𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 /GXG/

🔹️Daydream

''EVIL ENTERS THROUGH THE EYES AND TAKES PLACE IN THE THOUGHTS''

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Busan, South Korea
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RYO CHAE WON
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Su-min is learning to tattoo, and Mom can't dream that I'm about to mark my skin. The chances of her doing the same to me, otherwise, are zero. She doesn't like teaching education through violence, but she likes to punish.

''It hurts a little,'' I complain, pushing her away from me. ''Is there blood coming out?!'' My eyes widen.

''Stay calm,'' she says, in her soft voice. Her hand squeezes my breast through my bra, making me lie down on the bed in her room again.

I hold my breath, feeling the pressure of the needle go in, instinctively closing my eyes.

Su-min continues piercing my skin, my cell phone rings, and I stand up with it to my ear. ''Hello mom?'' I stay near the window, examining the street. ''She hung up...''

''She hung up?'', says Su-min.

''Yeah...''

''Forget about you mom, Chae.''

''Mom will call me again.''

I know she will. My mother is authoritarian. She monitors me at home and at school. Yes, at school.  Ye-jin is the headmaster where I study.

At school, I receive a lot of pressure from her. I try to dodge or simply pass by without being noticed, but every time she sees me, she asks inconvenient things, things related to mother and daughter. She doesn't seem to know how to separate her professional life from her personal life.

Mom is calling me again.

''Hello mom?''

''Chae won, where are you, lil'?''

''In the library, I can't talk right nowㅡ''

''You're not in the library! You have 10 minutes to appear in front of me! I have a matter to discuss with you!''

''Oh..uh...Can you tell me what this is about...? ''

''Nine minutes!'' Mom warns and hangs up.

I turn to Su-min and take the cell phone away from my ear. ''I’m screwed,'' I whisper to her.

''Your bra is getting in the way. '' She remains lying on the bed, wearing a white t-shirt and a reddish plaid miniskirt. She gestures for me to lie down on the bed and finish what we started.

I get rid of my bra. I've already taken off my uniform shirt (but I'm still wearing a skirt), I leave it on the floor and crawl over to the bed.

''Who will be the first to see your tattoo?'', she asks.

''Not being my mother...'' I laugh.

Su-min sterilizes my skin between my breasts with alcohol soaked in cotton wool, waits for it to evaporate, turns on the lighter, and heats the tip of the needle. Then she wraps the tip of her grandmother's sewing needle (Yes! smShe lives with her grandmother) in a thread and dips it in a bowl of green paint, passes her left hand halfway up my right breast and puts the needle between them, and presses.