Chapter 20: First Impressions Mean Something
The sugar disappears into her coffee as Sunny stirs the spoon in her mug. The house was empty when she woke up, she was asleep most of the morning and didn't get a chance to kiss Roberta bye before she went to work. Lucky for her, she is the loving type. She left a note when she got into the kitchen 'Good morning sleepy head! Sorry if you didn't the chance to kiss me good bye but I had to go to work a little bit early. I made some coffee and their's some eggs in the fridge. See you when I get home Amor! (Love!)'. Opening the refrigerator, she grabs two eggs and a small stem of green onions. Sunny pours some oil onto a skillet, she lights the stove as she began to chop the onions. Cracking the eggs and putting them and the onions onto the skillet. With the spatula everything gets mixed. the green onions mix with the yellowness of the yolk. Sunny grabs a plate and eases the eggs and onions onto her plate.
She starts to eat her eggs and drink her coffee, her phone starts too ring. Joo Kwan's name is on the screen, she pushes the talk app "Yeoboseyo (Hello)" Sunny answered "How are you doing today?" Joo Kwan asked "I'm doing good, what's going on with you?" "Well, Mr. Park came back yesterday" she announced "Does he have anything for me to do?" Sunny curiously wondered "As a fact, he does; do you mind coming over?" "Okay, just let me change and put the dishes in the sink".
Sunny is in her room and from the drawer pulls out a black t-shirt that reads on the front in white lettering 'If you think I'm bad' and pulls out a pair of light gray cargo pants. As she changes, her mind goes to Park. He was gone for the last few weeks, away on some type of business. Whatever that was. When she came back into town the one thing that was always on her mind was his physique, rather thin; almost like a skeleton. The other thing that seemed to concern her were his eyes; they still strong and intimidating; but they also looked tired. Sunny remembered how he said that he was fine but she suspected something else; like he was hiding something from her. She begins to wonder what's really going on with him. She finishes dressing herself and heads back down stairs.
It had only been a few weeks since Sunny and Roberta moved in together, she never thought that she would move into an upscale neighborhood like Vinewood. But it felt really great to be living with the woman that she loves with all her heart. Sunny felt empty for years but now she has someone who will love her for her. She looks at the clock on the microwave and realizes that it's almost time to go. She takes her plate and mug and carefully puts them in the sink. She quickly grabs the fork that she ate with and just tosses it in the sink. The knife that she cut the onions with is still on the counter top, she grabs it and brings to the sink. Sunny slowly lifts the knife towards her and stares at it. She stands still for several seconds; she brings the knife close to her face. Sunny inhales and then sharply exhales. Like a thunder bolt Sunny turns around and points the knife at the intruder standing in her kitchen. The would be intruder put her hands up "Whoa! Just relax! I just want to talk!".
Sunny studied the intruder that was standing in her kitchen. She was around her height of 5'6. Her eyes were an emerald green color. Her hair was red, not as red as Geraldine's hair but still. Both sides of her head were shaved and her hair was tied into a ponytail with a simple twist. She wore what looked like a dirty white tank top with a pair of ripped jeans. A pair of dog tags hung around her neck, most likely meaning that she was a soldier. Sunny looked at the two tattoos on both of her arms; on the right arm were a set chains went from the top of her arm and down to her wrist; her left arm had what looked like a soldier with a rifle on it's shoulder, on top stood the words in black cursive lettering 'Lest We Forget'. She had some muscle on her but looked rather anorexic. The one thing that Sunny couldn't take her eyes off of were the many piercings that covered both of her ears but mostly the ring that was between her nostrils. If anyone could look at her, they would say that she looked like someone who had been partying too much. She spoke with an accent, which meant that she wasn't from here. Too Sunny, she looked like someone who had either escaped from a mental institution or more like someone who just came back from some coked out circus.
Something about her appearance made Sunny feel uneasy, like she had seen her somewhere before.
"Who the fuck are you and what the fuck are doing in my kitchen?" she asked with the knife still pointed on the intruder "Uh, I'll tell you my name if you put the knife down first" the intruder stood there with a smirk on her face "Not happening" Sunny reiterated, the pierced red headed girl starts to sniffs the air "Is that coffee fresh?" she suddenly asked, Sunny just looked at her rather confused "What?" "Can I have some coffee?" the intruder politely asked "No!" Sunny yelled at the intruder "Please," she pleaded "I haven't drank anything since I left this morning". Sunny felt like she having a weird dream where a bunch of crazy things had happened while she was dreaming "How stupid do you think I am? You're just going to try and jump me!". The intruder rolled her eyes "I'm not going to jump you, like I said I just want to talk", Sunny keeps herself on guard; she's the type that nobody should cross. "Fine, talk then kindly get the fuck out of my house".
