After Jungkook was done wiping away my tears, he helplessly looked at the large shoal of tear traces on the front lapel of his own clothes, “Lisa, are you born in the year of the water tap?”
I sniffled as I replied, “There’s no water tap in the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals.”
It appeared that he had already been worn down by me till he had no temper, he forced a laugh and said, “You just stay in this room and rest, I’ve already helped you apply for leave, I have to go to work, I’ll come over and find you when I get off work.”
As he was exiting, he even pulled that three latex glove balloons on the ceiling out with a sour face, his explanation was, “I have to get rid of it, it won’t be good if other people see them.” I even heard him mumble to himself in a low voice, “Romantic, what’s so great about being romantic.”
I still slept intermittently throughout the afternoon, I had many dreams, including those type of dreams where I would wake up in tears. But there was one that was especially terrifying, because I couldn’t remember it already, (a dream) which you couldn’t remember surely was the most terrifying, because your memory automatically covered it up.
Here, I have to mention something, Doctor Jisoo came to see me as I was midway through my sleep, she came in very hurriedly, as if she had a ghost chasing after her from behind.
“Hurry up and listen to my voice,” she said.
I sprung up from the bed, her voice was sharp and thin, like the dubbing of an evil woman in an animated film.
“Hahaha, how fascinating is my voice,” she said, “Just a moment ago, I used a needle to puncture Jungkook’s glove balloons, I especially like to experience the feeling of the stream of air blowing into my nostrils from the needle-sized hole, I didn’t expect that Jungkook had pumped helium gas into them, hahahaha.”
"annyeong annyeong naneun jisoo ya~~
helryumgaseu meogeottdeo ni yoreugedweji" Doctor Jisoo sang and laughed.
[T/N : If you know, you know ]
Even though I too felt like her voice was very hilarious, but I still didn’t understand, “Why would your voice become like this?”
“When humans suck in helium gas, their voices will become high pitched, because the medium by which the sound is propagated changes, and the frequency at which the sound vibrates at has also changed, hahaha, my voice is really funny.” She herself split her sides laughing as she explained, “Aiyo, I’m about to die from laughter, I ran over here specially to share this with you for you to listen, I treat you so well, hahahaha……”
The corner of my mouth twitched, “Yeah, thank you.”
Even long after she left, her sharp and thin laughter still lingered on by my ears, it was as if Snow White’s stepmother had run into my ears and was laughing sinisterly as if her life depended on it.
Jungkook roughly came before 5pm, his jacket was thrown over his arm, his surreptitious appearance was very cute, he said let’s sneak back home stealthily, the director said he wants to hold a very boring meeting.
I asked him blankly, “Can we go home?”
He spoke as he took off his white coat, “We can, it’s just a meeting about the New Year’s Day celebrations or something like that, it’s not important.”
“But, I don’t have to be hospitalised?” I asked.
He paused his actions of taking off his clothes, and glanced at me in puzzlement, “Why do you have to be hospitalised?”
I too looked back (at him) in puzzlement, “Am I not sick?”
“It’s just a small cold that you can recover from by drinking more water, you too want to be hospitalised?” He said, “You like the hospital that much?”
I blinked my eyes with great physical exertion, and strived to turn to cogs of my brain that had become especially stupid due to me sleeping too much, then I suddenly grabbed hold of his clothes and said, “Doctor Jisoo! Has Doctor Jisoo gotten off work yet?”
“I don’t know, it’s not like she’s in the same department as I am.” He swatted away my hand, and took off his white coat.
Without saying anything further, I broke into a run and ran out (of the room), and barged and shoved my way around till I found the orthopaedics department, Doctor Jisoo just so happened to be leaning forward on the table as she fiddled with a few bones, upon seeing me come, she waved a bone and called out to me, “Lisa, you see, this is the tibia, the bone in your calf, I don’t know how long this person has been dead for, come over here, I’ll let you touch it.”
I silently took two steps back, “I have something to ask you.”
“What’s the matter?” She crooked her index finger and rapped against that piece of bone, “I’m not sure if there will still be flavour if I stew this in a soup.”
