Ji Yeon sat in her new bed with the pink sheets and pink Minnie Mouse blanket. She was supposed to be in bed but she couldn't. She had to much on her mind. She had just started potty training and now she was put into a big girl bed to sleep all by herself, it was all to much for the newly turned two year old girl to handle.
All of the sudden her pink bunny that was lying next to the pillow on the side of the bed facing the wall suddenly disappeared. Ji Yron was about to crawl over and rescue the stuffed animal from under the bed when she remembered a part of a movie her older siblings had been watching while she took a bath, as she was being lead into the bathroom by her mom, she managed to catch a glimpse of the tv. She saw a monster with red eyes and sharp teeth hiding under a bed. The monster had even sung the words, I am the one hiding under your bed.
The bunny soon appeared up over the edge of the other side of the bed. Ji Yeon leaned forward to grab it but it disappeared, It soon reappeared on the floor on the same side. Ji yeon reached down to grab it but a hand shot out from under the bed and grabbed her. She screamed and yanked her hand back. She sat frozen in the middle of the bed and watched as whatever was under her bed crawled out and opened the door and left the room.
Ji Yeon looked around the room, the only light coming from a butterfly nightlight on the wall by the closet. The room was warped in shadows. Ji Yeon couldn't take it anymore,being to scared to climb out of bed, she did the only thing she could think of. She started screaming and crying.
Her parents soon enterted the room, switching on the light and coming over to the bed. Mi Sun held her daughter until she calmed down enough to tell them what was wrong.
"What's wrong?' Mi Sun asked.
"Monster." Ji Yeon answered simply pointing to under the bed where she could see her dunny's head sticking out.
"There's no monster, just your bunny." jin said picking up the stuffed animal and handing it to his daughter.
Mi Sun decided to stay with Ji Yeon until she fell asleep. Everytime Mi Sun would try to leave the room, Ji Yeon would wake up, so neither one of them got much sleep that night.
JIn walked into the room the next morning to find his wife sleeping slumped against the bed with their daughter clinging to her arm.
"You're going to be late for work." jin said softly waking his wife up.
Pulling her arm out from under her sleeping daughter, Mi Sun sat up and stretched. She then reached over and shook her daughter gently to wake her up. Ji Yeon opened her eyes a crackk and looked at her mother, grabbed the blanket and turned over.
"It's time to wake up." Mi Sun said picking her daughter up off of the bed. Ji Yeon wasn't happy about being woken up before she was ready. She bit Mi Sun's hand and then headbutted her, making mi Sun loosen her hold on her. Ji Yeon made her excape and ran out of the room.
"You need this more then I do." Miju said offering her sister her cup of coffee.
"Thanks. Can you go find her while I get dressed?' Mi Sun asked.
Miju entered the master bathroom a few minutes holding a sleeping Ji Yeon in her arms.
"i see you still like Hello Kitty." Miju observed as she noticed the bandage on Mi Sun's hand.
"Can you wake her up and put her on that." Mi Sun asked pointing to the pink Minnie Mouse potty in the corner of the bathroom.
"You're potty training her already?" Mi Sun asked."She just turned two and she has a big bed. Are you sure she's ready for so much change all at once?"
"Jin doesn't want her to fall behind anymore then she already is. We're trying to help her all we can." Mi Sun answered taking her daughter and placig her on the potty.
"Did you go in the potty?" Mi Sun asked a few minutes later. Ji Yeonshook her head no. Mi Sun picked her up and took her to the kitchen for breakfast.
"Did you just pee on me?" Mi Sun asked after pouring some juice into a sippy cup.
"I'll get her cleaned up." Miju offered taking her neice and walking down the hallway.
Once everyone was dressed and cleaned up they made their way outside and got into the car. There wasn't time for breakfast so Mi Sun handed ji yeon a bag of cereal and a sippy cup of juice. Ji Yeon pushed the cup away. She was still used to getting a bottle in the morning on the way to the hospital and didn't like the cup much, it didn't help that she was getting tired again.
"This is going to be a long day." Mi Sun muttered putting the cup back in the diaper bag.
"Just wait until she's old enough to argue." Miju said pulling into the parking lot of the hospital.
