Of course I am right. Nobody likes to work the night shift.
It's quiet and low-key scary. I feel like I'm in a k-drama waiting for some crazy ghost chick to jump out of nowhere and shrink my soul into a sponge.
Well jokes aside. Yesterday I got the night shift without even doing anything. I can't really complain that I'm tired since I voluntarily took it and I'm even lucky enough to share this shift with the sleeping young man behind the front desk.
That dude really did fall asleep right after the main nurse left. I'm not surprised but than again how unprofessional.
Its around 2am and one thing is bothering me as hell. Where the hell is the director?!?! He never left the hospital. If what Minho said is true, than there is a chance the director is waiting for the right time to give Squirrely the drug.
I walk around the dark hallways still looking for many possible ways to get Squirrely out. We already got through the fact that I can't just walk out the front door with him.
--3 NIGHTS AGO--
"As you said getting him out of the hospital when it's day time it's impossible. On the other hand night is perfect. I can sing up for the night shift tomorrow already. There are mostly two, three people watching over the patients at night, so it will be way easier." Nobody likes working at night so getting the night shift will be a piece of cake.
"Great!! Now, we know they give him the drug once a night as well. Probably around the same time which is 3am. Now I'm not sure if it's better to wait for the drug to start making it's impact or not." I reach for the record that contains the sedative's information.
"If these are the side effects than I'm not sure which choice is worse" The truth is, the side effects of all three are brutal. If I try to approach him before he gets the next doze, he might freak out. On the other hand if we are not fast enough he might collapse in the middle of the escape.
"I can't really deal with his aggressive behavior, so I think after the doze is a better idea. If you look here the drug takes 30 minutes time before showing any effects. That should be more than enough time for me to get him out through the back door of the hospital."
Minho leans on the table his eyes looking through the map I quickly drew a few minutes ago. I'm not the best in art but I'm good enough to draw a quick map of a hospital I barely know.
"His room is closer to the main entrance but you can't go there as you said before. And then the closest back exit is on the end of the hallway and it shouldn't be hard to get there. It sounds simple but everything depends on Squirrely himself." He says.
I know that. I know that everything can fall apart if by any chance Squirrely freaks out or decides to tell us out. There can be other problems as well, such as the person who will work with me witnessing the whole situation.
Ahh... this is burning my brain down it's almost 1am but how can I sleep now. It's impossible even to lay down even thought my body is killing me.
"We can sent your coworker to sleep. You know a sleeping pill in a coffee. If we get ride of him you'll have one thing less to worry about." Minho doesn't even look tired. His eyes are lit up searching for every possible way to pull this off.
I have to admit. It's admirable. He is still by my side after all those years no mater in how many troubles I got every day he was always there to pull me out. Even if it meant him insulting me nonstop and shoving it up my ass every time he got the chance he would always came back after telling me to stop bothering him. Since both of us have a heavy yet soft personality we didn't let go of each other easily.
People said it's hard love. But he just doesn't like to show all of his sides to just anyone. Maybe to them he was a guy with overflowing confidence and good body. But to me he was just a guy who wanted to find his place. He was just a kid that needed answers on his deep shit questions.
From just a guy, he turned into a friend, somehow into a boyfriend, then back to a friend and eventually into a brother. It's not like we even dated long, if my memory serves me right we lasted just a week or two. But that's a story for another day.
Im such a lucky idiot to have such a beautiful idiot right by my side.
"Hellooooo.. Do I need to punch you for you to listen miss Min Jieun, I need you alive mentally as well." I can see him waving his hand in front of my nose and looking at me with a raised eyebrow.
"Oh sorry I dozed off. That's a good idea, we should make sure at least one thing is out of the way. We have a problem thought." This came to non of our minds and it is one of the most important parts. He gives me a confused look and waits for me to spit it out.
"Non of us can drive..." The silence between us dragged into eternity as we both realize that when we get out of the hospital we'll somehow have to came to our hideout. And if non of us can drive who the fuck is crazy enough to help us?????
His head raises up and I can clearly see the 'I am so done with this shit' look on his face.
"Seungmin" he spits out but that's a dead end. Seungmin would never help us in something like this, he is smart enough to know he will be in big trouble if this doesn't work. On the other hand there is no one else to think of. I mean who would help us it's not like i have many friends and Minho never got close to anyone neither.
We just look at each other Minho's face clearly showing the struggle of his own thoughts. He barely convinced Seungmin to help us with the test and that was an easy part.He has a decent life why would he get involved right?? But he also has a strong sence of justice and a worm heart.
"Call him" I say and Minho looks at me with a confused yet disgusted look. "Its 1am he won't answer"
"I don't care what's the time" I hold the phone in front of Minho's face "Call him" I think I'm showing my determination enough for him to just call.
"He won't answer. I thought we already got over that fact" Damn do I need to break into his phone to get what I want.
"He will don't worry came on. Call" He thinks for a moment his eyes eyeing the phone and then looking back into mine. Eventually he takes the phone and unlocks it.
"He won't answered" He says as the phone starts to ring. And as expected he didn't answer, but the only reason he didn't Is because the callers ID belongs to Minho.
