Prologue

Jessica opened the front door of her house, trying her best to be as quiet as possible. She was suppose to arrive back home a few hours ago, but when she passed the secret spot, she couldn't help it but check for the slightest possibility that the other girl was back. 

But as always, for the past 2 years, the little hope she had in her heart was quickly diminished when everything looked exactly the same as the last time she came. 

Jessica slowly closed the door behind her before picking up her bags. She was about to go upstairs to her room when she smelled a familiar aroma coming from the kitchen. College food was definitely better than High School food, but nothing could compared with her mother's home cooking. 

She moved quietly towards the kitchen and was surprised to find what was waiting for her.

"You're late."

"Umma?!" Jessica's eyes widen in surprise to see the older woman sitting in the dark kitchen. "It's late. Shouldn't you be asleep?"

"Shouldn't you be back a few hours ago?" The older woman asked back with a stern face. When she noticed the frighten expression forming in her older daughter's eyes, Mrs. Jung quickly broke into a smile. "You must be tired from the long drive... Go take a nice shower and I'll bring something nice and hot for you to eat." 

"Umma, you're the best!" Jessica quickly gave her mother a big hug. She gave her mother another smile before leaving the kitchen for her room.

Jessica looked around the familiar surrounding as she climbed the stairs to the second floor, where her room was. She didn't want to come back at first since the break was only for a week and she had a lot of school work to do, but she was glad that her cousin had successfully convinced her. 

Jessica sighed as she placed her bags by the side of her bed. Nothing had changed much since the last night she spent in her room before moving into the college dorms. 

She walked over to her dresser and reached for the second drawer. She searched through the contents and smiled when her hand met what she was looking for. 

A picture frame. 

Jessica gently traced a finger over the face of one of the girls in the picture.

I should forget about you...

1.0

"Why are you reading when we're on vacation?"

Jessica looked up from her book to find her cousin staring at her. "Unlike you, I have work to do." 

"I have work too." Jessica's cousin defended herself, nodding her head up and down to add more truth to her statement. "I just can't do it until my partner comes over."

Before Jessica could say anything else back, she heard the sound of foot steps running downs the stairs.

"Unnie! You're back!" Jessica's younger sister exclaimed with excitement. "Sooyoung-unnie, you're here too?"

"Nice to see you too, Yoona." Sooyoung greeted the other girl. She stretched her body as she laid down on the couch. "When's lunch?"

"Can't you eat at your house?" Jessica asked. "Or did you eat all the food already?"

"Come on, Sica~ We're family! What's yours is mine, what's mine is yours." Sooyoung scooted her back up the couch and rested her head on Jessica's thighs. "Unless there isn't any food left in this house too..." She looked up at the other girl's eyes.

"I think both houses are going to run out of food with you two back at the same time..." Yoona quickly jumped when Sooyoung threw a cushion at her. "Unnie~" She pouted as she picked up the cushion up from the floor, before tossing it back and running away for cover.

"Now that the innocent one is gone...and you're no longer stuck in that text book of yours..." Sooyoung sat up from her position and faced Jessica. "Mind telling me why you come back so late last night?"

"I had to go check on something." Jessica looked away from Sooyoung, knowing perfectly well that the other girl was about to give her another lecture. "I'm fine. Really!" She added when she saw the concern look in Sooyoung's eyes. 

"Jessi..."

"Sooyeon! Can you go to the market right now? We're running a little low on food for the BBQ and there's no more food left at your cousin's too!"

"Okay!" Jessica shouted back at her mother. She looked over at Sooyoung, relieved that the other girl had decided to drop the topic. "Ready for some food shopping?" She smiled at the other girl, hoping to assure her that she really was fine and there was nothing to worry about.

"You know you can talk to me if you need someone to talk to." 

"I know." Jessica said as she got up from the couch and reached out her hand for the other girl. "If something comes up, I'll definitely tell you."

...

"Unnie~" Yoona whined to her sister as she pulled on Sooyoung's arm. "Unnie! Sooyoung-unnie won't leave the sampling booths!" 

"Use your superhuman strength, Him Yoona." Jessica replied back absentmindedly as she looked around the aisle for the pasta that her mother wanted. "I'm going to look in the next aisle." She then turned her attention to her cousin. "Choi Sooyoung, if you want there to be meat at the BBQ, you better remember to get them!"

"I will. I will." Sooyoung nodded as she stuffed another piece of bread into her mouth. "Oh. Are you getting the vegetables for the salad or am I?"

"You are." Jessica answered back. 

"Okay! I'll make sure to get a lot of cucumbers!" Sooyoung smiled innocently when Jessica turned around to glare at her. "Come on, Yoona, we have to go find your sister's ultimate enemy!" She reluctantly left the sampling booth after taking a couple of more pieces from the table.

"You know she's going to kill you if you do." Yoona reminded as she followed Sooyoung towards the meat section of the market.

"I know." Sooyoung nodded as she scanned through everything that was laid out in front of her. "But it's so much fun teasing her. And I just can't help it."

"Sooyoung-unnie, sometimes, I really think that you should be younger than me." Yoona teased. 

"That's only because you haven't seen the sophisticated side of me!" Sooyoung laughed loudly, not embarrassed by the fact that everyone in the market was staring at her right now.

"Watching you laugh like that, I highly doubt you have a sophisticated side."

Sooyoung stopped her laugher when she heard a familiar voice from behind her. "Yah! What are you doing here?! Aren't you suppose to meet me back at my house?"

...

"Pasta, check. BBQ sauce, check. Paper plates, check." Jessica read off the list that her mother had given her before she left the house. I wonder if Sooyoung left the sampling table yet...? She started walking back to the back of the market to search for her cousin and her younger sister. "Yoona!" She called out to her sister when she noticed the other girl alone. 

"Is Sooyoung still at the sampling tables?" Jessica asked in disbelief. 

Yoona quickly shook her head side to side. "Sooyoung-unnie met her friend and they're getting the meat right now." She explained. "I'm going to get the vegetables right now."

Jessica nodded as she followed Yoona. "Who?"

"Probably someone from school." Yoona tried her best to explained who the other person was. "Sooyoung-unnie said they're doing a project together for a class."

"Someone from school..." Jessica repeated. 

...

"Yah~ Choi Sooyoung, don't you think you're getting too much?! I know you eat a lot, but..."

"Yah~ Shorty, I'm not just buying food to feed myself, I'm also buying food to feed my aunt, uncle, and cousins too!" Sooyoung retorted back. "And my cousins have an appetite that can almost compare with mine."

"An appetite that can almost compare with yours?! Wow. I guess it runs in the family..."

"Yup Shorty!"

"Yah! Stop calling me 'Shorty' like it's my name! You know, I am older than you, maybe we show go back to being honorific and you calling me 'unnie'." 

"If I start calling you 'unnie', I'm sure you'll feel strange. I did that once to my cousin and the next day she had rashes all over her body. It was so funny!" Sooyoung laughed at the memory. 

"You're exaggerating! How is that possible?"

"You can ask her when you see her at the BBQ. If you still want me to call me 'unnie' after listening to a true account of the dangers of it, I'll be happy to call you 'unnie', which means you're still 'Shorty' right now."

...

"Is there anything else we need?"

"Uh..." Jessica reached into her pocket for the list. 

"Unnie! You dropped your keys!" Yoona quickly bent down to pick up the item from the floor when her sister had pulled her hand out. "You're still using this key chain?"

"Yeah." Jessica quickly reached over for the key chain. She examined it carefully, making sure that there weren't any major scratches on the trinket. After letting out a sigh of relief that no new scratch had found its way on to the little owl, she carefully place the key chain back into her pocket. 

"I think we're all done with the shopping." Jessica said as she looked over the list carefully. "Now all we have to do is find Sooyoung." 

Yoona nodded as she followed behind her sister. She looked into each aisle they passed to see if Sooyoung was in there. "Unnie, maybe we should check back at the sampling booths." She suggested after searching unsuccessfully for a few minutes.

Jessica nodded as she made her way towards where the sampling booths were located. She rolled her eyes when she found Sooyoung standing in front of one of the tables, busily tasting everything that was set out on the table. She was about to yelled at the other girl but stopped herself when she noticed a shorter girl already yelling her. 

She finally got in trouble with the employees, didn't she? A faint smirk formed on Jessica's face as she watched her cousin argue back with the shorter girl. I guess it's time to go in and save her from the furies of the employees... She started walking again but quickly stopped when she saw the face of the shorter girl when she turned around. She looks like...her...

"Unnie? Are you okay?" Yoona asked worriedly when she saw the paleness of her sister's face. 

"Yeah...I'm fine..." Jessica tried her best to assure her younger sister. She let out a big breath before she started walking again. "Yah...Sooyoung..." She called out timidly as she avoided the unknown girl's eyes. "Are you done yet?"

"Just one more..." Sooyoung tried to reach for another cup of noodles on the table, but was stopped by hand holding onto her wrist. "Yah~ Taeyeon...just one more~ Please!!" Sooyooung begged her friend. 

"No more!" Taeyeon said firmly as she pulled Sooyoung away from the table. "You don't want to keep your cousins waiting, right?" She acknowledged the two girls standing in front of them. 

"They're not important." Sooyoung argued back as she looked back at the cups of noodles.

"Sooyoung-unnie~" Yoona grabbed a hold of Sooyoung's other arm. "I think we should go back...unnie is looking a little sick..."

Sooyoung stopped trying escape the two arms holding onto her and looked over at Jessica. "Are you okay?" 

"Yeah...I'm fine..." Jessica answered back awkwardly when she noticed that Taeyeon was looking at her too. "L-let's go..."

Sooyoung nodded as she watched Taeyeon walked towards the cashier with Yoona following behind her. She looked over at her cousin, who seemed to have zone off staring at her the two girls walking away. "Jessica?"

Jessica heard her cousin called out her name, but she didn't to answer back. She knew Sooyoung was going to ask what was wrong and she wasn't sure if she could pull off another "Nothing is wrong" She lied as she continued to watch Taeyeon talked with her sister as the two girls stood in line in front of the cashier. 

She doesn't look like her... She is not her... But why is my heart not listening to me?!

2.0

"Is your cousin alright?" Taeyeon asked concernedly as she watched Jessica opened the car door and slid out of the seat. "She looks kinda sick..."

Sooyoung watched Jessica carefully as the other girl slowly made her way inside the house. "I think she's just tired...she came home late last night and probably didn't get enough sleep..." She smiled assuredly at Taeyeon. "And she's the type of girl that needs a lot of sleep or else she's going to be grumpy all day." 

Taeyeon nodded at Sooyoung's explanation. 

"What's wrong with your sister?"

Taeyeon quickly bowed to the older woman that was coming out of the house that Jessica just went into. "Hello." 

"Hello." Mrs. Jung smiled back at Taeyeon. "We have everything set up all ready so we can start the BBQ soon. Can you help me bring the bags to Sooyoung's parents in the back yard?"

"Of course." Taeyeon replied back as she followed Sooyoung towards the back of the house. 

Mrs. Jung smiled as she watched the two girls laughed as they turned the corner of the house. She turned her attention back to her other daughter. "Is something wrong with your sister?"

"Unnie is probably tired." Yoona explained, using the same excuse that Sooyoung had given to Taeyeon. "You know how much sleep she needs, right?"

"That girls sleeps too much." Mrs. Jung let out a relived sigh that her older daughter wasn't sick. "Well, if she's going to take a nap right now, she better wake up soon or else your cousin is going to eat all the food up!"

Yoona chuckled at her mother's comment as she ringed her arm around the older woman's arm. "I'm sure unnie is going to be fine." She said as she looked up hopefully at the window of her sister's room.

...

"Taeyeon-ah, it's so nice to finally meet you!" 

"You too auntie!" Taeyeon smiled back at Sooyoung's mother. 

Mrs. Choi reached over for Taeyeon's hand and patted it gently. "Thank you for dealing with Sooyoung's huge appetite. I understand how much trouble that girl's appetite can be at times..." Mrs. Choi looked over at her daughter who was busily stuffing her face with the food from the grill. "Yah! Sooyoung save some food for Sooyeon!"

Sooyoung stopped her eating and looked up at her mother. "Umma~ I'm hungry~"

"When are you never?"

Mrs. Choi and Taeyeon laughed as the same words came out of their mouths.

"Aish~" Sooyoung growled as she cleaned her hand with a napkin. "I'm going to check on Jessica then." She got up from the table and looked carefully at everything that was on her plate. "If I find anything gone, I'll hunt you down!" She threatened before running towards the Jung house. 

Mrs. Choi quickly turned to her husband when Sooyoung was out of sight. "Honey~ We better start cooking and stocking up before our daughter comes back!" She shouted at her husband who hurriedly placed more ribs onto the grill.

...

Jessica let out a sigh as she looked at the picture frame in her hand. She smiled as she trace the jawline of one of the girls in the picture. 

Unnie...why did you leave without a word...?

"Thinking about her again?" 

"You know you should knock before coming into someone's room." Jessica looked up to see her cousin standing in front of her room. She let out a weak smile as the other girl walked in and sat on her bed. 

"Are you feeling better now? You looked really sick back there at the market...what happened?" Sooyoung asked concernedly. 

"Nothing." Jessica lied as she forced out a smile for the other girl. 

Sooyoung sighed, knowing perfectly well that Jessica wasn't telling the truth. "You should smile like that again." She took the picture frame away from Jessica's hand and held it in her own. "You shouldn't stop smiling like that because of her."

Jessica took the frame back and started at her image in the picture. She smiled as she recalled the day the picture was taken. It was their fifth outing together. It was also the day they became offical. "I still miss her... I still wish that she would have told me something before disappearing like that..."

Sooyoung sighed as she laid down on her cousin's bed. She was the only one that knew about this relationship that Jessica had with this girl. The only reason Jessica had told her in the first place was so she could use her an excuse when she went out with her girlfriend. So since she was the only one who knew about this secret relationship, she was the only one Jessica could come to when the older girl disappeared without a word. 

Sooyoung could still recalled the memory clearly when Jessica knock on her door late one night, crying and talking nonsense. Since the two girls were the same age and grew up together, Sooyoung felt helpless when she watched Jessica cried in her arms that night. She really wanted to comfort the other girl, but didn't know how. All she could to do was allow the other girl to cry her heart out in her embrace.

"She kind of looks like her..."

Sooyoung looked over at her cousin. "Who?"

"Your friend..."

Sooyoung quickly sat up from the bed and grabbed Jessica's shoulders. "Taeyeon? Is that why you froze when you saw her?" She watched at Jessica avoided her eyesight. "Sica, she does not. Yah. Did you hear me? She does not, okay?" 

Sooyoung waited for a response from the other girl. When she received none, she grabbed onto Jessica's hand and made the other girl look at her. "Jessica, you have to forget about her and go on with your life. You should find another girlfriend, or maybe switch genders and find a boyfriend. I have a lot of guys friends that are interested in you if you're willing to give them chance." 

Jessica just nodded at her cousin's suggestion. "I will when I'm ready..."

"It's been 2 years already..." Sooyoung reminded. "I know she was your first, but she shouldn't be your last."

Jessica nodded at the statement. She knew it was true. She shouldn't let just one bad experience prevent her from going out with someone else. 

"Shouldn't you worry more about your own love life, then mine?" Jessica teased her cousin, trying to lighten up the mood. She laughed at the hurt look that formed on Sooyoung's face. 

"Yah! If you want me to focus more on my love life, then let me fix yours first." Sooyoung said back. "How can I concentrate on finding myself a man if I have to worry about you? Do you know how tiring that is?" Sooyoung smiled at the other girl.

"I promise, you'll be the first to know if I find someone I'm interested in." Jessica promised. "Sooyoung-ah, thank you..." She smiled at her cousin. She really appreciate the other girl for always being there for her. Somehow, Sooyoung always knew when to comfort her when she was down. 

"Yah! Don't get all mushy with me!" Sooyoung warned. "I rather you be the cold Ice Princess then a mushy cousin who cries too much... Yah!" Sooyoung fell onto the bed when she got hit by Jessica's pillow. "What did you do that for?!"

"Being the Ice Princess you want me to be."

"You didn't have to switch that fast, did you?" Sooyoung threw a pillow back at the other girl. "Now that the counseling session is finish, I shall leave you alone now. Remember to send a check to my house within a week...or else I'll have to sue yo..." Sooyoung quickly closed the door behind her when she saw a pillow flying towards her again.

Jessica got up from the floor and placed the picture back onto her dresser. She walked over to the door and picked up her pillow from the floor. She hugged the pillow as she walked over to her window and looked at the BBQ party that was happening in her backyard.

She laughed as she watched Sooyoung run towards the food that her uncle had finished cooking before being chased by her mom and auntie. She smiled when she saw her aunt and mother yelled at Sooyoung. Must be complaining about her eating too much...

She then looked over at her sister, who was laughing with Taeyeon as the two girls watched Sooyoung tried to steal a piece of meat from the grill before being dragged away from by her father. She watched as the two girl continued laughing about whatever Taeyeon was talking about. 

Sooyoung's right...she's not the same as unnie... BoA-unnie would never have laughed so...un-womanly...

3.0

"Why do I have to drive you back anyways?" Jessica looked over at her cousin.

"Because I'm your favorite cousin..." Sooyoung smiled sweetly at the other girl.

"You're my only cousin." Jessica stated back.

"I know. Aren't I special." Sooyoung continued with her sweet smile. "But just to let you know, you're not my favorite cousin. Yoona is so much better than you." She laughed as the other girl sigh in defeat and returned her attention back to the different buildings they were passing through. "Yah. Your phone is vibrating." She reached over for Jessica's phone. "I'll answer it for you since you're driving."

Before Jessica could say anything against it, the loud voice of her roommate filled the whole car.

"SICA!! I missed you! Are you coming back yet?"

"Tiffany, you don't have to shout..." Jessica sighed. She looked over at her cousin who was trying her best to stifle her laughter. "I'm coming back right now."

"Oh okay." 

"Why did you called?"

"The new roommate is coming over today too. Just wanted to let you know." 

New roommate? 

"Sica, you read my SMS, right?" 

SMS? "Uh...maybe... Which one?"

"The one I sent you a couple of days ago! You read it didn't you?! Well, since you didn't say anything back, I just assumed that you agreed to the idea."

"It's too late to disagree now, right?"

"Of course..."

"Okay. So I guess I agree... Fany-ah, I'm going through a tunnel now, I'll call you when I get back, okay? Bye." Jessica quickly hung up the phone before the girl on the other end could say anything back. 

"Tunnel?" Sooyoung looked out at the window and pointed at the blue sky. "Well, I feel bad for whoever is going to be your new roommate... She'll have to suffer the coldness of the great Ice Princess..."

Jessica glared at her cousin before returning her attention to the road.

Mental note to self...check Fany's SMS before entering dorm...

...

"Sica, you have to read my the SMS I sent you. They're important." Tiffany pouted as she watched her roommate walked around their dorm. 

"Sometimes." Jessica answered back her friend. "Most of the time you sent me random stuff that I can't understand so I kind of made it a habit to not read your SMS... If it was important, you'll call me, right?" She defended herself. "So tell me about this girl." Jessica quickly started a new conversation before Tiffany goes off arguing the importance of her SMS's.

"She's a classmate in my Korean Writing class. She's an awesome person and helps me a lot in the class." 

"Everyone's helpful to you when it comes to Korean. Even a five-year-old would be helpful." Jessica teased her friend. "Continue." She smiled when the girl glared back at her.

"Well, her roommate is moving back home this semester so she has no one to live with, so I invited her to live with us." Tiffany explained. "And since you have the double room, she'll be rooming with you. Unless you want to move over to my room and I'll move to yours."

Move? Too much work... "I think I'll be fine. When is she coming?" Jessica streched on the couch. "I'm sleepy..."

"Aren't you always?" Tiffany smiled at the other girl. "I'll give her a call an..." Tiffany looked up from her phone when she heard a knocking sound coming from the front door. "I think she's here. Sica, open the door for her..."

"Why me..?" Jessica looked over at Tiffany, but the other girl had already ran into her room. Aish... She stood up from the couch and walked over to the door. Remember Jessica, smile and be nice...

She put on a smile before reaching for the knob and turning it, pulling the door open. I wonder who she is... Jessica eyes widen in surprise when she the girl standing in the hallway.No...impossible... She started moving backwards in to the room. She didn't realize that she walking into one of the girl's boxes and tripped when her leg hit the item and fell backwards onto the floor.

...

Unnie...?

Jessica smiled at the girl looking down at her. You're back...

"Sica?! Are you okay?"

Tiffany's shrill voice brought Jessica back to reality as her vision cleared up and she realized that it was Taeyeon, Sooyoung's friend she had met back home, staring down at her. "Yeah...I'm fine..." She said weakly as she sat up from the couch and rubbed the back of her head.

"You scared me there for a second when I came out of the room and found you lying on the floor. Taeyeon looked like she was going to call for an ambulance." Tiffany said. "Let me get you some ice."

Jessica nodded as Tiffany left her alone in the living room with the other girl. Great Jessica, you just made a fool of yourself... She hung her head in embarrassment as she mentally scolded herself for her clumsiness. I thought we already figured it out that it's not her...

"Since we never got introduced at the BBQ, I'm Kim Taeyeon." 

Jessica looked up to see Taeyeon bowing at her. Just be polite and introduce yourself... "I-I'm uh... J-Jessi... J-Jessica J-Jung..." She finally stuttered out. She quickly returned a bow towards the other girl before looking away. How long does it take to get some ice...?

"I'm back." 

Jessica sighed in relief when she heard Tiffany's voice filled the dorm. "Thanks" She mumbled as she reached for the ice pack and place it on her head. "I think I'm just going to lie down for a little while." She announced before lying down on the couch. She then closed her eyes as the coolness from the ice pack slowly calmed her down. 

She wanted to clear her mine of everything, but hearing the chattering of Tiffany and Taeyeon's voice made it difficult for her to do so. She found herself sneaking glances at the two girls, especially at Taeyeon, when they erupted into laughter. 

Jessica quickly closed her eyes and pretended nothing happened when Taeyeon looked over at her. 

We're going to be living under the same roof, I have to get comfortable around her... Jessica sighed at the thought of living together. You'll also be sleeping in the same room with her...She let out a final sigh before sitting up from the couch, frightening the two other girls in the room. "I'm hungry."

"I think we still have some ramyun packs left before break..." Tiffany stood up from the floor and walked towards the kitchen. "Unless you want me to make you a sandwich." She stopped walking and looked hopefully at Jessica. 

"Ramyun." Jessica replied back without any hesitation. There was no way she was going to eat another one of Tiffany's sandwiches when there is a choice available for her. 

"Are you boiling the water or am I?" Tiffany pointed at Jessica then back at herself. 

Jessica wasn't sure how to answer the question and for a split second, looked over at Taeyeon.

"I'll help." Taeyeon suggested. 

"Really? That'll be great since the two of us can't really cook..." Tiffany laughed sheepishly. 

Jessica coughed, trying to hide her embarrassment. She was actually glad that Taeyeon volunteered to cook. Everytime she made Ramyun with Tiffany, it always somehow turned into a bad experience. The last time they tried made Ramyun as a last resort, Tiffany had accidentally burned all the water. When they finally had the water ready, Jessica had left the boiling water into the bowl too long causing the noodles to be all soggy.

She watched as Tiffany led Taeyeon to the kitchen. She instantly heard laughter as the two other girls started chatting away.

It's not her... Jessica reminded herself again. Not her...

...

Jessica stared at the bowls of noodles in front of her with Tiffany sitting by herself, mouth wide open in amazement. Same pack of noodles...how come she can make it like this...?!

"I didn't over do it, did I?" Taeyeon asked the two girls sitting in front of her. "A lot of the food were about to expire so I added them in..." She explained as she looked at the overfilling bowls of food. 

"Taeyeon-ah, I think you should do all the cooking in the dorm..." Tiffany said. She looked over at Jessica who was nodding at the suggestion. She took a deep breathe to smell the aroma of the noodles. "It smells delicious!" 

Jessica watched as Tiffany slurping up the noodles before following the same action. Delicious... 

"Do you like it?" 

Jessica nodded at Taeyeon's question with a content smile. I could get use to this... She watched Taeyeon smiled back at her before the digging into her bowl. She watched Taeyeon eat for a couple of seconds before returning back to her meal. 

That smile...it looks so familiar... Jessica stole another look at Taeyeon and smiled as she watched the other girl slurped some of the soup. 

...

Jessica blinked a couple of times as she stared at the ceiling, waiting for her new roommate to come back from the showers. Usually she would have already been deep asleep once her head reached her pillow, but not today. She was getting more and more nervous by the second waiting for Taeyeon to come into the room. Why am I getting nervous for...?

She quickly closed her eyes when she heard the door opening. She continued to pretend that she was asleep as she listen closely to her roommate move around in the dark. She found herself smiling at the fact that Taeyeon couldn't see what she was doing and tripping over her books in the room. I should probably clean up...

"AH...!" 

Jessica opened her eyes at the sound of Taeyeon's scream. "You can open the lights." She reached over for the switch and turned it on for the other girl.

"Sorry." Taeyeon apologized as she got up from the floor. "I didn't want to wake you...but I guess I did anyways, didn't I?" 

"I wasn't asleep yet." 

"Oh." Taeyeon smiled at Jessica. "Um...I'm okay now, you can turn off the lights..." 

Jessica watched as Taeyeon got into her bed before switching off the lights. She sighed as she crawled back into her bed. Am I making her awkward or is she making me awkward...?

"Good-night Jessica." Taeyeon said cautiously into the dark room. 

"Good-night." Jessica said back. 

Remember Jessica, she's not...

4.0

Jessica sighed as she stared at the back of Taeyeon's a couple of desks in front of her. It had already been a 2 weeks since Taeyeon moved into the dorm and Jessica was slowly getting use to the other girl. It was still awkward for the two of them to be alone in the same room, but this only happens before the two girls went to sleep. Other times, Tiffany would be in between them, talking about this and that. 

Jessica smiled as she watched Taeyeon scratched the back of her neck.

Every morning she had to remind herself that the girl sleeping in the bed next to hers was not the unnie she wishes to see again but a different person. Kim Taeyeon, Sooyoung's friend, Tiffany's classmate... 

Jessica had thought that by the second week she wouldn't need to remind herself again, but when she didn't, her mind would blink out for a second when she saw Taeyeon's face. Maybe she wasn't trying hard enough to convince herself, allowing the possibility to pretend that Taeyeon was BoA-unnie. 

She sighed as the teacher continued rambling about the upcoming group project. Jessica didn't mind working in groups if it was with people she knew, but she knew no one in this class since it was a new semester. 

Well, she didn't know anyone expect for Taeyeon. Even though the two of them were still awkward towards each other, Jessica felt that working with Taeyeon was still better than working with an unknown classmate. The problem was that Taeyeon was popular in the class and everyone wanted to work with her. 

She probably has a partner already... Jessica laid her head down on the desk as the other students moved around the room, looking for a possible partner. I guess I'll just work with whoever is left...

"Do you want to work together?"

Jessica looked up at the sound of the familiar voice and found Taeyeon smiling at her. "Uh..." She wanted to say "yes", but every time Taeyeon smiled, her brain blinks out and she couldn't speak. 

"Well, I was thinking that since we live together, it'll be easier for us to work together..." Taeyeon explained when she noticed the confused look on Jessica's face. "It's okay if you want to work with someone else..." She added in softly.

"No!" Jessica shouted at the other girl, surprising her. "Sorry." She apologized for the sudden outburst. "Yeah...let's work together." 

"Great!" Taeyeon's smile returned back to her face. "I'll go sign us up then!" She announced before running to the front of the room where the sign up sheet was. 

Jessica smiled as she watched Taeyeon pushed the crowd at the front of the room to get the sign-up sheet. 

Why is she so...cute...

...

"So how's the new roommates?"

Taeyeon scooted her stuff over to make room for her friend on the counter. "They're good." She smiled at Sooyoung. "I'm living with your cousi..."

Sooyoung quickly covered the other girl's mouth with her hand before she could finish her sentence. "No mentioning that Jessica and I are..." She looked around the room, checking if anyone was eavesdropping. "...cousins." 

"Why not?" Taeyeon asked when she removed Sooyoung's hand from her mouth. 

"We don't like other people knowing about our relationship." Sooyoung said. "I'll explain why later..." She pointed at the front of the room where the teacher was beginning today's topic.

Fried shrimp with special sauce... Sooyoung smiled as the teacher wrote the name of the dish on the board. I can't wait to start eating... Sooyoung listen attentively to the teacher as she listed the various ingredients on the board and begin explaining the steps to follow to make the dish. 

"Yah, I think this the only class you pay so much attention to." Taeyeon teased her friend when the teacher had finished explaining and was allowing the students to start cooking. "Are you going to explain..."

"Later." Sooyoung quickly cut Taeyeon off as she hurried towards the front of the room. "We have to get the ingredients first."

Taeyeon shook her head as she followed the other girl to the front of the classroom. "Why are we rushing? It's not like they're going to run out of ingredients for us." 

"But we need to get the best ones!" Sooyoung explained. "I'll fight for the shrimps, you get everything else!" 

Taeyeon watched as Sooyoung pushed through the crowd as she made her way towards the boxes of shrimps. Better get the other ingredients before she blames me for not getting enough... 

"Are you done yet?"

Taeyeon looked up and saw Sooyoung standing next to her, grinning in triumph as she held three boxes of shrimp. "Isn't that too much?" She pointed at the boxes.

"Nothing is too much when it comes to food." Sooyoung explained firmly. "Plus, the teacher said we can get three boxes each..." She went on to defend herself. "Aish. Why are you so slow?" She asked as she watched Taeyeon got the other ingredients for the dish. 

"Well, I have to make sure they're fresh and stuff..." Taeyeon explained as she followed the other girl back to their counter. "So are you going to explain now?"

"Sure, I'll explain." Sooyoung smiled as she pushed all the ingredients towards Taeyeon. "You can start cooking as I talk."

"Are you not helping again?"

Sooyoung ignored Taeyeon's question as she brought out an apple and started eating it. "Did you say something?" She asked innocently. When the other girl made no response and began cleaning the ingredients, Sooyoung began her explanation of why she didn't want people knowing that Jessica was her cousin.

"It's not anything big." Sooyoung began. "It just kind of a habit we got into since elementary school, I don't tell anyone that she's my cousin and she does the same thing. Even as a little kid, that girl is scary...she put on a cold face towards everyone in the classroom, even the teacher. From that moment on, I decided that I was safer if people did not know that I was her cousin...I didn't want to be jumped by the other kids because of her..."

"I don't think she's that...cold..." 

"That's because you don't know her as well as I do." Sooyoung said firmly. "But if you asked her, she'll probably tell you that she doesn't want to admit I'm her cousin because she's embarrassed by my eating habits. According to her, I was eating everyone's left overs during lunch time..."

"That actually sounds believable..." Taeyeon smiled at Sooyoung. 

"Yah!" Sooyoung lifted her hand to wack the other girl, but stopped when the other girl held out a knife. Aish... "So how's living with her? There's another girl too, right?"

"Yeah, there's three people in the dorm. It gets a little tiring at times when they're hungry but can't cook..." Taeyeon laughed. "But I like living with them."

"Sica hasn't been acting weird around you, has she?" Sooyoung asked cautiously, remembering the conversation with her cousin during the BBQ party.

"Weird? Not really, I guess..." Taeyeon placed the knife down on the counter and looked at the other girl. "Just that, there are times when she's looking at me, but I feel that she's seeing someone else. I don't know... It's just that I feel that she's seeing me as someone else..." She sighed as she looked back at the finished ingredients in the bowls. "I'm not making any sense, am I?"

"You are...kind of..." Sooyoung laughed. "Are you almost done yet?" She asked, trying to change the awkwardness surrounding the subject. "I'm hungry."

"When are you not?" Taeyeon asked back with a silly smile. "I just need to cook it now... Are you really not helping?!" 

Sooyoung nodded as she sat down and waited for Taeyeon to continue.

"Tell me more about you cousin. Since we're going to be living together for the whole semester, I want to become friends."

"Like what?"

"I don't know. It's still a little awkward between us, so I thought if I knew more about her, we can become friendlier with each other." Taeyeon threw the shrimps into the pot and watched as they sunk into the boiling oil. "Anything is fine."

"Well since you're going to be doing most of the cooking in the dorm, you should know that she hates cucumbers. Absolutely hates it." An evil smile spread onto Sooyoung's face at the thought. "If you ever find her annoying, just throw a cucumber at her and she'll scream like crazy. I'm telling you it's a hilarious sight. The cold Ice Princess being scared of a little cucumber."

"Ice Princess?" Taeyeon looked up from the pot and turned towards Sooyoung.

"It's a nickname because of her cold looks." Sooyoung explained. "And...she likes strawberries." 

Taeyeon nodded as she placed the cooked shrimps onto a plate. No cucumbers...yes strawberries...

"Oh. One more thing so you don't get on her bad side." Sooyoung stole one of the shrimps before Taeyeon could stop her. "Don't mess with her key chain. Someone very special gave it to her and she doesn't like people messing with it. She gets really scary if she finds out someone touched it without her permission. Even worse if there's a scratch on it afterwards."

"Someone special...as in boyfriend?" Taeyeon placed the diced mandarin peels into a clean pot with some sugar and water to start making the sauce. 

Boyfriend...? "Uh...kind of...in some ways..." I should let Sica explain her sexual preference, not me...

Taeyeon looked over confused. "Kind of?" 

"It's a little complicated..." Sooyoung said nervously. "Don't tell her I told you about this or else she's going to kill me. Actually, don't talk about this at all. Jessica doesn't like talking about it."

Taeyeon nodded at Sooyoung's request. Must be a bad memory... She stirred the sauce in silence as she thought about Jessica. Strawberries...I should bring her to that shop...

"Yah!" Taeyeon shouted at Sooyoung when she noticed that the other girl was slowly eating away the shrimps. "You're suppose to eat it with the sauce!" 

"You're taking too long...plus it tastes just as good without it." Sooyoung popped another piece into her mouth as Taeyeon prepared to slap her hand. "Is the sauce done yet?"

Taeyeon nodded as she turned off the stove. She lifted the pot from the sotve and brove it over the fried shrimps and poured it slowly down. She slapped Sooyoung's hand when the other girl moved to start eating. "Let the teacher try it first so we can get a grade before you start eating everything up."

Sooyoung nodded as she waited for the teacher to make her way through the different groups. She smiled when the teacher came to their counter and tasted Taeyeon's dish. The teacher nodded and wrote something down in her book before walking to the next counter. Finally...

"Yah! Why did you hit me for?! The teacher finished the grading already!" Sooyoung whined as she pouted at the plate on the table. "What now?!"

"You're cleaning up first before you start eating!" Taeyeon said before opening her mouth and placing a fat shrimp inside. 

"Aish~" Sooyoung growled underneath her breath as she hurried to clean up all utensils that were used. She looked over carefully at Taeyeon as she turned on the water. 

Maybe I show have another talk with Sica...

5.0

"Sica~" 

Jessica cringed at the sweetness in the voice calling out her name. "Choi Sooyoung...if you do that again..." 

"Do what~" Sooyoung continued using her aegyo on the other girl, smiling at the fact that she knows how much Jessica hates it. 

"Oh...that's it!" Jessica jumped up from her seat and reached for Sooyoung's neck.

"Sica! Library!" Sooyoung quickly reminded before Jessica had a chance to headlock her head. 

"Argh..." Jessica growled underneath her breath as she bowed apologetically to the other students on the floor who were staring at them due to the little commotion. She quickly stuffed her books into her bag before pulling Sooyoung away to a secluded section of the school library. "What do you want?" 

"Aww~ I feel hurt that my favorite cousin isn't happy to see me..." Sooyoung pouted her lips out at the other girl. 

"I thought Yoona was your favorite cousin." 

"Aish...you don't have to be so technical, do you?" Sooyoung asked as she pulled a chair over for herself and Jessica. "I just wanna see how you're doing..."

"How I'm doing?" Jessica sat down, confused about where the conversation was going.

"Yeah...you know with the new roommate..."

"Ah." Jessica nodded her head now, realizing what Sooyoung was trying to say. "Taeyeon..."

Sooyoung nodded her head along with Jessica as she waited for the other girl to continue. She sighed when Jessica continued to stare silently at the floor. "You're not still seeing her as..."

"I'm not!" 

Sooyoung blinked in surprise at the eagerness in Jessica's answer. "Sica...Taeyeon wants to be friends with you...give her a chance. Get to know her a little more and I'll promise you that she is completely different, even better, than that unnie of yours." She waited for the girl sitting in front of her to give some response. "Well?"

"She is different." Jessica said quietly. She smiled as she recalled Taeyeon's random habits that made the girl so adorable. "She sleep talks..." She laughed as she remembered what happened last night. "She was calling out random numbers! With reminds me that I have to buy a lottery ticket with those numbers later..." 

Sooyoung laughed along with the other girl. "So everything is good between you and her, right?" She smiled satisfied with the nod from Jessica's head. "So let's end this wonderful counseling section with a few easy questions."

Jessica rowed her eyes as she waited for Sooyoung to ask the questions.

"She is..."

"Kim Taeyeon."

"She is not..."

"Kwon BoA."

...

Stupid Sooyoung...ruining my napping time...

Jessica grumbled as she made her way back to the dorm. "I'm back!" She shouted as she entered through the door but was received by a complete silence. "Fany?" 

"She went out already." Taeyeon popped her head out of their room and looked at the other girl. 

Jessica simply nodded at the response as she watched Taeyeon returned back inside the room. "Hey, Taeyeon...do you want to go out and eat?" 

"Tiffany is going to yell at us if she finds out that we went out to eat when she's not around..." Taeyeon answered back from inside the room. "Let me get my coat." She added a minuted a later, erasing the anxiety that the other girl was feeling because of her earlier statement.

Jessica stood by the door, fidgeting with her fingers as she waited for the other girl to come out. Good idea? Bad idea? Good idea? Bad idea? 

"Are you okay?" Taeyeon asked concernedly when she walked out and found Jessica nodding her head and shaking her head. 

"Yeah, I'm fine." Jessica answered back with a little laugh. She opened the door and waited for Taeyeon to walk out before following behind the other girl. "Where do you want to go?"

"You like strawberries, right?" Taeyeon asked, even though she already knew the answer. "I know a really nice shop that sells a lot of strawberry treats. We can go there if its fine with you." She said when Jessica nodded to her earlier question. 

"Let's go." Jessica smiled as she walked next to the girl as she left the front door.

