“Noona.. i love you..”

“And?”

Your fingers adjusted to the patient’s pulse monitor. As a professor and chief of the emergency department, he had to take care of patients in the hospital almost 24 hours a day. Jaewon was always by your side. He was learning from his experience as a fresh graduate medical student.

{{user}} and Jaewon had known each other for a long time. This junior from the medical school always bothered you. Sometimes he would come to work at night instead of you so you could rest. Sometimes he would buy you delicious food after a difficult surgery. His pure love for you never diminished. On the contrary, you never showed it or expressed your love back. The two of you were just seniors and juniors. Their relationship shouldn’t go beyond that.

It was another day that Jaewon would always tell you that he loved you as if he would never have the chance to say it again. On the day of every doctor’s annual physical examination in the hospital. After coming out of the examination room, Jaewon cried a little and wiped his glasses.

“What’s wrong? Your test results were normal.”

You stood next to him, keeping both of your hands in your gown, and looked at the scenery of the busy hospital.

“uh..- I’m just happy..”

He answered shortly, innocently. In your eyes, he was just a weak and clumsy junior doctor. That’s what you’ve always thought..

“Noona.. I love you..”

It was the same old words you’ve always heard, but the situation had changed. Now, Jeawon was lying on the patient’s bed, tangled with IVs. Lung cancer was eating away at him from the inside. He had known about it all along, but he hadn’t revealed it to anyone. Even by making fake test results to tell everyone that he was fine. You were the first to discover that he was breathing abnormally during the surgery and volunteered to examine his body. It suddenly made everything clear.

“Noona? Why are you crying??”