spectrum【fem!reader .lookism】

. xviii

This time, she and Daniel ended up with separate seats. She pretends to not see anything as the girl he was supposed to sit next to flinched and tried to hide her reaction upon seeing him.

This much, at least, both of them were used to. People always make the same face when he's in that body.

She closed her eyes only for a brief moment.

When she opened them again, the bus has already started to slow down and came to a complete stop.

"You go first," she absent-mindedly spoke to her brother, her eyes glued on the screen of her phone as her fingers keep tapping.

She didn't wait for his answer. Instead, she turns around and heads for a direction she used to go to for a while back then.

It seems nothing much has changed about the area.

She stopped by the convenience store to restock her lollipops, and also for old times' sake. The lady behind the counter almost dropped the pack of cigarettes she was sorting out in the shelf.

"(Y/N)? Are you (Y/N)?"

"Yes, ma'am."

The cashier lady sniffs as she hurriedly puts the pack back to the shelf and walked to the counter. "It's been a while! How are you? Good?"

The (h/c) haired girl nods as she locates her lollipops. "I've been doing well. The store was still closed so I wasn't able to tell you, but me and my brother went to Seoul for the rest of high school."

"I see! I'm so happy for you, (Y/N)."

She pauses while the cashier hands her change to her. "Um...thank you. You seem as young as ever, ma'am."

"Oh, how could I forget how much you like to flatter me..."

She leaves the store again, this time to head to the location of her former job.

As she approaches the gym, (Y/N) feels something bittersweet. Just staring at the place felt odd after a months of not being there.

She pushed open the door.

As expected, no one in the first area spared her a glance. She came a little too early to encounter the regulars.

She paid no mind to anyone in that room and headed straight for the other door on the left-most wall.

(Y/N) would've said she misses the smell of the boxing gym, but she won't. Because she doesn't like inhaling the smell of sweat, okay?

The first person that caught sight of her froze as soon as she enters.

"Who the heck are you?" a familiar face looked at her strangely. "(Y/N)'s evil twin?"

At first, the question almost made her heart stop.

It was the latter half that made her want to slap this slightly older man for trying to mess with her.

"That is not funny," she grumbled, glaring at him half-heartedly.

Then he dropped his weird expression and grinned widely. "Oh, there you are! Welcome back, (Y/N)!"

As if waiting for that conversation, almost everyone in that room stopped whatever training they're doing and went over to welcome her back.

The boxing trainer patted her shoulders as soon as he reaches her. "You've visited later than I thought."

"Yeah! I thought you said you'd visit plenty of times?"

"Were you having fun slacking off in Seoul?"

"Haha, that's fine. At least, if she rusty, we can beat her easily!"