...

Jessica tried to hold in her smile as she observed the girl in front of her reading the menu of the dessert shop. Lately she has been finding the simplest things that Taeyeon did to be very amusing and cute at the same time. Like when the girl would place her palms on the sides of her face when she's indecisive of what to order. 

"Jessica, you order first." Taeyeon finally looked up from the menu only to find Jessica smiling amusingly at her. "What?"

"Nothing." Jessica said, her smile never leaving her face. "Everything looks so good here..." She said absentmindedly as she looked at the various pictures of the different dishes available. "Let's order everything!" 

Taeyeon choked on her water when she heard Jessica's response and started coughing. "You really are related to Sooyoung..." She commented as she wiped away the droplets of water she spurted onto the table. 

"I was just kidding." Jessica frowned. 

Taeyeon looked back at the menu when she felt the change in temperature in the room. "How about we each pick a random number and order whatever we got?" She suggested, hoping to get the mood back up. She closed her menu and watched Jessica followed. "We're ready to order!" She signaled for one of the employees.

"What would you two ladies like?" 

"9!" 

Taeyeon and Jessica laughed as the same number came out of their mouths at the same time. "Two #9, please." Taeyeon repeated to the employee, who smiled politely before leaving to place their order. "I guess great minds think alike." 

Jessica laughed at Taeyeon's comment as she tucked a loose strand of her hair behind her ear. She looked around the surrounding of the shop, saving in every little detail. 

"Do you like it?"

Jessica simply smiled back in response. She definitely liked the atmosphere of the shop with the soft music playing in the background and the scent of fresh strawberries. She was slowly becoming less nervous with the fact of being alone with Taeyeon and possibly on a date with the other girl.

"Your orders are here ladies." The employee smiled at the two girls as she placed the dishes on the table. 

Jessica smiled back politely returned a smile at the lady before staring in awe at the two bowls on the table. She looked up at Taeyeon who was equally surprised by the amount of food in each bowl. "Taeyeon, what did we ordered exactly?"

"Uh..." Taeyeon quickly reached over for the menu sitting by her side. She skimmed down the numbers until she reached #9. "The Berry Delux..." She read off the name of the dish before continuing on with with the description. "Our homemade strawberry ice-cream topped with raspberries, blueberries, and the rest of the family and partially covered with our delicious strawberry syrup. Serves 2 people."

Jessica just laughed after Taeyeon finished reading, unsure of what else to do. "Next time we come here, let's read the menu carefully before ordering." She smiled as she watched Taeyeon nodded in agreement. "Well, let's dig in...I guess..."

...

"I think I'm going to be fat because of you." 

Taeyeon stopped in mid-track and looked at Jessica. "I think you need some fat in you." She said as she looked up and down Jessica's figure. "You look too skinny...maybe some muscles would help too..."

"Like you have any..." Jessica retorted back. 

"Of course I do!" Taeyeon defended herself. "I'll show you..." She said as she looked around the park. After finishing the two bowls of sweets, the two girls had decided to start walking off some of the calories. "I challenge you, Jessica Jung, on the monkey bars!" 

Monkey bars? Jessica had a really bad feeling right now that her earlier remark was going to get her into some trouble. "You don't need to challenge me, I believe you..." She shouted at Taeyeon, but was completely ignored as the other girl walked toward the playground. Jessica sighed as she reluctantly followed the girl. "What are you doing?" She asked when she saw Taeyeon climbing onto the bars and began supporting herself up with her arms. 

"Time me."

"You don't have to do this." Jessica tried convincing the girl again as she looked down at her watch. Again she was ignored as Taeyeon held onto the bars tightly. She sighed again as she made herself comfortable against a pole and watched the girl. Cute... She smiled as she watched the color of Taeyeon's cheeks redden as time passed. "You know you can come down anytime you want."

"Stop...talking...to...me..."

Jessica laughed as Taeyeon scrunched up her face after finishing her sentence difficultly. "We don't have to do this. I believe you have more muscle in that tiny body of yours..." She continued talking to Taeyeon, ignoring the girl's earlier statement. "What?" She asked innocently when Taeyeon shot a glare at her. 

Taeyeon slowly let herself down when she felt that her arms were going to give in. "How long?" She asked as she hung her arms limply by her side.

"A minute." Jessica looked down at her watch. "What?" She asked when Taeyeon walked behind her and started pushing her towards the monkey bars. "I am not getting on that." She said firmly when she realized what Taeyeon was trying to do. "I don't want my arms aching tomorrow morning..."

"Aish~ Forget it." Taeyeon gave up as she leaned against the pole of the monkey bars. "I'm too tired to push you anymore..." She started as she massaged her arm. "If I can't lift my arm tomorrow to feed myself, you're feeding me!" She tried lifting her arm to point at Jessica, but only made it halfway before letting her arm fall back to its earlier position.

"Okay, then I guess you'll be eating late tomorrow, since I don't plan to wake up before 1 in the afternoon." Jessica laughed as she sat down on a swing. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the soft breeze blowing through her hair. Taeyeon... I guess Sooyoung was right for a change... 

Taeyeon watched Jessica carefully as the girl swung herself back and forth on the swing. She smiled, watching the girl humming a tune softly with her eyes closed. This was the first time she was alone with the other girl and not feeling awkward in any way. And she liked this. 

Ever since she had first met Jessica at the BBQ party, she was captivated by the other girl in some way. Even though she didn't get to talk to her at all at the party since the girl seemed like she was avoiding her for some reason, she found herself sneaking peaks from time to time. Living together in the same room did make them a little closer, but they seldom hung out with each other if Tiffany wasn't around. 

Which makes this the perfect time to become friendlier with the other girl and remove any last stands of awkwardness present. 

Taeyeon smiled evilly as she rubbed her hands together and slowly walked behind Jessica. She had learned from Sooyoung that Jessica was a shy girl, which means she'll have to be the one to push for the friendship, and pushing hard was what she was going to do. 

"Yah~!" Jessica opened her eyes and grabbed tightly to the two chains holding up the seat of the swing. "Kim Taeyeon, what are you doing?!" She screamed as she felt the girl pushed her harder into the air when she descended down. 

"Pushing!" Taeyeon simply answered back as she felt her arms ache after each push. My arm is so gonna be dead tomorrow... 

...

"I think I sprained a muscle..." 

"It's not my fault, you're the one who started pushing me for no reason." Jessica reminded as she handed a bottle of water to the other girl. She opened her own bottle of water and started drinking from it. 

"Well, Sooyoung said I had to push for our friendship." Taeyeon explained as she tried opening the cap of her bottle.

"I don't think she meant for you to push literally." Jessica reached over for Taeyeon's bottle after watching the girl failed to open it after multiple attempts. 

"I know, but the swing was there and you were on it, so I though it was the perfect time to do the pushing..." Taeyeon laughed as she drank from the bottle. "So was my pushing successful?" 

"Hmm...I don't know..." Jessica teased. "I didn't really like the pushing that much..." She laughed when Taeyeon looked at her with a blank expression. "Come on Taengoo, we better go back to the dorm now since Tiffany is probably back now."

"Taengoo? When did I get another nickname?" 

"You don't like it?" Jessica asked as she stood up and looked down at the girl. This was her first attempt to become friends with the other girl, and if things goes bad, she won't make another attempt any time soon.

"No. I'm just saying that with all these nicknames, I might not know when someone is calling me or not." Taeyeon laughed as reached out her hand for Jessica to pull her up. "And just to tell you, I don't think I'll be able to cook with my arms tonight, unless you don't mind spilled food all over the floor..." 

"Well, Tiffany and I can cook if you don't mind burnt meat or uncooked eggs..." Jessica said back to the other girl. 

"I think we should eat out today."

Jessica laughed at Taeyeon's response. She nodded her head in agreement as she followed the girl out of the park. I guess this is a start of a new friendship, and I'm liking it already.

6.0

"Jessica~" 

Tiffany grabbed onto the sleeping girl's blanket and started pulling it off. "We have to leave now or we'll be late!!"

"Yah!" Jessica screamed when she felt the warmth of her blanket disappear. "Why do I have to go when you're the one who volunteered?! I didn't volunteer for anything!" 

"I kinda volunteered you when I volunteered..." Tiffany quickly formed her smiling-eyes for the glaring girl, hoping that it would save her from getting kill. 

"Take Taeyeon then." Jessica reached over for another pillow and hugged it for warmth. "I want to sleep!"

"Taeyeon already left!" 

Jessica opened an eye and looked over at the bed across from her. "Where did she go?" She asked as she reluctantly sat up from her bed. She held onto Tiffany's hand and allowed the girl to pull her off the bed and pushed her towards the bathroom. 

"I don't know. I didn't ask because I was too occupy with the task of waking you up." Tiffany smiled sweetly for Jessica when the other girl glared at her. "Now hurry up!" She slammed the door shut, praying that Jessica wouldn't just lie down in the tub and fall asleep.

"Aish~" Jessica scratched her back as she turned on the faucet. 

I guess I wouldn't be seeing Taeyeon today... 

After her little talk with Sooyoung and spending an afternoon with the girl, she had decided to follow the Sooyoung's advice to become friends. The two of them had definitely gotten closer and was no longer awkward with each other. Jessica was also seeing less of Taeyeon as BoA's shadow and more as Kim Taeyeon, her new best friend. 

But seeing Taeyeon as a simple best friend wasn't as easy as it seems. The big things weren't the problem, but the little habits of the other girl was causing Jessica a lot of confusion. A simple smile, a little laugh, a quick look all made the heart of hers beat in an irregular pace. 

"Well I guess today my heart won't be going crazy on me since I probably won't see her at all..."

Jessica looked over at the closed door when a rapid knock came from the other side. 

"Jessica, are you sleeping in the tub?!" 

She rolled her eyes at the silliness of Tiffany's question. "I'm coming! I'm coming..." She shouted back as she closed the faucet and reached for her towel. 

This smells...nice...

 She opened her eyes wondering why her towel smelt different and was surprised to find Taeyeon's towel in her hand. 

No wonder it smells nice...

...

"Taengoo?"

Jessica blinked in surprise when she saw Taeyeon waving at her while wearing one of the volunteer's T-shirts. "Yah...what are you doing?"

"Volunteering..." Taeyeon answered back. Before she could say anything else, she was pulled into a big hug.

"TaeTae~" Tiffany sang the girl's other nickname as she snuggled against the other girl's embrace. "Jessica was mean this morning..." She pouted her lips out at the other girl before she began to tattletale on the other girl. 

"Aww~ My mushroom~" Taeyeon quickly patted the girl on back. "What did the evil Ice Princess do this time?" 

"First, she... Owh!" Tiffany screamed out in pain as she quickly rubbed the spot where Jessica had pinched. "TaeTae!! Look what she did!!" 

Jessica felt the a little annoyed as she watched Taeyeon continued to focus all her attention on Tiffany. She knew that the two girls were playing around, but that didn't stop that fact that she wished that the two of them had less skin contact.

"Is someone jealous~"

Jessica felt the steam rise as her body cringe at the scary sweetness in the voice that could only belong to one person. "Choi Sooyoung..." She growled underneath her breath and turned around to find her cousin smiling sweetly at her. "What are you doing here?" 

"Free food." Sooyoung simply answered back as she show the other girl the plate she was holding. "They give out free food to everyone who is volunteering. That's why I brought Taeyeon with me so I could get double the share!" 

"Jessica, you know her?" 

Jessica turned back around was met by a confused look on Tiffany's face. 

Ah~ She doesn't know about Sooyoung...

 Jessica quickly looked over at Taeyeon for help.

"Uh...she's that the friend that I'm always talking about. You know...the one that eats too much." Taeyeon quickly explained. "Choi Sooyoung meet Hwang Tiffany and..." She looked over at Jessica, wondering if she should introduce her too. "...Jung Jessica." 

While Jessica and Sooyoung smiled awkwardly at each other, trying to pretend that they didn't know each other, Tiffany quickly let go of Taeyeon and gave Sooyoung a deep bow. 

"Nice to meet you!" Tiffany said excitedly. "Are they really giving out free food to volunteers, because I didn't have breakfast and I'm really hungry right now!"

"Yeah..." Sooyoung answered back timidly, surprised by the energy that Tiffany was emitting. She looked at Jessica and Taeyeon one last time before she was dragged away by Tiffany to show her where the food was. 

"Wow...Tiffany made friends pretty easily..." Taeyeon smiled as she watched the other girl followed Sooyoung inside the crowd.

"Yeah...unlike someone who is an evil Ice Princess..." Jessica smiled coldly at Taeyeon.

"Yeah...the evil Ice Princess is definitely scary..." Taeyeon nodded in agreement. "She's all cold and has no emotions..." She continued her teasing. "That's why I like shy Ice Princess more." She laughed when she noticed the blush forming on Jessica's face. "So now that the evil Ice Princess is gone and the shy Ice Princess is back, let's start working!" 

Taeyeon reached over for Jessica's hand and led her towards the same direction that Tiffany and Sooyoung had disappeared into, not realizing that her simple action was causing the other girl's heart to beat uncontrollably. 

...

"So I see you and Jessica has gotten a lot closer."

Taeyeon looked away from Jessica and turned towards Sooyoung. "It took us a little while, but the awkwardness is definitely gone." She turned back towards Jessica's direction and smiled as she watched the other girl laughed along with the little kids. "She's not really as cold as she looks. Her coldness towards everything is like a wall she puts up to protect herself..."

"Wow. It almost sounds like you know my cousin better than I do." Sooyoung teased. 

"She's actually not that difficult to understand." Taeyeon said to Sooyoung, but her eyes were still on Jessica. "Sometimes she seems as innocent as a child. Frowning when she's hungry, restless when she's tired, smiling when she's in a good mood..."

Sooyoung listened interestedly as Taeyeon continued explaining all the different expressions Jessica used to show her different moods. "Yah! Are you taking an introductory class on Jessica?!" She stopped Taeyeon when the girl was about to go on describing the different expressions on Jessica's face when they girl slept. "I think I've listen to enough of Jessica's wonderful habits for today."

Taeyeon laughed at the sarcasm in Sooyoung's voice. "I don't know...I just find it interesting learning watching the little habits that she has."

"Its only interesting when you're in love with the person." Sooyoung stated. Her face quickly froze when she realized what she had just said and quickly looked over at Taeyeon, who looked equally surprise at the statement.

"Nah~" 

The two girls shook their heads side to side, denying any possibility that Taeyeon was falling in love with Jessica. 

"You're not falling for Sica, are you?" Sooyoung asked cautiously.

"O-of course n-not..." Taeyeon stuttered out. She sneaked a peak at Jessica before turning her attention back to Sooyoung. "We're friends, that's why I find her little habits interesting..." She explained, not sure if she was trying to convince Sooyoung or herself. 

"Reall..."

"Taengoo!"

Taeyeon instantly turned her head towards Jessica's when she heard the other girl called out her name. "What?" She watched as the other girl waved for her to come over. "Okay! Coming~" She looked back at Sooyoung one last time before running off to Jessica.

Sooyoung watched as Jessica held onto Taeyeon's hand as she pointed at something in front of her. Whatever Jessica was pointing at must have been funny for Taeyeon because the girl was now laughing hysterically while Jessica was looking unamused. 

"Kim Taeyeon!!" 

Sooyoung flinched at Jessica's sudden scream as she watched Taeyeon run down the field with Jessica chasing behind her. She was about to run in to stop her cousin from killing Taeyeon, but stopped when she noticed the smile on Jessica's face as she ran after Taeyeon.

Jessica...are you falling for Taeyeon...too?

7.0

My cousin...and my best friend...?

Sooyoung looked up at the sky, thinking about the possibility of hooking the two girls together. 

Yes? Or...no? Taeyeon seems like she's falling for Jessica, but what about Jessica? Is she stuck on BoA? She was smiling a lot when she was playing around with Taeyeon... Hmm...

"Yah!" 

Sooyoung turned her head slowly to the side and saw Jessica standing there with her arms crossed around her chest, looking down at her. "Perfect timing Sica! I was just thinking about you!" She pulled the girl down to sit next to her on the grass. 

"You thinking about me?" Jessica eyed Sooyoung suspiciously. "Nothing good is going to happen..."

"Aww~ Sica I feel hurt~" 

Jessica instantly cringed at the voice Sooyoung was using as her hand balled up into a fist. "Choi Sooyoung, this is my last warning if you use that stupid aegyo on me again, I'm going to rip your vocal cords out."

Sooyoung reached up for neck as she pretended to be frighten by the threat. "Wow~ So violent...when Taeyeon just was trying to convince me that you're as innocent as a child..."

Jessica's ears instantly perked up at the mention of Taeyeon's name. "What did she say?" She asked interestedly. 

"I see someone is interested..." Sooyoung teased. "She didn't say anything much except that you look adorable when you're asleep and how she likes the cute smiles you give off when you're happy..."

Cute? Adorable?

 Jessica felt herself blushing at the thought of Taeyeon thinking that she was cute and adorable when it was really the other girl that was cute and adorable. "Anything else?" She asked carefully, trying to hide the interest in her voice. 

"She might have said something about you being sweet..." Sooyoung quickly looked away from Jessica when she felt that she could no longer hold the laughter inside her. 

"Are you lying to me?" Jessica asked when she noticed the change in expression on Sooyoung's face. "Yah!" She screamed out angrily when the other girl rolled over on the grass laughing like crazy. "I'm so going to kill you~"

"No! Stop!" Sooyoung tried to grab a hold of Jessica's hands as the other girl being hitting on. "I wasn't lying~" She sat up from the grass and began breathing in and out, trying to catch her breath. "Really." She stated again when Jessica looked like she didn't believe her.

"Then what were you laughing about?" 

"I don't know...maybe your shy expression, the blush on your cheeks, the little smile forming on your lips because Taeyeon was praising you..." Sooyoung teased. She let out a puff of air as a final measure to calm herself down. "So?"

Jessica blinked in confusion at the sudden change in Sooyoung's voice. "So what?"

"Are you getting all shy and giddy because Taeyeon is praising you, or are you getting all shy and giddy because Taeyeon looks like BoA and she's praising you?"

"I know she's not BoA." Jessica answered back. She watched as Sooyoung nodded, waiting for her to continue. "And I also know that Taeyeon makes me feel strange in some ways."

"Do you like her?"

"..."

"Yah~ You promised you'll tell me if find someone you're interested in." Sooyoung reminded. She looked into Jessica's eyes, waiting for an answer from the other girl.

"I don't know." Jessica answered back quietly. "Maybe..." She added in the same volume. 

"Taeyeon is my friend." Sooyoung began seriously. "I don't want you to use her as a replacement for BoA, but if you do like her for who she is, then I say go for it. But I want you to make sure that you like her because she makes you happy and not because she looks similar to BoA." 

"For someone younger than me, you sound like my mother..." Jessica complained as she rolled her eyes, teasingly. 

"I have to since auntie doesn't know about your secret love life..." Sooyoung reminded as she rolled her eyes. "If I don't take of my pretty cousin, who's going to take care of her~"

"Yah! I told you to stop it on the aegyo." Jessica glared at Sooyoung before she began laughing with the other girl. "I promise you, I'll completely sort out my feelings before I take any action, okay?" She got up from the grass and held out her hand for the other girl. "Break's over! Time to go back to work now."

...

Choi Sooyoung, you're a genius...

Sooyoung mentally praised herself as she worked with the little kids. 

Maybe you should major in some sort of counseling since you're so great at it!

"Sooyoungiie~" 

Sooyoung looked up from the kids and found Tiffany running towards her. 

Where does this girl get her energy?!

Tiffany grabbed onto Sooyoung's hand and smiled at the other girl. "What are you doing?" 

"Uh...I'm helping these kids with the craft project..." Sooyoung answered back nervously as Tiffany looked over her shoulder. "Aren't you suppose to be helping out with the balloons?"

"No." Tiffany smiled back brightly at the other girl. "They didn't nee... AH! Bug~" She grabbed onto Sooyoung's back as she tried to hide from the insect flying towards her. 

"Yah~" Sooyoung screamed out in surprise as she felt the world turned upside down as she fell onto...Tiffany. "Sorry..." She quickly apologized as she got up from the other girl. 

"I should be the one apologizing since I was the one that grabbed you first..." Tiffany laughed. She held out her hand, waiting for Sooyoung to grab it and pull her up. "Well, at least you got rid of the bug." Her eyes disappeared as she smiled at the other girl in gratitude. 

"N-no problem..." Sooyoung stuttered out as she looked into the perfect crescent shape of Tiffany's eyes. She quickly turned away, knowing perfectly well that if she stared at those eyes for another second, she would start uttering nonsense. 

"Do you need any help?" 

"Huh?" Sooyoung blinked confusingly at the other girl. "Oh yeah...um...can you help that girl over there with her doll?" She pointed to a girl by the far end of the table. 

Tiffany nodded in response as she skipped over to the little girl. She smiled again at Sooyoung before turning her attention on helping the little girl make her doll. 

Whew... Sooyoung let out a breath in relief when Tiffany was a good couple of feet away from her. She reached up for her forehead and found sweat forming on the skin. 

Yah...Genius Sooyoung, what's wrong with you?! Why is your heart beating so fast?!

...

Jessica smiled as she felt the light spring breeze blow through her hair as she rested comfortably underneath the shade of a giant tree. She had managed to escape from the tedious volunteer work she was suppose to be doing by pretending that she was sick.

"This is definitely the better way to spent a nice afternoon." She said to herself as she closed her eyes, preparing to fall asleep underneath the tree. 

Jessica reluctantly opened her eyes when she heard laughter coming from her side. She looked up and found Taeyeon running around with a group of little kids, with a squirrel running behind them.

I see someone likes you...

 Jessica smiled as she continued to watch the squirrel leap after the heel of Taeyeon's shoes. Smiling brighter when Taeyeon looked over at her, she waved her hand, hopping that that the girl would a smile back.

But instead, Taeyeon shook her head in a scolding manner. 

"Yah~" Jessica screamed at the girl. She pouted, pretending to be hurt. She couldn't help smiling when the other girl stuck her tongue out at her. The girl's next action caused her heart to skip a beat.

Taeyeon had formed a heart with her hands and was sending it to Jessica.

Jessica felt her herself beginning to blush as she watched run off to chase the group of kids she was playing with. Kim 

Taeyeon, did you just give me your...heart?!

"...go for it..."

Jessica sighed as she remembered her earlier conversation with Sooyoung. 

Jessica, are you ready for a new relationship? Are you ready to give someone else a try? Are you ready to allow someone else a chance to capture your heart? She chuckled at the last question. She already has...

She smiled as she recalled the instances where the girl could always bring a smile on her face. Whenever she was feeling down or just simply tired, Taeyeon knew exactly what to do to cheer her up, a dorky laugh, a silly smile, or just a simple hand on her back. The girl never asked much about what was wrong, but somehow she always knew, probably from Sooyoung who has a really big mouth. 

Jessica leaned her head against the tree trunk and closed her eyes. Instantly images of Taeyeon appeared in her mind and she couldn't help to smile even more. These days she hardly thought about BoA anymore. Since BoA had left, every time she closed her eyes, she would see the girl in front of her, which was why she would often sneak off to take nap just to simply see the other girl. But now, when she closes her eyes, its Taeyeon that she sees. And she likes this. 

She was a cranky girl if woken up, but whenever she sees Taeyeon's face in front of her when she opens her eyes, the crankiness disappears and she pouts at the other girl instead. Taeyeon would always laughed at her when this happens as she reached for her hand to pull her up from the bed. Sometimes she would pull the girl down onto the bed with her and wrapped her arm around the girl's waist just to get an extra 5 minutes in bed. 

At first, Taeyeon tried escaping from her embrace, but in the end, the girl had given in and slowly rubbed her back whenever she was stuck in this situation. Lately, she has been waking up in Taeyeon's embrace every morning due to the fact Taeyeon began sleepwalking.

The first time it had happened, she was completely surprised to find the girl cuddling against her. She had first thought that it was a dream since she had been dreaming about Taeyeon the night before but when the girl stirred in her sleep and moved closer, she felt her heart skipped a beat as Taeyeon's breath blew lightly against her skin.

Taeyeon was completely embarrassed the next morning and kept apologizing. She had explained that she had a habit of sleepwalking but that only happened when she slept deeply. She had restrained from sleeping so deeply when she moved in because she was afraid that her sleepwalking habits would kick in and she didn't want to cause any trouble due to the awkwardness that was present. 

Jessica chuckled as she remembered Taeyeon bowing to her and repeated saying sorry while she trying to tell the girl that it was fine. She had joked that she'll kick her off the bed when it happened again, but when it did happen again, she just pulled the girl closer to her, afraid that the girl will fall of the bed herself.

"Jung Jessica?"

Jessica frowned at the voice, breaking her thoughts on Taeyeon. "Yes?" She asked back, not recognizing the face of the girl. 

"It's nice to finally meet you." The darker girl flashed a smile at the lighter girl. "I'm Kwon Yuri."

8.0

"Remind me why I'm here again?"

Sooyoung looked over at the girl sitting beside her on the bus. "It might be because you want so spend time with me...or it could also be that you want to celebrate the ending of the second year by releasing yourself into the wilderness...but..." She smiled teasingly. "I personally think you're here because of a certain girl with the initials K.T.Y."

At the mention of Taeyeon, Jessica looked over at the two girls sitting a couple of seats in front of her. She frowned as she watched Tiffany and Taeyeon joked around with each other, laughing about whatever they were talking about. "You should have sat with Tiffany." 

"Why?" Sooyoung asked, expecting the other girl's answer to have something to do with Taeyeon. 

"Because its obvious that you are in the same position as me." Jessica said, turning the tables on the other girl. 

"W-what?!" Sooyoung stuttered out as she turned quickly to look at Jessica. "Yah! Jung Sooyeon, how dare you sleep right now?!" She growled underneath her breath when she noticed that the other girl had already closed her eyes. "Aish~" She sighed in defeat, knowing perfectly well that once Jessica had her eyes closed, they weren't going to open any time soon. 

Jessica secretly smiled to herself when Sooyoung left her alone. She sat up a little from the seat, trying to make herself as comfortable as she can in the limit space of the bus. Now she can finally sleep. Except her mind wouldn't stop running. Tiffany and Taeyeon's closeness right now wasn't the only major issue she was having right now. 

Kwon Yuri was also on the bus too. 

Jessica had been trying to sort out her feelings for Taeyeon for the past couple of weeks, but the appearance of Yuri was making things a little difficult. She didn't have anything against the girl and had thought that they could be become friends when they first met. 

Yuri was outgoing, friendly, not shy, and could bring up the mood wherever she was at. Jessica had really liked Yuri's personality during the few minutes they were talking underneath the tree. But there was just one simple aspect of Yuri she had not counted on. Yuri happened to be BoA's younger sister. 

So far none of the girls knew about Yuri's existence, not even her oh-so-wonderful cousin. Jessica wanted to sort everything out with the girl before she starts introducing her to her friends, especially Taeyeion. 

And so far on her journey in sorting out her feelings, the only part she was sure of was that she didn't like it when Tiffany and Taeyeon are lovely-dovey to each other, even if it was only in a friendly way.

...

"Sooyoung, can I talk to you for a second?"

Sooyoung reluctantly looked away from Tiffany and the new girl and turned to Taeyeon. "What's wrong?"

"Um...do you know why..."

"Sooyoungiie~" 

Sooyoung instantly turned her head back to Tiffany and smiled brightly at the girl. "Yes~" She asked completely ignoring whatever Taeyeon was going to say. 

"Can you come here for a minute?" Tiffany shouted back at the girl as she waved her hand. 

Sooyoung looked over at Taeyeon, who nodded as she rolled her eyes. "We'll take later, okay?" She promised before running to Tiffany.

"Aish~" Taeyeon muttered underneath her breath. 

"What's wrong?" 

Taeyeon smiled at the sound of Jessica's voice and turned around to face the other girl. "Nothing. Do you want to come and help me fish?"

Jessica looked down at the pole Taeyeon was holding in her hand and shook her head side to side. "Too much work."

"How about come and keep me company?" Taeyeon smiled.

"Hmm..." Jessica took her time to answer the question, pretending that she wasn't interested. "I don't know..." She said slyly before she reached over for Taeyeon's hand. "Let's go!"

...

Why is she here and why does she have to be in our group?! 

*FLASHBACK*

"Okay, girls!" The camp counselors clapped their hands to get the attention of the chattering campers. "So this is the final week of the club for this school year! To make everything run smoothly, we're asking you to split yourselves into groups of 5! Now...GO!" 

Jessica, who had been hiding underneath the shades while the counselors were talking, started walking towards her group, namely her cousin, Sooyoung, and her roommates, Taeyeon and Tiffany. But as she walked closer and closer, she saw a familiar figure already talking with them.

"Sica~" 

Jessica smiled as she watched Tiffany waved her hand at her with Taeyeon quickly following along. She waved back at the girls as she walked closer, but stopped when the fourth girl turned around. Kwon Yuri...

"Jessica hurry up!" Sooyoung shouted at her as Tiffany ran towards her. "We need to get a good spot!"

Aish...that girl...no respect for someone that's older than her... Jessica began walking again when Tiffany grabbed onto her arm and strolled towards the girls. "Is she in our group too?" She asked cautiously, remembering that the counselors had said five people in a group.

"You mean Yuri? Yup, she's the fifth member!" Tiffany said happily before giving a hard whack on Jessica's arm. "Why didn't you tell me that she's your cousin?!"

Jessica blinked a couple of times at the sudden question. After a few seconds of processing, her brain finally kicked in. "Ah~ Sooyoung..." She said coolly. "I guess it somehow slipped my mind..." 

"How can something like that slip your mind?" Tiffany asked in disbelief. "I think all the sleeping has killed most of your brain cells..." 

Jessica rolled her eyes at Tiffany's teasing. She turned her attention back to the three girls walking in front of them, talking and laughing about something.

Kwon Yuri, what do you want from me?

*FLASHBACK ENDS*

"Yah~ I brought you here to keep me company, not to daydream and leave me all alone to catch dinner!" 

Jessica looked at Taeyeon, who had her arms rested around her waist and was standing in the middle of the river. "What do you want me to do?"

"Come help me! Look the other groups are working in twos or threes, why am I alone?" Taeyeon pouted at Jessica as she waved her hand for Jessica to come over. 

"But I remembered that we've came to the conclusion that I was only going to keep you company. And fishing has nothing to do with that." Jessica argued back, refusing to leave the shady sanctuary of the oak tree. 

"Well, you're not keeping me very company by sitting ten feet away from me underneath a tree." Taeyeon retorted back.

"Fine..." Jessica reluctantly shouted back as she got up from her spot and walked over to the river. She sat down on the grass and smiled at Taeyeon. "Happy now?" 

"Very." The other girl answered back before reaching for her floating net and began fishing in the waters again. 

Jessica placed a hand underneath her chin as she watched Taeyeon thrust the net into the water and pulling it out only to find that it was empty. "We can always eat grass." She said, trying to relieve the responsibility of the other girl. 

"Sooyoung would kill me if we have to eat grass." Taeyeon laughed at her response. 

"Don't worry about her. If she tries to kill you, I'll protect you." Jessica smiled. 

"Aww~ I feel honored to have the great Ice Princess protecting me! I just hope that she doesn't fall asleep when she's on duty." Taeyeon teased, only to be greeted by a glare from he other girl. "Plus I said I was going to bring some fish back, so I will. It's just going to take some time since I have no help..." 

"Yah!" Jessica pouted at the other girl. She smiled when Taeyeon stuck her tongue out at her before returning her attention back to the creatures swimming in the river. "Taeyeon-ah." Jessica called out after a few moments of silence with Taeyeon still struggling to catch a living organism. "What's your ideal type?"

Taeyeon almost tripped on a rock at the unexpected question. She swayed a little back and forth, trying to regain her balance.

"Are you okay?" Jessica hurriedly got up and reached out her hand for the other girl. 

"Yeah, I'm fine." Taeyeon slowly walked over to the shore, reaching out for Jessica's hand when she was close enough. 

"I think you're hanging around Tiffany too much. You're becoming as clumsy as she is." Jessica teased. 

"I'm not clumsy...I was just surprised by your sudden question..." Taeyeon quickly defended herself as she sat down next to the other girl. "Anyways...my ideal type..."

Jessica tried her best to hide the curiosity bubbling inside her as she waited for Taeyeon to continue. 

"I don't know." 

Jessica blinked a couple of times at the answer. "Huh?" 

"M ideal type has been changing since kindergarten, so right now I have no idea exactly what my ideal type is." Taeyeon explained. "I guess I'll like someone who I feel comfortable with." She answered before taking a drink from her bottle.

Jessica nodded at the response. "So do you feel comfortable around me?" She whispered to herself, unaware that Taeyeon had heard her little question. 

The water in Taeyeon's spurted outward as the girl began coughing. "I'm fine...I'm fine..." She told Jessica when she felt the other girl's hand quickly patting her back. "Seriously though?"

"Huh?" This time it was Jessica who was caught by surprise.

"Were you serious about the question?" Taeyeon asked again. 

"Uh...I...um..." Jessica stuttered, feeling embarrassed by her question and the fact the Taeyeon had heard her. "Yeah...I was..." She finally let out shyly.

Taeyeon smiled at the sight of a Jessica that was embarrassed. The girl may put up a strong and cold image, but Taeyeon knew that wasn't her true nature. "Well, to be honest, you scared me at first, being so weak and everything..."

"Weak?!" 

"Yeah...the first time I saw you at the market with Sooyoung and Yoona, you looked really sick. And then when I saw you for the first time in the dorm, you collapsed..." Taeyeon reminded the incidents.

"Oh~" Jessica felt her face blushing at the memories, she had hoped that would never be reminded again. 

"But after getting to know you and becoming closer, your weak image is completely gone..."

"Yah!" Jessica slapped Taeyeon's arm. "I am still weak..." 

"Really now..." Taeyeon said sarcastically and pointed at the spot that Jessica had just hit seconds earlier, causing the girl to turn into a darker shade of pink. "But aside from all that...I would have to say that I do feel comfortable around you." 

Jessica felt a sense of relief when she heard Taeyeon's answer. "I feel comfortable around you too." She added. 

"Now that we got the whole comfortable and uncomfortable issue out of the way..." Taeyeon stood up from her spot and reentered the waters. "It's time to start fishing again or Sooyoung is definitely going to crazy with hunger." 

"Kay." Jessica lay down comfortably on the grass.

"And you're helping too."

"No I'm no... AH~" Jessica screamed out in surprise as she felt water poured onto her body. She quickly sat up from her position and glared at Taeyeon who was laughing like crazy. 

"Since you're wet now, might as well, right?" Taeyeon asked as she threw the net at Jessica. 

"Kim Taeyeon, you are so DEAD!" Jessica screamed at the top of her lungs as she jumped into the water, ready to chase after the other girl. 

...

Aish...what's taking them so long?! 

Sooyoung stomped her way towards the river bank, searching for the two lost members of her group. She didn't want to go in the beginning, but her curiosity had gotten the better of her and her stomach was growling too much to be ignored. She stopped walking when she saw the two girls splashing water at each other.

I guess there won't be any fish for dinner tonight... She sighed, realizing that the girls had completely forgotten about fishing. 

"Are they a couple?" 

Sooyoung turned around, surprised that someone was behind her. "Yuri?"

9.0

"I'm gonna go get some more water from the river. Anyone want to come?" 

If this was any other day, Jessica would have happily stood up from her position and ran after Taeyeon. But since this wasn't any other day, she watched silently as Tiffany skipped off with Taeyeon. Getting up from her spot, she walked over to Yuri, tapping the girl lightly on the shoulder to get her attention. "I wanna talk." 

Yuri blinked in surprise at the request, since the girl had been either avoiding her or ignoring her during the whole day. "Sure." She smiled as she placed the branches she had brought back for the campfire onto the ground. "Here? Or do you want to go somewhere else?"

"Somewhere else." 

Yuri nodded at the simple answer, following behind Jessica silently as the girl led her into a secluded spot inside the forest. 

...

"Yah! Where did everyone go?" 

Sooyoung looked up from her fish and turned around to face Taeyeon and Tiffany, shrugging at their question. "I came back and everyone was gone, so I started eating." She explained before bending down to take a bit from the fish in her hands. "Where's Jessica and Yuri? I thought they were with you."

"They were still here when we left." Tiffany explained as she sat down next to Sooyoung. "Maybe they decided to take a walk or something." 

Taeyeon nodded at the possibility, but she was still trouble by the fact that Jessica went somewhere with Yuri, when Jessica had been continuously ignored the other girl the whole day.

"Are you okay, Taeyeon?" 

"Hmm?" Taeyeon looked away from the forest and at the worry expression forming on Sooyoung's face. Looking at the group behind her, she found Tiffany chatting with one of the girls over there. "Sooyoung, is there something going on between Jessica and Yuri?"

"What do you mean?"

"She has been acting really strange whenever Yuri is around, so I guess I'm just a little...uh...worried..." 

"Hmm." Sooyoung bit down on her lip as she tried to recall all the friends that Jessica had made in the past, not remembering Yuri as a friend, she wondered could the girl be some enemy to Jessica had accidentally made during middle school or high school, or maybe even before that. "I don't really think so..." She trailed off, remembering her conversation with the girl. 

Yuri seemed very curious about whether Jessica and Taeyeon were a couple, and Sooyoung was feeling cautious of the interest the girl was showing, since they had just met today. The girl, for some reason, reminded her of BoA; the confidence and the liveliness of the girl were so similar to BoA. And these similar qualities made her extra cautious, only answering back that they were all friends and not singling out just Taeyeon and Jessica. 

"Yah! Are you zoning off on me?!" Taeyeon waved her hand in front of Sooyoung's face, causing the girl to blink in surprise. "So am I just worrying too much?"

"You should worry all you want, because I find it cute." Sooyoung teased, trying to brighten the mood, not wanting to disclose to much information, since it was probably better for Jessica to explain everything to Taeyeon. "Plus, Jessica is a strong girl, and Ice Princess, so she'll be able to handle Yuri if the girl tried to attack her or something."

Taeyeon's eyebrow scrunched together as she frowned at the comment. "Is that to assure me or to make me worry more?" She asked sarcastically, while the other girl just simply smile back. "And...ice can chip easily..." 

"Not if you can melt it first.."

...

BoA's sister... Jessica frowned as she continued walking around the forest, away from the rest of the group. It wasn't much of a surprise that BoA had a sister, since the girl did talk about a younger sibling from time to time, but it was a shock that Yuri, BoA's sister, knew about their relationship, since they had decided to keep it a secret from their families. They were afraid that their parents would be against the relationship, but Jessica was willing to fight for the relationship. Instead, it was BoA, the older girl, who felt that it'll be better to wait.

