Chaeyoung PoV

I was just drunk that day, 5 years ago when I met the person that would change my whole life. After all, Jennie, Lisa and Jisoo just wanted to lift my spirit after Junhoe dumped me for another girl.

The bar is one of the places where you end up with one-night stands or meeting your next boyfriend. Let's be honest here, I get easily drunk.

And that night, as it went deeper, until the next morning, I met the most handsome and kindest person. His face is clearly in my head but I can't remember his name. Who knew Park Chaeyoung would have sex after she got dumped?!

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5 years ago, was a totally different me. I was a graduating resident in medicine, Junhoe dumped me for a better girlfriend and ... I'm a mom. At least, a mom with 3 helping girlfriends in life.

"Mommy!! Auntie Jennie is mad at you!!" my little sunshine laughs as she runs towards me.

"Yes, Chaeyoung, Jiyoon is right," Jennie-eonnie laughs along.

I bent down to my knees so I can look at my daughter, eye-to-eye.

Park Jiyoon. Her name is registered under my family's last name. Her father? His face image flashes clear in my head but I can barely remember his name. Who is her father? Why can't I remember that guy's face?

"Jiyoonie, why don't you go play with Aunty Jisoo? Your mommy and I have to talk for a while," Jennie tells Jiyoon in a kind matter.

My daughter follows her aunts. I'm glad that these 3 girls have been with me the whole 5 years. I've slept in the hospital dorms, leaving Jiyoon to Jennie, Jisoo or Lisa to take care of her. When I'm home, the hospital calls for an emergencies. Or my shift is 24/7.

Jennie sighed, "How are you going to live if you have a whole day operation?"

"It's my job. Besides I have you, the owner of ME fashion line, Jisoo, the model, and Lisa, the photographer," I answered her.

Jennie has always taken care of Jiyoon the most. Jisoo is always away for photoshoots but grabs the chance to take care of Jiyoon if she can. Lisa, on the other hand, always has to photoshoot for Tiara Banks in Asia's Next Top Model or America's Next Top Model.

"Jiyoon's still young to understand, but when she'll grow older, she'll start to ask where her father is, ask for attention and all," Jennie sighs. "It's her 5th birthday today, and you're only staying for 2 and a half hours."

"Eonnie, my parents want me to build a good reputation as a doctor. Alice-eonnie and I have come so far for this. They're in Australia with my sister, and I'm here with my daughter. There's nothing that would go wrong," I answered.

Jennie looked at me shocked. There was never a time where I have answered her back. When it came to Jiyoon's future, I wanted to make sure that everything would go alright. She wouldn't ask for her father, she wouldn't ask for too much.

"She won't live a normal life, Chaeyoung. Kids bully kids because they have one parent or they don't have a cool parent," she paused. "Listen, I love Jiyoon. I'm still 27, I have a lot of time to find a man and get married but Jiyoon is like my daughter. If you won't go look for her father because you're too busy then I will. Give me your permission, Chaeng."

I looked at her.

"Chaeyoung, Jiyoon would never understand, to be honest. You were 22 when you had her, you were accelerated in school 2 years in a row, and you were an excellent student who graduated with flying colors. She'll get pressured and will need another person to understand her. Please, Chaeng. Jiyoon always wanted a dad," Jennie begged me.

"Funny, if it came to her, you'd always give everything," I laughed. "I barely remember his name, how can I even look for him."

"There are so many ways to look for a person, Park Chaeyoung! Who knows, he can be a KPOP Star?"

Foot steps come closer to our direction.

Yeah, maybe I should find Jiyoon's dad? So I can make her live like a normal child. But where could I find him? And how can I find him? How can I convince him that this child is his daughter?

But at the same time, I want him to suffer. He's never experienced getting thrown out of the house because he ruined his dream. He's never experienced staying late in the morning so his daughter would stop crying. Hell, he's never seen his daughter's first walk or heard her first words.

"There you 2 are! Come on, Alice arrived. Jihyo and Chanyeol-oppa came as well," Jisoo barged in our conversation.

"We'll be downstairs," Jennie replies.

I walk to my room and got the big gift I bought for my daughter. Hoping one day, she would do what she wants. To sing in a crowd and act to be on screen. And so, I got her a pink, toy microphone with a toy guitar so she'd look like a rockstar.

