to: @bexjae
haeni thanks her years of ballet for the way it's so easy for her to keep her posture straight even when sitting down on a seat without a backrest or else things would be a little uncomfortable by now. she has a good notion of skincare and she tries to keep up with it as much as she can — even if the dark circles accumulating under her eyes would argue otherwise —, after all her mother is always bothering her to make sure that her skin is as flawless as it can. god forbid haeni not passing an audition because the company thought that her skin wasn't good enough (which is just another way to question if haeni is pretty enough). it hasn't happened yet; haeni getting rejected either because other skill was lacking or simply because there were people better than her, however it doesn't mean that her mom won't fret just the same.
fortunately she has a friend that is the sole reason why she's so good at makeup these days and how to make sure her skin is always looking the best it can whenever the occasion calls for it — which is, unfortunately, more often than not — and it doesn't hurt that she likes to spend time with jaesung, a grounding presence through her life in the middle of the kind of relationships that she had that go all the way when she was a kid, from her chaotic friendship with jaeyoung and the show of an engagement that she had to put with luciel.
being with jaesung felt almost therapeutic if she had to be honest, from their conversations and the way that he used her face as his canvas for his art to haeni dragging him to sing with her even if sometimes she had to give some very questionable excuses for it, charging for favors that shouldn't demand any sort of payback to begin with— like right now; she was the one who offered if he didn't have any new techniques or styles that he'd like to try on her face, but she'll still use this as an excuse to drag him to a karaoke some other time.
❝ do you have any tips for dark circles ? ❞ she asks while watching her friend go through his stuff. besides a good night of sleep, her minds ends up adding on its own, but haeni doesn't speak that part out lest she sounds a little snarky and she doesn't want to get snarky with jaesung or even open any opportunity to be read this way. ❝ these days it doesn't feel like my concealer is enough , should i try color correction ? ❞ which was something that haeni never bothered to look too much into since it seemed overly complicated when she just wanted to look like she didn't spend two nights awake in a row.
❝ how is uncle and aunt by the way ? ❞ haeni couldn't help but wonder as well. ❝ the restaurant should start getting super busy during this time , right ? ❞ after all, the holidays are just around the corner. if she wasn't already so busy (and tired) from her own routine, she'd probably offer to help them.
