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//Somewhere around Yokohama's busiest streets//
//Later, around 3 pm//
Chaewon was walking towards her meeting point. She was used to these meetings in the middle of the city, but this time, she felt nervous, more than usual.
-"It's the first day. What do they want to tell me? I have nothing to report yet..." - she thought, a few meters away from there.
She stopped when she saw him, he was wearing sunglasses, his usual black cap and long jacket. Everytime they met, Chaewon thought, "Why does he have to dress like this? Our activity is supposed to be secret, but like this, anyone would find him suspicious... Tss, he definitely wants to act like James Bond or something.".
The man was walking slowly in circles while always keeping a eye on his surroundings, when he saw Chaewon walking towards him. He greeted her with a serious nod, his hands behind his back, not even taking out his sunglasses. Chaewon did not even remember when was the last time that she saw his eyes.
-"How was the first encounter?" - he asked.
-"First? Should I recall you that you made me stalk them last semester? They all remembered me, I could see it on their faces the moment I stepped into the apartment." - answered Chaewon as calmly as she could even though she was not calm inside. The last thing she wanted was for these girls to think that she was a creepy stalker.
The man sighed and got as close as he could to Chaewon's face, before saying:
-"What did I tell you about how you can and cannot talk to me? Huh? I'm your boss now, we're not classmates anymore." - he told her, trying to sound like a badass and mean boss. Which Chaewon definitely did not think he was.
-"Ya, give me some space first and I'll be more "submissive", since that's what you want." - she said pushing him gently away from her.
-"Anyway. I needed to meet with you to give you a new phone. I mean, a secondary phone, the one that they can see, with normal teenager pictures, apps, music... Anything that a typical South Korean girl would have on her phone. This phone is tracked, by the way, and we can know everything that you do on that phone, just so you know."
-"Great..." - said Chaewon, as she knew that this step towards freedom could actually become her new jail. Anything slightly behind their rules and she could put her mission in a perilous state. Maybe even the life that she was trying to save.
As she was sitting in the bus back home, her fingers only wanted to unlock that phone and look at these "normal teenager pictures" or listen to all theses songs that she's probably never heard. She thought that doing all of that so soon would only be suspicious to them, so she controlled herself and decided that she would only use that phone around her roommates, after all, this is what that phone was for. Not for getting illusions that she was a normal girl.
It was around 5pm when she came out of the bus just outside of the residence. The first thing she saw was Yena, walking towards the building. She had stalk her so much last semester thar she would recognize her from afar now. She assumed that Yena was coming home from the new job that she had just started at the University Library. Even though having to communicate with Yena would make her very anxious for the first weeks, she knew that she had to take the initiative. She ran quietly so that she could greet her.
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YENA's POV
-"I wonder what my Joyul is doing hehe" - I thought while I was pushing the lobby's door. It was very calm at this hour. Even calmer than a whole day working in a University Library. Today was so boring, and I knew that all of them were going to be alike. I pressed the elevator button when I heard steps behind me. Chaewon was there, with a smiley face, kind of different from the Chaewon I had get to know the day before.
-"Hi there!" - she said while stopping right beside me, waiting for the elevator as well.
-"Oh, Chaewon, hi, how was your afternoon?"
-"Hum, great, thanks, I did some shopping, how cool is that!"
I looked confused at her, because she had no shopping bag at all. Actually, she only had a small handbag on her shoulder.
-"Shopping? But...you did not buy anything, am I wrong?"
Her expression changed as I told her this, her eyes were wide open, her mouth slightly opened, like an expression of surprise. She looked at her hands and smiled discreetly.
-"What a bad liar I am, right?" - she said, laughing. I smiled, but was just confused. The elevator opened, she came in right away, arranging her hair like someone who was very embarrassed. I came in too, pushed our floor button, and waited for the doors to close.
It was getting a little bit odd, none of us was talking and our elevator is...slow.
-"I was not really shopping, actually, I just...visited the University and walked around the city centre." - Chaewon told me, she was looking in front of her.
-"You know, I don't mind if you were shopping or just walking around. You don't have to pretend to be someone interesting with us. I learned to be myself in this apartment last semester, maybe it's going to be your turn now." - I told her, not looking at her either. Saying this kind of things makes me feel cringe, but there was something from her that I could feel. Was it insecurity? Fear, maybe? And I also felt that it wasn't like her.
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