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He knew he should say something. Maybe ask him what happened. Mark's little brother was 14 and a good kid. So when the school called him and told him he was in the ambulance and being taken to the hospital his heart dropped.
He had a idea of what could have happened but he didn't wanna assume.
Mark's parents hadn't been back for a month now since they were on a business trip. He knew his brother was extremely attached to his mother and he knew that he missed her. A lot. It doesn't help that they recently moved into this city that same month and both of them are having a little trouble adjusting. Especially Jisung, his little brother had gotten into a couple of altercations since then with a couple of kids.
Mark was rushing inside the emergency ward and looking for the receptionist with an urgency he didn't know he had in him. "Park Jisung? What room is he in? Please" Mark asks because he needs to see his brother right now. The receptionist made him fill out a couple forms before directing him to the room.
Mark had found his way to the kids ward where there was a play area instead of a waiting room and there were a bunch of pictures and drawings all over the walls. There were fairy lights everywhere it looked really cozy. Apparently Jisung had been taken out of emergency and was now resting when he finally found his room.
Mark knocks a little bit just in case before he opens the door "Hey kid? it's me I'm here" He says with a smile on his lips because he's not a parent and getting angry at a kid for getting into a fight is a parents job. His job was to make sure Jisung was okay. "I'm sorry I fell from the stairs" Jisung says with a sheepish smile on his lips, he looks relieved to see Mark though. Mark sits down on the bed before saying "Nice try kid the school told me. What actually happened? I just wanna make sure you're okay" Jisung looks down at his hands before talking. "It was the same kid, we were just bickering like usual before it started getting a little heated and he accidently pushed me and I actually did fall off the staircase by the way"
Mark felt hurt in his heart looking at Jisung. "What an asshole" Mark muttered under his breath who would do that to someone?. "He didn't mean it though. I could tell he was the one who told the teachers and helped me." Jisung said but he himself didn't look convinced. "Besides I only ended up with a broken leg and a couple of bruises. This is something every kid has to go through" Trying to laugh it off. Mark laughed with him because now he knows Jisung would be okay. He was still gonna have a word with that kids parents though.
"Did the doctor take a look at you yet?" Trying to change the conversation as he squeezes Jisung's hand tighter. Jisung shakes his head "No but the nurse did she said the someone would take a look at me in a minute." As soon as he said that someone pushed open the door. It was the doctor or someone else wearing a coat. Of course it was the doctor but it didn't seem right, Were doctors allowed to be this young? and pretty?. Mark though that last part really briefly before shutting it down.
"Park Jisung? Hi, nice to meet you I'm Lee Donghyuk" He says with a smile on his lips. They go through simple introductions and Mark learns that Donghyuk is a intern here and specializes with kids and that he would look over Jisung's recovery. "And are you his father?" Mark shakes his head "Uhm no older brother but our parents are out of town for a while" clarifying. "Oh I see, we'll have to keep Jisung here a while, a week minimum? you can go out and fill out the forms for that in a little bit." He says nodding his head and giving Jisung a rundown of how he'll recovery will go and how it's nothing to be scared of. He looked really nice and he was really nice omg Mark thought.
He stayed in Jisung's room for a while trying to get him to eat as they took a look around the play room with Jisung whining saying he was to old for stuff like that. It was soon night and visiting hours were closed but Mark was sure he could stay here overnight since Jisung was just a kid. "You don't need to stay with me you know right? The nurses check up on me a lot" Trying to reason with his older brother. Mark shakes him off "What about the intern does he visit often" trying to sound casual. "I don't know dude it's literally my first day." Jisung said deadpanned while adding "And you need to go back home to get me my things I'm gonna be so bored here. Also take a shower dude please" Damn his brother he skipped a whole work day for this. "Okay I will but I'll be back in a couple hours ok don't move around to much" Mark says packing up his things. "Couldn't even if I tried" Jisung says with a laugh.
He meets Dr. Lee outside but before he could say anything he comes up to him first "Mark! hey Is Jisung alright, the nurses are checking up on him right?" He asks "Yeah uhm he's ok I was just gonna head out to get a couple of his things...Dr. L-" "Donghyuk is fine. It's my name" Haechan says with a small smile. "Oh of course are you going home to?" It's pretty late now and the hospital has fallen into this silence. "Nah I got to much to do but I'll definitely be here when you come back." Med kids sure are busy. "Alright take care of yourself. Bye Donghyuk!"
The next day Mark and Jisung were cooped up in Jisung's room playing Roblox. Ok? Sometimes Roblox can still be fun and he was doing this for Jisung, not to bully kids on the app. Mostly. "Hey I'm gonna get us a couple of snacks from the gift shop?" Marks makes his way over to the door while Jisung nods to caught up in his game.
As soon as he steps out of the door he sees another boy around Jisung's age. "Here to see Jisung?" Mark asks with a amused smile. The boy was holding a flower bouquet. "Oh uhm yeah is he awake?" The boy looks a little shy like he might leave any minute. "Yeah one sec" He opens the door "Hey Jisung someone's here to see you. Someone with flowers" He adds with a grin. Jisung looks up from his game and immediately puts it down. "Chenle? What are you doing here?" Jisung asks confused. "Uhm I just wanted to check on you. Are you ok?" He doesn't look Jisung in the eye at all Mark notices and thinks that the snacks can wait and he wants to see how this will play out. "Yeah I'm ok It was just a broken leg" Jisung nods that the boy can come closer and Mark stays where he is trying to figure out who this boy is.
"Oh" looking down at Jisung's leg in a cast "I'm really sorry you know that? I mean for like pushing you down the stairs.." Chenle says finally looking up at Jisung and adding "Also uhm this is for you" He says handing the flower bouquet. He can see Jisung blush from that but he's not over looking this "He pushed you from the stairs??" He mouths over to Jisung. Jisung shushes him. Rude. "Yeah uh it's okay thank you.. for the flowers." They stay quiet for a hot minute before Chenle speaks up.
"I thought you were one of those kids.." Chenle says quietly. "Those kids?" Mark says with a raised eyebrow hoping this isn't going where he thinks it's going. "Uhm what I mean is like.. I know you know that I like to wear makeup and a lot of kids have been weird about it. I thought you were like them when you stared at me for to long during class." Chenle finally takes a breath after speaking. "That's not- I stared because...I thought it looked good on you like pretty on you or something like that I don't know" Jisung and Chenle are both blushing now and Mark decides it's time to get those snacks. He leaves Chenle and Jisung alone while they talk and heads over to the gift shop.
Mark finds his way over to the gift shop and gets the snacks that Jisung likes while looking for that one chocolate bar he likes. He fortunately found it considering it was the last one there. Just as he was about to grab it someone from his right snatched it from him. Looking to his side he sees Donghyuk with a grin on his lips.
"You have good taste but slow hands" Donghyuk mutters while walking the short distance to the cash register. "Can Interns eat on the job?" Mark looks over seeing Donghyuk open the wrapper and break the bar into two while handing one piece to Mark. "They can on break. Besides the kids always steal these ones before I can get to them". Mark mutters a thanks while thinking that Donghyuk was probably talking about his patients.
When Mark finally takes a look around him he sees how many people are actually here. There's a lot of kids here, most of them at the play area or the game room. He has never seen so many little kids in one place.
"Are you any good with kids?" Donghyuk asks out of the blue. They both made it out of the gift shop and went to talk at the entrance of the playroom instead with Donghyuk leaning against the pillar there. Is he good with kids? Honestly he doesn't know he likes kids but he doesn't know how to act around them though the only exception being Jisung. "Uhm I'm not sure honestly" Mark replies with a sheepish grin. "Wanna help me out with that one over there? He seems to like you" Donghyuk says with a laugh pointing over to a kid no older then seven pretending to read but anyone could see he was staring at both Mark and Donghyuk. Mark noticed that the kid only looked down when Mark turned over to look at him.
