Tied to a Dino (My Sly Fox Sequel)

Chptr 27: Truth Behind Her Health Issues

The room was still a bit dark because of the dim dawn light coming from outside the window when Yerin opened her eyes. She found out on the clock beside her that it's just 6am. Her face was crumpled and unexplainable as she was woken up by a weird sensation on her stomach. It was aching in a different way so slowly and carefully, she stood up but dizziness struck as soon as she tried to find her balance.

'Oh nausea, why are you doing this to me?', she thought with tightly closed eyes.

After feeling a little stable, she held onto the edge of the bedside table and took steps very slowly with her hands on the wall as support, but then, she felt as if her stomach turned upside down so she had forgotten her dizziness and rush to the bathroom. She ended up face to face with the toilet, both hands holding tight on its edge for her dear life as her stomach tries to squeeze out everything inside it. She swears, she let out the same amount as the dinner she ate...plus the midnight snack she had sneakily.

When her little battle with the toilet and her stomach ended, she washed her face on the sink and faced the mirror in front of her. She have then realized that this was happening often to her for more than a week now but so far this was the worst. And the dizziness... it made her faint yesterday. Nervousness bumped her heart. It might be something serious.

'Am I sick?'

She thought of it while finishing up washing her face. She wiped her face with a clean towel and proceeded heading out of the bathroom but before she can step out, she had to step backwards and come back standing in front of the mirror again. She looked at herself with furrowed eyebrows, scrutinizing, as if she's trying to get information from her own reflection in the mirror.

She was having the same thoughts and realization as when she first experienced 'sickness' but it's a false alarm. The sickness and all, also her period that she have already lost tracked monitoring.

'Oh no... Could it be? This time?'

She doesn't know why but her eyes started to get misty. She was feeling hoping and expecting but fear exists, fear of mistaking it again. But this time, she wanted to be sure first before anything else. So she washed her face, went out of the bathroom and changed clothes. Before going out of the room door, she glanced at Jonghyun who was still soundly sleeping, unaware that his wife was gone from their bed. It was early, he still has a few more hours to sleep before preparing for office.

Her husband arrived last night without her knowing because she slept early, hoping to feel well. About the fainting, she know he'd be mad so it would be better if she wouldn't mention it to him anymore, nothing bad happened after it anyway.

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Jonghyun shifted position to face the direction where Yerin is lying on their bed but when his eyes landed on that certain spot, his eyes found no one. He spent a few moments letting his mind adjust from sleep. He reached for his phone to check the time, 7 am. His initial thought is that maybe Yerin is taking a bath but he remembered that she's on-leave from work, as Key said, so she should be still sleeping. Then everything he discovered yesterday came back to his mind. Yerin being sick, she fainted and she tried to hide it from him. They should have a serious talk now.

"Yerin-ah.", he called out slightly loud but received no answer. Few more calls without response and he already stood up to look for her.

He went to the bathroom but it was empty. He went downstairs, thinking maybe Yerin is preparing breakfast but still he found no one. He searched every corner of the house but she is really nowhere to be found and he is starting to panic and get worried, specially knowing that Yerin is not in a good condition. He doesn't know why she had suddenly gone missing this morning. He's sure they didn't fight... but they're about to.