"Turn right up ahead and just drive straight all the way," Mina tells her, squinting at the map on her phone.
Jihyo signals right, then steals a glance at the passenger seat. Mina's brows are furrowed in concentration, her lower lip caught between her teeth. It makes Jihyo smile and she purposely floors the accelerator as she makes the turn. Mina lets out a surprised gasp as she's thrown against the car door, phone slipping out of her grasp. She bends down to pick it up, glowering at Jihyo with a look that's more a pout than anything else. Jihyo just grins back, feeling warmth bloom in her chest when the corners of Mina's lips quirk slightly before she turns back to concentrate on the road.
"We're here," Mina says after another minute of driving, her eyes disappearing into crescent moons in her excitement. "You can park there. By that tree."
Jihyo resists the temptation to tease Mina more by pointing out that there are trees for miles around them. They are, after all, driving through a forested area in the middle of the island. She pulls over near a large tree, somewhere near where Mina pointed at. Mina gets out immediately and walks over to the little dirt path that leads into the forest.
Jihyo watches her for a second before she unbuckles her own seat belt. She makes sure to grab Mina's flannel from where she had left it on the passenger seat; Mina has a tendency to get cold easily. Then she walks over and takes the hand Mina holds out to her, and together, they head off into the forest.
After 20 minutes of hiking, they emerge at a beautiful creek with a gorgeous little waterfall. Jihyo gasps in wonder because it's ridiculous how beautiful it is.
"Do you come here often?"
Mina turns to Jihyo and tilts her head, studying Jihyo intensely for a second. "No," she admits, like a confession she's held close to her heart for years. "I've always wanted to come here with someone I lo - with someone special."
Jihyo smiles, and doesn't comment on the way Mina trips over her words, or the way her cheeks are dusted a pretty shade of pink.
"I'm glad I'm your special someone then," she says and doesn't wait for Mina to reply, just leans over and kisses the shy, happy smile off Mina's face.
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