Till I Met You

TIMY 6

Jackson simply smiled and bid his goodbye to them. The two are left alone in the room. He just stared at her while she wandered her eyes around the clinic.

"This hospital is shabby," her eyebrows rose. "Anyway, Jeongyeon, you do not have to suffer in this place-"

"This is just one of the hospitals I attend, Nayeon. And do not look for anything. This is not a private clinic."

"Then why are you still here?"

"Service, Nayeon. That is our main objective. I don't graduated in medicine just to earn a lot of money." He boringly comb his hair. Then he let out a deep breath trying to calm himself. "Now, tell me why are you here?"

"Is it bad to see you?" She answered defensibly.

"Nayeon, Nayeon..." He closed his eyes shut. "Look, I am a very busy man. Every minute matters to me."

"Me, Jeongyeon? Am I not important to you?" She asked softly, eyes fixed on the floor.

At that moment the young man could not stop swearing. He later exhaled and force his self to look at her until their eyes meet.

She tried to search his face but she knew that his expression remained blank. His eyes were blank staring at her.

NAYEON wanted to be ashamed of herself for chasing the young man.

But she loved him, didn't she?

And she would face all forms of humiliation just to prove her true feelings here, of would she have to avoid it like her father wanted to happen?

She sighed deeply.

"All right..." She shrugged her shoulder. "Maybe I'm bothering you too much. Perhaps I'm making a nuisance of myself for what I do to disturb your work. But don't worry Jeongyeon... This is the last time I will interrupt your time." She swallowed really hard and headed to the door.

"Did I say that was what I wanted?"

"Jeongyeon!" She quickly removed her hand from the doorknob, her face alight. And when she faced the young man, her tears were already flowing.

"After all, you bothered me a lot-"
He approached her with a smile. "Let us make the most of it, Ms.Im. What do you think?"

"Oh,you're right." She clasped her hands around his neck.

And when Jeongyeon's lips sought hers she just closed her eyes. This time, she knew he kissed her on his own initiative. Experimentally, then expertly just as she had dreamed he would kiss her.

She felt she was floating in the cloud at that moment. And she hoped it would never end. But when she could barely breathe she herself was force to escape from his arms.

"I love you, Doctor," she declared although her breathing was not yet normal.

Jeongyeon smiled indulgently. But he remained saying nothing. She just shrugged it off. And at least, she had an idea where she should be in Jeongyeon' life.

He looked at the watch in his arm. "Time is up. The visiting hours for patients is over." He slightly squeezed her cheeks. "We'll meet some other time, Nayeon. I'll be the one to visit you, when I have a free time."

"Is that a promise?" she asked like a child.

He kissed her as his response. And she leave the room contented.

JEONGYEON was teased at when he passed by the nurses' station and his fellow doctor Jackson was relaxing there.

"How is that, Doc, we don't have chance with you?" Imagine Miss Im already passed by here a minute ago but still her scent is still lingering here? And she is in love with you?" The nurse said while smiling to the doctor.

"Stop it, Ryujin. And you, Dr.Wang, who told you to sell my love life to this gossipers?"

The nurses giggled.

"Why,Jeong! If I let you know, will you allow me?"

He laughed. "But Ms.Im is not my girlfriend,"he said, frowning. "Maybe one day reporters will just meet me outside and ruin my life. You're dead to me, Jack, by chance."

"You don't want that,Doc, you'll be an instant celebrity?" asked by one of the nurses.

That's why he doesn't like Nayeon, does he?

The girl has everything he avoids with a woman. Rich. Popular. Beautiful. He wants to choose a simple woman. Not Nayeon or any woman like her.

But it was easier said than done. What she said when they are in Busan suddenly came to his mind.

I'll play your game, Jeongyeon, all right. But in turn, you are going to play mine,too!

Suddenly his eyebrows met.

Is it possible that Nayeon is just playing with him?