"There's a baby in our bed." Jin commented later that night as he was getting ready for bed.
"She's staying here tonight because I am not having a repeat of last night or this morniing." Mi Sun said.
"What happened?" Jin asked noticing the Hello Kitty bandaide.
"She bit me because we only got three hours of sleep and she wasn't ready to wake up." Mi Sun explained.
They slept peacfully that night and the next day Jin was off work so he took care of Ji Yeon since she didn't need her treatment that day. After breakfast they decided to go to the park. When they arrived Min Jun and Min Ho ran off to play with Tommy, Chuckie and Kimi as soon as they saw them, leaving Ji Yeon to play by herself.
"Hey you want to hunt for aliems with me?" Dil asked as he walked over to the sandbox where Ji Yeon was playing with the sand.
"You want to play with me?" She asked looking up at Dil.
"Of course. Why wouldn't I?"Dil asked.
"My cousins don't want to play with me anymore. I can walk now but they told me I'm to slow to play with them." Ji Yeon explained sadly.
"My brother is the same way sometimes that's why I'm happy I have some of my own friends now." Dil said helping Ji Yeon to stand.
"Where are your other friends?" Ji Yeon asked looking around.
"Some of them live far away." Dil explained."It's just you and me today so lets go catch some aliems."
The two kids raced off and pretended to catch aliens until they grew tired of the game.
"Dil can I ask you a question?" Ji Yeon asked as they sat in the sandbox eating chocolate chip cookies that Didi had brought for a snack.
"Yeah." Dil answered swallowing the last bite of cookie.
"What was it like when you turned two?"
"It was hard and different at first. I had to give up my bottle and binky and later I got a big boy bed which isn't so bad since I gots Goober sheets and a blankie. The worstest part is potty training which I'm still working on." Dil explained.
"Did you have all those changes at the same time?"
"No. First I had to give up my bottle and drink out of a cup, but that was ok cause I saw Tommy drink out of one and I wanted to be just like him." Dil answered.
"Oh I like my bottle specially at nighttime." Ji Yeon said."And I don't like the big bed at all. There's a monster under there and it tried to eat my bunny." She said the last part in a whisper.
"There can't be a monster under your bed cause monsters isn't real." Dil said.
"Well there's one under mine." Ji Yeon said crossing her arms.
"Maybe I could sleep over and help you catch it." Dil suggested seeing the hurt look on his friends face at him not believing her.
"That's a good idea. Let's go ask if you can." Ji Yeon standing up and wiping the sand off of her shorts.
"Mommy can I sleep over at Ji Yeon's house tonight please?" Dil begged.
"I don't see why not." Didi answered.
"I think that's a good idea. Ji Yeon thinks there is a monster under her bed. Maybe having Dil there will help her." Jin whispered the last part to Didi, who nodded. They all headed home and prepared for the sleepover.
As soon as they finished eating dinner Dil and Ji Yeon began setting traps for the monster under the bed. They went down to the playroom and gathered all of ji yeon's stuffed animals.
"That's the lastest one." Ji Yeon said placing the blue dolphin at the foot of the bed next to the penguin. They had lined the outside of the bed with stuffed animals end to end."I still don't get how this is gonna keep the monster from getting me?"
Dil sighed before answering."You said the monster tried to take your bunny so if we surround us with stuffed aminals, the monster will get them stead of us."
Ji Yeon nodded in understanding just as her father walked into the room.
"It's time for bed." Jin announced standing in the doorway.
"I want to sleep in your bed." Ji Yeon pouted completely forgetting about the stuffed animal barrier on her bed.
"You're a big girl now so you have to sleep in your own bed." Jin explained.
"Sides, we got your stuffed aminals all around us." Dil added climbing onto the bed.
"Oh. Right." Ji Yeon said joining Dil on the bed."I want my bottle."
Jin shook his head no and tucked the kids into bed.
Once the light was turned off and the nighlight was on Dil and Ji Yeon settled down and tried to sleep. They soon heard a shuffleing noise coming from under the bed.
"Dil did you hear that?" Ji Yeon asked in a whisper.
"Uh huh." Dil answered sitting up. Both kids watched as the stuffed animal at the far end of the bed suddenly got drug down into the darkness.
