Chapter 20

                                    

                                          
I squatted down to pick up the medical charts and said, “I was afraid you might have gotten gastric pain again from being over hungry, so I brought you breakfast.”
                          
Jungkook squatted down to help pick up the medical charts, “Hospital’s cafeteria has breakfast.”
                          
I looked up at him, “So have you eaten?”
                          
He took the medical charts from me and threw them on the table, “Too tired, no appetite.”
                          
Indeed, his face was a face of weariness, a slight greenish color on his lower eyelids, face and lips were slightly pale.
                          
I said, “I bought you tea eggs.”
                          
He removed his coat and said, “I will eat if you peel it.”
                          
I took over his coat, dragged him to a chair and sat him down, beamed and him and said, “Doctor, you need more protein for supplement. I will peel an egg for you right now.”
                          
He looked and me, shook his head and laughed. I stretched out my hand and poked his dimple and laughed along with him.
                          
I held out the peeled egg to his mouth side and asked carefully, “How was the surgery?”
                          
“Successful.” He took one bite off the egg, “Help me take a bottle of water, it is at the lowest compartment of the document drawer.”
                          
I opened the lowest compartment of his drawer, it was filled with at least thirty to forty Nongfu Spring water. I took one out, opened it and passed it to him, “Why does your hospital only give out Nongfu Spring?”
                          
“How would I know?”
                          
Jungkook reluctantly ate two tea eggs, and leaned back on his chair, and said, “I don’t want to eat anymore.”
                          
I tore apart a disposable chopstick and persuaded him, “Eat a few more dumplings.”
                          
He very unwillingly swallowed down a few dumplings, I saw that he was really tired, so I didn’t persuade him anymore, I only said, “You didn’t sleep the whole night, and you had a surgery, you should go home and rest.”
                          
He shook his head, “The patient’s anesthesia has yet to wear off, we still need to do close monitoring. I can’t leave the hospital.”
                          
I felt a little distressed for him and gave a pat on his head, “It’s been hard on you.”
                          
He dodged my hand, “Your hands just peeled tea eggs.”
                          
I was angry, “Your hands have touched dead people!”
                          
He said gravely, “I washed my hands.”
                          
…..
                          
I said, “You can rest your head on the table and take a little nap, or I can ask Doctor Jisoo if there’s any empty ward for you to sleep for a while?”
                          
He didn’t answer me, he only stood up and walked behind a shelf and dragged out a foldable bed.
                          
I exclaimed, “Well equipped ah.”
                          
He opened up the foldable bed against the wall, then he threw himself on the bed with a ‘thump’ sound, just like a corpse.
                          
I stared blankly at his tightly shut eyes, thinking if I should leave or stay and wait for him to wake up? Shouldn’t he at least warn me before sleeping…
                          
I stared at him for a while and sighed. I squatted down to remove his shoes for him.
                          
I placed the shoes under the bed and cleared the egg shells on the table. Just as I was about to leave the room to throw the rubbish, Jungkook said, “Lisa, where are you going?”