EMBRACE YOU: Presence & Poison
Episode 82

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My eyelids slowly opened with the voices of those around me becoming clearer. When my sight was fully clear, the first thing I saw was the face of a woman wearing a white coat and a mask covering her mouth.

Several times he asked me. “You can hear me?”

I nodded slowly making him sigh in relief.

“A—aku where?” I realized that my mouth and nose were covered with oxygen masks.

“You're in the ER now. What are you feeling? Does anyone hurt?” He asked as he opened my oxygen mask and checked the drip of the infusion. But my mind immediately remembered about Rey Orihara.

The initial plan to escape from him but me who suddenly fainted with a very sick head made everything messy. When I quickly changed my position to sit, I had to lie down again while groaning in pain. Now my left chest is very painful.

“What hurts? You have a fever because of rain.” This female doctor is holding my motion.

He's right, my clothes are all wet. “Dok, how long have I been here? Who took me?”

“You've only been here about five minutes. A man who brought you here.” I don't know why I'm sighing in relief, which means Rey did take me to a public hospital and I haven't fainted for too long.

“You must be treated and do further tests.”

“Dok, I want to ask for help.” I held her hand as this doctor was about to step back to call the nurse.

“What's up?”

“Please tell the man who brought me here that I'd better go home or see the doctor who handled my case.” There was a momentary doubt from this doctor's expression,

“Actually I have my own medicine at home and there is an expert doctor who used to check on me, I will call him now! I just forgot I haven't taken the medicine. If he finds out I forgot to eat medicine, he'll be mad at me again.” I continued to lie, but he finally nodded and immediately turned around to walk near the outer door of the ER.

With a quick movement I got up and took my little wet shawl bag over the nightstand. Seeing that the female doctor had already disappeared behind that automatic door, I immediately ran in the opposite direction. The writing on the doorstep of the only staff I've seen a lot of nurses and doctors come in and out of there.

I ignored my thinning breath, I ignored my heavy and dizzy head, I ignored the pain in my chest and I ignored my wet and cold clothes.

I did not look back as I passed through that door, I just ran as fast as I could following my instincts as I passed through the deserted corridor and came to the emergency stairs. A lot of nurses and doctors came to me to stop me. But my determination to escape from this place did not stop me.

I kept running down the corridor, down the emergency stairs all the way to the basement, bumping into some people who were blocking my way until I found a taxi had just dropped off a grandmother and a middle-aged man at the basement door to the parking lot.

“Quick the road sir!” I screamed a little after getting into the taxi. The driver glanced at me but he immediately stepped on the gas pedal to get out of the basement.

“A—ada what's non?” He just glanced at me from the rearview mirror.

“No sir. I have to hurry to the hospital in the city center because it turns out my brother who was in an accident was brought there.” My answer was lying seeing the middle-aged man behind the wheel get suspicious of me.

After seeing him nod and feeling the faster this car drove out of the hospital basement, I sighed softly leaning back while rubbing my painful left chest.

I can't pass out here, I have to be strong!

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Heavy rain was still pouring down on the city when the taxi I was riding in was about to reach my destination hospital. Since then I can only say do’a in my heart, saying everything will be fine even though in fact my body said something else.

The burning heat and every breath tormented me. I want to cry but I can't. Want to scream but not be able to. All this pain is so painful for me.

“It's up to non.”

I immediately handed him some money, got off from the taxi and did not forget to say thank you. This automatic door that I had passed several times greeted me with a security guard who I had known immediately out of there.

“Ohh, miss Icha!” She was shocked to see my clothes wet.

“Where can I find Doctor Stefan?” I asked him to follow him into the hospital with a little limped step. I can't hide my body shaking in the cold.

“Doctor Stefan is having an important guest and can not be disturbed—sus, can borrow a towel for miss Icha?” This middle-aged man stopped a nun who was walking over to us, then he nodded and turned back around.

I decided to sit in the waiting chair in the lobby of this hospital with another person sitting still as well. Not long ago, the nurse came while handing me a light green towel.

“Thank you.” I answered with a small smile at him.

“Do you need anything?” Ask this woman to look me in the face. I just shook my head and once again thanked him before he left.

“Nona Icha is okay?” The security guard who had been standing next to me now looked worried. I just shook my head and smiled weakly as I wrapped this towel around my body.

“Pak, do you usually Stefan doctor will long receive this guest?” I asked again to make sure my body was no longer strong. Since then I rubbed and pressed my left chest from behind this towel, hoping to endure the pain.

I needed that medicine and to get it back I had to take a prescription. Now that I think, it should have been before I was thrown out I separated at least one tablet per drug. You idiot!

“I don't know non, but it seemed so serious that some people dressed in army clothes carried weapons.”

“APA?!” I squealed in delight and shock until I unknowingly dropped the towel.

Without waiting for the response of this security guard I immediately ran towards the doctor Stefan's room located on this floor as well. For a moment I ignored all the pain I felt, I was just happy to think it must be Bayu. Only this hope can make me run like this.

Although I'm not sure who Stefan's guest is, but at least I want to hope it's Bayu.

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