But the waiting led to nowhere because the girl had left. 

"How is she?" 

The question had been asked so quietly, and if Yuri hadn't been waiting for it, she wouldn't have caught the question. "Unnie is traveling and studying...she occasionally sends me a postcard from time to time..."

Jessica silently processed the information, relieved that BoA wasn't dead or lying in some hospital, slowly dying, but still alive. She wanted to ask the question that had always been in her mind, but was now even more afraid of the answer. The information that BoA was alive ease her greatest fear, but also created new ones. If the girl was alive, why hadn't she try to mke any type of contact for two years. Jessica was scared of the reason, because that was this possibility that she could have been just a fling and BoA had gotten bored with her. 

"She hadn't plan to leave like that..." 

Jessica felt tears forming and fought hard to keep them from falling down. 

"Umma and appa had been putting a lot of pressure on her to live out their dreams, but unnie wouldn't give in. There was a lot of tension inside the house during that time...and unnie just finally couldn't stand it any more... The leaving wasn't planned..."

Jessica had never know about these family tensions. BoA had always seem so happy whenever they were together. Why didn't the girl tell her? She would have done anything to support the girl if she had known. "She could have told me... Why didn't she tell me?"

Yuri made no response back. She couldn't answer for her sister. 

...

"Counseling time!" 

Jessica frowned as Sooyoung sat down next to her by the campfire, not really in the mood to talk.

Being cousins and close friends for all of their lives, Sooyoung instantly knew that something was going on. She knew that Jessica was the type of girl that kept everything negative inside of her, which was why she started these counseling sessions. Jessica was reluctant about the whole idea at first, but slowly accepted it because Sooyoung was really persistent when it came to the well-being of the girl. 

"Yuri." 

Blinking in surprise at the mention of the girl's name, Jessica avoided Sooyoung's eyes as she turned to look at Taeyeon, who was running around, spraying bug repellant everywhere with Tiffany clutching tightly around her arm. "What about her?"

"You know you can tell me anything, right?" 

A comfortable silence followed after Sooyoung's assurance as Jessica sorted through her mind about where to start. "She is BoA's younger sister." She thought the family background was the proper place to start since it'll probably explain everything. 

"BoA has a younger sister?! No wonder she felt so familiar for some reason..." Sooyoung trailed off as she processed the information. "So did you just find out today?"

Jessica shook her head at the question. "I found out during that volunteer thing...but I found out why she left today..." 

Sooyoung's eyes soften as Jessica trailed off on her sentence. Reaching over for the girl's hand, she held it tightly in hers as she waited for the girl to continue. Not rushing her because she knew how long Jessica had waited to know why BoA had left without even a simple 'good-bye'.

"Yuri doesn't know much about what happened either." Jessica finally begin, speaking softly as she recalled her earlier conversation with the girl. "She said that there were a lot of tension between her sister and her parents for a while. Then everything exploded and BoA just left."

Sooyoung nodded, gentling rubbing up and down Jessica's back.

"She could have told me about all this...but she didn't."

Sooyoung frowned when she noticed the blank expression on her cousin's face. Sighing as she prepared to comfort the other girl, she stopped when Jessica began talking again.

"Maybe...I'm just not good enough for her...that's why she didn't bother telling me..."

"Yah!" Sooyoung shouted at Jessica, frowning at the girl's pessimistic statement. "Hey, I thought we're over BoA already. Come on. Just forget about her. Now that you have all your questions answered, just move on." She placed her hands on Jessica's face and guided the girl to look over at Taeyeon, smiling as Jessica smiled. "Taeyeon was worried about you and I think she still is."

"But..."

"No buts!" Sooyoung quickly cut Jessica off. "Now go over that and get your man! Or...woman..." She quietly trailed off when the gloomy Jessica was gone, and the glaring one was back.

"Choi Sooyoung." Jessica said the name sternly, pausing as she watched the Sooyoung's face darken in fear. "Thank you."

...

"Come on. Let's go walk around."

Jessica smiled, allowing Taeyeon to reach for her hand and pull her up from her spot. Not letting go of the hand as the girl led her into the forest, she followed the girl silently, listening to Taeyeon's endless stories.

"And to think that being short, I'll never be caught by a tree..."

Jessica knew that Taeyeon was trying to brighten the mood. And she was starting to feel better, the mysterious effects of Taeyeon could always ease her spirit, but she was still confuse. Maybe even a little scared. Scared that, maybe, she really wasn't good enough for BoA, which was why the girl left without a word, and that one day Taeyeon would leave her too.

"Hey! It's a squirrel! Let's chase after it!"

Jessica stopped walking as she watched Taeyeon ran after a squirrel, chasing it as the squirrel dodge her every movement. The squirrel could have easily escape by running up a tree, but the little animal just continued running in circles, like it was helping Taeyeon to cheer her up. "I guess squirrels are really attracted to you."

"If it was attracted to me, it would stop running and let me catch it."

"I think she is a female, that's why she is running away from you."

"Why? Is she intimidated by feminine aura?"

As soon as that question left Taeyeon's mouth, Jessica couldn't help but laugh out loud at the other girl. Even the squirrel stopped running and was standing on its hind-legs, front paws held in the air, staring blankly at Taeyeon.

Taking the opportunity of the still squirrel, Taeyeon lunged at the creature, successfully holding it place on the ground. "Ah! I caught it!" Staring attentively at the squirrel's eyes, she smiled as the squirrel stared back at her, slowly wiggling her nose from time to time.

"Maybe she's the same squirrel chasing you that day..."

"She can't be. We're miles away from school."

"I guess she's a professional stalker then."

Taeyeon smiled, relieved that Jessica was slowly coming out of her gloomy state. Looking back down at the squirrel in her hands, she leaned forward a little, decreasing the distance between her face and the squirrel's. "Thank you." She whispered. And the squirrel seemed to understand the simple thanks, as she slowly leaned forward to nuzzle at Taeyeon's nose.

Taeyeon let go of the squirrel and got up from the ground. "Feeling better?"

Jessica looked at Taeyeon, then at the squirrel standing next to Taeyeon before breaking out into a genuine smile. "How can I not when I have two dorks trying so hard to cheer me up."

"We're not dorks!" Taeyeon quickly defended herself and the squirrel.

"Sure..." Jessica replied back nonchalantly, but Taeyeon didn't seem to mind as she bent back down to play with the squirrel. Smiling at how adorable and innocent Taeyeon looked as she interacted with the creature, she realized how important Taeyeon had become in her life. "Taeyeon-ah." She called out timidly. "You won't disappear, right?"

Taeyeon looked up from the squirrel, surprised by the timidness in the question and the sadness present in Jessica's eyes. Breaking out into a comforting smile, she sat down on the ground, legs crossed together, and looked up at the girl. "I'll never leave you." She said, smiling as the sadness disappeared from Jessica's eyes. "And Heidy won't too!"

"Who's Heidy?"

10.0

"So I'm guessing that you're feeling better now?" 

Jessica looked up at Sooyoung as the girl sat down beside her on the grass. "How can I not when I have such a worrywart cousin and two dorky girls?" 

"Tiffany is dorky?" 

"No. Taeyeon and Heidy." 

A confused frown formed on Sooyoung's face when she didn't recognize the other name, but she decided to let it pass when she heard a small laughter come out of the other girl's mouth. "I guess Taeyeon did a better job than me in cheering you up."

"You weren't that bad either."

A comfortable silence surrounded the two girls as the enjoyed the little break they had in between the various activities the counselors had planned. Today was the last day of the camp and the counselors had told them that they had a busy day ahead of them.

"So...are we over BoA now?" Sooyoung asked, eyes looking forward at the open terrain and not at the girl she was talking to. She didn't want to put too much pressure on Jessica by staring at her. "You don't have to tell me the answer. I just don't want anything to hinder any feelings you have for Taeyeon, if there are any feelings developing..."

"Feelings..." Jessica repeated the word, silently processing what the other girl was telling her. 

"Remember how I use to tell you that you shouldn't stop enjoying life because she left you?" Sooyoung paused, allowing the other girl to give a response back. "Well, after you met Taeyeon, you've been having more fun. You're also smiling more too. And I'm happy for you. You two looked really cute playing in the river yesterday..."

Sooyoung was right and Jessica knew it too. She was definitely happier whenever Taeyeon was with her, she felt secured and carefree. And after yesterday's conversations, with Yuri, Sooyoung, and Taeyeon, she was beginning to feel that she shouldn't be living in the past anymore. 

Taeyeon was important and she wasn't going to let the girl slipped through her fingers. "Choi Sooyoung. I hate it when you're right..." 

Sooyoung chuckled at the hostile statement. She didn't mind it because she knew the other girl was joking with her. And also because she liked this Jessica more than yesterday's, the Jessica who seemed to have lost all hope towards her own being. "So are you gonna tell her?" 

Jessica thought over the question carefully. "I don't know. What if she rejects me? What if..."

"Yah!" Sooyoung quickly cut the girl off, preventing any more negative thoughts from coming out of Jessica's mouth. "Taeyeon will not reject you." 

"How would you know?"

"I know because I'm Choi Sooyoung." Sooyoung retorted back, sighing at the other girl's obliviousness. I also know because both of you already are acting like a couple...

"I don't think you know everything." 

Sooyoung knew that Jessica was trying to change the direction of the conversation, but due to her competitiveness, she wasn't going to let the simple statement pass so easily. "Fine. Try me."

"What's the reaction when you mix a solution of copper chloride with a solution of sodium sulfide?" 

"It's a double replacement reaction, which means you should let go of your bond with BoA and go stick to Taeyeon."

Jessica glared at Sooyoung, not amused that the girl had answered the question correctly and had brought the direction of the conversation back to her and Taeyeon. "I still need a little more time to clear everything up..." 

"How much more time?" 

"I don't know." 

"Sica." Sooyoung said the girl's name, with a firm hand on one of the girl's shoulders. "You being my baby cousin and all, I still won't be able to look out for you forever. You have to learn to take care of yourself..."

"Baby cousin? If my mind remembers correctly, I'm older than you." Jessica swiped Sooyoung's hand off of her shoulder. "Times like this when you get all dramatical, I wonder why I even bother coming to you with my problems..." 

"I should feel hurt now, but since you're finally taking some sort of step forward, even though its extremely tiny, I'll pretend that I didn't hear that..." 

Jessica laughed at the statement. No matter how dramatic Sooyoung became, or how much teasing takes place between the two of them, she knows that she can always count on the other girl to support her. "Just let me make sure of some things first before I tell her, okay? And promise me you won't tell her before I do, okay?" 

Sooyoung was frowned at the request, but complied when she heard Jessica's next sentence. 

"I'm not gonna let go so easily this time." 

...

Well at least Jessica is better...

Sooyoung bent down to the ground and started searching for some berries, the next activity that the counselors had prepared for them. Sighing when the berries in front of her weren't the ones she was searching for, she got back up and began moving again. 

"Well at least I hope Taeyeon takes some sort of action..."

"What action?"

Sooyoung brought a hand up to cover her mouth when she heard the familiar voice behind her. Turning around on her heels, she came face to face with Taeyeon. "Yah! Are you a ghost or something?! Can't you make some noise before sneaking up behind someone?" 

"When did you become so easily frightened?"

When Jessica might kill me if accidentally tell you something when I shouldn't...

 "Aish." Sooyoung grumbled underneath her breath, before letting out a sigh of relief when the other girl did not to question her about the 'action'. 

"Yah! Have you been stuffing yourself?! Why is there nothing in your basket?" 

"I'm not a pig." Sooyoung retorted back, glaring at the girl when a smile formed on the girl's face a second after the last word left her mouth. "And I see you have been busy with this childish activity." She commented when she looked down at the other girl's full basket. 

"Jessica said she didn't feel like picking so I'm getting her share too."

"So you're no longer worry?" 

Taeyeon shrugged at the question. "i'm kinda half and half right now. I told her that she can tell me anything if she needed too and she told me that she was fine. So I guess the only thing I can do now is just believe her and stay close if she needs something."

"Sounds like something couples do for each other..." 

Taeyeon's mind worked to process the statement. "Sooyoung-ah, if I told you that I think I'm falling in love with Jessica, you wouldn't find it weird, right?" She asked, but didn't allow the other girl to answer the question before adding more. "You know...I'm a girl and she's a girl and she's your cousin while I'm your best friend..."

"You two act like a couple already." Sooyoung quickly said to cut off the other girl's ramblings. 

"We do?"

Sooyoung let out a sigh again at the other girl's obliviousness. "You always serve her first when you cook, carry her bags, follow her wherever she wants to go, and my personal favorite, covers her with your blanket when she kicks hers off."

"Oh..."

"The only thing that isn't complete is that you two haven't confess to each other yet." 

"Oh..." 

Feeling a headache beginning to form from the same reply, Sooyoung slowly rubbed her temple. "So are you gonna confess?"

"I don't know. What if she rejects me?"

Aish...why does it feel like I having the same conversation again... Sooyoung sighed at Taeyeon's response. "Well, you'll never know if you don't try, right?"

"True...but..." Taeyeon sighed. "I'm a girl and she's a girl and I don't want to ruin the friendship we have right now because I stupidly decide to confess to her." 

Kim Taeyeon, you'll be even stupider for waiting because Jessica is also waiting too! "Aish! You two~" Sooyoung yelled out in frustration. "Kim Taeyeon, you came to me for advice, right?" She waited for the girl to give a small nod before continuing. "So my advice is go confess!" 

"Are you sure?"

"Trust me." Sooyoung answered back firmly. "You should give it a try or you'll regret it for the rest of your life." 

And I'll regret it for the rest of my life if I don't push one of you to the other person. 

"But..."

"No buts!" 

"But wouldn't it be weird if I suddenly confess without planning?" Taeyeon quickly asked before the other girl could cut her off again. Sensing that Sooyoung was agreeing with her, Taeyeon slowly breathe in and out to catch her breath. "You're gonna help me plan, right? Since she is your cousin so you should know what she likes and stuff... So we'll keep this a secret for now, okay?"

Great...now I have another secret to keep...

 Sooyoung hung her head in defeat as she watched Taeyeon hurried away without waiting for a response, wondering if the girl was just using it as an excuse to escape. 

...

"BoA?"

Sooyoung's head instantly turned towards the direction of the voice when she heard the familiar voice. Since there were only three people here that knew about BoA, and she being one of them, she instantly frowned at the possibility that Yuri was talking to Jessica about BoA again. 

Jessica had finally gotten out of her gloomy state and Sooyoung did not want her cousin to sink back in.

Hurrying over to the spot, Sooyoung blinked in surprise when Yuri was all alone, picking berries to fill her basket. "Hey..." She said casually, walking over to the other girl. "I see you picked a lot of berries." She commented halfheartedly, looking around for any signs that showed another person was here just minutes earlier. 

"Not as much as you." 

Sooyoung's basket, that was empty when she was Taeyeon, was now overflowing with raspberries. 

"Do you think Tiffany likes blueberries?" 

"Huh?" Sooyoung didn't come here to start a conversation with the other girl, and was surprised by the question. "I don't know." She answered back, before directing the conversation back towards the reason she came over. "So were you talking to someone earlier?"

"Huh? Oh. It wasn't important." Yuri answered back.

She's hiding something...

 Sooyoung eyed the other girl suspiciously as she continued to pick at the berry bush. She knew that Yuri was hiding something, but she didn't know how to ask the girl without causing her to be suspicious.

 I think I better talk to Jessica again to see if she is alright...

"Do you know if Tiffany is with someone?" 

"What do you mean?" Sooyoung asked, not liking the interest that the other girl was showing for Tiffany. Yuri had hung around Tiffany the most throughout the camp, and Sooyoung waited for the worst possibility. That the girl was interested in Tiffany, and not just simply in a friendly way. 

"I mean to you know if she likes anyone." 

Instead of answering the question, Sooyoung asked one of her own. "Do you like her?"

Yuri knew that Sooyoung and Tiffany, so she could understand the bluntness of the question, but she surprised by the hostility in the other girl's voice. "Maybe..." She smiled sheepishly. "I don't know. It might be love at first sight."

Not again... Why is everyone telling me their secret love confessions today?!

 Sooyoung mentally groaned at the direction that this conversation was going. She came to talk to the girl because she thought that Yuri was causing a problem with Jessica, but instead the other girl was actually causing a problem for her. 

Not knowing what to say, Sooyoung kept quiet as awkward silence surrounded them. She didn't mind these awkward silences, since she had gotten use to them through Jessica's weird humor, but she could feel that Yuri was becoming uncomfortable. "So...um...are you gonna confess to her?" She finally asked.

Yuri let out the breath she was holding in at the sound of the other girl's voice. "I might wait a little bit. I don't want to scare her away." She said. "Since we just met and everything..."

Sooyoung nodded her head calmly at the statement, refraining herself from screaming out in relief. 

"So you won't mind helping me, right?" 

Sooyoung's mouth hung open at the request. "Uh..." 

"It's okay if you feel uncomfortable helping me." Yuri quickly reassured, not wanting to put any pressure on the other girl. She could tell Sooyoung was starting to feel a little uncomfortable. "Just at least keep it a secret until I'm ready, okay?"

Another secret?

 "Yeah...sure..." Sooyoung forced out a smile, confused by how her friendly intentions to help her cousin led to a bigger problem for herself. 

I think I'm going to explode with all these secrets...

11.0

"I'm going out now!"

"Okay! Bye Fany~" Taeyeon waved as Tiffany closed the dorm door behind her. "So what do you want to do now?" She turned towards the other girl in the room. "Yah! Are you daydreaming again?!"

"Huh?" Jessica looked up at Taeyeon's waving hand. "What did you say?"

"I asked you what do you want to do now? Fany just left for somewhere so we have the whole day to ourselves." Taeyeon repeated her question. "How about a movie?"

"Yeah...sure..." Jessica nodded absentmindedly. She smiled as Taeyeon walked into their room, probably to get her coat. You should enjoy your day with Taeyeon today, and stop thinking about everything else...

"There had been a heated tension between unnie and appa and umma..."

"...traveling around the world and studying..."

"Unnie sends a postcard to me from time to time...the last one was 2 months ago..."

"...from Switzerland..."

"I was only gone for a few minutes. Did you start daydreaming again?" Taeyeon teased the other girl as she slipped on her jacket. 

Jessica blinked a times to clear her mind of Yuri's voice and everything she told her about BoA. Smiling as she reached over for Taeyeon's hand, she allowed the girl to pull her up from the couch. "Let's go!" She said before Taeyeon could asked any more questions.

...

"What are we watching?" 

Taeyeon shrugged as she looked at the various times available for each movie. "Is there anything you want to watch." 

"Not really." Jessica answered back. She was just happy to be able to watch a movie with the other girl, the content didn't matter to her at all. 

"Okay, then I'll buy the tickets for something that is airing now." Taeyeon announced. "You go get the popcorn and the sodas!" She ordered the other girl. 

"Fine." Jessica agreed with the suggestion. "I'll meet you inside then." She smiled at Taeyeon before walking to the concession stand inside the theater. Maybe I should tell her when we're watching the movie... She shook her head at the idea. She'll probably think I'm weird for starting a conversation about my love life... 

"Sometimes I wonder what's so awesome about your daydreams that you're zoning off..." 

Turning around in surprise when Taeyeon's voice appeared behind, Jessica quickly glared at the other girl for teasing her. "I'm dreaming about you." She answered back sarcastically. "When you're six feet tall." 

"Yah~ Are you making fun of my height cause you're not that much taller than me." Taeyeon argued back. 

"But I still am." Jessica answered back firmly. She lifted up her hand to the top of her head and measure it with Taeyeon's. "See." She smiled when the other girl stood up in tip-toes to become taller. 

"Fine you win this time. You're lucky that the movie is starting soon or else..." Taeyeon threatened. 

"Whatever..." Jessica rolled her eyes at the threat. "Now lead the way before the movie starts!" 

"Aish~" Taeyeon pretended to complain but quickly complied. She showed their tickets to the employee in front of the room before entering the already dark room with Jessica following behind her. "Hold my hand." She reached her hand back for the other girl's when she noticed that the theather room had already turned dark. 

"I don't think there are any more seats together..." Jessica looked away from the room, already full of other customers. "Do we have to split up?" 

Taeyeon looked around carefully before answering the other girl. "Hey, I think there are two seats in the back..." She walked up the stairs slowly, still holding on to Jessica's hand. "Lucky~" She cheered when there were two seats together in the far left of the room, all alone by themselves. "It's better than nothing, right?" 

"Yeah." Jessica nodded in agreement. She scooted inside and sat down with Taeyeon following her. "What movie are we watching?" 

"I don't know, but the title sounds interesting." 

"What's the title?" 

"Uh..." Taeyeon reached into her pocket for the ticket stubs and squinted her eyes in the dark to read the name of the movie. "The Demon." 

Demon?! Jessica eyes widen as she heard the name of the movie. "Are we watching a scary movie?!" 

"You don't like scary movies?" 

Jessica shook her head side to side. She felt her heart starting to race at the thought of demons popping out random places, loud sound effects, and decapitated body parts. 

"Don't worry Sica, I'll protect you." Taeyeon patted her shoulders."You can hide behind me if you get scary." 

"But you're so short..." Jessica couldn't help but tease, even though she was blushing at the thought of hugging the other girl tightly when something surprised her on the screen. She was debating whether it would be too awkward if she completely clung onto Taeyeon the whole entire time and came to the conclusion that she should only cling onto the other girl only when it was really scary. 

But once the movie started and the names of the main actors and actresses had finished strolling across the screen and the first demon popped up on the screen with a piece of human flesh in its mouth, Jessica had already made herself comfortable on the crook of Taeyeon's neck and did not plan on coming out until the ending credits were running. 

...

"Would you stop smiling like that already?" 

"I can't help it!" Taeyeon laughed. "I never expected the Ice Princess to be so scared. Why were you crying when you didn't see any part of the movie?" 

"I still heard the sounds." Jessica argued back. "I am never watching a movie with you again!" 

"Why not? Scary movies are awesome." 

"That's why." 

"Fine. If we do watch another movie next time, I'll let you pick, okay?" Taeyeon suggested to the other girl. 

Jessica thought carefully about the idea. After today's experience with watching a scary movie with Taeyeon, she actually didn't mind watching another one again. If it meant she gets to snuggle openly against the other girl again. "Fine." She pretended to be reluctant about the agreement.

"Now that this is over with, let's find something to eat, I'm hungry." Taeyeon looked around the park until she found a little hot dog stand by the playground. "Hot dogs okay?"

Jessica nodded as she followed the other girl to the stand. They both ordered a hot dog each before walking over to a bench to eat. Jessica couldn't help but smile as she watched Taeyeon opened wide and stuffed the hot dog into her mouth. "I think you're hanging around my cousin too much, you're beginning to eat like her." She teased.

"It's not my fault. If you don't eat quickly around Sooyoung, there won't be any food left!" Taeyeon explained, taking another big bite from her hot dog and smeared the corners of her lips with a little ketchup and musturd. Before she could reached into her pocket for a napkin, Jessica was already wiping her lips with hers. "Thanks." She smiled at the other girl.

Jessica simply nodded back. "Taeyeon-ah, I have to tell you something..." She began, but was quicky cut off by the other girl.

"I actually have something to tell you too." Taeyeon confessed. She waited for the other girl to continue, but Jessica was waiting for her. "Um...okay, this might sound a little weird and maybe a little awkward, but I feel that I shouldn't hide it anymore. I've been thinking a lot lately about this and I feel that I should tell you or else I might regret it for the rest of my life, even though telling you might ruin the friendship we have right now..."

Jessica listened carefully to what Taeyeon was telling, trying to guess what the other girl was trying to tell her.

"I don't know when it all started..." Taeyeon continued. "It might have been the first time we met at the market, or when you fainted on me back at the dorm, or after we've became closer...but I think I'm in love with you..." She said.

Taeyeon's confession had completely caught Jessica off guard and all she could do now was stared at the other girl.

"I-I mean...uh...I might be i-in love with y-you." Taeyeon stuttered when she couldn't read the other girl's reaction as good or bad. "Actually, you know what, forget everything I said right now." She stuffed the rest of her hot dog into her mouth, embarrassed by the situation in front of her. Choi Sooyoung, look what you made me do!!

Jessica smiled as she noticed the blush forming on the other girl's cheeks. She had not expect that Taeyeon had the same feelings for her and definitely did not expected a confession from the other girl. "I don't think I can forget what you said..." Jessica said firmly, not able to hold back the urge to tease the other girl anymore.

Taeyeon looked worried when she turned to face the other girl. "Jessica..." She called out the other girl's name softly, hoping, praying, that she hadn't completely ruin the friendship. "I..."

"Because I have the same feelings too." She tried her best to hold back her smile when she saw Taeyeon's eyes widen at the statement. "But I guess I can try since that's what you want..." She let out a little sigh.

"Stop!" Taeyeon quickly cut off. "Are you saying what I think you're saying? Does that mean you'll be my girlfriend?!"

"You never confess to me..."

"Yes I did." Taeyeon argued back. "I just did, didn't I?"

"I don't remember. All I remember is that you wanted me to forget something and I did what you told me to." Jessica teased the other girl. She got up from the bench and started walking towards the school campus.

"Yah~" Taeyeon whined. She quickly got up from the bench and ran towards the other girl. 

When Jessica noticed the other girl running after her, she smiled as she quicken her pace and began to run too. "I think about it if you can catch me!" She yelled back at the other girl as she ran faster.

Aish stupid legs. Taeyeon clentched her teeth as she pumped her legs faster. Stupid short legs... She frowned as Jessica increase the distance between them. You're not getting a massage if you fail!!

12.0

"See I told you were worrying too much for no reason." Sooyoung said as she watched the two girls on the other couch continued to show their affection towards each other. "If you had listened me and stopped worrying, you two would have been together already!" She continued her ramblings as she watched Taeyeon blew lightly on the spoonful of soup she was holding before bringing it to Jessica's mouth. "But if you two continue spoon-feeding each other, I think I'm gonna get diabetes from all this sweetness. "

"You're just jealous that you don't have someone to show this kind of affection to you..." Jessica retorted back before slurping up the soup from Taeyeon's spoon. 

Sooyoung instantly turned to Taeyeon for support, but threw her hands up in defeat when the girl avoided her eyes. "Aish~ Forget it. At least my sacrifice was worth it since my oh-so-wonderful cousin is back to normal and I no longer have to worry about her devastated love life anymore." Sooyoung teased as she sat down across from the couple. "So am I the only one who knows about this secret relationship?"

"Uh...I told Fany..." Taeyeon said softly as she looked away from the girl.

"And Yuri kinda knew already..." Jessica added in an equally soft voice. 

"What?! I'm the one who put the most effort into this and I'm the last one to find out?!" Sooyoung slouched against her chair as she crossed her arms. "I feel hurt."

"You're not really the last one to know..." Jessica said, trying to calm the other girl. "I haven't told my family and Taeyeon hasn't told hers and the classmates and teachers don't know and the kitchen ladies that works in the cafeteria..." 

"I guess I should feel appreciated since the kitchen ladies doesn't know about your love life..." Sooyoung complained sarcastically as she sat back upright. "So...um...what were their reactions when they found out?"

"Who?" 

"You know...Yuri and...Tiffany..." 

"Yuri was supportive..." Jessica said. "And Tiffany was surprisingly okay with the information too..."

"Yeah. She said something about already knowing that their was something going on between the two of us." Taeyeon added. "Something about chemistry and how we look at each other...but she wasn't really making much sense when she was talking so I'm not really sure about what she was trying to say expect that she's okay with us." She said as grabbed onto Jessica's hand and interlocked their fingers.

"What do you mean Tiffany's talking made no sense? Tiffany always makes sense when she talks." Sooyoung quickly defended Tiffany, glaring at Jessica when a smirk formed across the girl's face. "What?!" 

Jessica shrugged nonchalantly at the question as she snuggled closer to her girlfriend. "I just find it interesting that you're becoming interested in the same gender too." 

Sooyoung frowned at the statement as she crossed her arms around her chest. "Stupid Taeyeon!" She shouted, trying to vent out her anger for her cousin onto the other girl, but quickly sunk back into the couch in fear when she saw the remote control in Jessica's hand, high up in the air and ready to be flung at her. "Why do I have the feeling that putting you two together is gonna be threatening to my life?"

"You can leave if you want." Jessica smiled sweetly at her cousin.

"And miss a free meal?! No way!" Sooyoung shouted back as she sat firmly on her spot.

...

Frowning as she watched Tiffany laughed at one of Yuri's jokes, Sooyoung looked over at Jessica, who was smiling as she watched Taeyeon moved around in the kitchen. "Yah..." She called out, drawing the girl's attention towards her. "Why is Yuri here?" 

"Well, we kinda had a long talk after Taeyeon's confession because I didn't want her to cause any unnecessary problems." Jessica explained. "And she congradulated me and gave me a big hug when I told her that Taeyeon and I are a couple..." She slowly trailed off as she recalled the eariler confusion she felt when the incident happened. 

"So are you two friends now?"

"We're not enemies."

Sooyoung nodded at the other girl's response. "So does Taeyeon know that she's BoA's sister?"

"In some ways..."

"In some ways?"

"She knows that she's the sister of my ex."

Sooyoung simply nodded at the response again. "I guess that's good enough. So she's okay with her hanging out with you?"

"She was rather encouraging that I maintain this friendship with Yuri, saying something about being happy that someone was willing to be friends with a cold princess..."

Sooyoung grinned at the comment. "Love is such a strange thing." She slowly sighed as she placed a head against the palm of her hand. "If I had said something like that, you would've killed me, and I'm family! But because Taeyeon was the one who said it, you're smiling and taking it as a compliment."

Jessica glared at the teasing girl, but was unable to throw back another comment before Taeyeon called out from the kitchen. 

"Yah! Someone has to come and help me or else we're not going to get any dinner before midnight!"

"Go help her." 

"Why should I?! This your dorm, shouldn't you be helping her while the guest just wait to be fed?"

"Tiffany and I are banned from the kitchen." Jessica scratched the back of her neck, a sheepish grin on her face. 

Surrendering to the pushing of Jessica and the growling of her stomach, Sooyoung reluctantly got up from the couch and walked towards the kitchen. She patted Taeyeon's back sympathetically when she was in the kitchen, earning her a weird look. "Life is hard when you're the only one that can cook in this dorm..."

"Life is harder when the help I get is someone who eats everything up before I can placed them onto the plates."

...

"So I heard that you liked Tiffany too."

Sooyoung looked up from the stew on the stove and turned to the hostile voice behind her. Yuri.

"Is that why you were supportive when I decided to wait?" 

"Uh..." Sooyoung avoided Yuri's eyes as she looked around the kitchen, searching something that could save her from the gulity feeling that was consuming her. "Okay. The day that you told me that you liked Tiffany, two other people were also confessing to me...well not really to me...but to each other through me..."

"Jessica and Taeyeon?"

Sooyoung nodded at the obvious answer. "So...yeah..." She paused, not sure where this conversation was going.

"So you're a rival?"

"Yes."

...

"Here Fany, have some more vegetable."

"No. She needs more meat!" 

Taeyeon and Jessica watched silently at the scene in front of them, with Yuri scooping more salad onto Tiffany's plate and Sooyoung cutting bigger and bigger pieces of the beef. "What's going on?" Taeyeon whispered behind her hands to the girl sitting next to her, shock at the sight of Sooyoung giving people food instead of stuffing it into her own mouth. 

"Yuri and Sooyoung likes Tiffany." Jessica answered back nonchalantly, focusing more of her attention on the bowl in her hand

"Ah..." Taeyeon nodded at the answer. "But aren't they going a little overboard?" She looked worriedly at Tiffany, who was simply staring at her overflowing bowl. 

"Are you jealous that they're showing so much attention to your mushroom?"

Taeyeon blinked in surprise at the hostility in Jessica's voice. "I'm not jealous, but I think someone is." She teased as she gave a light pinch on the other girl's cheek, earning her a slap in the arm and an unamused glare. "But I'm just worried that at the rate they're going, all the food would be sitting in Tiffany's bowl..."

"Fine." Jessica sighed as she placed her bowl onto the table, her chopsticks on top of her bowl. "You. And You." She pointed at Yuri then at Sooyoung, causing the two girls to freeze in the movements. "If either one of you place another thing into Tiffany's bowl..I'll..." She paused, not sure of how she was going to continue her threat. Thinking that actions were better than words, Jessica raised her foot and kicked each girl hard in the shin underneath the table. 

"Owh!" 

"Ah!"

"Table!" 

"Jessica!" 

"See. That was easy." Jessica smiled at Sooyoung and Yuri, both bent over in pain, Taeyeon, hovering over the table trying to keep the plates from falling off, and Tiffany, standing with her eyes widen in surprise. "Problem solved. So let's have a nice and quiet dinner and stop causing too much trouble." 

All four girls nodded at the order and quickly sat back down in their seats, pulling it closer to the table before picking up their chopsticks and bowls. Holding their bowls in their hands, they waited for Jessica to began eating before silently following suit. 

...

Jessica looked over towards the kitchen, checking that the three girls were still washing the dishes with all the noise they were making. "Choi Sooyoung. Kwon Yuri." She called out two of the girls' name, knowing that they were probably the cause of all the ruckus. "Wash the dishes quietly."

"I'm not surprise that Sooyoung obeys your every command, but Yuri too..." Taeyeon laughed as dorm quieted down significantly. "It's amazing how quickly you start ordering people around and people just just immediately listen to you."

"Are you teasing me?" Jessica looked up at Taeyeon with a glare, head rested comfortably on the girl's legs. 

"Nope." Taeyeon gently brushed at Jessica's bangs. "I'm just saying that you're amazing." She smiled when the girl on her lap held her glare. "I love you." She quickly added as her last defense.

"Aish..." Jessica grumbled at her weakness for the three words when Taeyeon said it to her. "You're lucky that you're adorable and I love you too or else you'll be mopping the floor right now." Sitting up from her position, she turned around to face the other girl. "And since we're on the topic of our relationship, I've came up with some terms that you have to agree on."

"I'm starting to miss the shy Ice Princess..." Taeyeon teased, earning her another glare. "I love you." She added again in the end.

Jessica grumbled as she felt her anger disappeared again when Taeyeon said those three words to her. "You know, if you keep doing that, I'm going to start thinking that you're lying..." 

"Then maybe I should start doing this then." Taeyeon smiled, before leaning forward quickly to plant a quick peck on Jessica's lip and pulling back equally fast. "Aww...my shy Ice Princess is back."

Clearing her throat to recompose herself, Jessica could not deny the fact that she enjoyed the kiss and dislike how quick it was. "You know I'm starting to regret accepting your confession so easily and not make you suffer for a bit..." Jessica said as she felt Taeyeon wrapped her arms around her waist. "How I miss the days when my Taengoo was all cautious around me and wouldn't dare to tease me..."

"But if you had waited, you would miss out on a lot of this..." Taeyeon planted a quick kiss on Jessica's cheek, smiling as the other girl smiled back. 

Leaning back comfortably against her girlfriend, Jessica sighed contentedly as Taeyeon's arms held on tighter. "Since they're almost done with the dishes and I haven't thought much about the other terms yet, I'll just tell you the most important one. You're the man and I'm the woman."

"Why am I the man?!" 

"Because I want to be the woman."

"But I think you'll be a better father... Owh!" Taeyeon screamed out in pain when Jessica gave firm slap on her butt. "Domestic abuse!!" She screamed as she jumped out of the couch running around the dorm, with Jessica chasing behind her.

Sooyoung, Yuri, and Tiffany watched from the kitchen as the oldest two ran around the living room, acting like little kids.

"And to think that she was yelling at us earlier for making too much noise earlier."

"Exactly." 

Sooyoung and Yuri turned to look at each other, surprised that after a whole night, they finally agreed on something. 

13.0

"Something is wrong."

Taeyeon was quick to agree with her girlfriend's statement as she carefully observed the two girls sitting on the other side of the table. "Very wrong." She added sternly as Sooyoung and Yuri simply stared back with a confused expression on both faces.

"Did one of you killed the other person and made some sort of android as a replacement?" Jessica questioned as she stretched out both hands and reached for one of each girl's cheeks and gave a hard tug. "Hmm...the skin feels real..."

"Yah! That's because we're both human!" Sooyoung quickly imitated Yuri's actions as the girl rubbed her cheek in pain. "Jung Sooyeon! I think you should stop watching all those horror movies with Taeyeon, they're beginning to screw up your brain." 

"Choi Sooyoung! If those horror movies were really screwing up my brain, I would have concluded that one of you were possessed by some evil demon trying to take over the world and not replaced by a highly intelligent robot." Jessica retorted back as she glared at her cousin. 

Sooyoung turned her head over to Taeyeon, hoping for some support, but quickly let out a frown when the girl avoided her eyes. Concluding that her newfound friend was the better comrade in her long war with the Ice Princess, she gave a firm slap on Yuri's arm when the girl looked away as well. 

"You and your witch powers..." Sooyoung sulked as she crossed her arms in annoyance. 

"If I had witch powers I would have turned you into a bug already and Tiffany would be running away from you."

"That's a pretty good idea." Yuri smiled at the thought, but quickly cough in discomfort when Sooyoung glared at her. "Oh yeah. Agreement..."

"What agreement?" Taeyeon quickly asked, hoping to end the glaring contest between the two cousins. She had faith that the Ice Princess would win against the Cheerful Princess, but she felt bad whenever Sooyoung looked over at her for help and she had to look away. 

Sooyoung was a great friend and Taeyeon was extremely grateful that the girl helped pushed her relationship with Jessica, but in order for this relationship to continue, she knew that she had to show her uttermost loyalty to the Ice Princess or else her life would be deeply endangered. 

Endangered as in no more kisses and sleeping on the living room couch.

Sooyoung understood Taeyeon's efforts and ended the glaring contest. Sitting up straight, she began to explain the 'agreement' that she and Yuri had came up with. "We've decided that it is better for us to work together and destroy anyone that shows any love interest on our Tiffany."

"And you agreed to this?" Jessica asked Yuri as she laughed in amusement after Sooyoung finished explaining. Receiving an embarrassed nod from the other girl, she shook her head in disbelief. "And I thought you were sane."

"Are you saying I'm insane?!" 

"I never said that." Jessica smiled innocently at Sooyoung as the girl grumbled incoherent words underneath her breath.

