Though it was a bad decision to earn a rival's trust, you still tried despite the consequences you may face.
It was a perfect time to bring her car for a downhill mountain ride as the sun sets down into the thick clouds, the majestic sight of Seoul down from the mountain hoping if only the people down there could hear her Lancer IX roar in each pull she makes. A woman like her driving such an iconic JDM car is any guyâs dream woman, but remembering sheâs one of Chaewonâs rivals is a reason not to be attached with her too much. Despite her teammates like Wonyoung, who drives a violet Rx8 or Rei who owns a R34 skyline, Yujinâs vibe is entirely a different yet unexplainable level of coolness from theirs.
She would sometimes land a glance at you amid the trip while you enjoy your moment sitting in the passenger seat -inside joke of you being called a Passenger Princess without the double âSâ. Even with the amount of urge to look back at her wild, yet attractive visuals, you decide to ignore and pretend as if you didnât care.
âYou know youâre too dumb to think youâre safe enough to ride into someoneâs car knowing the person right next to you . . . â she pauses to give you a slow look of disappointment. âIs someone who pointed a gun at you a while ago?â
You find yourself chuckling in her words. Sheâs indeed a threat, a look of someone who wouldnât spare you nor whoâd kill you with a barbecue stick possible. But for what? You think that killing you is definitely a waste of time as you donât even serve any special purpose rather than being a male guy who beats a racer like her. Â
âYouâll just waste a bullet at me I guess, plus I really imagined myself sitting inside your car. A Lancer Evo is something that would crumble my heart to be honest.âÂ
Your words are enough to make her look away, speechless as you sight a small curve forming into the corner of her lips afterwards. You never expect such a small compliment could make a tigress passive once again -or maybe you are just assuming too much.Â
âChaewon must have put enough steroids on your car just to beat me didnât she?â Yujin says in a plain tone as if it was a regular thing to her. âYour car is the most bullshit thing to see in a Hakone, yet you manage to beat me with it.â After passing several curved roads, she looks at you and takes guesses of what Chaewon had inserted into your GTO. She manages to guess almost everything right -weight reduction? Right she had made a wide and long light as her Evo V, swapped engine? Yes, she made your car scream like a Skyline. Much as you want to agree, you keep yourself shut; you still donât trust Yujin that much.
âBut still, I like your car more.â You say, and she meets your eyes. You feel the car slow down, the engine gets quieter as Yujin pulls the car beside a metal railing where the view of Seoul is clearly seen. Though it may be dangerous to stop a car in the middle of a road, itâs Yujin, she never cares for the rules.
A smile forms into her lips after she chuckles, and itâs way more visible than before. Itâs common to see her resting bitch face every time when it turns out that she looks prettier when she brightens up. With the gothic styled shorthair, and a âTomboyâ vibe attitude, who would even expect her to achieve such a smile. You whoâs lucky enough to see it, youâre here to keep it
âI never expect that the person whom I wanted to put down, is the first person who would admire my work.â Afterwhile, she hides the smile again. âMost guys would choose my teammate's car, why would you even choose mine whoâs evidently plain and boring?â
âGuys have different tastesâ You answer confidently. âOne likes the ricers one, one likes the simple ones. I could tell that the car design reflects the driverâs personality. For me, the people who're minimalist with their design just simply love racing and keeping up with fellow racers like them while ignoring the attention of the crowd. Someone that never pretends to be a new one just for attention, and rather whoâd be herself despite the criticism she may face.â
She keeps her eyes at you, finally the first moment you see her face you for a long time. And with that, a short silence fills the atmosphere before she looks down, and moves herself to face at the front. She rests both of her hands against the top of the steering wheel while she leans herself into it.Â
âYou okay?â You concern, even with the high urge of placing a tap on her back, you flee it away. Maybe it was your words that made her quiet for a moment, but perhaps it was not. She doesnât seem to be the type of person whoâd feel down for some sweetly dramatic words.Â
She murmurs a âmhmâ while her face is rested against her arms. You didnât ask for more, you didnât want to be the type of person whoâd throw more questions because the answer wasnât enough. Though you werenât satisfied, her head starts to face you with tired eyes.
âWhy are you so kind to me?â she says with a hint of worry. âYou must be doing this on purpose. You want me to be with your team? The answer is obvious, kid, you just wasted your timeâ
Shaking your head in disagreement seems to confuse her more, along with the chuckle you let out.Â
âThen why?â
âBecause I know youâre different from your team. Youâre the only rival I faced who played fairly against me . . . . someone who wouldn't try to cross the line just to beat me.âÂ
When a smile once again forms into her lips, your unnecessary thoughts get clear out again; the thought of her playing easy on you because she may know youâre just a one piece of a waste of time.Â
âWho in their right mind would even be so confident to stay around me?â She pulls the key out from the starter knob, then opens the door. Her eyes glances at you as soon as she steps outside. âI bet you will choose to smell fresh air here rather than staying there.â and she closes the door.Â
No choice, not really but she hits the right point. You follow her outside where she sits over the metal railing despite her ass getting beyond the space which she didnât seem to care about. Her eyes widened when you left a meter of space between you and her after you sat, even with the little hint of âsit beside meâ you decided to act like you donât care. Though playing hard to get didnât last that long when she motions her head at you to sit right next to her.Â
âYou know Wonyoung would kill you if she sees you with me.â You remind as you rest your hands against the railing. She starts to jiggle her keys on her index finger, and in surprise she never shows any reaction to your question.Â
âShe wouldnât, sheâs just a brat who doesn't even have the courage to pull the trigger once youâre there.â She answers while she maintains eyes at the spinning keys. âYeji made a really bad decision when she gave Wonyoung the control of our group.â
âWhy didnât she pick you?â
She forces a frown while she shrugs at your question. âI donât know, Iâm not even worthy to be the leader of the group. I mean Gaeul is there, sheâs the eldest among us. Rei can be because she knows more about Japanese cars. Thereâs nothing special about me, kid. Donât force it.â
âIâm not forcing it. Iâm asking because thatâs what I see about you.â You argue in a calm demeanor. You manage to catch her attention with your answer, looking at you with eyes of curiosity while it maintains the non-friendly vibe.Â
âI know youâre the type of person who listens carefully, someone whoâs understanding deep inside. I donât know, I canât explain but thatâs what I see about you. I mean you had the opportunity to shoot me back at your tavern, but you decided to listen to me even if Iâm part of the rivalry team.â
âHow can you be so confident about it?â Yujin raises an eyebrow at you, for what she assume you canât answer until you smile and point a finger at her.
