Red Perfect

Seulgi

11:05am

"Ah, god."

Seulgi's body ached and felt heavy, in a way that she hadn't experience before. Like a hangover mixed with a car wreck. Her entire back side was chilled after laying bare against the steel table top.
She sat up.

"Ah, shit." She muttered.

Pain like pointed frost bite shot through her shoulder and leg, winding Seulgi and causing her to pause.
When she regained her balance, she took a moment to see where she was.

First, Seulgi noticed that her clothes were gone, and that she was wearing a big t-shirt;her wounds had been dressed. Second, she realized that she was in a warehouse she had never seen before, and third, about four feet from the table, a man sat in a chair, asleep. She squinted and turned her head still facing him. Realizing she didn't know the person, she attempted to get down off of the table.

With her strong leg she slipped down and as her bare foot met the cold concrete she collapsed to the ground.
Immediately Taemin shot up from his chair.

"What are you doing?" He yelled.

"What are you doing?" She shot back.

The blonde man slipped his hands beneath her arm pits and like a child Seulgi was lifted back onto the table top.
She gasped in pain.

" You can't do that yet," Taemin said. "Lay down."

Seulgi pushed his hands from her shoulders, "I don't even know you!"

He stopped and removed his hands quickly.
"You're right, I'm sorry. I was just trying to help you."

"Where's Irene?" Seulgi shouted. Her hands had balled into fists, and her dark eyes turned cold.

"I don't know Irene..." Taemin began softly, he relaxed his hands at his sides. "Was she the girl in the office with you?"

"Where is she?" Seulgi's voice became harsh.

"She's gone...I'm, I'm really sorry."
Seulgi paused and turned her face to the floor.

"I- She can't be. Take me to the office!"

"You're in no condition!"

" I don't care!" Seulgi yelled, "Take me to the office!"

"Fine!" Taemin yelled. "But you can't go out like this...as far as Lee Sooman is concerned you're dead!"

"How do you know Sooman?" Seulgi asked.

"He killed me once, too."

The pair stared at eachother a moment before the silence was broken.

"I'll get you some clothes," Taemin walked off. "-And we're bleaching your hair!"

Seulgi sat alone on the table top as Taemin went to grab supplies. She stared up at the ceiling in shock and anger and disbelief and everything that comes with grieving.

" She can't be gone." Seulgi thought .

Irene and Seulgi had been through everything together. They raised themselves on the streets and protected their three younger sisters. RV was Seulgi's only family she had ever known and in less than an hour SM had taken everything. Wendy was gone, Joy taken, and Yeri missing. She couldn't bear to believe that Irene could be gone forever too.

When Taemin returned he brought a change of clothes for Seulgi. A pair of men's pants and an old shirt. He helped Seulgi change and then asked her to sit in the chair.

"I'm Taemin, by the way."

"Seulgi."

Before he started Seulgi's transformation, Taemin ran into the kitchen and returned just as quickly.

"Here, eat this." Taemin said.
He handed Seulgi a turkey sandwich and a bottled water. He then began bleaching Seulgi's hair.

"Irene and I do this."

"Do what?"

"My hair."

When he was finished Taemin offered a mirror.

"I look like hell." said Seulgi, examining her yellow locks and the dark bags beneath her eyes.

"Here," Taemin pulled a pair of heart shaped sunglasses from his pocket and placed them over Seulgi's eyes.

"Now you look like you own the place." He said.

1:03pm