"Keep him some company I have to look over a couple of patients and he gets lonely really easy. I try to stay with him when I can" He leaves in no time going inside of the hallway to the patients and leaving this kid looking at him with expectant eyes. He walks over to the kid and tries out speaking to him a little. A few minutes pass by and he sees Jisung and Chenle walk over.
Well Jisung's arm was half on his crutch and the other was around Chenle's shoulder helping him walk. "Did you adopt a kid in the span of thirty minutes" Jisung says while sitting on the couch, Chenle snorts and follows him sitting on the floor with Mark. "Very funny. I'm just playing with him while Dongyu- I mean Dr. Lee comes back." Mark catches his slip up but Jisung lets out a little chuckle. They all spend at least a hour there before Mark sees Donghyuk walking back to them.
"Hey, thanks for that got a little caught up in there my bad." Donghyuk smiles while sitting right beside Mark. "It's alright he didn't bother me at all but I gott go-" Just as Mark was speaking the little boy clung to him while saying something on the lines of asking Mark to stay. All three of them let out a chuckle while Mark looks extremely flustered and awkwardly pats the kids head.
They all stayed there for a while before Mark explained to Donghyuk he had a class in 30 minutes. "Your last year?" Mark nods "My last year of this hell then I'll have to start looking for jobs" Mark says with a little bit of stress in his voice. They both brush it off and after a few minutes Donghyuk has to go again.
"Hey Chenle, do you have a way of getting back home?" Mark asks looking at Jisung and Chenle on the couch. "Uhm I may have spent all my money on getting a cab here" He says with a sheepish grin. "Alright wait here I'm gonna move the car to the front" Mark says grabbing his keys and making his way outside.
He left the entrance before looking around and seeing Donghyuk. "Hey Donghyu-" Oh shit. Mark realizes he was smoking. See Mark has no problem with smoking in fact most of his friends do it the only problem is he has asthma. Really really bad asthma. "Mark? were you about to leave?" There was still smoke coming out of his mouth and Mark muttered out "Are Interns that wanna be doctors allowed to smoke?" Donghyuk lets out a chuckle at that "Like I said I'm on break, I don't do it often if it's what your thinking" Mark tries to respond but he feels his breathing getting shorter.
"You know you looked pretty cute with that kid.." Now Mark doesn't know if his throat is closing because of what Donghyuk said or the asthma. "Hey everything okay?" Donghyuk says walking closer to Mark. Mark starts coughing a little and reaches over to grab his inhaler from the bag. Donghyuk takes a step back as Mark quickly uses it twice before looking at Donghyuk's apologetic eyes and quickly puts out the cigarette.
"Sorry, I have asthma but like I don't care what you do-" Mark starts rambling trying not to sound like a goody two shoes. "Hey don't worry about it, it's my fault I'm sorry.. wouldn't have done it if I knew Mark" He tries to reassure Mark. They make small talk before Chenle comes out. They're about to part ways before Mark adds "You're pretty cute with kids too." and quickly starts walking away. He hears Donghyuk shout out a thanks and smiles a little. Chenle looks at him with a deadpanned face but doesn't say anything.
"This is such a rich neighborhood" Mark looks around with astonished eyes. Chenle laughs at that before explaining a little about his family. Just as Chenle is about to close the door Mark speaks up "Hey kid, If anyone says something about the makeup again tell Jisung to tell me ok?" Chenle smiles at that. A lot. "For sure, Thanks Mark." He turns around and Mark is on his way to his class.
Stats was boring as usual especially since this was a 3 hour period class. Mark decided to go on his phone and was startled when he saw a couple of messages from an unknown number.
Unknown
Hey
You forgot something here
I think it's important
It's Donghyuk btw