thirty-four.
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《 ride 》
Scenario: BEBE and D-COY take a trip to visit the Disco Pang Pang together.
Requested?: Yes
TO KICK OFF January, Jin and Bada had made plans around the end of December to to visit a very famous ride known for its ability to fling guests off their seats.
The Disco Pang Pang.
Bada had seen many videos on YouTube and TikTok of people on the ride and she was very interested.
The videos usually contained people getting flung in all kinds of directions while the operator teased them.
Lots of people on TikTok referred to the operator as a matchmaker because of how he would purposefully taunt couples or control the ride in order to get strangers into silly positions.
Bada brought the idea to Jin, who was actually intrigued by the concept of the ride.
Her and Bada agreed to go visit the amusement ride with the company of their crewmates, setting a date and time that worked for everyone in their large group.
Once the day came, the two crews met up at the amusement park and headed to the Disco Pang Pang together.
Jin's eyes were locked onto the Disco Pang Pang whilst waiting in line, watching the people who were still on it, watching the way it spun and bounced up and down.
She could hear a few yelps from some of the guests as their legs flew, their hands slipping off the handrails and their bodies landing on the floor.
The ride had absolutely no seat belts, which was why people were constantly sliding and rolling around on the floor like tumbleweeds whenever they lost their hold on the rails.
"Okay, people. When we sit down, use two hands to hold the rails. Two hands. This is a two-hand ride." Gigi instructed as she clasped her hands together.
"Does this have no seat belts?" R.2 asked.
"Yes. Have you never seen any videos?" Lusher asked her.
"No." R.2 shook her head.
"You have to hold onto the handrails so that you don't fall. That's all." Soul explained.
R.2 furrowed her brows before glancing at the guests on the ride, some of them stumbling and flying repeatedly. She seemed a bit more uncertain than she did before.
"It's okay." Lusher assured her with a sweet smile.
"Are you sure? Like, I'm not going to fly over the rails, am I?" R.2 asked with a nervous chuckle.
"No! No, no." Lusher laughed.
"It doesn't go that hard. It's fine." Yeong said as she patted R.2's shoulder.
"It's our turn!" Bada announced excitedly as the ride stopped moving and all the guests exited, causing everyone in the friend group to cheer.
Soon enough, all of the women had entered the ride through the little gate in the railing, moving toward the right side and sitting down on the seat.
The operator seemed very ecstatic to have such famous dancers and a famous couple on the ride.
"Hands on the bar!" Gigi shouted, causing everyone from BEBE and D-COY to grasp the handrail with both of their hands, their arms piling onto each other.
"Oh my God. I'm scared." Yeong laughed as she watched some strangers board the ride.
"You said it was fine!" R.2 exclaimed at her.
"Are you scared?" Bada asked Jin, who sat next to her closely.
"...A little." Jin answered quietly.
"Just a little." Bada chuckled. "It's okay. I'll protect you." She teased.
"You better worry about protecting yourself." Jin said with an eyebrow raised.
Soon enough, the gate closed and the DJ announced the start of the ride.
Slowly, the ride began to spin around in a circle, but it didn't not take long for the operator to start increasing the level of difficulty.
As the lights on the Disco Pang Pang's exterior glowed, the ride tilted and began to spin faster, its aggressive shakes causing the legs of its riders to fly upward.
Jin's eyes widened as her fingers clenched around the handrail, her gaze traveling all over frantically.
She could see that Che-che's feet had somehow landed on the seat and Yeong's leg had landed on top of Tatter's lap.
She also noticed that as the ride stopped spinning and kept bouncing, Kyma could not keep her behind on the seat for the life of her. Each harsh buck caused her to fly right off. Her strong grip was the only thing keeping her from collapsing completely.
Jin then looked at her lover, who's grin was so warm and full of joy. She looked like she was having so much fun and the ride had only just started.
Abruptly, while Yeong and Sowoen were trying to adjust their clothes, an aggressive bounce sent them both to the floor of the disk.
Gigi snickered before reaching a hand out and grabbing Yeong's arm.
Meanwhile, Sowoen was clinging onto Minah's legs for dear life.
She had managed to get back onto the seat, but Yeong couldn't, as Gigi had lost her grip on her.
Yeong shrieked out loud as she stumbled around the ride, hopping up and down as the ride trembled.
"Feeling froggy?" Gigi asked her teasingly.
"Shut up." Yeong retorted before falling onto the disc's floor from its aggression, her shoe falling off her foot.
That move was clearly done on purpose, as one could expect from the operator.
"See? That's what you get." Gigi quipped.
Jin's mouth fell open at the sight of Yeong practically scrambling around trying to get back to her seat with her shoe in her hand.
Soon enough, she had fallen into an empty space between Tatter and Soul, quickly putting her shoe back on her foot.
"Are you okay?" Tatter asked her while giggling.
"No! They have me looking like a buffoon, Irish-jigging in the middle of the ride!" Yeong shouted, causing Tatter to laugh even more. "God damn..."
