The First Snow - WooSan

Chapter 2

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"That was a pretty luxury menu Woo. I didn't expect you to randomly take me to a dinner that I might never forget for a pretty long time. I feel bad for making you pay for all that. Even the cheapest menu was really expensive...", Solar said to her apartment-mate walking out of the restaurant , side by side with him.

They were walking so close that their hands were brushing against each other from time to time. Solar seemed to be unbothered by it but,.. Wooyoung was so distracted that he didn't hear what the girl was talking about. He was arguing with him self whether to hold her hand or not. He wanted to do it for sometime but didn't want to make the girl uncomfortable, not knowing how she would react.

"...Woo?- hey, you hear me?", Wooyoung snapped out from his thoughts hearing Solar's voice, and to her touch when she suddenly held his cold hand.
The hand he wanted to hold for so long is now in Wooyoung's hand.

"Y-you were saying?", The boy was too flustered that he looked at the girl with wide eyes and blushed cheeks as he asked.

"I was saying, thank you for the dinner Woo. I really enjoyed it", she said, beaming that radiant eye smile Wooyoung always considered a therapy to his heart.He smiled back and nodded before gently tightening his grip on her hand.

Since the two of them became apartment mates six months ago, they grew closer to each other very quickly even without them realizing. Solar was known for being quite cold towards other boys in their college as she was getting exhausted day by day from all the flirting and weird confessions she received from random students for being the prettiest girl in their college. It was basically most of the boys' dream to be her boyfriend.

Even though Wooyoung wasn't different from the other boys who fell for the said girl, he always respected her when ever he was around her as her batch mate. He always tried to keep his feelings to himself and not get exposed as he didn't want to fall into the category of that troublesome boys who Solar hated even to be in her way of sight.

Eventually they started to bump into eachother more often as they became members of the same study group as architect students. It was since the beginning of the second half of their first year at college. During every interaction he had with her, he always treated her with great care and made her comfortable to be around him.

It was the time when Wooyoung was asking his fellow collage mates to help him find a person to share his apartment with. He was feeling bored to live there alone. Oneday surprising the alone boy, Solar came up to him herself. Asking for help to find a good place for her to board, mentioning how much financially she was struggling to find a cheap but safe place to stay.

'Maybe she noticed that I was different from the other boys. That's why she must have felt comfortable asking me for such a favour, despite me being a boy'. At least that's what Wooyoung thought that day when he offered Solar to come live with him, sharing his apartment.
And that's how Wooyoung got lucky to endup living with the girl in his dreams.

They continued to walk along the side of the road, hand in hand, to reach Hongjoong's car (which wooyoung burrowed for the date) after their dinner at one of the most expensive places in the area. The outside was pretty cold as it was the beginning of the winter. Wooyoung fished out his phone from his pocket using his free hand to steal a glace at the weather report, again.

"Are you waiting for a message or something? You have been peaking at your phone since we stepped out of the apartment. Even during the dinner", Solar shifted to move her free hand to hold on to the boys arm which was already holding onto her hand, snuggling closer to him as if she was feeling cold.
It was the first time Solar was being this clingy to Wooyoung in public.

On the other days, they use to spend their free time in the apartment, sitting on the couch together watching movies till late night. There, Solar loves to snuggle closer to Wooyoung where she most of the time end up falling asleep on the boy's shoulder before even the movie ends. Sometimes they go out together for grocery shopping and comeback home to cook each others favourite foods together. Wooyoung often baked for Solar as she was a big fan of Wooyoung's home made cookies.
She got more comfortable with Wooyoung as the time passed, which made the lovestruck boy to decide it would be okay to confess his feelings to her soon before someone else steal his opportunity.

Wooyoung put back his phone and turned to face Solar, with a nervous smile on his face. He moved his hands to hold both Solar's hands and lifted them upto his chest level. Solar had a surprised look on her face. She shifted her eyes shakingly between Wooyoung's face and their held hands infront of her. The boy seemed to struggle collecting his words to say what he was having in his mind.
Just then, he felt something cold hitting his face. The Same happened with Solar. They both locked eyes briefly before looking up in synch to witness the small white particles floating in the air. It was the first snow fall of the Winter.

"It's starting to snow!", Solar blurred out happily with sparkling eyes, looking at the small flakes of snow falling down from the sky.

"It's so beautiful! Isn't it Woo?"
Wooyoung freed one of her hands, allowing her to reach out to catch a little flake of snow that fell right above their held hands.

"Yeah. But.. you are more beautiful!", words slipped out of his lips making him cringe at his own corny words.

"Woo.." , even Solar giggled at his words despite it made her blush a little.

"Do you know what they say about the first snow?", Wooyoung asked, slowly getting into what he was planning for a whole month for his dream girl.

"Mmmhmm..What?", Solar shook her head, now looking into the eyes of the boy in front of him who moved again to hold onto both her hands.

"They say, if you witness the first snowfall with the person you like, true love will blossom between them and it will last for ever" , Wooyoung's eyes were glowing with adoration at the girl standing infront of him as he was sharing those words. Hoping the latter would understand what he was trying to say. Solar's eyes got bigger. The little smile lingered on her face all this time turned into a much bigger one as she heard the next few words escaped Wooyoung's lips.

"Solar, I really really like you alot. And I hope you feel the same way about me. I wanted to make the day I confess to you so special that I waited till the day of the first snow fall to ask you out. Glady, the weather report didn't abandon me", Wooyoung giggled as he said the last words and shyly look at the girl infront him with eyes pouring out nothing but, pure love.

"Wooyoung,...you have no idea how long I waited for this day to come. Actually, I am glad it turned out to be today", she replied as she moved a bit closer to lessen the gap between them. Now they were only a few inches away from each other.

"Y-you mean, y-you felt the same way about me this whole time", Wooyoung couldn't contain his happiness at her response, that his voice literally cracked.
She said nothing but smiled before slowly dropping her gaze from Wooyoung's eyes to his lips. Then she let go of his hands only to wrap them around the boy's neck. She slowly rested her forehead on the latter's, and closed her eyes.

Wooyoung could hear the sound of his own heart pounding, with a feeling of sudden euphoria spreading through every cell of his body. She remained like that only few seconds before she pulled back and cupped the boys both cheeks.
This time Wooyoung's eyes fixed on the girl slowly dropped onto her lips, wishing Solar to be that special person to steal his very first kiss.

Instantly, he lifted his gaze back up to her eyes as he felt her hands slowly dropping down from cupping his face. Letting a cold breeze slip past between them as Solar distanced herself from Wooyoung.

The next thing that happened left the boy speechless.

The warm and sweet smile lingered in Solar's lips suddenly turned into a mocking smirk.
She first let out a few loud scoffs before it soon turn into a laugh. It caught Wooyoung off guard, that how crazy and evil suddenly the sweet girl he used to know started to sound. She was now laughing so hard with her head throwing back.

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A/N : Any thoughts? 💭