BETELGEUSE

CHAPTER 14

At 9:00 p.m. it started to rain. After rain they went out for a walk. They were holding each other's hand. They went to the restaurant for dinner. When they were coming out, they were on the last stair when someone came from back and collided with sky that made sky to fell on the ground.

Someone: "Sorry, S-Sorry."

Sky: "It's okay."

Sky stood up and started to walk again along with Sujin. But after sometimes sky started to felt pain in his knee. Sky looked at his knee. It was bleeding. Sky looked at Sujin.

Sujin: "What happened" (frowned)

Sky: "My knee is bleeding."

Sujin stopped for a moment at lookedat his knee. There was blood coming out from his knees. Sujin made sky sit on a beanch and went to near by market to bring aids for him. After 1 or 2 min he come back. He applied acids to sky's knees. Sujin sat on his knees and applied acids. After sometime of walking, sky asked sujin to return home. In Morning.

As "usual" when sujin woke up sky was still sleeping. Sujin got ready and according to his part of routine. He kissed sky's forehead. But while he was kissing sky woke up. sky left him to his car and sujin went to office.

After some time, sky thought to went sujin's office. when sky opened the door of office. He saw sujin's assistant standing by the side of table, telling him about his today schedule. sky got angry he went towards sujin, sat beside him while making werid faces at her. After sometime, she left while having some anger expressions on her face. when she left sujin stood up and said in loud voice:Sujin: Are you mad? You don't have any common sense? Are you here to make me embrasse.

sky got scared bcz sujin said this while shouting on him. There were tears in sky's eye. He stood up and left the office when he outside everyone was looking at him. Bcz sujin voice had came out of office. But he did not cared and sat in his car and asked his driver to drop him at any beach. At 9 p.m sujin came back from office. Sujin washed up, changed into fresh clothes, and asked the maid to set the dinner table. He went upstairs to call Sky, but the room was empty. He searched the house but could not find him anywhere.

He hurried downstairs and asked the maid, "Where is Sky?"

"He went to your office earlier," the maid replied.

"Where is he now? It's past midnight!" Sujin’s voice tense.

"He did not return, sir."

"What? He didn't come back? Why didn't you tell me this the moment I walked through the door?!" Sujin shouted, panic rising in his chest.

"You didn't ask, sir," she said quietly.

"Leave. Just leave!" Sujin snapped.

He immediately dialed Sky’s number, but it rang out continuously. Grabbing his car keys, he drove out into the rain, scouring the dark streets. Around 3:00 AM, his hands shaking on the steering wheel, he tried calling one more time. To his shock, the line clicked open.

"Sky! Sky, where are you?!" Sujin yelled into the receiver.

"At the... the beach..." Sky’s voice came through, completely cracked, weak, and shivering.

"Where is the driver? Why are you alone?"

"I told him to go back hours ago..."

"Listen to me, stay exactly where you are! Don't move, I am coming!"

After a grueling half-hour drive, Sujin reached the coast. Through the sweeping rain, he spotted Sky standing alone on the dark sand, staring blankly out at the roaring ocean waves.

Sujin rushed out of the car, breathing heavily. "What are you doing here?! Do you have any idea what"

Before Sujin could finish his sentence, Sky’s knees buckled, and he collapsed heavily onto the wet sand. Sujin gasped, sprinting forward and lifting Sky into his arms. Pressing his hand against Sky's forehead, he gasped Sky's skin was burning with a dangerously high fever. Without wasting a second, Sujin carried him back to the car and sped toward the nearest hospital.

Once there, the nurses rushed Sky onto a gurney. After an agonizing wait, the doctor stepped out of the examination room.

"Doctor, how is he?" Sujin asked desperately.

"His fever is exceptionally high, and he is severely dehydrated from exhaustion," the doctor explained gravely. "We have administered IV fluids and heavy medication, but he remains unconscious. We must admit him for proper monitoring. He needs absolute rest."