Since Hyewon didn't get some sleep last night, she's now fast asleep inside a taxi going south of Seoul to pass the picture for the competition,
The two got to Eunbi's home exactly 5 am, which is a good thing as she could sleep more before her morning shift starts,
Hyewon went home after she made sure Eunbi has already slept in her bed, since it was so early,
The bus ride was quite smooth and unchaotic, there was a couple of early birds going to work which Hyewon admired due to their passion, right as she got off the bus a perspective of a teen girl jumping off a building was seen,
She was alone, wearing her uniform hugging herself as she jumped,
Hyewon felt bad for her as she quickly rode the bus again earning a few reactions from the passengers and the driver, stopping by a nearby convenience store,
Hyewon bought some strawberry milk to give the poor girl, after fetching her and leaving a serving of strawberry milk next to her body,
Hyewon rode a taxi back home which would end up in Yeosu as she got a text from Gyeo-ul on where she could pass the picture, which was in Yeosu,
Yes it may be far but Hyewon really wants to join this competition, Gyeo-ul already sent her the file as she edited the whole thing days even before Eunbi could say yes to Hyewon so she just needs to pass it before lunch, so in short she didn't even washed up or anything, she was still wearing the same thing since yesterday.
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A lady wearing dark sunglasses even if there were still no signs of the sun entered the hospital, she was wearing an all-black outfit,
"Who could she be?" one of the nurses in the front desk asked the nurse beside her, she was walking directly to their direction, her cold aura making them nervous, earning a couple of confused looks from the people passing by,
She lifted her sunglasses exposing her sparkling brown eyes, like it was a different person her voice sounded so sweet and fragile,
"Is Kim Chaewon still here?" she asked looking directly at the nurse's eyes.
"Ah yes, she hasn't logged out yet, may I know why?"
"Oh I just wanted to ask" she said before sitting in a nearby chair,
"Who is she? Should we call the police?" The nurse asked her co-worker looking for an answer but instead got a shoulder shrug.
After responding to some emails on her phone, the girl looked at her watch to see that she's been waiting a while now,
"She said her shift ends at 5:30 though" without hesitation, she stood up and walked through the hospital's halls knowing where she's going, or as she thought
"Is it left or right?" having a crisis, she turned right hoping it would be "right",
"There it is" walking towards the door, she opened it to see she was alone,
"Yes, I can pee in peace" knowing that there was no one else in the restroom, she took her time to pick a stall that's clean.
"I should wear my glasses now, I look weird" she said before looking at her phone after looking at the mirror before going out the bathroom she saw a text,
"I'm sorry a patient needed me, are you home now?" smiling at the text she imagines how she would've said that in front of her,
"Omo, is she still here?" she quickly went out the bathroom with her mask, glasses and her hat in her hands, frantically wearing it one by one she bumped into someone causing her glasses to fall,
"Oh I'm sorry I wasn't looking at-" words spurted out her mouth not looking at the person she bumped to as she didn't want to reveal her identity,
"Minju?" the voice of the person immediately made her feel relieved knowing she could look at her without anything on her face even if she was sweaty, standing up she didn't look at her making the other look at her more carefully,
"Is your patient fine now?" Minju said as she removed some strands of hair in her face,
"Yes he's fine now, you read my text? Also, can you tell me why you're here?" Chaewon said as she still didn't move, she wasn't bothered after all,
"Surprise? Get dressed already I wanna go home with you" Chaewon was surprised, even before Minju became an engineer she knew that the girl wasn't clingy or sweet when it comes to her liking,
She liked people who made her feel comfortable even if they were just beside her, so for Minju to act like this, she either has a problem, she's stressed, or she really missed someone.
"Okay, I'll get dressed" Chaewon said as Minju walked beside her casually bumping beside each other before Chaewon took the move and held Minju's hand which made the girl all red and stuffy.
