The Introvert

Chapter 18

LALISA

My eyes opened and again, the smell of anesthesia was prominent. White was everywhere and I felt someone holding my hand. It's weird 'coz the room doesn't look like any ordinary room. I looked over to my left and saw Jungkook wearing protective clothes that can only be used in the ICU.

I noticed we were surrounded by curtain walls. Yeah, I'm really in the ICU. Seeing I have a ventilator and oxygen mask on.

I tightened my grip on Jungkook's hand which made him wake up. His eyes widened as we locked gaze.

"Lalice..." he said. I smiled. He didn't see it but I did.

He immediately stood up and called for a doctor. I don't know what time it is but it looked late 'coz no one else was around.

"Lis? Baby? You feel okay?" I nodded. I saw him tear up but he was smiling from ear to ear. Another type of smile I have to add up on my list.

Did I mention he had the most amazing pair of eyes?

And then I drifted back to sleep. Damn anesthesia.

A few days after...

"Kookie, I can walk fine," I scolded my boyfriend because he wouldn't let me walk alone. "People are staring at us..."

"But Jiyong hyung said you should be resting. You just got out of surgery, for Pete's sake!" he replied. I rolled my eyes.

"But I'm fine! It's so boring staying in that room!"

"Boring is okay. It's safe!"

"No it's not! It's boring!"

"If you don't shut up, I'm gonna kiss you!"

"Heol! You think I'm scared--ya!"

I slapped Jungkook on his shoulder as he stole a kiss from me. He was grinning like an i***t.

Aigoo. This cute bunny...

"Aigoo... You two are such a cute couple," an old lady by the bench said. "Women who just gave birth should rest well, my dear."

Jungkook's face turned red. I just smiled awkwardly and nodded. Being in hospital clothes, holding your tummy and having a dextrose in tail kinda made me look like someone who just gave birth.

Poor Kookie. His soul wasn't able to handle that...

We went back to my room and watched tv. My unnies and his hyungs visited everyday after class. I got a month's pass from school and so did Jungkook upon Jiyong oppa's request to the school board. We share the same room, by the way.

"Are the unnies and oppas coming over?" I asked Kookie who was lying beside me on my hospital bed while watching some tv. My head's resting on his good shoulder.

"I'm not sure. It's pretty late though. They might not come..."

I rolled over to face him and grinned.

"Jagi..." My hand mimicked a walking person and trailed it on his chest. He was shookt. "I'm bored..."

"W-What do you want to d-do?" Jungkook nervously gulped and beads of sweat started to show on his forehead. I chuckled.

"Well, Suga oppa gave you something, right?"

I never thought his eyes could go any wider.

"A-And?"

I grinned at him. He blinked.

"S-Stop torturing me, Lalice..." His knuckles trailed my cheek. "I'm a man too and I can't--"

I stopped him with a kiss. This one was differen. Not the innocent pecks we had. It was deeper and more mature.

I was close to breathlessness. But neither of us wanted to stop. Seconds felt like minutes, minutes felt like hours. I felt his hand on my body as I put mine over his chest. It started to get hot.

One by one the buttons on my hospital gown started to open. Kookie's was already on the floor. I looked at him. He looked at me. The silence between us was deafening.

We both now what's to come next. We both want it. I want him.

There's no turning back, right?

As my shirt fell on to the floor, his kisses trailed down from my neck down to my collarbone and I felt him leaving some marks. I could only respond with soft moans. We were about to fall into an abyss.

The door suddenly opened.

"Annyeong Kook--"

Jungkook immediately hid me behind his naked torso. He was so shookt that he started to scramble as well with the blanket to protect me.

"I uh... wanted to visit you two..." Taehyung oppa scratched his nape. He was battling himself if he would enter or exit the room. I hid behind my boyfriend, who didn't know what to do as well. "I could just come back later. I need to run to the convenience store to buy some uh... something..."

Silence.

"I'll just go." Then Taehyung oppa went out and close the door.

Kookie and I exchanged looks and laughed. He was about to kiss me again when the door opened once more. We immediately sat straight.

"Sh*t. Uh, Jin hyung and the girls are on their way so..." He again scrathed his nape. This is so freakin' awkwardd. "Please put on your clothes back. Just continue what you're doing later when we all go home."

Kookie shooed a laughing Taehyung as I buttoned my shirt back on. I also helped Kookie with his shirt.

That. was. freaking. awkward.

"I need some water, by the way. God. It's steamy in here."

"Hyung!"

Oppa just laughed. Minutes later Jin oppa and my unnies came in.

"You wouldn't believe what we just witnessed..." Jin oppa stated as he walked in.

"Nothing beats what I just witne--ouch!"

Everyone looked as me 'coz I just threw my pillow towards Taehyung.

"What? It slipped."

Then Jin oppa continued. I glared at Taehyung and mimicked the 'I'll kill you' sign. He gulped then sat over the couch beside Jennie unnie.

We were now laughing as Jin oppa made some dad jokes-- not that it was funny but because he laughed in a very funny way. Jennie unnie has had enough of it and kept banging her head on the door. While Taehyung was on the floor laughing his ass out.

Jisoo unnie...

"What was that?" Jungkook asked as we heard a vomitting sound in the restroom. Jin oppa rushed towards the door and saw Jisoo unnie.

"Unnie..." Jennie and I both said. "Gwaenchana?"

She nodded. "I think I just ate something bad--"

"No you didn't," Jin oppa was suddenly very serious. "You haven't eaten all day."

"Anemic, then," she argued.

"No."

Oppa was dead serious. He then took something out of his pocket.

We were all shookt.

"Now that beats seeing your friends making out."

"Taehyung!"