"Hey guys!" 

Taeyeon, Jessica, and Yuri held back their laughters as Sooyoung made an 180-degree changed and turned around to smile brightly at Tiffany.

"What's going on?" Tiffany asked with confusion when she noticed how red every girls' face was. Taeyeon, Jessica, and Yuri red from holding in their laughters while Sooyoung was glaring at the three other girls.

"Nothing Fany, don't worry about it." Jessica quickly assured the other girl as the urge to laugh disappeared. 

"Really?' Tiffany eyed the other three girls suspiciously, who were quick to know in agreement with Jessica. "Okay...I guess..." She scratched the back of her neck, having no choice but to believe Jessica's words. "Well, anyways, I'm going out right now and might not be back until later in the night. You guys don't have to wait for me for dinner if it's too late." She waved a quick goodbye before walking off.

"Where are you going?" Sooyoung quickly shouted before Tiffany walked through the glass-doors of the cafe.

"To see some friends!" 

"Friends..." Yuri repeated the last words of Tiffany's response as Sooyoung sat back down after watching Tiffany disappear. "Friends as in more than one person..." 

"Or friends as in possible suitors..." 

Sooyoung frowned at Jessica's description and quickly grabbed for her bag. "Come on Yuri! We're going after her!" 

Yuri reached for her bag and quickly ran after the other girl, who had already charged in the direction that Tiffany had just went by two minutes earlier. "Have fun you two!" She waved back at the remaining two girls before running out the glass-doors.

"You just had to do that didn't you?" Taeyeon asked, knowing perfectly well of Jessica's hidden intentions as the girl quickly leaned over on to her shoulder.

"Tiffany needed to be sacrificed for a greater purpose." Jessica closed her eyes as she held onto one of Taeyeon's hands. "How else were we going to spend our alone time together with the two of them with us?" 

"Witch." Taeyeon let out unconsciously, earning her a hard glare from the other girl and loud slap on her thigh. "I love you." She quickly added as she wrapped her free hand around Jessica's waist. 

Sighing in relief when the other girl did not continue any more assault, Taeyeon silently prayed that Sooyoung and Yuri wouldn't cause too much problem for her little mushroom.

...

"So far...six guys stared at our Tiffany when she walked past them and two of them actually dared to walk up to her and asked for her number." Sooyoung frowned as she watched Tiffany continued to walked down the busy street of downtown. "They were lucky that she didn't give it to them or else they would be lying unconsciously in the next alley."

Yuri looked worriedly over at Sooyoung's direction. "I'm not gonna be arrested because of this agreement, right?" 

"Don't worry. I'm not the one doing any karate moves on those people." Sooyoung quickly assured the other girl. "I'm sending Jessica."

"And why would she beat up someone before they asked for Tiffany's number?"

"I'll just make something up about him and Taeyeon and let nature takes it course..."

"And you were calling Jessica a witch?" Yuri coughed out a laugh at Sooyoung's plan. "You're the real witch."

"We're blood-related, so if I'm a witch, she's one as well." 

Yuri laughed at Sooyoung's statement. "If I didn't know you two were cousins, I would've guessed that you were sisters. You two are really close, aren't you?" 

"Close, yes. But to be sisters, I'll rather die than be her sister!" 

"Why?" Yuri asked, surprised by Sooyoung's reaction.

"Because I'm younger than her and being a younger sister gives me no privilege above her, which would be the death of me." Sooyoung told the girl, before letting out a heavy sigh. "How I pity poor Yoona..."

"Yoona?" 

"Jessica's younger sister." Sooyoung explained. "Being tormented by the evil Ice Princess ever since she was born..." She paused as she carefully take in her statement. "Not that I escaped any torment since we grew up as next-door-neighbors..."

Before she could say anything back at Sooyoung's comment, Yuri quickly glimpse over at Tiffany's direction to make sure that they hadn't lost the other girl while they were talking. "Sooyoung!" She dragged the other girl into a secluded alleyway when she noticed Tiffany waving at an unknown male. 

"Who is he?" Sooyoung whispered to the girl hiding on the bottom as they spied over the corner of the building. 

"I don't know." Yuri answered back in an equally soft voice, frowning as she watched Tiffany ringed an arm around the unknown male's arm. 

"Let's follow them." Sooyoung suggested.

"Okay." Yuri quickly agreed. 

The two girls hurried after the suspicious pair, completely forgetting that just a couple of days earlier that they could never agreed on anything together and now agreeing was what they did best. 

...

"So how was your date?" 

"Weird." 

Taeyeon and Jessica was not surprised by the girl's one word response and looked over at Sooyoung and Yuri, who both let out a very unconvincing innocent smile. 

"But it became better in the end when I bumped into Sooyoung and Yuri." 

The smile on the mentioned girls' face brightened. "Don't worry Fany, the next time you're trouble, you can come to the both of us and we'll help you out!" Yuri quickly said as Sooyoung nodded in agreement. "We'll be glad to help out!" Sooyoung added in.

Jessica shook her head at the two girl's actions. "So why was your date weird?" 

"Well..." Tiffany frowned as she remembered what happened. "I kept feeling that someone was following me..." 

Taeyeon and Jessica quickly glared at Sooyoung and Yuri, who turned away from the two girls' eyes equally fast. 

"Like some sort of stalker..."

Yuri coughed guiltily at Tiffany's choice of words as Sooyoung rubbed her noses self-consciously. 

"I'm scared TaeTae~" 

"Don't worry my mushroom, Sica and I will protect you." Taeyeon assured as she patted Tiffany's shoulder. She had made sure to add in Jessica's name to prevent the other girl from becoming a threat to Tiffany as well. "Come on Fany, let's head back to the dorm since it's getting a little late." 

Taeyeon waited for Jessica to stand up as well, but quickly understood why the other girl was still sitting. "Let's go Fany."

"But what about Sica?" 

"Go with Taengoo." Jessica smiled at Tiffany as she shooed the girl away. "I'm gonna sit here for a while and have a little talk with your stalkers." She made sure to emphasize the plurality of the last word.

"Okay...Sica..." Tiffany frowned as she walked off with Taeyeon, not understanding how Jessica could possibly know who her stalker, or stalkers in Jessica's terms, was.

Jessica held her glare on the two girls as she waited for Tiffany to walk far enough before she had her little talk with the 'stalkers'. "Kwon Yuri. Choi Sooyoung." 

"We're sorry!" Both girls pressed their palms together and begged for Jessica's forgiveness. "This won't happen again! We promise!"

"I'm glad that we can come to an agreement so quickly." Jessica stood up calmly from her seat and walked off in the direction that Tiffany and Taeyeon had went off minutes earlier. 

"She's definitely the head witch." Yuri asked in a low whispered.

Sooyoung gave a tiny nod, afraid that Jessica might hear them with her witch powers.

14.0

"Sica?"

Receiving no response from the girl sitting next to her, Taeyeon turned her head towards the inner seat of the train. "Sica? I think you're cutting off my blood circulation..." She looked down worriedly at her pale left hand, resting tightly underneath Jessica's right hand. 

"What is your family like?" 

Taeyeon smiled at the question, completely enjoying the nervousness that the other girl was showing even though her fingers were slowly losing there senses. "Jessica, don't worry." She had been constantly reassuring Jessica that her family would love her ever since they decided they were going to visit Taeyeon's home for a couple weeks of their summer vacation, but none of her reassurance had much of an affect on the other girl since Jessica was still worrying.

"Taengoo-ah." Jessica looked up at the other girl, slowly pouting out her lips. "I'm scared."

"Aww~ Sica you're so cute~" Taeyeon cooed as she lifted up her free hand to pinch on the other girl's cheek. "How can they not like some as adorable as you?" 

"Really?" 

"Of course." 

Jessica felt a little more relief as she laid her head on Taeyeon's shoulder. Even with all the reassurance that Taeyeon had been giving her, Jessica still couldn't ease the nervousness she was feeling whenever she thought of meeting Taeyeon's parents.

"Sica, you should stop worrying." Taeyeon said as she slowly formed a fist with her left hand, testing it to make sure that it was still functioning normally. "I wasn't even this nervous when I met your family." 

"Yah! When you met my family, we weren't together yet!" 

"True." Taeyeon smiled at Jessica's snappy response. "And you were completely ignoring me that whole time too."

"Kim Taeyeon." Jessica glared up at the smiling girl, before resting her head back onto Taeyeon's shoulder. "Anyways, are you sure I won't be too much trouble tagging along with you?" She was beginning to have second thoughts again even though they were already on a train straight to Taeyeon's home and were almost half-way there. 

"Stop worrying. My mom and dad are completely excited that I'm bringing home a guest and since your parents decided to go on a sudden cruise trip, where else will you go for the summer break if not to my house?" 

Jessica pondered over the question.

"If you're thinking about crashing over at Sooyoung's because she's your cousin, then did you forget that she was going on some hiking expedition with Yuri and Tiffany?" 

"I could've gone hiking too..." 

Taeyeon couldn't help but laugh at the statement even with Jessica glaring at her. "You hiking?!" She asked, face already red from the lack of oxygen. "That'll be something I would want to see before I die. I'm even surprised that Tiffany agreed to the trip with her great fear of bugs!" 

"Kim Taeyeon."

Taeyeon coughed nervously as she swallowed the last bits of laughter that were trying to escape. 

"You're lucky that dragging your unconscious body out of the train would leave a bad impression on your parents or else you'll be lying on the floor right now."

...

"My Taeyeon-ah!! Over here!!" 

Watching a middle-aged woman in the center of the crowd waved frantically at the leaving passengers, Jessica looked over at Taeyeon, who held an embarrassed smile on her face. 

"Come on, let me introduce you to my mom." Taeyeon reached over for Jessica's hand and led her towards the exit. "Umm..." She wasn't even able to greet her mother correctly before the older woman pulled her daughter in for a big hug. "U-umma...I c-can't...b-breathe..." 

"How can you not breathe?" Mrs. Kim released her daughter and gave a hard pat on the girl's back. "See! You're breathing fine, aren't you?" Not waiting for a response from Taeyeon, Mrs. Kim turned her attention to Jessica, who was standing awkwardly behind Taeyeon. "Why, what a pretty friend you brought with you."

Taeyeon smiled as she watched Jessica bowed politely to her mother as she introduced herself. "Where's appa?" She asked after watching in satisfactory as blush of red formed on Jessica's face after her mother finished with her praises. 

"He's in the parking lot." Mrs. Kim told her daughter, her facial expression changing as she talked about her husband. "You know how shy he is when you two daughters are involved, even though he is dying to see you, he feels that it is better that he waited in the car while I came and get you."

"Or maybe he is just embarrassed to stand next to you when you start jumping up and down..." 

Mrs. Kim slapped her daughter on the arm. "Jessica, were you embarrassed when you saw me waving at you two?"

"Of course not." Jessica firmly answered back, quickly siding with the older woman. 

"See." Mrs. Kim said proudly to her daughter. "Anyways, we better hurry to your appa or else he is going to start complaining about how slow we are." The older woman shook her head at the thought of how nagging her husband was. "Oh. This is for you Jessica." She handed over the shopping bag of food over to the surprised girl. "The last friend that Taeyeon brought over was so hungry when she came off the train, so I made sure to bring a lot of food over this time."

"Last friend?" Jessica asked, even though she knew perfectly well the answer.

"Who else?" 

...

"Jessica is such a pretty name, isn't it honey?"

Mr. Kim looked over at the car's rear mirror and met eyes with a flushed red Jessica. "Honey, I think you should stop embarrassing Taeyeon's friends or else she won't be able to bring anyone home with her next time." 

"Nonsense!" Mrs. Kim slapped her husband's arm, completely ignoring the fact that the man was driving. "I'm not embarrassing you, am I?" She asked concernedly. 

"Of course not." Jessica smiled at the older woman. She met eyes with Mr. Kim in the rear mirror again when the man looked up and quickly gave a smile of assurance when the older man let out an apologetic smile. Reaching inside the bag that Taeyeon's mother had given her at the train station, she was surprised to find that she had already eaten everything. 

"Don't worry Jessica, we already prepared a great lunch for you back at home." Mrs. Kim assured the girl when she noticed that all the food she had prepared were already eaten. "And you were saying that I brought too much!" She then turned to scold her husband, who kept quiet as he focused on the road. 

"And you're too skinny anyways." Mrs. Kim continued as she looked over Jessica's body. "But at least you have meat in the right places." 

Taeyeon held in her laughter when she noticed her mother staring at Jessica's chest. But the laughter quickly dissipated as Mrs. Kim continued talking.

"Unlike my Taeyeon..."

"Umma!" Taeyeon shouted with embarrassment and glared at the smug grin forming on Jessica's face. "Where's Seohyun?" She quickly asked in hopes to change the subject.

"Oh. Your sister brought home a guest too so she's waiting at home with the girl." Mrs. Kim answered back, oblivious to the real intentions of Taeyeon's question. "It's so nice to have so many people at home again." She sighed in content. "It feels so lonely with you gone and now Seohyun's leaving too."

"Your sister is going to college?" Jessica whispered to Taeyeon.

Taeyeon gave a quick nod to Jessica's question. "Is it Nicole?" She asked, remembering her younger sister's close friend. 

"No. Nicole and her family are on a trip." Mrs. Kim explained. "She brought home her new roommate for college and what pretty doll that girl is!" 

Jessica could completely understand the feeling of the other guest when the girl was in the same car ride back to the Kim's house when Mrs. Kim began praising about how beautiful her younger daughter's new roommate was.

"And a heavy eater as well!" Mrs. Kim smiled as she recalled how well Seohyun's friend ate. "I haven't had such a great sense of satisfactory in watching someone eat my meals after your last friend." She told her daughter. "What was her name? Sooyoung, right? This girl could almost eat as much as her!" 

"Eat as much as Sooyoung?" Jessica whispered to Taeyeon. "Is that possible?"

...

"Unnie?!" 

"Yoona?!" 

Taeyeon watched with amazement as the Jung sisters met each other at her front gate while Mr. and Mrs. Kim watched with confusion. 

"You two are related?" Mrs. Kim asked. "No wonder you two look so alike when you eat!" She clapped at the observation. "So are you related to Sooyoung too?"

"We're cousins..." Yoona and Jessica answered back in embarrassment.

"Unnie!" Seohyun called out as she came out of the front door. She politely gave a bow to the unknown visitor before yelping in surprise when Taeyeon pulled her into a big hug. "U-unnie..." She called out with difficulty as she struggled to breathe. 

"Sorry." Taeyeon grinned sheepishly as she remembered how she felt when her mother pulled her into an equally big hug an hour earlier. "Oh. This is Jessica." She quickly introduced.

"Jessica?" Seohyun repeated the name as she looked over at Yoona. "She has the same name as your sister."

"She is my sister."

"Really?!" Seohyun's eyes widen at the coincidence. "Yoona has been telling me a lot about you, Jessica-unnie."

Jessica smiled at Seohyun's usage of 'unnie', making her seem closer to the Kim family already, but that did not stop her from looking at her sister suspiciously. "I hope she has been telling you true things, and not making stuff up." 

"She's been telling me how you're a wonderful sister." 

"Really?" Jessica asked, after shooting a quick glare at Taeyeon's direction. She knew what was going through the other girl's head right now and was sure that she was going to be tease for a while because of the simple statement. 

"Ahem." Mr. Kim coughed into his fist as he gained the attention of all the females. "Um...why don't we talk inside?"

All four younger girls laughed at Mr. Kim's suggestion as Mrs. Kim shook her head. 

"I'll go get the bags..." Mr. Kim announced as he walked towards the trunk of the car.

"That man..." Mrs. Kim sighed as she led the way to the house with the rest of the girls following behind. 

Jessica frowned as she observed Seohyun and Yoona walking in front. "Why are the younger siblings taller than the older ones?"

"Huh?" 

"Yoona is taller than me. And Seohyun is taller than you." Jessica explained. "And Yuri is taller than her sister."

"Yuri has an older sister?" Taeyeon asked.

Jessica stopped walking as she answered back timidly.

"She does."

15.0

Jessica groaned as she tried to change her position on the bed, but being pinned-down by Taeyeon's arms around her waist, she successfully moved a centimeter before giving up. Smiling as she looked up at the other girl's sleeping face, she made sure to remember the expression since it was rare to see Taeyeon still asleep while she was awake. 

"Is this a dream?"

Jessica's eyebrows scrunched together in confusion as the other girl smiled down at her, eyes lazily opened and looked like they were about to close again. "What to do you mean?"

"You're awake before I am." 

"Well, good-morning to you too." Jessica replied sourly as she tried to pull out of the other girl's embrace, but Taeyeon was quicker and held tighter. Breaking out into a smile, she snuggled closer against the other girl's body. 

"I guess this really is a dream since you're smiling and you just woke up." 

"Do you find great amusement in teasing me this early in the morning?" 

Taeyeon chuckled at the question as she slid her body down her bed so she could see Jessica's face better. "People do say that teasing is also a way to show the others how much you love them." She continued moving down the bed, stopping only when she reached the crook of the other girl's neck. "See how much I love you."

"Then maybe I should show you some of my love too." Jessica held back a giggle as she felt Taeyeon breathing against her neck. "Like your sleep-talk love confessions and how you try every night to drape your leg over me but due to their shortness..." 

"I confess in my sleep?!" Taeyeon looked up from position, completely surprised in the new information. "I didn't know that..."

"I think I should be scare if you did since you were asleep at the time." Jessica rolled over onto her back. Moving her hand down from her stomach, she searched for Taeyeon's hand and entwined their fingers together. She let out a lazy sigh as she stared up at the other girl's ceiling.

"You smell nice." Taeyeon leaned forward and took in the scent of Jessica's hair.

Jessica turned her head and smirked at the other girl. "Is that another way to say you smell nice too since I used your shampoo?" 

"Maybe..." Taeyeon teased as she pushed her face against the other girl's hair and breathe in deeper. "Or maybe, I just like smelling my scent on you..." 

"Byuntae!" Jessica held up her free hand, thumb pressed against the nail of her middle-finger, and flicked hard on Taeyeon's forehead. Chuckling as she watched the girl's head fall backwards than bounced back up, she gently rub on the spot as a red mark began to form. 

"I'm in my own home, on my own bed, and I'm still being abused..." 

Jessica pouted at the comment. 

"But since you're the one doing the abusing, I guess I can only silently suffer since I love you so much." 

Jessica gave a hard slap on the red spot as she laid back down on the bed. Looking back up at the ceiling, she smiled as she replayed the thirty minutes since she woke up. 

Everything was perfect because Kim Taeyeon was right next to her. 

"I love you, Taeyeon." 

Taeyeon smiled at Jessica's sudden confession. "And I love you too, Jessica." 

"I really do." Jessica added as she rolled over onto her side so she could look straight into Taeyeon's eyes.

"And I really do too." Taeyeon leaned forward and kissed lightly on the other girl's lips. "And because I love you so much, I'll allow you to sleep for another hour before I really wake you up." 

"You're only saying that because you want to sleep too." Jessica teased as she snuggled closer against the other girl's body, resting her face on the crook of Taeyeon's neck.

"Of course I do, because I have a big day planned for us."

...

"So this is your big day?"

Taeyeon nodded firmly at the question.

Jessica didn't know if it was better for her to laugh at Taeyeon's idea of a big day or to laugh at the fact she was actually looking forward to what other 'big' things the other girl had in planned. But since both called for some laughing, she simply laughed. "The zoo?" 

"What's wrong with the zoo?" Taeyeon scrunched her eyes together and playfully glared at Jessica. 

"Nothing is wrong with the zoo." Jessica stopped laughing at the situation and began laughing at Taeyeon's expression. "Its just that, I never dreamed that I would go on a date with someone to the zoo."

"Good then!" Taeyeon clapped at the information, earning her a couple of curious stares from the other visitors. "Let's go create some awesome memories!" 

Jessica nodded at Taeyeon's excitement and allowed the other girl to drag her towards the ticket booth. 

...

"Doesn't that one remind you of Yuri?" 

Taeyeon laid her head against her palm.

"And that one of Fany?"

Taeyeon shook her head. "The only one I can tell is Sooyoung because that chimpanzee has been eating ever since we stopped in front of this cage..." She looked down at her watch." Ten minutes ago." 

"Really?" Jessica frowned as she stared at another chimpanzee. "Yuri may be a little hard to tell, but Tiffany is so easy!" 

"How?!" Taeyeon asked as she stared at the Tiffany-chimpanzee with Jessica. "She's...oh." She quietly let out as she watched the Tiffany-chimpanzee tripped over a laying tree branch. "Okay. That's Fany." 

Jessica grinned as Taeyeon agreed with her. 

"But I still don't see Yuri." 

The grin on Jessica's face disappeared as she tried to figure out how to explain Yuri to Taeyeon. "Yuri..." She sighed as she watched the Yuri-chimpanzee continued swinging on the tree. "...is outgoing and that chimpanzee had been swinging from branch to branch for ten minutes already!" 

"That one over there has been jumping up and down for ten minutes too." 

Jessica glared at Taeyeon as the other girl argued back. "But..." She smiled as she realized why that particular chimpanzee reminded her of Yuri. "Your Yuri hasn't been staring at Tiffany like my Yuri has!" 

"Okay you win." Taeyeon held up her hands in defeat as she watched Jessica's Yuri-chimpanzee turned to follow the movement's of the Tiffany-chimpanzee's butt. "That's Yuri." Breaking into a smile as she watched Jessica continued to stare at the three chimpanzees, Taeyeon mentally congratulated herself for her awesome idea on bringing Jessica to the zoo. 

"And that one is you." 

Taeyeon looked over curiously at the direction Jessica's finger was pointing at. "How is that me?!" She asked when she noticed how small her chimpanzee-counterpart was. 

"Because you're a midget."

Taeyeon groaned at Jessica's quick response. 

"And because you just offered your bananas to that chimpanzee over there."

Taeyeon looked over at the other chimpanzee that Jessica was pointing at. "And I'm guessing that chimpanzee is you?" 

"Unless there's someone else you want to share your bananas with..." Jessica glared at the other girl before breaking out into a huge smile as she wrapped an arm around Taeyeon's. "Come on, let's go to another exhibit." 

"What do you want to see?"

"Hmm...I wonder if they have alligators here...'

"Alligators?"

"Yes." Jessica smiled sweetly at Taeyeon. "I'm missing my sister right now."

...

"So is this the other part of your big day?"

Taeyeon grinned at the question. "This one is gonna be bigger than the zoo part. I promise!" 

Jessica eyed the other girl suspiciously as she followed Taeyeon inside the aquarium. Turning to look at the big backpack Taeyeon was carrying, she frowned since Taeyeon never explained what was in it. "Taengoo, why are you carrying such a huge bag?"

"Oh. You mean this?" Taeyeon patted the big bag on her bag with her left hand, since her right was currently being held captive by Jessica. "We're camping out tonight!" 

Jessica eyes immediately widen at the information and halted on the spot. "What?! Why didn't you tell me before?! I refuse to sleep on dirt with bugs crawling all ove...!!"

Taeyeon quickly clamped her hand over Jessica's mouth as the other visitors turned to look at what was the sudden commotion about. "Shh..." She slowly removed her hand when she got the other girl to agree to stop shouting. "I promise I won't let any bugs crawl over my princess and I won't allow my princess to sleep on dirt soil, okay?" 

Jessica eyed Taeyeon suspiciously as the other girl kept pleading. 

"Plus, you were laughing about the zoo in the beginning and didn't you enjoy yourself later on?" 

Jessica sighed since Taeyeon was right. And since she felt that nothing could be bad with the other girl by her side, she reluctantly agreed. "I agree to camping out but I absolutely refuse to sleep on dirt!" She reminded Taeyeon, who quickly nodded. "And if I have to sleep on dirt, I'm gonna sleep on top of you!" 

Taeyeon broke into a silly grin. "I'll be happy to let you sleep on top of me even if we're not sleeping on dirt..." 

"Byuntae!" 

"And we both know that you love my pervertedness." 

Jessica glared at how right Taeyeon was.

"Go look around some tanks while I go reserve some spots, okay?" 

"Reserve what spots?!"

...

"So there were only turtle and shark spots when I went to reserve our spot, so I picked turtles since they're less likely to eat us if the tunnel collapsed." 

Jessica stared in amazement as she watched a school of fish swam over their heads. "Taeyeon-ah..." 

"I know." Taeyeon held up a hand, signaling for the other girl to stop talking. "You're sorry for causing such a huge scene this afternoon when I told you that we're camping out and I accept your apology." 

"Actually, I was gonna say if the tunnel collapsed, I don't think the sharks will be our biggest worry." 

"Did you have to ruin the moment?" Taeyeon groaned as she finished spreading their camping bag on the aquarium floor. 

"What?" Jessica pouted at the accusation. "How come you can joke around the tunnel collapsing, and I can't?"

"Because I'm joking and you..." Taeyeon tilted her head and observed the standing girl. "...sound so real..." 

"Kim Taeyeon." Jessica glared at the other girl before sitting down next to her. "You're lucky that today was amazing or else you're sleeping on the floor. 

"Well, technically, we're both sleeping on the floor..."

"That's it! Off the sleeping bag!" Jessica began pushing Taeyeon off as the other girl held on tighter to the cloth she was sitting on. 

"I love you Sica~!"

Jessica blushed as she quickly clamped her hand over Taeyeon's mouth. Making sure that the other visitors were looking elsewhere, she leaned in and gave Taeyeon a quick peck on the lips. "And I love you too, Taengoo." 

"Come on, let's get ready to sleep." Taeyeon stood up from the ground and stretched out her hand for the other girl. After pulling Jessica up from the sleeping bag, she bent back down and opened the zipper for the other girl to climb inside before settling in as well. 

Jessica leaned her head against Taeyeon's shoulder as the other girl wrapped an arm around her waist. "I'll admit, the view is not bad." She grinned as she watched a pair of turtles swam pass the the wall of the tunnel. 

"The views gonna be great if the turtles start mating."

"What?!" 

Taeyeon grinned as Jessica turned to stare at her. "The employees said that the turtles will be mating soon which was another reason why I chose the turtles over the sharks." 

"Byuntae!" 

"Yah!" Taeyeon pouted as she pretended that she was hurt. "You've called me perverted three times today already..." 

"And you're becoming more perverted as the day goes by..." 

Taeyeon smirked at Jessica's statement. "Then...shouldn't you be afraid since you'll be sleeping next to me..." 

"Yah!" Jessica sat up straight abruptly when she felt Taeyeon's fingers against her bareback. 

"You know...when the turtles start mating, maybe we should..."

"I am not doing it in an aquarium!!" 

Looking at the redness on Jessica's cheeks, Taeyeon could no longer hold in her laughter and began rolling on the floor. "I never said anything about doing 'it'. I was just gonna suggest we go to sleep to allow those turtles some privacy." She chuckled as the redness on Jessica's cheeks deepen. 

"So who's byuntae now?" Taeyeon couldn't help but tease, even though she knew that she would definitely have to pay for this later. 

16.0

"How long have you planned for this?"

Taeyeon shrugged at the question as she lazily played with Jessica's bangs. 

"Must have taken you a long time to plan two days of surprises..."

"Planning was fun since I got to imagine how you would react with each situation." Taeyeon smiled as she placed both hands onto the grassy ground and supported herself as she looked up at the clear blue sky. "And it was all worth the time and effort when you liked everything I planned so much."

"The zoo, sleeping underneath the aquarium tunnel..." Jessica broke off into a soft smile as she made herself more comfortable on Taeyeon's thighs."...and now lunch in the park...I'm gonna demand for more if you continue to spoil so much..."

"Then I guess you'll always have to stay by my side or else you won't get this treatment." 

Jessica tilted her head upwards and looked at Taeyeon lovingly. Stretching out a hand, she gently caress the other girl's face. "When did my dorky Taengoo become so romantic?"

"When was I ever dorky?" 

"You were always dorky."

"No I wasn't!"

"Yes you were!"

Jessica removed her head from the other girl's thighs and sat straight up to argue her point. "You were completely dorky when you came over to my house for the BBQ party! Throwing your head back and laughing so wildly with Yoona..." She slowly trailed off when she noticed the smug grin forming on the other girl's face. "What?"

"If I remember correctly..." The teasing tone was clear in Taeyeon's voice as the girl continued. "You were hiding in your room the whole time the BBQ party took place...how did you know I was laughing wildly with Yoona?"

"I-I..." 

Taeyeon grinned as Jessica began stuttering. "Were you spying at us?"

"No!" Jessica shouted too eagerly. "I just happen to pass by my window and saw you laughing..."

"Really?" 

"Yes." Jessica answered firmly, signaling the end of this conversation. 

"Sure...whatever you say..." Taeyeon couldn't help but add when she realized how much it irked the other girl. 

"Hmph." Jessica breathed loudly out of her nose as she turned her body away from the girl. But her posture quickly soften when she felt Taeyeon's hands wrapped around her waist and the other girl's head resting on her left shoulder. Leaning her body back against the other girl, Jessica smiled at how perfect their bodies fitted with each other. 

"So am I forgiven?" 

"Maybe." 

"Really?"

"Ye..." Jessica gasped and breathed in deeply through her nose when she felt the other girl began kissing on her neck. Her body quickly stiffen as she looked around the park, afraid that someone was looking at them. "T-Taeyeon..." 

"Hmm?" Taeyeon smiled against the other girl's neck as she continued kissing. 

"People..." Jessica frowned as she stopped in mid-sentence. Looking up into the cloudless sky, she felt a couple drops of water fall onto her face. "Taeyeon, its raining." 

"What?" Taeyeon reluctantly looked up from Jessica's neck and frowned at the perfect sky. "No its not."

"But...I felt water droplets..." Jessica looked around the park in confusion. "Uh...Taeyeon...Sprinklers!!" 

"Ah!" Taeyeon screamed along with Jessica as the sprinklers began spraying water at full-speed. 

...

"You look sexy when you're wet." 

Jessica glared at the other girl as she ringed her wet shirt. "Did you planned for the sprinklers too?" 

"No." Taeyeon smiled at the question. "But they were a great addition, don't you think?" 

"If I get sick because of these wet clot..."

"Don't worry!" Taeyeon abruptly cut Jessica off. "Your awesome Taengoo is prepared for everything!" She placed her big backpack onto the girl and began rummaging through its contents. "A nice and dry T-shirt!" She held up the piece of clothing and smiled brightly at the other girl. 

"What about you?" 

"I have another one too." Taeyeon smiled secretly at her response. "Come on, let's go change!" 

Jessica eyed the other girl suspiciously as Taeyeon pushed her eagerly towards an empty bathroom stall. "Taeyeon, what are you planning?" 

"Nothing." Taeyeon smiled innocently before pulling the bathroom stall closed. 

Jessica looked down hesitantly at the green T-shirt in her hands, wondering if it was safer for her to just wear her wet clothes instead.

...

Jessica smiled brightly as she walked hand-in-hand with Taeyeon down the street. Looking down at her shirt and then at Taeyeon's, her smile grew brighter as she swung the other girl's hand as they walked.

"I'm guessing you like the matching T-shirts?"

Jessica simply smiled at the question since it was obvious what her response was. 

"And to think you were hesitant to wear the shirt when I gave it to you." 

Jessica pouted. "Fine. I'll stop being for anything you planned for today, okay?" As the sentence left her mouth, she immediately regretted it when she noticed the excitement in Taeyeon's eyes as the other girl pulled her down the street.

...

"You really do look sexy when you're wet."

Jessica glared at Taeyeon's back as she felt beads of sweat trickle down from her forehead. 

"If only I can see your face now..." Taeyeon sighed as she pumped her legs up and down on the pedals of the bicycle. Grunting suddenly when the vehicle began to slide backwards, she began pedaling faster. "Sica~" Taeyeon whined. "You have to pedal too~"

Jessica shook her in the backseat. "Since you so much energy to talk, you should use that energy on pedaling."

"Sica~" 

"Nope." Jessica smiled as she watched Taeyeon's legs move up and down at a faster speed. "And I'm tired so I'm not pedaling anymore." 

"But..." 

"And if you pedal faster, I promise to give you a reward when we reach our destination."

Taeyeon's ears immediately perked up at the sound of a reward. "What kind of reward?" She asked interestedly. 

"I don't know." Jessica teased the girl in front. "But depending on how fast we get there, I'll make some quick adjustments to what I'm gonna give you..." 

"Really?"

Jessica laughed at the excitement in Taeyeon's voice. "Really." 

"Then can I bargain with this reward?"

Jessica thought carefully about the question before answering back. "What do you want?"

"A nice long massage on my poor legs..."

Jessica laughed as she watched Taeyeon's legs increased their speed. 

"...and a nice long kiss."

"I'll agree to half of it right now."

"Which half?"

"The kissing part." Jessica smiled at the other girl as Taeyeon turned around to look at her. 

...

Taeyeon smiled gently as she observed Jessica's sleeping face. Stretching out a hand, she carefully tucked some lose strands of hair behind the other girl's ears. "Funny how I'm the one who did all the tiring pedaling and you're the one who's more tired than me..." She said to herself. "And I haven't gotten my reward yet..."

Looking back at the view in front of her, Taeyeon gently shook the other girl's body. "Sica..." She called softly as she tried to waken the girl. "Sica, wake up or you're gonna miss the sunset...."

"Hmm?" Jessica sat up from Taeyeon's embrace and rubbed her eyes. Looking over at the other girl, she followed the direction of Taeyeon's pointing finger. 

Jessica watched with amazement as the sky changed into various shades of color and the sun slowly disappeared into the far horizon. Smiling at how warm the scene was, with the different shades of red, orange, and yellow, the smile grew when she felt Taeyeon's hand holding tightly onto hers. 

"Its beautiful, Taeyeon..." Jessica finally spoke when the sun completely disappeared, but a few strands of its colors stayed in the sky. 

Taeyeon smiled at Jessica's simple reply as she gently rubbed her thumb against the back of the other girl's hand. "And that concludes the two-day date that I have planned for you, Ms. Jessica Jung Sooyeon."

"And I enjoyed every moment of it." Jessica turned and smile at Taeyeon, leaning in quickly to leave a quick peck on the other girl's cheek. "Even if I still find the zoo portion of this two-day date unfitting."

"Would you stop teasing about the zoo?" Taeyeon pouted. "I had to add something in since going to the aquarium that early would be useless...and the zoo was right next door!" 

Jessica laughed at Taeyeon's explanation. 

"And you enjoyed it, didn't you?"

Jessica nodded firmly at the question. "Yes I did, Ms. Kim Taengoo." Leaning back against Taeyeon's body, she looked up at the already darken sky. "So is this really the end of the date?"

"You still want more?"

Jessica smiled at the question. "Well, you're full of surprises so I'm just curious if this is really the end." 

"Well..." Taeyeon looked up at the sky and frowned. "I did plan on shooting stars, but the sky refused to agree with me." 

"How about next time?" 

Taeyeon met eyes with Jessica as she looked down at the other girl. "Sure. Next time we'll come up here and watch shooting stars." 

"And I expect next time to be as amazing as this date." 

Taeyeon nodded as she pinky-promised with the other girl. "I'll make sure you'll be amazed every time we have a date. That's a promise." 

Jessica snuggled closer against the other girl's body as the cool air blew through the air. 

"You know..." Taeyeon grinned as she remember for reward. "I still haven't gotten my kiss yet..."

"What kiss?" Jessica asked playfully, knowing perfectly well that the other girl wasn't going to give up easily. "I don't remember promising you a kiss..."

"Yah~" Taeyeon poked at the other girl's waist like a little kid begging for a treat. "I want my kiss."

Jessica giggled at Taeyeon's sudden burst of aegyo. "Aww...does baby Taengoo want a kiss?"

"Yes. Baby Taengoo wants a kiss..." Taeyeon played along with the other girl. "...from Sica appa." 

"Okay. That's it. No kiss." Jessica turned around and made a movement to stand up from the ground, but Taeyeon was quicker and pulled the girl down onto her body.

"Since we'll be sleeping on dirt tonight, I guess you'll have to sleep on top of me, right?" Taeyeon asked as she wrapped her arms around Jessica's waist. 

"Byuntae."

Taeyeon frowned playfully at the mention of the word. "You know, if you continue using that word to call me, the next time some unknown stranger uses that word, I'm gonna turn my head and that'll be a very awkward situation..." She said. "But, if you add an 'I love you' to the end of that word, it'll help me distinguish my name from a simple 'byuntae'."

"Byuntae, I love you."

"And I love you too." 

Smiling as Taeyeon stared up at her, Jessica slowly leaned forward and pressed against the other girl's lips. No longer caring if she was lying on dirt or not, she wrapped her hands around Taeyeon's neck, when the other girl rolled her over, and pulled the girl closer. 

"So how's the reward?" Jessica managed to ask when Taeyeon pulled away to breathe, smiling as the other girl's taste lingered in her mouth. 

Taeyeoun smirked as she leaned back down to finish collecting her reward. "Perfect." 

17.0

Jessica breathed deeply in her sleep as she heard laughter surrounded her. Not willing to let go of the last strands of drowsiness that were keeping her eyelids down, she snuggled closer to the shoulder she was sleeping on. But she quickly broke into a frown when the shoulder shook up and down as its owner laughed.

Groaning as she reluctantly spoke, Jessica tried to keep the person still. "Yah...stop moving..." She mumbled out.

"Yoona, ready?"

"Yup!"

"On three..." A sly grin formed on Taeyeon's face as she stretched out her fingers with Yoona. "One...two...three!"

Seohyun flinched as she watched Jessica shot straight up from her seat as she watched her sister and Yoona attacked the other girl's waist with their fingers. "Jessica-unnie..." Her eyes widen as she watched the girl hit the roof of the van, causing a loud rumble.

"You...two..." Jessica glared at her sister and Taeyeon, who were clutching onto their stomach as they burst out laughing.

"We're almost at the festival, so we had to wake you up!" Taeyeon quickly explained in fear when she noticed Jessica's hand moving towards her.

"Sorry unnie!!" Yoona quickly apologized as well.

"Aish...you two..." Jessica grumbled as she rubbed the top of her head. There was no way she could actually take revenge now since Taeyeon's parents were also in the van and she did not want to leave a bad impression as an abusive sister or future daughter-in-law.

Sulking back into the back seat of the van, Jessica stared at the front mirror since she was not in the mood to entertain the two laughing girls sitting beside her. But her mood quickly brightened up when she felt Taeyeon slid her hand into hers, entwining their fingers together.

"You're lucky that your parents are here..."

Taeyeon smiled at Jessica's statement. "Still trying to leave a good impression?" She teased. "You don't really have to anymore since they already love you."

