#al:drabble

[spxlyla]

“You shot your dog and had it stuffed?”

Her fingers tapped on her keyboard at a cramp-inducing speed, multiple windows open onto multiple screens, all changing in split seconds. Minki had made the terrible mistake of inquiring about one of her beloved plushes, and she was too in the zone to realize the speed she spoke in. One word lead to another, and it was no longer a briefing of her plush collection as she somehow ended up talking about the family dog at home, and somehow about alcohol and tequila shots as well.

“You shot your dog and had it stuffed?”

At first, she didn’t hear him as she was too focused on what she was doing, then she finally stopped abruptly, and slowly turned to face him with the most puzzled look on her face.

“What?”

[spxlyla]

“Sorry, Love. Gotta save the world.” (said out of sarcasm, for he, byun baek, is probably gonna walk off and watch cartoons)

“Sorry, Love. Gotta save the world.”

“Saving the world my ass Blake Byun!” She paused for a moment as if something suddenly hit her, “Blake Byun… Blake Byun… rhymes with Baekhyun… Blake Byun… kinda like Blake Bun… Blake Bun… Bleak Bun… nah that isn’t a flavour… and you’re anything but bleak… Oh! shhh!” She snapped out of it. “You can’t fool me mister! It is 9 o’clock on a Wednesday, and guess who watches that super awesome work of animated genius hilarity too?” 

They used to talk about these cartoons online for months, and habits don’t change when you meet an online friend face-to-face. They remain the same, and so she mustered her most offended face she could put on, but failed to keep it up for more than 5 seconds and broke into laughter. She then proceeded to smack his arm with the tips of her fingers, “at least have the decency to invite me to watch too!”

“And to think I was about to share a new crack code with you… and some lemon meringue pie too… hmph!” 

[spxlyla]

“He will find this humiliating.”

The two girls giggled as Lyla showed off the new gallery of photos she snapped the last time she visited (more like, barged in on) her neighbour next door. ( spxjonghyun​ ) She caught him asleep just this once, only this one time, and she decided to make the best of it. And so it was eyeliner time as she transformed her sleeping neighbour into a “posh mario” full on with the moustache and a monocle, and some sparkles around his face because he “was pulled right out of a manga”.

“He will find this humiliating.”

They both laughed though, “he couldn’t hate me too much for it though, could he? cause trust me, sugar... he’s seen worse!”

[spxlyla]

“You need to solve problems under pressure.”

She was still new to all of this, and dreaded every mission she was placed as a handler in. It wasn’t that she couldn’t work under pressure, she definitely could, and she had proven so the day she was recruited when she saved Korea’s top airport from an incoming massacre. But the airport was one thing, and sitting in a van that was shot at and eventually chased until the cars behind them were held back, (though she could swear she heard one car go BOOM), that was a different thing.

She was trembling, tears rolling down her cheeks, ones that no matter how fast she wiped were too obvious. It was all over now, and she only came out with a few bruises from hitting the rougher parts of the van as they escaped. It was a good end, really, but she was overwhelmed.

“You need to solve problems under pressure.”

She didn’t need to be told twice, and there was no point in objecting. There was no changing the impression she had left at this point, but she’ll try harder next time.

She bobbed her head in quick nods, and avoided eye contact.