"Rea!.. Rea!"
She snapped out of her state as she looked at her brother who was calling out to her in panic.
It felt like some type of movie. It didn't feel like a real moment in time.
Rea was almost waiting for Heeseung to step out of the car, scar free. She had seen a couple of race crashes before, most of the racers managed to walk out of the tattered car.
But the shouts of the announcers, the crowd surrounding her, murmuring in worry, and the ambulance and paramedics rushing onto the track made her realize the situation was fully real.
Some of the other racers had safely stepped out of their own messed up vehicles, but Heeseung hadn't.
Rea couldn't help but stand up and run as fast as she could to get on the track. To know if he was okay.
She wanted to see him step out of the car so that she can say "Are you stupid? Why were you on the outer lane?" and he'd just say, "I saw an opening and I took it."
That was all she wanted so that she could slap him silly and complain to him about how annoying he is, just so that they can go out to eat together, completely forgetting about their ten thousandth argument.
But he wasn't stepping out.
"Let me through!" She said loudly as she ripped off her headphones, trying to push through the staff who weren't budging.
They must've thought she was a fan, although she was coming straight from the VIP zone.
Her desperate gaze ran over the scene as the team pulled off the door of Heeseung's car.
He was limp, and blood seeped from the holes of his expensive suit as they carefully pulled him out onto a stretcher.
That's all she needed to see before she started pressing through harder, letting out the sobs that she was holding as she yelled and pushed.
"Heeseung!" She cried as she watched the paramedics pull him into the ambulance. "I need to know if he's okay! Let me through!"
"You'll get news from them later!" One of the staff members said as he struggled against her shoving.
"I need to know now! I need to know. I need to see him. Tell me he's okay!"
"Rea!"
She could only hear Angel's voice as if it were far away. As if someone had lowered the volume on the rest of the world, and all she could see was that stretcher being lifted into the ambulance.
"Let me through!" She screamed angrily, pushing the man's shoulders one last time to which he shook his head, before she dropped to the ground in defeat, sobbing hopelessly as she harshly threw the headphones in her hand.
She placed her head in her hands, before she felt a had around her arm, pulling her up from the ground as she cried loudly.
Her head found her brother's chest as he hugged her tightly.
"He'll be okay, Rea." He muttered the words that he didn't believe himself.
"Ms. Rea!"
She heard behind her, making her turn around quickly at the sound of Heeseung's bodyguard.
"I will be heading to the hospital now, if you'd like I-"
"Take me with you." Her voice was hoarse as she immediately spoke out her thoughts.
The staff that were guarding the way to the track looked at the bodyguard, in slight shock as she was an actual person who knew Heeseung personally.
"Yes, ma'am."
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"He was in an emergency state when he came in. He was lucky the paramedics did their job very well in keeping his breathing under control. The car was well equipped for a crash, so there were no crazy bone injuries, but there was some internal bleeding in the left side of his abdomen."
"How is he now?" Rea quickly questioned the doctor, who only had limited knowledge of her language and had to speak through a nurse who spoke it fluently.
"En ce moment, il est dans le coma. Mais ne vous inquiétez pas trop, il se réveillera."
"He's in a comatose state right now. But you shouldn't worry too much, it's not extensive. He will wake."
"C'est juste à partir de l'impact."
"It is just from the shock of the impact." The nurse quickly said as Rea's leg shook, and Heeseung's manager paced back and forth.
The doctor had a reassuring look on his face, although behind his eyes, Rea could see slight pity, and some type of fear.
He's softening the blow... "He's alright. He will wake." but behind his smile, he's unsure.
"Je suis un fan, et j'espère qu'il se rétablira." He smiled a little and she couldn't respond as she kept her gaze on the ground, her tears silently falling.
"He said he is a fan, and that he hopes he recovers quickly." The nurse said with a nod and Angel gave them a small smile as a thank you.
They both walked away as they tended to their other patients.
"Shit. We need that guy in jail." The manager spoke as he shook his head.
"He was doing his part of the race." Angel said quietly, and although Rea wished that wasn't the case, so that she could place all of the blame on that racer, she knew it was the truth. "He was trying to win, just like all of them, I'm sure the rain made it even harder too."
Heeseung's bodyguard was leaning against the wall as he seemed to be deep in thought.
He suddenly pushed himself off the wall and glared at the manager.
"Why were his tires not for the rain?"
"What?"
"His tires.... were not for the rain." He emphasized his words slowly as he raised his eyebrows.
"They were. The team made sure they were."
"They weren't. They had to be regular slick tires. They didn't have grip. Did you notice his car was going faster than the rest?! That's because the tires had no grip!"
Angel seemed to be calculating something in his mind as he stood from his seat next to Rea.
"That's true. Heeseung wouldn't have made such an average mistake just like that." Angel said softly as he looked at the manager.
"Why are you all looking at me as if I did something?! Look at the team! Investigate them! Matter of fact, I will do that right now! What makes you think I'd want to hurt Heeseung?!"
No one said anything as the manager placed his eerie glaring gaze on all of them.
He was suddenly typing something on his phone, and was immediately placing it to his ear, before walking away.
Rea looked back down at the ground as she somehow couldn't decipher whether the manager was telling the truth or not.
Out of all days in which you can read people, you can't do it today?!
"I want to see him." She whispered as she crossed her arms over her chest, Heeseung's mildly wet zip-up hoodie was cold on her, but she didn't want to take it off just yet.
"We can't right now. The doctor said-"
"I know. I'm just saying." Rea muttered as she stared at the ground, trying to stop the tears from running.
She closed her eyes tightly, and she felt a hand at her shoulder, making her open them to look up at her brother.
"We should go back and get other clothes or something, I don't want you to-"
"I want to stay. At least for now. He's unstable. The doctor was just lying. I want to stay." She said stubbornly and Angel only sighed before looking away from her. "What if something happens to him while I'm gone? And I don't get to-"
She stopped herself from saying those words before she looked away from Angel and back to the floor.
"I understand. I'll bring you some clothes and food."
"Thank you."
Rea watched Angel walk away and she let out a small sigh, before leaning her head back on the wall.
"Heeseung is competitive. He won't just give up like that."
"I know. He's the most annoying person in the world." She whispered to herself as she closed her eyes again, feeling tears fall down the sides of her face, but choosing to just ignore them because they were out of her control.
The bodyguard didn't expect her to speak about him that way, but he still smiled a little at the affection with which she said these words, as if him being annoying was more of a quality to love than one to hate.