âYou just listened to my words right now. You understood every word I said.â
You manage to form a pretty smile on her lips afterwards, wider and brighter that seeing it was enough to brighten you as well. She pushes your shoulder, then closes her eyes to make a deep breath.Â
âYouâre really ridiculous, kid.â She sighs.Â
âBelieve it or not itâs fine . . .â You give out your courage to place your hand over her shoulder that immediately catches her eyes. Her eyes widens for a second, but shortly accepts it. âJust remember that thereâs a person who would understand you.â
The sun has settled down and the sky has begun to turn orange which Yujin watched upon. She turns around to enjoy the beautiful skylines of Seoul a few miles below the mountain, and you accompany her as well. It feels like this was a date, yet it feels illegal as well.
When the skies turned dark, it was time to leave. Even if you wished that moment shouldâve been longer, you had to accept that everything comes to an end. You stand up together as she walks first closer to her car, she suddenly turns around and throws you the carâs key which you luckily catch.Â
âYou like my car, right?â She chuckles and motions her head. âShow me how you can handle it.â
How lucky you are, it was a dream come true. For countless times sitting on the passenger seat, wishing your hands to be on that wheel, finally she gives you the chance to feel it. You didnât hesitate to accept it. You rush into the driverâs door until you see multiple headlights appear from the distance that seem to head your way. Yujin notices it, and she steps outside the car right away, standing beside you.
âItâs Wonyoung.â she hisses
âFuck, we need to leave.â Your answer didnât seem to satisfy her. When you are about to open the door, she pulls your forearm
âThat wouldnât save you from the eyes of my team.â She faces you, and swallows, taking a deep sigh before meeting your eyes. âMake out with me.â
âWhat?âÂ
It was too late for assurance and questions when she crashes her lips into yours. Your arm that was lately in the doorâs handle, is now in Yujin's grasp. She pushes you hard, the hardness of the windowâs visor wasnât enough to hurt you as you only feel Yujinâs mouth thatâs dominating yours. No hesitation, no what and ifâs, you accept that this is happening. She dives her tongue inside yours, her hands guiding yours into her hips where you enjoy the curvature she had. And when the approaching cars seem to get louder and closer, she starts to moan between make outs.Â
Now that the car has stopped right at both of you, she starts to slow down. The sound of the door opening was the cue for her to stop, looking at your lips for a while before she turns around to face them. It was indeed Wonyoung along with the other members in each car.
âYah, am I supposed to believe what Iâm seeing?â Wonyoung scoffs, a tone of disbelief can be heard in her words. Yujin places her hand against your chest.
âIt wasnât hard to convince this asshole though.â Yujin answers, glancing at you then returning at hers. âTold you everything can be handled if you do what men really wishes forâ
âAssholesâ Gaeul adds while she slowly starts to lean against her Fairlady Z32âs fender. âThey never changed.â
Yujin gives her a smirk. Wonyoung makes a quick peek at you -in a look of disappointment that seems to criticize your whole soul within that second- then returns her eyes to Yujin. You feel your heartbeat racing when you see the gang silent all at once, there is nowhere to escape from them especially from Wonyoung who seemed displeased.
Wonyoung rests her arm over the hood of her Rx8. âThen Iâm expecting good news from you, better not waste my time.â
âChaewon is up for nothing. But she seemed to make more cars to beat the hella out of us.â Yujin answers confidently while Wonyoung returns a loud yet cute giggle.
âRight Chaewon, that girl would do anything just to prove sheâs better than everyone else.â Wonyoung rolls her eyes, and starts to open her door. âI donât care if sheâs the Seoul Tempest or what, Iâm pretty sure her car would die out in the amount of curves Hanseong pass has.â Just before she enters back into her car, Wonyoung gives you another look. âHey Y/n, once I knew you snitched on us. Remember that I know where you live, you seem to have a great family with you, hopefully you donât disappoint them.â
Everything ends with Wonyoung giving a threat to you, and somehow it was the second time of her talking to you again. Her friends start to take their cars as the Rx8 takes the lead, roaring off into the empty road as you watch the group leave the spot- though it may seem a perfect time to finally breathe in relief, not until you realize the words Wonyoung left you before she flew off.
Yujin keeps her back at you, sighing and slowly turning around to face you when she sees her teamâs presence is finally gone. From that emotionless woman you had stayed with several hours ago, now seems to disappear from this world when she turns to you with slight worry in her face.
âSorry.â She speaks out in a mixture of disappointment and relief. âI couldnât think of any way to save you from them.â
âItâs fineâ You force a smile, and give her a light nod. âAt least it worked anywaysâ