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"Is Kwon Eunbi here?!" Dr. Yoo came barging in the nurses lounge looking angry and pissed,
"She went out to buy lunch" Nurse Cho said as she lazily got out of her bed,
"Aish she has the guts to eat when she left a patient that was supposed to be brought up a ward on hold?!" Dr. Yoo shouted at Nurse Cho making her feel awake,
"But she-"
"Tell her to come to my office when she arrives arasseo?!"
"Nae" Nurse Cho had no choice but to say yes as she didn't want to make Dr. Yoo angrier,
"Eunbi hasn't even left the lobby though? It's still Nurse Song's shift" Miyeon says to herself thinking about where Eunbi is as of now.
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"Kwon Eunbi-ssi?" the clerk shouted as she was holding Eunbi's order,
"Nae~" Eunbi scanned the food inside the paper bag before she left the café to eat back with Miyeon, walking down the street she remembered everything that happened earlier today,
She's really happy that Hyewon didn't change even if she said yes to her, her past few relationships would fade as soon as she says yes so she'll look out for that but for now her phone is ringing and it's her personal phone, who could it be?
"Miyeon? Is she that hungry? She told me she'll sleep before I left",
"Unnie where are you?"
"I'm near already can- "
"Dr. Yoo's looking for you" Miyeon's voice was already unstable even though It already happened minutes ago,
"Dr. Yoo? Wait why is your voice shaking? What did he say?"
"He said you left a patient that was heading up"
"A patient? It's not even my shift at the emergency room yet" Eunbi asked herself as she does not like where this is going,
"He wants to meet you as soon as you come back" By the sound's Miyeon was making, Eunbi knew she was getting worried,
"I'm here already, I'll drop the food then head up, wait for me by the door".
Eunbi, entered the hospital and ran towards her and Miyeon's shared room, it wasn't even her shift yet she's getting called for something she's not responsible of,
"Here place it on the table, make sure you don't spill, I'll be back" she said with a smile as she gave the plastic full of food to Miyeon, although she was not convinced with her smile, she couldn't do anything but to follow what Eunbi said.
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*Knock knock*
"Come in." Eunbi opened the door to see Dr. Yoo standing beside the window holding a clipboard in his hands,
"Why did you look for m-"
"Nurse Kwon, I assigned you this patient last night before I entered a surgery, I specifically said to bring him up ward 102 as soon as he can, can you explain to me why his family was calling for me saying that he wasn't being taken care of?!" Dr. Yoo shouts out of frustration throwing the clipboard to the ground, making one of its corner's crack, Eunbi picked it up and looked through the file to see that the she was not the one assigned to it,
"But you came back 30 minutes later last night saying Nurse Song would do it-" Eunbi was cut off when Dr. Yoo held one of her wrist making her flinch,
"Nurse Song was nowhere to be seen! Do you think she wouldn't do it if she was here?! Aish Kwon Eunbi we could be filed for a lawsuit here, could you do your job right?! You worked here for 4 years already, good thing Nurse Shin noticed him, now he and his family in waiting for a room to stay at, could you do me a favor and thank Nurse Shin?" Dr. Yoo let go of her wrist and sat on his chair facing her back to her,
Eunbi remained silent not wanting to make him angrier at her,
"What are you waiting for? Look for her already!" Dr. Yoo once again shouted making Eunbi flinch even more,
"Nae" she walked out of his office with her head down, walking straight to the elevator
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"Oh Eunbi unnie!" Yuri called Eunbi, and unfortunately, she looked at Yuri and that's when she saw Eunbi crying, even though she was still far away from her, she knew that Eunbi was crying,
"Oh unnie why- Unnie?!"
"Yuri?" Sakura's head popped out from a room, from the husky voice and the accent she knew Yuri was the one shouting,
"What's wrong?"
"Eunbi unnie was crying..... I never even saw her cry like that before" Yuri said looking directly at the older's eyes.
"Where is she?"
"She's inside the elevator already, should we follow her?"
