In Nine Days

Chapter 5 - Ugly

When you come to think about it, 3Mix wasn't such a bad group when you already got to know the members. Sure, in the past few years they worked for the rival agency of JYP which was SM before they fully transferred to JYP . They were still mysterious, with little quirks and the almost uncanny habit of not really talking that much about their past. And they were feared too not by all of course, but still by enough people who simply saw them not as ex-SM agents, but as spies.

First off, there was Tzuyu. The so-called addition to the group. Even after two years of probation, and even after Chou had been given back her status as a JYP agent and member of Jackson's Team, she still was, in more ways than one, part of 3Mix. She trained with them for those years she left YG and her team with one goal in mind. To be top Agent of Korea, which SM agency took advantage of, offering Tzuyu to train her better than JYP did which of course Tzuyu agreed to. In order for her to achieve her goal she needed to leave everything behind her as early as her teenage years.

And still, people saw her as the betrayer.

Then there was Jeongyeon. True, when Sana first met her, she was a bit sickened—you could say she kinda despised her at first sight, especially when she found out that her specialty had been slicing limbs off people before killing them. But, when you came down to it, she couldn't exactly blame her even if her ways, for her had been wrong. She had been SM's experiment, and she had suffered there. Suffering did a lot to make people stupid and heartless. Just look at Tzuyu—the girl was a splendid example of that. Still, during Jeongyeon's suspension, she had behaved. And she had become more open, and more human than most kind of like a cross between Chaeyoung and Ryujin, when it came to the loud-mouthing and sarcasm department.

Yet people still saw her as a killer.

There was, of course, Jihyo. Sana could understand where people were coming from for fearing her. But, like Jeongyeon, she had behaved or, to be more precise, Sana and the Chief had made her behave, by doing what they could to help her. On the outside, she was intimidating—but when you looked, really looked, she wasn't so bad. In fact she was one of the nicest girls Sana had ever met.

But, in people's eyes...she was still a spy.

Then there was Nayeon. Loud and proud and confident, was what she was. She threw temper tantrums, she bitched about stuff, and she complained about anything under the sun. She was stubborn as a mule, and as flirty as females could come. But she had stayed loyal to JYP and she remained one of Tzuyu's most faithful followers (well, okay—more like stalker). The girl that most fangirls feared messing with though she could oftentimes be more annoying and screechy than most of them put together.

Some people, even after two years or one year of heavy probation, plus one year training to finally be considered regular agents of JYP, still didn't want them around. These people judged, condemned, and accused. Looked with superior, know-it-all eyes. In Sana's opinion, there was only one thing these people should do.

Get. A. Life.

Seriously. What did they know, really, when their own lives were so simple?

"YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS, SHORTY!"

Hmm. But maybe they had a bit of a point when it came to Nayeon

With a vicious hiss at the pain throbbing in her cheek , Sana glared at the loud girl standing in front of her apartment, who had her hands on her hips and a righteous expression on her face. Her glasses were askew, and her lips were peeled back in what might have been a snarl. Behind her stood the other two members of Team 3Mix—one looking amused, and the other looking worried and apologetic.