A Dark Star

Chapter 34

Namjoon's point of view:

"Hyung, where is Jiminie? Is he alright?" Tae looks up at me after some time. The others look at me too, waiting for answers.

"Yeah he is fine. He is with a friend, sleeping at their place" I nod at Jin hyung's questioning look.

"Huh?! What friend? We're all here" Hoseok asks the question aloud.

"I think he is with someone I know, isn't he?" Tae now has a mischievous look sparkling in his eyes.

"Yeah they go to your school"

"They?" hyung questions. Tae wiggles his eyebrows.

"She" I submit under their gazes. No one questions anything further as one of the doctors comes out from the operation theatre.

"Bad news and good. Which one first?"

"Just tell us what happened! Is she okay?"

"Ummm...the bullets are out. We managed to stop her from bleeding further and stabilized her for now" I sigh in relief, my shoulders relaxing before the doctor interjected.

"She is in a state of comatose. Three of her ribs are broken, lung punctured and filled with blood, a broken leg. It's going to take some time for us to get the blood out of her lung. The injury at the back of her head was serious too. We haven't been able to check if it has affected any nerve endings or any other major part of the brain because of her unconscious state. We think the excessive blood loss caused the coma and we don't know if she will wake up. I'm sorry but we tried our best. She is being moved to ICU ward 307"

"Thank you doctor" I respond before looking at the others. They are shocked. Jin hyung grabbing the back of the chair to steady himself while Tae buries his head back into Seo yeon's shoulder. Seo yeon is staring at Hoseok hyung, a lone tear falling from her eye. Hyung hurries over to her, shaking his head, wiping the tear with his thumb as he settles down on the floor in front of her.

"She will be fine. She will wake up soon. She's only pranking us. The doctors' are in on this. Please, don't cry"

I type in a message to Jimin, not about her condition, just that he needs to come here. We decide it would be best if Jin hyung waited for Jimin to come. I send the others back to their homes. I go over to Yoongi hyung's house to tell him about what the doctor told us.

I knock on the door waiting patiently for him to come and open it. He ushers me in asking me to have a seat on the couch as he settles himself on the opposite one, limping through the house, huffing when he sits down.

"So what did the doctors say?"

"S-she is safe"

"You're hiding something. If it would have been this simple you would be having a smile on your face instead of this frown"

"She's um-she is in a coma. They don't know if she'll wake up. Something about broken ribs and punctured lungs" hyung tilts his head back, eyes fluttering close.

"I'm sorry, hyung but you need to know it's not your fault" I speak as I get up, cross the centre table and sit beside him.

"Hmmm....I'm fine. It's okay. Thank you for letting me know. I'll go visit her tomorrow. You can go Namjoon-ah"

"Hyung.." I hesitate, not wanting to leave him alone.

"Go. I'll be fine"

"Okay. Please take care"

"Hmm...Close the door behind you when you go" I nod as I leave, closing the door as he wanted, making my way back home.

Seokjin's point of view: