Chapter 4
As Jonghyun goes closer to the door, he saw that it was Chriz practicing the dance steps over again. Jonghyun couldn’t believe his own eyes that the girl whom he told off in the afternoon, is rehearsing on her own. In another corner was Tiffany practicing her piano playing. Elise had been practicing hard on her songs and she didn’t get any notes wrong at all. The three guys saw it but they didn’t want to admit that they were touched by the girls’ diligence.
“Let’s just keep our fingers crossed and see if they still make the same mistakes for our next rehearsals with them. I am VERY dead sure that they will.” Onew snickered.
Both Minho and Key saw the hardwork and efforts that the girls have put in to get things going in the right direction and both of them remained silent when they heard Onew’s sarcastic remark about the girls. After Onew, Jonghyun and Taemin fell asleep, Key and Minho had a short conversation with each other.
“Minho hyung, I feel really sorry for Chriz, Tiffany and Elise. I could see them putting in a lot of effort for the performance. They must have been really hurt by the guys’ remarks. Did you notice that right before our food was served during dinner, Chriz nearly broke down as she faced Jonghyun hyung?”
“Yeah, I noticed it too. I believe that they were just nervous that they made those mistakes during the rehearsals. It’s going to be their first public performance after all. Luckily Tiffany and Elise took her out of the room to comfort her. Let’s get the guys to be nicer to them, to make them feel less stressed up.” Minho said.
“We’ll do that tomorrow morning since the guys are all already asleep.” Key replied.
Elise woke up in early the next morning, only to find herself getting a relapse of her gastric problem. She threw up many times before she managed to call their manager unnie. Tiffany came out from her room to look for flu medication and found Elise lying on the sofa, turning pale because of the gastric pain and breaking out in cold sweat.
“Tiffy! I’ve just called manager unnie and she’s on the way here now. I’m in tremendous pain now…”
“Hey! Where’s Chriz?”
“I’ve no idea, haven’t seen her since I woke up.” Elise said, as she put up with the pain.
Tiffany went into Chriz’s room and found her wrapped up in her thick blanket, looking pale and breaking out in sweat.
“Chriz! Are you ok? Why are you all covered up in the blanket?”
Tiffany touched Chriz’s forehead and found her running a temperature.
“Oh dear! This is bad. Chriz is having a high fever, I’m having a terrible flu and Elise is having the relapse of her gastric problem. Let me call manager unnie for help!”
Manager unnie arrived at the girls’ dorm within 30 minutes and Tiffany opened the door.
“Tiffany, you girls better go to the doctor. I’ll get help from your sunbaenims next door to take you girls to the hospital.”
Having said so, manager unnie went to the next door to get help from SHINee. Key opened the door for her and understood the situation.
“Guys! Come out now. Manager noona needs our help to take the girls to the doctor.” Key said, as he sensed the urgency of this matter.
“Right. Onew hyung, Jonghyun hyung and maknae Taemin! You guys are partly responsible for the situation now. If you guys didn’t make the sarcastic remarks at them, they wouldn’t have pushed themselves too hard last night, forgoing their sleep and forgoing their dinner, just to practice their parts harder. Please be nicer to them and help take them to the doctor. Key and I will go with you guys.” Minho said the words right from the bottom of his heart.
Without hesitation, Jonghyun carried Chriz on his back, Taemin offering his jacket to Tiffany and walking with her when she suddenly passed out. Onew and Minho were supporting Elise from both sides. Key and the girls’ manager unnie drove their cars to take the girls to the hospital. Upon reaching the hospital’s emergency department, the paramedics wheeled the girls into the consultation room where Chriz was given an injection to bring down the temperature, Tiffany given medication for her flu that’s beyond imagination and Elise was given intravaneous drip for her gastric problem before they were wheeled into a hospital ward meant for three patients.
Feeling guilty, the boys decided to call their manager hyung to allow them to stay by the girls’ side, with a bit of explanation given to the manager.
“Manager hyung, could we postpone our trainings for today? We are responsible for causing the three girls to fall ill because of our sarcastic remarks we made at them yesterday during the rehearsal. As a result of our harsh words, they pushed themselves really hard last night and we saw it for ourselves on our way back to the dorm when we passed by the practice room. Minho and Key had already told us off for that. We are sorry about it.” Onew explained, feeling bad about what had happened to the girls.
“Since you guys are apologetic and owned up for what happened, alright, I shall allow you guys two days to make up for your mistakes and help the girls’ manager look after them since you are staying next door to them.” Manager hyung said.
“Thanks so much, hyung!” Onew said. “Manager hyung allowed us today and tomorrow to make up for what happened and asked that we help to look after the girls for Manager noona.”
“You guys must apologize to them, alright?” Key requested.
“Alright. We will do that.” Jonghyun said, also feeling bad for what happened.
The guys sat at the corner of the hospital ward and were waiting for the doctor doing his rounds. The doctor came by and Minho asked the doctor when the girls be discharged.
“They can be discharged as soon as they regain their consciousness.” The doctor replied.
“Thanks doctor!”
“Guys, you go have your lunch at the cafeteria first. Minho and I will stay here. We’ll go for lunch when you come back.” Key said.
While Onew, Jonghyun and Taemin were gone, Minho and Key sat by the girls’ bed side and talked softly to the sleeping girls.
“Tiffany, Elise and Chriz, wake up soon, will you?” Key whispered.
“We are sorry for what our hyungs and maknae said to you.” Minho added. “Don’t sleep anymore!”
Being semi-conscious, tears flowed out from Elise’s eyes hearing what the two boys said to them, and slowly woke up from the rest she had, due to the medication.
“Where is this? Where are my dongsaengs?” Elise asked frantically.
“All the three of you are in the hospital. You girls fell really sick this morning and we sent you here when manager noona came to us for help.” Key answered
“Tiffany and Chriz are right next to you, no worries.” Minho said softly. “Onew hyung, Jonghyun hyung and maknae Taemin will be back soon from lunch, because we’re taking turns to take care of you girls.”
Within minutes, the three boys came back into the room and asked both Key and Minho to go have their meal.
“Elise is awake now.” Key said to Onew. “Go talk to her. Don’t worry; she’s a nice person to talk to.”
When Onew heard that, he immediately rushed to her bedside and said: “I’m so glad you are awake! You worried me for so long do you know that? “
“And, I’m sorry for the harsh words I said to you yesterday. Mianhamnida!” Onew said.
“It’s ok, oppa! I never bore any grudge against you.” Elise said. “In fact, I’m touched that oppa actually cares so much about me.” She said with a smile.
“Honestly speaking, we saw you girls practicing late at night at the practice room yesterday after getting late night snacks for our manager hyung... and we were touched by your diligence but I just couldn’t bring myself to say it out loud.” Onew said, feeling embarrassed.
“But…oppa, you just said it!” Elise said in a teasing voice. Onew blushed immediately, feeling shy about what he had said seconds ago.
Meanwhile, Jonghyun sat by Chriz’s bed side and started confessing that he was sorry about his reaction that was uncalled for during the rehearsal on the previous day. He was almost breaking down when Chriz woke up from the injection that made her unconscious for awhile.
“Jonghyun oppa…” Chriz said in the softest voice.
When he heard her soft voice, he immediately hugged her tightly and said, “I’m terribly sorry about yesterday. You know what? We saw you girls practicing at the practice room late last night. You don’t need to say anything, but I want to tell you that you got the steps right!”
When Chriz heard that, she said, “I am also at fault too, so even if you didn’t scold me yesterday, I will still have gone to practice it again because my motto is ‘striving for perfection’!”
But, jonghyun oppa still told chriz not to overwork herself and Chriz was grateful for his concern towards her.
And as for Taemin, he whipped out a big teddy bear which he bought for Tiffany as a gesture of apology and tucked it on her left side so that she could hug it.
“Tiffany, I’m truly sorry for scolding you like that yesterday. I shouldn’t have lost my cool at you, knowing that you are still a trainee who doesn’t really have stage experience.” Taemin said sincerely. “Will you wake up and talk to me…please?”
“ At that very moment, tiffany opened her eyes and said: Taemin oppa, why are you whining when you were talking to me?” Tiffany said, cheekily.
“Tiffany! No, I’m not whining!”
“Yes, you are! I heard it loud and clearly. My unnies can be my witnesses. Right?? And, both elise and chriz responded with a nod.
“OK, I give up… you win! I’m glad you are finally awake and talking to me. Please forgive me for yelling at you yesterday. Pleaseeeeeeeeee?”
“After thinking for a moment, tiffany said: I will forgive you since you gave me this teddy bear as a get well present she grinned.”
“I knew you would! You’re a kind-hearted girl.” Taemin smiled”
“Alright, everything’s fine now! Let’s be good friends from now on!” Minho said with a smile that’s flaming with charisma. “Oh yes, the doctor said that once you girls regained consciousness, you can be discharged. We’ll help you get the procedures done and we can bring you girls back to the dorm.”
“Our manager hyung has allowed us two days off to help manager noona to look after you girls after we owned up for what happened and explanations given.” Onew stated, embarrassed.
“You girls shall have a good rest and we’ll take care of the rest, since we are also your dorm neighbours.” Taemin added.
“We’ll also keep you girls accompany and we can get to know each other better as colleagues, neighbours and friends.” Jonghyun said.
“Thank you, our dear sunbaenims!” Tiffany, Elise and Chriz said, feeling touched.
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Disclaimer: This is purely a fanfic and similarities + coincidences are unintended. Thank you. :)
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