The Perfect Arrangement
"Still, I have to say — I never would have guessed you'd want a friends-with-benefits thing with anyone, unnie."
They had ordered delivery and eaten dinner together before the conversation began in earnest.
"No, I mean — I was just talking. It's not like I'm actually planning to go and do anything."
She had gotten swept up in the mood and spoken as if she were about to become Dohyun's sex friend any second now, but the truth was more complicated than that.
"Anyway, I'm a streamer with a recognizable face. Meeting someone… there's no way that wouldn't be a burden."
Being a mid-tier streamer with a fairly large following meant that Dayeon faced certain constraints whenever she wanted to do anything. It wasn't as if everyone recognized her the way they would a celebrity — but enough people spotted her on the street and started whispering that she couldn't help but be conscious of it.
"Hmm. But doesn't that actually make Dohyun the perfect choice?"
Eunchae, who had been chewing in thoughtful silence, started laying out her reasoning.
"Dohyun comes into the studio for work, right?"
"Yeah, he does."
"An editor showing up at the studio is the most natural thing in the world. And whatever happens inside these walls stays between the people who are already here."
Of course, they couldn't do anything freely with Park Woojin still around — but they were going to get rid of him anyway. Besides, Dohyun seemed to have every intention of taking over Woojin's entire workload. When Eunchae had first heard that, she had wondered if it was even possible. After watching him work once they had gotten back from the café, she had changed her mind.
He was way faster than when he'd been editing Park Woojin's footage this morning.
Seeing that, she had started to believe that before long, Dohyun really could snatch up all of Woojin's work and leave just the three of them in the studio.
"And what… what exactly would we do in the studio…?"
Dayeon sputtered, startled by Eunchae's bold suggestion.
"Anything. You could have sex. You could masturbate…"
"Oh my god, seriously?! What are you trying to do at work?!"
Even as she protested, though, Dayeon had to admit that Eunchae's logic was starting to get to her. An editor and a streamer — and an editor who came into the studio every day. As long as nobody inside leaked anything, they could do whatever they wanted in complete safety.
"…And Park Woojin is still here. How are we supposed to do… that kind of thing?"
"We're kicking Woojin out soon anyway, aren't we?"
"Even so, a new editor would come in!"
Dayeon hadn't heard about Dohyun's ambitions yet, so she naturally assumed they would be hiring a replacement.
"Hmm. A new editor… I don't think we'll need to hire one."
"What are you talking about? Don't tell me you want to keep Woojin around?"
"Are you insane? Why would we keep that guy?"
Since Dayeon didn't know about Dohyun's ambitions, their conversation kept veering slightly off-track.
"Haa… Eunchae. Can you walk me through this from the beginning? What you saw, what you heard, and why you're saying all this?"
Knowing full well that Eunchae was not the most organized speaker, Dayeon assigned her the mission of explaining everything in order, from one to ten.
"Ah, um. Okay, so first of all — Dohyun's pretty fast, right?"
"His editing speed?"
"Yeah. Putting out work at that speed while keeping the quality that high? Even veterans struggle with that."
Dayeon hadn't seen his even faster afternoon pace because she had been streaming, so she pictured him from the morning, editing the footage he had received from Woojin.
"He did seem pretty fast, yeah."
"I watched him this afternoon, and he was even faster than when he was editing Woojin's stuff in the morning."
"Even faster than that? Because it was footage he shot himself?"
"Probably, yeah. Anyway, that's how it was. And do you know what Dohyun's ambition is?"
Dayeon had no idea why his ambitions were suddenly coming up, but she decided to hear her out and shook her head.
"He said his goal is to steal all of Woojin's work and do both of their jobs himself."
Once she heard that, Dayeon understood why the ambition talk had come up, and she nodded.
"Hmm. So Dohyun is an ambitious man, huh?"
"Right? He's so fucking cool."
Dayeon chuckled at the way Eunchae's eyes sparkled. It was adorable.
"Even so, doing two people's work by himself would be incredibly hard."
"I thought so too, but… I don't know. I just have this feeling that if it's Dohyun, he could actually pull it off."
"…Wait. Why do I keep thinking the same thing? That if it's Dohyun, he could do it?"
Both of them had the simultaneous thought that they might as well have been hypnotized. Today was only their first day working with Dohyun. They had only known him for three days. So why did this boundless trust keep welling up out of nowhere? They truly couldn't understand it.
