Someone's someone (an I.M. Changkyun story ft showki)

Ch 8

I hear beeping. It's pretty loud and I slowly open my eyes. Grimacing when the bright lights hit my eyes I quickly shut them again. Staying like that for a moment I slowly open my eyes and focus my vision. Looking around I see I'm in a hospital and I immediately frown. I start to sit up but wince at the pain in my ribs falling back against the bed. Suddenly a doctor walks in and gives me a little smile. "I see someone's finally awake. Are your ribs still hurting you?" I give him a nod and his gaze turns serious. "Well that's because you have severe rib fractures from that binder you were wearing to long." I frown then think of something and frown. "How did I get here? Are there seven boys here?" The doctor nods. "They called an ambulance when you collapsed and they're all waiting down the hall." I sigh and say softly. "You might as well send them in." The doctor nods and has a nurse to go fetch the boys. Meanwhile the doctor listens to my lungs. I wheeze and my chest crackles when I breathe and laid back down when he was done. I suddenly see the door burst open and see a worried Changkyun. He rushes over to my side the other boys following behind. "You scared me Zion. I thought you were dying." I give him a soft smile. "I'm fine Changkyun." The doctor speaks up disapprovingly. "If you call severe broken ribs bad." Kihyun and Hyunwoo both look at me with concern. "How did your ribs break Zion?" I looked at Kihyun anxiously. "He's been binding for extended periods of time." The others looked confused and Hyunwoo speaks up. "What's binding?" I sigh and explain. "Binding is where you put on a tight compression top to hide your chest." Changkyun frowns at me. "Why do you need one of those?" I grumble and figure that I should finally come clean. "Because I'm a boy but I have a girls body okay? There I said it!" I grab the hospital sheet and cover my face with it in embarrassment. One long pause later it was surprisingly Wonho who speaks up. "What does it matter that he has a girl body? He's still Zion." The others slowly agree and I peek my head out looking at Changkyun's face. Suddenly he wraps his arms around me and gives me a gentle hug. "You shouldn't have hurt yourself just to keep a secret. It doesn't matter to us what you are your still the same Zion." I immediately hug him back starting to cry. "I'm sorry. I was just so afraid of being kicked out." The boys look at me in shock. "We'd never kick you out. We really like you Zion." I smile softly at Hyungwon's words. I then turn back to the doctor. "So what now?" He gives me a strict look. "Well your not gonna be able to bind for over six weeks. And you also can't dance or sing either because we don't want it getting worse." I immediately frown and look panicked. "But I need to bind out in public and I need to practice." The doctor gave me a look "well you should have thought of that before you got yourself hurt. You should have been more responsible." My lip quivers and Changkyun hugs me against him. The others all gather around my bed too. "Hey it'll be alright. We'll figure something out." I whimper when Minhyuk says that. "But management can't know I'll be kicked out for sure." They all give me a sympathetic look. "We'll just tell a half truth. That you broke your ribs. But we just won't say how." I give them an appreciative smile . It was surprisingly Jooheon who speaks up and I gave him a little smile. "Thanks hyung.." Soon a nurse comes in with a shot and gives me a friendly smile. "Oh hey there I'm your nurse for this evening. The doctor ordered me to give some pain medicine. She injects the shot into my IV and soon everything starts spinning and I immediately fall asleep.