Chapter 122 - Roofied?

"Then they said: 'Stay in that line! I was like 'Uhn! Okay!', I just thought I was going to win a giveaway ... And that's when ..." Ryan Lee entertained his new friends with some narrative, surrounded by people near the bar. "There is my friend Eun Ha! She is always so secretive and mysterious! But we are good friends!"

Eun Ha got to where Kang Dae was, trying to keep it cool,

"WOW! It looks like you've already made good friends. What are you telling them, Ryan?" she intercepted the drink the waiter was delivering to Kang Dae. It was a blue drink with smoke coming out of it. Ryan Lee had red cheeks and bright eyes, though.

"Just talking about how I met Sylvester Stallone!" he responded candidly.

Eun Ha was alarmed. 'But what is this crazy guy doing?!'

"Unnie, Ryan Lee is having fun! Please go on with the story, Actor Lee!" a woman's voice interrupted her. The fairy glanced around to find out who the hell was calling her unnie, and saw Jessica Kim. There were not only pretty women around the fake actor, though. Kang Dae said,

"Eun Ha-ssi, tell us why you only wear black? In all the years we've known each other, I've never seen her in any color other than black. Is it any superstition?"

Everyone looked at Eun Ha. She was surrounded by stylists, models, and famous people, staring at her and waiting for an answer.

Eun Ha took a good sip of the drink in her hands, thinking about what to say. Since she discovered that she had magical powers, several times she had the impression that some colors influenced her magic. In addition, she felt an itch every time she used a yellow color. Or touched yellow things. She definitely couldn't use her magic on people wearing yellow. The only safe color to wear was black. When she was a teenager, Eun Ha thought it was because she was a witch. And witches wore black, right? But of course not that. And it was the same color that she saw Hunter Shin wear, invariably! So there was a reason, and it wasn't just her imagination, she was sure of it.

But what could she say to those people?

"Ah, when I was a teenager I believed I was a witch. It was when I tried to make my first voodoo doll that I saw that the needles had another use," it wasn't exactly a lie, since she had even tried to make voodoo. People laughed, as she expected,

"Ryan Lee, can I talk to you a little bit?" she called him.

They pulled back a little, and she whispered, "You must be having fun, but please, Kang Dae, don't flirt with the girls! Jessica Kim, for example. She should be with her date, but she is with you!"

"Why, but you also came with me and you are with your filmmaker friend with the little blue whatchamacallit," he winked at Eun Ha with a grin. Eun Ha felt her cheeks burn instantly.

"Why! Please, Kang Dae, as we agreed, say goodbye before 11 pm, right? Maybe you could…"

"That's too early! Aren't you having fun?! I was told that there will be a shower of balloons and the DJ will start after the speech by the stylist I-don't-know-who. That the best part of the party is later, when the uptight people go away!"

'Oh my god, I created a monster!' she thought, while her monster beamed at her. She was feeling herself boiling, her face on fire.

"You have half an hour, Kang Dae, to get Ryan Lee out of the picture!" she warned, turning away without waiting for his answer. The fashion designer needed to wash her face. And Eun Ha still had to stay close to that ladder for when Stylist Zhang showed up. She had no time to lose, and it was already 10:20.

Why the hell was her face so hot? What about this sudden headache?

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'Of course. Of course he would come with his paramour to the Fashion Ball,' Ye Rim tried to keep a neutral expression, just wishing she hadn't given up on that glass of champagne so early. 'I'm glad they're not coming here,' the singer thought when she saw the beautiful couple greeting other people. 'I still have to find Eun Ha. He didn't have to invite me. What was I thinking? He, the plastic surgeon of the Stars, would not be at the Fashion Ball?'

"Did you see that Jun Hyeon and Na Ra arrived?" Dae Won commented, seemed ready to go toward them.

