Found my world in a small town | Winrina

Chapter 11- Ski Day (+ Realisation)

In the following days and weeks, Minjeong and Jimin gradually began to spend more time with each other. They quickly developed a routine of getting up around 8am, when the sun had already risen, to eat breakfast together and chat about the upcoming day. On weekends, they would get up a bit later and eat together with their parents before either going out or up to their rooms. Jimin still worked in the restaurant most nights and went skiing with her friends at least twice a week but Minjeong did not mind that at all.

After a day of not being together, they had even more to talk about. But even on the fourth day in a row of sitting in Jimin's room with tea and cookies they never ran out of things to talk about. It was quite funny how well they clicked now that they both made an effort.

Minjeong found that she grew to actually really like Jimin. The other girl was shyer than Minjeong had first expected but got very energetic when she talked about things she was passionate about. She often used her hands to emphasize what she was talking about, moving her slim fingers to match the words that came out of her mouth. She was also a really funny person, always had a funny story or anecdote to tell that would have Minjeong wheezing and crying with laughter. Jimin herself had the best laugh Minjeong had ever heard, a mixture of quiet breathing and loud squealing that always made Minjeong laugh as well. When she laughed, Jimin would throw her head back and cover her mouth with her hand.

She assured Minjeong that she did not do it because she was embarrassed of her laugh but out of habit. Still, Minjeong noticed that Jimin did not laugh like this around the adults, probably because she was not as familiar with Minjeong's parents.

It was weird that not even a month ago, they considered one another enemies and now Minjeong looked forward to every minute she could spend with the blonde-haired girl. They often took walks around Kwangya or went over to the town. There was not much to do in the small town behind the mountains either but Jimin showed Minjeong around, they went to the cinema a couple of times and spent hours in the library, going through all kinds of books together. They went to the small museum that was in the town, quietly wandering through the deserted rooms on a Tuesday morning. Generally, when the house was peaceful and quiet during the week, they would sit on the couch, watch movies all day and consume tons of popcorn and, of course, tea.

Jimin had a liking for the weirdest of tea flavors. She did not stop at green tea or lemon-ginger tea, oh no! Some of her favorites included strawberry tea, tomato mint, caramel nougat, cucumber citrus and pineapple vanilla. Minjeong began making fun of her in a friendly way when Jimin headed straight for the tea shop in the town, only to choose yet another flavor she had never tried before. Most of the times, the ones she took where either samples that never got made into a 'regular' product or the shelf was full of bags because nobody wanted that specific tea. When Jimin asked her if she wanted to try, Minjeong often took a cup, too, but she found that most of the time, the flavors were a little too 'special' for her liking.

Sometimes, Minjeong would prepare a cup of tea for Jimin to drink after her work shift. She went straight to bed most of the times and even told Minjeong not to wait up for her but some days she texted Minjeong that she would be coming home a little earlier. Those nights, the two girls went upstairs with their teas and quietly whispered while sitting on Jimin's bed while their parents where already sleeping. It were the times at which their talks got more personal than ever during the day. Maybe it was the atmosphere surrounding it, the thrill of not being able to be too loud and the darkness that made it seem like they were the only two people in the world. Or in the house, at least.

Jimin also asked Minjeong to go skiing together a couple more times and Minjeong did want to but something always seemed to thwart their plans. At first it was the weather, because Minjeong did not want her first time skiing to take place during a snow storm, then they made other plans with Jimin's friends (who Minjeong now really liked to hang out with, just not as much as she did with Jimin alone) and then Winter threw up in the middle of the night again and had to be brought to the vet in the town the next morning.