"I told you there was a monster." Ji Yeon said as she watched her pink bunny be pulled to his doom. One by one the stuffed animals were pulled under the bed, never to be seen again.
"Let's get out of here." Dil yelled grabbing Ji Yeon's hand and jumping off the bed. As they were running to the door the closet door opened to reveal a short figure wearing a white mask. Both kids screamed and tripped over something sticking out from under the bed.
"There's closet monsters too!" Ji Yeon exclaimed. They thought they were done for when suddenly the room was flooded with light.
"What's going on in here?" jim asked. Then he noticed the boy standing a few feet outside the closet and the feet sticking out from under the bed. The boys tried to leave the room but Jin stopped them before they made it out the door.
"We were just having fun." Min Ho said.
"Go to bed. You both have school in the morning." Jin told them sternly. The boys did as they were told and went to bed.
"This calls for a binky." Dil said digging in his backpack and pulling out his binky once Jin had left the room to make sure the boys got in bed.
"You get a binky and you are older then me and I don't even gets a bottle." Ji Yeon cried stomping her foot.
"See. There are no monsters under your bed. It was just your brother." Jin explained tucking the kids back into bed.
"I want my bottle."Ji Yeon cried again, hoping to get her way this way.
"It's late . Go to sleep." Jin sighed. Ji Yeon vrossed her arms and threw the covers off, making sure they were still on Dil, who had fallen asleep with his binky still in his mouth.
"I want eomma." Ji yeon sobbed. By this time she was really tired, but determined to get her way like she had last time when her father had to work late.
"She'll be here later. Go to sleep." Jin said pulling the blanket back over Ji Yeon. She waited until Jin left the room and jumped from the bed as far as she could in case the monsters came back. She opened the door and walked out into the hallway. She distinctly heard two voices talking in the living room. She recognixed both of them as her parents.
"You shoukd be in bed." Mi Sun said noticing her daughter peaking around the corner of the hallway leading to the living room. Ji Yeon came over to her mother, who picked her up.
"The boys scared her and now she won't go back to sleep." Jin explained.
Mi Sun went into the kitchen with Ji Yeon still in her arms and began making her a bottle.
"What are you doing?" Jin asked.
"I am exhausted and this is the only way to get her to sleep, besides, I don't think she's ready for all this change." Mi sun explained handing the bottle to her daughter and going to the master bedroom.
"Dil is asleep in the next room with a binky in his mouth." Jin started as he followed his wife."He's three years old. Do you want our daughter to be sucking on a bottle at three years old?"
"No, but she just turned two last week. She has plenty of time to grow out of things. Until then I need sleep." Mi Sun said laying Ji Yeon in the bed and going into the bathroom to get ready for bed. Jin sighed and got in bed.
The next morning Didi picked Dil up. He was disappointed he couldn't help Ji Yeon sleep in her bed alone, but he figured she would get it eventually just like he did.
The next day as Mi Sun was dropping ji Yeon at daycare she recieved a call. On the way to inform her boss that she needed to some personal time off she ran into Lucy.
"Can I ask you a favor?" Mi Sun asked stopping the doctor on her way to the cafeteria.
"Sure." Lucy answered.
"I have to go to Korea. My mom is sick. Can you watch Ji Yeon just when Jin is working and he can come pick her up. I'd ask Didi, who is the one who watched my son but I feel better leaving her with a doctor." Mi Sun said.
"Of course. Don't worry about a thing." Lucy assured her. She already knew Ji Yeon's treatment days.
"Oh and we're trying to potty train and wean her but you don't have to worry about any of that. I'll call you when I get back in town." Mi Sun said meeting her sister at the nurses station where she was paged to.
That afternoon Lucy was busy in the ER when an incoming trauma came in. She had heard something about a few cops getting injured in a shootout.
Lucy didn't think much of it, trauma wasn't her specialty, that is until Dr, Hunt, a red headed man wheeled a gurney past her and she saw the patient.
"Hunt." The red headed looked up on his way to the elevator upon hearing his name called."Keep me updated on that parient. I'm watching his little girl tonight." Lucy called and made her way to the daycare.
To be continued
