[ CONTINUATION TO THE EPILOGUE ]
For the past week after the surprise appearance that lilly managed to execute perfectly, she stayed with her parents at the Airbnb that they're currently staying. She was restricted from doing big movements such as carrying stuff and dancing for a week because she needs to let her body completely heal from the trauma that she had put her body into.
As of the moment, she's getting ready to get a check up with her physician and today is also the day when she'll know if she can go back to work. She'll be moving to the new dorm tonight too. All her stuff were already moved in by the boys when they moved out of the old dorm and into the new one.
The boys and her siblings used this week to do a room makeover for her new room in which she tried to ask them to give her a clue but they kept their mouth shut—surprisingly. She did told them there's no need but they all want to surprise her with a new room and to take this as a late birthday present from the 11 of them.
All she knows is they went all out for the reveal—heck her mom informed her how the boys also cleaned up the whole dorm putting decorations that they think she'd like. Her brothers's girlfriend went to help alongside with sunghoon, jungwon and sunoo's sister who took the lead in designing her room. It took them 5 days to complete the makeover and now she can't wait to check the new dorm.
Man does she feel so lucky to have these people in her life and she felt so bad that she have put them in so much sadness and uncertainty waiting for her to wake up. But she's here now though and she's been secretly planning for a thank you dinner with her and the boys family tomorrow, planning everything from top to bottom including thank you baskets for the family and bouquets for the moms and sisters while the dads and brothers gets a personalised shaving kit.
Her family will be flying back to Canada and Ni-ki's family will be flying back in a week so the dinner is also a despedida or a going away party. Her parents went with her to her doctors appointment. She's happy that she can now go back to work but she have to take it easy to let her body get used to it again. She was given her new vitamins and prescription medicine incase she experiences pain in her abdomen or head.
After the appointment, they went ahead to eat lunch at the Japanese restaurant where they filmed their ENHYPEN and Hi before. They also took take out for the members to eat later on at dinner time. This will be the first night that she'll sleep in their new apartment. Her brothers have brought the stuff that she have with her in AirBnb to the apartment.
< at their apartment >
Arriving at the apartment, she was greeted and assisted by her boyfriend, sunoo. "Hi sweetheart, how's the doctor's appointment?" he said and kisses her on her lips.
"it went well. I can now go back to work tomorrow but in moderation to let my body adjust" she got out of the car with sunoo putting his arms around her waist as they walk inside.
"I hope you love how we designed the apartment" sunoo said clearly nervous about how will lilly reacts.
"Welcome home, sweetheart" sunoo opened the door and let her in first.
"Woahh wait a minute" she looked at sunoo then at apartment entrance way confused.
"What is it?" sunoo asked gulping in nervousness.
"Are you sure this is our apartment?" she asked and sunoo nodded.
"This can't be. It's—this is organized" sunoo let out a sigh of relief and chuckle.
"Gosh, I thought you don't like the designs we've done but yeah, we decided to change by being more organised that's why we bought a proper shoe rack here and in the spare room where we're using as the closet" Sunoo said while she just look at him with her brows raised.
"Okay, if you guys say soo" she said in a singing voice.
She entered the apartment to finally be able to take in the whole layout. It's an open floor plan with windows which is great. There's also indoor plants in the house which made her plant mom senses happy.
"This place is beautiful but a bit luxurious in some way" she exclaimed.
"The company told us that it took them 4 months to find this place and I'm glad you love it sweetheart" sunoo smiles happily as he lead her out of the kitchen and to the dining area.
"I love it!! You guys designed this place in 5 days??" she asked.
"No, not really. We started redesigning a month before you woke up but we have to postpone it due to the concert" Heeseung explained and backhugging her.
"Anak ka ng tinapa!!" she exclaimed in surprise and placed both her hands on her chest.
"Arghhhh!! Lee Heeseung!!" She said annoyed.
"What if I end up having a heart attack? You—" she hits him on his chest.
"I'm sorry, babe. I miss you" Heeseung kisses her cheek and lips.
"Don't do that again or I'll actually end up dying—" She huffed.
"No you won't, we'll make sure we will grow old together" Jake said as they walk to the dining area with the rest of the members and her parents.
"So, do you like the transformation that we did? Have you already seen the washer and dryer?" Jungwon asked.
"Hold up! There's a washer and dryer?!" she asked surprised.
"Yuppp!! Come, we'll show you where" as they were walking, there's a
cabinet on the same side where the first 3 rooms ( Room A : Sunoo and Sunghoon ; Room B : Jungwon and Ni-ki ; Room C : Jake and Jay ) then the opposite side of it, the fourth room (Heeseung's ) bedroom door is located.
"Cool!!!" she exclaimed.
"Then when we head back out, here's the living area. Even though there's exercise equipment on the side, we tried to make it homey as possible" Sunghoon explained.
" I actually liked how you guys made this feel so homey and made the palette neutral colors which actually made the room feel more bigger than it actually is " Lilly compliments their work.
"We won't be able to do this without the help of your brothers, their girlfriends and our sisters. We're so happy that you liked how this apartment turned out, princess" Jungwon smiles at her.
"I might end up letting you guys help me design the interior when we have our own house in the future, you boys did a great job" she told them.
The boys are literally having a celebration internally at her compliments and are smiling from ear to ear because of it. They continued to tour her around the apartment and the rooms with her new room being the last room.
"This room is the biggest room and the Masters Bedroom. We remodeled the room from top to bottom so I hope you'll love it, babe" Jay opened the room and let her in.
"Oh! My! Goodness!" she exclaimed.
"This—Omg! You nailed it!!" she started jumping up and down in happiness then turn to give them a hug.
"Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!" she thanked them excitedly.