"Maybe it's because… we've been working with a piece of shit like Park Woojin for too long."
"Ah, maybe… yeah. How many years has it been with that guy already?"
A wretched connection that just wouldn't end.
"Doesn't it seem like Woojin's been showing his true colors more lately, though?"
Eunchae said it thinking of how Woojin hadn't been able to hide his rage in front of Dohyun recently.
"Yeah. If he'd shown that side of himself sooner, we would have fired him on the spot."
"Maybe it's because he's never met someone like Dohyun before?"
Given that he was a big guy with a menacing face, most people in his life had probably groveled the moment he put on even a little weight. He had started working with Dayeon before even graduating college, so he had never really experienced proper adult society. High school, college, the military — that was the entirety of his world. As he got older, he had just kept enjoying a life where everyone crawled for him. So of course someone like Dohyun would be unbearable. Woojin had only ever lived in environments where being worshipped from below was the natural order of things.
"I wonder if Dohyun is getting stressed out."
"I don't know. Woojin's going to be so busy chasing Dohyun's tail for a while that he probably won't have time to harass anyone."
Considering how fast Dohyun edited, if Woojin didn't start working his ass off, he could lose his job any day now.
"Well, anyway. I'll leave Dohyun's stress care to you for now, Eunchae."
"What about you, unnie?"
"I… I'm not anything to him yet…"
"That's why I'm saying you should hurry up and become something!"
Dayeon's face flushed crimson at Eunchae telling her to become "something."
"Ah, I still… I need a little more time to prepare myself."
"Ugh, you shy little unnie. That side of you is cute, though."
"Aigoo, cut it out, will you?"
Dayeon always groaned whenever Eunchae tried to fangirl over her right to her face.
"Tch. Shame."
Having barely managed to stop Eunchae from launching into another round of obsessive praise, Dayeon started picking at her already-soggy noodles.
"Ah, I should've ordered rice."
"I told you to get rice."
Eunchae, who had wisely ordered a rice dish, scooped some onto Dayeon's plate.
"Here, eat this."
"Ah, thanks."
The two of them looked for all the world like a pair of close sisters. And given that they spent more time together than they did with their actual families, calling them sisters wouldn't have been far off.
"So if you and Dohyun become sex friends, does that make us sisters-in-law?"
"…We're not even married. What do you mean, sisters-in-law?"
"You know, like… hole-sisters? Something like that?"
"…Excuse me. Isn't that when one woman has a bunch of guys?"
Dayeon smacked her forehead at Eunchae's vulgar language — and then had to correct her on top of it, because she had used the term wrong. It was absurd.
"Oh, is it? Then, hmm… pole-sisters—"
"Ack! Stop, stop!"
Dayeon clamped a hand over Eunchae's mouth, and Eunchae grinned with wicked delight.
"Heheh. What's the big deal? We might end up doing it as a threesome later anyway. How about I get a sneak peek at unnie's naked body first?"
"You've lost your mind…!"
Thwack!
Dayeon drove a sharp jab into the side of Eunchae, who was reaching for her clothes with the lecherous grin of a fifty-year-old pervert, then shot to her feet.
"I'm going home…!"
"Wait, clean up and we'll go together…!"
"I paid for dinner, so you can clean it all up yourself!"
Thoroughly flustered, Dayeon left Eunchae behind and bolted out of the studio.
"Aigoo. Why is our unnie so cute?"
Eunchae hadn't actually planned to strip her or do anything. She just giggled to herself as she started packing up the leftover food.
"A threesome, though… haah. Now I'm getting turned on again."
Should she go knock on Dohyun's door — his place was nearby — and ask for a round of sex? Or go home and quietly take care of herself? Eunchae sank into deep contemplation.
"…Sex really is the best, though."
Their first time, and the outdoor sex at the movie theater… both had been so satisfying she had soaked herself completely, and the memory of it made her feel like she was getting wet all over again.
"Tsk… if I asked him to do it right now, would he turn me down…?"
Dohyun had already clocked out. She couldn't tell if he would want some time to himself, or if he would be happy if she showed up asking for sex.
"Men are so hard. He's my first, so I have no idea. Haa…"
The thought of just going over and figuring it out once she got there was only occurring to her because she was already incredibly turned on.