so bad : stayc

[30] the new agent

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"Racers, get ready at the start line." Cars slowly moved towards the start line, and more people gathered around the track. Yeeun drove her car beside Juyeon's, a Bugatti Veyron. As more cars were slowly parked behind the start line, a bright yellow Ferrari drove to Yeeun's right. She turned to see a girl, about her age, with metallic blue hair. The girl turned to look at Yeeun. "Remember me?" Yeeun racked her brains, thinking of all the possible places where she met the girl.

It can't be.

"Eun...Eunbi?" The girl nodded. "We have to talk later on." Yeeun opened her mouth, but the host walked to the start line with a megaphone.

"Racers, get ready." The sound of engines revving was gradually getting louder. Yeeun turned to look at Juyeon, who was focusing on the host.

"Three." Yeeun slipped her hands into the unmodified gloves.

The bubbling anger within her started rising, and adrenaline coursed through her veins. Eunbi was NOT supposed to appear in front of me during a mission. She revved the engine, left hand sweaty from holding onto the gear stick.

"Two."

"ONE!" The horn blared, signalling the start of the race. Yeeun shifted the gear stick and stepped on the gas pedal, accelerating through the tracks. She quickly overtook three cars in front of her, maintaining a close distance from Juyeon's car. She could see a glimpse of the "MVR" of the neck collar on the car's passenger seat. She shifted her gear stick and drifted through the ninety degrees turn, her boots pressing onto the gas pedal. Two more cars were in front of her, including Juyeon's. She shifted the gear stick again, the car accelerating faster and faster. A car attempted to overtake her by bumping into her car multiple times, so she drifted away from it, causing the speeding car to crash straight onto the billiard in front of it.

Yeeun could make out silhouettes of people crowding, signalling that she was close to the finish line. She shifted the gear stick and drove her way towards the finishing line. She was in third place, with Juyeon in second place. As the crowd clapped and cheered, she drove to the car lot she parked her car in before the race. She got out of the car and walked towards Juyeon. He was sitting at the front of his car, fiddling with his neck collar. He noticed her and raised his hand.

"Nice race. Why haven't I seen you here before?" Juyeon asks, placing his neck collar on the car hood and shaking his hand with Yeeun.

"First time here, a friend of a friend introduced me to the place," she lied through her teeth. Juyeon nodded. "Every Friday, at the same time, the race would be hosted here. So, this means that I would be expecting you to come here every week?" Yeeun nodded, giving him a cold smile. "Well, see you then." Juyeon threw a coin-like object at Yeeun, and she caught it, waving goodbye at him, before walking past the car and nicking the neck collar. She pretended to place her hands in the pockets of her leather jacket, putting the collar in it. She calmly walked away from him, but as the distance between them increased, the pace of her gait started getting faster and faster. "I got the neck collar," she muttered into the earpiece. "Good, now run."

Yeeun started the car and drove off from the crowd. She turned into an avenue, but when she glanced at the side mirror, Yeeun realised that Juyeon was tailing her behind. "Guys, quiet. He's following me," Yeeun whisper-shouted, and she could hear the microphone muting. She stopped at a traffic junction when the traffic lights flashed red. The same yellow Ferrari 458 stopped beside her. Eunbi fiddled with something inside her car before she showed her a card. Making out the words on the card, Yeeun realised it wasn't any card; it was a pass. The very same kind of pass she used to access the agency. Eunbi is working for Mr Lee too... She thought. The traffic lights flashed green, and they accelerated hard, driving away from Juyeon. Yeeun glanced at the rear mirror. Juyeon was gone.