𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐬 | 𝐯𝐨𝐥 𝐭𝐰𝐨

Got a secret, can you keep it?

Beep... Beep... Beep

The repeating sound of something that was added with a parade of feet and panicked voices before my eyelids peel open to be greeted by a piercing light that became brighter with the white walls and I look around wearily.

"Where am I?" I murmur, the beeping being the sound of a heart-rate monitor 
A doctor pushes through, "Miss Park, I'm Dr Shin, your doctor"
"What happened?" he looked at me sadly

"You were in a car crash with Amber Liu and have been a coma for three months. She's alright and has been released a month ago since her injuries were not as... bad as yours," he explains, I was trying to adjust to the sudden brightness. 

Someone else walked in, he looked so damn relieved, it was Manager-Doogi!

"Elyse! You're alright!" he smiles, walking up to give me a hug
"Yeah, I guess I am," I reply, patting him on the back due to the restriction of all the chords attached to me before the doctor calls him out

Manager-Doogi walks in smirking, "We won't tell anyone you're alive apart from your parents and the management, we'll keep it a surprise!" he informs me, sitting beside and digging through his bag to bring out some food.

"I know hospital food taste like shit but here, I got you some soft food." he hands me some jellies, my strawberry milk and some sushi that was probably from the convenience store down the road of the dorm.

I smile, placing them on the table beside me before I feel my phone vibrate against the thin blanket, I see the screen was a notification from the SEVENTEEN group chat and I widen my eyes at all the other notifications from the past three months.

"Shit, what have I missed out on?" I stare at Manager-Doogi and back at my notification-filled screen before hearing another notification go off and I wonder if they'll see me that I'm on the group chat so I use Manager-Doogi's phone instead

low-quality groupchat
13 crazy boys, 1 sane girl and 1 annoyed manager

divakwan has changed leewoozi's name to devillee

leadercoups: why would you do that?
divakwan: you said to express myself so i did
prettyone: by changing woozi's name?
divakwan: like you can't disagree
koreanvisual: tbh, it's true
devillee: shut your mouth, pole!
dinojackson: well, if we were to express ourselves then

dinojackson has changed leadercoups' name to daeprica

dinojackson: sksksksd 
daeprica: come here, you little brat!
emowon: he ain't going to harm you, dino, he's a grandpa after all
daeprica: is this a tease leader groupchat?
chinesevisual: no, i don't think so?
bboy8: you just said it... oh dear god
vernando: what's going on?
smileydk: dino's about to die and woozi going to murder mingyu and seungkwan

dinojackson has changed the groupchat name to 'tease scoups-ah group chat'

smileydk: scratch that, dino is going to also get murder
devillee: come here you tree!

holyhong: hands off my guitar, woozi-ah!
daeprica: come here you disrespectful bastard!
10:10kwon: this group is such a mess
prettyone: let's all pray eunyoung wakes up soon to save us
vernando: i think manager-hyung is on...
everyone: shoot!

doogihyung: i leave to visit eunyoung and you're already trying to kill each other?
doogihyung: i seriously need a pay rise
doogihyung: there better not be any broken things or blood when i get back from visiting eunyoung or i'm making all of you clean the studio and my office

Seriously, why is the groupchat such a mess? 
I sigh, "I'm sorry I left you for so long," he nods.