Chapter 4
MonsterMina
I made my way hastily to the hospital since it was my turn to take care of Sana. It'd been a week and a half at this new hospital and Sana was said to be making slow progress. I barged into the room to find Nayeon and Jeong already there. I put down my bag and walked over to Sana.
"Hey Satang.. How are you feeling?" I asked. I took her hand in mine and squeezed it gently. It did hurt me to see Sana with tubes and wires all over her. I smiled at her again and would have missed it had I not been looking at our hands. I felt a tiny squeeze on my hand and I gasped. Nayeon unnie and Jeong came rushing when they heard me.
"What? What happened?" she asked panicking
"She… She replied!! Unnie Satang squeezed my hand!" I exclaimed as tears pooled into my eyes.
"What?" Nayeon unnie gasped covering . Jeong took Sana's hand and asked her to squeeze it back if she could hear us and surprisingly Sana did. We all began to cry happily knowing that Sana could respond. We were in the midst of crying when Chaeng came in. We explained what had happened and she beamed at us. We decided to go fetch Momo and ask her if it was a good sign. Me, Nayeon unnie and Jeong went to find Momo while Chaeng stayed and talked to Sana.
We roamed around the floor a little while trying to find Momo. We finally found her in one corridor. It looked like she'd just arrived as she was still in her casual clothes and wasn't wearing her coat. She hadn't seen us as she walked into her room. The three of us had a mini war as to who would knock at her door. Nayeon unnie unfortunately lost and was about to knock when the door opened and Momo was standing before us in her coat. Unnie opened to tell Momo why we were here but we were interrupted by the ding of the elevator. We heard a little squeal and a giggle as the elevator opened. I turned back to see a little girl giggle and run towards us. She must've been 4 or 3 judging by the way she ran and giggled. She was extremely cute.
"Mommy!" She squealed and ran to Momo.
What in the world? Momo had a daughter? She- she was a mom? Had.. Had she gotten married? Oh my god.. I shook myself out of those thoughts when I saw Momo pick the girl up and push the hair out of her face. A minute later another lady came running and panted "Sorry Mo, your daughter is a handful. She wanted you and only you."
When she realised Momo was with us, she apologised and told Momo to find her when she was ready. I watched the little girl play with Momo's ponytail and swish it back and forth. I watched as Momo tried to move her head and stop the girl from playing with her hair.
"Nae Nae stop it" she chided. And pulled the girl's hand down. The girl whined and Momo told her she'd take Mr. Unicorn if she continues to do that. I didn't know what she was saying but I watched as the girl immediately stopped and sulked in her mother's arms.
Momo looked back up at us as said "Sorry… Uh, what can I do for you?"
That seemed to snap us out of our reverie and Unnie was the first to speak "She.. She's your daughter?"
Momo stiffened and nodded once.
"She's so cute!" Unnie said with a smile before asking her name. Momo looked a little uncomfortable but looked at her daughter and asked her to tell Unnie what her name was.
"Nawomi" the girl replied shyly and turned her head into Momo's neck. Momo sighed and said "Naomi"
"That's a pretty name" I head myself say. Momo looked at us and gave us a forced smile.
"Uh… the reason we came was because Sana squeezed our hand today" Jeong said breaking the awkward silence.
"She did?" Momo asked
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