Chapter 26: Late Night Sleep

The morning sunlight sparkled and streamed in through the window along with the chirping of birds.

Thanks to the curtainless window, the sunlight streamed into my eyes and I woke up.

The sunlight, the chirping, and my refreshed body.

“What does this mean?”

I turned on my phone and checked the time.

It was past 2 o’clock.

“… …”

As I was pulling down the push notifications floating under the phone time and looking at them, I saw a message saying that the Triple Net community had been approved for creation.

I clicked on it and was immediately taken to the community.

Title: [ Who’s going to catch the host?]

[Talelujah]

You said you’d turn it on as soon as the host bastard wakes up but it’s already past 2 o’clock.

I still haven’t used the sashimi I ground up to poke the chairman’s stomach yesterday.

 [Butt fat, sob sob]

I know the host is reading your posts.

Aren’t you going to upload a chat?

[Wasabi soybean powder]

President Han!!! Why the hell aren’t you opening the door???

[Not at all]

I’m going crazy, open the door.

The personal community was flooded with posts telling me to open the door.

“f*ck… I’m screwed.”

As I was browsing the community, my hand vibrated and when I looked at the screen, it was my unnie calling.

“Hello?”

Ga-eul!

“Yeah, unnie, why?”

I miss you!

“You saw me yesterday, right?”

I miss you again!!

“Aren’t you working?”

I’m the boss! Things will go well without me.

“What? Your fortune is good.”

Heh, and it’s Friday. We have to go out!

“Hmm…”

Ga-eul, do you want to go to the hair salon with unnie?

When I bow my head at her words, I see her hair beautifully flowing down to her chest.

“Are you talking about the hair salon?”

Yeah! Yes, the hair salon.

“Do you really have to go?”

I’d rather go!

Ga-eul’s hair is so pretty that she doesn’t really need to get it done, she just needs to get it trimmed.

“I see? Got it. Are you at the salon right now?”

Yeah! Do you want to come this way? Or should I pick you up?

“No, I’ll go and stay there.”

Got it! I want to see you soon.

“Ohyang, I’ll get ready and go.”

After talking to her, I decided to set the direction of today’s broadcast as an outdoor broadcast and went to the bathroom to get ready to go out.

After finishing my shower, I went into my room dripping wet and roughly dried it with a hair dryer.

After drying my hair, I thought about the outfit she had told me yesterday and put on a pair of cropped skinny jeans with a white shirt tucked into the front of my pants.

I folded my wrists slightly, put a bracelet on my wrist, and took out a thick coat and put it on.

After finishing my outfit and going outside with the glasses and phone holder bought at the convenience store, the wind was a little chilly, but the sunlight was stronger than I thought and it felt hot.

“f*ck, the weather is really crazy.”

As soon as I took a step outside, I felt like this wasn’t right, so I went into my room, threw away my thick coat, and took out an ivory cardigan that was close to white and put it on.

“I think I wore a padded jacket a week ago. Is this right?”

Wearing white sneakers, the pants she recommended went up to my ankles and highlighted my pretty ankles.

“As expected of a clothing store owner…”

I put on the mask I had hung on the hook in front of the door and the 8-bit glasses I had brought, opened the rooftop iron door, and went outside.

I went out to the main street to catch a taxi and blankly stared at the road, feeling people passing by glancing at me.

When I looked down, I saw my chest sticking out through my white shirt like crazy, my voluptuous butt, my pretty thighs, and my pants that clung to my body all the way down to my ankles, because my cardigan was not buttoned up.

“Damn… I’m really looking at you.”

These days, taxis only work through apps, so I had to wait a long time before I could catch a taxi and go to Rodeo Drive, where my unnie’s store is.

As I walked toward the plaza where my store was, I took out my phone and wrote a post on the T-Pul community saying I was going to stop by a hair shop and turned on the broadcast, and kept walking.

As I kept walking, I saw a building with a sign for Lilinda’s clothing store in front of me.

I looked around the store for a moment, lit a cigarette, and walked to the other side of the store to go in.

“Autumn!!”

As I walked to the smoking area, I heard my unnie’s voice loudly behind me.

“Huh? Unnie.”

I looked back and saw my unnie looking at me.

She was wearing a suit jacket and pants that matched her beautiful appearance, and she was wearing heels.

I stopped walking and waited for my unnie, and she came running right in front of me.

“Wow, Autumn is dressed so beautifully! She’s really pretty!”

“It’s because you told me so well. When I first came out, I wore a thick coat, but it was so hot, so I changed into something thinner.”

“Right? The weather changes like a ghost. Where are you going instead of coming into the store?”

“I was going to go have a smoke.”

My unnie opened her eyes wide as if she was the most surprised person in the world at my words.

“… Autumn smokes?”

“Yeah. She puts a cigarette in each nostril and smokes three cigarettes at a time.”

“Huh???”

I couldn’t help but snicker as I saw her responding to every single useless joke.

“Just kidding. Go inside the store so I can go smoke a cigarette.”

“Ah, why! No!! Ga-eul doesn’t smoke!”

She nagged me, placing her hand on my waist in a cute manner.

“Cigarettes are so bad for your body. Huh? Don’t smoke, Ga-eul-ahhhh.”

Seeing her whining as we talked, I quickly turned around and walked towards the smoking area.

