“What do you mean my Jane Doe is gone?” Krystal frustratedly asked the nurse. She hasn’t gone home for seventy-two hours, now and she had to follow through with this case. Earlier, the paramedics quickly arrived after she successfully establish the handsome woman from breathing.

They were quickly transported to Seoul Grace Hospital for admittance, when the driver of the other vehicle suddenly suffered a cardiac arrest. She had to do a quick operation, leading her to leave the handsome woman to another doctor. The body of the patient suddenly prevented the delivery of oxygen throughout the body, causing the driver to suffer a brain injury.

“Stop giving yourself a hard time, Krys” Jessica said as she tries to comfort her sister who appeared to be in a trance, staring at the white, tiled floor of the scrubbing area.

“He-he died. And I was too late” Krystal said having a hard time to fathom the fact that she had killed someone on the operating table

“You tried your best to save him, he was already brain dead when he arrived in the hospital” Jessica patted her sister’s back to calm her down “You can’t save everyone all the time”

“Is it because I’m not like you, Jess?” Krystal felt infuriated at what she heard. How could her sister say that, she thought. Her desperate quiet sobs turned to anger and she walked out from the room leaving the older girl alone.

“Sh-she checked out awhile ago” the nurse replied, terrified from the wrath of the young resident

“How could she checked out? She probably need skin grafting or something”

“Calm down, Soojung-ah” Someone said softly with their hands massaging her shoulders, reducing the tension out of her muscles. She doesn’t need to turn around to figure out the source of the comforting voice, she already knew.

“I was the one who allowed that patient to leave” He admitted

“What? How could you? She’s my patient”

“I didn’t know you specialized in plastics, Ms. Soojung” he chuckled “She wasn’t even badly injured, just some scraped on her knees and a few bruises. After some band aids and cold compress, she'll be good as new. Why are you so worried?”

She was astonished and confused at what Tom had said. That handsome woman was badly hurt she thought or maybe she was starting to hallucinate. His firm grip on her shoulders tightens as he pressed a bit harder this time allowing to release more tension out of her back. She bit her lower lip and tried to muffle her moan, only to realize that the nurse was still in front of her. She then quickly controlled her expression and turned around. Her eyes fixed on Tom's in a watery adoration.

“What’s got into you?” he said while patting her head

“Nothing, Tom” Krystal replied with furrowed brows. He then smiled at her and disheveled her hair, that annoyed younger girl. With a few reasons; first of because he still treats her like a kid, second, he'll never return her feelings back, third, why does it have to be my sister? she thought

“You should start calling me brother-in-law” He hissed

“That’ll be a waste of my breath, not until you're married with my sister. What if she changes her mind?” She scoffed with a playful smirk

“Knock on wood” He quickly said and doing the action at the desk near him “Don’t say that” He said with a pout which made her laugh at his actions.

“Well, it’s time for rounds. It’s nice seeing you Krys” Tom said while grabbing a set of charts from the nurse’s station. Her eyes followed to the tall and handsome man “Hey, don’t forget about the rehearsal dinner, tonight” It felt like a rollercoaster with Tom, Krystal thought

He would make her feel exhausted, stomach rumbling, mind spinning over the same unanswerable questions

Why?

Why not me?

Don’t you love me more than a little sister?

her eyes furrowed and her head lowers. She just nodded in response.

“Off you go then. Get some sleep for tonight, bye” Tom said pushing the girl away from the nurse station

“Another one” She signaled the bartender, she was supposed to be in the dinner rehearsal but instead she’s at a bar, drinking her fifth shot.

“So what’s the trouble?” Someone suddenly asked her, her head turned towards the voice and her gaze was met by someone familiar. Her eyes widen in realization as she let her head closer to the stranger for a closer inspection until suddenly she moved back and yelled

“YOU!”

“Hello” She saluted and sipped on her beer

“What are you doing-” Krystal shook her head and gasped “Why are you even here? Your supposed to be in the hospital bed, struggling to walk. HOW?!”

“It was just a scratch” the handsome woman replied, shooing the poking finger of the resident

“You were bleeding heavily, how was that a scratch?”

“You’re drunk” the tomboy commented which made the resident frown “No, I wasn’t”

“So, how about you?” the short-haired girl asked, passing the question to the younger girl

“I don’t want to talk about it”

“that’s a good idea, it’ll probably just fix itself” the handsome woman retorted while rolling her eyes, after sipping from her drink

“it’s not like you can turn back time, anyways” She softly mumbled. The ears of the short-haired girl perked up and quickly glanced at the person beside her

“Why would you want that?” the blonde then asked while the younger girl took another shot of tequila and letting out a loud moan when felt the heat formed by the drink

“But aren’t you already living a good life?” The blonde continued to question

Krystal, who was feeling distinctly hot in the face, said,"Whatever you've heard about my greatness is aload of rubbish compared to my sister. I'm not even top of my year, unlike her” But she stopped quickly, because thinking about Jessica being with Tom was also painful. Reverently, the orb like eyes of the handsome woman aglow.

She woke up with the loud sound of her alarm clock. Krystal squinted her eyes when the gleam of the sunlight from her window grazes her sight. She turned around with her front facing the bed to continue her sleep but her alarm went off again.

She quickly took a shower to get ready for work and went to her desk to check on the calendar. Weird she thought, her calendar was set on 2009. Now that she thinks about it, Krystal then slowly realized that her room too was also adjusted in a weird way. Like how it was in her old apartment before she moved in to her new condo near the hospital.

She then proceeded to check on her calendar and on that day it was written:

*First day of being an intern*

She quickly changed her calendar and went on the 2013 year but there wasn’t anything and she checked the date back (09/05/09)

She walked towards her bag, which she remembered to have used before. She then opened it and looked for her phone

“What the…”