Hyungsik, who had been running to Eunchan, flinched at Miro’s warning and stood in place. Hyungsik, who looked back and forth between Miro and Eunchan with a question mark, called out to Eunchan again in a tearful voice.
“Hyuuung,”
“Please sit here.”
“Uh, yeah. Hyungsik-ah. Are you okay? You can sit over there.”
The hospital room manager guided Hyungsik to the opposite side of the sofa. The manager smiled, greeted them, and quietly left the hospital room just as he had entered. With bewildered eyes, Hyungsik looked at Eunchan, and Miro warily watched Hyungsik with prim eyes.
“Is hyung okay?”
“I’m fine. What about you?”
Eunchan, who had soothed Miro and pulled him to sit next to him, asked Hyungsik back.
“I’m okay…… The boss said he reported it to the police.”
“Ah, okay. Where is the boss?”
“We had a customer coming in the afternoon, remember? He went to the office.”
Even with two employees injured, the boss had to work. Eunchan examined Hyungsik’s condition. The scratches on his face and the bandage wrapped around his hand were all.
“You’re not hurt anywhere else, right?”
“No, hyung is more…… Hyuuung.”
At the kind question, Hyungsik shed tears like chicken droppings. Feeling sorry for his sniffling appearance, Eunchan’s hand twitched. But he couldn’t bring himself to move. Because Miro was glaring at Hyungsik with cold eyes while gripping the pole tightly so Eunchan couldn’t move.
“They just wrapped bandages on it. I’m glad you’re not hurt much. Go rest.”
“What about hyung?”
“I’m going to stay here more. I’ll call you later.”
“Can’t I stay together too?”
It was Hyungsik who must have been very shocked by today’s incident. Eunchan, who noticed he was scared to be alone, hesitated and looked at Miro.
“Sure.”
Miro, who had been looking at Hyungsik with a hardened face until now, answered with a bright smile. Eunchan held Miro’s wrist and shook his head at Hyungsik. Sirens rang in his head. A conviction rose that the two shouldn’t be left together.
“No, Hyungsik-ah. Hyung will contact you later, so you’d better go for now. Go home and rest, or stay at the hospital a bit more. Got it?”
He signaled Hyungsik to get up quickly. Hyungsik, who didn’t understand, grumbled to Eunchan with a disappointed face, but it didn’t get through. The rabbit doll on Miro’s lap was so crumpled it was on the verge of bursting from his strong grip. Eunchan looked at Miro’s signal and drove Hyungsik out.
“Hurry up and go!”
“Then contact me, hyung……”
“Yeah, yeah.”
Soon closing the door, Hyungsik went outside the hospital room. Heavy silence piled up layer by layer between Eunchan and Miro. To break the silence, Eunchan opened his mouth first.
“Miro-ssi, we decided to leave the hospital.”
“……”
“My house will probably be difficult. Those people know the way to my house.”
Until they were caught, near the house was dangerous. Eunchan waited for Miro’s answer while playing with his fingers. Miro just bowed his head and kept fiddling with the doll.
“Why did you go home with Hyungsik?”
“What? Yes. I was going to stop by home briefly to take care of some work.”
“I haven’t been there.”
“If it weren’t for this incident, I would have taken Miro-ssi.”
“I’m angry……”
He didn’t have the courage to ask why he was angry. Sending Hyungsik out first was the right choice. Eunchan held Miro’s hand, intending to soothe him.
“Why are you shaking like this?”
Strangely, Miro’s hands were trembling. Whether he was cold or just too shocked. Eunchan stroked Miro’s face.
“Don’t be with him. I’m so angry.”
“Who, Hyungsik? We work together, so what can……”
“……”
His eyes look a bit crazy. Eunchan met Miro’s dilated pupils. For some reason he didn’t know, Miro didn’t like Hyungsik.
“Okay.”
Why do I care so much about this person? He felt sorry seeing him look sick, and it was touching that he was throwing a tantrum at him. Was it because of his pretty appearance? I didn’t know I was such a face person. Eunchan embraced Miro. He didn’t know whose heart was beating a bit fast. Miro, who buried his head in Eunchan’s neck, regulated his own breathing. Breathing in and out steep, overwhelming breaths. Eunchan also breathed with Miro.
Whether they did tests while he was unconscious, fortunately the doctor only diagnosed him with a mild concussion with no other abnormalities. Since his body was fine, he didn’t need to get more IV fluids either. However, when he asked if he could remove the bandage, Miro firmly refused, so the doctor also shook his head.
Eunchan lay in Miro’s hospital room and received care. Care in name only—Miro was just fussing over him from the side. Eunchan made plans to take time off work using this as an excuse while roughly receiving the fruit Miro put in his mouth.
“How about staying at Miro-ssi’s place?”
The hospital and Eunchan’s house were unsafe. Having been attacked once, he more than understood Miro’s anxious feelings, so Eunchan made plans to stay together and quickly catch the stalker.
“Eunchan too?”
“If there’s a spare room, it would be nice if you let me sleep there.”
And there was also the fact that he was scared to stay alone. The men already knew the office and Eunchan’s house addresses. He needed to warn Hyungsik to be careful too, but since Miro wouldn’t give him his phone, there was no way to contact him again.
