Perfect Illness || lookism x reader

59. The Train

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"Oh you look so CUTE!!" Zoe exclaimed, seizing YN's arm.

Mira took her other arm. "Our work was well done."

Mira and Zoe had invited her for a girls night packing party only a few days prior, where they had promptly discovered YN's shortcomings on self-care. Sinu had taught her hygiene, but he was, well, a man, and while Yeonhui had pulled through in his gaps, YN personally had never placed much importance on the cosmetic procedures.

But here she was in the train to Cheonliang, waxed within an inch of her life–which had been a more painful procedure than anything she had ever experienced–with hair smelling distinctly of vanilla from Mira's hair mask and face glowing with Zoe's skincare products. The entire night had been spent with last minute packing–as Jay had invited them to his seaside villa due to abnormally warm weather–and Zoe and Mira working on her. She had just blamed living with her brother as the reason for her lack of beautician knowledge.

They had even picked out an outfit for her, YN was wearing short denim shorts, shorter than anything she had ever worn before, over her red and orange patterned one-piece swimsuit. Slung over her shoulders was a pale green Hawaiian-like shirt, dotted with little white flowers, belonging to Mira.

She crossed her legs uncomfortably, feeling slickly bare and bald. She was sandwiched between the aisle and Zoe and Mira, but it was better than sitting with Joy and Crystal across from them. Joy was fine, and YN had spoken to her before because of Jay–maybe a little self centered, still fine and quite cute–but Crystal was...well, Crystal.

Snake ass hoe.

She would have sat in the vacant seat across from little Daniel and Zack, but she didn't think she could take the testosterone... Not to mention Zack was focused on lusting after Mira, and Daniel seemed strangely intent on appearing as insignificant as possible. So instead, she tried to listen as Zoe scrolled through her viewer numbers for her last stream, regaling her and Mira with crazy stories that her viewers liked to tell her.

She wasn't really listening, thinking more about her encounter with Samuel Seo. Next time I see him, I'm going to beat his freaky ass... Samuel always scared her to some degree. He had this strange innate viciousness that would leak from the seams of his carefully engineered calm facade. And what was that about him being Goo's secret friend? I guess Goo has a thing for collecting absolute scum of the earth... Takes one to know one. She had never seen Goo serious.

Well, I guess... She thought back to when she had gone to one of Gun's houses and met DG, Crystal, Gun and Goo. She remembered Goo's sudden and volatile dark expression when she had looked away from him (ch. 43. Danger). They're all... crazy. But becoming Goo's secret friend was perhaps the only way to escape Gun. She wasn't excited about the prospect of spending more time with dear old Sammy.

She remembered Goo's instructions. (ch 44. Rat-Girl) Remember who the real enemy is. Far away from Gun, it was easy to consider that Charles Choi was the mastermind behind all of it. But when Gun leaned over her, his pale hands brushing her throat, her mind went blank with fear.

Is there really no one else who could stand against Charles Choi??  Gun already had a plethora of enemies all plotting against him. All she could do was hope that his arrogance would come back to bite him. Whether it was through Jake or Johan or even Vasco trying to defeat bad guys.

Or me. She would love to see Gun grovel at her feet.

A loud clatter interrupted Zoe's chatter and distracted YN out of her thoughts.