I take Minho's phone and type a quick message. Minho is peaking over my shoulder to make sure I don't embarrass him even though he doesn't really care about what Seungmin thinks about him, or does he.
"You really think a smile 'It's Jieun. Answer the phone' will actually make him answer" Minho says in a joking way. I can sence that he is confident Seungmin will just ignore it but I think he is like that only toward Minho. They are like a divorced couple. Seungmin always answered my calls in the past and I know he's not a person to just ignore everyone.
I ring his number once again and place the phone on the table in front of us. The ring can be heard a few times and Minho is already leaned back on the couch not even ecpecting him to pick up.
But suddenly the ring stops midway and I hear that sweet voice after 3 years.
"What do you want, I'm busy" Minho shoots up surprise washing over his face.
"He answered..." He looks at me like he just saw a ghost. I want to laugh at his surprised face but I can't risk Seungmin hanging up the phone.
"Morning Seung. We need your help" The sight on the other side of the speaker is clear as the words leave my mouth.
"Look I don't know what you guys are doing but from the records I saw It's not a good idea to get involved in this. Leave me out" not that fast my friend. I know your weak spots.
"We are trying to get someone out of a hospital. The person was framed. As you saw in his record he is diagnosed with a mental disorder but the truth is he has been getting drugged. I'm sure you read the test results of the capsules Minho gave you. You know what can a combination of those do to a person's brain... Seungmin I know you have a life you are happy with but I can't just stand and do nothing when there is someone out there who is caught in the judgments of other people's eyes."I try to put as much desperation as I can into my voice.
"Am I happy thought..." That was obviously a sentence that he said to himself and I wasn't supposed to hear but his murum was loud enough.
"I understand but how do you expect to pull this off. This person is the president's son you'll be caught in mater of days and on top of that he can completely destroy your lives." I know he has a point but as I said before, I don't have much to lose. Of course I'm not gonna force him to cooperate with us it's his choice but he is the only person that can help us.
"What if I assure you our plan is good enough for us not to get caught. We have almost every detail planed out. Every move we make has been already thought through." He doesn't say anything, by now even Minho got himself together and is nervously looking at the phone.
"What would you need me to do??" Great. Him asking that means hes is considering the offer.
"We need you to drive us out of the hospital. When we get Squirrely you'll have to drive us to the hideout. From then on we will never bother you again" He is probably thinking over the whole situation right now. The thing is he is already involved the moment he took care of getting those tests he got himself involved.If we get caught he'll be in trouble one way or another, so there is not much he has to lose neither. He already put it all at risk.
"I'll think about it ok. I will go now. Goodnight" he hangs up the phone and we stay in silence for a few seconds.
"He answered??" Looks like the only thing Minho pulled out of this whole conversation is the fact that Seungmin picked up my call.
"You lied to him" He looking at me dead serious "We don't have the plan yet. We don't even have a real plan yet and you 'can assure him' that we won't get caught" It's true I did lie to him but not completely.
"By the time he decides if he wants to help or not we will already have a plan. It's not like he'll call in 3 minutes and say he's in" Minho nodded his head a little and stretched his arms.
"You still lied to him" Well.... I guess I did. My thoughts are all around the place right now. I really don't even know what words to use In order to defend myself.
"Aren't you sleeping??" He asked as the room slowly died into silence again.
"Are you??" I ask back but no answer can be heard.
--PRESENT--
Seungmin still hasn't called. I knew It would take him a while but not this much. Three days passed and we still have no idea about how the hell are we gonna get out of here. But I was right about one thing. The plan is all set up by now and the only thing we are missing is that one detail.
I walk through the dark hallways in order not to start feeling sleepy. The only thing I want to know at the moment is... WHERE THE HELL IS THE DIRECTOR??
It's around 2.30am by now. Maybe this is why he cames late in the mornings. He stays here untill 3am to give Squirrely the drug, then sleeps more into the morning and cames to work around 12 to 1pm. That's the most logical answer I can find for now. Maybe there is more to it who knows.
I look through one of the small windows on the door and find the patients laid on their beds and long gone into dreamland. At least they will sleep while I'm doing my thing. As the dark around me isn't enough my phone just has to start vibrate out of nowhere and scare the shit out of me.
I look at the ID and It's a number I have never seem before. Its probably a wrong number. Who would call me at this time anyway, It's probably some weirdo. I let the phone vibrate and slide it back into the pocket. As I was walking back to the main desk I passed Squirrely's room. To my surprise the director cames out of the room at the same time I pass it. I look at him and greet him awkwardly.
"Sir, I didn't know you were still here' I fake a small smile. It's not like he can see my face clearly in the dark.
"Yes I was taking care of a patient. I'll get going now. Also thank you for the fresh washed coat" he gives me a small bow and I watch him walk away.
I gave him the coat today when I came to work and it seems like he hasn't noticed anything yet. Damn I can't wait for the day you end up in between four walls. My phones vibrations interrupt my enjoyable thoughts and as I look at the number. It's the same as 5 minutes ago.
Should I pick up?? I slide my finger through the green circle and press the phone on my ear.
"Hello. Can I help you" A sweet voice answers on the other side and now I don't know If I should be excited or prepare myself for a rejection.
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