"Wait here, I'll run, hold this for me" Sakura gave her i.d. and beeper to Yuri before she ran down the stairs hoping she could reach the ground floor before her,
"Unnie can't run that fast though, I hope Eunbi unnie's okay" Yuri said before she texted Yena about it.
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"We'll email you the details for the actual event is that okay?"
"Sure, use the email inside the folder, can you?" Hyewon said to the receptionist typing in the info the piece needs to Hyewon could hang it up in the wall already,
"Sure thing ma'am, here's your registration number, keep that with you at all times okay?"
"Sure thing" Hyewon said as she kept looking at the picture
"What's the title again?"
"The Red Tulip in a bouquet of Roses " after cutting the piece of paper, she handed it over to Hyewon so she could hang it up and go back to town,
Hyewon already choose a spot to hang it up, it wasn't in the middle nor at the end, it was right beside the receptionist, knowing that people will take time on filling up forms, she wished that they will notice it beside the reception and catch their attentions.
Hyewon met up with Yena as she agreed on fetching her from Yeosu if they go out together,
"So Geocaches are things hidden in plain sight that people find for fun?" Hyewon asked before she bit the stale fish-shaped bun she was holding,
"Yep, they're called Geocacher's, oh that's stale already" Yena said as she saw Hyewon's face turn into disgust as soon as she bit the bun,
"I wanted to be one back then but I only find a few of them so I gave up" Yena said as they were now entering a parking lot of a mall,
Yena wanted to go to the arcade here but didn't know who to bring so she thought, why not bring Hyewon.
"An hour only okay?"
"Arasseo" Yena said as she received two cards from the lady at the booth,
"Also treat me lunch, can you?"
"Sure, here you swipe that at the games you want to play, like this" Yena went to the nearby giant flappybird and swiped the card that immediately started the game
"Like this?" Hyewon swiped her card onto the game next to Yena which was a gun game,
"Yah! The game's starting! Don't waste your credit Kwangbae!"
"Oh," Hyewon grabbed the toy gun, and as soon as she eyed the games screen, her score became higher and higher,
"Omo! Why are you so good?" Yena said as she watched Hyewon who didn't say a thing back to Yena as she was too focused on the game, she shot zombies and robots left and right, she even defeated the high score the console had, which to be honest made Hyewon happy.
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"What do you want again?" Hyewon asked as they were now both in line for tteokbokki,
"Same as yours" Yena said as she was so focused on her phone, smiling at it which made Hyewon curious on what's she's smiling at, moving closer to Yena, she peeked on her phone to see a picture of what seems like Yuri with two dogs and a cat,
"You have two dogs?!" Hyewon shouted out of surprise thinking how they could handle it,
"The brown one's mine, the cream one's Yuri's, the cat's hers too"
"How do you handle three pets? Yuri's always at the hospital, and you also have work"
"Their well-trained, Yuri knows how to handle stuff" Yena said with a smirk on her face, proud of her one and only Yuri,
"Speaking of Yuri, I'll be back" Yena ducked under the fence and went to somewhere quiet.
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"Hey, come on let's go" Yena pulled Hyewon out of the line which made her angry as they were the next ones to go,
"Why? We were next in line" Hyewon said as she stopped following Yena making her stop too
"Eunbi's missing" Yena said with the most worried face Hyewon has ever seen,
"What?" Hyewon was starting to get worried, Yena was walking so fast she started to jog after her, is Eunbi this dangerous when she's vulnerable?
"Yuri said they last saw her hours ago, Sakura tried to run after her but she disappeared out of nowhere, they've been calling her since and she's hasn't answered even one, now let's go" Yena said as she opened her car and turned it on,
Hyewon can't process anything Yena was saying, the only thing in her head was where could Eunbi be,
"Drop me off by Han River" Hyewon said to Yena which made her look at her confusedly
"Why?"
"Just drop me there"
"Sure, I'll go to the hospital and update you if something comes up".