"Okay, first let me introduce myself; I'm Chelsea, Chelsea Mitchell" she announced "And I'm a safe cracker!" she also announced "Okay, good for you! Now tell me what the fuck are you doing in my house?!" Sunny became a little more irritated "Right, see, I saw your work a while back" the girl identified as Chelsea said rather nonchalantly "What are you talking about?" she asked with the knife steadily pointed at her unwanted guest "The Lombank ring a bell?". A chill went through her veins, someone found out about what she and Geraldine did "W-What are you talking about? I don't know anything about that...", with a quick chuckle Chelsea's smirk became a smile "Right, now listen, I'm not a cop, so don't freak out" she says as she grabbed a seat "I still don't know what you're talking about" Sunny said tried to pretend too not know what she was talking about.
"Look this isn't amateur night, I know about you and your friend taking those bonds", Sunny stood in the same position "I got a propitiation for you, if you're willing to hear me out first?". Sunny slowly lowered the knife, unsure if she's going to take action against her "Okay, so here's my propitiation: I want to work for you. I got some pretty good skills and...I'd figure you might need some help, you know, like opening things that can't be opened..." Chelsea playfully trails off "Am I supposed to just trust you?" Sunny questioned "Well, for starters, I'm pretty good with guns and things that go boom" Chelsea says with some excitement in her voice "I was in the army back home; besides, how many people do you know who can open a lock before the alarm goes off? Or before the cops show up? Hmm?" she hummed.
Sunny just stared at her, she didn't know whether to laugh or stab this person. "So, their you have it, do we have a deal?", Sunny stands there; a girl who looks like a punk rocker with a strong sense of crazy added to the mix. She wonders why she gets the crap end of the stick. "Okay...fine but you got to prove yourself" she says she breathes out "Really?" Chelsea asked with a twinkle in her eyes "Yes, really" "Really? Really? Really?" "Yes!" she snapped "Okay! You got yourself a safe cracker!" Chelsea jumps out of her seat in joy "What the hell have I gotten myself into?" Sunny muttered under her breath.
She looks the clock and realizes that fifteen minutes had gone by "Shit, I'm late. Uh, Chelsea right? I need to go, I got an appointment right now" she says the knife down onto the kitchen counter "What if I come with you? Maybe you can see me in action?" Chelsea gave her a crooked smile "If you come with me then I want one thing" Sunny demanded "Name it" "Where I'm taking you, you need to keep your mouth shut, do you understand?" Sunny laid out her rule "Whatever you say" Chelsea answered "Second, be respectful, otherwise they're going find you on the beach with a hole in your head" she laid down the second rule "Yes, boss" Chelsea replied with a snark "And third," "How many rules do you have?" she complained "Shut up and let me finish, no screwing around and no asking stupid question, got it?" Sunny laid out the last rule "Fine, no screwing around, boss lady" Chelsea let out a goofy laugh.
"Let's get going, I'm late as it is" Sunny quickly grabbed her phone "Let me get some coffee first" Chelsea said as she went to the cupboard "You're not going to get coffee, we need to go now" Sunny became impatient "I'm just going to grab a quick cup, that's all", Chelsea opened the cupboard. A swish noise whistles through the air. A kitchen knife is stuck on the door of the cupboard, the same one that was used too cut green onions with. The knife was was several centimeters away from Chelsea's head "No...coffee..." Sunny slowly repeated "On second thought, I'm going to buy something on the way back" Chelsea says as she pulls the knife out and closes the cupboard "Good" Sunny simply responds. Chelsea hands the knife back to Sunny, who promptly puts it in the sink.
Sunny goes to the garage too her Tailgater. She opens the passengers side to let Chelsea in.
Seeing how Chelsea acted made Sunny wonder if she's signed up a crazy person to the group. And she also wonders if she's gone crazy herself.
Park's private office, Little Seoul
"Alright," Sunny turned to Chelsea "remember don't say a word; these people are traditional. So show some respect" she whispered "Yeah, yeah, I get it" Chelsea looked at her with a crooked smile "I mean it, I'm not joking" Sunny put her finger in her face "Okay, I will not misbehave; happy?" she sarcastically retorted "I'm already regretting this" Sunny says under her breath.