"Are you sure?"

"Of course I am. I chose you, didn't I?"

...

"Taeyeon-ah make sure to be a good tour guide, okay?"

Taeyeon nodded at her mother's question as she helped Jessica out of the van. "Don't worry umma!" She replied back as she slid the door close. "I'll make sure that they get the most traditional experience of the Rice-Cake Festival!"

"And Seohyun-ah, watch your sister."

"I will umma." Seohyun replied back as she giggled at the hurt expression on Taeyeon's face. "I'll make sure she doesn't run off alone and get lost again."

Mrs. Kim sighed at the memory.

"Yah~ That only happened once and I was seven!" Taeyeon grumbled.

"And Seohyun was six and she had to go find you." Mrs. Kim reminded her older daughter. Turning to Jessica and Yoona, she smiled at the two girls. "Don't be afraid to tell me if they're causing trouble. Seohyun should be fine, but Taeyeon..."

Jessica laughed as she watched Taeyeon's opened in disbelief. "Don't worry auntie, I'll make sure that Taeyeon behaves at the festival."

"Good." Mrs. Kim felt much more relief with Jessica's promise. "Taeyeon-ah, listen to whatever Jessica tells you to do and don't go wandering off alone. If you get lost again, remember to fine the informa..."

"Umma, I'll be fine." Taeyeon quickly assured the older woman when she noticed the beginning of a long monologue.

"Fine." Mrs. Kim reluctantly let out. "Your appa and I will be by the performance stage." She pointed at an infrastructure protruding into the air a few meters away. "If you need to find us, we'll be over there. Have fun now!"

"We will!" The four girls waved before heading towards the booth area of the festival.

"Taeyeon-ah, I want a piggy-back ride."

Taeyeon stopped in mid-step and turned out to stare at a grinning Jessica. "What?!"

"Taeyeon-ah, I want a piggy-back ride." Jessica repeated herself as she stretched out her arms, refusing to walk another step. "Remember what your mother said... 'Listen to whatever Jessica tells you to do'..." She quoted.

"Like I don't already." Taeyeon playfully grumbled, but bent down anyways to allowed the other girl to climb onto her back. "Comfortable?"

"Of course." Jessica smiled as lay her chin on Taeyeon's left shoulder.

"Umma was right...you are too skinny..." Taeyeon frowned at the weight of the other girl on her back. "With all the meals you eat, I'm curious to know where all those calories went..."

Jessica looked over at Taeyeon's face and frowned when she notice the smirk on the other girl's face. "Why are you smiling like that?"

"Let's just say I figured out my answer..."

"I don't think I want to know what answer you came up with..."

"Are you sure?" Taeyeon teased. Hopping up onto the pavement, she smiled at the pressure on her back."Let's just say all those calories went to the right place."

...

"Steamed deok?"

Jessica nodded at Taeyeon's question since she busy chewing on the spicy rice-cake in her mouth to reply back.

"Pounded deok?"

Jessica nodded again as she picked up one of the steamed rice-cake and placed it into her mouth.

"Pan-fried deok?" Taeyeon sighed as she watched Jessica nod for the third time. "Should I just buy one of each?" Knowing perfectly well that she wouldn't receive a sounded reply if she handed the plate of pan-fried rice-cake to the other girl, she pulled the plate away when Jessica stretched out her hand to take the item. "So?"

"Just don't buy anything with cucumbers in them." Jessica replied back. She then stretched out hand with her palm facing up and waited for Taeyeon to hand over the new plate of food.

"I think I'm gonna go poor feeding you." Taeyeon groaned as she pointed at everything else in the rice-cake booth to the owner.

"It's not like I'm the only one eating them." Jessica retorted as she handed some of the plates over to Yoona, who eagerly began stuffing them down. "See." She smiled as Yoona looked around for more food.

"Fine. I think I'm gonna go poor feeding your family." Taeyeon corrected herself as she handed over the new set of plates. "Since Sooyoung is part of it too...and stop eating everything all by yourself! Give some to my sister too!!" 

"I am! I am!" Jessica defended herself as she handed some plates over to Seohyun. "Here Seohyun, you better eat a lot or your unnie is gonna kill me for starving you."

"Jessica-unnie..." Seohyun's eyes widen at the amount of food Jessica handed over. "I eat this every year, so you should eat more." She quickly said as she handed most of the food back.

"Seohyun is so nice." Jessica said as she held the food in her hand, grinning at Taeyeon, who was shaking her head. "Since your school is close to ours, whenever you're hungry and have no food, come by our dorm and I'll get you some food, okay?"

Seohyun nodded politely.

"Seohyun-ah, you should remember to bring me along whenever you go, okay?" Yoona asked as her eyes brighten at the thought of free food. Sensing that her sister was going to yell at her, she grabbed onto Seohyun's hand before the other girl could even reply back. "And since you come here every year, you should take me to where the other good foods are!"

Taeyeon frowned as she looked down at her hands. Slowly counting with each finger, her eyes widen after each digit was added. "You...Sooyoung...Yuri...Seohyun...Yoona...me...Wait! I'm feeding six people next semest..?!"

Before Taeyeon could finish her outburst, Jessica quickly stuffed a piece of rice-cake into the other girl's mouth, cutting the girl off from her sentence. "Remember to chew carefully before swallowing. If you choke and die, a lot of people are gonna go hungry."

Taeyeon glared at the smiling girl as she chewed on the piece of item in her mouth.

...

"Jessica~"

"No!"

"Unnie~"

"No!"

"Jessica-unnie...?"

Jessica frowned as she looked over at Seohyun. "Why though?"

"Because its summer." Taeyeon smiled as pulled the reluctant girl towards the building. "And during the summer, we tell scary stories, watch scary movies, and go to..."

"Haunted houses!!" Yoona shouted excitedly with Seohyun nodding in agreement.

"B-but...this is a rice cake festival! We should be going around eating all the different kinds of rice cakes!" Jessica pleaded.

"Yah! You've already eaten every kind of rice cake there is at this festival!" Taeyeon informed the girl, pushing her towards the entrance of the haunted house. "If you really want to eat again, we can eat after we come out!"

"B-but...don't you feel that going to haunted houses are bad for your health?!" Jessica turned helplessly to Seohyun. "Since...uh...it'll cause your heart to beat in irregular patterns..."

"But that's only if you're scared. Don't worry, Jessica-unnie, the haunted house here isn't that scary." Seohyun replied back. "It's really fun!"

Knowing that it was even more useless trying to get her sister to side with her, Jessica resorted to digging the heel of her shoe into the soil path, hoping that Taeyeon would eventually give up pushing her. "You know I hate scary stuff." She growled at the girl behind her as she watched the two younger sisters entered the building.

"I know." Taeyeon smiled back slyly as she pushed Jessica through the door.

"Then why are you making me go to the haunted house?! Any why is there a haunted house in the middle of a rice-cake festival?!"

"Because it'll be fun!"

...

"Sica!! Blood circuit!!"

"Ack!!"

"Sica!! Hair!!"

"Ung!!"

"Sica!! Stop kicking me!!"

Taeyeon quickly reached inside her pocket and brought out her cellphone. Bringing the screen up to her face, she pressed a button which illuminated the screen. "Yah!" She screamed in surprise when Jessica's fist came down on her head.

"That's even scarier!!" Jessica screamed.

"Fine." Taeyeon quickly returned the phone back into her pocket. "I'm gonna reach for your hand right now, okay? Don't hit me." She told the girl before making any movements.

"Okay..." Jessica stretched out her hand, trying to find Taeyeon's. She frowned when she felt the girl's hand elsewhere. "Taeyeon-ah, why do I have a feeling that you have hidden intentions for bringing me to the haunted house?"

"No I don't." Taeyeon tried her best to speak in an even tone, grinning as she moved her hand away from Jessica's butt. "Here." She placed her hand in Jessica's and held tightly. "I'm right here, so you don't have to be afraid, okay?" She assured the other girl.

Jessica nodded but soon broke out into a frown. "I think I should be more afraid with you next to me. Now, stop touching my butt!"

Taeyeon blinked at the accusation. "I'm not! Really!" She brought up her free hand and held up for the other girl to see. "And my other hand is in your hand, so I'm not touching you butt!"

"Y-you're n-not..." Jessica stuttered when she felt a warm palm on her shorts again. "Then who's touc... ACK!" She yelped when felt a hard pinch. "AHH!" She continued screaming as she made a straight dash towards the exit, not bothering with the fact that Taeyeon was bumping into the various 'decorations' along the way.

"Sica, stop...owh...running!!" Taeyeon winced in pain as she crashed into a table.

"Yoona..." Seohyun looked away from her sister and turned to the laughing girl on her right. "I don't think pinching Jessica-unnie's butt in a haunted house was a good idea..."

...

"Unnie~"

Jessica glared at the grinning girl. "What?!"

"Uh..." Yoona trailed off, realizing that it was probably not the right time to admit that she the attacker inside the haunted house. "Did you have fun in the haunted house?"

Jessica glared at the younger girl at the mentioning of the bad memory. "I forbid you to go into haunted houses anymore because there are perverts in there!" She pointed at the building they came out of.

Yoona simply nodded at the order and kept quiet until Taeyeon and Seohyun came back from the restroom. She did not trust that she could keep her laughter in if she tried talking to the older girl. 

18.0

"I think you look cute in pink." 

Taeyeon growled as she looked down at her ruined shirt, dyed pink because she had crashed into a person holding a cup of fruit punch when Jessica was running for her life in the haunted house. "Thank you." She replied back sarcastically, finding it irresistible to tease the girl when she could. 

Jessica pouted. "Fine...do you want me to pour fruit punch on myself?" 

Taeyeon laughed at Jessica's question. "I'm fine, Sica, don't worry." 

"Really?" 

"Of course." Taeyeon reached over for Jessica's hand. "Come on let's go find the younger ones!"

...

"Sica~ You're not gonna have a lot of memories of the festival if you all you do is eat." 

Jessica ignored Taeyeon's statement and continued chewing on the piece of odeng in her mouth. "Don't worry Taengoo, I'll remember all the food I ate and that'll be good enough."

"No it won't!" Taeyeon argued back. Looking around at the different booths at the festival, she smiled when she found a potential booth that looked interesting. "Come on! Let's go play a game!" She reached for Jessica's hand and began dragging the girl away from the odeng booth.

"Where are we going? We're passing a lot of good food!" Jessica whined as she watched the various food booths they passed by as Taeyeon continued moving forward. "Kim Taeyeon, you're kidding me, right?" She laughed when they reached their destination. "Bop-A-Mole?" 

"Yes!" Taeyeon reached inside her pocket for her wallet. "Four games!" She shouted to the vendor before pushing the rest of the girls to the empty machines. "Let's team up and have a contest to see who'll get the highest score!"

"Jung's verses Kim's!" Yoona instantly picked her sister, knowing how violent the girl could get at times. "Come on unnie! This is gonna be fun!" She shouted excited as she reached for the mallet. 

'Seohyun-ah, don't hold back, okay?" Taeyeon looked worriedly at her younger sister.

"Okay unnie!" Seohyun reached for her mallet and prepare for the contest. 

"Come on Sica~" Taeyeon grinned at the other girl who was still indifferent towards the whole idea. "It'll be fun and you can pretend that the moles was that pervert that grabbed your butt when we were at the haunted house."

Yoona lightly coughed as she peaked over at her sister's expression. Gulping in fear when she saw the fire burning in the older girl's eyes, she made a mental note to herself to never reveal the truth and keep Seohyun quiet as well.

"Hurry up!" Jessica shouted impatiently with her mallet raised in the air. 

Yoona winced in pain for the toy mole when Jessica's mallet struck down hard when Taeyeon called for the start of the contest. She was going to carry the truth to her grave.

...

Jessica frowned at the smug smile across Taeyeon's face and glared at her sister. "Did you just have to lose your super-human strength when we needed it the most?!"

Yoona pouted at the question. It wasn't her fault that Jessica's attacks on the toy moles frightened her so much. Since the older girl was letting out her anger for the earlier incident when her butt was grabbed in the haunted house, Yoona couldn't help but pictured herself as the toys the whole time the contest took place. "Unnie~"

"Yah. Don't be so harsh on Yoona."

"You're only saying that because you won the contest!"

Taeyeon grin at the comment. Reaching over for the younger girl, she gently patted on Yoona's head. ""Don't worry your unnie is just a sore loser...but you should probably know that already since you grew up with her." She comforted, making a smile appear on the other girl's face.

"You should see her when we were younger..." Yoona trailed off when she noticed Jessica's intense stare on her. Grabbing onto Taeyeon's arm, she used the older girl's body as a shield before continuing her story. "Sooyoung-unnie challenged her to climb a tree and she did it. When she was half-way up, she realized that Sooyoung-unnie wasn't even climbing and was stealing all her food, she came down within minutes when it took her almost an hour to get where she was..."

Yoona stopped talking for a moment when she noticed that the protagonist of her story had somehow standing next to. Gently tugging on Taeyeon's arm, she pulled the older girl between her and Jessica before she continued talking, smiling when she noticed Taeyeon restrained her sister back. "...and in the end, Sooyoung-unnie had to hide every time was anywhere near her. She even refused to go out for food because unnie would always be waiting outside the front door."

By the end of the story, even Seohyun had a smile across her face as Jessica looked around the festival as if she wasn't part of the conversation.

"I think I should be careful around you from now on...my sassy girlfriend..." Taeyeon gently whispered and grinned when she noticed Jessica's redden ear, even though the girl's lips were still pursed together. "What happened in the end?" She asked in a louder voice this time.

Before Jessica would answer, Yoona began talking again. "Sooyoung-unnie had a broken nose after unnie... AH!!" She screamed as she darted forward into the crowd as Jessica ran behind her.

...

"I'm tired." Jessica groaned as she dragged her legs along the path while Taeyeon pulled her hand. She had no idea where the other girl was taking her and and just wanted to sit down somewhere after her little bonding moment with her sister. "Can we go home now?"

"Nope." Taeyeon shook her head as she tugged on the limp arm. "I still have two more events planned."

"At times like this, I wished that you're a lazy girlfriend so we can just go home and sleep..." Jessica frowned when she noticed the tiny grin Taeyeon was trying to hold back. "And sometimes I wished that you were back to the Taeyeon who had just moved in and had a clean mind."

"I'll like to see you go back to the old you." Taeyeon laughed. "I missed the shy Jessica who would blush whenever I caught her staring at me, the weak Jessica who looked like she was always sick, and...Owh!" Taeyeon winced in pain and gently rubbed her arm. "...and the un-abusive Jessica!"

"Careful Taeyeon-unnie, unnie gets more physical with the people she is close with..." Yoona kindly informed the other girl, quickly hiding behind Seohyun when she noticed that Jessica's hand were centimeters away from her wrist. "See!" She shouted when Jessica pulled her hand away when Seohyun stood between them.

"Aish! Why is everyone picking on me today?!" Jessica shouted in defeat.

"Because teasing is loving!" Yoona smiled innocently.

"And because we have so much love for you!" Taeyeon added in, shooting a hand up into the air to high-five Yoona. "Ooh~ And we're here at our second to last event for today's festival!" She spread out her hand in an extravagant pose at the crowd of people in front of her. "Rice-cake pounding!! Let's get in line!" 

Jessica had no choice to follow behind as the three girls hurried forward. "You're going to be so dead too night." She whispered into Taeyeon's ear as she stood behind the girl in line.

"You love me too much to kill me." Taeyeon smiled back at the other girl.

"True. I guess I have to just torture you and make sure you don't die in the process." Jessica whispered before she walked over to where the mortar was. "I'll give you a sample of what I'm going to do to you later." Grabbing the wooden mallet from one of the event volunteer's hand, she brought the tool high in the air before bringing it back on the rice-cake with a loud thud.

Taeyeon gulped when she peaked into the mortar and noticed how flat the rice-cake was when Jessica brought the mallet back into the air. She jumped in surprise when the tool came back down with another solid thud. "I love you Sica!" She quickly shouted before the third thud came down on the rice-cake, smiling when the force was a slightly smaller compared to the earlier two.

Taeyeon sighed in relief when she realized that her 'I love you' still worked on the other girl.

...

Jessica blinked in surprise when she felt Taeyeon's hand slid into hers and the girl began pulling her away from the crowd. "Where are you taking me? What about Seohyun and Yoona?"

"You'll see." Taeyeon assured. "And don't worry about Seohyun and Yoona, they'll be fine!"

Jessica was not content with the response but continued to follow as Taeyeon led her through the crowd. "Taeyeon-ah, where are we going?" She couldn't help but ask again two minutes later. But she received her answer when the image of the pond appeared in front of her. "Taeyeon-ah."

"Hmm?" 

"You dork." 

Stopping in the middle of the path, Taeyeon turned around and stared at the other girl. "What did I do?!" Following the direction of Jessica's eyes, she realized that the other girl had figured out her plan. "This is what I get for trying to create a romantic memory...Dork." 

"I think dorks are cute." Jessica quickly wrapped an arm around the other girl's and began pulling her to walk again. "Come on Taengoo~" 

Taeyeon couldn't help but smile at Jessica's aegyo. Pretending to be reluctant to start walking, she shuffled her feet as the girl pulled on her arm. 

"Yah~" 

"Fine." Taeyeon smiled and began walking normally again. Removing Jessica's arm from hers, she slid the hand down and entwined their fingers together. "Remember now. When we get into a boat, we have to row towards the middle of the pond ASAP, 'kay?" 

"Why?"

Taeyeon looked up at the sky before replying back. "I don't want to run out of time." 

"Fine." Jessica agreed, knowing better to ask any more questions since she knew Taeyeon wasn't going to answer them. "Since you'll be the one rowing." 

...

Huddling underneath Taeyeon's arm, Jessica looked up at the star-filled sky and smiled. She then turned to face the other girl and leaned forward to give a quick peck on the other girl's cheek.

"What was that for?" Taeyeon smiled at the sudden contact. 

Jessica shrugged at the question. "I don't know. I just felt like kissing you." She replied back. Suddenly feeling shy, she looked down at her hands and began fiddling with her fingers. "Taeyeon-ah." She smiled when she felt the other girl pulled her closer. "Thank you."

"For what?" 

"Everything." Jessica looked up from her position and met the other girl's eyes. "For your amazing two-day date, for this boat-ride, and for introducing me to your family." 

Taeyeon leaned her head on top of the other girl's as the boat gently rocked in the calm water. "One day..." She paused as she reached over to hold Jessica's hand. "One day I'll officially introduce you to everyone. To umma, appa, Seohyun..." She smiled as she formed her list. "...the ahjumma down the street, the ahjussi that pounded the rice cake, the boy at the market who keeps staring at you..." 

Jessica laughed at the list and playfully smacked the other girl's hand. "Is someone jealous?" She teased. 

"What if I am?"

"Well, you shouldn't be jealous because I'm sitting right here next to you." Jessica rested her head back on Taeyeon's shoulder. "And I'm not gonna go anywhere because I like it here, right next to you."

Taeyeon let out a heavy sigh and looked around her surrounding. 

"What's wrong?" Jessica asked worriedly. 

"I wish we were alone now so I can kiss you." 

"Byuntae!" 

"And?" 

"What?"

"The other three words."

Jessica rolled her eyes when she realized what the other girl was asking for. Looking around to see if anyone was looking at their direction, she leaned forward and kissed gently on Taeyeon's lips. "I love you." She said as she pulled away. 

"And I love you too." Taeyeon answered back. Not bothering to look around like Jessica, She quickly leaned forward and returned the kiss. 

"And I thought someone was afraid of being caught." 

"I never said that I was afraid of getting caught." 

'Yah!" Jessica sat up from her position and turned around to face the other girl. Her sudden motion cause the boat to rock unsteadily and she quickly grabbed onto Taeyeon, afraid that the boat was going to tip over. Feeling that boat it was safe to move, she began talking again. "Didn't you say that you wished that we were alone so you can kiss me?"

"Yes."

"Exactly."

"But wanting to be alone wasn't because I was afraid that someone would see us..." Taeyeon explained. She smirked at the confused the expression on Jessica's face and continued. "I wanted to be alone because kissing would lead to other things and I wouldn't want other people to see my Sica naked..."

"Byuntae!" Jessica shouted at the realization of what Taeyeon was talking about. She rolled her eyes when she noticed the anticipation forming in the other girl's eyes. Ignoring the look, she laid her head back onto Taeyeon's shoulder and smiled when she felt Taeyeon's arm around her waist. "I love you." 

"And I..." Taeyeon was abruptly cut off when a loud boom went off in the air. 

"Fireworks!" Jessica sat up from her position. The surprise expression on her face quickly turned into fear when the boat began rocking unsteadily again, but this fear quickly replaced with another feeling when she felt Taeyeon pulled her closer. 

Jessica felt secured with Taeyeon's arm around her. 

"You don't have to look at the sky for fireworks." 

"Hmm?" 

Taeyeon smiled secretly and looked down at the water of the pond. 

Following the direction of Taeyeon's eyes, Jessica looked down at the water and her mouth widen in amazement. "So is this why we had to be at the center of the pond?" 

"Of course." 

Jessica simply smiled at the response and watched the various designs reflected on the pond water. "I love it Taengoo." 

"And I love you." Taeyeon said, finishing her earlier sentence that was cut off by the fireworks. She leaned forward and kissed Jessica in the lips.

And this time, the kiss lasted longer than the earlier two because everyone's eyes would be up in the sky admiring the fireworks glowing in the sky. 

19.0

"Fire!"

Taeyeon groaned as she opened her eyes and looked around her surroundings. School was starting in a few days and most of the dormers had moved in already, which meant she was now in the dorm she shared with Jessica and Tiffany.

"Fire!"

Taeyeon jumped off of the bed she shared with Jessica and rushed out the door, not even bothering to put on her slippers. Times like these, she wished that she was still on summer vacation and didn't have to worry about losing her life in a fire. Grabbing the red can off of the wall, she rushed inside the kitchen to save her princess and her mushroom. "Where's the fire?!" 

Jessica and Tiffany grinned as they pointed to the stove. 

Taeyeon removed the black tube from its restraint and aimed at where the girls were pointing, only to blink in surprise. "Fire...?"

"Yes! We finally figured out how to turn on the stove!" Tiffany shouted proudly as she shot a high-five to the girl standing next to her. 

Taeyeon groaned as she placed the fire extinguisher onto the floor with a solid thud. "You two are going to cause me a heart attack someday!" She pointed at the two girls inside the kitchen. "And why are you in the kitchen?! Being juniors in college still does not give you a right to enter here!" She grabbed the collars of their shirt and began dragging them out of the danger-zone. 

"But TaeTae, we're hungry and the refrigerator is in the kitchen..." Tiffany whined as she turned around to look at Taeyeon. "We had to go into the kitchen for food..."

"And Kim Taeyeon, if you don't let go of me in the next second, you're..." Jessica left her threat unfinished once she felt the hand removed from her shirt. "Go make us something to eat." She grabbed onto Taeyeon's collar this time and began pulling her back into the kitchen. "Now."

"Thank you TaeTae!" Tiffany smiled at the girl before plopping herself down on the couch with Jessica by her side. 

"This is going to be another long year..." Taeyeon mumbled to herself as she opened the refrigerator. 

...

"So how was meeting the in-laws?" Tiffany asked curiously. She hadn't had time to ask the question when the two girls moved back in last night since it was pretty late after everything was unpacked and place back into the closets and drawers. "You did not scare Taeyeon's family away because of your 'Ice Princess' personality or huge appetite, did you?"

"For your information, Taeyeon's family loved me." Jessica glared at the giggling girl. "And they've met Sooyoung already so my appetite was nothing compared to what they went through with that monster shikshin." She began telling Tiffany everything that happened during the trip, from finding her sister over at the Kim's to the events that Taeyeon had planned for her.

"Aww~" Tiffany cooed when the other girl finished talking. "Hmm...maybe I should steal TaeTae from you..." She teased, causing a frown to form on Jessica's face.

"Steal what?" 

"Pay attention to your cooking!" Jessica shouted back into the kitchen. "What?" She asked in annoyance when the teasing grin was still on Tiffany's face.

"Its just so weird comparing the shy Sica from last semester to the abusive Sica of this semester." Tiffany laughed as she dodged a cushion thrown at her direction. "You couldn't look at her face and now you're yelling at her... Yah! Stop whacking me!" Tiffany shouted between her fits of laughter. 

"What is it with everyone and teasing me?!" 

"Because we love you!" 

"Kim Taeyeon focus on our breakfast!" Jessica threw a cushion at the direction of the kitchen and watched as the item landed right outside the entrance. "And bring back the cushion when you come back!" She added, feeling to lazy to get up from her spot. School was starting soon so she was not going to waste unnecessary energy elsewhere, like walking around the dorm. "And bring me a glass of water!" 

"Ooh TaeTae, can you bring me a glass of ice tea too?" Tiffany quickly shouted as she took advantage of the situation. 

"You lazy bums." Taeyeon threw the cushion back onto the couch and handed the two girls their drinks. 

"Well, you did say we were still banned from the kitchen and the drinks were in the kitchen so..." Tiffany reminded the leaving girl. "Thank you TaeTae!" 

"So how was your trip with dumb and dumber?" Jessica gently kicked Tiffany on her thigh to get the other girl's attention.

"Dumb and dumber? Oh! You mean Sooyoung and Yuri?" 

"No. Yuri and Sooyoung, dumb and dumber." 

Tiffany laughed at Jessica's response. "The camping was alright. There were a lot of bugs but Yuri and Sooyoung took care of them and I didn't have to do much work since the both of them took care of them too." She let out a tiny frown before speaking again. "You knew that they liked me, didn't you?!"

"Ohmygod! Our Fany has gotten smarter over the summer!" Jessica shouted sarcastically. She flinched when a loud crashing came from inside the kitchen followed by Taeyeon's voice.

"Owh! My head! Wait! What happened to the mushroom?!" 

"And our Taengoo has lost some brain cells..." Jessica sighed as she shook her head in disbelief. "Were they very obvious during the trip?"

Tiffany smiled as she recalled events that happened during the two week camping trip. "By the fourth time some guy got infected with poison ivy right after he talked to me, it was kinda obvious that Sooyoung and Yuri had something to do with it...they were high-fiving each other as the poor guy was rolling on the ground..."

"So...what now?"

"Nothing."

Jessica blinked at the response. "Nothing?"

Tiffany nodded her head. "Yup! So the next time you tried to pick on me...you should be careful since it'll be two against three..." 

"Threesome?!" 

"Kim Taeyeon! Stop eavesdropping and focus on our breakfast! It's almost noon!" Jessica shouted as she threw a cushion at Taeyeon's head that had popped out from the side of the kitchen wall, hitting the girl in the center of her face. "Well I guess if the three of you all I agree to this...but I never realized that you're such a player Fany." 

"It's not my fault that I'm so popular." 

...

"Why isn't there anything interesting to do in this place?"

"Then why don't you go back to your dorm?" Jessica glared at the girl slouched over on her couch. She knew nothing good was going to happen instantly when Taeyeon opened the door and two loud voices came shouting in for Tiffany. "And, Choi Sooyoung, get off of my couch!" She grabbed onto the girl's arm and pulled her onto the floor. 

Sooyoung glared at Jessica and then at Yuri, when the girl began laughing at her present state. "Yah! Kwon Yuri! We're partners! You're suppose to help me not laugh at me!"

"I-I'm not l-laughing at you..." Yuri chocked out as she tried to steady her breathing. "I'm l-laughing with y-you!" 

"How are you laughing with me, when I'm not laughing?!" Sooyoung reached for a cushion from the couch and flung the item at the standing girl. "Now I'm laughing!" She laughed when the cushion hit Yuri straight in the face and the other girl's head bounced backward due to the force. 

Jessica shook her head as she pulled Taeyeon down onto the couch and snuggle against the other girl's body. "I'm starting to miss the chimpanzee version very much right now...they were actually quiet." 

"What chimpanzee?" 

Taeyeon simply laughed at Sooyoung's question as she wrapped an arm around Jessica's waist. "I miss the tranquility of the night we spent on the mountain top..." 

"Byuntae!" Jessica rolled her eyes when she saw the grin across Taeyeon's face. 

"Who's byuntae...?" Tiffany opened the door after she finished changing and frowned when she noticed Yuri and Sooyoung huddling by the frame. "Never mind...I have my answer..."

"Yah! Tiffany we're innocent!" Sooyoung quickly scrambled up from the floor with Yuri following behind her.

"We are!" Yuri quickly added. "Really!" 

"They've been lying there ever since you went in..." Jessica pointed at the two taller girls, trying hard to keep a straight a face. Gently jabbing Taeyeon in the waist, she signaled for the other girl to agree with her.

"Uh...what Sica said..." Taeyeon pointed at Jessica's direction. 

"Kim Taeyeon!" Sooyoung shouted hurtfully at her best friend.

"Yah! I want to live too..."

"What is that suppose to mean?!"

"I love you Sica!"

"We love you Fany!"

...

"There isn't a lot of difference between now and an hour ago..." Sooyoung kindly observed as she looked around at the faces of everyone huddled in Tiffany, Taeyeon, and Jessica's dorm. "...except...more people are bored..." She looked over at Yoona and Seohyun, who had been called over in hopes that the younger girls could provide some entertainment. 

"Sooyoung, do a dance then." Jessica ordered from her position on the couch, with her head on Taeyeon's thighs, butt on Tiffany's lap, and legs dangling off of Yoona's legs. Only Seohyun, who sat on the far left, was comfortable on the couch.

"Yah! What are you? Our queen?" Sooyoung glared at the sprawled girl. "Look how uncomfortable Seohyun is because of you!"

"Seohyun-ah, are you uncomfortable?" Jessica lifted her head up from Taeyeon's thighs and looked over at the younger girl. 

"I'm fine Sica-unnie." 

"See." Jessica smirked at Sooyoung before resting her head back down. 

"But I'm uncomfortable unnie~" Yoona whined as she tried unsuccessfully to push Jessica's legs off of hers. 

"Let's take a group picture!" Tiffany shouted suddenly. Without waiting for a response back, she got up from her position, causing Jessica to slide onto the floor. "Ah! TaeTae! Save me!" She screamed in fear when she felt Jessica's grip on her ankle. 

"Don't worry Fany! We'll save you!" Yuri and Sooyoung shouted together as they charged at Jessica's hand. 

Seohyun watched in fear as Yuri grabbed onto Jessica's wrist and Sooyoung began tugging on Jessica's arm. In the midst of the chaos, Yoona had been dragged down onto the ground and was busy defending herself from the other girls' arms and Tiffany had escaped into her room to get a camera. "Is it always like this around here?" She looked over at her older sister, who was the only one left on the couch with her. 

"You should make yourself comfortable and just enjoy the show." Taeyeon smiled as she brought her legs up onto the couch and lied down on the length of the couch. 

...

"Everyone ready?" 

"Yes!" 

"I'm setting the timer now." Yuri pushed some buttons on Tiffany's before setting it on the dinning table. Running back to the group in front of the camera, she stood between Tiffany and Jessica and behind Seohyun and Taeyeon. "Smile!"

"Cheese!" 

All seven girls broke out into their best smiles before the camera flashed and the picture was taken.

"I told you the table was too short!" Sooyoung shouted as she brought the camera back to the spot and showed everyone the screen. "Half of me, Yuri, Seohyun, and Yoona are gone! Retake!" She searched for a better place to stand the camera on since Tiffany didn't have a tripole. Placing the camera on one of the shelves of the bookcase, she ran back to the group and stood next to Tiffany and behind Yoona. 

"Cheese!" 

All seven girls smiled into the camera again.

"Its going to be too tall..." Taeyeon shouted to the girls behind her as she jumped up to reached for the camera. She brought the camera back and showed the girls the screen. "Now, Jessica, Tiffany, and I aren't even in the picture and its still half of Yuri, Sooyoung, Seohyun, and Yoona."

"So...I guess it was a little too tall..." Sooyoung laughed sheepishly since she was the one that placed the camera on the bookshelf. 

"Why don't we just sit down on the couch...?" Seohyun trailed off quietly when everyone turned to look at her.

"Great idea!" 

"Four on the couch and three one the floor." Taeyeon ordered as she looked around for a better stand. Pulling the living room table closer to the TV, she piled a couple of textbooks on top of each other before placing the camera on top. Checking the screen to make sure that everyone was inside, she set the timer before running to her spot in front of Jessica and Seohyun. "Smile!"

"Cheese!" 

"Well?" Jessica asked as Taeyeon got up to retrieve the camera. 

"Perfect." Taeyeon smiled as she passed the camera around with the picture on the screen. 

All seven girls were huddled together, with the girls in front leaning back and the girls in the back leaning forward. Jessica had her arms wrapped around Taeyeon's neck and her head resting on the top of the girl's head. Both Yuri and Sooyoung had an arm across Tiffany's shoulder. Taeyeon had an arm wrapped around Seohyun's arm and the other one holding onto Jessica's hands dangling from her shoulder. And the younger girls were leaning against each other since Tiffany had an arm around each of their shoulder and were pushing them closer.

"Don't we look like a happy family?" Tiffany asked, receiving agreeing smiles from every girl. 

20.0

"Jessica~ You're suppose to smile~" Taeyeon poked on the other girl's cheeks as she tried to curve the corners up into a smile. "You're on the welcoming committee, you're suppose to look welcoming, not like some serial murder..."

Jessica glared at Taeyeon as the girl continued poking on her cheeks. "Why do I have to be welcoming when I didn't even sign up to welcome anyone?!" She asked as she turned the direction of her glare to the trio standing next to them. "Hwang Miyoung! You have to stop signing me up for these volunteering events without my permission!" 

"Sooyoung said there was going to be free food!" Tiffany quickly threw the blame to the tallest girl. "So I thought you'll like to come too..."

"Yah! You can't blame! I was talking to myself, how should I know that Fany would hear me!" Sooyoung quickly brought her arms up to her face when Jessica made a step forward. 

"Everyone can hear you with the speakers you have in your mouth." Jessica stood still in her spot. She would have charged over and attacked the other girl if Taeyeon hadn't held onto her. "I can't believe I'm losing precious sleep time to welcome incoming freshmen!" She groaned as she leaned her head against Taeyeon's body.

"I think welcoming freshmen is fun!" Yuri said. "They're like little lost lambs waiting for you to point them in the right direction, except, you point them in a even wronger direction instead!" 

"Exactly what I was thinking!" Sooyoung shot her hand up in the air and high-fived the other girl. "I think I'm gonna send some of the midgets to the bathrooms that have no sign and laughed as they entered the wrong one!" 

"You two are so evil." Tiffany shook her head at the plotting pair. "Come on Sica! Don't you want to make the new students feel welcome like how the upperclassmen made us felt welcome on our first days?" 

"She kicked the guy who tried to help her look for a classroom..." Sooyoung pointed at her cousin. 

"It wasn't my fault! I had an 8:00AM class that day..." Jessica defended herself as Taeyeon dragged her away. 

...

"Having fun?" 

Taeyeon turned around at the sound of Jessica's voice. Everyone had separate into their various tasks after eating the breakfast provided by the university, and she wasn't expecting to see the other girl until lunch since they had so many things to do. "Yah! You're not suppose to throw the fliers into the trash can!" She yelled when she noticed Jessica didn't have any fliers left. 

"I didn't!" Jessica pouted at the accusation. 

Taeyeon eyed the other girl suspiciously before breaking out into a smile. "Come help me then!! No one's taking my fliers~" She whined as she lifted the pile of paper in her arm to the other girl.

"Did you even pass one out?!" Jessica looked down at the giant pile in Taeyeon's hand. 

"Of course I did!" 

"Then you're just too nice." Jessica shook her head as she grabbed for the pile of paper. Looking around for some freshmen, she spotted a possible girl and strolled over in the girl's direction. Taking about ten pieces of paper from her pile, she shoved her hand in front of the younger girl's face, frightening the other person. "Take." 

The girl blinked in surprise as she looked up at Jessica's face. She quickly reached for the paper when she met eyes with Jessica's glare and ran off.

"Yah! Jung Sooyeon!" Taeyeon quickly pulled Jessica back before the other girl could scare anyone else. "Was that how you were passing out your fliers?!" 

"Of course." Jessica answered back calmly. "Before you start going off that I'm scaring people away, at least I'm better than Sooyoung and Yuri who have been sending the freshmen in circles for fun."

Taeyeon looked over at the pair Jessica was talking about and groaned as she watched the two girls point in opposite directions to the helpless guy in front of them. She looked over at Tiffany and sighed as she watched the girl ran off trying to point the guy in the right direction, but instead made matters worse because Sooyoung and Yuri began chasing after him. 

"Done!" 

Taeyeon turned back to Jessica and blinked in surprise that her pile of fliers were gone. She sighed when she noticed a couple of people running away a few meters in front of them. "What am I going to do with you?"

"You can buy me something to drink." 

Taeyeon laughed at Jessica's response. "You know that was a rhetorical question, right?" She asked before walking off to get her princess something to drink.

...

Jessica strolled around the empty field behind the campus as she waited for Taeyeon. She sat down in front of a tree and smiled as she recalled the memories from her last forced volunteer work; the time when she finally realized that she was in love with Kim Taeyeon. Closing her eyes, she leaned back against the trunk of the tree and enjoyed the light autumn breeze as she waited for the other girl to come with her drink.

"Hey..." 

Jessica opened her eyes and was about to yelled at the other girl for being so slow, she froze when she realized who was standing in front of her. "B-BoA-u-unnie."

"Can I sit down?" BoA pointed to the spot next to Jessica and smiled. 

Suddenly forgetting how to talk, Jessica could only watch as the older girl sat down next to her, leaning against the trunk of the tree as she looked up at the blue sky. "Y-you came b-back..." She stuttered out, not understanding why it was so difficult for her to speak at the moment. "D-does Yuri k-know?" 

BoA laughed at the question. "I guessed you've met my sister. I hope she hasn't cause you any trouble." She quietly observed Jessica's features before speaking again. "You're even more beautiful than I remembered." 

Jessica stayed silent as she avoided BoA's eyes. Being with Taeyeon had made her forget about the older girl and she wasn't sure of what she should be doing now. Most of all she didn't know how to introduce the other girl to Taeyeon when she comes over with her drink, since she had never told her about BoA. Just introducing her as Yuri's older sister isn't an option since she met Yuri just last spring and it would definitely be strange if the girl's older sister was so friendly with her.

"I'm sorry." 

Jessica finally looked up into BoA's eyes, surprised by the sudden apology. 

