Far Side

Chapter Seventeen

A/N: Hey fam, I meant to post this chapter sooner but l've been stuck hating life with pneumonia so it was put on hold until my lung didn't feel like I was in stabbing pain and I could breathe properly. 

Anyways, drink some water while you read and if you haven't eaten today grab you a snack. Take care of yourselves. 💜

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There's rustling. Movement and whispers. You think you heard Jungkook speaking to someone. But now it's cold. So cold. 

Then a beeping. An almost familiar…

Distinct…

         

           ...beeping.

Your eyes opened to the sound of a heart monitor—realizing it's your heart—sunlight obnoxiously filtering through the hospital window as it beamed directly on your face in streams too bright for your sensitive eyes. You groaned in agony and tried to sit up, using your hand to block the dust-filled rays when the sound of your mother's gasp and a screeching of a chair as she jumped sent your heart monitor into a startled beeping frenzy. 

A nurse popped her head in to see what the abrupt scream was and why your vitals had suddenly spiked, a warm smile melting her wrinkles when she noticed you were awake.

"Ah, you're awake darlin'. It's nice to see those beautiful eyes," the older lady sang as she shimmied her way over to your bed, checking your IV drip before stuffing her chapped hands in the front pockets of her cartoon decorated scrubs while gazing sweetly down at you over the rim of her glasses. "Feel up to taking a couple of tests for me? I just want to check your vitals. Comas from drug overdoses are sometimes an occurrence in these situations, physical damage is not exponential if the rape didn't actually happen but we—"

"Rape?!" Your mother cut in with bulged eyes, her hands fisted into your hospital sheets by your hip when her face paled in color.

"Oh no! I'm so sorry, no! No she hasn't been! I should have clarified. Upon your request, we checked her as soon as you brought her in I assure you. But the coma was induced from the drug we found in her system which is classified as a date rape drug. They're tasteless, odorless.. so they're easy to drop into someone's drink. The victim consumes the contaminated drink and before long, they can't move their body. If a high enough dose, in this case, some can cause coma. Darlin', were you at a party with your friends?"

"We haven't seen her in months, we thought she was dead." Your mother began to tear up as she spoke, her shoulders shaking while she gazed at you with pitiful knitted brows as though looking at a ghost. "Her father and I were watching one of our shows when our doorbell rang. He.. He found our precious baby on our doorstep wrapped in a blanket. The clothes she had on were the ones we had last seen her in months ago. Even her purse still had money so it couldn't have been a robbery. But the police said they couldn't find any evidence other than maybe she had ran away with her boyfriend and finally decided to come home when the honeymoon phase wore off. Baby, why did you leave? Do you understand how sick and worried I've been? You couldn't even call at least?!"

"I'm sorry, mom," you shrunk down into the uncomfortable bed, the guilt smacking you with full force. 

"I'm going to go call your father. He's been hardly sleeping since the day you came home so now that you're awake he can finally relax, the poor dear," she announced to the room while she pulled out her phone, hitting the speed dial and simultaneously speed walking to match so she was gone before your father had time to answer.