I again silently took two steps back, though I know that this action would definitely bring about her bursting into loud laughter and saying, “I’m joking”, but I really couldn’t help but do so……
Indeed, she burst out into laughter and said, “Aiya, this is made of synthetic plastic, how could I possibly take it to stew soup.”
I accommodatingly pulled at the corner of my mouth and decided to get straight to the point to ask her, “At noontime, I heard you calling your father on the phone in the toilet, talking about the matter of sending Taehyung overseas.”
“Yeah.” She scratched her head, “What’s going on?”
“Why do you want to send him overseas?”
“Because Lisa is almost going to die, we’re afraid that he will be sad.”
Aha! The key point was right here.
“Who is Lisa?” I questioned closely. As the speed at which I was talking was too fast, I nearly almost sprained my tongue.
Doctor Jisoo appeared to be very perplexed, “The pet lizard that Taehyung was rearing, Lisa, didn’t you meet it before? Taehyung even said you and Lisa got along very well.”
Ah! Yah! Wah! Oh! Ha! Heh!
I hugged her with great force, then turned around and rushed back to the room (I was in) just recently, Jungkook had already put on his jacket, he was just sitting cross-legged on the bed and eating something.
I shrieked and pounced on him, “JUNGKOOK JUNGKOOK –”
He let out a smothered groan as he was pushed down by me, in order to prop himself up so that he wouldn’t fall over backwards, the things in his hand spilled all over the floor.
“What are you doing?” He said, “The red dates have all dropped.”
I hooked my arms around his neck, wanting to laugh and wanting to shout, in the end I really didn’t know how to express that sort of excitement I had at rising back to life after death, I could only viciously bite his neck……
On the taxi.
I hummed a song as I ate the red dates, the red dates were given by Jungkook’s patient, she said that her family had grown and fermented them by themselves.
Jungkook covered his neck with his hand and stayed a far distance away from me, he even shot me resentful looks from time to time. I apologised to him in embarrassment, “Aiya, I didn’t do it on purpose, you sit a little closer, I won’t bite you again.”
He ignored me, covered his neck and turned his head away. I shifted over and hugged his arm, “I’m sorry, how about I let you bite me back?”
Jungkook rolled his eyes at me, “You’re born in the year of the dog.”
After we returned home, I self-deprecatingly told Jungkook about my blunder, after he finished listening, he didn’t scold me for being an idiot or mock me like I had predicted him to, he only went silent for a while before pushing away the arm I had hooked around his neck while saying, “I’m going to shower.”
After he finished showering and came out, he also didn’t pay attention to me, he sat in front of the computer and tapped away at the keyboard as it made pitter-patter noises, I said, “Don’t tap at my keyboard till it disintegrates,” and was returned by him giving me a look that was like a sharp knife.
After I finished showering and returned back, Jungkook was sitting at the bedside, with an expression like he was thinking about something very deeply, that expression in his eyes as he was looking at God-knows what, with him appearing to be thinking about something was so beautiful that it was like a scene designed with utmost care from some movie. But if this sort of expression were to occur to me, there would be a more easily understood phrase to describe it – being in a daze.
I climbed onto the bed, and wrapped my arms around his neck from behind his back, “What are you thinking about?”
He turned his head sideways and glanced at me, “I’m thinking, what if I didn’t have you.”
I stared blankly, then forced myself to pretend and put on a cheeky, grinning appearance, “Then you can look for a girl that is a little taller than me, a little slimmer than me, a little prettier than me, a little smarter than me, a little more gentle than me, and a little more sensible than me.”
After I finished speaking, I felt very regretful, this seriously made it seem that I had too much room for improvement.
Jungkook raised his hand and patted my head that I had pressed against his shoulder, “That’s right.”
These two words of his again completely destroyed my tear glands, I felt like I had been in a state of anxiety and fear the entire day, afraid that I wouldn’t be able to accompany him till old age, afraid that I wouldn’t be able to love him anymore, afraid that he would be lonely on this earth…… But to him, it was instead only a case of “without you, I can find someone better”.
