Who Are You?

Night Two-Part 3

Jiyong guided Dara towards his car and open the passenger door for her. But Dara felt like she's going to pass out of nervousness that she was having trouble putting on her seatbelt. Jiyong chuckled upon noticing Dara fighting with the seatbelt and her face looks flushed. He then reached out across Dara to help her out with the belt when Dara froze and held her breath. He was trying so hard not to laugh at the way she was acting around him. He could tell that she's very nervous and so he did the next best thing he can think of. He held her face with his hands and made her to look at him. "Dara look at me." He said it with the most gentle tone that he can master. "Relax. I promise you that I won't do anything that you don't want to do. You can trust me. Please do?" Dara nodded and she started to feel relaxed.

Jiyong decided to make a light conversation with her by asking her about her life in America. "So how old were when you left Korea?"

Dara smiled at him a genuine smile nervousness all forgotten. It seems like he did the same thing as what Dara did a while ago. He froze and felt like his breath got held up inside his throat, but he recovered right away. "She will be the death of me if she keeps doing that." He muffled in between his breath.

"I was about eight at that time. My dad got a job offer where he can bring his whole family with him and so that's what happened."

"Your dad is also a doctor right?" He stopped at the red light. There they saw an elderly lady walking in front of them to cross the street. But right about half way through the lady suddenly collapsed on the ground in the middle of the street. Dara freaked out for a bit but grabbed her bag and hurriedly got out of the car towards the elderly lady. Jiyong's right behind her as he was signaling the other driver to stop their car.

Dara knelt down beside the elderly to check on her first. "Granny are okay?" She took out her emergency kit and disposable gloves from her bag and put it on while waiting for a response but nothing. She asked again. "Granny, granny are you okay?" This time she asked and tapped the elderly's shoulder. Again no response. She diverted her eyes to Jiyong. "Ji, I need you to please call 911 or an ambulance. Dara started checking the elderly's pulse and her breathing but there's nothing. She started performing CPR on the elderly as she did thirty compressions first followed by checking her breathing. She tilted the elderly's head back and open it to see if there's any foreign body blocking her airway. She was kind of having a hard time to see it because of lack of lights. She called out Jiyong again and he knelt on the other side of the elderly just as he finished calling 911. Dara asked him to open her emergency kit to take out the flashlight and a mask. Jiyong did as he was told. "Please hold the light right about...there." She asked Jiyong as she started looking inside the elderly's mouth. She then started to place the mask around her mouth and gave her two full breaths. Then she went back into doing the second round of thirty compressions and back to the whole routine until she saw the elderly started breathing. She checked her pulse once again. It still weak but she can already hear the siren of the ambulance getting near. She stayed where she was at until the medics are kneeling beside them. She gave them the information they need and was asked by the lead medic for them to follow them to the emergency hospital. Dara looked at Jiyong and he nodded understanding the situation. They both got into his car and followed the ambulance.

Jiyong was waiting for Dara in the emergency waiting area as she was being interviewed by one of the doctor there. He is now feeling drained out due to all the adrenaline rush that was taken out from him. This is the first time that he had experienced helping out in an actual emergency. They did a lot of emergency drill situations while he was still in the military, but to actually be there helping out it cannot be compared. Remembering how calm Dara was during the whole situation made him admire her even more. She is indeed a very extraordinary woman and the more he would like for her to be his alone. He placed his palms on his forehead as he leaned forward, elbows on his knees and close his eyes as tiredness enveloping him.

Dara just finished giving all the information to the the head of the emergency department. She went back to the waiting area to look for Jiyong and she found him like that. She stopped a few feet away  just staring at him. She smiled as she remembered him helping her out earlier, thankful that he was there with her and they were able to save a life together.

Somewhere from behind her, she heard people whispering and there she saw it. People are taking pictures and videos of who... "Oh no! Jiyong!" She silently muttered. She forgot that Jiyong is a celebrity. "Ottoke!"

But just then Jiyong looked up and saw the commotions building up. He saw Dara frozen at her spot and without even thinking he took of his light jacket and put it over Dara's head and wrapped his right arm around her shoulder and his left hand holding his jacket to cover her face. They hurriedly walked towards the exit. People ran after them but they were able to get into his car for it was parked just at the front of the ER. They drove in silence for a while, but it was a comfortable silence. Jiyong keeps sneaking a worried glance at Dara as she was looking outside of the window.

"I'm sorry." With confusion showing on her face, she looked at Jiyong. "I didn't mean for you to be caught off guard like that." He pulled over to the side of the road and face Dara. He tightly closed his eyes for a bit trying to gather his thoughts together. Afraid that she might walk out of his life even before it began.