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Trapped

by pandoralacey

I have come to this place before – a bright cold room.

The influx of emotions caused a scream welling up in my throat. I exhaled deeply and squeezed my eyes, trying to calm myself down. An image flung in front of my mind’s eye – the crescent dark eyes of hers blankly stared at me – happy or hurt, I couldn't tell. Never in all my eighteen years, had I ever been so bewildered.

It felt like just yesterday we were giggling side by side underneath the serene skies, but when I turned, the place that was once owned by her was now empty. Where was she? I bit my lips hard to hold back tears that threatened to fall with every blink. At times like this, she ought to be here – beside me. She would've wiped my tears away and assured me again and again that life was beautiful so I shouldn't have given up on them. But, where was she?

“Eunjung ah. Please.” I called her name for the umpteenth times and with each attempt, the indescribable pain intensified beneath my chest.

Yelping like a lost kid searching for her parents, I scanned through every possible direction, hoping to catch a glimpse at her but, she was nowhere to be seen.

*sirens activated*

The howl of the sirens resonated inside the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). My attention was immediately brought into a bed, which within seconds it was swarmed by the fellow doctors and nurses that raced from one end of the room.

“Patient bed three in arrest, call the Anaest, bring in defibrillator and emergency trolley!”

Right away my eyes deviated on a taller, slightly larger doctor who appeared to be the most senior among the fellow residents gathered in the center. His booming voice alerted those around him wherein they all nodded in sequence before hurriedly attending to their respective roles. I jumped a little by the abrupt closing sounds of the curtain; from that moment onward, I couldn't seem to take my eyes off from that bed.

“Everyone clear?” “Clear!” The echo of their voices exemplified the bridging tension inside me.

“Charge!” “VF! Epi, please!”

Endless streams of questions plagued in my mind. I was completely lost with their medical terminologies; it sounded so tensed, desperate and spontaneous which reminded me of the resuscitation scene in my favourite medical series, House. Each of their words count for one’s survival, you actually could feel the stakes of life and death in it. With my sight glued on that particular bed, I caught myself pursing my lips, struggling with every breath.

“Mister, you cannot enter! Please wait outside!” I caught a glimpse of Kai who was inching toward the bed that was undergoing resuscitation; one of the nurses threw her hands up, verbally warned him not to step any closer.

“No!” His strained voice took form in my heart though I couldn't say why. For few seconds, my eyes were transfixed at him. When I captured the sorrowfulness portrayed in his pleading eye, all the air from my lungs were robbed by him.

“I’ll always be here, beside you.” I heard a faint saying from behind. I stiffly turned around to look at the owner of that voice; her voices rang in every corner of my brain.

“The heartbeats are back!”

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