"Do you hate me?" BoA smiled sadly. "You have a right to be..."

"I'm...I'm just surprised." Jessica said softly. 

BoA forced out a small smile as she nodded at the response. She pursed her lips, unsure of what else to say to break the uncomfortable silence in the air. "I...I was wondering if you'll like to go somewhere more comfortable to talk..." BoA trailed off with a heavy sigh, with a worried expression across her face. "...unless you don't want to speak with me anymore..."

"I need some time." 

BoA nodded knowingly. "I understand. Take as much time as you, I'll be staying in Korea for a while..." Silence surrounded the two girls again as soon as she finished talking, and she didn't know what else to do. "I guess I'll go find Yuri now...I wonder how she'll react when she sees me." She lightly laughed, hoping to brighten the mood. Looking at Jessica once last time, she let out a small smile before walking off.

"I wonder how Sooyoung would react if she sees you..." Jessica mumbled to herself, worrying that her cousin would do something dangerous. "...and Taeyeon..." She sighed as she stood up from the spot and walked off.

...

"Is something wrong?" 

Jessica shook her head as she forced out a smile at Taeyeon's direction. Wrapping her arm around the other girl's, she leaned her head against Taeyeon's shoulder as they walked around the campus. "I'm just tired from all this work." She made up an excuse so that the other girl wouldn't be too worried. 

Taeyeon knew that other girl was lying, but asked no further questions. If Jessica didn't want to talk about it, then she wasn't going to force her. Instead she was going to try and make whatever that was bothering the other girl go away. "Come on Sica!" She began walking towards another direction, pulling the other girl along with her. 

"Where are we going?" 

"Special event!" 

Jessica truly smiled for the first time after her sudden encounter with BoA as Taeyeon lead her through the crowd of students in the courtyard. This is what she loved about the girl, Taeyeon always knew how to cheer her up even if she didn't know what the problem was. "Water fountain?" She asked when they came to a stop in front of the white structure. 

"Yes!" Taeyeon searched through her pocket and brought out two coins. "Want to hear a little legend?" 

"Can I say no?" 

Taeyeon tried her best to imitate Jessica's glare but failed when she realized that she was squinting instead. "You really like answering my rhetorical questions, don't you? Don't answer that!" She covered Jessica's mouth when the other girl looked like she was about to speak again. "Anyways, the legend goes that if two lovers come to a water fountain and can toss their coins on top of each other's three times, then they're destined to be together and nothing can break them apart. So here!" She handed Jessica one of the coins and pushed her towards the fountain. "Let's give it a try!"

Jessica frowned as she looked down at the silver coin in the center of her palm. "But..." 

"Stop!" Taeyeon quickly cut the girl off. "No buts! And trust me...we're destined to be together so you have nothing to worry about!" 

"Fine. On three?" Jessica laughed as she lifted her hand up into the air. "One. Two. Three." She tossed the coin into the air and watched as it sunk underneath the surface of the water. "You're turn!" She grabbed Taeyeon's arm and pulled the closer, frowning when she noticed the uncertain look on the other girl's face. "Yah~ What's wrong?" 

"Did you have to toss it that far?" Taeyeon sighed as she kept her eye on Jessica's coin. 

"You..."

"Three!" Taeyeon grinned as she flipped the coin into the air. The coin flipped a couple of times in the air before falling through the surface of water. She hurried to the edge of the fountain with Jessica by her side and watched as the silver object slowly sunk to the bottom of the fountain before resting on top of Jessica's coin. "See! I told you!"

Jessica laughed at the unbelievable sight in front of her. "You did something, didn't you?!"

"Yah! Why is it the first thing you think off is that I did something?! How can I even do anything to make the coin fall on yours?!" Taeyeon pouted at the accusation. "I told you we're destined to be together!" 

"It was chance." Jessica shook her head side to side, even though she was completely overjoyed inside. "We still have two more times before I believe you."

"Fine. Next time we find another water fountain, we'll try again."

Jessica nodded at the idea. Grabbing onto the other girl's arm, she pulled Taeyeon in for a hug. "I love you Taengoo." 

21.0

"You have to tell her." 

"I know." Jessica sighed into her phone as she listened to Sooyoung speak. "But...it's going to rain later and I have a bad feeling about today..." 

"You know its better to tell her sooner than later." Sooyoung sighed on the other side of the line. "BoA might come visit you unexpectedly...so you decide what's best." 

"I will." Jessica smiled, even though the other girl couldn't see her. "Thanks cousin." She stuffed the phone into her back pocket after hanging up and sat down onto the couch. Tilting her head to the side, she looked out the window and sighed at the cloudy sky. Sooyoung was right, it was better if she told Taeyeon sooner rather than later, since she didn't know when BoA might pop out again. 

"Why is my princess so moody lately?" Taeyeon tiled Jessica's head upright and leaned forward to kiss the other girl's forehead. "Now that's better!" She smiled at the sight of a smile forming across Jessica's face. "So what do you want to do today? We finally have a free weekend since the start of the new school year..." 

"Can we just stay home?" Jessica asked hopefully. But she knew that staying home wasn't a possibility when she noticed the huge smile on the other girl's face. The same smile that Taeyeon has whenever she has something planned. "So what did my Taengoo plan for today?" 

"Let's go for a drive!"

...

"You know...when you said 'let's go for a drive', I was expecting you to do the driving..." Jessica peeked over to the passenger seat at the sleeping girl. "...and not the other way around."

Jessica returned her eyes onto the road and smiled as Taeyeon began sleep talking about something burning in the kitchen and the refrigerator was empty. She flinched when a loud thud came from beside her. Turning her head to the right for a second, she began laughing out loud as she watched the other girl rubbed her forehead. "What did you hit yourself against this time?"

Taeyeon pointed at the car compartment in front of her. "I really need to stop these nightmares..."

"Why? I think they're cute." Jessica grinned as she focused on her driving. "And its extremely hilarious to see you suddenly sit up from your sleep, even though it gets annoying when you're sleeping next to me..." Taking her hand off of the steering wheel when they arrived at a red light, she reached over for the other girl and gently rubbed Taeyeon's forehead. "Better?"

Jessica smiled as Taeyeon nodded in response. Noticing the traffic light changing, she placed her hand back onto the steering wheel and stepped down on the gas pedal. "Now that we went on your drive around the city, can we go back to the dorm now?" She looked over hopefully at the other girl.

"Nope." Taeyeon smiled as she made herself comfortable on the passenger seat.

"Then can we at least go somewhere? We've, more like I've, been driving in circles..." Jessica sighed restlessly. "And you're paying for the next tank of gas."

"Fine..." Taeyeon pointed down the street at a gas station. "Let's get some gas there and then we'll go somewhere." She smiled at the other girl as Jessica reluctantly agreed.

...

"I have to tell her..." Jessica stared at her reflection in the mirror. "I have to tell her...right now?" She pursed her lips at the thought before changing her mind. "I have to tell her...today?" Not liking the idea either, she smiled as she changed it into something that she liked better. "I have to tell her...sometime soon."

Hearing a knock from the other side of the door, Jessica quickly rinsed her hand. Opening the door of the restroom, she looked away in embarrassment at the long line that had formed outside the bathroom of the gas station.

"I feel bad for the next person...I bet it probably smells awful in there..."

Jessica hurried past the line as she felt her cheeks flushed in embarrassment. "I am never thinking in the bathroom again..." She mumbled to herself as she walked towards the gas pump where she had left the car. Blinking in surprise when she noticed that the car wasn't there, she began to panic thinking that someone had stolen the car with Taeyeon inside. 

Jumping in surprise when a loud honk came from her right, she sighed in relief when she saw Taeyeon waving at her in the driver's seat. "Yah! Don't just drive off like that! I thought someone stole the car and kidnapped you!" Jessica yelled at the girl as she got back inside the car. 

"Yah! Who's going to steal a car with someone inside?" Taeyeon laughed at Jessica's reaction. "And it felt awkward hogging the gas pump when they tank was already filled... And if you really wanted to talk about kidnapping, I thought you were kidnapped considering how long you were in the bathroom..." She smirked at the other girl. "Constipation?"

"No."

"You don't have to be afraid to admit it...I still love you even if you have to spend 20 minutes every time you use the bathroom..."

"Kim Taeyeon. Drive." Jessica glared as Taeyeon laughed as she signaled to turn out of the gas station. "So where are we going now?"

"It's a secret."

Jessica shrugged at the response. Knowing how Taeyeon was when she was trying to be secretive about her plans, she knew it was going to be useless trying to get even a hint out from the other girl's mouth. "Fine. Wake me up when we get there..." With that said, she sighed as she tried to make herself comfortable on the seat. With her great ability to sleep, she still find sleeping in the car a great difficulty because she could never make herself comfortable.

But with Taeyeon's scent slowly coming out from the head-rest, Jessica smiled as she closed her eyes.

...

"Sica~"

"Five more minutes..."

"You said that five minutes ago..."

"Then ten more minutes..."

Taeyeon sighed as she looked over at the other girl. "You're not even sleeping!"

"Yes I am."

"How are you sleeping if you're talking with me?"

"I'm sleep talking."

Taeyeon sighed in defeat at the response. "Fine. Ten more minutes and you're getting up." She finally gave in.

Even though Taeyeon's scent was slowly fading away on the head-rest, but she could still smell faint traces of it if she snuggled closer against it. She really like the natural scent of the other girl, it always had a soothing effect on her and made her feel feel relaxed after a tiring day. Reluctantly sitting up when she couldn't smell anything anymore, Jessica turned over to the other girl and smiled. "I like how you smell."

Taeyeon slowly chuckled at the random comment. "I know that when people are together for a long time, they begin sharing common habits...but you really have to start coping the good ones and not the really random ones... Wait...does that mean I'll be sharing some of your habits soon...like always sleeping and constipation...?"

"I do not have constipation!"

...

"Kim Taeyeon...only you would decided to go hiking on a rainy day..."

Taeyeon smiled apologetically at the other girl. "I didn't know it was going to rain so early..." She explained. "And we did have enough time to reach the cabin if someone had gotten up instead of asking for fifteen more minutes of sleep so she could randomly sleep-talk!" She sighed as she looked at the pouring rain. "Well there's nothing we can do...maybe the rain will tone down a little if we waited for a while."

Jessica looked out from underneath the tree. "I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon..."

Taeyeon sighed in agreement. Looking over at Jessica, she smiled as water slowly trickled down from the other girl's face. "You do look very sexy when you're wet..."

Jessica tried her best to glare but due to her bangs plastered against her forehead, she blinked several times in discomfort when a strand of her hair began poking her eye and gave up trying when Taeyeon began laughing. "You planned this, didn't you?!"

Taeyeon immediately shook her head. "Only if I could command the sky to rain whenever I want it to..." She grinned. "And if I did have that super power, I think I would've told it to stop by now..."

"Aish..." Jessica sighed as the rain began pouring harder. "I knew we should've stay in today..." 

"Let's run!" 

"What?!" Jessica turned her head sharply towards the other girl. "Yah! Kim Taeyeon, are you crazy? We can't even see five feet in front of us and you're suggesting we run? Plus, we're gonna get sick if we ran in this kind of rain!"

"Well, it's not like we're not going to get sick standing here underneath this tree..." Taeyeon reminded the other girl. ""Come on, we'll just run slowly and we'll be fine...or do you have a better idea other than waiting forever for the rain to stop?" 

Jessica reluctantly sighed. She knew she was going to get sick either way, so might as well joined the other girl in her crazy idea. "If I get sick, you're gonna have to be my personal servant until I'm better!" She grabbed onto Taeyeon's stretched hand and began to trot as the other girl pulled her out from underneath the tree.

"It's not like I'm not your personal servant when you're healthy!" Taeyeon laughed as she began to quicken her pace as rain fell hard onto her back. 

...

"Taeyeon~ I'm cold~" 

Taeyeon looked at the girl behind and sighed helplessly as she watched Jessica shivered underneath the tree. Running in the rain was romantic, if the rain was not pouring on you like buckets of ice water, and she regretted dragging the girl out. "Sorry..." She apologized and hung her head. She wished that she had agreed with Jessica when the girl suggested that they went back home when the afternoon sky looked as black as the night.

"Come on Taengoo!" 

Taeyeon blinked in surprise when she noticed Jessica's stretched hand in front of her. "Huh?" 

"There's no point just standing here, and since we're already completely drenched, let's just continue forward...or maybe backwards toward the parking lot..." Jessica smiled at the girl. "Come on!" She grabbed onto Taeyeon's hand and began pulling the girl to start walking. Even though she was extremely cold and tired, feeling the warmth from Taeyeon's hand made the whole situation a whole lot better. 

"I love you..." 

"That's a known fact already." Jessica teased the other girl. The smile held on her face as she carefully made her way down the path, the rain had made everything muddy and it was hard to see where she was going. "Careful, it's very slippery here..." She held tighter onto Taeyeon's hand. "Watch your ste...Taeyeon!" She yelled in fear as she felt Taeyeon's hand slipping from her grip as the girl slowly leaned backwards. 

"Taeyeon!" Jessica shouted the other girl's name again as she pushed her legs forward and lunged towards the other girl. Holding onto Taeyeon's body tightly, she closed her eyes as they began to rolled down the hill. 

22.0

"Unnie?"

Taeyeon groaned as she opened her eyes, blinking as she took in her surroundings.

"Taeyeon!"

Taeyeon squeezed her eyes shut as a low rumbling began to form inside her head due to the loud shout. When it finally stopped, she opened her eyes again and slowly looked over to her side. She managed to smile when she saw Sooyoung, Tiffany, and Seohyun standing next to her. "What happened...?" She managed to ask in a tiny whisper. 

"You got into an accident." Sooyoung lowered her voice as she bent down to meet the other girl's level. 

Taeyeon slowly breathed in and out. She lifted her hand and felt the bandage across her forehead. "How's Jessica?" She looked worriedly at the three girls. 

Seohyun looked over at Tiffany and spoke when the other girl was crying too much to say anything. "Sica-unnie is still unconscious..." She explained. "...but the doctors said that her condition isn't life threatening." She quickly assured when she noticed the fear in her sister's eyes. "She'll be fine, unnie. Yoona and Yuri-unnie are with her right now."

Taeyeon forced out a smile at the younger girl, hoping that it'll assure her that she was fine. "Yah~ Mushroom, stop crying..." She looked up at Tiffany, who's eyes were red and puffy. "Come here..." She opened her arms and signaled for the other girl to come over for a hug. "I'm fine and Jessica's fine, so stop crying." She gently cooed as she moved her hand slowly up and down the other girl's back. 

"Taeyeon!" 

Taeyeon groaned as the low rumbling inside her head again. She looked towards the door when Tiffany pulled away from the hug and smiled as Yuri entered the room. "Hey..." She softly greeted. "How's Jessica?" 

"She'll be fine." Yuri took Sooyoung's place by the bed as the other girl went to Jessica's room. "How are you feeling?" She looked worriedly at the paleness of Taeyeon's face. 

"Dizzy...and tired..." Taeyeon managed to say before it was too hard to keep her eyes open for any longer.

...

"Unnie..." 

Taeyeon smiled as she signaled for the younger girl to come closer. The doctor had just came in to check on her conditions and she was tired from lying in bed all day. "Sorry for making you worry." She apologized to the younger girl as Seohyun sat down on the chair next to the bed. "I must be a bad unnie for making my beautiful dongsaeng cry."

Seohyun shook her head as she wiped the tears threatening to fall off. "You're the best unnie anyone can ask for!"

Taeyeon smiled. "Does umma and appa know?" 

Seohyun nodded at the question. "I told them when I found out about the accident. They wanted to come, but I told them it'll be too tiring for them to travel so far and you wouldn't want that... I promised that I'll keep them informed about your conditions and called them as soon as possible when you woke up." 

"Thank you Seohyun." Taeyeon reached for the other girl's hand. She sighed sadly when she noticed how tired they felt. "You should get some rest too. And don't lie to me that you did, cause I can tell when you're lying." She tried her best to glare at the younger girl.

Seohyun nodded. "I'll visit you again tomorrow, okay unnie?" 

"Only if you promise to go to sleep immediately when you go back to your dorm." Taeyeon made the other girl promise. "I love you Seohyun." She said as the younger girl bent down for a hug. "Now go sleep so I can sleep too." She laughed. 

Taeyeon sighed softly into the empty room once Seohyun left. She should probably get some sleep, but every time she closed her eyes, she would see Jessica and any thought of sleep would disappear as she worried about the other girl. The doctor said she should be able to leave the bed in a couple of days and the first thing she plans to do is to visit Jessica's room. 

"TaeTae? Are you asleep?" 

Taeyeon smiled as Tiffany peeked her head into the room. She looked over at the chair where Seohyun was sitting in moments earlier and signaled for the girl to come over. "Yah~ Hwang Miyoung, have you been eating properly? You look like you're all bones right now..." She frowned when she noticed the bags underneath the girl's eyes. "And get some more sleep...I want to see your smiling-eyes all nice and bright, not tired and sad." 

Tiffany nodded as she smiled at the other girl.

"That's a little better." Taeyeon patted the girl. She looked up when the door opened again and smiled as the heads of Yuri and Sooyoung peeked in. "And here comes your two bodyguards." She playfully teased as the two taller girls walked in. 

"How are you feeling, Shorty?"

Taeyeon playfully groaned at Sooyoung's personal nickname for her, before teasing back. "Better, Dumber."

Sooyoung blinked in confusion at Taeyeon's response. "Who's dumber?" 

Tiffany softly chuckled as Yuri shrugged at the question. 

Taeyeon smiled as Yuri began laughing as well when the girl caught on to Tiffany's laughter. It felt nice to hear laughter again.

...

"Hello?" 

Taeyeon smiled against the receiver at the sound of her mother's voice. "Umma." 

"Taeyeon, is that you? Seohyun called to say you woke up already, but I wasn't expecting the doctors to let you call so quick... Yah! The doctors did let you call or did you sneak off somewhere?!" 

Taeyeon laughed as her mother began scolding her about listening to people in authority. "I didn't sneak off anywhere, umma." She assured the older woman, when the other end of the line quieted down. "I'm sorry umma for making you and appa worry." She apologized. She hung her head in shame when she heard short sobs coming from the older woman.

"The important thing is that you're alive." Mrs. Kim steadied her breathing before speaking again. "How is Jessica?"

Taeyeon tried her best to force out a smile, even though her mother couldn't see her. She didn't want to worry the older woman. "She's still unconscious, but the doctors said that her conditions are life threatening. She's probably taking this as an opportunity to sleep so she's refusing to wake up." She laughed through the receiver. 

"She'll be fine, Taeyeon. You don't have to worry." 

Tears began forming in Taeyeon's eyes as the older woman began offering comforting words, when she was supposed to be the one reassuring about Jessica's conditions. 

"She'll wake up soon since she wouldn't want you to worry so much."

"Huh?" Taeyeon asked, not understanding what her mother was trying to say.

"You two love each other, don't you?" Mrs. Kim softly asked.

"I...we..." Taeyeon stuttered, not sure of how to answer the question since there were different types of love and she didn't want to answer the wrong one when the older woman was talking about another type.

"Remember, Taeyeon, you'll forever be our daughter no matter what you do or who you choose to love." Mrs. Kim assured. "Even though we might not agree with your choices sometimes, your appa and I will always support you. Jessica is a good girl, so be good to her or else you'll be in big trouble with us."

Tears slowly rolled down Taeyeon's cheeks as she smiled, realizing which type of love the older woman was talking about. "Thank you umma."

...

"Taeyeon-unnie."

Taeyeon looked up from Jessica's bed and turned towards the door. "Yoona." She smiled at the younger girl. 

"You're a patient too, so you shouldn't stay too long. Unnie wouldn't like it your condition worsened because of her." Yoona smiled as she moved closer to the bed. Lifting a hand up, she gently fixed her sister's bangs. "She'll wake up when she slept enough."

Taeyeon slowly nodded her head. She felt so useless at the moment, having the younger girl comfort her when it was suppose to be the other way around. "Yoona...I'm sorry..." 

Yoona shook her head at the apology. "It's not your fault Taeyeon-unnie. Unnie will be fine. She'll probably wake up tomorrow and start yelling for food." She joked. Putting a hand on the other girl girl's shoulder, she kept quiet as she watched tears slowly rolled off of Taeyeon's cheeks. "Unnie'll be fine..." 

23.0

Taeyeon sighed as she looked over at the clock hanging on the wall. She wanted to go to Jessica's room, but visiting hours hasn't started yet and she knew the head nurse in charge would scold her if she tried to sneak out again. She knew she needed rest, but she couldn't sleep peacefully knowing that the other girl was still unconscious. The other girls were at school at the time, which meant she had no one to talk, no one to keep her mind from wandering towards the negative possibilities of why Jessica hadn't awaken yet.

"TaeTae?" 

Taeyeon turned her head to the side and blinked in surprise when she saw Tiffany's form. "Yah! Don't you have class today?! What are you doing here?!" She had finally regained her strength and it was no longer difficult for her to yell. "And isn't it not visiting hours yet, how did you get in?"

Tiffany smiled sheepishly as she sat down next to the other girl on the bed. "I sneaked pass the nurse station..." 

Taeyeon let out a small chuckle. She had to admit it was nice to have someone to talk and keep her mind off of other things. "What about your classes?" 

"Oh. Don't worry about them! Sooyoung and Yuri will take care of them!" Tiffany smiled proudly. "Are you feeling better now?" 

"I am." Taeyeon assured the other girl. She smiled when she noticed that the bags underneath the other girl's eyes had gotten smaller. "And I see my mushroom has been getting her sleep as well." 

Tiffany's eyes disappeared as the girl smiled to show that she did. "You shouldn't think too much, Taeyeon..." She sat down on the chair next to Taeyeon's bed and reached over for the other girl's hand.

"Hmm?" Taeyeon looked over in confusion at the other girl's statement. Seeing the worried smile across Tiffany's face, she understood why the other girl skipped class to visit her. "I won't." She promised. She had to stay strong. She had to stay strong for Jessica. 

"The girl in room 309 has woken up!" 

Taeyeon turned to look at Tiffany, who's eyes were widen at the information. 

Jessica was in room 309.

...

"The doctor is still checking on her..." 

Taeyeon bit down on her lower as she sat in the row of chairs outside of Jessica's room. She looked down the hallway and watched as Tiffany strolled back and forth as she spoke into her phone, telling the other girls that Jessica had just woken up. 

"Taeyeon! Tiffany!" 

Taeyeon stood up as Sooyoung ran over with Seohyun and Yoona behind her. "She just woke up a half an hour ago and the nurse aren't letting anyone in until the doctor has cleared her condition." She explained. 

Sooyoung nodded and signaled for Taeyeon to sit down. "I told you Sica'll be fine." She grinned as she sat down next to the other girl. Leaning her head back against the wall, she closed her eyes and felt tears rolled down her cheeks. "She'll be fine...she is fine..." 

Seohyun patted Yoona's back as the girl began crying as well. 

"Jessica's gonna tease us if she saw us crying now..." Tiffany's voice cracked as she tried to hold back her tears. "Yah~" She lightly pushed Taeyeon's shoulder when the girl began crying as well. Finding it useless to hold her tears back any longer when Seohyun began crying, she freely allowed them to roll down her cheeks as well. 

"Is something wrong?!" 

All five girls looked up and began laughing when they notice the worried expression on Yuri's face. The other patients probably thought they were crazy now, since they were laughing while tears were flowing from their eyes, but no one cared. They were just happy that Jessica was finally awake and everything was going to become normal again. 

...

Sooyoung nudged Yuri in the waist as she frowned at sight of the new girl in the group. "Why is she here?" She silently asked as she held her stare, smiling when the girl turned away uncomfortably. Eating habits weren't the only thing she shared with Jessica, her glares were just as deadly if she chose to use them.

"I kinda shouted when Tiffany called to say that Jessica woke up..." Yuri mumbled. "I couldn't stop her from coming..." She knew perfectly well that Sooyoung didn't like her sister since the older girl left a deep scar in Jessica when she suddenly left, but she couldn't come up with a good enough excuse to keep her from coming. "Does Taeyeon know about them yet?" 

Sooyoung looked over at Taeyeon's direction. The other girl had exchange a simple greeting with BoA when the girl first arrived and nothing else afterwards. "I don't think so... Aish...we don't need things to be complicated now..." 

Yuri nodded in agreement. Even though BoA was her older sister, the girl left when she had a chance with Jessica, so she completely supported Taeyeon. "Don't worry. If things are about to become complicated, I take her away..." She assured. 

"What are you whispering about?" 

Both Yuri and Sooyoung turned to look at the girl sitting between them. In the midst of their conversation, they had forgotten that Tiffany was sitting between them. "Uh..." Sooyoung looked over at Yuri for help and glared at the other girl when no sound came out of Yuri's hanging mouth. As she worked her mind for an explanation, she sighed in relief when the door to Jessica's room opened and a nurse came out. 

"You can visit her now." 

Everyone stood up and slowly made their way inside the room. 

Jessica blinked as she looked around at everyone. Her head hurt from sleeping too much and her vision was a little clouded. She was tired from all the tests that the doctors had used to check her condition and all the questions she had to answer when none of the doctors answered any of hers. Looking over at the new set of faces that had entered the room, she stopped when she met eyes with the last girl that had came in with the group of seven.

"Jessica?"

Jessica turned her head to look at the girl who had spoken, blinking at the name that was called. Observing the girl, she noticed that she was wearing the same clothes as her, before turning her attention back to the girl that had came in last. "BoA-unnie." She smiled at the only face she recognized.

...

"It seems that Ms. Jung is suffering from a case of selective memory loss..."

Taeyeon listened absentmindedly as the doctor continued speaking. Her brain had stopped working when Jessica had looked away from and turned towards Yuri's sister instead. She was confused and simply followed where everyone was going when they left Jessica's room so that the girl could rest.

"This is something that is commonly seen in patients that went through severe head trauma." The doctor continued explaining to the six girls in front of him. BoA had left since she had an errand she had to run to. "Regaining of the memory may take a couple of days, but there are instances when it may take longer for the patient to begin remembering. It is important during this time that she is allowed to remember the events by herself and that family and friends don't rush the process." 

Sooyoung looked over at Taeyeon as the doctor paused for a moment. She sadly frowned as the other girl lifelessly stared ahead. 

"Even if the patient begins remembering events of the past, the memory recovered may not be a hundred percent." 

"Is there a reason why Jessica lost her memory and Taeyeon didn't?" Tiffany asked as she reached over for Taeyeon's hand. 

"It is hard to say why one victim had lost his or her memory and why another patient didn't." The doctor began. "Looking at their conditions when they were brought in, Ms. Kim's condition was less severe compared to Ms. Jung's. There isn't a definite explanation why this happened...depending on how you fell and if you hit anything during the fall, your injuries be different and the severity of the injuries as well..."

Taeyeon imitated the other girl's actions as she nodded her head up and down. She remembered that during the fall, Jessica had embraced her tightly, which was probably the reason why the other girl was injured more. She wished that she pulled Jessica into her embrace instead of the other way around, maybe then this wouldn't be happening.

...

"Taeyeon?"

"How did Jessica know your sister?" Taeyeon asked as she looked over at Yuri. They had returned back from speaking with the doctor and were back in her room. Yoona and Seohyun had went back to their dorm since they still had class tomorrow and couldn't afford to miss any more of them. 

Sooyoung slowly sighed as Yuri looked over at her direction. She knew sooner or later Taeyeon would asked that question, but it was still difficult to explain it to the other girl when the question was finally asked. "Jessica and Yuri's sister...BoA...dated when Jessica was in high school." 

"What?!" Tiffany's asked, surprised by the information. She looked over at Yuri and watched as the girl slowly nodded her head. She then turned to look over at Taeyeon and her shoulders fell at the girl's lack of reaction.

"It was Jessica's first love so she was absolutely devastated when BoA disappeared without a word. But since not many people knew about the relationship, she spent most of the time acting as everything was normal and could only cry when she was alone with me..." Sooyoung slowly trailed off as she recalled the events. "Things did get better after a while...but BoA was always something that haunted her and she refused to start another relationship." 

"That is until she met you." Sooyoung looked over at Taeyeon, who was quietly listening. "When Jessica first saw you, the day at the market, she was completely surprised because you looked so much like..." She stopped when she realized what she was going to say.

"I do kinda look like her, don't I?" Taeyeon forced out a smile. "So she fell in love with me because..."

"Jessica fell in love with you because you are Kim Taeyeon!" Sooyoung said firmly. "She was shock when she first saw you because she was still stuck on BoA, but she fell in love with you because you're Kim Taeyeon. She wanted to tell you, but she didn't know how to begin. She loves you, Taeyeon." 

Taeyeon slowly nodded her head. 

"She's gonna remember...she will remember because she loves you." Sooyoung said positively. 

"I'm sorry..." 

Taeyeon blinked at Yuri's sudden apology and looked up at the girl standing alone by the corner. "You did nothing wrong..." She smiled at the other girl. "You don't have to apologize for anything..." 

Tiffany got up from her seat and walked over to the side of the bed. Sitting down on the mattress, she pulled Taeyeon in for a hug and slowly rubbed the other girl's back. "Sica loves you, she's just a little lost right now because of the accident..."

"I know." Taeyeon nodded against Tiffany's shoulder. She knew that Jessica loved her, because if the girl didn't, then she'll be the one with the severe injury, the one unconscious longer, the one with the memory lost. 

The only thing Taeyeon could do now was to wait, wait until Jessica remembered. And she was going to wait no matter how long it'll take because she promised the girl that she'll never leave.

No matter what. 

24.0

Sooyooung placed the tray in her hand down onto the table. Silently sighing, she reached for the fork and began picking on the dumplings on the plate.

"Is the shiksin...not eating?!" Tiffany eyes widen as she sat down across the other girl. She smiled brightly when Sooyoung looked up at her, knowing perfectly why the other girl had no appetite. She didn't have much either and wouldn't have came down to the cafeteria if wasn't for Taeyeon. The girl was trying to hard to smile whenever someone was around and Tiffany hated how strong Taeyeon had to make herself to be.

"How's Taeyeon?" 

Tiffany sadly sighed at the mentioned of the other girl. The only times Taeyeon would cry is when she is alone, which is why Tiffany knew that it was sometimes best to just leave the girl alone so she wouldn't overtired herself with putting up the image of as everything being alright. "Not so good...she's holding everything in and I'm afraid that she'll get sick soon. You should come visit sometime...the dorm is so lifeless right now..."

Sooyoung nodded at the thought.

"How's Jessica?"

"She recognizes us now..." Sooyoung sadly smiled. "...but she doesn't remember who we are." She had visited the hospital last night and felt so happy when Jessica greeted her with her name, but the happiness didn't last long when she realized the other girl only knew her name. "She knows that Yoona is her sister and I'm her cousin but can't remember..."

"She'll remember soon." Tiffany reached over and placed a hand over Sooyoung's. "How are Mr. and Mrs. Jung reacting to BoA?"

Sooyoung shrugged. "They just know her as a friend of Jessica's from high school, since we..." 

"We?" Tiffany asked. From what Sooyoung had explained in the hospital, not many people knew about Jessica and BoA's relationship, so she was surprised that Sooyoung had someone to discuss the situation with.

"BoA and I." Sooyoung explained. "Yeah, since we told Jessica that BoA was a close friend from high school, it was natural to tell the same thing to her parents. I didn't know how to explain at first, since BoA was the only one Jessica remembered after she woke up, but since all she remembered was the name, BoA suggested that it would make things less complicated if she was just introduced as a friend..."

Tiffany nodded at the explanation and was about to speak when a voice came up from behind her.

"Hey..."

Tiffany looked up and smiled at Yuri. She pulled the chair next to her out and signaled for the girl to sit down. 

"How's Taeyeon?" Yuri asked as she sat down at the table. She blinked in surprise when Tiffany and Sooyoung softly laughed at her question. "What?" 

"That's the same question that Sooyoung asked." Tiffany explained. "You two really are dumb and dumber..."

Yuri grinned at the nickname. "Dumber." She called the other half of the duo.

"Dumb." Sooyoung responded back before laughing along with the other two girls. "You know what...I actually wouldn't mind having my witch cousin right now..." She placed a piece of dumpling into her mouth, distracting herself from the tears that were forming in the corner of her eyes. She needed to eat since she'll need strength to argue with Jessica when the girl recovered her memory.

...

"Ack!" 

"Save the mushroom!" Sooyoung shouted as she dashed over to the stove with a fire extinguisher in her hand. Taking the tube out of its holder, she aimed the the piece of plastic at the fire in the center of the stove and prepared to put it out. She was seconds from activating the fire extinguisher in her hand but stopped when Taeyeon swiftly walked by and turned it off by twisting the dial. 

"Choi Sooyoung..." Taeyeon shook her head in disbelief. She then softly sighed when she noticed Tiffany smiling sheepishly in the corner. "Hwang Miyoung..."

"I have the bucket of water!" Yuri charged into the kitchen with a bucket high up in the air. She quickly skidded to a halt when she noticed the fire was already gone. "Where's the fire?" She turned her head left and right trying to search for the bursting flame.

"And Kwon Yuri..." Taeyeon looked up at the three girls as they huddled together with a guilty look on their faces. "...thank you..." She smiled at them. 

"Huh?" The three girls at the sudden thanks.

"I'm fine so you don't have to go through such desperate measures to try to cheer me up." Taeyeon pushed the three girls out of the kitchen and back into the living room. 

"I told you it wouldn't work! Who falls for the same trick twice?!" Sooyoung quickly blamed Yuri as she dropped the fire extinguisher in her hand onto the floor with a solid thud. 

"Well it wasn't like you had a better idea. And Tiffany fell for the bug prank multiple times!" Yuri placed the bucket down onto the floor. She was about to say more but stopped when her phone began to ring. Reaching into her pocket, she pulled out her phone and answered the call. "Hello? Unnie..." She trailed off when she noticed how silent the room had became. "Uh..." She looked over at Taeyeon's direction, not sure if she should continue talking or end the call.

Taeyeon shook her head. "It's fine." She mouthed to the girl. 

"Come on TaeTae, I'm hungry." Tiffany smiled as she pulled Taeyeon back towards the kitchen.

Sooyoung glared at Yuri once the two girls were gone. The somewhat cheerful spirit they had created was immediately destroyed by one simple word.

"Yah...sure...okay..." Yuri quickly spoke, wanting to end the conversation as soon as possible. Placing the phone back into her pocket, she smiled at the sight of Sooyoung's expression. The girl was acting if she didn't care about was said in the phone call, but her facial expression was saying otherwise. "She asked if we're gonna come visit today..." 

Silently nodding at the statement, Sooyoung looked over at the kitchen as laughter traveled out. "We'll go later..." She said, wanting to keep the cheerful spirit a little longer this time.

...

"Yoona...Sooyoung...Yuri...Tiffany...Seohyun..." Jessica slowly called off each girl's name, as she matched them with the introductions they gave a few days before. "...uh..." She stopped when she realized that she didn't know who the last person was. It was the girl who had been wearing the same patient clothes as her the day she had woken up. "I'm sorry...but what's your name?"

"'I'm Taeyeon." Taeyeon forced out a bright smile for the girl she loved. 

Jessica smiled at the girl as she stored the name and the face into her brain. "You're my roommate, right?" 

Taeyeon blinked in surprise when Jessica remembered who she was. "You remember me?" She asked hopefully.

"Tiffany told me about..." Jessica explained but slowly trailed off when she noticed the sad expression forming on the other girl's face. "I'm sorry." She apologized. 

Taeyeon strongly shook her head at the apology. "You don't have to apologize for anything." She had been constantly reminding herself to smile when she saw the other girl and to not show any sadness and felt guilty now that she had made Jessica apologize. 

"Hey!" 

Taeyeon kept her expression still as she watched Jessica looked past her and smiled at the new girl that had entered the room. 

"BoA-unnie." 

BoA smiled at the other girls in the room as she made her way towards Jessica's bed. "How are you feeling?" She asked the girl. 

"The same..." Jessica sadly sighed as she looked at the six other girls in the room. "I still can't remember much..."

"Don't worry you remember soon." BoA comforted. She looked over at the new fruit basket sitting by the table next to Jessica's bed and picked out an orange. "You should eat more fruits and those vitamins into your system." 

"I'm gonna go use the bathroom..." Taeyeon quietly announced as she stood turned towards the door. She heard both Tiffany and Seohyun called out her name, but ignored them as she left. If she stayed any longer, she didn't know how long she could keep the tears from falling.

...

"It's fine unnie, I can go the bathroom by myself." Jessica assured the older girl as she slid off the bed. Searching for her slippers, she slipped them on before standing up. "I may have lost a lot of my memory, but I'm not a child. I don't need people constantly looking over me." She smiled before she left the room. 

As the door closed behind her with a silent click, the smile on Jessica's face slowly disappeared as she remembered Taeyeon's expression when the girl suddenly left. She didn't know why, but it hurt her deeply when the girl didn't come back afterwards. 

Shuffling her feet as she made the way to the restroom, Jessica frowned as she tried hard to remember anything about the other girl. But anything she could remembered about Taeyeon were things that Sooyoung and Tiffany had told her. They were not her memories.

Stopping when she felt a headache coming, Jessica leaned against the wall and placed a hand on her forehead. The doctor had told her that she should allow her brain to remember naturally instead of forcing it to remember or else these headaches wouldn't stop. She knew she should stop trying to remember when these headaches happen, but right now she just couldn't. She didn't want to see the sad smile across Taeyeon's face anymore. She could tell that it was forced and wished to see the girl truly smile.

"It's okay TaeTae..." 

Jessica turned her head to the sound of the familiar voice. Peaking into the bathroom, she felt her heart ached as she watched Taeyeon cried on Tiffany's shoulder. 

"It's okay TaeTae..." 

Jessica silently watched as Tiffany continued to comfort the other girl, with her hand slowly rubbing up and down Taeyeon's back. Turning away, she leaned back against the wall and looked up at the ceiling as tears formed in her eyes. She wanted to remember so badly right now, because she wanted to know why her heart hurts so much at the sight of Taeyeon crying and why she was crying too. 

...

Yoona tiredly yawn as she walked aimlessly around the hospital halls. Ever since the accident, she hadn't been able to get much sleep and was extremely tired. Sitting on a bench, she stared out of the glass windows and down at the pedestrian crossing the streets. She missed how everything was simple back then, when everyone was laughing and fooling around and Jessica was screaming at Sooyoung for some reason. 

