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“Stop messing with the radio!” Jun-wan pushed Jeong-won’s hand away, while making sure they didn’t crash against the car in front of them.
“Yah! Today is my day to chose the station.” Jeong-won replied, pouting slightly, while Jun-wan kept him away from touching the radio again.
“What? When did we decide that?” Jun-wan’s glasses moved down his nose at his shock.
“The first time you gave me a ride, you said that I could choose the radio when I bought a new car.” Jeong-won replied, with a cheeky grin and Jun-wan was left speechless.
“No way, you bastard! You bought a car? When? And why am I giving you a ride then?”
The pediatrician kept smiling. “I’m going to get it from the seller this afternoon, after Gyeo-ul finishes her work.”
“Damn! I have to give that girl a lifetime supply of chocopies!” Jun-wan laughed. “Priest, my ass!”
Jeong-won smiled softly and shook his head at his friend’s antics.
"We have the weekend off, so we can spend more than two hours together." Jeong-won replied, with a wistful smile.
It was going to be a good day.
The hospital was appearing in front of them, in its whole imposing image, when Ahn Jeong-won pointed to something in front of him.
“You should park outside.” he said and Jun-wan’s followed his finger to an empty parking spot.
“Why? I prefer to have my car in the underground parking lot.” at least there, there were cameras in case an asshole scratched his precious car.
“Because someone is waiting for you.” and Jeong-won’s finger moved to the side, pointing at a woman, with short hair, standing in front of the Emergency Entry.
Jun-wan’s face immediately changed into an amazed smile.
“She was supposed to come next weekend.” he said, in some sort of daze, and this time it was Jeong-won’s commenting on his friend’s reaction.
“And here I was thinking you could only stare at food with that expression.”
Jun-wan knocked the back of his friend’s head, while carefully parking the car in the available spot.
Leaving Jeong-won next to the car, Jun-wan immediately ran to Ik-sun, embracing her stronger body against his own. She was smiling at his antics, and Jeon-won found himself mirroring that smile. He really liked to see his friends happy.
And speaking of happy, Jeon-won looked down at his watch, and then around himself. She was supposed to arrive at that time.
And there she was.
Dressed in a denim jacket and a white shirt with small flower, Jang Gyeo-ul was walking towards him, with a smile on her face and her arm rising and waving to grab his attention.
Jeong-won quickly closed the distance between them in three quick strides, stopping in front of his girlfriend. She looked up, letting her arm fall and touch his hand softly.
“Good morning.” Gyeo-ul said, stepping back a little, just so she wouldn’t get a neck pain from looking up at her boyfriend’s tall frame.
“Hey.” Jeon-won replied, squeezing her fingers between his. He looked around and seeing only Jun-wan and Ik-sun close to them, he touched her hair gently. Jang Gyeo-ul closed her eyes for a moment and let his hand caress her hair.
She was brought out of her happy daze by a offended yell. Looking around Ahn Jeong-won, the GS resident saw how Professor Kim was rubbing his shoulder while yelling at a man walking towards Jeong-won and herself.
“You asshole! Don’t bump into people like that!” Jun-wan was still yelling while Ik-sun looked like she wanted nothing more than punch the guy that had just crashed against her boyfriend.
There was something familiar in the man’s frame, the way his shoulders were crouched and the way he speed walked. Gyeo-ul’s memory clicked at the same time she noticed something glinting inside the man’s hand.
And before she had time to really evaluate the situation, she was grabbing Jeong-won’s arms and rotating him to her previous position, before turning to face the approaching man. His face fell minutely when he noticed the change, but a look of recollect crossed his face when he saw her facing him. And that was the last thing she saw before something cold touched her skin right over her liver and then pushed in with a violent movement.
At first she only felt a wet feeling and the coldness of the metal against her body. Then, the pain appeared, sudden and violent, just like a punch. Jang Gyeo-ul looked down, noticing with a strange detachment that her previously immaculate pale shirt was turning a crimson red. She felt her legs buckle under her, while around her a confusion of screams and movement erupted suddenly. She was almost sure the hands grabbing her were Jeong-won’s, and that the screams belonged to Jeong-won as well. She could see Professor Lee’s sister hitting someone and Professor Kim running towards her and Jeong-won.
“Oh God, oh God! Help her, God, help her!” Jeong-won’s voice sounded more frantic with each moment, while Jun-wan moved her shirt aside to assess the damage, cursing under his breath when he saw the place that had been stabbed.
By the place the pain came from, Dr. Jang knew she had been stabbed in the liver. Now the question was knowing if it was in a life-threatening place, and by Professor Kim’s expression she wasn’t feeling lucky.
“I’m going to get help!” the cardiac-thoracic surgeon stated.
Gyeo-ul tried to look up and back and face Jeong-won, but the pain prevented her from doing anything more that whimper. She felt her boyfriend’s hands pressing her abdomen, while Kim Jun-wan ran towards the emergency room.
“Jeong...” she tried to call, but black spots were appearing all around her vision and she knew she was seconds away from passing out from shock.
“Shhh... Don’t speak, you are going to be okay. Ik-sun grabbed the guy and Jun-wan is coming back with help. I can’t move you, before the emergency team gets here. Can you keep conscious and breath slowly? For me?” Jeong-won was almost begging and Gyeo-ul scrunched her eyebrows. She didn’t like the sound of his voice like that. She didn’t like when he was feeling sad, like when one of his patients got worse.
Jang Gyeo-ul tried to answer him and tell him that she was going to lose conscience any moment now, but she couldn’t make her lips move and before she had the strength to try again, she felt a dark shadow pass over her eyes and she knew no more.