"Your room is the only one with a walk in closet so we let you have this room. Also, your parents brought your tv here too" Sunghoon said.
"Ohh that's why this tv looks familiar" she exclaimed.
"Do you like your new room, honey?" her mom asked her.
"Like? Nope—I love it so much!! Thank you" she also hugged her mom and her fathers.
"Your welcome, honey" her parents said.
"Wait—How—huh?—I am surprised you know what's my dream room interior is like unless...."
"you guys checked my Pinterest board, huh?" she asked and just like that, everyone—as in everyone avoided her eyes and looked away.
"Fine. I let them check when you're in a coma, we bought you a new phone and I let Ni-ki and Jungwon fix your new phone so when you wake up, you can use it right away and it just happens that they found your journal where you keep your passwords for your social media so they are the ones who logged your social media accounts on your phone. Sorry honey" Her mom explained.
" Oh okay, apology accepted" she said and plopped down on her bed.
"I'm never gonna leave this room during days off" she said.
"You're happy that you finally have your own room, lilly?" Her dad asked.
"I'm happy at how the room turned out, thank you" she thanked them for the nth time.
"But—"
"As if I'll get to sleep here alone starting tonight" she scoffed.
"Since I have a tv in my room which I will hardly use by the way, the boys will come here to make the movie night an excuse or use the tv to play games when someone else is using the TV in the living area. So this room will probably be a common hangout room for the boys " she states as she hugged the penguin pillow that's on her bed.
" I hate that you're always right in that one " Ni-ki said and layed down beside her.
" See?? Told ya dada ! " she said tiredly.
" alright, honey " her parents laugh.
" Anyways, we're going now so you guys can have your time together and for you lilly to get some rest. See you tomorrow " Her papa said to her.
"See you tomorrow" they all said as jay and Jungwon went to see their girlfriend's parents off.
"Let's go to the living area, my queen?" Sunghoon asked and she tiredly nodded then raised her hand causing him to chuckle and eventually carry his sleepy girlfriend to the living room.
He placed her down on the couch with head on his lap. "Sleepy, my queen?" she only hums in reply.
"Did you get enough sleep for the past week?" Heeseung asked her.
"No—" she said.
"—I can't sleep straight 8 hours without waking up because my back would hurt in the middle of my sleep" she yawns.
"Or sometimes it's my head but I'm getting there. I am slowly trying to go back to my normal sleep pattern" she reassures them.
"Go to sleep, babe. We'll wake you up when it's dinner time" ni-ki said and she nodded before completing dozing off.
When she fell asleep, the boys can't help but feel sad and bad that their girlfriend is still in pain after going through a lot of pain and complications. Jungwon and Jay was told by her parents earlier before they left that when she feels pain on her back, massage and caressing carefully helps with the pain so they shared that information to them and told them that the prescriptions list are sticked on the refrigerator using a magnet.
"I wish I can take the pain away from her" sunghoon sighs as he caress her cheek.
"She went through so much and until now, she still is in pain" Sunoo speaked up.
"Let's just make her feel loved and take care of her in hopes that it will help her in gaining positive memories rather than dwelling on the bad things that had happened to us" Jake said and the boys agreed as they watched tv while letting lilly take a 2 hours nap.
< 2 hours later >
"wakey wakey my queen" sunghoon ever so affectionately wake his girlfriend up.
"Hmm?" she opened her eyes and sat up carefully.
"Why don't you go and wash up first while we prepare our dinner?" still waking up from her sleepiness, she nodded and walk back to her room to get her stuff and then go to wash up.
After washing up, she wears a sweat pants and a sports bra, left to go and grab one of the boys' hoodie to sleep on and entered her room to comb her hair in front of the full body mirror.
Lilly's hands traces the scars on her abdomen as she sighs observing her body on the mirror. The only memory she had when she got into an accident pours in. Sadness, Pain, Disappointment and survivor's guilt.
"Why am I alive? Why—the driver wasn't supposed to die—no—it should be me" she whispered to herself as tears fell.
Then, an arm circled her waist making her look up to see Jake.
"You're beautiful, my love and I'm proud of you for fighting to stay alive and to be here with us right now" jake kissed her temple.
Jake's hand were on her abdomen tracing the scars carefully before kissing her shoulder. "You're beautiful even with those scars. You will always be the most beautiful girl I ever laid my eyes on and the girl that I have fallen hard for" jake reached for her hands and kissed it.
"Thank you" she said overwhelmed with the love that they make her feel.
"I love you—to infinity and beyond" Jake said.
"I love you too" she replied and peck his lips.
"Here, wear this and let's go eat dinner together" Jake handed her Sunoo's hoodie that she have borrowed / stolen from their closet.
Jake let her walk in front of him and he turned off the lights of the room before closing the door and walking to the dining area where the others are waiting. Together, for the first time, they ate dinner in their new home.
For the rest of the night, they made sure she always feel loved and taken care of. Telling her that they love her and how beautiful she is. The boys are all hands on with lilly. She ended up falling asleep in her new room between Ni-ki and Heeseung. As to how they decided who will accompany lilly tonight, it's by playing rock paper scissors—as always.
Lilly's first night at their new dorm/apartment was made better by the boys and she can't thank them enough for everything that they have done for her. She's indeed the luckiest girl ever to be blessed with 7 amazing and sweetest boyfriends in the whole world. She won't ask for anything else as long as she have them by her side supporting her in whatever endeavour she decided to take.
Anywhere they live, whatever place it is, it doesn't really matter to her as long as she is with her boys. ENHYPEN is her home and she is happy to finally be back in their arms again. Safe and sound. Loved and protected.
©{🐨}fangirl _hiraea,2022 ° thoroughly edited < spellings and grammars>
Final revision date : 2023, October