Icy-Shock (Completed)

22. A Narrow Escape

Heartina...

I tried to move but I could not because I had an IV attached on my left hand.

"Urgh!", I groaned and tried to pull it free. This was the first time in my life, I had an IV attached to my hand and so I did not know anything about it except its name. I pulled harder and due to my pull, blood started to ooze out from my left hand. The sight of blood made me unconscious. Somebody slapped me on my cheeks and I started to regain consciousness. I opened my eyes and found an imprecise image of Choi Young bending over me. I rubbed my eyes and the blurred image became clear.

"Heartina, can you hear me?" he asked in an anxious tone.

"Young", I croaked.

"Why did you touch the IV? Why did you pull it out?"

"Sorry, this was the first time I had it. So I did not know what to do."

"You should have waited for me and as blood flowed, you fainted on seeing blood. Am I right?" I nodded.

"Is this really the first time you have an IV? I don't believe it. I wanted to ask you a question", he said in a serious tone.

"What is it Young? Feel free to ask me", I encouraged.

"Recall clearly and tell me if you had any head injury earlier?"

I thought for a while and then told him, "No Young. Mmm. Why?"

"How come you have a long scar in the middle of your head then?"

"What? Is there a scar in my head? You are kidding Young", I smiled. But the look on his face was serious. I stopped smiling.

"No, I'm not kidding Heartina. There is a scar on your scalp Heartina and you are not aware of it".

"I do not know a thing about this so; you must ask my parents Young"

"I will", he was speaking, bending his head and writing notes about my body condition and at that time, a hooded black figure came in fluidly and stood on the rear side of Young. It had appeared so suddenly without any sound like a stealthy cat.

I was in the bed and Young was sitting over a chair next to the bed and facing me and this figure stood exactly on the back side of Young. I was distracted by this figure which was the same I had seen in the previous 2 murders and I still thought this might be a lady. She raised a long sword with a really sharp edge in her left hand which was an unexpected gesture. She lifted it up aiming at Young when I jumped upright and I tried to attack the figure. This was the one I saw at Kim Ji Won's studio and must also be the reason for Cha Eun Sang's death. I tried to catch the figure but instead, I caught the sharp sword in both of my hands tightly. Choi Young whom I thought was writing notes about my condition had fallen asleep on his chair itself. At that time, the figure pulled out the sword with such great force, that it ripped my arms and again blood poured from my hands on Choi Young's neck and he woke up with a start. I cried in pain and pointed in the direction of the hooded figure. He saw it running towards the door and started chasing it outside. Meanwhile, I cried with pain and this time, blood did not make me unconscious. I was waiting for the hooded figure to be caught. I stared at the door.

Choi Young came back after 10 minutes sweating from head to toe and of course panting and puffing heavily.

"Did you catch him?"

"No, he was too quick to catch"

"Why didn't you wake me up while the murderer was here behind me?"

"I thought you were writing notes but you had fallen asleep. Sorry."

"Give me your hands, Heartina", he said.

I gave him my hands. I thought he was going to clean the fissure but he took my hands and kissed it. I withdrew my hands immediately.

He stared at me and said, "These are the hands that saved my life today. Thank you so much, Heartina".

He removed my IV and asked me stand up and walk. I had a big wound over my knee, with intense pain in my hip bone despite the pain killers and so walking was pretty difficult. I slipped at my first step and he caught me around my waist and supported my weight completely. We moved towards the wash basin and he cleaned my hands that were dry with blood. I felt a sharp sting in my hand and bit my teeth to keep myself from shouting.

I could not walk and so he carried me again. He carried me out of the dispensary and took me outside. The time was around 1:00 am. The night air was so cool and I shivered. Seeing it he pulled me closer to his chest and it felt warm. Only then, I noticed he had changed his shirt and we no longer matched. He made me sit on a park bench and removed his coat and put it around my shoulders. He sat down next to me so close that the gap between us was less than an inch and he bought the food outside. I couldn't eat as my hands were covered with white gauze and Young fed me some food and I ate it silently.