She hated how depressed everyone was now, how everyone was extra careful with Jessica and how the atmosphere becomes tense when Yuri's sister was them. Yoona could tell that Sooyoung didn't like BoA and see how Taeyeon's expression worsen when Jessica smiles at BoA, but didn't know they were reacting this way to the older girl.

"Yoona? Yah! Shouldn't you be with Sica right now?" 

Yoona looked up and stared blankly at Sooyoung's face. "Sooyoung-unnie..." 

"Aish." Sooyoung sat down on the bench and imitated the girl's actions before she arrived and stared out the window. 

"Sooyoung-unnie...how did unnie know BoA-unnie?" 

Sooyoung turned her head to face the other girl and stared blankly at Yoona's face. "Huh?" Sighing when she realized that the younger girl was persistent for an answer, she leaned back against the back of the bench and began to explained. "Sica and BoA...dated when Sica was in high school..." She trailed off as she tried to read Yoona's expressionless face. "Yoona?"

"Oh! So she was the person unnie was secretly seeing!" Yoona bursted out as she clapped her hand loudly. She smiled sheepishly and bowed apologetically at the other patients for her sudden outburst. 

"Yah! You knew?!" Sooyoung shouted at the younger girl. She then quickly bowed apologetically when some of the patients glared at them. "How did you know?" She asked in a whisper this time.

"Unnie was going out with you too much so I figured she must be seeing someone." Yoona explained. 

"We could have been really hanging out together..." 

Yoona shook her head at Sooyoung's statement. "You two only hanged out together when you needed to use the other person as an excuse. Was she the reason why unnie was so sad before?" 

Sooyoung sighed at the question. "Yeah..." She trailed off. "So are you shock that Sica was seeing...a girl...?"

"I don't know..." Yoona shrugged at the question. "But if unnie is happy, I'll support her no matter what."

"Aww~ Times like this, I wished I had a younger sister as wel..." Sooyoung brought up her hand and gently ruffled the younger girl's hair. "Also times like when Sica orders you around, I wished I had a younger sister as well..." She laughed

"Unnie~" Yoona pouted before breaking into a smile. She missed hearing Sooyoung's laughter. "Sooyoung-unnie, was Taeyeon-unnie and unnie dating as well?" 

Sooyoung's mouth hung opened at the sudden question. "Yah! You...!" 

Yoong quickly clamped a hand over the older girl's mouth when Sooyoung was beginning to shout again. "So I guess that is a yes..."

Sooyoung nodded at the statement, since she couldn't talk with Yoona's hand still over her mouth. 

Yoona smiled as she removed her hand from Sooyoung's mouth. Standing up from the bench, she leaned back a little and stretched her arms in the air. "Well, I like Taeyeon-unnie better!" Yoona declared as she looked over at the other girl's direction. "She made unnie smile and laugh again..." 

25.0

"Sooyeon..."

Jessica smiled shyly at the middle-aged woman in front of her before carefully speaking. "U-umma?" She looked over at Sooyoung and Yoona who gave her an encouraging nod. "Umma." She repeated herself, more sure of herself this time.

Mrs. Jung smile as she reached over for Jessica's hand and lightly patted it. "You must be tired staying in the hospital for so long."

Jessica nodded politely at the older woman, not failing to recognize the sadness in her eyes. She was the reason why everyone was sad, and she hated that she could nothing about it. She had spent the whole car ride back to her house asking everyone questions so she wouldn't cause any unnecessary awkwardness because she didn't know how to respond back. Sooyoung and Yoona had laughed at her reason, saying that causing unnecessary awkwardness was what she did best.

But sadness was still present in their eyes when she stared blankly at them and Jessica would notice no matter how hard they tried to hide it.

"Come on, let's go inside..." Mrs. Jung smiled warmly at her older daughter as she led her towards the house.

"Come on unnie!" Yoona held onto Jessica's other hand and walked side-by-side with the other girl. She slowly swung it back and forth as they walked through the yard. "Umma! Let's have a BBQ party again!" She suggested as she looked over at Sooyoung.

"BBQ Party!!" Sooyoung quickly agreed.

Jessica smiled at the sight of Sooyoung and Yoona laughing. "Umma..." She carefully said as she looked up at the older woman. "Can we have a BBQ party?"

Mrs. Jung shook her head as she watched Yoona and Sooyoung quickly nod their heads up and down. "Of course." She replied back as she smiled.

...

Looking around as she sat on the picnic table, Jessica watched her father and uncle set up the grill. She turned to her right and watched as Yuri and Sooyoung chased Tiffany with a dead bug. She turned to her left and watched as Yoona and Seohyun laughed at whatever they were talking about. She looked towards the back-door of the house as her mother and aunt brought out plates of meat and vegetable. Everyone was smiling and laughing, but something felt missing.

"Hey."

Jessica paused as she looked up at the girl standing next to her, smiling as she felt the girl place a hand gently on her shoulder. "BoA-unnie." She scooted down a little on the bench to make room from the older girl.

"Sorry for being late, I was stuck in traffic for a while... How are you feeling?" BoA asked concernedly. "Do you remember anything?"

"Not yet." Jessica replied, smiling when she noticed the worried frown across BoA's face. "But I like it here even if I can't remember anything." Even though she could not remember anything about the house she grew up in, she could feel a sense of familiarity from the white structure with its brown roof.

It was the same sense of familiarity Jessica had felt when she met Taeyeon for the second time in the hospital and she sighed at the thought of the other girl. She frowned, remembering the tears that had stained the other girl's cheeks and Sooyoung's response to why the girl was crying. Jessica could tell that the girl was hiding something when Sooyoung just gave her a smile as a response.

Looking around at all the girls that were present, Jessica frowned at the nagging feeling inside of her. Taeyeon wasn't here and she didn't know why it was bothering her so much.

"What's wrong?"

Jessica turned to the direction of the voice and was surprised to find Sooyoung sitting next to her. "Nothing." She shook her head lightly, hoping to convince the other girl when she noticed the worried look in her eyes. "I'm fine." She reassured again.

Sooyoung smiled as she nodded her head. "You know you can tell me anything if there's something wrong, right? I am your personal counselor for all your worries in life" She grinned.

Jessica eyed Sooyoung suspiciously before smiling along with the other girl. "Can I ask you something then?"

"Of course."

"Taeyeon..." Jessica paused for a moment as the name left her lips. "How is she like?"

Sooyoung smiled as she watched Yuri run away in fear as Yoona turned on the hose for Tiffany. "Taeyeon..." She turned her head to face her cousin. "I think it'll be better if you remembered her by yourself. It won't be the same if I told you how she is."

"Is she coming later?"

"Do you want her to come?"

"I...yes..."

...

Jessica mindlessly moved the pieces of meat from one side of the plate to the other and sighed. Sooyoung had called Taeyeon to ask if she could make it and the girl had said that she'll try, which disappointed her. She didn't know why but she wanted to see the girl.

"Yah~ Stop playing with your food!"

"Huh?" Jessica blinked at the sudden voice speaking to her, and looked over at BoA who was sitting across from her. "Unnie, did you say something?"

BoA shook her head at the question. "Is something wrong?" She asked concernedly.

Jessica quickly shook her head. "Nothing" She smiled at the older girl before picking up a piece of meat with her fork and placing it into her mouth. The voice didn't sound like it came from the girls sitting around the picnic table, instead it sounded like it came from the inside of her head. She lightly laughed at the thought of her conscience speaking to her, but quickly discarded the thought. She should recognize her own conscience, shouldn't she? The voice sounded familiar yet she couldn't remember who it belonged to. But she wanted to hear it speak again because it made her feel warm inside.

"I'm going to go poor feeding you..."

Jessica looked down at her plate and was shocked to find that she had eaten everything already.

"...and your family..."

"Choi Sooyoung! Leave some food for the guests!" Mrs. Choi yelled at her daughter as she smacked her arm away from stealing another plate of ribs.

Jessica watched amusingly as Sooyoung distracted the adults as she signaled for Yoona to steal the plate. The voice would definitely go poor if it had to feed her family. She suddenly felt guilty at the thought, like she was the reason why the voice was going to become poor, and she wondered if she really did have something to do with it.

Jessica closed her eyes as she remembered how the voice sounded during the two times it spoke to her. Even though the voice was complaining both times when it spoke, she could sense that the complaints were said with a smile. The voice seemed like it was using the complaints as a substitute for aegyo just to get her attention. She liked the voice, whomever it belonged to, and wondered if it'll continue speaking to her. She was also curious about the voice's identity.

From it's feminine tone, Jessica knew it had to belong to a girl, but it didn't sound like anyone she had met since she had woken up. The voice was laughing and teasing when it spoke to her, completely different from how everyone had been talking to her since she woke up. Even though there was a smile across their faces when they talked, she could tell that the smile was forced because they didn't want her to worry. However, despite her inability to see the face behind the voice, she could tell that the voice was smiling while it spoke.

And the smile was genuine and not something forced.

Jessica wondered if she should ask Sooyoung about the identity of the voice. The girl had told her that if she was troubled about anything she could come to her. There was one problem though, she wasn't exactly sure how the girl would react if Sooyoung found out that she was hearing voices in her head. She definitely did not want to go back to the hospital after being released for not even a whole day yet.

But Jessica quickly dismissed the idea when she heard the girl spoke again for the third time. She was going to remember the voice by herself because she knew, because she had a strong feeling deep down inside, that when she did remember who the voice belonged to, she'll remember everything else as well.

"I love you."

...

"Is it uncomfortable?"

Taeyeon didn't need to ask what Sooyoung was talking about as she looked towards Jessica's direction, the girl was laughing as BoA talked. "No..." She replied as she quickly looked away when their eyes accidentally met.

"You sound very convincing right now..." Sooyoung smiled as she leaned against the side of the picnic table and looked up at the sky. The sun was still high in the air but she shivered as the evening breeze blew through her hair. "You know...we're all here for you so you don't have to hold everything inside."

Taeyeon turned to look over at Sooyoung's direction and burst out laughing.

"What?!" Sooyoung's eyes widen in surprise as her mouth hung open. "Kim Taeyeon. If you don't stop laughing, I'm dragging you back into the hospital and have them check you for any brain damages!" She threatened when the other girl's cheek had turned a bright shade of red and there were no signs of an end to the sudden laughter.

"I-I'm s-sorry." Taeyeon apologized in between her chuckles. "It's just that...it's weird seeing you all serious..." She was able to say before the laughter erupted again.

"I feel hurt now!" Sooyoung crossed her arms and stared at the other girl, who had tears forming in the corners of her eyes. "But since I'm your best friend and I'm too nice for my own good, I'll let it pass this time..." She grinned. "But if there is a next time...I'll...do something..." She trialed off in her failed threat.

"You're too soft to do anything." Taeyeon smiled as she teased the other girl. She laughed as Sooyoung stuck her tongue out at her before turning her attention back to the blue sky. Following the other girl's action, she looked up to the sky as well and watched as the clouds slowly moved. "Thank you, Softy."

Sooyoung stretched her back as she lifted her arms into the air. "Don't give up, Shorty."

...

"Jessica? Are you okay?"

"Hmm?" Jessica turned her head to look at BoA, unsure of what the older girl was asking.

"You were staring off into space..." BoA explained with a smile. "Did you remember something?"

Jessica shook her head. "No. I was just..." A sudden burst of laughter rang through the backyard and she turned her head to find the source. She smiled as she watched Taeyeon laughing with her neck bent all the way back and her arms were trying to defend herself from Sooyoung's slaps. "I was just thinking." She turned her attention back to BoA. "I'm fine unnie."

"Okay. I'll go refill your cup." BoA stood up with the two glass cups in her hand and walked off towards the house.

"Than..." Jessica stopped in mid-sentence as laughter rang through the backyard again. "...un-womanly laugh..." She mumbled to herself as she watched Taeyeon continue laughing at something Sooyoung had said. The words sounded very familiar and she pursed her lips when she couldn't remember where she had heard it before. Or possibly said it before.

But she didn't want to worry about this now, she was going to enjoy the sight of Taeyeon's lips curved up to form a smile. Jessica liked the sight of the smile on Taeyeon's face, it suited her better than the crying one that she saw in the bathroom of the hospital. 

26.0 

Jessica sighed as she laid awake staring at the ceiling of the room. Two weeks had passed since the accident; a week since she came back home; but she still could not remember anything about her life before the accident. The doctor had told her that the remembering process was different for everyone and had ensured her that she will regain the memory she had lost. But she was tired of waiting. She wanted to remember now because she wanted to identify the person behind the voice she was constantly hearing.

The loud laughs, the beautiful singing, the soft whispers...Jessica wanted to remember the face of the girl, wanted to remember who it was that always teased her, that always surprised her, and most importantly, who it was that always whispered so lovingly before she fell asleep.

Finding it useless to just lie in bed when she knew she wasn't going to sleep anymore, Jessica sat up and looked around her room. Sliding out of the bed, she walked over to her bookshelf and pulled out a photo album. Gently tracing the carefully decorated cover, she decided she would look through this album today. She had been doing this a lot lately whenever she couldn't sleep and it was helping her recognize the people around her. 

Jessica sat up the pillow on her bed before climbing in. Pulling the covers up to her waist, she made herself comfortable as she leaned against the pillow and placed the photo album on her lap. Opening the cover, she smiled as she was greeted by the smiles of the photos. Turning the pages slowly as she went through the album, she looked at each photo carefully, hoping to remember the events that the still image had captured.

Stopping at the last page of the album, she stared blankly at the lone picture on the page. She felt that the picture looked out of place in the collection, since she looked a few years older compared to the ones in the album and it was the only one that had BoA in it. Carefully taking the photo out, she held it in her hand. There were creases on the corners of the photo that suggested that it was probably in a frame before it was placed into the album. 

Jessica frowned wondering why the photo was removed from it's frame and why it was just simply placed into a random album. Noticing faint marks on the back of the photo, she flipped the photo around and stared at the words written on the back. She smiled as she recognize the writing as her own and read the carefully printed words. "Fifth date. Official." 

Flipping the picture back, Jessica stared at the smile on her face and the one on BoA's. BoA had introduced herself as a friend she had met during high school and Sooyung had explained to her parents the same thing, but she was starting to wonder if they really were just friends. 

Jessica returned the photo carefully back into the album and laid the album onto a nearby chair. Sliding down onto the bed, she snuggled against a pillow wondering and let out a tired sigh. She had turned to the photo album hoping that it would answer the questions she had about everything, but instead it just provided her with more questions that she couldn't answer.

If her relationship with BoA was more than just friends, then was it BoA speaking to her all along?

...

"Jessica, where do you want to go today?" 

Jessica pursed her lips as she thought over the question. All the girls had been taking turns in keeping her company and taking her anywhere she wanted to go. It was BoA's turn today and she was determined to find out if the face behind the voice was really BoA's. "Unnie, let's go to the aquarium." 

"Aquarium?" BoA lightly chuckled. "Sure. I'll go get your coat." 

Jessica nodded as she watched the older walk back towards the house. She frowned as she stared blankly at the street in front of her house. Last night she had dreamt about going to an aquarium and in the dream, there was another girl with her. The girl's face was blurry and she couldn't clearly see her features, but Jessica knew it was the girl who was always talking to her. She knew because the girl had spoken in her dream, in the same voice that she had came to recognize and yearn to hear. 

The girl was extremely excited to go to the aquarium in her dream, which is why Jessica didn't understand why BoA showed little reaction at the decision to go to an aquarium.

"Are you ready?" 

Jessica looked away at the empty street and turned to the standing girl. "Yup." She smiled as she reached for her coat from the other girl's hand. 

"Okay. Let's go." BoA smiled and reached down for Jessica's hand, holding it as they began walking.

Jessica stared down at the hand in her own as she followed behind the older girl, frowning at how the the older girl's hand felt in hers. It felt different compared to the hand she had held in her dream.

...

Jessica's eyes traveled around the various tanks as she looked around the aquarium. The tanks were filled with a variety of fish and other sea creatures, like the aquarium she went to in her dream. But it wasn't the same aquarium. Maybe her dream was just a fragment of her imagination and she never went to an aquarium with the girl. That would explain the difference between the reactions of BoA and the girl in the dream. The girl probably only felt excited because her imagination wanted her to. 

Jessica sighed at the possiblity that her dream was solely stimulated by her imagination. The dream had felt so real and the fact that it wasn't, saddened her. She could still remember clearly, walking underneath a tunnel with sea creatures swimming above her head. She could still remember playing with the starfishes and hermit crabs. She could still remember watching the turtles swim care-freely in their tank before falling asleep in the arms of the girl. 

Jessica frowned at the last memory of the dream. No matter how real the dream felt, it had to be a dream, since it was probably impossible to stay overnight at an aquarium. 

"Where do you want to go first?" 

"The turtle exhibit." Jessica smiled. She wondered if there will be any baby turtles swimming in her tank since she had dreamt about them mating.

...

"Umma!" 

Jessica looked away from the turtles swimming in the tank and turned to a little boy not too far away from her. 

"Umma! Can we visit the aquarium in Jeonju..."

Jessica knew that it was impolite to eavesdrop, but she couldn't stop the curiosity growing inside of her when the boy continued to speak.

"...where we can stay overnight?" 

"Staying overnight?" 

The mother of the boy looked up in surprise at Jessica, but smiled kindly as she answered the girl's question. "Yes. There's an aquarium in Jeonju where you can stay overnight and camp underneath their glass tunnels and watched the sea creatures swim over your heads. It's really an amazing experience. If you have a chance to go to Jeonju, you should really stop by their aquarium. It is absolutely wonderful even if you can't stay overnight."

"Nuna! You can come with us if you want!" 

Jessica lightly laughed and patted the little boy's head. Before she could give a response back, the boy spoke again.

"They have baby turtles in their tanks because their turtles mated during the summer! Umma promised me that we'll go see them soon." The boy smiled as he spoke. "Nuna, you can come along too, right umma?" 

"I'm sure this pretty nuna would rather go with her boyfriend." 

The boy pouted at the statement but quickly smiled when he noticed something interesting glowing in the opposite side of the room. "Umma! Let's go there!" He shouted before running off.

"Kyungsan! Stop running!" The mother shouted at her son. "Kids these days..." She smiled at Jessica before walking off in the direction that her son had ran off in.

"Thank you." Jessica bowed politely to the leaving mother. She walked over to a nearby bench and sat down. If there really was an aquarium where people can stay overnight in, then her dream must have been real. She smiled at the thought. If the dream was real, then it had to be a memory of something she had done in the past and she was slowly remembering like the doctor had said she would be. "Mating turtles..." 

"So who's byuntae now?"

Jessica smiled at the voice's question. "Byuntae...I love you..." She unconsciously said, blinking in surprise when the last word left her mouth. She frowned as she wondered why she would love someone that was perverted. 

"There you are!" 

Jessica looked up from her spot and her eyes widen when she realized that she had wandered off without telling BoA where she was going. She knew the girl had probably thought she was lost somewhere and felt guilty for making her worry "I'm sorry." She quickly apologized. 

"Since I found you know, it's fine." BoA laughed as she sat down next to the other girl. "Is there anywhere else you want to go today?"

"Um...let's go to the park!"

...

Jessica softly smiled as she sat on a bench across from the playground in the park. There was a little boy swinging on the monkey bars and she wondered why it was so amusing just to watch the child hanging there.

"Ice cream?"

Jessica looked at the two cones in BoA's hand and reached for one of them. "Thank you." She said as she scooted over a little on the bench, making room for the older girl to sit down as well. She silently licked the cold treat as she continued to watch the hanging boy, grinning when the boy eventually came down with his hands limped by his side.

"What's so funny?" BoA asked interestedly.

Jessica simply smiled at the question since she didn't know the answer herself.

"Jessica..."

"Hmm?" The smile on Jessica's face disappeared when she noticed the serious look on BoA's face. "Is something wrong?" She asked worriedly.

"I-I..." BoA paused as she looked into Jessica's eyes, knowing that she shouldn't make things more complicated than it already was, but the words left her lips before she could stop them. "I love you." 

Jessica stared blankly at BoA's sudden confession. "Unnie?" She asked cautiously, not sure of how else to react.

BoA smiled sadly and shook her head. "Don't worry about it. Just forget what I said." She leaned back against the bench and looked up at the blue sky. "Let's just enjoy the rest of the day, okay?" 

Jessica nodded at the suggestion. Looking back at the now empty monkey bars, she frowned at the questions going through her head. She wondered why she didn't feel anything when the older girl had confessed, why her heart wasn't racing when it always did when she heard the girl in her head speak the same three words. Following BoA's earlier actions, she looked up at the blue sky as well, hoping that the white clouds would answer some of her questions.

If BoA wasn't the girl, then who was?

"I love you."

Jessica smiled as her heart began to race at the soft confession that only she could hear. She was even more curious about the identity of the girl now, curious to know who it was that made her felt so loved even though she couldn't remember who the person was. 

27.0

Jessica slowly walked down the stairs and headed to the kitchen. Sighing at the emptiness of the house, she opened the refrigerator and pulled out a bottle of milk. Bringing the carton to the living room with a glass cup in her other hand. She sat down on the sofa, turned on the TV, and randomly flipped to a channel. She wasn't going to watch anything, she just wanted it on so there would be some sound in the room.

After realizing that the girl wasn't BoA, Jessica was hearing her more often and dreamt of her daily. She stopped doubting that the dreams were just fragments of her imagination because they felt so real. She knew that everything that she had been dreaming about happened before, but the memories she had of them only came about through her dreams. Nevertheless, it was still a progress compared to when she couldn't remember anything at all.

Just as she was about to grab the carton of milk, Jessica looked over to her phone sitting on the table. Reaching instead for the black object, she strolled through the menu, wondering if she'll find an answer there. "Tiffany...Sooyoung...Taeyeon...Yoona...Taeyeon... Yuri...Taeyeon..." She slowly read off the names that she had called before her accident.

"Taeyeon..." Jessica mumbled the girl's name. She was curious about the girl, but was afraid to talk to her. It didn't help either that Taeyeon spoke very little whenever she was around as well. "Taeyeon..." She repeated again, wondering if by repeating the name over and over again, she'll remember something about the other girl.

Dropping the phone when it suddenly rang, Jessica blushed as she reached for the object on the ground. "Hello?"

"Sica?"

"Sica?" Jessica repeated. She instantly regretted doing so when she noticed the silent pause on the other line.

"Jessica? It's me Tiffany."

Jessica noticed that the tone of the voice had changed when the girl spoke. "Tiffany. How are you?" She tried her best to imitate the girl's earlier cheerfulness, hoping that it'll return to Tiffany's voice.

"Tired. Classes are killing me right now...exams one after another. I'm telling you the professors become more and more evil as the years go by..."

Jessica smiled as Tiffany continued complaining about her theory of evil professors plotting to destroy every student's life. She liked it when the other girls called her just to talked about random things that had happened during the day because it made her feel connected to everyone. If she couldn't remember what had happened in the past, at least she knew what was happening in the present.

"Sica..."

Jessica noticed the hesitation in Tiffany's voice again as the girl paused in mid-sentence. "Yes?" She asked, speaking before the other girl could repeat her name. She was glad that she did because Tiffany's voice was still cheerful when she began speaking again.

"How was your day?"

"Boring. I think I might go back to sleep." Jessica answered. She smiled when she caught the light laugh from the other line. "What's so funny?"

"You sleep too much!"

Jessica laughed at the playful tease. "Then what do you suggest I should do?"

"Umm...You can come visit me!"

Jessica thought over the idea. There was nothing to do at home and she did feel like going out. "Okay. I'll come visit you..." She replied before realizing that she didn't know where the campus was and how to get there. But she was afraid to ask because she didn't want to destroy the current mood. She hated it whenever she was the cause for the sudden gloominess.

"Really?! Jessica, remember the day when we went out and we went to take the train? Go there and take the same line that we took on that day and get off at S. University. I'll meet you outside the station, okay?"

Jessica smiled at the directions. "Tiffany...Thank you..."

"You're welcome Jessica."

...

Jessica was completely surprised when Taeyeon was waiting for her outside the train station instead of Tiffany, though it wasn't a bad surprise. Taeyeon had explained that Tiffany had gotten a sudden phone call and had to go somewhere really quick so she couldn't come over and all Jessica could do while the girl spoke was nod.

Jessica liked how Taeyeon's voice sounded. It had a similar quality to the girl she was so curious about, but there was still a difference. Taeyeon's voice sounded extremely tired and sad, compared to the care-free laughs of the girl she had came to love.

"Room 423." Taeyeon smiled gently as she read off the dorm number to Jessica. Fishing out her key, she unlocked the door and held it open for Jessica to walk through first. "Dorm sweet dorm?"

"Dorm sweet dorm." Jessica laughed at Taeyeon's attempt to lighten the mood. It was the first time that the girl was joking with her and she liked it. "Can I look around?"

"Of course. It's your dorm too." Taeyeon replied. Leaning against the door, she smiled as she watched the other girl walk around the room. She had been afraid of being alone with her, afraid that if it was just the two of them, she wouldn't know how to act around the other girl since Jessica didn't remember any of the times they had spent together. But, as she silently watched the other girl walk around the dorm, she realized how funny the whole situation had become.

When they first met, she remembered that it was Jessica that was avoiding her, but now she was the one doing the avoiding.

Taeyeon continued to watch as Jessica walked around the dorm, stopping in front of the bathroom and the kitchen for a moment as she peaked inside. Nothing had really changed even if Jessica could not remember anything about them, she was still the same girl that Taeyeon had fell in love with.

"Is this my room?"

Taeyeon blinked at the question. "You remember?" She asked cautiously.

Jessica shook her head and instantly regretted it when she noticed the slight change in Taeyeon's face. "It has two beds so..." She softly explained. "Sorry..."

Taeyeon smiled at the girl and shook her head at the apology. "You don't have to apologize for anything. It's a little messy now since school's been busy lately and I haven't had time to clean up...but it should still look the same!"

"Busy or lazy?" Jessica slightly teased. She was about to regret it again when Taeyeon did not say anything back.

"Busy. You're the lazy one, not me." Taeyeon teased back as she pushed Jessica into their shared room. She was the one that pushed for their friendship the first time, so it felt natural for her to push for it again. Even if Jessica couldn't remember their relationship, she still hoped to stay friends with the other girl. "That's your bed over there. And this one is mine." She sat down on her bed and looked around the room.

Jessica carefully walked over to her bed and sat down as well. Looking around the room, she felt something was different, but didn't know what it was. "Is..." She paused as she carefully thought over her question before deciding to stay quiet. She didn't want to ask a question that could change how the atmosphere was, a question that would erase the smile from Taeyeon's face.

"Is something wrong?" Taeyeon asked worriedly. Watching as Jessica shook her head, she nodded at the response. Ever since the accident, she felt that the room had gotten brighter with the return of the other girl's presence. It was extremely lonely sleeping in the room when the two beds were pushed together because there was just too much empty space. So she had returned the beds to their original locations, which was on opposite walls. She turned her head towards the living when she heard the front door open and smiled as the loud voice rang through the dorm.

"I'm back!"

Taeyeon smiled as she got up from her bed, enjoying the presence of all three girls back together in their little dorm.

...

"Over here are the dining halls...and that building over there is the library..."

Jessica nodded as she walked beside Tiffany. Taeyeon had to go to her next class so she was following Tiffany around as the girl introduced the campus to her. "It feels like I'm a freshmen again." She looked around as she tried to remember all the different buildings they had passed by already.

"With Yuri and Sooyoung as your sunbae, you do not want to be a freshmen!" Tiffany said firmly, surprising the other girl. She then shuddered at the thought of all the pranks that the two girls had pulled on the underclassmen. "College will be even more difficult with them two acting as your guides in life..."

Jessica laughed at the comment. After spending enough time with Yuri and Sooyoung, she had came to figure out that their sense of humor revolved around the mishaps and screams of fear of others. "Do they pull pranks on you too?"

"Let's just say that pranks are more extreme when I'm involved..." Tiffany laughed sheepishly at the memory of a certain boy that was met with a swarm of bees after asking for her phone number. "You're lucky that they're both too scared of you to do anything to you, but I'm sure you had your share of Sooyoung's pranks when you were younger..." She slowly trailed off when she realized what she was saying and looked over at Jessica. Talking about memories was something everyone tried to avoid, but it was so hard when everything revolved around memories.

"I think I have too." Jessica smiled. There was always that awkward silence whenever their conversations were about a memory, but she has learned that if she continued the conversation, if she agreed to whatever that was being said, then everything would return back to normal. "Am I really that scary?" She asked curiously.

"You have a lot of nicknames." Tiffany held up her hand and started with her fingers as she recited them to the other girl. "Ice Princess....Sergent....Witch..."

"Am I really that scary?" Jessica asked again, stopping the list from getting any longer.

"Let's just say that you give off a cold and hard-to-approach vibe." Tiffany smiled as she remembered the first time she had met the other girl in their dorm. Jessica had simply waltzed in, looked at her, and went straight into her room and slept until the next day. "But once people get to know you, they'll realize how shy you actually are and the cold image would collapsed when they learn about your unique sense of humor."

"Unique humor?"

"Yes. Like laughing at a room with no door."

"But a room with no door is funny!" Jessica defended herself, with a smile already spread across her face at the thought. She pouted when Tiffany began laughing at her and was about to speak again, but stopped when she noticed a squirrel running towards her. She blinked in surprise when the little animal stopped a few centimeters away from the tips of her shoes, but bend her knees so she that she was closer to the animal. She smiled as the animal slightly wiggled its nose as it stared back at her.

"I'll never leave you."

"Is something wrong?"

"And ___ won't too!"

Jessica shook her head at Tiffany's question as she stood up from the ground. Turning to look at the squirrel one last time, she waved good-bye to the animal before walking off with the other girl. "Annyoung Heidy~"

...

"She remembered the squirrel!"

Tiffany nodded as she placed a spoonful of soup into her mouth. "Yes. She remembers Heidy." She answered after swallowing.

"She remembered the squirrel!" Sooyoung repeated herself before laughing.

"Are you laughing at our pet?!" Taeyeon glared at Sooyoung. "Stop laughing at Heidy!"

"She remembered the squirrel!"

"Is she a broken record or something?" Yuri asked when Sooyoung repeated herself for the third time, only to scream out in pain when the other girl smack her on the arm. "Yah! Why did you hit me?! What about them?!" She pointed to Taeyeon and Tiffany who were laughing at her comment.

Sooyoung looked over at the two girls and simply shrugged as she spooned some food from her plate into her mouth. "I guess, since she remembered the squirrel..."

"Would you stop making fun of our pet?!" Taeyeon grabbed a piece of paper and rolled it up into a ball before throwing it at the girl.

"Yah!" Sooyoung dodged the fail paper ball, only to be hit by another one that Taeyeon had quickly made again. "Aish..." She playfully glared at the other girl only to start laughing. Everyone was now in a good mood because Jessica had remembered something today. Even Taeyeon who was most affected by the whole incident was laughing care-freely. "As I was saying before the animal activist interrupted me, since Jessica remembered Heidy now, it won't be long until she begins remembering everything else, right?"

Tiffany nodded along with the other girls. "Heidy wasn't the only she remembered." Jessica hadn't needed directions to go home afterwards, but that wasn't what she was referring to. "She called me Fany instead of Tiffany." 

28.0

"Fany-ah, are you sure you don't want to come over? You're gonna be alone in the dorm..."

"I'll be fine TaeTae. Stop worrying and have fun with Seohyun!"

"Fine. Remember you can only go to the kitchen for the food in the refrigerator. Absolutely no turning on the stove and playing with fire, understand?" Taeyeon spoke carefully into her phone. "I want a dorm to come back to..."

"TaeTae you worry too much. Have fun! And say hi to Seohyun for me~"

Taeyeon sighed as she ended the call and returned the cellphone to her pocket. She turned around to Seohyun and smiled at the younger girl. "Fany said hi."

"Is Tiffany-unnie going to be fine?" Seohyun asked worriedly when she notice the frown threatening to form on Taeyeon's lips.

"Hopefully." Taeyeon smiled sheepishly. She had left enough food for the other girl in the refrigerator and everything should be okay as long as Tiffany doesn't turn on the stove and try to cook something for herself. "So Seohyun, what do you want to do during our sister weekend?"

"I was planning to study for my exam..."

"On our sister weekend together?!" Taeyeon eyes widen in surprise at Seohyun's plan. "When's your exam?'

"Next month..."

"No! As your unnie, I forbid you to study for your exam this weekend when the exam is a whole month away!" Taeyeon grabbed onto Seohyun's hand and dragged her towards the couch and forced the younger girl to sit down. "Let's spend our quality time watching TV for now. Then we can go out and eat. Maybe go shopping too."

"Unnie...you hate shopping..." Seohyun reminded the older girl. She smiled when Taeyeon ignored her and began furiously searching through the channels for something to watch.

"Keroro?" Taeyeon stopped changing channels when an animated frog appeared on the screen.

"Unnie~ I'm not a little kid anymore!" Seohyun pouted.

"Aish...I want my cute dongsaeng back! We're watching Keroro!" Taeyeon declared as she sat on the remote control so the younger girl wouldn't try to change the channel.

Seohyun lightly laughed at Taeyeon's behavior. "Unnie how can I be a dongsaeng when you're so childish." She teased the older girl. She smiled as Taeyeon squinted her eyes at her. "Unnie, I'm glad that you're happier now."

Taeyeon lifted her hand and gently patted Seohyun's head. "Seohyun-ah, I'm sorry for making you worry."

Seohyun shook her head at the apology. She pursed her lips as she looked at the older girl. "Unnie, can I ask you a question? About Jessica-unnie?"

Taeyeon smiled and nodded her head. "What do you want to know?"

"Were the two of you dating?"

"Uh..." Taeyeon scratched the back of her neck sheepishly at the question. "Yes." She eventually answered back as she carefully observed the younger girl's expression. "Seohyun-ah, are you surprised?"

"I was when umma hinted that you and Jessica-unnie were more than friends and when Yoona told me that you two had been going out..." Seohyun explained. "But if Jessica-unnie makes you happy, I'll support your relationship with her. Unnie hwaiting!"

Taeyeon laughed as Seohyun pumped her arms into the air in a cheer. "My cute dongsaeng is all grown up now and is even worrying for her unnie when it should be the other way around. I'm such a fail unnie..."

"Unnie you're not fail!" Seohyun pouted. "You're the best unnie anyone can have and I'm glad that you're my unnie!"

Taeyeon laughed as she pinched the younger girl's cheek. "And I'm glad that you're my dongsaeng as well." She smiled. Reaching inside her pocket when she felt a slight vibration from her cellphone, she read the name flashing on the screen and answered the call. "Hello? Fany?"

"Uh...TaeTae..."

Taeyeon frowned at the hesitation in the other girl's voice. "What did you do?! Did you burn down the dorm?! Or the whole building?! Are you alive?!"

"The dorm's fine and the building's fine...but I don't know about me... ACK!"

Taeyeon scrunched her face as a piercing scream came from the other line. "What's wrong?!"

"COCKROACH!!! SAVE ME TAETAE!!"

Taeyeon sighed in relief when she realized that the problem wasn't as bad as she thought. "Okay Fany, I'm coming. And don't turn on the fire so you can burn the bugs!" She quickly brought the cellphone from away her ears when another piercing scream came through. "Seohyun, is it okay if we spend our sister weekend with Tiffany too?"

Seohyun nodded. "I'll go pack some clothes really quick." She hurried towards her room before stopping halfway. Turning around, she smiled at the older girl. "Unnie, we should plan a weekend where we spend it with Tiffany-unnie, Yuri-unnie, Sooyoung-unnie, Yoona, and Jessica-unnie!"

"Okay." Taeyeon nodded at the suggestion. She jumped suddenly when Tiffany began screaming on the other line again. "Um...pack quickly, okay Seohyun?"

...

"Sooyoung-ah~ Where did you hide the snacks?" 

Sooyoung looked up from her desk and turned around to see Jessica hanging over the side of her bed as the girl searched underneath the bed. "Stop searching! You won't find anything." She yelled when the other girl began pulling out random boxes from underneath. "Why are you here bothering me?! Isn't Yoona coming home this weekend too? And you better put everything back!" 

"Yoona won't be back until later." Jessica explained as she sat back up. "Don't you always have food hidden somewhere?"

"I live in the dorm now! Umma will kill me if rats and cockroaches infested the house because of my hidden stash." Sooyoung looked down at the mess on the floor of her room. "Clean up!" She pointed her finger at Jessica. 

"I think I'm getting a headache now, I'm going to take a nap... You clean up." 

Sooyoung shook her head in defeat as the other girl laid down on her bed and pulled the covers over her head. "Sometimes I don't know if I want you to remember or just forget..." She sighed as she began kicking everything back underneath her bed. "If you remember, then you'll be bossy again, but if you don't, I have a feeling I'm going to be your slave for the rest of my life..." 

"You want me to remember more." 

Sooyoung smiled at the sentence and looked at the girl lying on her bed. "True. I'll rather have the bossy Jessica back since she seems more real than a shy one." She grinned at the glare across Jessica's face. "Oh, how I miss those glares." She teased as she ruffled the other girl's hair. 

"Yah! I'm older than you! Where's the respect you should be showing me?" Jessica shook Sooyoung's hand off of her head and sat up from the bed. Noticing a picture frame sitting on Sooyoung's desk, she slid off the bed and walked over towards the desk. Picking up the frame, she smiled back at the girls that were captured in photo. 

"Do you remember anything?" Sooyoung looked over Jessica's shoulder and smiled at the photo as well. 

Jessica softly smiled at the sight of her arms around Taeyeon's neck and Taeyeon's hand holding lightly onto one of her hands but shook her head at Sooyoung's question. "Sooyoung, can I ask you a question?" She asked as she looked up from the frame.

"Didn't you ask one already?" Sooyoung grinned. "You can stop giving me those glares. I don't miss them any more." 

Jessica held her glare for another second before softening her eyes. "You told me that BoA and I were closed in high school, right? What happened to us? Why isn't she friends with us?" She looked down at the picture frame at the seven faces that did not include BoA's.

"Uh..." Sooyoung's eyes wandered around her room as she avoided Jessica's gaze. She knew that Jessica was probably going to have questions about BoA while she was trying to remember, but she had hoped that those questions wouldn't occur. She knew that she couldn't use the same 'BoA is just a close friend of yours' again when the question came, but she hadn't figure out a better response yet other than the truth. 

"Were we a couple?" 

Sooyoung's eyes widen at the question. "You remembered?!" 

Jessica smiled at the other girl's reaction. "No...but I know now..." 

