Perfect Illness || lookism x reader

44. Rat-Girl

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 In the morning YN awoke in an unfamiliar but insanely comfortable bed. All feeling and energy had returned to her limbs, and it was just regular sleep grogginess that caused her to yawn as she pushed away the covers and stepped out of the bed. She was in her school uniform, crinkled and musty, and the events of the previous day rushed back to her. Her interactions with Vasco, Johan, then finally DG, Goo, Crystal, and Gun, Charles Choi's geniuses.

She glanced at the armchair, which was luckily empty. With a sigh, she made her way out of the bedroom, and down the marble stairs, and followed the noises into the kitchen. She paused in the hallway, when she heard the name 'Daniel' float out of the room. What's Daniel's involvement in all of this? Why does he want to speak to DG?

"Wait," she heard Gun command from the room. The others went silent, expectantly. "You can come out now, princess."

Flushing slightly from the embarrassment, YN stepped into the smooth modern kitchen. There was an array of pastries layed out, some of which was eaten, evidently mostly from Goo who still held a chocolate croissant and had crumbs on his mouth.

She let him know. "You have crumbs on your mouth."

Goo leered at her. "Would you like to kiss them away?"

She ignored him with a quick glance around. DG was nowhere in sight. At least he hadn't posed a threat to her yet. She was surrounded by enemies.

Crystal regarded her with nervous eyes. "YN... How are you feeling?"

"Better." Part of her senses still felt dull, but she could feel the chemical actively working to eradicate any trace of the pill. It was bizarre how she had hated on the chemical so much from the life it was taking away from her, but now it worked to her advantage. It had saved Johan too, and that made everything better. YN didn't know how to feel about this revelation. "I think the pill worked, just too well. It totally shut down the chemical, and I've grown dependent on it for so long that it's just always there giving me energy. And I couldn't function without it."

Crystal nodded. "So you need a milder version. Got it." She pulled out her phone, and hurried out of the kitchen to talk to presumably her father.

"Come on. I'll drive you back to your house," Gun ordered, pulling car keys out of his pocket.

Goo stepped in front of him wagging his pointer finger in a refusal. "Nuh uh. I want to do it. You already spent time with our special friend."

Better Goo than Gun. YN shrugged and followed Goo as he chattered loudly on the way outside as Gun rolled his dark, haunting eyes.

Once in Goo's car, which was significantly more flashy than Gun's, Goo revved the engine and rushed off. He was still chattering off about something; YN vaguely thought it could have been about the lack of food in Gun's house and how he had been sent on a quest in the absurdly early hours of the morning to buy anything he wanted from anywhere in Seoul but for her and he wasn't actually allowed to eat any of it because then it would be all gone before she even awoke.

The car roared to the loudest humm as he shot through the neighborhoods before he dropped the question he had obviously been burning to ask. "So what do you think of him?"

YN started. "Huh??" She had been drifting off, still tired from the lack of chemical, which had also dulled since she was away from Gun.

"What do you think about him?" Goo repeated. His eyes flickered to her left wrist which glittered with the solid gold chain permanently attached. "Gun I mean. He regularly collects these obsessions, but you're not his usual M.O."