Chapter 57: In the Hospital Room (4)

“Eujin unnie??”

Eujin opened the door to the hospital room and was faced with Hiro, who was startled as if she hadn’t expected it at all.

It had been more than 3 months since she last contacted Hiro, and it had been more than a month since Hiro had finally given up on trying to contact her while being constantly ignored, so it was understandable.

Seeing Hiro staring at them with only her eyes blinking, as if she was so surprised, Eujin scratched her cheek with her finger out of embarrassment.

“Let’s go in first, we’re blocking the hospital people from coming and going.”

“Ah, yes. I’ll go in?”

“Uh-huh… yeees.”

Eujin and Hyuna, who had been allowed by Hiro, entered the hospital room.

Each of them took a seat in the place where the traces of Hiro’s employees had visited were still left, and

“….”

“….”

They didn’t say anything.

To be precise, Hyuna was giving unspoken pressure with her eyes to make her speak, and Eujin was unable to open her mouth while being pressured by Hyuna.

Hiro, who was looking back and forth at the two of them, seemed to have noticed something and spoke first.

“You must be busy, thank you for coming to visit me in the hospital. Wasn’t it hard to come here? It must be quite far here….”

As Hiro threw out a topic first, Eujin was overjoyed and readily accepted it and replied.

“No, no, Hyuna unnie drove me, so I came comfortably.”

“I was tired from driving… I don’t know when our Eujin, who was singing about getting her license, is going to get her license.”

“I’m going to get it this year, really?”

As Hyuna threw out a joke, the atmosphere inside the hospital room became a lot lighter.

Hiro, who was lying on the bed, seemed to have become more comfortable and smiled as she watched the two of them arguing, and then greeted Hyuna.

“Hyuna unnie, you’ve worked hard.”

“What are you talking about, how far is it? It’s okay, it’s okay.”

“You were telling me to get my license quickly just now….”

“Then you become a patient too.”

“I’m going to be hospitalized with a broken heartㅡ”

At those words, Hiro chuckled.

“Then do you want to try this too, Eujin unnie?”

“This? IV drip?”

Hiro pointed to the IV drip with her finger.

However, it wasn’t a common glucose IV drip pack, but a flat and wide-shaped IV drip pack filled with a thick-looking white liquid that looked like it had medicine in it.

Eujin, who was curious about the IV drip pack she was seeing for the first time, asked Hiro.

“It looks very different from glucose IV drips? Is it because it has medicine in it?”

At Eujin’s question, Hiro smiled lightly and replied.

“They say this is an IV drip that completely replaces the meal itself?”

“Replaces the meal? Still, if you don’t eat anything, won’t you be hungry or hear gurgling sounds?”

“I thought so too, but when I have this on, I don’t feel hungry or thirsty even if I don’t eat or drink anything.”

“That’s a bit amazing.”

Eujin reached out her hand to the IV drip pack without thinking, but then stopped herself and retracted her hand.

Looking at Hiro, who was smiling at the sight, Eujin puffed out her cheeks slightly and expressed her dissatisfaction, but Hiro just smiled.

“I’m your unnie, you know?”

“Of course, Eujin unnie.”

“Then why is that look like you’re looking at a immature younger sibling!”

“Eujin is immature.”

“I’m not? I’m completely mature, you know?”

“License.”

“…Another pun!”

Hyuna, who lightly subdued Eujin’s two arms that were rushing in with a grin, finally asked Hiro how she was doing.

“So, what did the doctor say?”

“Ah, they said it’s intestinal bleeding. They said they can’t tell yet whether the cause is Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis….”

“I’ve never heard of either of those diseases.”

“Then you can’t leave the hospital until you get better?”

“No, that’s not it…. They said it’s a disease that I’ll have to live with for the rest of my life anyway.”

“Oh my….”

Eujin and Hyuna simultaneously let out sighs.

“What can I do, this is how it turned out.”

In contrast, the eyes of the two people looking at Hiro, who was speaking calmly, were filled with pity.

“Then… how long do you have to stay in the hospital?”

“Well? Listening to what the doctor said, it seems like I’ll have to stay in the hospital for a long time?”

“Then you’ll have to keep resting from broadcasting too? Are you okay?”

“So I’m going to apply for a provisional discharge once I can eat. I think I can eat porridge soon.”

“Wait. Wait wait.”

Hyuna, who was listening to the conversation between Eujin and Hiro, interrupted their conversation with a voice that sounded like she didn’t understand.

“No, shouldn’t you recover your body first, rather than broadcasting? You should leave the hospital after you’ve fully recovered, what do you mean a provisional discharge?”

The gazes of the two broadcasters were fixed on Hyuna, who was saying the right thing.

Eujin shook her head and spoke instead of Hiro.

“It’s really hard to recover if a broadcaster rests for more than a week.”