Ding!
They exit the elevator and head to the door of the office, as Sunny grabs the knob, she looked at Chelsea one last time "Behave" she warned "I get it, god, you're like my mum".
Sunny and Chelsea enter the office. Joo Kwan see's them "Annyeonghaseyo (Hello)" she greeted "Annyeonghaseyo (Hello)" Sunny greeted back, Joo Kwan's eyes turn to Chelsea; already her appearance is causing a stir. "Um, who is she?" she nervously asked "Uh she's-she's a friend! Sort of..." Sunny embarrassingly chuckled "Are you sure? She looks a bit...weird" "I have ears, you know" Chelsea dropped on in the conversation "I-I'm sorry, I didn't to mean too offend you" she quickly and nervously apologized "Better not-ow!" Chelsea cried out as Sunny pinched her side "What the bloody hell did you do that for?" she whined "What did I say about behaving...?" she reminded her "Sorry" Chelsea annoyingly rolled her eyes "I'm Chelsea" she introduced herself and extended her for a shake. Joo Kwan hesitated to shake her hand "Uh..." "My hands are clean, honest", slowly and carefully Joo Kwan carefully extends her hand and shakes Chelsea's hand.
"I mean, it's not like I have herpes or anything..." Chelsea gave a funny smirk. Joo Kwan quickly rips her hand away in disgust "Ow!" she cried out as Sunny pinched her side again and gave her a scornful look "I'm just playing! God, can't you take a joke?". Sunny let out an annoyed sigh as she heard a very annoying, if not, irritating and familiar voice coming from Park's office. "What's he doing? I thought this was a meeting between us?" she curiously asked "It is but somehow concerns him too..." Joo Kwan sounded frustrated; with Jin Tae Park, it's always going to frustrating; if not completely irritating. "Alright, you need to stay out" Sunny says to Chelsea "What? Why?" she questioned "Because you're not Korean. That's why" Sunny says looking at her "Uh, actually, this does technically concern your friend too". Sunny turned towards Joo Kwan with a confused look on her face.
"Why? Exactly..." she questioned, Chelsea had a more surprised look on her face "Does she know anything about locks?" she suddenly asked "Why yes!" Chelsea gave a sly smile "I do know something about locks!". Sunny let out an annoyed sigh, a headache starts to form in the frontal part of her brain "Why me...?". They go to the door of the office "Remember, no screwing around" Sunny whispered a warning "Yes mum..." Chelsea snickered.
"We need to get into that, theirs more money involved in it and you know it" Jin Tae pleaded with his grandfather "And risk having drug filled vermin running through the streets? Or better yet, having the police barge in here and take us all in?" Park sarcastically retorted "I think not" he lifts his finger and puts it in his grandson's direction "And until someone else deems it otherwise, my answer can not or will not change and it will remain the same: no. Period and stop" he firmly put his authority down "I hope I'm not interrupting anything?" Sunny remarked "No, we're just having a conversation" he said unremarkably and not caring if he hurt his grandsons feelings. Park gets a look at the strange strawberry blond girl standing next to Sunny "Uh, t-t-this is-" she stuttered "I don't care" he suddenly says with an uninterested expression "Does she know anything about locks?".
"Ye-!" just as Chelsea was about to answer Sunny quickly covered her mouth with her hand "Yes! Yes, she knows something about locks" she answered for her. Sunny felt something wet slide against her palm "Ew!" she exclaimed in disgust "Dirty fucking freak!" she cursed as she wiped her hand against her pants, Chelsea gave another crazy smirk. "You're going to let a foreigner, a stranger, in on business?" Jin Tae questioned "Who the molly fuck are you?" Chelsea hissed "I'm Jin Tae Park! How many times do I have to tell that to people!?" he huffed. Chelsea sniffed the air around him, it smelled mostly of cheap cologne and god knows what else.
