oneiric | lee jeno

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My eyes wandered around the well lit room. It was so bright, it hurt my head a bit.

"So... bright.." I murmured weakly. I glanced at the right side of the room and found a couch filled with things.

There were two persons sleeping. I had to squint to see who were the persons snoring. What the hell?! My eyes bolted up as soon I saw Renjun wrapping his arms around Taehee's waist.

The two of them were sleeping soundly and was wrapped around a big pink blanket. "H-Huang Renjun.." I weakly called and they didn't moved.

What is going on? I know Taehee isn't this type of person. Why is a rude Chinese boy holding my precious bean?

"Renjun! Taehee!" I called and this time I pushed myself to yell.

"Noisy." Renjun's face was annoyed and moved closer to Taehee. Yah, this punk. I glared at him and was fully awake now. I looked at the table near my bed. I grabbed the tissue roll and threw it at them. It was a bit weak but it went on their faces.

Taehee was startled that she managed to wake up first.

"H-Huh?" She looked around, breaking Renjun's grasp.

"Don't h-huh me." I lightly glared at the young lady which she screamed. I covered my ears as Renjun was startled that he woke up and got accidentally hit by Taehee's elbow.

"Taehee?!" Renjun covered his left eye. He winced in pain as he moved away from her.

"Sorry! Sorry!" She apologized. "Unnie!" She quickly stood up and hugged me tightly.

"Unnie—Areum?!" Renjun realized that I was awake right now. He glanced at me and found himself a death glare.

"I'll call the doctor." He stood up and went out of the room. I looked at Taehee suspiciously and I need an explanation of what I saw. "Unnie! I'm glad you woke up!" She buried her face onto my hands.

"I'm not glad to wake up to see what happened there." I muttered under my breath. "What's your real score with Huang?" I asked sternly.

"R-Renjun?" She raised her head right away. I nodded slowly. She blushed as she cleared her throat. "Nothing actually." She is definitely a bad liar. I sighed and looked away. I still feel weak as if I had a marathon yesterday. My body was undeniably hard to move but I could raise my arms.

"I will ask questions when I can talk properly. My head hurts as hell and my some parts of my body aches." I slowly sit up, my sides were aching. Taehee helped me sit up.

"I was out for 4 days and you were already getting closer with Mister Nefarious right there." I teased the little girl.

Taehee looked concerned when I said my statement. She had a difficulty in replying but before she did the doctor came in. Renjun was behind him.

"Ms. Jun is already awake. It seemed the medicine worked after 4 months." He was fairly tall for a doctor. I never seen him before. He had his ash brown hair slicked back and had a thin physique, more like a swimmer type of body.

"4 months?" I blinked at him. Taehee and Renjun avoided my gaze.

"I know this is hard to believe but..." The doctor removed his glasses and went near me. "You were in a comatose state for 4 months." His words were blunt. It rang in my head, so I missed the school festival? That sucks.

"But I felt it like it was 4 days.. b-but 4 months?!" I pulled his lab gown and pleaded him that he was just messing around. I felt crying that I was awake too late. I even planned with Rae Lin and Jane to spend the school festival with them.

"You have Narcolepsy." He said politely. I was okay and I was really sure of that. It was the time I lost hope in myself. I never see myself as an ill person. "Do you have like relatives with this illness?" The doctor begin to ask a lot questions about my family.

It hurts because I don't know my father side because I didn't get a chance to meet him.

"What's with Narcolepsy?" I asked even though my voice was shaking in nervousness.

"Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder that affects the control of sleep and wakefulness." He said as he scans his clipboard. "Your friends told me some of your daily activities. Just weeks before you had your sleep attack, you were seen sleeping most of the time during day time and lesser at night or vice versa." The doctor's words made me uneasy. I decided to accept everything of what he says.

"I'll talk to you again because I have another patient on the 2nd floor. Just eat a lot and do other stuff. Good day." He left the room with a comforting smile.

"Dr. Kim is a really nice person." Taehee smiled. "He's a friend to my dad, I didn't know Mr. Namjoon stayed in this hospital." Renjun said.

I stared blankly at the wall, rethinking myself again. What did I do wrong to get this illness? Taehee patted my shoulder. "Unnie—"

I started sobbing as I buried my face into my hands. My illness affected much of my emotional health. I couldn't stand that I have this disease where I sleep is dangerous.

"Unnie, think of it. We're here." She cooed.

"I don't sleep. I don't wanna." I told her with eyes watering. She embraced me and rubbed my back repeatedly until I stopped sobbing.

Renjun's phone rang loudly which startled me, breaking the hug from Taehee. "Hello? Chenle?" He looked serious as he took the call.

"No, are you serious?" His expression changed as he walked towards the window. "It can't be tonight. Something happened here." He glanced at me worriedly. He quickly went out of my sight and talked to Chenle privately.

"What's up with your boyfriend?" I nudged at Taehee's elbow. She immediately turned pink and denied my teasing.

"He's not my boyfriend, unnie." She pouted. "We just got close after the elections." She looked away while fidgeting her fingers with some loose rubber band.

"I missed the elections too?" I was devastated more knowing I missed cheering on Taehee.

"It's fine." She smiled softly. "Well, you aren't going to be happy that he won." She slowly emphasized Renjun in her sentence.

"He's the President?! We're gonna be communists." I look into the horror to see Renjun as the SC President. "He's not mean anymore.. well he is still a bit  mean but not like before." Taehee chuckled.

"Did you feed him something? I can tell it's working. He doesn't glare at me anymore." It was a testimony that Huang Renjun did not glare at me today. He was more like the neutral expression he had. What did Kim Taehee do?

"Everyone misses you, especially from the Young Writers." She pointed at the fruits and letters on the round table. "Teddy bear?" My eyes was attracted to the light pink teddy bear with my name on a huge paper saying Get well! Wake up! Smile more!

"Jaemin oppa bought that." Taehee murmured.

Jaemin is being Jaemin. He does really leave stuff that I less like but I'll cherish it. "Where's Jane? Rae Lin?" I asked. It felt a bit sad not seeing my closest friends around.

"Rae Lin unnie is nowhere to be found while Jane was sent back to England for family purposes. I tried contacting Rae Lin but she sent me to voicemail." Taehee answered which made me sad. I've never spoke to Rae Lin properly last time. I hope she's okay.

"Jeno?" The name came out of mouth slowly. Taehee's expression stiffen and just kept quiet.