| Fan Fiction |
by angelynnnnn
Little did I know that all these while I have been thinking that I was jealous of Charlene. But in fact, I was really admiring Charlene. The way she carries herself with confidence and her independence gained my respect. It’s just that I mistook this idolism as jealousy.
“Charlene, I won’t let you down,”
[End of Recap]
I slept for a long time and when I woke up, the plane had already landed and passengers were preparing to exit the plane.
“Now, all I have to do is to look for this nurse,”
I took out the file and pulled out the photograph of the nurse who I was supposed to meet at the airport.
I scanned through the whole area and saw a lady waving frantically at me, holding a sign that says “Charlene”.
I waved back and pulled my luggage, making my way towards her. Although I didn’t like to be mistaken as Charlene back in Hong Kong, it was different now. In Korea, I am now known as Charlene.
The nurse started speaking in Korean and she handed me another file. It was much thinner than the file Senior So Young gave me though.
I flipped through the contents and there, everything was written in Korean! I managed to figure out that it was a daily schedule, since there were time and durations written on the left margin.
She started speaking in Korean, a language that I could not even understand a word of. My heart started pounding hard as I nodded to every sentence she said. She started walking out of the airport and I tagged behind her.
She continued speaking and went inside a vehicle, which I too followed her into. She drove off, probably to the hospital where I would be working in from today onwards. As she asked me questions, all I ever did was to smile and nod.
When the red light came on and the car stopped, she turned to face me, a frown was depicted. My heart pounded even faster and for once, I wanted Charlene to appear beside us and help me out of this awkward situation.
Charlene should have just stopped me when she knew of my decision to work in Korea alone. She should have lashed things out with me when she knew I was stealing her chance to be in Korea. She should have just told me that I would have a hard time here and would not be able to –.
Wait, is this all part of her plan?
Is this her plan to have me make a fool out of myself in a foreign country? Is this her way of getting back at me for taking advantage of kind nature? Is this her way of making me realise that she isn’t one to be trifled with?
Charlene Choi, I’ve underestimated you. You too underestimated me. I won’t be defeated this easily. I will fight for what I want, and what I want is for everybody to know I am better than you.
I smiled at the nurse beside me and pointed to my throat. I opened my mouth and cleared my throat, indicating to her that I have a serious sore throat.
She seemed to understand the message I was trying to convey to her and nodded in reply. She switched her attention back onto the road.
Charlene Choi, to think I have cried after reading your letter. I should have known better. Why else would you have willingly let me come to Korea when it was supposed to be you in my place now? I will not give you a chance to look down on me, I will watch your plan to see me fall, fail.
The rest of the way to the hospital was spent with the both of us remaining silent. When we reached the hospital, she turned to me and smiled, signaling to me that we were at our destination.
I opened the car door and stepped out, seems like we didn’t go to the hospital after all. In front of me was a high-rise building. The nurse walked ahead of me and into the building as I followed her, leaving my luggage in the car boot.
We went into the elevator and there, we stayed in silence yet again. The elevator door opened and the nurse brought me into the apartment. She gave me a warm smile and started speaking again.
This apartment is either where I should be staying or where the five patients were. Which means, this may be my first meeting with my 186cm dream guy.
[Charlene’s POV]
Gillian, my best friend, she has finally left.
I have always feared the day where everybody close to me would disappear, and I didn’t think that just before the day I was separated from my best friend would be the day that I find out her true thoughts about me.
My parents, they abandoned me.
My best friend, she left me.
There wouldn’t be another being that would care about my existence, much less appreciate that I am here in this world.
I sat up on my bed and hugged my stuffed toy tightly.
“Now I’m only left with you Pooh Bear,”
I pinched Pooh’s nose and it fell out. Yes, the whole nose fell out!
“How pathetic, even a stuff toy doesn’t like you,”
I placed Pooh Bear on my bed and walked out of the room. Most of the intern nurses are probably asleep now and there would be the senior nurses on duty now.
I walked around the hospital, looking into wards to see how the patients were doing. I walked to the wards where the children were resting and saw that they were all fast asleep.
If only adults never changed their way of thinking. If only they were always innocent, always pure, always bringing happiness to those around.
“I hope all of you grow up to be very healthy, and happy,”
I said to no one in particular and continued walking. I walked past the playroom where the children would spend their time in the day and saw a little girl sitting alone in the dim room.
I walked towards her. She didn’t notice my presence as she was too absorbed in drawing her family portrait.
“Jie jie, is my drawing nice?”
Oh, so she did know that there was another person in this room.
I sat down beside her and made myself comfortable.
“All family portraits are nice,”
“I wish that my ba ba is here,”
“Where did your ba ba go to?”
“He went away. Mama said that he went to a far place and I’ll only be able to see him when I’m very old. I want to be old now so I can see ba ba,”
Silly girl, she doesn’t know all the pain and heartaches a person will suffer when one grows old finally understands how cold the world is.
“Jie jie, are you sad?”
“Why do you say so?”
“Jie jie is not smiling,”
I smiled when she started pressing me to and brought her back to her ward. After pulling the blankets over her and watching her doze off to sleep with a teddy bear in her hands, I walked back to my room.
I sat on my bed and looked at the clock.
3am.
I lay in my bed and tried to sleep but my mind was too preoccupied with thoughts of my conversation with the little girl.
[Flashback]
“Why is jie jie sad?”
“I’m not sad,”
“Mama said that if you are happy, you smile. If you are sad, you cry. Jie jie is not smiling, are you sad? If jie jie is sad, then you can cry. I will not laugh at you because everybody cries,”
[End of Flashback]
If you are happy, you smile. If you are sad, you cry. I scoffed. I can’t believe that I am actually learning such simple analogies from a 6 year old.
If crying helps to make one feel better, I would have cried until I went blind.
[Yunho’s POV]
“Yes manager hyung, I’ll tell the members,”
I hang up the phone and walked into the bedroom.
“Yoochun ah, wake up,”
“5 minutes,”
“Changmin ah, wake up,”
“6 minutes,”
“Junsu ah,”
“7,”
“Jae –,”
“I’m already awake,”
It’s either me, or I hear his voice although I can’t see him at all. I turned and looked around the room but still, I couldn’t see him anywhere.
“Yunho ah, I’m here,”
I heard a tiny whimper from under… Junsu.
“Yah, Junsu ah, you’re killing your hyung,”
“Yunho ah, did you just get off the phone with manager hyung?”
I was surprised that Jaejoong could still talk when Junsu was clearly suffocating him with his whole body.
“What did he say?”
“He said something about our personal nurse arriving today,”
“The nurse is arriving today?!”
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Kay, so I havent kept my promise about the update by tonight thing cause i sort of have a writer's block.
I'm not satisfied with this chapter, so I may edit it later on. I'll tell you if i do edit it. :]
Hmm, maybe I'm half satisfied with this chapter. :D Up till the Gillian part. I totally didnt know how to continue with Charlene.
So, Gillian may seem a lil mental (maybe she is in this story o.O) and Charlene is totally depressed (?). Well, the next chapter will be with DBSK. Yes, scream, LOL.
Im trying to make it not funny since this story is more deep in meaning. So you'll see in some parts that the jokes are not funny, cause im trying to make it a solemn atmosphere, LOL. Apparently, Beautifully Accidental Love (Comedy Romance) has influenced my writing so much =="