"W-What are you doing?" he questioned "You smell like a boars ass, god no wonder I was getting a headache" she pointed out "That's eight hundred dollars worth of cologne! And it smells great!" he whined "Yeah, from where I'm standing you still smell like shit. Aside from smelling like an ass, you also smell like..." she gives it another whiff "sweat, more ass, frustration and failure", Jin Tae grits his teeth and raises his hand "Why you little-!"; her hand stops his. Chelsea twists his arm and brings him to the floor "Ah! Let go of me!" he screamed, she puts her right foot on his shoulder blade "What are you doing!?" he questioned with panic in his voice "You know with a little bit more pressure, I could easily dislocate your arm..." a crazed and crooked grin appeared on her face "maybe even rip it off", Jin Tae starts to panic. Sunny gets close her ear "Remember what I said about behaving?". After several seconds, Chelsea released him.
"Sorry, got a little carried away there" Chelsea goes back to her original crazy self as Jin Tae gets up and rubs his pained arm "I swear I'm going to-!" he threatened "Enough!" Park roared "This is what happens when you open your mouth, know your place and keep quiet" he warned. "What's this job that's so important?" Sunny asked "The job involves a safe located in a office in the Maze Bank Arena" he says as he pulls up the picture of the safe "It's in the managers office, open it and grab the envelope that's in it" he ordered "An envelope?" Sunny gave Park a questioning look as too why something so trivial as a pocket full of papers could be so important "You don't want the money? Isn't that more important?" she pondered "It's-It's-!" he starts coughing rather hard, he pulls out a handkerchief and puts it to his mouth. The cough worsens. It sounds like he could literally cough his lungs out into his hands. Sunny didn't notice until now, Park still looked thin and now more sickly than before.
"It's important" the cough finally subsided "That's all you need to know". Sunny began to wonder if their is something else going on. "What are you waiting for? Go" he ordered, Sunny motioned Chelsea to follow her.
They walk back in the front part of the office, Sunny looked at Joo Kwan with concern "Hey, do you know what's going on with Park?" she whispered, Joo Kwan looked up at her "What do you mean?" she whispered back "He looks, how do I put this, sick", Joo Kwan stared at Sunny; she looked at her in way that made her feel uneasy. "I don't know what you're talking about" she says with a chill in her voice "Don't tell me that you didn't notice how thin he is?" she questioned "I've been too busy to notice but he works a lot, I'm sure that's the reason" Joo Kwan answered in a way that was more like a polite way of saying 'Fuck off'. "I'm sure it's nothing" she replied with a not so amused tone "Right...I got to go" Sunny said with an unamused expression and heads to the door with Chelsea in tow. Just then Sunny stops and turns towards Chelsea.
"Empty your pockets" she suddenly ordered "What? Why?" Chelsea questioned "Because I said so".
Chelsea complies and empties everything out of her pockets. A set of keys, some mint flavored gum, her phone and some change "See! Nothing there!" Chelsea says with a smile. Sunny reaches under her shirt "Whoa!" Chelsea swatted her hand away "I like you but you don't get to cop a feel until we go out on our first date!" she smiled "What's that on your shirt?" Sunny noted "What? Where?" Chelsea's eyes looked down on her top "Right...there!" Sunny's hand rapidly went down her top "Hey! What are you-?" Chelsea protested. Her hand comes out and much too Sunny's surprise, an expensive looking silver wrist watch is hanging between her fingers "That's my-That's my watch!" Joo Kwan ran over to them "Uh, how'd that get there?" Chelsea nervously chuckled "Really? It just magically appeared between your tits?" Sunny sarcastically questioned "It could have, lots of weird things have happened", Sunny hands the watch back to Joo Kwan, who in turn grabs it with a napkin; she's not taking any chances with this crazy girl.
"Come on, lets just do this job already" Sunny sighed as she opens the door and heads to the elevator. Chelsea goes to the door but turns around to face Joo Kwan "So, you may want to wipe that down, it's been down there for quite a while" she giggled, Joo Kwan revolted in disgust and throws away her watch in the trash bin. Chelsea gave a small laugh, a hand grabs her ponytail and drags her out "Ow! Ow! Ow! Hair! Hair! Hair!" she cries out as Sunny dragged her to the elevator.
Joo Kwan looks at the bin, she really did like that watch. Now she'll have to buy another one, hopefully she'll be able too keep it tightly secured on her wrist. That girl that Sunny was with is quite, what the polite word here? Weird. No-scratch that-just plain crazy. Maybe she'll be useful to her in some way. Right now though, she's going on her computer to try and order a new watch.
