I decided to visit Sunwoo in the hospital after hearing that his aunt left and there was no one with him; all of the boys were busy with their own family things so none of them could come with me, which was fine.
Right now I'm sitting besides the unawake Sunwoo in his hospital bed, hopelessly staring at his what looked like lifeless body. As expected, the doctors and nurses kept coming in without giving me any good news.
I didn't know how to feel while looking at his face. Part of me still is falling for him even if he's like this and even if he jabbed all of those words at me, the other part of me is trying so hard to get over him.
My vision began to get cloudy from all the tears forming in my eyes; I was too tired to blink them away, so I let them fall. I felt so broken and so numb at the same time; I hate myself for getting into this. It started off as a stupid school project, now this.. I fell for a stupid guy because I'm so foolish.
Suddenly I hear soft groans and mumbles come from in front of me; my head turns quickly to see Sunwoo slowly opening his eyes. I stand up as I'm panicked, and he looks at me with a drowsy and confused face.
"What are you- why am I in the hospital?" He says in a low voice.
"You- I-" my voice cracks, making me unable to speak.
The tears kept flowing out because he woke up, and also because I knew this was going to be the last time I'd be able to be this close to him. He looks at me with a soft expression at first, then glares at me angrily.
"Why the hell are you here? Why am I here?"
"Sunwoo, you woke up!" Some of the guys burst into the room, rushing over to his side.
I stepped out the way and stood at the door, looking at the door not being able to say a word. I tried wiping the tears but they just couldn't stop flowing. Their excited and happy voices filled the hospital room.
"What happened to me?" I hear Sunwoo say.
"You hit your head." Sangyeon responds.
"My hands hurt.." Sunwoo groans. "Where's Eric?"
My heart drops after he mentions Eric.
"He's outside the hospital. Do you want to see him?"
"Fuck no." Sunwoo raises his voice, soon to just cough painfully.
"Don't yell." I rush over there, overly concerned.
"Kang Jihyun.. you should leave." Sunwoo stares at me with a blank expression.
"Sunwoo, she's been here for hours next to you. Cut her some slack, okay?" Younghoon says.
"No one asked her to come."
"Sunwoo, don't-"
"He's right. I'll just leave." I smile at them bitterly.
"You don't have too- Sunwoo, you should-"
"It's okay. I'll see you guys later." I say to them.
I glance one more time at Sunwoo and his cold eyes turned into pitied and sad ones. I gulp and turn around, leaving the hospital with a heavy heart and mind.
Outside the hospital was Juyeon and Eric; I had met the rest of the others while going down the elevator. Eric looks at me with a relieved expression after noticing me, but then frowns as soon as he sees my puffy and red eyes.
He grabs my wrists gently. "What happened?" He asks me.
"Sunwoo woke up." I reply.
"He woke up?" Juyeon's eyes widen.
"Yeah." I nod.
"Why do you look so sad, then?" Juyeon frowns at me.
"It's nothing." I shake my head.
Soon after, all of the guys except for Sangyeon walked out from the hospital, walking up to us with mixed faces: some looked happy, some looked sad and gloomy.
"How is he?" Juyeon asks them.
"He's okay." Younghoon responds.
"Jihyun, I'm sure he didn't mean to be so harsh-"
"No, I understand. The doctor said he might lash out, and we didn't end on good terms, anyway." I interrupt Hyunjae.
"When is he able to leave?" Juyeon asks.
"In three days if he fully heals." Haknyeon smiles.
"We should hurry and move into the house, then! We can pick up his things from his house and help him move everything in." Kevin exclaims.
"I'm going to go talk to him." Eric lets go of my wrists.
"Eric, should you really?" Hyunjae stops him.
"I'll be okay, hyung. I won't say anything. I just want to make things right."
"We'll wait for you down here." Jacob says to him.
Eric nods and walks into the hospital, his figure disappearing. I sat down on the bench, my energy feeling drained.
"Do you want to move in with us, too?" Younghoon smiles at me.
"Nah, I can't.. Taehyun needs me at home." I kindly reject his offer.
"You both can move in!"
"I don't want to leave my mom all alone at the house." I frown.
"You're welcome to come over any time, then." Younghoon puts his hand on my shoulder, giving it a light squeeze.
"Do you think everything's going okay up there?" I frown even more, referring to Sunwoo and Eric.
"I'm positive they'll be okay." Juyeon assures me.
Minutes later after worrying to death, Eric came out of the hospital with a relieved face and a small grin.
"We made up." His eyes get cloudy with tears.
"Did you really?" My eyes widen.
"Yeah. We forgave each other."
I stand up and hug Eric tightly in happiness and relief; he hugs me back and chuckles softly against my head, then pulls away.
"Let's get packing, shall we?!"
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partners ⁀➷ k.sw ✓
Fanfictionkang jihyun gets partnered up with kim sunwoo, a popular boy in school, to do a school project that was going to take months to finish; she had thought that he was like any other stereotypical popular boy.. was she right, or was she wrong about him...