“Even so, it’s useless if your body breaks down… health comes first, no matter what.”

“If the broadcast breaks down, she’ll struggle to fix it and her body will break down again? I think Hiro is that kind of person, even if it’s not other people….”

This time, Eujin and Hyuna’s gazes went to Hiro.

In response to that gaze, Hiro nodded silently, replacing her answer.

“Oh my….”

Hyuna sighed and

“I really don’t understand the thoughts of people who broadcast.”

She got up from her seat.

“Where are you going, unnie?”

“I’m going to smoke a cigarette.”

Hyuna said that and

“It’ll take a while, so talk, okay?”

She gave Eujin a look and left the hospital room.

Hiro and Eujin were left alone in the hospital room like that.

‘Like this suddenly?’

Eujin complained in her heart, saying that it was too sudden when she wasn’t even ready.

What should I say?

She looked around, hoping that Hiro would throw out a topic like before, but.

“….”

Hiro was looking out the window and didn’t say anything.

Eujin had two choices.

To pass this time by keeping her mouth shut until Hyuna came back

Or

To squeeze out courage and tell Hiro what she wanted to say today.

“…….”

Her breath caught in her throat.

If she didn’t say anything, the air in the room was too stuffy.

If she said something, she was speechless at her own foolishness.

She was embarrassed and couldn’t stand the sight of herself

Being disappointed alone

Running away alone

Trying to apologize alone

Because the damage and pain that she had to pay had no meaning to the person she had hurt

She takes the only action that has meaning to the person she hurt.

Eujin

“I’m sorry… really.”

She decided to become a fool who was ashamed of herself.

“….”

Hiro had no words at Eujin’s apology.

But it was only for a moment, and Hiro belatedly answered Eujin’s apology.

“About what?”

A carefully selected word.

Asking what she was sorry about

Asking why she was sorry

Hiro handed over a carefully selected word as an answer, fearing that it would become a word that questioned Eujin.

Perhaps Hiro’s intention got through, Eujin returned an answer without difficulty.

“For cutting off contact unilaterally without saying anything….”

“….”

“And, for misunderstanding, being disappointed, and… hating you all by myself.”

Eujin lowered her head slightly, unable to continue speaking for a while.

Soon

Eujin spoke again in a wet voice.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry for misunderstanding you as a man and wanting Hiro to be a man on my own.”

Hiro couldn’t say anything to those words and just listened.

“I’m sorry for drawing your image in my own imagination without ever seeing your face”

“I’m sorry for falling in love with the image of you that I drew and liking you on my own.”

Like a bride’s confession

Like a confession to a priest

Eujin, who confessed her own heart,

“Hiro.”

Now, she finally organizes her heart.

“I like you.”

“Really.”

Erasing the prince that she loved and had put on Hiro

She hugged Hiro, who always did her best, struggled in the given situation, and steadily moved forward,

“Hiro is a younger sibling that I really like.”

A younger sibling who is so proud and lovely.

“Hiro.”

“…Yes.”

“In the future, can I be Hiro’s unnie?”

At Eujin’s words

Hiro, who was hugged by Eujin, hugged her back lightly and said.

“Eujin unnie”

“You’re the unnie that I really like?”

At Hiro’s answer, Eujin smiled.

“Thank you Hiro.”

“There’s no need to thank me.”

“What is that, is it informal or formal?”

“Uh… informal-formal?”

“I heard it’s trendy, hehe.”

Listening to Eujin’s voice, which was now devoid of tears, Hiro said one word.

“But Eujin unnie.”

“Yeah~ why, Hiro?”

“Can you let go of my head now…?”

“What, you don’t like me hugging you?”

Hiro wanted to shake her head, but if she did, it would be like rubbing her face against Eujin’s chest, so she endured it and said again.

“It’s not that… the more unnie hugs me, the more my neck is being bent because of your chest?!”

Eujin, hearing Hiro’s words, looked down.

Indeed.

In order for herself to hug Hiro’s head, she had to move that big chest.

Hiro was enduring with her head bent and her neck raised while her waist was bent.

In addition, the chest, which was a weight that could never be ignored, was facing downwards due to gravity, putting even more strain on her waist and neck.

Eujin, seeing that sight,

“…Excuse me, unnie?”

She hugged Hiro’s head even more tightly.

“Excuse me?? I feel like my neck is going to break?!”

“You have big breasts, so just bear with it.”

“Unnie?! This is spite, right? You’re being spiteful, right?!”

That’s how Eujin continued to hug Hiro without letting go.

A little later, Hyuna, who came back, teased them saying that they finally decided to date.

To the person I loved
To the words that we’ll be good unnie and younger sibling, friends from now on

I

Couldn’t feel any pain.

Just

I just felt a little affectionate.

….

I see

I really…