𝐍𝐀𝐌 𝐃𝐎𝐇𝐄𝐄 [ 남도희 ]
AS 𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐂

↬ ──── ˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗ ────↫

EST. 18TH JAN, 2000
IN SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA.

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You know that one feeling, when you sit down and all you can think about is the time you forgot to flush the school toilet in fifth grade or that time when you shaded the right answer but then erased it and shaded the wrong one?

And you'd do anything to go and stop yourself from doing it? Anything?

Well, that's how Dohee felt. Except she hadn't shaded the wrong circle. All she had done was tag along with her best friend as she turned in her form for Bon Voyage 2020.

"What if I forced you into joining?" Ryujin's voice drawled nonchalantly.

"You can't. I'm not very interested anyway, I'm just paying attention to it because my oh-so-beloved best friend Shin Ryujin is applying." Dohee glanced at the form on the table, as Ryujin dug around her bag for staples.

"Just imagine if we get to visit Italy . . . I'll send you pictures of all the Gelato outlets we see."

"Stop that!" Dohee exclaimed. "You're literally so mean! Putting goldfish in my toilet was one thing —"

"I thought we agreed to not talk about that poor fish." Ryujin cocked an eyebrow, glancing at Dohee as she fastened her form securely together.

"If you didn't put it there in the first place, I wouldn't have flushed it!" Dohee pouted angrily.

"You're just trying to change the subject now, Namhee." Dohee's best friend walked over to the counter, handing over the form. The receptionist smiled, giving Ryujin her thanks.

"Just imagine! They've already planned all the stops. Italy is one of them. Do you really want to miss out on eating Gelato?"

Shit. She's playing with your mind, Dohee. 

"I-" Dohee paused. They were getting to travel the world, completing missions, having fun with their friends, all while experiencing so many different cultures and meeting new people. She stared at Ryujin, who leaned against the counter and stared back, unblinking.

"Dohee, I know you want to." Ryujin broke into a grin. "No pressure." Sure, no pressure. Dohee was pretty much at gunpoint now.

The latter sighed, turning around and facing the receptionist. Just for the ice cream. 

"One form for Bon Voyage, please."

"Dohee!" Ryujin exclaimed, trying to sound surprised. She put her hands over her mouth as Dohee received the form. 

"You're going?" Exaggerated head shaking, sounds of play disbelief. Sometimes Dohee wanted to revise her choice of friends.

"Wow, Ryujin," Dohee groaned, turning to look at her laughing best friend. Ryujin gave her a hasty thumbs up. 

"Didn't think it would work." 

"What?" Dohee blinked. She stared at the form in her hands, as if it were some object she'd gotten handed from an alien and she's only realised she was holding it.

"I just bribed you into taking a form, didn't I?"

"No." Ryujin frowned at Dohee's reply.

Dohee put the form away into her bag, not breaking eye contact with her best friend.

"It's not you. I'm going for my ice-cream."

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with 𝐘𝐀𝐍𝐆 𝐉𝐄𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐈𝐍,
DOHEE'S 'MANLY' BABY

↬ ──── ˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗ ────↫

8TH FEB, 2001
IN BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA.

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