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"God, you almost pulled out my hair; can't you take a joke? I was just having some fun" Chelsea pouted "You taking that watch was stupid, I told you to be respectful and not act like an idiot" Sunny says as she takes a left turn "You got to loosen up a bit" Chelsea playfully poked Sunny's arm "Besides, that guy whose arm I twisted was an asshole, I don't know how anyone puts up with him?" "Well no one likes him, so you get a free pass on that one" she said as the Tailgater stops at a red light "And besides, that asshole always had it coming". The sound of champagne popping fills the air, Sunny see's Kenny's name on her screen "Jesus Christ" she annoyingly sighed as she swipes the talk app and puts it on speaker.
"What do you want?" Sunny seemed irritated when talking to him "Have you talked to Park about me?" he asked once again "You know what my answer is going to be?" she reminded him "His answer hasn't changed, so no" she repeated "Try again! Appeal to him! Tell him how good I am!" he demanded as if he were her boss "I'm pretty busy and I don't have a lot of time right now", and like a child whose toy was just taken away Kenny opens his mouth "Seriously? You're going to act like that? I thought you and me were friends?!" he suddenly questioned "What the fuck is that supposed too mean? I told you before he said no and that's fucking final, what more do you want you fucking toad?" Sunny's blood began to simmer "What the fuck do you think I want? I want to be on top goddammit!" he yelled through the line "Okay, I'm going to hang up now" Sunny's finger goes to the end app "Yeos meog-eola! (Fuck you!)" he cursed at her "Neodo yeos meog-eola! (Fuck you too!)" she shoots back as she swipes the app.
The light turns green as her foot hits the gas and drives through the intersect "So..." Chelsea finally opened her mouth "I take it that was personal?", Sunny sighed with contempt "A friend, who just won't take no for a god damn answer" she says with frustration in her voice "And I assume that's not a good thing?" Chelsea asked with a curious look "Me and Kenny go way back, by way back I mean like when we're going to preschool; me and him had each other's backs for a long time; now he's just bitching about how he wants more" Chelsea looked on as Sunny's mood turned to annoyed "Well, he's your friend, shouldn't you help him out at least?" she wondered "Trust me, he doesn't want what I went through...no one should go through that".
The Maze Bank Arena appears in sight, Sunny actually never been inside this type of place before. It was large, lots of fans would come in to watch basketball. Sunny never really liked basketball or any type of sport, she however did like things like mixed martial arts or professional wrestling. The thing about hand to hand fighting is that the human heart craves excitement and fighting really did bring out the best in someone.
She parks across the arena "Do really know how to open a safe?" Sunny suddenly asked "What's that supposed too mean?" Chelsea looked at her with a funny smile "You're not just making that up are you?" Sunny implied with a suspicious look "Why? You think I'm going to stab you in the back or something?" Chelsea had a smile that said that she was honest "Last thing that I ever do is screw over people, that's not how I work" she gave an honest to god answer "Alright, I'll take your word for it but let me make something very clear to you", out of her pocket she pulls out her switchblade and pops the blade out and points it right at Chelsea "If you try anything with me or try to fuck with me, then make no mistake that I'll fucking cut your pretty little head off, got it?" she warned and threatened "I heard this so many times!" Chelsea reiterated "Besides, when this over, you're gonna be so impressed that you're going to be kissing my feet!" she cheerfully squealed "I'm not going to kiss your feet, let alone anything else; I don't know where you've been" Sunny wanted to vomit just thinking about that.
Chelsea grabs her tool bag and exits the Tailgater, Sunny herself gets out and follows her. "So, what's the plan? How are we going to get in?" Chelsea asked "I don't know, I haven't thought that out yet" Sunny said looking back at her "I thought you were smart, guess I was exaggerating" Chelsea chuckled "Look, we just got find a way in and we'll see afterwards" she explained "You're the boss" Chelsea retorted.
As they approach the arena, Chelsea looks at a line of people waiting for something "What's this?" she wondered "Looks like they're doing something, hang on" Sunny looked into the distance and saw a whole amount of people at the doors of the arena "Hey, what's going on?" she asked one of the passerby's "They're doing some talent show in there" he said "Talent show?" she raised a brow "Yeah, the guys from Fame or Shame are doing a talent show to see who's got talent". Chelsea looked at Sunny "So I assume we can't get in?" she asked, Sunny walks to the side "Well, unless you're good at playing music or really, really talented at something, we'll have to find another way in" she suggested.
They wander to the side. They look around for another way in.
