Ten at night on the same day, Winter knew that Karina shift was over, which means her girlfriend would come to her room for a quick visit before going back home.

Needles stuck in her hand, but nothing attached to them after Winter got her first liquid pain killer into her body that evening. The light blue patient uniform makes the girl cuteness stand out even more.

Waiting patiently for her girlfriend as Winter sat in the bed with fidgeting fingers, her mouth hums into the familiar song she wrote for her beloved neighbour.

"Oh darling, this is more than anything I felt before, you're everything that I want, but I didn't—"

"—Winter", her singing stopped when she saw Karina in her nurse uniform, wrapped with her long coat, standing at the door frame with a warm smile.

Happy Winter got too excited that she jumped up from the bed, running towards her girlfriend before crashing her body into her for a hug. "I miss you!", Winter squealed happily as Karina wrapped her arms around the girl's waist.

"Careful with the needle, Winter. It will hurt", Karina chuckled.

"Oops. Sorry", Winter laughs before slowly pulling away. "Singing without playing my guitar felt weird...", the shorter girl's finger moved, motioning the movements of her plucking the invisible guitar.

Karina caressed her fingers through Winter's ginger hair with a soft smile, "It's okay, you would play them again, soon".

*****

Karina got home almost at 2 in the morning that night after Winter begged her to stay a bit longer. Even tho they broke the rules of the hospital visiting hour, thankfully because the taller girl works there and a nurse there, they let her stay.

Karina couldn't explain how much she's in love working at the hospital at the moment, now that she got the privilege doing so for Winter.

Karina had watched Winter to sleep in promising that she would come around ten in the morning since it is her off day and Winter's surgery day.

The morning starts with Winter waking up sulking at eight in the morning without her girlfriend by her side. A nurse came in to check her conditions, explaining more things to her about today's surgery, before she injected something more on the tube connected to Winter's hand.

An hour of waiting for her girlfriend, Minjeong's getting bored, so she got up from her bed and walked out for fresh air. She couldn't eat anything today before the surgery, which made her a bit sad. But it's fine. After the surgery, Karina would feed her anyway, her girlfriend already promised.

She walks by the children wards, which her girlfriend is in charge of, but of course Karina wasn't there. Winter pouts.

She walked by the vending machine and she saw a couple of people buying some drinks. She got jealous and pouts again.

She walked by the cafeteria and saw lots of delicious food. Groaning in agony, she pouts again.

Winter sighing heavily, "Gosh, I should never walk out from my room if I know it would make me feel like this..."

"But, will you still feel the same way if I'm here right now?"

That deep, soothing voice always succeeds to make Winter feel giddy all over again like a teenager. The smile on her face became so wide that Karina couldn't hold herself from giggling. "Okay, that escalated real quick."

"I miss you!", the shorter girl almost looked like a puppy wiggling their tails to the owner happily, and Karina gladly patted the crown of her girlfriend's head. "I just left you for six hours, Winter. You're exaggerating", Karina chuckled.

"When we're back at our apartment, it is easier knowing you just steps away from me. This time, it is different. You are kilometres away from me, and I couldn't help but miss you even more", her loser smile got Karina smiling too before she leaned in to peck Winter on her cheek. "Silly".

"What did you do today?", Karina asked.

"As soon as I woke up, the nurse checked on my vitals and stuff, and then I felt the pain again, so I push the emergency button like you tell me to. They gave me another painkiller. I'm bored because I can't eat or play games on my phone, and my guitar wasn't here, so I walked out only to get jealous of people around me. The food at the cafeteria looks tempting, but then you're here!", Winter cheered.

"Yes, I am here, and I got your guitar inside my car—"

"You brought them?", Winter squealed happily immediately.

"No-uh, Winter. You can't play", Karina shakes her head, bringing back the sulking Winter almost immediately before Karina continues again, "I'm gonna play for you this time. I practiced some of the song you teach me".

"Yay!", Winter cheered again.

Oh god, why does this girl look so cute?

"Now, miss Pocoyo in light blue patient uniform, let's get you back to your room".

*****

Two in the evening. After exchanging a few love confession and kisses between them, Karina followed Winter towards the surgery room. She never let the hand of her girlfriend go as the wheels on the bed rolls towards the OR.

"How long will the surgery go again?", Karina asked the nurse in charge beside her, a colleague of her own.

"About two hours, maximum. I bet it would finish sooner than that", the nurse answered, and Karina thanked her with a nod. Her eyes were shifted back towards her girlfriend, who looked a bit bothered.

"It's going to be fine, Winter. I'll be right there when you wake up", Karina nods her head, feeling their grip tighten from how nervous Winter is.

"See you later?", Winter asked, her voice almost like crying. Karina tried to shrug the overwhelming feeling off, answering back with an assuring smile.

"See you later, Winter", she peck onto Winter's forehead before finally letting go of her girlfriend's hand, watching how the bed rolls behind the OR door before the door shuts again.

Winter wasn't there anymore.

*****

Karina was plucking Winter's guitar in the room gently, trying to practice the notes all over again before Winter came after her surgery.

Looking back at how things going on between them now, it's funny how Karina hated it so much that Winter strumming her guitar at night, now that the guitar was in her grip, and Karina is the one who's playing it.

Winter sure makes her change.

Love makes her change.

As she strums, she remembers her past relationship with her ex-boyfriend. It never being as happy as this. Looking back, she never had a proper moment together with her ex-boyfriend because of their work. But now that she's with Winter, she wants to be by her side all the time.

Winter makes her smile more than anyone ever did. She makes her laugh more than anyone could. Winter's smiles would change Karina's mood almost immediately like she's flipping Karina's mood switch as easy as that.

Winter Kim's effects.

Karina was surprised with the clacking sound of the doorknob, before the door open wider even more, revealing unconscious Winter on the bed pushed by two nurse in charge.

That's when things getting too overwhelming for Karina out of the blue.

Like a routine reflex, Karina got up from her seat after setting Winter's guitar aside, helping the two nurse to pull and set Winter's bed in position.

It didn't take long before the nurse completely gone from the room, before Karina burst into silent tears, sobbing softly at the view of her unconscious girlfriend.

She knows that Winter is fine. Nothing serious, nothing life threatening.

But, she can't see it when Winter is like this.

Winter looks so vulnerable and fragile after the surgery. The unconsciousness makes Karina overwhelmed even more.

The taller girl quickly wiped away the tears from her eyes, pulling the chair she's sitting on just now closer to Winter's bed, before she interwined her finger with Winter's unconscious one.

She rubs the back of Winter's hand gently with her thumb, eyes gazing at Winter's other hand, which is covered with a gauze from the surgery.

Karina kissed the back of Winter's hand once before she rubbed it again with her thumb.

She can't wait for her girlfriend to wake up.