“Why are you crying again?” His tone of voice was very helpless.
I leaned my upper body on his back, wiping my tears and snot on his clothes, as I wiped them I scolded, “You’re a bastard with no conscience, even if I become a ghost, I will also pester you for an entire lifetime, bastard.”
He wanted to stand up, I strapped his neck tightly and refused to let go, he didn’t care, and caused me to stick to his back with the posture of an octopus, half hanging, half clamped.
“Where do you want to go?” I whimpered as I asked him, striving hard to not fall off from his back.
He ignored me, and half-piggybacked-half-dragged-me as he made a beeline towards the washroom, he squeezed toothpaste onto the toothbrush, and invited me, “Do you want to brush your teeth?”
I hung from his back, and rejected him in all righteousness and justness, “I don’t want to, you bastard.”
He lifted his eyes from the mirror and glanced at me, “Have you scolded enough yet?”
“I haven’t.” As I spoke, I wanted to cry again. I cried as I scolded and used my head to hit against his back, “You have no conscience, you aren’t human, if you want to look for someone better, you go and look for her now, you go and look, go and look, go and look, there’s no need to wait till I die.”
Jungkook dangled the toothbrush from his mouth, and spoke with unclear enunciation, his mouth full of foam, “I’m about to have an internal injury, this madam.”
“You bastard, I’m already crying.” As I spoke, I subconsciously relaxed one of my hands, wanting to rub my eyes, the moment that hand relaxed, the strength of one arm was insufficient to hold up my entire body weight, hence I again scrambled and rushed to rein in Jungkook’s neck.
In order to avoid being strangled to death by me or me causing myself to fall to my death, Jungkook could only throw the toothbrush aside to hold me up, after a time period of hurrying and scrambling frantically, other than him being strangled by me till he had a red mark, our lives were both no longer in danger.
After causing such a ruckus, I was a little afraid that I had provoked and annoyed him, hence I obediently got off onto the floor, and discovered that because I had come over just now by hanging off Jungkook’s body, I was barefoot, stepping on the ceramic floor tiles in winter was extremely cold, I got onto tiptoe, gave a shout, fled back to the room and jumped onto the bed. I wrapped myself in the blanket and rolled around once on the bed, wrapping myself up till I was like a dumpling caused me to have great peace of mind.
When Jungkook entered the room, he held a wet towel in his hand, he insisted on drawing out my head from the blanket wrap, and covered my face with the towel and rubbed it with great force for a while, “You’re happy now that you’ve cried till your eyes are like walnuts, are you.”
I was wrapped in the middle of the blanket and couldn’t move at all, I could only let him help me wipe my face with a vigour that could rub my face till my features were flattened.
After he finished using the towel, he threw the towel easily away, and the towel ended up hanging from the back of the chair. I held my face that had been rubbed by him till it was painful and complained, “My skin is about to break, you don’t have to disfigure me even if you want to look for someone new.”
Jungkook drew the blanket out, following the blanket, I rolled a few rounds, having lost the blanket, the cold air immediately surrounded me from head to toe, I couldn’t help but curl up into a ball, just in time for Jungkook to shove me as a ball into the blanket that he had shaken out properly.
I wasn’t done lying down properly when he turned the lights off, I said, “I hadn’t brushed my teeth yet”, he said, “You often forget to brush your teeth.” I protested and said, “But I didn’t forget now.”
He said, “Then why do you always forget that I love you very much? I love you very much, so even though it’s indeed true that there are girls who are taller than you, slimmer than you, prettier than you, more clever, gentle and sensible than you in this world, but they are all none of my business.”
In the darkness, I exerted great force as I blinked my eyes, to force back the tears that were already brimming in my eyes, I said, “Fellow student Jeon, next time, can you place the most important point at the beginning when you speak? Having cried for such a long time, I too am tired. Also, there aren’t any girls who are taller than me, slimmer than me, prettier than me, more clever, gentle and sensible than me in this world, there aren’t.”