"Can we greet them later? I really wanted to look for Eun Ha," she apologized, just as someone touched Dae Won's shoulder to speak to the musician. 'I don't need to run to greet you, Jun Hyeon' she justified internally. Picking up a new glass of champagne from a waiter, she continued towards the woman in black who had passed Jun Hyeon. This was much more important than going to greet the 'Made for each other' couple.

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Jun Hyeon had the impression that he would hate this Fashion Ball. Na Ra, as always, was looking gorgeous at his side, wearing an elegant white dress. As a famous ex-model, her arrival caused an anticipated frisson.

By avoiding being hit by a short woman with a huge hat, Jun Hyeon was confused. He wondered if that was not Jung Eun Ha, Ye Rim's best friend. He had seen pictures of the two besties together when he went to the singer's apartment. And when the surgeon looked up, his eyes were immediately drawn to that stunning woman in red. The focus on other things just disappeared, because Nam Ye Rim was the center of the room.

'How can she be so beautiful?!' he asked himself, feeling agitated and unhappy at the same time. Ye Rim looked at him, and Jun Hyeon wanted to disappear immediately because he was accompanied by Na Ra and not hers! What was he doing?!

But then he saw Dae Won, taking two steps forward and standing next to Ye Rim.

Dr. Kim felt his body go cold, and raised an eyebrow in a reflex of what was going on inside him. 'Are they dating?!'

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Jung Eun Ha tried to find a not crowded restroom and thought that maybe she had ingested some spiked drink. What was in that drink with a refreshing and sweet flavor? However, her face burned, and the rest of the fairy's body felt limp and feverish. She moved away from the main atmosphere of the dance, looking for a quieter place where she could rest for a while, as the restrooms seemed to be full of women. Where is Shin? While walking, the fairy found a waiter and asked him for water. After drinking all the water in one gulp, Eun Ha saw a low lit side that was quite empty, and looked for a sofa to sit on for a while.

Then Eun Ha felt she was holding something strange, velvety and soft, and looked at her hand,

"Whoa! Where's the glass?! Why am I holding ... a handful of flower petals? What? What is happening?!" The hand holding the glass of water had nothing but petals, and Eun Ha thought he was hallucinating. But of course, they roofied Kang Dae's drink! AND ME ... I'm a fairy, and this is going to be really bad,' feeling dizzy and with a terrible headache. She rested a hand on the wall.

"OMO! Hunter Shin, help me! They poisoned me!" she whimpered, shaking her head. Her hat started to bother her a lot, and Eun Ha took it off her head, only to see it fall apart in flower petals, like the glass of water. But taking off her hat seemed to do wonders for her headache.

She needed to go to where Hunter Shin was. It was better to go back and do her best not to touch anyone!

She came across a couple who looked at her oddly, but they smiled and passed her by. As Eun Ha returned, they were not the only ones to look at her strangely and with smiles and puzzled looks. 'And now, what's going on?!' In a panic, the fairy started walking quickly, not bothering to keep up appearances.

Then she passed in front of a mirror.

She came back, seeing the blur of her reflection. There was something VERY wrong with her face.

What were these… pointed bumps protruding from her forehead, looking like… little horns?!

Eun Ha touched them. They were sensitive to the touch, and she shivered, feeling the heat return to her cheeks, but nothing turned into petals this time.

She was walking around the Fashion Ball with… natural horns?

"AHAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG!!!" her cry of horror surprised herself. What if that ... never disappeared?

"Professor, Professor Shin, help me ...!" she murmured, feeling tears flood her eyes. Groping the walls and trying to go unnoticed, the young and desperate fairy tried to reach the stairs with restricted access. She really needed Professor Shin now.

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"What was that?!" The sudden female cry was heard across the room, and people looked at each other for a moment, puzzled. But the scream was not repeated, and the guests laughed and gave the matter as a joke.

But not Ye Rim. Ye Rim knew Eun Ha's voice.

"Eun Ha?! Where are you, where?!" she searched here and here, unsuccessfully, more and more anxious.

Then the singer felt someone holding her by the arm.

Jun Hyeon.

They looked at each other for a moment, saying nothing.