The hills are aliiiiiiive with the sound of music..lalalalaaa..with songs they have sung for a thousand yeeeeeeeaaaarrrs..lalalalaaaa.
What's up with the chick and the harp? And all the whiteness? And the fluffy floating clouds?
Omo, am I dead?
Geez, I only got to live 25 years. Life really isn't fair is it? There was still so much to do. I mean, so many positions and so many locations I never got to try out.
I look around and see an angel that looks a lot like...my Ga Eul. She had huge wings and wears a long white sleeveless dress. She turns to me and smiles.
"Sunbae? Do you like popsicles?"
I nod. Then, she grabs a bowl of...jajangmyeon and starts wolfing it down. What is this all about? I turn around and see some other girls in daring red latex and with little horns on their heads.
"Maybe you should come with us. This is no place for you!" I shake my head. I want to stay here with angel Ga Eul. Maybe we can do it flying.
The girls are starting to drag me away. What? No! "Let me go!"I yell.
"No you must come down with us! We'll make it worth your while!" Aniyooooo! Ga Eul angel, help me!
I open my eyes slightly. Jun Pyo is shaking me roughly.
"So Yi Jeong, do you remember me? Do you remember your F4 pals?"
"Goo Jun Pyo, will you cut it out, my head hurts."
"You remember! Wait, maybe you have selective amnesia, like I did. Woo Bin, get Ga Eul. Do you remember Chu Ga Eul?" He asks frantically.
"If I had any form of selective amnesia, I would've forgotten you, I'm sure, since you mess up my life the most. Besides, I'm not ridiculous enough to forget my own girlfriend."I grunt. Where is Ga Eul anyway?
I look around the room. Ahh my head. She's not here. What happened again. Oh my god: the fight. Did she get hurt? If so then..
"Ga Eul-ah, where is she?" I feel myself starting to panic.
"Right here." I hear her voice coming from the doorway and there she is, holding a paper cup, probably filled with coffee. A young doctor steps in behind her.
"You've woken up, I see. I'm your doctor, Kim Myung Ho" The doctor says and he walks towards me. He gets out a little flashlight and checks my eyes. "How do you feel?" He asks.
"Like someone hit me on my head." I say, exasperated. What does he think, that I'm all happy and about to skip around happily?
"You have a concussion and you will need a lot of rest during the night and day. Still, you could've been off a lot worse, if miss Chu here hadn't come to your rescue. Or so I've heard." He jokes. I look at Ga Eul and she gives me a smile or is she looking at the doctor? I may have been hit on the head, but I'm still my perceptive self. Okay, so he's good looking and the white coat is probably a turn-on for many girls, but hey! I'm lying here on a sickbed. Shouldn't she tend after me?
"How long have I been unconscious anyway?" I ask
"For about six hours." He says. "We also had to do some sutures on the back of your head, where you were hit." Ah ok so now that I know, just buzz off.
I cough loudly. Woo Bin gives me a look and smirks. I guess he knows what I'm aiming at.
"I guess we should give the lovebirds a moment." He suggests and he drags out Jun Pyo, who is probably still contemplating about all the kinds of amnesia I could have right now. Ji Hoo folds his newspaper and stands up.
"Get better soon. I'll come and visit you tomorrow. Maybe I can make you my case study for my thesis on head trauma." I roll my eyes.
"Go find someone else in one of the other rooms. I'm not your guinea pig." I say dryly. Woo Bin waves.
"Bro, get well. After you're recovered I've signed you up for some advanced fighting classes." He gives me a grin as I scowl at him. There's nothing wrong with my fighting, but I don't
have eyes in the back of my head, you know! How could I have seen those guys lunging at me? They all leave, except the blasted doctor. He takes a look at the bandage on my head and nods. Why, I don't know. Is he trying to make a move one me? He gets up.
"Just don't move your head too much. Miss Chu, visiting hours end in fifteen minutes ok?"
"I understand, doctor Kim." Ga Eul walks to my bed and smiles gently. "I'm so glad you're awake." She takes a chair and sits down next to me, her head placed on my stomach as she gazes at me. I run my fingers through her thick glossy hair.
"So, you saved me huh?"
"Not really, if only I had warned you sooner, you wouldn't have ended up here." A tear trickles down her face. I wipe it away.
"It was my own fault for confronting her without taking back-up with me. Though Woo Bin himself can probably take out a soccer team by himself. " Then I think of miss Park, no miss Nam. What happened to her?
"What about miss Nam?" I ask tentatively. Ga Eul starts sobbing uncontrollably. That can't be good.
"She's also in the hospital. I think one of those men must've kicked her in her stomach and she..well.. she lost the baby." Ga Eul hiccups, she looks so sad right now. So she was pregnant. Still we'll never know if it was really my fathers. I guess it doesn't even matter that much now anymore, though I do feel bad for her, somehow.
"I see." When I met her a couple of hours ago I couldn't help but feel that maybe she was telling the truth. Okay, so she is a gold digger, but seeing where she lives and even more... how she lives, I can understand it a bit. Especially after meeting Geum Jan Di, I've become a bit more acquainted with poverty. I've spent most of my life being shielded from it, but I know now that turning your head away doesn't make the situation disappear. And acting loftily because the way they're trying to get ahead in life is vulgar, only makes me shortsighted right?
