Family
A Thing That You Hide From Me
White ward like you can imagine in hospital, a room with white bed sheet, ceiling, wall, and also the curtains, the medical devices hanging over the head bed. The tube placing beside the bed, sound beep machine can be heard in the room.
A man lay down in the bed with the medical devices around them,
Not about give signed he will wake up. He had been lay around 3 days, an old man found him lying on the street who got attention and brought him to the hospital.
Doctor indentify and check his body, threw their eye onto his record medic. The hospital support the medical needed for the patient include blood dialysis, the IV tubes from the machine glued to his body, transferred the blood which should be cleaned and can be process inside his body.
A week passed and his condition just better, the light on ward seems shined so sharp through his eyes, he hardly open the eyes, slowly not about to pressuring his eyes, he peeked the eye to see the world once again. He can’t moved his body since the IV still glued onto his body.
Someone went to his ward, checking the condition.
“Finally you are wake up Mr. Lee.”
*
The patient called Lee Hyukjae had waken up from his sleep this morning, Eunhyuk panicked because he think of the hospital bill, he can’t paid for sure, but the hospital can guarantee for that. After the nurse told everything about the current occur to him
9pm, the hospital is kinda quite since there’s no more patience walked in this hour, Eunhyuk walked direct with paddle to lead me the front table, can felt the pain inside his bone when h used rest with one leg. Then someone stopped me.
“How dare you back to Korea without telling me?” someone hold his wrist. Eunhyuk threw the gaze to him, looked head to toe, an old man wearing doctor suit with stethoscope in his neck. Eunhyuk gasped bit surprised.
“Father…”
*
The coffee shop was quite at all, only few staff who come to enjoy some coffee while working, Eunhyuk father direct him to talk in the coffee shop hospital, using wheelchair to support Eunhyuk. They sat dealing with their face. How can he forgot he still has dad, a blood related person in his life, breath the same air in Seoul and moreover his father is doctor. Everything just turned madness before. Eunhyuk feel guilt not telling him. Instead his father captured flat face and give hard sigh
“H-How do you know I’m here?” Eunhyuk started the conversation with sputtered, he pluck up the guts for stare his eyes, but failed.
He threw a big brown letter to the table and Eunhyuk knew what is that.
“This paper mention your name, Lee Hyukjae. And let me guess, you’re illness getting worse, huh?” he said with concern tone. “I also the ‘old man’ that found you laying in the street a week ago.”
Eunhyuk widened his eyes, so the kind ‘old man’ who saved his life his own father. “Now, answer me with honest, okay. Don’t ever interrupt my question.”
Eunhyuk nodded as agree, his eyes is nowhere to stare.
“Why you didn’t tell me, you going back to Korea?”
“I…” Eunhyuk silent for a while. “I don’t want to burden you. Ruined your life with your new family, I’m just… your past. I can stand by myself.”
Eunhyuk father blinked his eyes don’t believe what the only son words.
“Am I still you father for you?”
He lifted his head “Always.”
“Then why you think I’m your past?” he sighed, turned gaze to his o
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