Burnout (K.Sn) [Sequel]

Near Death (4)

I had had to be in the hospital for a week for the beginning stages of my rehabilitation. Usually the boys would come and visit in small groups, one group per day. They would always come in the lunch breaks or in the late evenings on their way home from practice.

But now I had been home for a few days, with no feeling of still being sick or affected by the heart stop I had suffered in the hospital after having gotten my antibiotics.

"Come on Noona! We already started it!" Jungwon yelled out from the living room, refering to the live we had set up.

"Hold up! I need to finish this!" I yelled back as I sent off the 1000th text to my dad assuring him I was alright, "I'm coming!"

I quickly rushed out in the living room making Sunoo immediately gasp, to which I stopped abruptly and looked at him.

"What?" I questioned in confusion as I looked around myself, "what?"

"You have to take it slow!" Sunoo screeched at me making me let out a small laugh at him.

"They said because I had no major health problems already and because I'm this young, I can go in normal speed," I assured him before walking over and pecking his cheek and sitting down on the floor in front of him, "so stop it. You've been so dramatic recently."

"I've been worried," he corrected.

"Mhm, whatever you want to call it drama queen," I hummed before happily waving at the camera, "hello~"

"Noona... Engenes are asking if you're alright," Niki spoke up as he looked at the monitor in his hands.

"Ah... I am," I assured with a nod and a smile to the camera, "don't mind Sunoo... he's a bit overdramatic."

"Right! I'm sorry, but you seem to forget your heart stopped!" Sunoo stated making me turn to him with wide eyes as the other boys looked at him in shock as well, making him finally realize what he had just said, "I'm so sorry..."

"Uhm... uh... do you think... maybe uhm... should we... should we tell them what happened?" Jake questioned awkwardly looking around making all boys look down to me.

"If we don't it's just the lung all over again," I shrugged and turned to the camera once again.

"Wait... are you sure?" Sunghoon questioned and I just nodded with a hum.

"It's not something bed... it was like... a one time thing," I shrugged at him.

"A scary one at that," Heeseung pointed out and I just waved it off.

"Just let me explain," I urged before they just nodded and stayed silent, "so... a little over a week ago I got a really bad case of meningitis... and basically what happened was that there passed too long since I fell really sick till I got the antibiotics, to... you know... kill the bacterias that caused the infections... right?"

"I think there passed like five hours," Jay nodded in agreement.

"And in the case of such a severe infection as I had, it was sort of needed that I got the antibiotics right away after falling sick," I continued, "and since I didn't my body went into a shock reaction when I was given the antibiotics, so the shock caused a momentary stop of my heart. But... the hospital staff was quick to react and got me back again within a minute... I'm fine now... even if Sunoo is reacting."

"She was in the hospital for a week for the first stage of her rehabilitation, and now she is planned to start slowly rehearsing with us again next week!" Jake excitedly stated and I nodded.

"Just marking though... not jumping or running around," I quickly clarified, "but yeah... I'm relatively lucky to have been quite healthy before the whole accident and such, so my rehabilitation is goig quite well... but I'm not allowed to do moderate excercise yet... so I can't get my pulse up before my health team approves of it... and they'll first even test it once 12 weeks have passed. So... at least ten weeks again before I'm allowed to do something else but marking the moves in the choreos... so I don't expect to be dancing the next comeback, but the next again I hope to be dancing and performing like always."

"It was... it was an intense day," Jungwon nodded in agreement, "really... intense."

"Noona someone says that it's normal to get trauma and such when you've had a heart stop..." Niki spoke up making me look to him, "like... depression or anxiety."

"Ah..." I hesitntly noddded, "I mean... I don't thi-"

"You've been having a lot of night terrors since you came home," Sunoo stated making me look back at him, "and you're not supposed to get your pulse up... so it's worrying."

"I do?" I questioned and he immediately nodded.

"But I always start singing to you before it gets too bad," Sunoo nodded making me smile softly up at him.

"Cute..." I muttered making him shrug before he began playing with a few strands of my hair, "but yeah... I'm fine... I'll be back to performing before you know it... as for the next comeback... we don't know how we'll be doing things yet, but I will be on stage, and singing live as per usual."

"That's what we're counting on," Heeseung nodded.

"No, no, that's how it's gonna be," I corrected him, "and that's set in stone. No way we're doing anythnig else."

"But noona's fine... if she says she's good, then we'll just have to believe her," Jungwon shrugged, "she wouldn't tell us anything but the truth when she knows it's serious."

"Yep..." I nodded at them, "everything is all good... and now we have to talk about something better! To lighten the mood~"

"I think Sunoo hyung ruined that..." Niki let out a small laugh.

"Nonsense," I waved it off, "wait... I need to tell this. The day I got out from the hospital TXT-sunbaenim came over for dinner and they had like this big box of snacks with them for me... there were so many oranges, but there were also like... chocolate and gummies and all that sort of stuff."

"It was a seriously big box," Heesueng nodded in agreement.

"They said BTS-sunbaenim had joined in on it too, but didn't have time to come visit," I nodded in agreement, "right now the box is just standing in teh kitchen and we don't really know what to do with it."

"It's seriously crazy," Jay nodded.

"Mhm," I hummed in agreement, "anyways... a happy subject... so... Sunghoon-ie knows the dance to 'Ice Cream Cake' yeah?"

"You just had to bring that up, didn't you?" Sunghoon winced as he slumped back in the couch and covered his face.

"What can I say? I'm definitely not shine," I shrugged making him just sigh at me once more, "ah! I really need to see the unnies soon! We've talked about it for ages now, since I performed with them at Kcon!"

"Old Itzy-sunbaenim to return," Heeseung commented in a small voice.

"Nah... JYP don't want me back... and I don't really want to return to them either... so we're equal," I scrunched up my nose, "besides... I have best brothers I could ask for... and an absolutely adorable boyfriend."

"Cool," Sunoo corrected.

"Adorable."

"Cool."

"Adorably cool," I finished making him sigh, "you can't get around it! You just can't!"

"But-" he started.

"No!" I sternly stated and held up my hand before letting out a small laugh, "it's not up for discussion."

"Lily~"

"Sunoo-ya~"