Devastating Love [Vrene story]

Chapter 1 - Burying our real feelings

Opening the door of the ICU ward hurriedly, the occupants in the room was surprised. "Yah, how could you just barge in so rudely, where are your manners?"

She bowed lowly in fear, "I'm sorry eomma I was rushing over and didn't...I shouldn't have just run into the room," she stuttered.

"Eomma, she is just worried about appa. I just called her out of the sudden and sprang up to her on father's accident, you can't expect her to step into the room leisurely" the older guy held on his sobbing mother's shoulders, turning to his sister he said "have a seat first, appa just came out from the operation theatre and the doctor is checking on him now."

Leaning her back on the wall behind for support, she lowered her body and took a deep breath. After receiving her brother's call, she had hopped on the cab and rush over. She could barely breathe normally. Feeling a hand reaching out to her violin case, she looked up to see her sister in law who had flashed a kind smile.

The older lady took hold of her violin case before patting on her back, "don't worry, the surgery went on well. We'll just wait for Dr. Ji to check on appa and brief us on his condition."

"Taeyeon unnie, did something happen in the office? Something terrible must had happened that caused appa has stroke attack," she held on her hand, Taeyeon could feel the latter hands were trembling. "Jumyeon oppa is not answering my calls too."

Taeyeon turned to her husband and noticed his signal; she smiled "that's not what you need to worry. Everything will be fine, okay."

She knew they would not be telling her anything. It had been like that since day one, no matter what happen in the family or to their family business, to her parents, she does not need to know or worry about it. All she needs to do is live a normal and ordinary life without worries.

After fifteen minutes, Dr. Ji finally came out from the ICU room. Removing his mask, he said "we found blockage caused by blood clot in Mr. Bae's right brain and this has resulted swelling. We have cleared the blood clot and removed the brain tissue that has died due to lack of oxygen."

"That's ischemic stroke?" Taeyeon asked.

Dr. Ji nodded while fixing his specs before continuing, "Yes, Dr. Kim. Fortunately you all had sent him to the hospital in time for us to carry out the surgery. However, there may be aftereffect. At this current moment we can't be sure on his condition yet until he is awake. Worst case scenario, Mr. Bae may suffer with paralysis on the left side of his body."

Mrs. Bae sobbed even harder, "oh no, what are we going to do," she held tighter onto her son.

"Doctor, how severe would it be?" he asked.

"We can't be sure for now; we still need to carry out some tests before we could identify it. But that's worst case it may not be that serious." Dr. Ji stated positively. "Let's wait for Mr. Bae to be awake. Due to the anesthetic, he may not be awake so soon. You all should get some rest."

"Thank you Dr. Ji," Taeyeon bowed and escorted him out from the ICU ward.

"Eomma, I'll get Taeyeon to send you home to get some rest first." When he saw his mother's objected, "Come back at night, all of us can't be here all the time. We have to take turn. Any of us falls sick, who is there to look after appa?" he reasoned.

"What he said is right, let's go home have some rest," Taeyeon wrapped her arm around Mrs. Bae's shoulder before turning to her husband and murmured "Baekhyun-ah, we'll come back at night with some toiletries. Take care of your sister, she's in a bad shape." He turned to his sister who was staring still at their father through the glass panel emotionlessly.