SEVENTEEN

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

The first thing that Jeonghan registered when he woke up was the bright light coming in through the window. He squinted his eyes at the harshness of it, he never remembered the light coming in through their bedroom window being that harsh before. Though that was probably because of the black out curtains that Seungcheol and Joshua had chipped in to buy for his birthday last year. He always made sure that they were drawn before he went to bed at night so that he wouldn't have this problem in the morning and just sleep longer if he wanted to. Which he always did, might he add. He groaned and shifted a little in the bed trying to find a place to get comfortable, hoping to maybe snuggle up with Seugncheol and Joshua a little bit longer before the latter had to go to class. Though it didn't take long for him to realize that not only was he alone in the bed, it wasn't his bed at all. He snapped his eyes open and had to ignore the stinging in his eyes from the light and the pounding in his eyes from an intense migraine that he had going on. He groaned softly to himself as he closed his eyes for a minute before he opened them again to take in his surroundings. Blinking his eyes open to where he could clearly see was that he wasn't in his bedroom in the apartment. Wherever he was white and cleanly and it smelled of antiseptic. It smelled like Joshua after he would come home from a very long shift at the hospital.

The only explanation for this was that he was in the hospital. But that didn't make any sense whatsoever. Why was he in the hospital? The last thing that he could remember was being at home in bed cuddling with Minghao. And the next thing that he knew he was here. He had no memory of what happened after that and the more that he tried to remember the more it made his head hurt. He groaned again, a little bit louder this time. And it was only then that he realized exactly how crappy he felt. Everything hurt, his joints and throat were on fire. His head was pounding, stomach in knots, and his ears were ringing a little bit. He felt like he had been run over by a truck and the truck had taken a liking to him and then went and backed over him. He felt absolutely awful and he was still confused on where he was. The only thing that he knew was that he was in pain. He groaned again to himself, and tried to move around in the bed careful of the wires that he just discovered were in his arms. He was just trying to get comfortable when he noticed who was in the chair across from his hospital bed. There fast asleep, with his whole body titled at awkward angles was Seugncheol. Jeonghan laughed softly to himself at his boyfriend, and the amusing position that he was currently in. He could only imagine how worried both Seungcheol and Joshua were him then, since he ended up having to be in the hospital. One of the reasons that Jeonghan knows this is that it isn't a well kept secret among the members that he has an almost borderline irrational fear of hospitals. He can't help it and he can't really explain it either, there's just always been something about them they sent a wave of fear through him. So whenever someone is hurt or sick he knew that Joshua had tried his best to keep them from going to the hospital unless absolutely nesseccary to keep him from panicking. And small things like that are part of the reason that he thinks that he is beyond lucky to have two warm and loving people like Joshua and Seungcheol as his partners. Sometimes he wonders what he did to deserve such a loving relationship, and he also wonders why he deserves them with how messed up he is.

With him being so lost in his head at the moment, he hadn't realized when the door to his room had opened and someone had walked in. "Hannie?" Jeonghan jumped at the sound of his name and flicked his gaze over to the door and saw Joshua standing in the doorway to the room. He was standing there with a happy expression on his face, like he couldn't believe that what he was seeing before him was real. "Shua,...." Jeonghan rasped. He moved to try and sit himself up in the bed, and Joshua was over by his side in an instant to help him. "Be careful! Don't try to move around too much, you're not well." Joshua scolded as he was trying to get Jeonghan to be laying back down on the bed. Jeonghan huffed out a breath, and rolled his eyes at his lover's actions. "I'm... I'm fine Joshua, ... I'm just a little bit tired, and excuse me for wanting to be able to talk to one of my boyfriends." Jeonghan sassed him back. Joshua laughed and went to playfully smack his lover on the arm that wasn't connected to the IV. "Don't sass me mister, I'm just wanting to make sure that both of my boyfriends are happy and healthy." "I know that Shua, but that still doesn't stop me from wanting to actually talk to you for a little bit." Jeonghan told him. Joshua huffed out a little breath, and reached out to ruffle his boyfriend's hair. "Stop it." Jeonghan said as he pushed Joshua's hand away. "You're going to mess up my hair." Joshua just started laughing because that sounded like his old boyfriend.