Persona

CHAPTER XXXVIII: Room 38

"Can you please calm down?!" HaeNa finally blew "you've been like this since last night! You haven't slept yet!"

She pushed me down on my bed but, I can't help but to be worried as hell. I kept on biting my nails that I don't even feel hungry anymore.

"Just what is the matter with you?"

"I- uhm nothing" I stood up again to only walk back and forth and I'm sure...

HaeNa is about to hit me hard

"LEE EUNBYEOL"

yep, I knew this was already coming

I halted my steps and looked at her briefly then continued walking

"Why don't you hit me up? Tell me what's wrong."

"You wouldn't understand. It's work stuff" I sat down on my bed but, my legs won't calm down

"I don't care. I'm here to listen just to make you calm down and MAKE YOU TASTE SOME SLEEP" She flopped next to me "so what's it about?"

"I don't know if I did the right thing." I pulled my hair out of frustration "Maybe I shouldn't have called NaNa to check on JungKook. Maybe I made things more worse than it's already is. I reg-"

"EunByeol-ah stop for a minute" She held both of my shoulders to make me look at her "you're telling me you're worried about your boss and not about your patient?"

"No! I mean I'm also worried about Jimin and- OMG I NEED TO CHECK ON HIM TODAY! I KNEW I SHOULDN'T HAVE LEFT HIM ALONE BUT, I NEED TO! Maybe he's in complete stress right now and maybe trashing the whole ward?" I quickly collected my coat and purse and ready to sprint towards the ward

I don't care about how I look right now.

"This won't do I need to-"

"YAH!" A figure was blocking my way all of a sudden. "Are you in your right mind right now?"

"You don't understand I need to go and check on the-"

"Just for a fucking minute. STOP"

I was taken back by her tone. HaeNa never shouts at me unless she really needed to.

The last time I heard her voice like this was when I was about to harm myself...

Days after my parents...sort of.. Disappeared

"You need to stop. It's your off for Godsake!  And besides there are nurses to look after him when you're gone and they should've called you by now if something went back.

And wahhh, even your boss? Really EunByeol? You're worried about him too? You're being this stressed because of him too?"

"I just wanted to help him, it's not like I could just ignore him when I know exactly how to help him"

"See? This is exactly your problem. Have you seen how terrible you look right now? You look like you're about to pass out any minute and you still want to rush over to the ward which is almost a 20 minute ride from here? "

"I can manage. I'm perfectly fine"

"You keep on looking after others that you forgot to look after yourself! You didn't sleep, you didn't even have dinner last night! You haven't taken a bath that you're still wearing your clothes from yesterday!