“Huh..? Huh! Ga-eul-ah! Ga-eul-ah-ah! No! If you smoke, your body will really hurt!”

“It’s okay.”

“No, Ga-eul, I told you that smoking will cause a fire?”

“Pfft, what are you talking about?”

I laughed because it was cute to see my unnie stopping me while saying something strange.

“Why, don’t you go!”

“Oh my, unnie’s hand!”

I held out my hand to my unnie who was whining, and I saw her sneak a peek before slowly placing her hand over mine.

When my hand got close, I grabbed her hand and interlocked it with mine.

Her hand was warm and soft.

“Hic?”

As I walked with my hand linked, my unnie followed me obediently.

“Aren’t you a good girl? Behave well, okay?”

“Uh… yeah, I understand.”

When I let go of my unnie’s hand in the smoking area, she pouted and showed her regret.

“Let’s hold hands again later.”

“Huh… Okay…”

“Phew. Why are you so cute when you look like such a cold career woman?”

“No…”

Looking at my embarrassed unnie, I took out the cigarette pack I had put in my cardigan pocket and took out a lighter and a cigarette from there.

I took off the mask I was wearing to put the cigarette in my mouth and put it in my pocket, and moved my hand to light the cigarette, and smoke rose up.

“Whew. Unnie, go back a little further. You smell like cigarettes.”

“Wow…. Autumn is really pretty.”

I told her to go back because I was worried that the cigarette smell would stick to her clothes, but I saw my unnie staring blankly at my face.

“Do you now know that I’m pretty?”

I tried to make a silly joke, but her blank face didn’t loosen up.

“Yeah… I didn’t know you were that pretty because you couldn’t see it with your mask and glasses. Your lips are really, really pretty…”

“Isn’t your nose pretty?”

“No!! Your nose is really pretty too. Really, really pretty!”

I kept smoking my cigarette as I watched her repeating that I was pretty.

“You can’t see your eyes because of your glasses. How do you know you’re pretty?”

“I think you’d be pretty even without your eyes…”

“Phehe, what’s that?”

While listening to my unnie, I took off my glasses with a cigarette in my mouth and showed her my face.

“Huk…”

Of all the eyes I’ve seen of my unnie’s, they were definitely the widest and roundest.

“Oh…. ah…”

I finished smoking my cigarette and threw the butt away, looking at my unnie’s face that was so dazed that it was almost hazy.

I put my glasses and mask back on and motioned for my unnie to go since I was done.

“Unnie, you’re drooling. Wipe it off and let’s go. I’m done.”

“… Uh! Okay, let’s go.”

As I walked out of the smoking area and interlocked my hands with my unnie’s, I heard a strange hic again.

“That… Ga-eul. But your eyes are like that? They’re a really pretty pink and like jewels, and they sparkle because of the sunlight…”

“I made a contract with the peach spirit on the street, and that’s why they’re like this.”

“… Huh?”

“Hehe. This is me, so it’s okay now.”

“I don’t know what Ga-eul means…”

After holding her interlocked hands tighter, I brought my hand over and tickled the back of my unnie’s hand with my other hand.

“Hehe.”

“Unnie, aren’t you going to the hair salon now?”

“Oh, that’s right! Let’s go to the hair salon together.”

“But I was supposed to go to the shop and then broadcast, is that okay?”

“Oh, the broadcast that Ga-eul is doing?”

“That’s right, I was supposed to wake up today and turn on the broadcast, but I overslept and was late.”

I answered and took out the folded-up cell phone holder in my pocket and showed it to her.

“Oh, your pockets are bulging, so that’s what it was. But Ga-eul, if you put something like that in your pocket, your clothes will stick out and it won’t look good.”

“There’s no place to put it besides your pockets.”

“Don’t you have a bag?”

“I only have a backpack at home. Don’t you think it’s weird to wear a backpack with these clothes? Even I, who doesn’t care about clothes, would think it’s weird.”

“Oh! That’s absolutely forbidden! Let’s go buy a bag together later. For now, give me that and I’ll put it in my bag.”

My unnie took the cell phone holder from my hand and put it in the black handbag she was holding.

“Thank you. But where is the hair salon?”

“It’s close by, so you can walk there. The director there was a celebrity or something and she’s really famous!”

“She’s an amazing director.”

“Right?”

Whenever I chat with my unnie, I feel like the conversation has gone off on a tangent.

“Pifft, what the heck. Oh right, our conversation has gone off on a tangent. I have a broadcast, okay?”

“Oh! Great. I wanted to watch Ga-eul’s broadcast. I couldn’t watch it yesterday because I had a company dinner late at night.”

As I walked down the street chatting with my unnie, we arrived at a hair shop that was closer than I thought.

“Ta-da! This is the famous whatever-the-hell-the-owner-is-a-celebrity-or-whatever it’s there!”

As I looked at the entrance of the hair shop while listening to my unnie’s strange introduction, there was a lot of stuff written on the signboard, and after reading through it, it seemed like the person was much more famous than her playful introduction suggested.

“This place is no joke. I’ve never seen such a big hair salon.”

“It’s smaller than our clothing store!”

“Pfft. Why are you comparing it to that place?”

I told my unnie, who was burning with a strange sense of competition, to go in.

My unnie opened the entrance door and went into the hair salon.

Ddang.