After fifteen minutes they spot an equipment truck "Let's see if they left some spare uniforms" Sunny goes to the van and grabs a couple of dark blue uniforms "Put this on" she hands one of the uniforms to Chelsea. They dress as fast as they can. They quickly put their caps on "Alright, let's do this" Chelsea said with enthusiasm "Okay, remember, act normal" Sunny reminded "I always act normal" Chelsea cheerfully implied "Yeah, no offense, but you look like you crawled out of a trailer park" Sunny says looking at her "Uh, that's because I do live in a trailer park" she retorted, Sunny looked at her when she realized that she wasn't kidding. "You got to be kidding me?" Sunny just stared at Chelsea as if she was a part of an unsuspecting comedic scene "I'm not, I really do live in a trailer park" Chelsea says as if she had just been insulted "I didn't mean to make fun of you, okay?" Sunny let out a small sort of apology "You're forgiven, partner" Chelsea happily nudged Sunny's elbow.
They grab an equipment box and roll towards the loading dock "Remember, act normal" Sunny reminded once again "I said that I always act normal" Chelsea whispered back. They near the loading dock. They both look down as the head foreman waves people people in.
Both women make in without anyone suspecting a thing. They ditch the equipment and head for the stairs.
"How long have you been doing this?" Sunny asked "I picked this up when I left the army and around twenty one I just took it up, I made pretty good cash and just feel into it afterwards" Chelsea said as she kept climbing up the stairs "Why'd you come here then from wherever it is you're from?" Sunny questioned as Chelsea stopped and looked at her "I'm from Australia and no, I'm not British" she said with an annoyed sigh "Don't how many times I told that to people. It's really fucking annoying" she says with an even more annoyed expression "As too why I came here, well you know, land of opportunity and a better life blah, blah, blah; that's all you need to know right now" she let out a small but uneasy chuckle.
They make to the top floor. Sunny opens the door and takes a quick look in the hallway; it's all clear. She motions for Chelsea to come on up. The two walk down the hallway until they reach the managers office.
The door isn't locked. Sunny with carefulness opens the door; no one's there, good. They enter, Chelsea takes out her tools. She spots the safe and analyzes it. Sunny keeps an eye out as Chelsea studies the safe, her hands study the texture of the metal. She takes out the stethoscope and starts to hear the mechanics of the inside; it should be easy enough. "Alright, this thing has the basic three locks; I'm gonna drill a hole through them. Should take a few minutes for everything to open up" she said as she grabbed the drill from her bag, Sunny looked at her rather impressed; she thought that might be a crazy person (Which she still thinks so); now she realizes that she might have the talent to pull something bigger if they ever get the chance to.
"Whatever, just hurry up" Sunny ordered "This isn't like opening the cash register at some liquor store, this takes patience" Chelsea reiterated with a smile. She starts to drill. The drill goes through the first lock "Okay, that's one" Chelsea whispered as the drill starts to bypass the second lock; the works it's way like a snake. "Second one is now gone and here comes the final lock", she presses forward as the drill starts to snake it's way through the third and final lock. Sunny looked on; she's actually does have it. Sunny begins to wonder if this girl is worth her salt. The drill finally bypasses the lock. Clink! It made. Chelsea removes the drill and carefully turns the handle. Sunny quickly text Park and ask what the envelope says 'It should say 'Confidential' in Korean' he texted back; she looks around the inside and spots two large envelopes. One of them was indeed marked in Korean, 'Gimil' (Confidential)' it read. Sunny quickly grabbed it and hid it in her uniform.
"So, how'd you like my skills?" Chelsea eagerly asked "I'm impressed, you're still crazy looking but I'm impressed" Sunny said with a small frown "So am I in?" "I still got to talk to Geraldine about this; she might just try to kill you" she says with the same expression "Aw, come on, I opened the safe" Chelsea whined "What more do you want? Do you want me to strip naked and do the whole thing all over again?" she asked with pleading eyes "What? No! Look, you just got to be patient and let me talk to my friend about it, can we agree on that?" Sunny asked the crazy girl with piercings "Oh alright. You're a such spoilsport" she pouted "Let's just go, I just want to get this over with" Sunny demanded "Yes boss lady" Chelsea giggled.
