Where Kim Sunoo believes in the first snowfall superstition; that's why he asked his crush, to meet him so they can watch the first snowfall together. However, Park Sunghoon couldn't come last minute and left Sunoo waiting alone. Not until Ni-ki cam...
"Where are we going anyway? We can't just walk around doing nothing!" Sunoo took off his hand from Ni-ki's grip, looking around at the school garden. "You made it seem like you're a protagonist from a movie by how you pulled me out earlier."
"Really?" Ni-ki exclaimed as he twirled around with happiness in his eyes. "That's exactly what I was trying to do! Haha, I just wanted to pull you out so I can look cool, not because we're going somewhere."
Sunoo rolled his eyes as he kicked Ni-ki's butt. "You've been dragging me everywhere on the campus, don't you know how cold it is right now?"
"Be thankful I pulled you out from that situation! He looked like he was going to pull your weave out." Ni-ki stretched his legs, trying to remove the pain from his butt. "Anyways, what did you guys talk about? It seemed pretty serious."
"Ah, he says he knows that we're fake dating and I tried to convince him that we aren't. He's probably going to ask Jake out for that award show and make me jealous. Does he think I still like him?" Sunoo scoffed, kicking some snow off the ground. "Good thing I'm not busy. We can plan some stuff together in your house."
Ni-ki nervously laughed as he took a step away. "My house? Why does it have to be there?"
"Won's taking the dorm tonight. He told me not to go home early so I think he's holding something." Sunoo remarked, glancing at Ni-ki who seemed terrified. "Why? Is something wrong in there?"
"Oh, no! O-of course not." Ni-ki waved his hands to cover up his household problems. "We can't stay at my house. I have practice anyway. The festival's 3 days away so we need to work hard for it."
Sunoo nodded his head, placing his hands on his waist. "Okay, then. I'll wait for you~! What time does your practice end? I have nothing to do so I can help prepare the art exhibit while I wait for you."
Ni-ki stared at Sunoo with a stunned expression. "You'll wait for me? My practice ends at 5... you'll have to wait for 2 hours."
"It's okay! We might see Sunghoon around which means we need to level up our game. Couples go home together, right?" Sunoo smiled as he walked around the garden.
"But—"
"Nuh-uh, I'm not hearing you out." Sunoo waved Ni-ki goodbye, walking backward away from him. "I'm going to be in front of your practice studio at exactly 5. Bye~!"
Ni-ki watched Sunoo walk away, leaving him alone in the cold school garden. "My house is not a good place... What am I going to tell him later?" He then scratched his head as he started to walk on his own going to the practice room.
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"Alright, that's it for today! You all did a good job! Make sure you drink lots of hot tea since we're in this kind of weather. Goodbye, everyone~!" The dance coach clamored, making everyone excited to leave class.
"Sir, I'd like to practice a bit more. Can I stay in the room?" Sunghoon asked politely, making all the girls outside the practice room squeal for him.
The dance coach smiled as he patted Sunghoon's shoulder. "That's good, Hoon! It's very nice to see you practicing very well."
"Thank you, coach," Sunghoon replied with a smile as he winked to his girls outside.
"Such a show-off," Ni-ki muttered to himself as he packed his things. He gave a disgusted look to the girls and Sunghoon, shaking his head after seeing a scene like it.
"Ahem, ahem... Riki!" Sunoo exclaimed as he waved his hands in the air, trying to get Ni-ki's attention by saying his first name.
Ni-ki turned around, seeing Sunoo right in front of his practice room. He then took his bag, smiling awkwardly as he waved back to Sunoo. "I thought you had already gone home. You didn't look like you were serious about waiting for me." He remarked as soon as he stood next to him.
"You always think I'm joking, huh?" Sunoo nudged Ni-ki's arm, jumping up and down from excitement. "Let's go home already! This place makes me so sick especially that I know that jerk is in here." He glanced over Ni-ki's shoulder while watching Sunghoon practice on his own.
"Okay, okay. Just wait." Ni-ki pulled out his phone after hearing a message notification.
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Ni-ki sighed after reading the message, placing the phone back inside his pocket. "But that's my room..."
Sunoo tiptoed, trying to take a peek from Ni-ki's gloomy expression. "Hey, are you okay?"
"Why?" Ni-ki asked as he forced a smile. "Don't worry, it's just my mom. She said a visitor's going to take my room so I shouldn't go home for today."
"Really?" Sunoo pouted, trying to think of what to do with Ni-ki. "Well, if both of us can't go home, let's just walk around the city!"
Ni-ki shook his head as he held tightly on his backpack straps. "I'll just stay in a cafe to study. I've always been in tier 6. I also heard there's going to be heavy snowfall in a while."
Sunoo frowned, hitting Ni-ki's head. "Asshole! No need to be emo! Is that the Nishimura Riki I know? We have so many options to do, okay?"
"I'm not being emo! I'm just saying what I have to do, okay?" Ni-ki looked up over Sunoo's shoulder, seeing the snowfall. "See? It's already starting to snow."
"Be honest, you don't like playing under the snow, do you?" Sunoo asked Ni-ki, raising an eyebrow as he leaned closer to him. The younger avoided his gaze, nodding as a reply. "Eh? How can you not like playing under the snow? We played under the first snowfall, right?"
Ni-ki's eyes grew as soon as Sunoo mentioned the first snowfall. "Excuse me? You call that playing? You almost killed me—"
"Shh, there's people around." Sunoo smiled as he bowed down to everyone looking at them. "Because of that, you're going to come with me whether you like it or not."
"I never had a choice since day one..." Ni-ki sighed, about to check his watch but Sunoo grabbed his wrist. "Hey, what are you trying to do?"
Sunoo smiled brightly, pulling Ni-ki under the snowfall. "Isn't it fun?" He then laughed after seeing Ni-ki's confused look.
"It's going to get colder later! I think we should just head somewhere else!" Ni-ki tried his best to take his hand off Sunoo's grip but the elder was surprisingly strong this time.
"Riki, did you know this is our second snowfall together?"
Ni-ki let out a deep breath as he still tried to break free from Sunoo's grip. "Yeah, what about it?"
Sunoo held Ni-ki in both hands, locking eyes with him as snow fell on their heads. "Memories made in the snowfall last a pretty long time...
... so, let's make some good memories!"
—⛄— a little spoiler but the snowfall scenes here could give you butterflies in the stomach right now but later on, i'd see you crying for sure ^0^
