flashing yellow (constant green) | sooshu

chapter three

Soojin came to the familiar bar much later than usually after a rough week, full of unpredictable circumstances and unfortunate dates.

"Fuck that," she said at the moment Shuhua turned to her. "I need something harder tonight."

Shuhua only looked at her suspiciously. She wasn't talkative as usual, wasn't smiling at Shuhua and her jokes. The bartender lost her mood. It was always fun to chat with Soojin. The woman had indeed unordinary and kind personality, her degree in linguistics opened a lot of topics to discuss.

She was Shuhua's type in general. However, it seemed, that Shuhua wasn't Soojin's.

After few minutes and a fire show, three shots of something definitely harder than "butterbeer" - Shuhua even thought of cocktail renaming because of Soojin's comment on it - were standing right in front of her. The bartender was surprised, when all three of them disappeared at once.

"I got a bounty and am going to drink Hui under the table this time." Soojin said with her tongue braiding. "One more."

"No, Jin. You're already dead."

"I'm not, just make me one more drink, beautiful."

"If you wish." Shuhua mumbled under her pressure. The bartender would have been happy to know, that Soojin thought she was beautiful, however, not when the woman wasn't sober at all. Thanks goddeses, she didn't try to stand up from the barstool.

"I do wish!" Soojin said loudly.

Her phone rang.

"It's Seo, wassup bro." She laughed at her own rhymed words.

"Ew, where are you?" Shuhua managed to hear before Soojin clicked on the "end call" button.

"I'm where I wanna be. None of your business." She said to the blocked screen.

"Soojin-ah."

"What?" Soojin's eyes were now watery. There was no secret in her sudden mood changes when she's under influence.

"What happened?"

"I called Yuqi another time and got sewed off."

"Why would you call her again? She isn't worthy, really. You deserve so much better."

"How can you tell it? What if I won't find anyone-"

"You will." Shuhua cut her off firmly, leaving her workplace. If she was that anyone, she would have been probably the luckiest barowner with only high school level of education. "You need to go home now, I'm closing."

"Already?" She tried to recognize numbers glowing on the screen of her phone.

"Yeah, it's kinda late."

"Can you- can you order a taxi?"

Shuhua looked at her up and down. Probably with a pity - in Soojin's head flashed.

"Let's go to my place, it's not safe to let you go like this." Shuhua already regretted that was serving Soojin with drinks. She should have controlled the situation, but it seems, failed.

"Aren't you maniac?"

Shuhua didn't stop or hesitate before answering. "I'm not, Jin. Get up, I'll help you."

"Do you promise?"

"Promise what?"

"That you're not a maniac."

"Of course."

"Vow."

"Okay, okay. Let's go." Shuhua took Soojin's arm to support her when they were going down the street.

"You're so pretty, you know." Soojin said slowly, when Shuhua took her shoes off in the hall of her apartment.

"No, Jin. Give me your coat now." She let Soojin lean on her while the woman tried to undress.

"You look like my next mistake-" Soojin sang loudly. "Taylor Swift isn't corny, she's true!"

"Maybe." Shuhua exhaled in exhaustion, "But I didn't know, you were a trouble, until liked you too much."

She heard an ambulance alarm yelping from the street. It was time to wash Soojin's make-up off the woman's face.

"Goddess" Shuhua thought when Soojin was falling asleep on her sofa after all preparations.

"Good night," she whispered walking away.

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a/n:

I'm not sorry, I do like taylor swift
even if it's lesbian story and I'm straight as kristen stewart