As they snuck out back into towards the Tailgater, Chelsea needed to ask something. "So..." she started "your boss, has he always been sick?" she asked her question; Sunny stops as she reaches the drivers side. She turns around and looks at her "What are you talking about?" she questioned "You heard that cough back in the office. It sounds quite serious" Chelsea looked at her, Sunny looked irritated "I don't know what you mean..." she sadly replied "Don't act like you don't know, I can see it in your eyes; you know something is up" Chelsea said as she went around to the passengers side. Sunny stared, a part of her knew that something was up with Park but she didn't know what that was. She looked back at Chelsea "He helped my mother out the most, he made sure we didn't starve" Sunny gave Chelsea a stern look "He saved my family's life...and he saved my mines" she continued looking at her. Chelsea saw the coldness but also a strong sense of duty from Sunny, she really was like a soldier; dedicated to the end.
"Fine," Chelsea shrugged "maybe I was mistaken..." she answered in a somewhat polite but rather know it all apology "Maybe you were" Sunny said as she opened the door. She starts her car and races back to the office.
Her mind wanders off to Park again. She keeps wondering and wonder of what's he hiding from her. More questions than answers is all she ever got.
Park's private office, Little Seoul
Sunny hands the envelope to Park He takes it and opens it. His eyes examine the paper. His eyes move carefully from top to bottom.
"This is it, you two can go" Park suddenly ordered without looking at her "What-What is it?" she asked "It doesn't concern you" Jin Tae jumped in the conversation "Shut up!" Park angrily yells at his grandson. "Go wait by the elevator" Sunny whispered to Chelsea "Aw! How come?" Chelsea pouted "Because I fucking said so" she angrily whispered "And no, you can't stay with Joo Kwan; not after what happened from before" Sunny reminded her from the incident with the watch, "Fine" Chelsea sighed and went back towards the door. Jin Tae angrily looked at Chelsea, not forgetting what she nearly did to his arm. She see's him and puts up one of her fist as if trying to hit him, he flinches. Chelsea lets out a crazy chuckle "Pussy" she taunted him as she exited out the door.
Aside from Sunny and Geraldine, Jin Tae now hates Chelsea but won't try anything with her; not unless he wants his arm to be shattered into pieces.
Sunny stares at Park, she doesn't plan on leaving until she gets a proper answer as to what's going.
"What's really going on with you?" Sunny asked her question carefully. Park stares at her, knowing and sensing her concern "Nothing is wrong" he reiterates "Really?" Sunny let's out an exasperated sigh "You're really thin, their's more to this and you know it" she continues to look at him with worry in her eyes. He gets up and slowly walks towards her. Sunny backed away slightly as if he was going to do something horrible to her. His mouth went towards her right ear, "Nothing is wrong with me..." he whispered "I understand your concern but I'm fine..." he again whispered into her ear "Are...we...clear...?" he repeated "Algessseubnida...(Yes sir...)" Sunny answered the way a soldier would answer their commander "Leave now" he ordered. Standing in place Sunny looks at him, mostly unsatisfied with the answer that she got.
"Fine...I'll leave" she followed the order that she was given. Sunny turns around heads out of the office and quietly goes to the elevator with Chelsea waiting for her.
As they rode the elevator down together, Sunny's mind keeps going back to Park and again wonders if their is more to this whole thing with him. She has the questions but probably never going to an answer to.
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Sunny's house, Vinewood
"So how'd I do?" Chelsea eagerly asked "You did good, my friend will want to know what you did" Sunny says as she grabbed a water bottle "And I will have to tell her about you, she's going to flip out" she reminded herself of how Geraldine will react when she finds out about Chelsea.
Chelsea jumped up with glee "Oh, I can't wait to meet your friend!".
"It's late, you got to leave, my girlfriend is going to be wondering why a weirdo with piercings in our house" Sunny says looking at her "Oh alright! See you tomorrow!" Chelsea waved with the same gleeful smile.
Sunny pulls her phone and goes to Geraldine's name.
'Hey what you doing tomorrow?' 'Nothin'. Why?' 'Can you come to my place tomorrow?' 'What for?' 'Their's someone I want you to meet' 'Who?' 'I'll explain it to you in person' 'Okay! ; )'.
"Damn it" Sunny sighed with annoyed expression "I really to have to do hate this".
The next day. Sunny's house, Vinewood
"Are you fuckin' for real?!" Geraldine shouted at Sunny "Look, it wasn't my idea to keep her okay?" Sunny says as she tried to remain calm "How did this bitch find us?" she asked "I don't know how! She must have figured out who we were or something!". The two have been arguing since Geraldine had come over to Sunny's house and Sunny told her about Chelsea, let's just say it wasn't so subtle.