That's what she always dreams.

Chanyeol-oppa and Jihyo-eonnie are my 2 older sunbaenims in the hospital, they're not surgeons like me but specialists only. Both of them helped me when I was pregnant with Jiyoon and took care of my schedules in the hospital.

"Thank you, Uncle Chan!!!!!" I hear Jiyoon scream. She looks at me, "Mommy, mommy. Look! Uncle Chan gave me a real guitar!"

I smiled, "Did you say 'thank you'?"

"Oh! I forgot!" she covered her mouth with her 2 tiny hands. Jiyoon walks closer to Chanyeol and hugged him, "Thank you, Uncle Channie!!"

Jihyo-eonnie moves Chanyeol away from Jiyoon and she gave her present to Jiyoon. My daughter opens the pretty pink wrapped gift and gasps as she sees what's inside.

"Are these really for me?!" she gasps.

"You're mom is a doctor, so I gave you a doctor's kit. Someday, you might reconsider and be a doctor," Jihyo says. "And look, here's a nice light pink laboratory gown."

"Oh, wow, Aunty! Is it cool mixing the chemicals? Do they explode like the one's in the movie?" she asks her aunt.

"Yes! They explode with beautiful purple and pink colors! And bubbles are everywhere!" Jihyo entertains her.

I laughed. Even if it were true, I'm not allowing her to be a doctor. I know she isn't born to be in that operation room. She isn't fit to operate a human or treat a human. For me, she's too spoiled to be a good doctor.

"Let's eat!" I say.

Jiyoon stomps towards her seat. Her face looks dissatisfied with all the gifts and foods for her birthday celebration.

My older sister, Alice, who works in Australia as a dentist goes out from the kitchen. She was helping Jisoo and Jennie with the food. Originally, she wanted to be a chef but because our parents wanted us to be doctors, she chose a doctor specialty that doesn't really require her whole day in the hospital.

"Rosie!" She hugs me, "How are you? I heard from Jennie that you'll do an operation today."

"Yeah, eonnie. I'm doing great," I answered.

"And my lovely, and only niece!" she hugs and kisses Jiyoon, "Happy Birthday, my love. How old are you today?"

"I'm 5 years old," Jiyoon answers.

"Is that so? I forgot to give you you're gift!" Alice gets her wallet out of her bag. "Since you're 5 years old, I will give you 500 Australian dollars. When you go there, let's go shopping for pink clothes!"

I butted in, "Yes, yes. Jiyoon will not keep the money. I will, and yes, we will go home if we can."

"YEY! I CAN SEE GRANNY AND POPSY AGAIN!" she claps.

"But before anything else, have you seen my gift, love?" I asked her.

She shakes her head.

"Go to the living room," I told her.

She runs quick and screams once she saw it.

"I'M GONNA BE A ROCKSTAR!!!!!!" we heard her scream. We all laughed at her reaction

"Well, she really is my sister's daughter," Alice joked.

Finally, after a few more minutes, when Jiyoon settled down. Everyone came around to the dining table and started to sing a happy birthday. Jihyo let Lisa see via Skype, since she's in Thailand for another gig. And Jisoo was carrying the chocolate cake with a candle that says '5' on it.

"Make a wish, love," I told her.

Jiyoon closes her eyes and puts her palms together.

"I wish, someday, I will meet daddy. So he can live with me and mommy!" She blows her candle.

"Let's eat!" Lisa yells from the screen and held out her plate of steak.

Everyone enjoyed their brunch. Jennie and Jisoo's cooking has never gone wrong. It's so flavorful. Especially the lasagna and the salad. I only eat salads before operations so I won't be really full and I wouldn't be too sleepy.

After a few moments of talking, my pager rung. I got 30 more minutes before the operation.

Jiyoon looked at me, "Mom, are you going to the hospital again?"

I held her hand, "Baby, I'm so sorry, okay? Mommy has work everyday. Aunty Alice will be here with you. I'll make it up for you this Saturday, okay?"

"It's fine Mom. Will you be back tonight?"

I brushed her hair, "I'll try."

"That always means no," she looked sad. "I wish daddy would be here with us so he can stay with me all the time. He'd play horse back riding with me and take me to the park."

