Bows & Beauty

Chapter 12

"Good Morning."

The first thing that came to Seulgi's mind was close. Too close. And with her intermediate reflex, she yelps and back off—resulting why she ended up groaning in pain on the floor.

A knock on the door was heard and Wendy peeked her head in and seeing Seulgi on the floor made her eyebrows furrowed, "What are you doing down there? Did you fell off from the bed?"

"I—

"—obviously," Irene answers as she rolls her eyes, sitting up and wincing slightly as she touch one side of her neck, "Goodbye beautiful skin..."

"I'm sure the marks will be gone soon," Wendy hoist a still-stunned Seulgi up, "Seulgi must have gave you ambrosia when she brought you here, right KkangSseul?"

Seulgi was still half dazed, not really getting into the conversation as her mind was still stuck replaying how Irene greeted her good morning and how close they were. And how if Seulgi had moved slightly forward, she might hav—

"Yah!" Irene's scowl brought her back to earth, "You did give me the ambrosia, right?"

"O-Of course I did!" Memories flooded her mind on last night's incident. Irene had passed out immediately after Seulgi gave her the ambrosia and she was now feeling extremely thankful towards Hypnos, the sleeping God, for she is glad Irene did not have to witness her unnecessary, embarrassing bawling before she realized Irene was still alive.

"Chill Irene, I'm sure Seulgi went through a lot bringing you here, despite one of her legs are slightly," Wendy trailed off for a moment, "...Lucky there were no roadblocks or cops yesterday."

"Why is that considered to be lucky?" Irene still did not quite comprehend what Wendy is stating.

"Well yeah, Seulgi drove your car here last night," Wendy pointed out.

Seulgi's inside froze when Irene turned to look at her and Seulgi swears she almost saw flames dancing in front of those brown eyes. "You what?!"

Seulgi heard an earful of blabbering and a bunch of charmspeak questions being thrown at her for the past 15 minutes and she was so grateful that Wendy came to her saving after Irene asked "Did you scratched anything?" to Seulgi for the hundredth time.

"Aren't you going to the bakery shop today?" Seulgi breaks the silence over the dining table as they heartily ate their breakfast.

"Nope. Anyways I've already told my dad that I'm tagging you guys along back to the Camp," Wendy smiled at her looking eager, "I've already did an Iris message with my cabin mates earlier. I'm so excited to meet them again!!"

"You're coming back with us?" Seulgi bit both of her chopsticks, clearly a bit taken aback on the new info.

"Yup! Initially I wasn't supposed to go back this year because I need to help my dad at the shop," Wendy sighed before her eyes light up once more, "but last night he came to me and even insisted me to go!"

"That's great!" Seulgi smiled, a little too bright, much to the dismay of the beauty beside her.

Wendy has been around the neighbourhood since Seulgi entered middle school. When the bakery first opened, Seulgi and her mother was one of the first customers and Mr Son and his cheerful daughter were really nice to them and soon later Seulgi was fast friends with the latter.

Although Wendy did not attend normal schooling like Seulgi does, Seulgi would always come and visit the bakery and indulged with many tastings of new bread or pastries while they talked about their daily lives. Seulgi used to wonder where Wendy went every summer, and instead of asking Mr Son of her daughter's whereabouts, she asked one of the workers instead and only got the same reply from all of them, 'Meet mother'. But now she knows.