The ride continued to move up and down, and it soon caused one of Minah's hands to slip off the rail.
She turned her body around and tried to grip the handrail again, but the rocking of the ride had prevented her from staying stable, a yelp leaving her as she fell onto the floor.
Che-che tried to grab her but could not reach, Minah's nails digging into the floor of the disc as she tried not to slide away.
She managed to get back onto her feet, but the ride tilting caused her to stumble and land in a spot between a few strangers.
Minah didn't stay there for long, soon getting back up and scurrying back to Che-Che's side.
However, before she could grab the rail, the ride shook and she fell onto her bottom again.
Che-che managed to snatch her hand, but in doing so, her other hand had lost its grip on the rail, causing her to slide off her seat.
Then, Sowoen came falling down as well.
It was like watching dominos fall.
It took a good few seconds before they were all sat again, and it was only after the ride had finally slowed down.
Minah had crashed into some strangers again, so she was stuck sitting with them for the time being.
Jin couldn't help but feel a bit amused, especially since she was doing quite well at holding onto the handrails. Meanwhile, her friends were slipping and tripping all around the Disco Pang Pang.
"May I ask the famous couple some questions? I'm a big fan." The operator requested, causing Jin and Bada to look over at him before nodding their heads. "Is it true that you started dating during the shooting of Street Woman Fighter 2?"
Jin and Bada both nodded their heads in response to the question, their bodies trembling slightly from the gently shaking of the ride.
"Who confessed first?"
Jin opened her mouth to answer, but then she stopped herself and narrowed her eyes.
Bada's lips tensed as she looked up at the sky, thinking for a moment. "Uhh... Well... neither."
"Neither?" The operator questioned, the two lovers nodding. "How does that work?"
The women laughed softly at his confusion, Jin shrugging her shoulders.
"You two love each other a lot, right?" The operator asked.
Both of the women nodded their heads.
"Good. Stay happy. You should live long and happy lives." The operator said enthusiastically before pressing a button that made the ride speed up its spinning.
The disc then gave an aggressive bounce that caused both of Jin's hands to release the rail, Bada rapidly reaching one of her arms over and wrapping it around Jin's neck.
"Bada--" Jin began to say before coughing due to the pressure on her throat, her right arm wrapping around Bada's leg while her left hand smacked Bada's arm.
She wanted to reach for the rail, but was involuntarily sliding to the side due to the ride tilting.
Gigi saw this and immediately burst into laughter, up until the rocking of the ride had made one of her hands slip. "Oh, shit." She exclaimed, her laughter coming to a halt as she grabbed the handrail again.
"This is so uncomfortable." Jin said as the ride slowed but continued to bounce up and down forcefully, causing its riders to move in the same direction.
"I'm trying to keep you from falling!" Bada shouted with an amused grin as she placed one of her legs on top of Jin's.
"Yes, hold on to her. If you love her, don't let her fall." The operator teased.
Without a firm grip on the rail, each shake upward had Jin flying off the seat and onto her feet, which soon forced her to stand up.
She ended up spinning her way out of Bada's arm, but Bada switched her hand placement and instead held onto her wrist, keeping Jin steady while she tried to grab the handrail again.
The ride then relaxed for a brief moment, allowing Jin to sit back down and grab the handrail before it could start shaking again.
Lusher then got out of her seat, not from the rocking of the ride, but by her own free will.
Stumbling a bit, she slowly made her way over to where Minah was and held her arms out, Minah quickly grabbing one of her hands and scurrying away from the strangers she had fallen into.
The two didn't even make it halfway across the disc before they fell onto the floor from its lack of stability.
"Ow!" Lusher whined with a chuckle.
"Come on!" Che-che called out.
Minah tried to crawl back to her original spot, but the way the ride was tilting made it damn near impossible.
Lusher place a reassuring hand on her back just as the ride began to slow down again, which allowed her and Minah to get back and return to their seats.
Another harsh rock had caused Jin to fly off her seat and onto her bottom on the floor, Bada grabbing onto her arm again.
As Jin stood up, she gripped Bada's wrist with both hands, trying not to let herself drift away while the ride bounced repeatedly.
The ride turning slightly caused Bada to fall backward into her seat and Jin to fall forward onto her knees, still being held by Bada's hand.
But after a few seconds, Bada had lost her grip, Jin sliding over to the center of the disc whilst the operator laughed.
"No! Come back!" Bada exclaimed as she reached her hand out.
"Do you see something?" Yeong asked Gigi whilst looking off to the side, Gigi shaking her head and whistling a tune.
As the ride spinned, Jin could see various people offering their hands out to her, but she could not focus on a single one, as all the turning was making her dizzy.
Soon enough, Bada had took it upon herself to get out of her seat to get her lover back.
As Jin got up, Bada grabbed her hand, but the shakiness of the ride had caused Jin to fall and to drag Bada down onto her.
Bada laughed as her body rolled over, her back hitting the edge of the seat.
