Once Upon A Time (Twice's Nayeon X You) ✓

Chapter 38: The Body

Y/N's POV

"Are you okay?"

The sound of worries was all I could hear although my vision is unclear. Close. Open. Close. Open. Jeongyeon, Momo, Jihyo, and Mina.

"I shouldn't have let her go down.", Jeongyeon was blaming herself. "I'm just glad that she was just unconscious."

My body went to Fowler's position. My body was weak so they assisted my back. Why can't I feel pain? I could only feel tired?

"What happened?"

"Weren't you able to trace back what happened, Y/N?", Mina accommodated me. "You fell unconscious."

"I remember falling.", I tried to nurture myself. "Where's Nayeon?"

"Before you could fully fall, you turned back into a doll.", Jihyo explained the whole story to me. "We are just glad that you fell on a soft area or else you could've been broken."

"That explains why I cannot feel pain.", I checked on my whole body for bruises which I don't have. "But I'm asking for Nayeon."

"On the other hand, Nayeon unnie didn't have a stroke of good luck that time.", Mina's eyes got teary. "She ran after you, but she wasn't able to catch you. Her foot got stuck on something before she could even lift her hands towards you."

"You mean-"

"Yeah. She's in the hospital."

"Nayeon!"

There's no way that I wouldn't hug that body, but I guess the body found a way for me not to touch it. She even hit her forehead on a stone making her unconscious. That furrowed brows. Was she disappointed at me?

"Umm. Who is she?", Nayeon's mother, even though she has that burden inside, was able to ask who I was.

"Ahh.", Jihyo moved forward. "She's our best friend, Ms. Im. I'm sorry that she immediately rushed inside. The news was new for her."

"It is new for all of us.", Nayeon's mother was about to cry. "I wouldn't forgive myself if we lost her. After all, this isn't the first time she was involved in an accident. This poor knee."

Nayeon's mom caressed Nayeon's left leg, crying on it. That's why she has a weak left knee. That's why her left knee got stuck because it wasn't strong enough. She wasn't strong enough. The body that tried to be strong to save me.

"Where did you go, Jihyo?", Nayeon's mom asked her so she leaned and whispered the place cause she doesn't have enough voice to be audible. "That's the same place. This stupid girl, why would she go on that place?"

"Yah. Jihyo, what did ahjumma mean when she said it's the same place?", we were gathered in a cafe near the hospital to have a break.

"I don't even know.", Jihyo sipped the coffee, letting in a burn on her throat. "What do you think she meant by that?"

"Does Nayeon unnie know that place before?", Mina was trying to combine all the pieces together. "It is not improbable."

Having talks like these made me think about what could it be. There's a point that was missed. I remember Nayeon's face when seeing the sea below. The sound of silence that you wouldn't recognize Nayeon. Yeah. She was silent every time we are there. Closing my eyes to feel the coffee that made me feel more mature than ever. That's me who was falling.