens, he just told them he got into a fight and his eye his bruised. but we all know what it is about.

yuta shrugged and nodded. "you need to tell her doyoung, it's now or never you know" he said quietly.

"i know. it's just, do you think it's easy to tell something that has been hidden almost 6 years?"

"how could you stand it for 5 years? well, it's almost 6 already. i mean, i would've banged her if i got the chance. you haven't been sexually active for your entire life, gosh i mean how could you stand it?!"

"yuta, i'm not gonna die even if i'm a virgin. i'm gonna die because of this heart" doyoung rolled his eyes.

"i'm sorry that was a joke but i meant half of it. because i wouldn't survive being like that for almost 6 years"

"of course yuta. you're a horny moron, should i elaborate?"

yuta sighed when doyoung teased him. he wasn't a fuckboy but he only had it once with his ex girlfriend. too bad the girl left him for another man who is rich.

anyways then, he became an anesthesiologist who had the most expensive salary in the world. he had her crawling back to him but no, he wasn't having second chances.

"no. okay shut up. don't do sarcasm with me, i'm not you so i'll be losing anyway"

doyoung smiled at yuta's remarks about him.

then, a sudden feeling of uncomfortableness was present at doyoung's throat. he felt that his throat is burning, it hurts so bad, he stopped saying anything to yuta. he felt funny in his stomach too. it was too much for him to handle.

he had his hands wrapped on his throat, feeling the pain screeching down on his throat.

yuta who witnessed what doyoung was doing, immediately asked him.

"doyoung, are you okay?" he asks him with large eyes, as a result doyoung showed him a sign with his hands that he's not okay.

they quickly get up from the cafeteria and yuta rushed doyoung to the toilet.

as soon as they arrived there, doyoung had his head hovering the sink, finally vomiting out everything that had been stuck in his throat.

yuta patted his back, trying to ease doyoung. things were about to become ugly when both of them realized that doyoung had vomited blood and.. rose petals.

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to be continued;🍒