“Sh, should we go now?”
Whether he really liked Eunchan’s suggestion, Miro’s eyes sparkled. Since it was strange to stay hospitalized when he wasn’t even sick, Eunchan nodded while chewing a strawberry. It was disappointing he couldn’t stop by home, but fortunately he had his luggage bag.
“Let me change clothes first.”
I’ll keep wearing only the clothes I’ve been wearing. Eunchan unbuttoned his hospital gown top and gestured to Miro to hand him the luggage bag.
“I’ll give you Eunchan’s clothes.”
However, what Miro handed over were new clothes in a shopping bag. The clothes he couldn’t take last time. Eunchan frowned as he received the new clothes. It was for Miro’s sake anyway. He’d already worn them once, so there was no reason he couldn’t do it twice. Eunchan got down from the hospital bed, intending to change in the bathroom.
“I’ll go change.”
“Yees.”
Without even looking at Eunchan entering the bathroom, Miro answered softly. As if looking for something, Miro, who found and picked up a box placed in the corner, only then raised his head toward Eunchan who was still standing in front of the bathroom.
“Go, go change.”
“Yes.”
Eunchan, who had been looking at the rabbit doll held in Miro’s hand, soon grabbed the bathroom doorknob. When he went inside and opened the shopping bag, there was a summer short-sleeved shirt and long pants. A plain navy color. Eunchan neatly folded the hospital gown he’d taken off and then changed clothes. He also secretly unwrapped the bandage. It was just simply treated with gauze and tape. They said he didn’t need to be hospitalized and didn’t say anything about stitches, so it didn’t seem to be a major wound.
They couldn’t go against the construction company, so they attacked us who are easy targets. If it weren’t for Hyungsik, his life might have really been in danger. Eunchan wrapped the bandage loosely and carefully washed his face. He won’t be able to wash his hair for a while either.
While looking in the mirror and tidying up his appearance, he soon discovered a dark bruise on his chin. Come to think of it, his cheek seemed to tingle too…… So that’s why the doctor said his teeth were fine. He understood why he was fortunate to only have a concussion. His cheeks and chin were shiny as if ointment had been applied. He wiped off the ointment with tissue and washed his hands.
Eunchan, who came out holding the hospital gown, faced Miro who was looking at the doll.
“Do you like the doll?”
He carries it around well. They said it was a comfort doll, and it was as effective as its name. Eunchan put the folded hospital gown on the hospital bed and approached Miro.
“……There were clothes like that too?”
“Yees. Yes, it’s pretty, right?”
Miro lifted the rabbit’s arm and held it out to Eunchan. Eunchan looked back and forth between the clothes he was wearing and the clothes the doll was wearing. No matter how he looked at it, they were the same clothes. Why does this guy keep dressing the doll in the same clothes? Is he crazy? Eunchan frowned.
“Why do you keep dressing it in the same clothes?”
“Be, because it’s Eunchan.”
“What?”
“This is also Eunchan.”
“How can you give a person’s name to a doll?”
Eunchan, who was about to say something with his hands on his hips, soon lowered his arms again when he saw Miro smiling brightly. After all, he was just dressing Eunchan and the doll with his own money.
“Do, do you hate it?”
“Never mind. Do as you please. What about the luggage?”
As if deflated by Eunchan’s cold reaction, the rabbit’s ears drooped down. Miro, who put the doll inside Eunchan’s bag, also gathered the shopping bag containing books and stood up.
“Is there more?”
“Th, this too.”
Miro even picked up the hospital gown Eunchan had taken off.
“Isn’t that the hospital’s?”
“It’s mine.”
Even though it had the hospital logo on it, Miro insisted it was his. Fine, do as you please. Eunchan raised both hands as he watched Miro pack the hospital gown into his luggage bag too.
“Will you give me my phone?”
He needed the phone to call a taxi. Eunchan held out his hand to Miro. Miro hesitated and took out Eunchan’s phone from his pocket.
“What the, why is it so broken?”
“It, it was like that from when Eunchan came.”
The screen was shattered to pieces. Could it be repaired? It looked beyond revival. Did someone step on it while fighting? The battery part in the back was also completely crushed, as if someone had deliberately smashed it.
“Miro-ssi didn’t break it, did you?”
He made an effort to joke about the unbelievable reality. Miro just smiled sweetly without answering. The installment payments weren’t even finished yet. Eunchan swallowed tears looking at the phone that wouldn’t even turn on.
“I really want to kill them……”
I should have noticed from when they gave me that strange request. Eunchan ground his teeth while building up hostility toward the two.
“I, I’ll help you.”
“……No. Miro-ssi, lend me your phone.”
Unable to contain his anger, he was cursing when Miro suddenly whispered that he’d help. What was he going to help with—instead of asking, Eunchan requested to borrow the phone. Eunchan, who called a call taxi with Miro’s phone, soon asked Miro to hand him the luggage, but Miro firmly refused. The reason was that he couldn’t let a patient carry luggage. It seemed like Miro was sick just a few days ago, but their positions had already switched.