So Yi Jeong! You have grown up! I should be proud of myself, but in reality, it does feel a bit awkward.
"Ga Eul-ah. Don't cry." I whisper to a blubbering Ga Eul.
"Mianhaeyo. It's just, I thought I might lose you. I waited forever for you to wake up. I was so scared!"
"Come here." I gently pull her towards me, making sure I don't move my head too much. Ga Eul moves her chair closer to the head side of my bed. "Come on, give me a kiss." She places a small peck on my nose and I watch the smile on her blotchy face. "I was thinking more along the lines of a nice long French kiss. You know with tongues and a lot of moaning."
"No, we can't do that! You shouldn't move your head too much. You have a head trauma." Ahh damn that stupid concussion. "Can I touch it?" She asks and I nod. She gently places a finger on my bandage. "You know, your parents came by a couple of hours ago. Should I call them to say your awake?" She's really playing the caring girlfriend part well. I tell her she can do that if she wants. Though I seriously don't feel like seeing them, but well.. I can bear them for a while I guess. Tomorrow, or the day after that. Or in a couple of months.
She looks pensive.
"What? You're worried I won't look as handsome when it comes off?"
"Yeah. I thought I finally had one of the most handsome boyfriends in the country. What a disappointment yet again." Ha ha, so funny. I give her a slight shove, but then I feel a slight sting in my head.
Ga Eul gives me a worried look.
"Gwenchanayo?" I try to smile, but my head is pounding.
"Yeah, it's just a bit of pain."
"So Yi Jeong-sshi?" A hot nurse enters my room. "I'm sorry, but visiting hours are now over."Ga Eul stands up. Hey, I don't want her to go.
"I'll be back tomorrow." Ga Eul takes my hand and fondles it. When she pulls it away, I'm reluctant to let go. She takes her leave and I stare at the empty doorway.
"Mr. So? What can I do for you?" Isn't she a nurse? Shouldn't she have an idea of what she should do. I give her my player smile, though I doubt it's very effective with the unflattering white cloth on my head.
"Ehm, we can start with food? Or is there something else you have in mind, miss nurse?"
"Prince..eh mister Song told me to take good care of you, so you can ask me whatever you want." Oh my god, he hired a hooker?
"Some food would be nice." I keep my cool. Is he trying to bring me into some kind of temptation? I really want to wring his little neck again.
It's been three days and I'm still stuck in the hospital and man, you can't imagine how many hot nurses Woo Bin has dispatched to my side. It's also something that hasn't gone unnoticed by Ga Eul.
"I know nurses are supposed to be some kind of sex symbol, but isn't this a bit much?" I think if I could blush, I would. I just try to evade her stare as I sip from my milkshake. Another nurse passes my private room and waves happily. "Do they do that with all the patients?" Oh Ga Eul, so naïve..
"Yeah, this hospital places a lot of importance on hospitality. I mean, a lot!" Ga Eul nods. Is she that thick or what?
"I guess you're right. You're doctor is also very nice to me. He keeps asking me if I'm alright and always buys me coffee. I never knew doctors were that considerate." He sure as hell isn't that considerate with me! That creep! I will have to be careful, or else he might poison me or something just to get close to my girlfriend as some messed up version of Münchhausen by proxy.
"Don't talk to him anymore." I say. "I'll get out of here soon enough." Her smiling face changes into a grimace and she stands up.
"I'll stop talking to the doctor if you change nurses. And I'm talking the butch kind of nurse." I guess she's not thick after all.
I give her a cute smile but she keeps glaring at me.
"It's not my doing, it's.."
"Woo Bin sunbae's? Yeah you too always help each other out, I know."
"They take great care of me, you know. If not for them, I wouldn't be able to recover so easily." She crosses her arms. Okay, maybe that was the wrong reply.
"And I have had nothing to do with your recovery? Every day after school I come straight
here, unless I go home to cook for you first. You're so ungrateful."
"No, you're wonderful!" I confirm. "I didn't mean it like that. The nurses are very professional and treat me well." Ga Eul clicks her tongue and walks to the door.
"I'll show you who treats you the best."And she leaves. Did we just have a fight? Crap.
"Ok, lights out. Goodnight Mr. So.!" The nurse sends me a seductive wink before she closes my door. Okay, so I do get Ga Eul's point. I close my eyes, but then I hear the door opening again. Maybe one of the nurses is coming to hump me while I'm asleep?
"Sunbae." Someone whispers. Well there's only two people that still call me sunbae and of those two there's one I really don't want or expect to come for me at night. On the other hand, I don't think the other would come either after our little spat this afternoon. I open one eye and see a familiar silhouette. She carefully closes the door behind her and turns on the light.
Why is she wearing a nurse outfit?
End Notes:
Dress-up continues ke ke ke.
Next up: Ga Eul shows Yi Jeong just how well she can take care of his needs.