Five words better than 'I love you'

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"We were 8 when we first met right? That night Yena unnie's mom invited her cousins to our sleepover?

You know, I was so happy when my mom let me go there because they would always prohibit me to do things like that,

They said that playing with them throughout the afternoon was enough already so when she said yes and even helped me pack my things that night.

I thought I was the luckiest person on earth and that simple approval made me happy for days and days later knowing that I had a sleepover with Yena and Yuri unnie."

Taking a couple of deep breathes as her right foot kept moving up and down out of nervousness,

Yujin can't even look at Wonyoung directly in this state since she's too afraid to let her see her like this,

She looks too miserable that Wonyoung might suddenly change her mind with being in love with her in a blink of an eye.

"Then you, Chaewon and Hitomi unnie came an hour after we arrived,

You looked so shy back then when you walked right behind Chaewon and Hitomi unnie even though you were towering them with that height of yours,

And the moment Yena unnie introduced you to me,

I thought that fate might've really loved me that night because it gave me a forever reason to be happy when I got to know your name."

Seeing new faces wasn't the most comfortable thing there is for an 8 year old Yujin since she's not the most sociable person living in their town,

Whether it was in their class, new kids in the neighborhood, newly known cousins,

Yujin preferred those who she knew already and when there's a chance that there wasn't anyone known to her around,

She'll just spend time with herself since she was indeed a self-sustained person from such a young age.

Her being the middle child was a huge part of her being an independent kid since she was never the one getting the same amount of attention her brothers would from her parents.

Yena, Yuri and Yujin were fangirling over a video game Yena's dad bought for her and her brother when the door to their living room opened with some new voices spewing into their surroundings,

"Yena's right in there with some of her friends, just look for me when you need something okay?"

With Yena's mom peeking in to see the three huddled over the game console in front of them,

She spared them a soft smile before going out the door as two other pairs of feet popped up from where she was seen.

"Unnie who are they?"

Yuri asked as they huddled like a group of penguins with their feet barely lifting from the ground,

But they were indeed getting closer and closer to them every time they look back,

Yujin wasn't sure who they were but the one that caught her attention was the girl standing at the very back with a worried look on her face,

She looked at them one by one based on how they locked eyes with each other the moment Yujin looked at her,

She looked like she was caught in the act of doing something so that's how Yujin guessed that she was indeed eyeing her and Yuri.

"Oh, they're my cousins, the one that looks like me is Chaewon and the other is Hitomi"

Not even sparing them a glance as Yena logged onto her saved game through their tv,

Yujin just looked at her as if she wasn't the owner of this house based on how rude she can get when she's easily distracted on a game like what's happening right now.