Chelsea acted politely and introduced herself to Geraldine with her crazy smile which didn't make things better
The two women went to the pool area and argued for a better part of fifteen minutes; Chelsea just stayed in the kitchen and watched them argue. Her stomach starts to make noise, she pulls out a bag of potato chips and starts eating them. She continues eating her chips and continues looking at the two women argue. The chips dried her mouth out, she goes to the refrigerator and looks for a beer to drink. "Hey!" Sunny yelled through the glass "Stay out of our fridge!" she yells as Chelsea pulled out a beer "But I'm thirsty! Can't I at least have one beer?" she pleaded "One beer and that's it!" Sunny demanded "And stay seated!" she ordered "And don't try anything funny!" she hissed "Okay! Okay! I get it! I'll sit!" Chelsea took her place on the stool.
On the outside by the pool Geraldine paces back and forth, trying to understand what just Sunny just explained to her. What she just explained to her feel uneasy with paranoia. That this skinny looking Australian girl managed to track them down after their robbery, that she traveled from Blaine County to get here, that she spied on them from far away, that she's a safe cracker and that she wants to work together with them. Basically everything is laid out in a nutshell from top to bottom.
"No! No fuckin' way! We're not gonna take her in!" Geraldine states hysterically "I say we take this bitch somewhere and shoot her!" she proposed her idea of solving this problem "We're not going to kill her, okay?" Sunny shot down that idea "We might need her" she suggested "Need her? This bitch looks like she just walked out of some crazed up party! Why the fuck do we need her?" Geraldine looked at her caution "Can you open a fucking safe in a number of fucking minutes? Huh?" Sunny stared at her apprentice "What about your friend? Can she do that?" she curiously prodded. Geraldine stood there silent mostly because she didn't have an answer "Look," her boss proposes an idea "we don't have to fucking like her but she has some motherfucking skills that I think we fucking need" she says while still looking at her apprentice "She managed to open that safe in a few minutes. That is skill".
Geraldine continues to stare down at her "What if she's some cop huh?" she whispered her paranoid theory "What if she's trying to fuckin' catch us or something?" she continued to whisper "Really?" Sunny sarcastically replied "You think this girl is some cop?" she laughed a bit "Right, so the cops put some girl who looks like she came back from a coked out concert to catch us? I would be very impressed with that!" she laughed a bit harder "Man that ain't fuckin' funny!" Geraldine said with her anger still in her voice "Let's try this: she works with us for a bit. Everything goes out well and we make more money. Everything doesn't work out then...we deal with her in our own way". Geraldine felt dumbfounded mostly because she didn't have an idea "You don't have to trust Chelsea but at least try to work with her, for me at least, okay? Can you do that for me?" Sunny demanded. Geraldine sighs with annoyance "Fine motherfucker but if she turns out to be a snitch or something then that's on you" she points at her tutor "Yeah! Yeah! Don't worry about that" Sunny let's out an irritated sigh "And what about Dominic? Are you gonna to tell him or what?" she asked "One step at a fucking time okay? I'll tell him when I can".
Sunny signals Chelsea to come over to them. Like a rabbit she hops over to them.
"Alright, so me and Geraldine have come to an understanding" Sunny announced "And? And what?" Chelsea eagerly asked "You're in". Chelsea squealed and jumped up like she just won the game of a lifetime. "Oh thank you! You won't regret this!" she excitedly let's out "Yeah whatever" Geraldine mumbled. Sunny gave her an annoyed and sour look at her apprentice, she of course takes the hint. "Welcome to our team" Sunny announced with a small but uneasy smile, she wonders what kind of crazy this girl will bring to the table.
Chelsea hugs Geraldine, who tries wiggle her way out "Hey! Come on! Get off me!" she complained. Sunny pulls Chelsea away and begins to search her pockets "Hey wait!" she tried to stop the search. To her annoyance she pulls out Geraldine's phone "Hey! The fuck-that's my phone!" Geraldine looked at her "Uh, the phone fairy gave that to me..." Chelsea backed away as Geraldine starts to walk towards her. Chelsea starts to run with Geraldine in pursuit "Bitch get back here!" she yelled as she starts chasing Chelsea around the pool.
Sunny looks on as if two young bratty kids are fighting. Now she wonders if she really is going crazy.
Chapter 21 is coming soon. Rate and Review.