Then, the ride stopped bouncing and turning for a moment.
"Hurry up, hurry up." The operator encouraged.
Both of the women got up, Bada's hands holding onto Jin's waist as they both tried to beeline it toward their original spot.
However, before they could make it, the operator made the ride bounce upward, causing Jin to fall onto the floor and Bada to stumble back into an empty space.
The operator laughed out loud in a devilish manner. "Come on, you can make it. One, two, three..."
As the ride halted again, Jin got up and ran back to her spot, sitting down and grasping the handrail just before the operator could get to five.
Bada followed suit the moment Jin was stable again, sitting down beside her with her leg on top of hers to keep her down.
When Jin had looked at the floor again, she saw Sowoen and R.2 rolling around because they had gotten flung out of their seats, then she heard the loud laughter of her friends.
"I'm going to throw up." Jin joked.
"Don't, because then we'll both be throwing up." Bada said, shaking her head frantically.
Abruptly, a bump from the ride had caused Jin's left hand to let go of the rail.
"My hand!" She exclaimed.
"Come here!" Bada shouted as she held her right arm out to Jin.
"Hold the railing!" Jin demanded as she put her left arm around Bada's neck, her legs placing themselves on her lap.
"I've got it!" Bada told her, wrapping her right arm around Jin's waist as the ride began to spin at quite a fast speed.
"Hey! What are you doing? Hey!" The operator yelled at them in a playful tone.
"I'm going to have a stroke." Soul said as she lowered her head, holding the handrail tightly. "Ah! I have something in my eye!" She exclaimed as she pulled one of her hands off the bar to wipe her eye.
The second she did so, she slipped off the seat and onto the floor.
"Finally!" Gigi shouted joyfully.
"What?" Soul questioned, her hand still over her eye.
"Get up!" Jin shouted to her before suddenly stumbling off the seat and onto her feet, but Bada's arm had kept Jin on top of her even as she was standing.
"I can't!" Soul shouted back.
Then, out of nowhere, a stranger had crashed onto her, causing both of the women to grunt.
"Help?" Soul requested as she looked toward her friends.
"Survival of the fittest." Gigi said as she shook her head.
However, R.2 had decided to extend her hand, Soul taking it and rushing back to her spot.
"Sit, baby. Sit, sit, sit." Bada told Jin, who nodded and quickly sat back down next to her.
The lovers didn't let go of each other though. They had just moved their hands onto each others' arms. Their free hands still held the handrail tightly.
"Hold on!" Bada squealed with a happy grin.
As the ride was spinning, one of the men on the ride suddenly stood up and began to run in place. His balance was surprising to all the other guests. He wasn't stumbling or wobbling at all whatsoever.
Bada's eyes seemed to light up with excitement and hope, which Jin had noticed.
In videos, Bada had seen men and women standing up on the Disco Pang Pang and performing tricks while the ride was moving.
She was curious to see if the man jogging was a performer too.
Much to her delight, he was.
"Ready? One, two..." The operator spoke. "Jump!"
The man then ran up to an empty spot and stepped onto it before jumping high up into the air, landing on the floor with skillful grace.
Many of the guests gave sounds of awe as they watched him.
"Wow!" Bada exclaimed in amazement while Jin rose her brows, impressed.
But then she tore her gaze away from the performer when the ride bounced roughly again.
. . . . .
After the ride had finally stopped, the group of twelve could not stop laughing about it even after they got off.
They were all making fun of each other for every little fall and every little stumble, but it was all in good fun.
Since they still had so much more to see, the group decided to go on some more amusement rides together.
They had stood outside until the mid-afternoon, when the sky had finally started to get dark.
When they all came to a collective agreement that enough was enough, they went to one of the food spots in the amusement park to have some food before going home.
Jin had smiled so much at the table, enjoying the sound of her friends chatting and sharing laughs whilst they ate their hot meals together.
She felt so much happiness in her heart, so much warmth. It felt peaceful and nice.
She hoped to have more moments like that with BEBE, as well as all the other crews she had connected with thanks to Street Woman Fighter 2.
After finishing up what was on her plate, Jin's head dropped onto Bada's shoulder, her half-lidded gaze showing visible exhaustion.
"Hmm? Baby? Are you okay?" Bada asked her, her voice soft and sweet.
Jin couldn't help but smile again just from the sound of it.
"Tired." Jin replied, her eyes on her lap as she answered her partner.
"Ah, okay. Don't worry. We'll go home soon." Bada comforted her, placing an arm around Jin's shoulders while using her other hand to sip her soda.
Eventually, the entire group had finished eating their food. It was a bit of a debate about who paid the check.
Then, they all began to walk to the parking lot, parting says so that they could all go to their own personal vehicles.
Bada guided Jin over to her car before releasing her and walking over to the passenger side, opening the door for her.
"My lady." She said playfully, Jin giving a little bow before climbing into the passenger seat.
Then, Bada went over and sat down in the driver's seat, eventually driving off.
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