"Jiyoon, Mommy is sorry. I promise, I'll make it up to you, okay? I'll try my best to be back home tonight," I hugged her. "Now, I got to go. Wish mommy luck so that she may be able to save lives!"

She smiled, "You're gonna be a hero again, mommy?"

"Hopefully. I'll try my best to save lives!"

"Okay, mommy! We'll be superheroes, together!" she smiled.

I kissed her, "That's my girl. Okay, I have to go now. Bye, love."

"Bye, mommy!"

Jennie and Jisoo walked me out of the house. She sighed, "See? I told you? She will want her dad to be here."

She gives me my car keys and my bag, "Thanks, eonnie. I know you'll be busy today, you're fashion week is near. And also Jisoo-eonnie, tell Alice-eonnie to take care of Jiyoon. Chan-oppa and Jihyo-eonnie will be in the hospital after they're paged. I love you, eonnies. Bye!"

I drove fast to the hospital, and with the quickest route going there. Our patient is a VIP member of the hospital and finances our hospital. She's really rich, and I will get sued if she dies on my operation table.

But today is not my day. I've only been assigned to this operation because our cardio surgeon has pains in her fingers. We only have one but since I can adjust to any types of surgeries, the surgery department made me a substitute.

As soon as I arrived, I headed directly to my office and changed into my dark blue surgery clothes. And I walked towards the meeting place of my team.

I sat down on the middle chair, "Okay, what's the case?"

"Good morning, Ms. Park. We understand that today is the birthday of your daughter, we're sorry to have you here," Doctor Woo, the CEO and owner of Hye Jin Hospital says.

"It's okay, Madam," I replied.

"Good morning, Ms. Park, I am Doctor Choi, a first year resident of Doctor Chou who couldn't be here due to finger pains. Our patient's name is Jeon Shin-Hye, she has her left lung failure due to smoking and kidney clotting," the resident briefed.

"Do you mean, she has lung cancer?" one of the doctors asked.

"Yes, sir. She has lung cancer. And her kidney clotting is caused by too much intake of alcoholic beverages. According to the CT scan, the clot is somewhere near in the side of her kidney," Doctor Choi answered.

I looked shocked. I was never briefed of having 2 operations at once.

"But that'll make it 2 operations. None of use are graduating residences, Doctor Park is our only attending present and has the ability to do this operation," Chou's resident argued.

"We can call the other doctors?" Ms. Woo said.

"It's Sunday, everyone wants to spend time with their families. We can't call them out like this," one of my residents said.

"Professor Park, it's your call," my resident told me.

I looked at the 2 CT scans presented in front of me. It's either I give one up, either way she'll have to die. This woman would be really weak if we will pull 2 surgeries on her in one day. The anaesthesia might hurt her.

"Doctor Kim Yeri?" I asked.

"Yes, Professor?"

"I want you to take your official lead for the lung area. Doctor Jang and Doctor Lee? Assist Yeri. The rest assist me in the kidney area," I ordered.

"Any other questions?" Choi asked.

"Yes," Vernon, the anaesthesiologist asked. "If she has lung cancer, what is her total WBC count? It might be dangerous to operate if her RBC and WBC count is low."

"Her RBC count is normal. Her WBC count is quite low, 1789," Choi replied.

"After this operation she'll be having chemotherapy," Ms. Woo added.

"Then, this will be too much for her body to take in. After this operation, her RBC can go down as well. We'll never know if she can get internal bleeding during the operation," Vernon argued.

Jeon Shin-Hye will be taking to much drugs if chemotherapy will be taking place right after her operation.

"But wait, is it really necessary to have chemo? It's lung cancer not breast. We can have her intake drugs after recovery for the cancer cells," I answered. "Besides, chemo for lung cancer is not really recommended. It's only Stage 1, we can fight the virus back."

Ms. Woo looked down. She's always wanted to eliminate the rich shareholders of the hospital. Chemotherapy will most likely weakened Ms. Jeon's body.

"Alright, let's bring her to the operation room. By 11:20 we will begin. With approximately 4-8 hours of work time," I said. "Good luck. And may I talk to her family members?"

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how cool is that? writing chaeyoung as a doctor?

i find jiyoon cute, uwuuu.

alright that's 1 down ! plenty more.

iz out---