She immediately removed her hair from the ponytail and the purple robe. She was starting to dislike the color. She walked further into the bathroom and closed the sliding doors. The bath was a spacious room with dimmed amber lights, a bath tub, a shower and a sink bowl with a long horizontal white ceramic slab and a mirror right in front of it.
Hanuel had been here about two times before and she felt solace here. She had brought in a digital clock where she set timers so that she doesn't get carried away while singing or acting in front of the mirror and besides that, the walls were soundproofed.
Maybe, Just Maybe, Money gets everything?
She pulled her clothes off her body and dropped it on the floor right beside the door restricting water from touching it when she starts bathing. Then she tapped a ten minute timer on the clock and put it on the sink stand and turned on the faucet and started to make herself a warm bath.
As She watched the bath tub fill up, her mind was trying to be at peace. She agreed to go on this mission because at the last moment, She needs to tell Ma Bora something very important to her and she can't just let Ma Bora commit suicide just for the fun of it.
It angered her that She still had a responsibility of taking over this cursed company after serving her teenage years for that wretched woman that gave birth to her.
She stirred the water and foam bubbles of the water as the steam blew up in her face gently.
That gave her Goosebumps and warmth at the same time.
She looked up at the mirror and stared at her reflection. She looked at her face, it was tired, Her skin...was okay..?
'Whatever' She internally said and turned off the water. Every where was smelling nice with a beautiful lilac scent.
She dipped her right foot into the water and then immersed her whole body and hugged her arms under the water. She savored the warmth into her body making it all cozy and comfortable.
But she couldn't continue to live in her mind, she was in the real world. Sighing, Haneul stretched out her hand and grabbed the sponge and started to scrub her body. Afterwards, she rinsed clean and got out of the water before she drained the water out of the bathtub.
She grabbed a large towel from the side and wrapped it on her body while she took another and started to dry her hair. When she was done with that, she cleaned her body and opened the glass sliding doors and was about to step out when she remembered her clothes on the floor. Right then the timer went off making a beeping sound and she just went back in to put it off. Then she took her clothes out of the bath.
Hanuel again was about to open another door when she rushed back into the bath. She hadn't brushed.
°•*a few moments later*•°
Hanuel came out all fresh and crispy clean. In here, Ma Bora had made arrangements for a sub apartment consisting of a bathroom, a wardrobe and a little bedroom with just a bed, purple floor white ceiling and a lamp stand.
Ma Bora was such a heartless person. Immediately she found out that she had a daughter somewhere-Bam!
'Jackpot! Someone to take over the company..haha' She had said that day with Go Ho smirking from the sides.
Hanuel couldn't understand why people hated her.
Her Mother, Go Ho, Her ex best friend-Lee Ji hye...
Lee Ji hye.
'Sigh'
Birds of the same feather was what they were nicknamed in highschool. The more Hanuel thought about it, the more her heart burned at how betrayal can destroy ones mind.
Was it even betrayal? Her own best friend accused her of stealing her boyfriend away from her. Ji hye openly gossiped to others how Hanuel was a dream snatcher, a snake who lured her boyfriend-Si woo into her trap.
What trap?! Hanuel just decided to stop thinking about everything around her. She walked towards the wardrobe and opened it. Inside were all clothing made of the colour black and tiny linings of purple here and there.
She picked up black inner wears and wore them. Then she looked at the wardrobe again. She would need to dress up for the occasion.
Rescuing Her mother from her captors.
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Yea...she didn't even know what happened or when or how or whom, she was just hoping it wasn't going to be a bad lucked mission because she never thought the Ma Bora would be kidnapped. Ever.
She finished dressing up and wore combat boots and went into the bathroom to look at the mirror.
Staring at her reflection, She thought..
She looked very small, her hair was frizzly and shorter than last time, and it wasn't a good frizzy, it was a bad unkept hair.
Sighing in exasperation, she went into the bedroom and bent under the bed and brought out a box. She opened it and took a hair straightener out of it and pushed it back under the bed. She stood up again and took another towel and draped it over her shoulders and went into the bathroom in front of the mirror. Then she started straightening her hair carefully but quickly.
The roots of her hair had started turning back to its original black colour for just a one or two centimeters while the rest was a light purple and a darker purple as the hair went lower towards her upper back.
Then she looked closely into the mirror and started measuring with when fingers.
"What is it? About..It should be about....21? no 22 inches? Ugh. forget it" And she continued straightening her hair and when she was done, She looked at her appearance and she actually liked her handwork.
Then she tied her hair up in a smooth ponytail with a purple tight band. She looked at her eyes, then she blinked at what she saw.
There was fear settling in them.
She put her hands on the sink and tried to calm herself down.
Suddenly, Her hands started shaking and she started feeling out of breath. She tried to take in long breaths buy they were not working- because she hadn't stopped thinking.
Thinking about everything and wishing it all ends faster than she can blink.
If only she understood that things don't work that way.
She was still in her daze when a bang was heard on the door which startled her.
"Hanuel! We haven't got all day" She heard Go Ho say from outside.
She immediately went out of the bathroom and dashed outside almost bumping into Go Ho but she let that skip her mind and went towards the CEO'S table where she saw a tablet and from the looks of it, It had the data concerning Ma Bora's whereabouts.
Go Ho looked at the person who seemed utterly lost and confused and thought, 'What a bundle stupidity'
Go Ho hated Ma Bora for no reason and Hanuel with Passion and she didn't bother to hide that in front of Hanuel
"I can't believe it though," Go Ho started.
"Sometimes I just wonder if she likes getting into deep trouble for her Purple's Lot to come rescue her. As an evidence that had she has something to show for all the dolly Daly she had done in her earlier years!" Go Ho said, with hatred dripping from every word.
She looked at Hanuel's expression and internally smiled. 'So disgusting' She added with a smaller voice.
She talked as if Hanuel; The daughter of her boss was not present with her, as if she wasn't in the Office of the CEO.
Hanuel held in the pain she felt inside of not being listened to by anyone especially her own mother to the point that she couldn't even tell on Go Ho to Ma Bora because she would always defect to Go Ho side as default..she wouldn't even bother to believe her own daughter and Go Ho took advantage of that.
She tried focusing on the screen and didn't utter a word.
She would get her revenge.Let this mission be over first.
"Hey, Put on those things in the black box by the corner there. It's the final appearance kit for the operation." Go Ho said mechanically.
" Also, Don't mess up like always" She said threatening her and emphasizing on 'Dont'.
All the while Hanuel had kept her head down on the screen of the tablet she was holding and she raised it up to catch a glimpse of Go Ho walking out of the office.
Go Ho was also dressed in all black, with her hair flowing on her back, long slender legs, big black block heels and side weapons here and there. She was fixing her earbud while going out.
Once she was alone, Hanuel bent her head down and shut her eyes tightly and took in long deep breaths. Then she opened them and looked ahead of her.
She saw the tall buildings and their reflections...She set a determined gaze and her eyes burned.
She took the box and put in earbuds and other things on different sides of her body. She was going to show them. But to do that, she had to be okay.
She walked with the tablet and entered the elevator and read through the information.
Apparently, She was riding with Do Yun alone to the site and others would be on standby.
It was going to be quick.
Extract, Retreat, no witnesses at all.
Got it.
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