Forever Yours <SaeranxReader>

Story Mode 79: A Bit of Confusion and Some New Information

Zen looks in between the new middle aged man and Chiffon and then to Jumin. None of them say anything. Since none of them move to explain anything, he takes it upon himself to speak up. He turns back to the middle aged man. He looks oddly familiar. "Sir... are you...?"

"Oh." The man laughs shakily and hurriedly wipes his face and hands with a handkerchief. When finished, he extends his hand to the statuesque man. "I'm Y/n's father. You're Zen right?" Zen nods as he shakes hand. "Y/n sent me a couple of the commercials for your drama. Congratulations." The middle aged woman that caught a ride with Zen doesn't look at her ex again. Instead, she watches the sun set through the large hospital window. "And you too, Chiffon. I know you always wanted to have a role like that. I'm happy for you, congrats."

"You can stop talking now," her voice is soft, but her words are still harsh. D/n obeys.

Jumin doesn't move to step in, so once again, Zen takes the issue upon himself. "Thank you, Mr. L/n." He puts on his most polite face and attempts to act as a divider between the two. "Is it alright if I ask why you wanted to see Y/n, Chiffon? I didn't realize that you were close..."

"We're not," Chiffon breathes, quietly.

Jumin crosses his arms and joins in behind Zen. "Considering your actions at dinner the other night, I am quite interested in your reasoning as well. Explain."

Chiffon clenches her forearms in front of her as she stares out the window with her back to the men. She can't. No, she can. She just won't. She's too weak to. Even after all this time, she's still afraid.

D/n steps in, "If it's not important to my child's well being, I'd like it to remain a secret for now." He takes a breath, "And if for some reason it was necessary that you know, I'd like to tell my daughter the whole truth first."

Jaehee appears at the end of the hallway with a guard trailing behind her. She's rushing with stack of papers in her hand, her hair blown by the wind and her ID card bouncing against her chest. "I'm sorry, Mr. L/n." Jaehee hands the first page of the stack of papers to Jumin and hides the rest against her chest. "But I'm afraid that it just became necessary."

"What?" D/n's eyes widen and he snatches the paper from Jumin's hands. The guards jump on alert, but Jumin quickly has them stand down. D/n reads the eleven large printed words out loud. "I found out about the witch, but the birds are chirping?"

"A witch?" Zen slaps his hand to his head. He shouldn't have to be this confused. "Just what the hell is going on?!"

A glint if pride grows in Jaehee. She messed up when she first met Y/n by blurting out something she shouldn't have. This time, she's going through the proper channels and used a code to convey the important information. Jumin makes eye contact with his assistant. "Understood. Good work, Assistant Kang."

"You understood that?!" With Yoosung left out of the loop of Y/n's condition, the role of being confused has unfortunately fallen on Zen. As everyone knows how emotional Yoosung can get, letting him know of Y/n's hospitalization without any clear facts would've only been counter productive.

Chiffon's head falls in her hands. "It's that bitch. I know for a fact that bitch did something." D/n cranes his neck in confusion, he hasn't heard her talk like that since the old days. He could've sworn that she turned into a complete goodie goodie.

"Sir, I need to brief you immediately." Jaehee wrings her hands and lowers her voice so that only her boss can hear. "The witch and birds are after our kitten. And that kitten's mate is not going to like it when he finds out. We need to take care of this now."

"Everyone." Ray floats into the hallway. Behind him the beeping of machines and the opening and closing of doors can be heard. The bunch in the hallway cease their movement. He closes the distance, stopping just a few feet away from them. "I just spoke to the surgeon."

They fall silent.

"The operation was a success."