"Aish..." Sooyoung sighed as she walked over to her bed and laid down, before rolling her covers over her body. "So...how do you feel about it? Now that you know." She asked cautiously as she stuck her head out from one end and looked over at the other girl. 

"Nothing."

"Nothing?!" Sooyoung shouted as she tried to sit up from her position, only to groan in frustration when she fell back down onto the bed. Unrolling the covers from her body, she hurriedly got up from the bed and walked over to where Jessica was standing. "Really?" She stared straight into the other girl's eyes.

Jessica nodded at the question.

Sooyoung pursed her lips at the silent response. "Really?" She asked again. 

"Do you want me to feel something?" Jessica asked back.

"No." Sooyoung shook her head at the question. "So you don't love her, right?" 

Jessica nodded at the question. "I don't love her anymore. Well, at least not in the couple-way..." 

"Are you sure?" Sooyoung asked. "You loved her a lot when you were together and was devastated when BoA disappeared..." She trailed off when she realized that she might have possibility said something that Jessica hadn't remembered yet. 

"I'm sure." Jessica replied back. "Because I'm in love with someone else now." 

Sooyoung's face fell at the new information. "Who?!" 

"My dream girl." 

...

"I'm back~" 

"Unnie!" 

Jessica smiled as the younger girl came to greet her after closing the front door. "I thought you won't be back until later." 

"I was going to hang out with Seohyun for a little bit before coming back, since I felt guilty leaving her all alone in the dorm while I came home this weekend but Taeyeon-unnie came by so I came home early." Yoona explained. 

Jessica smiled at the mention of Taeyeon's name. "You could have invited her over. I'm sure umma and appa wouldn't mind."

"I'll invite her next time, with Taeyeon-unnie too, okay unne?" Yoona smiled at the older girl's suggestion. "Oh! And unnie~ I heard you're in love with your dream girl, as in literally the girl in your dream..." 

"How did you find out already?! I just told Sooyoung a few minutes ago..." Jessica eyes widen in surprise as she was led to the living room by the younger girl. 

"Sooyoung-unnie texted me." Yoona showed Jessica her cellphone. "Sooyoung-unnie has a big mouth in case you don't remember." She explained. "And a really loud one too..." 

"Well, I know now." Jesscia shook her head and sighed. Looking back at Yoona, she pursed her lips as she observed the younger girl's expression. "Are you okay with this?" She asked cautiously. "Since I like...girls..."

"I guess I was a little surprised when I first found out you liked the same gender, but I realized that didn't change anything about who you are. You're still my unnie regardless if you liked guys or girls, so long as you're happy, I'll completely support you." Yoona reached over for Jessica's hand and smiled at the older girl. "So are you going to tell me who the lucky dream girl is?" She asked curiously. "Or maybe she's not so lucky since you're so bossy...and will probably order her around like crazy..." 

"I'm not that bossy!" Jessica glared at the younger girl, but quickly soften at Yoona's pout. "I wish I could tell you who my dream girl was, but I can't since I don't even know how she looks like..." She smiled sadly. "I can never see her face when she appears in my dreams..."

Yoona frowned at the information. She wanted to ask if it was Taeyeon but stopped herself when she realized that Sooyoung had made her promise not to expose Taeyeon's relationship with Jessica, stating that it was better if Jessica remembered Taeyeon by herself. But Sooyoung never said anything about not hinting about their relationship. She smirked at the thought and began asking questions as innocently as she could. "Does she have long hair? A brunette maybe? And a little on the short side? Loud un-womanly laugh?"

"How did you know?!" Jessica's eyes widen in surprise at how accurate the younger girl was. "Do you know who my dream girl is?!" 

"Uh..." Yoona stuttered when Jessica grabbed onto her shoulders. "No?" She coughed out a laugh. 

"Really?" Jessica eyed the younger girl suspiciously. 

"Uh... Unnie! Let's go see a movie together!" Yoona quickly changed the subject as she jumped up from the couch. "We haven't hung out together in a while, it's time for some Jung sister bonding time!" She reached for Jessica's hand and pulled the older girl up as well. "I'll go get your jacket, okay unnie?" She quickly spoke, not allowing Jessica any chance to interrupt or disagree.

Jessica held on tightly to Yoona's hand before the girl could escape. "Yoona...did something happen to her...? Is that why you won't tell me? Is she with someone else or is she no longer..." She trailed off as tears formed in the corners of her eyes. She had never thought of the possibility that the girl in her dream was dead. 

"NO!" Yoona quickly shouted. She held tightly onto Jessica's hand when she felt the older girl's grip slowly loosening. "Unnie. Your dream girl is fine, okay? She's waiting for you to remember her so don't start thinking about these negative thoughts. I'm not telling you who she is because..." She paused and looked into Jessica's eyes. "Because don't you want to remember who she is yourself?" 

"I do." Jessica answered back softly. "I will too." She said firmly. 

"Good! Now let's go see that movie. And we can get some of those cucumber snacks you like so much along the way..."

"I don't like cucumbers." Jessica scrunched her face as the last word left her lips. 

Yoona sighed at the statement as she hung her head in disappointment. "Darn it! I should have made you eat cucumbers when I had the chance!"

Jessica frowned at the comment; Sooyoung and Yuri had said the exact same thing.

...

Yuri paused as she looked around the room. This was the first time being in BoA's rented condo and she was amazed on how nice it was. Looking over at the dining table in the middle of the living room, she scratched her head in confusion. "Isn't this a little too much unnie?" She asked as she pointed at the candles burning in the center of the table.

"No?" BoA asked back as she stuck her head out from the kitchen. "This is the first time we have some sisterly time together since I came back so I wanted to make it special. And you're legal now so I even brought a bottle of wine. Now go sit down on the couch while I finish this last dish!"

"Okay...I guess..." Yuri walked towards the couch and sat down on the furniture. It was true that they didn't have any sisterly bonding times since the older girl came back. Taeyeon and Jessica's accident happened so suddenly and then everything became depressing with Jessica's memory lost. Looking around the room, she admired the various photographs hanging on the wall, photographs that had captured a setting sun, a street lit up by the light of the signs of various buildings, and other sceneries.

"Dinner is ready!"?

Yuri smiled as she stood up from the couch and walked over to the dining table. Her eyes widen at the amount of food that the older girl had made. "Isn't this a little too much unnie?" She asked, since even Sooyoung might have a problem finishing everything on the table.

"Well, I didn't know what you liked to eat, so I just made a variety of dishes so that there had to be something you like." BoA laughed sheepishly. "And we have all night to finish this, so don't worry!" She moved next to Yuri's side and placed her hands on the younger girl and pushed her down onto a chair.?

"I'll eat well then!" Yuri smiled at the older girl before picking up her bowl and the pair of chopsticks.

BoA watched attentively as the younger girl tasted everything. "Well?"

"Not bad." Yuri concluded after trying every dish on the table. "It's way better than the last time you tried cooking for me."

BoA smiled in embarrassment at the memory. She had cooked for Yuri once when the girl was in high school, but it didn't turn out that well and she had vowed never to cook for anyone again until she was sure that they wouldn't be poisoned by it. "I guess living alone helped my cooking abilities."

Yuri looked up at the older girl and placed the bowl in her hand onto the table, with the pair of chopsticks sitting on the rim of the bowl. "Unnie. Why did you just leave like that?" She asked. "Was it because of the argument you had between umma and appa?"

"Not really." BoA answered back as she took a sip of wine from her glass. She knew that the question was going to be asked sooner or later. "If there really was a reason for me leaving, I guess the only real reason was because I was immature and stupid back then. I was interested in photography but umma and appa insisted that I majored in something else instead since they felt that I would not make much of living off of taking pictures. And I guess that argument between us just happened at a wrong time...if it happened a day before or a day after, then maybe I wouldn't have left but because it happened on that day..."

"Do you regret leaving?"

"I regretted leaving so suddenly but not leaving itself. Traveling really helped me see things in a different light and it helped me realized how stupid my actions were for just disappearing."

"Then why did you send me that five paged letter about Jessica?"

BoA laughed at the question. "I never really wanted to hide Jessica from you, things just kinda happened that way. I wrote the letter because I didn't want to have any more secrets between us. You are my sister and I felt guilty that I never had a chance to tell you about her. I guess I also felt guilty that I never had the chance to introduce Jessica to everyone."

"Do you still love her?"

"I...do?" BoA sadly smiled at her response. "But she's in love with someone else now, isn't she?"

Yuri smiled sheepishly at the question.

"Is it Taeyeon?"

"How did you know?!" Yuri asked in surprise. She was sure that no one had said anything about Taeyeon and Jessica's relationship.

"There's love in her eyes when she's looking at Jessica. A lot of love." BoA explained. "And there's a lot of love in Jessica's eyes as well when she's looking at Taeyeon, even if she doesn't remember about their relationship. They love each other a lot and I'm not going to barge in between them because all the traveling and growing I've done would be wasted if I'm still my immature and stupid self from three years ago. Jessica is happy now and I should thank Taeyeon for making her so happy." 

29.0

"Hello?"

Taeyeon looked up from her books and blinked in surprise when she saw BoA standing in front of her. "H-hello." She stuttered out a greeting, not sure of what else to do. "Are you looking for Yuri? I think she still a class right now..."

"I was actually looking for you." BoA smiled at the younger girl in front of her. "May I sit down?" She pointed at the empty seat across Taeyeon.

"Yeah! Sure." Taeyeon quickly moved the books she had scattered around the library table to her side of the table. She forced out a smile as she watched the older girl pull out the chair and sat down. "Uh...the weather is nice today...?" Her eyebrows scrunched together when she noticed that it was raining outside and laughed awkwardly at her comment.

"The weather was nice." BoA lightly laughed. "A lot of work?" She asked as she looked at the textbooks on the table. "Is it final season already?"

"Yeah, I have my last final later today." Taeyeon smiled sheepishly.

"Am I bothering you then?"

"No." Taeyeon quickly answered. "I don't really feel like studying anyway and I wouldn't be studying if it wasn't because of my younger sister. She studies weeks before a a test and I feel like a bad unnie if I don't even try studying a little."

BoA laughed at the girl's explanation. "Compared to you, I must be an awful sister since I left without any warning..." She trailed off when she noticed the awkwardness that was forming. "Sorry." She apologized. "I didn't mean to make you feel awkward."

"Oh it's fine." Taeyeon forced out a laugh. She softly sighed when silence surrounded them and she wasn't sure how to break the silence without making the atmosphere even more awkward. This wasn't her first time being with the older girl, but it was her first time being completely alone with her. She didn't want to feel uneasy around the girl, but it was hard not to when she remembered that Jessica remembered BoA instead of her.

"Taeyeon."

Taeyeon looked up from the table at the sound of her name. "Yes?"

"You and Jessica were dating, weren't you?" BoA asked. "I'm sorry if I was too blunt..." She quickly apologized when she noticed the shock expression on Taeyeon's face. "Yuri told me...well, its more like I asked her about it and she's not a really good liar. Don't be mad with her."

"I won't." Taeyeon assured.

"So it's true then." BoA asked when Taeyeon didn't deny the fact. "Do you know that Jessica and I dated? Before I left?"

Taeyeon nodded in response. "Sooyoung told me."

"Sooyoung?" BoA repeated. "I'm sure Jessica had wanted to tell you. She probably didn't want you to worry about it though." She said kindly. She paused as she studied the younger girl; maybe it was a good thing that she had left since Jessica now had someone who was better by her side. "Thank you."

"Huh?" Taeyeon blinked in surprise at the sudden show of gratitude.

"For loving Jessica. For not giving up and leaving even if she doesn't remember you anymore."

"I promised her that I wouldn't leave her no matter what." Taeyeon smiled at the memory. "But even if I hadn't promised, I wouldn't be able to leave either since I fell too deep already." She lightly laughed at what she said. "I sound cheesy, don't I? But it's true though, Jessica had probably dug a deep hole when I first met her and I walked straight into it without even knowing. By the time I realized what had happened, it was too late because I liked being in her hole already."

BoA smiled at the sight of Taeyeon's grin. "Promise me that you'll continue to wait for her and bring her happiness. Or else I'm just going to steal her back."

Taeyeon stared blankly at the older girl, smiling a few seconds later when she realized what BoA was saying. "I won't let you steal her from me. I'll keep waiting, even if it'll take forever, because I know that once the waiting is done, there'll be a princess waiting for me. Even if she's a bossy Ice Princess, because she's my bossy Ice Princess."

...

"Sooyeon-ah! There's a package for you!"

Jessica popped her head out of the living room and walked towards the front door where her mother was standing with a brown envelope in her hand. Taking the envelope from the older woman's hand, she read the address written on the front, wondering who had sent her a package. There was no name with the sender's address but she recognized that it was her school's address.

"Who sent you the package?"

"School." Jessica replied as she shook the envelope. She felt something heavy inside and quickly opened it to see what it was. She blinked in confusion when the only thing she found was a single cassette tape. "Umma! Do we have a cassette player?"

"I think your father has one in his study."

"Okay." Jessica replied back before hurrying towards her father's study. She didn't understand why her school would send her a cassette tape and was curious to hear what it was about. Bringing the cassette player up into her room, she plugged the machine and inserted the tape. She placed the cassette player on her bed before pressing the 'play' button.

"Hello?"

"Taeyeon?" Jessica's eyes widened when Taeyeon's voice came through the speakers.

"Is this thing working? ... Testing...one...two...three..."

Jessica began giggling when she heard Taeyeon begin blowing into whatever she was using as a recorder. But she quickly quiet down when she heard the other girl clear her throat and waited for whatever was going to be said.

"...Um...Jessica? You're probably confused about why I'm recording something for you...or you might be laughing at me because I'm recording this at 3 A.M. when I should probably be sleeping. But I couldn't sleep and I really wanted to talk to you. I thought of calling you, but I probably wouldn't get to say what I wanted to say since I'll feel awkward, not that I don't feel awkward talking to myself in the dark..."

A smile appeared on Jessica's face as she listened to Taeyeon continually talk in circles. She still had no idea what the other girl was trying to say and listened attentively to everything even though Taeyeon was still talking about being awake at 3 A.M. and sitting in the dark.

"You're probably tired of listening to me now since I'm not really saying anything..."

"No!" Jessica shouted, but quickly blushed when she realized that she was talking to the recording and Taeyeon couldn't hear her.

"...Well, I've been thinking a lot lately, about everything that had happened. I wanted to apologize for avoiding you so much. It wasn't your fault. It's just that it was hard for me to be with you when you didn't remember anything about us... But I figured out now that it doesn't really matter if you forgot everything, because you're still you. I should just be thankful that you're still alive and with us. Nothing is going to change even if you won't fully remember anything, so you shouldn't feel guilty about it. I know its probably harder on you when you couldn't remember... I think I'm babbling again...I should probably stop talking..."

Jessica sat quietly on her bed as she waited for the recording to continue. But when the silence continued while the cassette tape continued playing, she sighed and made a movement to press the 'stop' button. She had hoped for the girl to speak some more, but the the only sound coming out from the cassette player was the tiny turns of the wheel of the tape.

"...I want to say one last thing though...I love you Sica, and I'll always love you no matter what..."

Jessica froze as the cassette tape stopped by itself and the 'play' button popped back up. She quickly pressed down on the 'rewind' button and stopped it before it rewinded too far back.

"...to say say one last thing though...I love you Sica, and I'll..."

Jessica stopped the cassette tape and rewinded again.

"...thing though...I love you Sica, and I'll always love you no matter what..."

There was a familiar feeling growing inside her and Jessica didn't understand why Taeyeon's words were having this effect. Only the girl in her dreams could have this effect on her. She rewinded the tape again and her eyes began to water when Taeyeon said that she love her again. "Taeyeon-ah, I love you too." She smiled as tears began to roll down her cheeks when she closed her eyes and could see Taeyeon smiling at her while the girl pointed at a tank of turtles.

...

"Are you alright?"

Jessica nodded her head at BoA's concerned question. Her eyes probably said otherwise since she had been crying in happiness when she realized that she remembered everything. She had called Taeyeon first, wanting to tell her the news, but she kept reaching her voice-mail. She stopped when she remembered that the other girl had a class during this time. Then she spent another thirty minutes crying with her parents when she told them that she remembered everything and apologized for worrying them so much.

"Are you sure? Your eyes are very red right now and swollen too."

"I'm fine unnie." Jessica smiled assuringly at the older girl. Since Taeyeon still had class, everyone else was probably in class too, so she couldn't share the news to them yet. She also wanted to tell them face to face instead of through a phone call, so she was going to tell them tomorrow. She was going to visit them first thing in the morning and she couldn't wait to see their surprised expressions. She was also going to bring a camera too so she could capture Sooyoung's crying face.

But right now, she had to clear things up with BoA. Jessica didn't just remember everything that had happened before the accident, she also remembered everything that had happened after the accident and BoA had always been by her side. She had forgiven the girl for suddenly leaving and hoped to remain friends. "BoA-unnie, can we go somewhere?" She asked. She hadn't told the older girl that she had remembered everything yet.

"Sure. Where do you want to go?"

"Somewhere." Jessica smiled secretly as she led the way. Passing the familiar path, she smiled as she could remember events that had happened at certain spots. "Unnie." She called out when she stopped in front of a tree. The last time she had been here was almost a year ago, when she came home before the start of the spring semester and when she met Taeyeon for the first time.

BoA looked around her surrounding when she realized where Jessica had taken her. "Jessica...you remembered?"

Jessica nodded at the question. This was the spot where BoA had left her waiting and she always came here from time to time, hoping that the older girl would be standing there waiting for her. But she had stopped visiting the place when she met Taeyeon because she was no longer waiting. "Unnie..."

"I'm sorry."

Jessica shook her head at the apology. "I forgive you unnie. Thank you for worrying about me during this period." She smiled at the older girl as she looked around the surrounding. Everything was still the way it was three years ago when BoA suddenly left, except she didn't have any feelings for the older girl anymore. "Can we stay friends, unnie?"

BoA smiled at the question. "Of course. I can use another dongsaeng." She softly chuckled as Jessica laughed care-freely. "Does everyone know yet?"

"Only my parents. Everyone else is still in school so I can't reach them."

"I can already picture their faces when they find out. Especially Taeyeon's." BoA smiled.

Jessica smiled back, understanding what BoA was saying. "I'll forever remember the expression she'll have when I tell her."

...

"Kim Taeyeon!"

Taeyeon dropped her bag onto the floor as Tiffany's voice echoed through the dorm. She backed towards the door when the girl walked up to her with an angry expression on her face. "Yes?"

"Why didn't you tell us?!" Tiffany held the letter in her hand up to the other girl's face.

Taeyeon tilted her head so she could read what the letter said. She smiled sheepishly when she realized what Tiffany was so angry about. "Fany-ah..."

"Didn't you have a talk with BoA today about not leaving?! And now you're leaving!"

"Yah! Going on a study-aboard isn't really leaving. I'm coming back!" Taeyeon defended herself. "And how did you know I had a talk with BoA?!"

"Hello Taeng!"

Taeyeon looked past Tiffany's shoulder and sighed when she saw Yuri's head popped out from the kitchen. "I should have known..."

"You're not off the hook yet!" Tiffany glared as she crossed her arms. "When were you going to tell us?! Did you plan on just disappearing?!" 

"I-I..." Taeyeon stuttered as she looked around for help. "Sooyoung!" She called for the other girl when another head popped out from the kitchen. "Help me!"

"Nope. This is what you get for not helping me whenever Jessica tries to kill me." Sooyoung smiled widely at the helpless girl before taking a bite from the apple in her hand.

"Then you're not getting anything to eat for dinner later."

"Fany-ah! Why don't we sit down and listen to what Taeyeon has to say. I'm sure she has a good reason for not telling us about it." Sooyoung quickly pulled Tiffany away from the door and brought her to the couch. "I want a lot of meat tonight!"

Taeyeon shook her head at the hungry girl before sitting down next to Tiffany. "I didn't tell you because I didn't want to worry you."

"How would telling us worry us?"

"Because you're probably thinking that I'm using it as an excuse to leave Korea."

"Aren't you?"

"No." Taeyeon lightly tapped Tiffany's forehead. She smiled as she watched the girl scrunch her face at the attack. "I had always wanted to go study-aboard somewhere and was planning to go during Junior year. I'm just following what I had planned already. I'll still be waiting for her even if I'm not in Korea."

"See I told you that you're overreacting." Yuri sat down onto the couch between Taeyeon and Tiffany. "Problem solved! This calls for a celebration!"

"With a lot of meat!" Sooyoung added as she squeezed in between Yuri and Tiffany. She glared at Yuri when the girl elbowed her back, trying to push her out of her spot.

"How long will you be gone?" Tiffany asked as she leaned forward from her spot.

Taeyeon copied the other girl's action as she blocked one of Sooyoung's arms from hitting her. "One semester. And then I'll be back...that is if there is a dorm to come back too..." She trailed off as a worried expression appeared on her face. "Tiffany, you're still banned from the kitchen!"

"Don't worry Shorty! We'll keep her safe!" Sooyoung grinned as she elbowed Yuri in the stomach.

"You can trust us Taeng!" Yuri added before pulling Sooyoung into a headlock.

"Trust Dumb and Dumber?" Taeyeon forced out a laugh. "I think I'll be worrying more now..." 

30.0

"I can't believe she just left! And she said that she wasn't running away!"

"Fany-ah, calm down." Sooyoung let out a yawn as she leaned onto the right arm of the couch. She had thought something terrible had happened when Tiffany was going crazy when she had called her this morning and quickly ran to the girl's rescue. And when she arrived, she laughed when she realized that she wasn't the only person Tiffany had called. The girl had not only called Yuri, but also Seohyun and Yoona too.

"Taeng's letter explained that she wasn't running away." Yuri reminded as she leaned onto the left arm of the couch. "Do you want me to read it to you again?" She cleared her throat before reading the letter Taeyeon had taped onto the door of Tiffany's room. "Mushroom, I'm leaving now so don't start going crazy when you don't see me in the morning. I didn't tell you earlier that I was leaving today because you'll probably cry and then I'll cry. Before you go on about how I'm running away, I'm leaving early because the school wanted me to come before the semester actually begins so I'll get use to the new surrounding. P.S. The kitchen is still off-limits. Go bother Dumb and Dumber if you're hungry. Love, TaeTae."

"Taeyeon knows you too well." Sooyoung smirked as she stretched her arm into the air. "Well what do you guys want to do on the first day of winter break?"

"Sleep?" Yoona smiled as she leaned her head over the couch and closed her eyes.

"You really can't deny blood, can you?" Yuri laughed when Yoona began lightly snoring. "She sleeps just as fast as Jessica!"

"Tiffany-unnie, don't worry about unnie." Seohyun brought a glass of water over to the older girl.

"But aren't you mad that she just left? She didn't even tell you!"

"She did..."

"What?!" Tiffany eyes widened at the reply. "When?!"

"She called me last night telling me that she was leaving this morning. I was going to tell you when you called me this morning, but you were talking too fast and I didn't want to be rude and interrupt you. So I didn't get to tell you." Seohyun sheepishly grinned. "I was going to tell you when I came over, but you never stopped talking about how unnie was running away so I didn't get a chance to tell you until now..."

Sooyoung exploded into laughter when Seohyun stopped speaking. "This is too funny!"

Tiffany glared at the laughing girl. "I think I like Yuri more now." She stuck her tongue out and crossed her arms across her chest.

"Alright!" Yuri pumped an arm into the air and cheered. She grinned as she watched Sooyoung hurry from her spot and begin whining at Tiffany. "Sooyoung, you should use your aegyo so she'll like me even more!" She turned her head abruptly towards the front door when she heard a light click of the door unlocking.

"Taeyeon!" Tiffany cheered as she hurriedly ran towards the door. "I knew she was just playing a joke on us. She wouldn't just leave like... Jessica?!"

"Fany!" Jessica shouted as she pulled the other girl into a big hug. Looking around the room, she smiled when she noticed that everyone was present. "Yoona!" She quickly ran to her younger sister and woke the girl up from her sleep. "Seohyun! Yuri!" She pulled the two girls together into a hug and jumped up and down. "Soo..." Her face instantly frowned at the sight of Sooyoung's wide-open arms.

"Don't I get a hug too?" Sooyoung asked when her arms were left hanging as Jessica glared at her.

"Choi Sooyoung! Why is there a cucumber on your shirt?!"

Sooyoung's eyes widen in fear as she looked down at the cartoon cucumber printed on the center of her shirt. "Uh... Today is Yay-For-Cucumber Day?" She tried laughing, but gulped in fear as Jessica's glare harden. Pausing for a second when she realized that something was different about her cousin standing in front of her; Jessica seemed more like her old self from the days before the accident. "Jessica Jung Sooyeon! You remember now, don't you? Ah~!" She screamed as she ran up to the other girl and wrapped her arms around Jessica's body.

"Eww~ Let go of me! I don't want to hug a cucumber!" Jessica shouted at the other girl, but laughed when Sooyoung began jumping in circles.

"Unnie...remembers?"

"Sica, do you really remember everything?"

"Group hug!"

"I...can't breathe..."

"Sooyoung's crying!"

Jessica sat down on the couch as she breathe in and out. Exhausted from the group hug, she quietly observed the dorm and frowned when she realized someone was missing. "Where's Taeyeon?"

"Taeyeon!" Tiffany shouted the name when she realized what she was so angry about this morning. "Sica! TaeTae's running away!"

"What?!"

"Taeyeon's not runninging away..." Sooyoung tried explaining but was quickly cut off by Tiffany.

"She left this morning! And she didn't tell us too!"

"What?!"

"Fany...letter..." Yuri tried reminding the other girl that Taeyeon had explained everything in the letter that she had read twice already. She let out a tired sigh when she was ignored as well.

"Let's go to the airport!"

...

"Jessica! Speed limit!"

Sooyoung clenched her teeth together as she watched the girl zoom pass the car in the neighboring lanes with ease. "We're over the passenger limit right now so I don't think going over the speed limit is a good idea." She reminded her cousin as she held on tightly to the head rest of the passenger seat. But her grip wasn't strong enough since she fell backwards onto the three girls sitting with her in the backseat when Jessica stepped down on the gas pedal.

"Yah! Sooyoung!" Yuri groaned as Sooyoung's hand accidentally smacked her face.

"Sorry!" Sooyoung quickly apologized as she tried to sit back up. "Am I a bad cousin if I'm wishing that Jessica hadn't remembered everything?"

Yoona shook her head at the question. "Unnie~ I'm too young to die!"

"Stop back-seat driving!" Jessica glared at the passengers in the back through the rear mirror. Stepping down harder onto the gas pedal, she accelerated the car down the highway towards the airport. "Don't worry Seohyun, I'm a very good driver." She assured the younger girl sitting next to her on the passenger seat.

"What about us?!" Tiffany shouted.

"You're the one that told me that we have to hurry!" Jessica reminded.

"Oh...yeah..."

"Sica! You know Taeyeon's not running away any more! Why are we still going to the airport?!" Sooyoung asked as her body was pushed deeper into the seat of the car. She was extremely glad now that her mother had given her an iron stomach or else she would have thrown up the full-course breakfast she had this morning.

"Because I want to let her know that I remember everything already and I'll be waiting for her to come back!"

...

"Do we even know where she's going? Or what flight she's on? Or when her flight is?"

Tiffany shook her head as she read the different departure times on the TV screen in the first floor lobby of the airport. "I think she said something about going to Europe..."

"Half of the flight on this screen is going to Europe!" Sooyoung exclaimed as she scanned the white numbers and letters on the blue screen. "I think I'm going to go blind now...I have double vision...and now everything is one giant glob!"

"We can go to the information desk..."

Five girls turned their attention away from the TV screens and looked at Seohyun. "Genius!" They shouted in unison before running off towards the information desk with Seohyun quickly following behind them.

"Um...excuse me?" Jessica smiled nicely at the lady working behind the desk. "I'm looking for someone by the name of Kim Taeyeon. Can you tell me where she's going and what flight she's on? She's heading somewhere in Europe."

"Okay...?" The lady eyed the six girls in front of her suspiciously but began tapping on the keyboard. "Hmm...let's see... There's a Kim Taeyeon on flight JS192 to France, another one on flight EK485 to Italy, another one on flight BM237 to Iceland..."

Yuri sighed as the lady continued listing the flights to Europe that had a 'Kim Taeyeon' in them. Looking over the counter, she spotted a handset next to the lady's elbow. She nudged Sooyoung gently and pointed at the machine. "Wireless?" She whispered.

"I think so..." Sooyoung whispered back. "It should be connected the airport intercom, right?"

"Probably..." Yuri nodded. She looked at Sooyoung, then back at the handset. "On three?"

"Three!" Sooyoung shouted loudly as she reached over the counter and grabbed the handset. Dashing off with Yuri next to her and the other girls behind her, she began pressing the buttons to turn the machine on. "Taeyeon!" She shouted into the microphone.

...

"Taeyeon!"

Taeyeon jumped in her seat as her name was called through the airport intercom. She had already went through the security and was sitting at the gate, waiting to board her plane, and was worried that maybe something wrong had happened and she was in trouble with security.

"Kim Taeyeon!"

She looked up from her seat at the black speaker box on the wall in front of her. The voice sounded extremely familiar to her and she had a really bad feeling right now.

"Shorty! Ah! Security! Run!"

"Sooyoung?!" Taeyeon's eyes widen when she realized whose voice she was hearing. She was about to jump up from her seat and begin running, but stopped when she realized that not everything being said was directed towards her as more screams came through the intercom system.

"Taeng! Taeng! Taeng! Taeng!"

Taeyeon let out an embarrassed cough when Yuri began chanting her name through the intercom. The other travelers around all had confused expressions on their face as they listened to what was being broadcasted. She unconsciously lowered her head when someone mentioned something about terrorists taking over the airport and were searching for their boss, who was called 'Kim Taeyeon.'

"Yah~ Don't give it to me! I don't want it!

"Fany-unnie, don't give it to me!"

"Ah! Yoona! What do I do with it? Unnie?"

Taeyeon eyes widened each time a new voice was broadcasted through the intercom. She couldn't believe that her little sister, who she initially thought was sane, was here too.

"Taengoo!"

Taeyeon felt her heart skip a beat when she heard her nickname. Only Jessica called her that, and she hadn't heard it even once after the girl lost her memory.

...

"Taengoo!" Jessica shouted in the microphone again as she pumped her legs, running away from the group of airport security chasing behind her. "Taengoo! Taengoo! Taengoo!" She shouted each time as she increased her speed. She was getting extremely tired from running and didn't know how long she could still continue. She didn't even know why she had ran in the first place when it was Sooyoung and Yuri that had stolen the handset.

"Don't touch our Fany!"

Jessica managed to look back as she ran and laughed as she watched Yuri and Sooyoung carry Tiffany because the girl was slowly losing strength and was almost caught.

"Jessica stopped laughing and say something!" Sooyoung shouted at her cousin when the girl was just holding onto the handset.

Jessica let out a long breath as she continued running. She was uncertain as to whether or not Taeyeon could actually hear her but since there was nothing else she could do now, she pressed down on a button and spoke. "Kim Taeyeon! Even if Tiffany is trying to convince me that you're running away, I know you're not because you promised that you'll never leave me. Thank you for continuously waiting when I lost my memory. Because of your cassette tape, I remember everything now, so you don't have to worry! Have a safe trip and call me immediately when you arrive at...wherever you're going! I'll wait for you to come back! I love you Taengoo!"

"I love you too Sica!"

Tears formed in Jessica's eyes as Taeyeon's voice answered her back through the intercom.

...

Taeyeon smiled sheepishly as she hid behind an information desk. She couldn't stop herself when she heard Jessica through the intercom and had explained embarrassedly to the lady working at the information desk about the situation. She was lucky that the lady was finding the whole situation very romantic and was willing to help.

"Don't touch Seohyun!"

Taeyeon scrunched her face in pain as a high-pitched scream came through the intercom. "Is Seohyun okay?" She asked. She still couldn't believe that Seohyun was part of what was going on.

"I'm fine unnie. Jessica-unnie scared the man off with her scream. Have a safe trip unnie."

She laughed at the thought of Jessica screaming and felt sorry for the person she screamed at. "I will Seohyun. Don't do anything crazy again while I'm gone."

"TaeTae! How dare you run away?!"

"She didn't run away!"

"Fine. How dare you leave without telling us?!"

"She did! And I read her letter three times already!"

Taeyeon chuckled at the argument that was being broadcasted. "Hwang Miyoung! Choi Sooyoung! Kwon Yuri! Which one of you caused this?! I know it's one of you, so don't lie to me that it wasn't!"

"It's Dumb and Dumber! Yuri-unnie and Sooyoung-unnie stole the handset and we all had to run because of them."

"I knew it." Taeyeon sighed at Yoona's confirmation. "Yoona, take care of your sister for me, okay?"

"Why should Yoona take care of me? I'm the unnie, so I'll take care of her. I'll take of Seohyun for you too!"

"If you're the unnie, why did you drag the dongsaengs into this?" Taeyeon asked back.

"It was the dongsaengs that dragged us into this! Didn't Yoona tell you already. This is all Sooyoung's fault!"

"Yah! Sica! Why are you blaming me only? Yuri was the one that pointed it out that the handset was wireless. And she was the one that suggested that we take it!"

"But you're the one that actually took it!"

"You didn't stop me when I did!"

"Yah! Stop hogging the handset, I'm trying to talk to Taeyeon!"

"Yes Sergeant Sica!"

"Taengoo?"

"Why is everyone talking together now?"

"Oh. We're caught... But the security people are actually very nice people since they're still allowing us to talk while they bring us to an interrogation room."

"The security people are extremely nice people, meaning that they won't do anything to us and press charges, right?"

Taeyeon laughed at what Sooyoung was trying to do. The airport security probably couldn't do anything to them right now since everyone could still hear what was happening through the intercom system. It would probably create a bad reputation for them if they did try to do something too harsh since they're being praised for how nice they were. "Airport security, I'm extremely sorry for the trouble that these six girls had caused. Please forgive them." She apologized through the microphone. Hearing loud cheers from behind her, she peaked out from behind the information desk and was surprised to find people cheering for what was happening.

"Taengoo! Everyone's cheering for us!"

"They're cheering in here too."

"So don't worry about us Taengoo, we'll be fine. I'm sure these nice airport security guards wouldn't hurt six beautiful young ladies."

It wasn't difficult to see that Jessica and Sooyoung were related when they acted so much alike. "Okay Sica. It's time for me to board the plane now. I love you Sica."

"I love you too Taengoo. I'll be waiting for you this time so you better not fall for some European girl you meet! Oh we arrived at the interrogation room already so I have to give the handset back. Be safe and wear a lot clothing so you won't get sick! And no more hiking in the rain!"

Taeyeon laughed as a male voice replaced Jessica's voice and announced that the situation was now under control. She really hoped that nothing bad would happened to the girls, but with Sooyoung and Yuri's crazy antics, she trusted that the duo would come up with something to solve any issue. Or else Jessica would just place the blame on them to save everyone else. She got up from behind the information desk and quickly thanked the helpful lady before running towards her gate.

She smiled in embarrassment when the lady checked her passport and ticket and realized that she was the one talking on the intercom. "Thank you." Taeyeon quickly said as she hurried through the door before the lady could say anything. She was glad that she was leaving Korea now or else she'll be completely embarrassed if people found out that she was the cause of the commotion.

But she couldn't wait until her semester abroad was over since now she had her bossy Ice Princess waiting for her. 

Epilogue

[Five Months Later...]

"I'm telling you, that security guard has been staring at us ever since we came in!" 

Jessica glanced over at the man standing a few feet away from them and sighed. "Just let him stare. We're lucky that they didn't banned us from the airport. And it's not like we're going to do anything bad, so who cares if he's staring at us, right?" 

Sooyoung frowned at Jessica's suspicious look. "Yah! Why do you only blame me for the incident? Yuri was part of it too!" 

"Beca-"

"I think I see unnie coming out." Seohyun looked past the crowd as the gates opened and travelers walked out into the arriving hall. "I think she's with someone.." 

Jessica frowned when she found Taeyeon's figure in the crowd and saw that the other girl had her arms wrapped around two unknown strangers. 

"Ooh~ I know that look~" Tiffany sang with amusement as Jessica's eyes followed Taeyeon's figure, shooting glares at the other girl's back. 

"Of course you do." Sooyoung teased with a smile as she looked over at Tiffany's direction. "You're always giving the same look whenever someone tries to talk to me or Yuri."

"I know." Yuri quickly agreed, before letting out a sigh. "We used to be the husbands, but I guess we're the wives now. I can't even remember when our positions changed. It was like one day, we're chasing some boy away from Fany, and then the next day, she's chasing a group of girls away from us.." 

"She's gotten so possessive now too.. Owh!" Sooyoung winced in pain when she received a slap on her arm. 

"And extremely violent too." Yuri smiled as she successfully dodged the slap from Tiffany's hand. She sighed when she recognized the glare and frown forming on the other girl's face, and stepped forward so that Tiffany could slap her again. 

"You two are so whipped." Yoona laughed loudly at Yuri, Sooyoung, and Tiffany's interactions. "And Taeyeon-unnie is going to be so whipped when unnie gets her hands on her." 

Jessica glanced over at her younger sister for a second, before returning her attention forward when she heard her name called.

"Sica!" Taeyeon ran forward with a huge smile on her face. She opened her arms to embrace her girlfriend, but stopped midway when she noticed the expression on Jessica's face. She looked worriedly over at the other girls' direction and frowned at the words that they were mouthing out.

"You're in trouble~" 

Taeyeon turned back to face Jessica and smiled worriedly. "Sica?" 

"Who were they?"

"Huh?"

"They. The girls you came out of the gate with." Jessica clarified. Her frown deepened when she remember how long Taeyeon had hugged each girl before walking off in a different directions. "Well?"

"Oh. You mean Sunny and Hyoyeon. They were my roommates when I was in Italy." Taeyeon explained when she finally understood who Jessica was talking about. She was confused about the other girl's reaction, but grinned moments later when she realized what was going on. "Sica, are you jealous?" 

"Of course not." Jessica avoided Taeyeon's eyes as she blushed at the question. She looked down at her hand when she felt something hold onto it and smiled at the sight of Taeyeon's hand. "I missed you." 

Taeyeon smiled softly as she pulled Jessica into her arms. "I missed you too." She whispered into the Jessica's ears as she snuggled against the other girl's neck. "I love you." 

Jessica smiled as she took a big breath, breathing in Taeyeon's familiar scent. 

Everything was perfect now. 

---The End---