Aespa Oneshots

(WinRina) Water PT.2

(A/N: I knew I said that "Water" was just a break or something and I'll write part 2's for my other oneshots but I figured I'd still drop this because this was the 2nd ending of the oneshot and was originally the ending but I changed it because it was quite a lot to bear just writing the first part XD)

The news was brought out and everyone that knew Karina found out what had happened... It reached her ears, It reached Winter and all she could think of was 'I need to see if it's true' and so she did, she didn't care what anyone would say all she wanted was to confirm that damned news... She hoped it was fake... She hoped that it was a ruse but all her hopes were crushed as she arrived at the morgue, Giselle and NingNing had greeted her with screams of agony, cursing her out while Karina's family members held them back

Winter couldn't believe it, she truly was gone... She thought it'd pass by like a storm but no it ended just like this, it ended... Before she could talk with Karina, why she denied her like that... She knew... She knew Karina heard her that day

Winter felt guilt build up inside her as she looked at Karina's lifeless body, tears welled up in her eyes as she kneels beside the girl's corpse, crying out in pain... She'd lost the greatest person she ever met, she lost a good friend... She lost the one thing she tried to keep away from everyone's eyes

Once the funeral was set Giselle seeked Winter out, demanding answers to the questions that she knew Karina would ask and Giselle didn't know whether to feel angry... Or pity

Winter denied Karina's existence to her friends... Because she was afraid to lose her to them... She was subjected to the fear that they might steal Karina away because that was the kind of friendship she had with those people... Every new friend she'd make they'd always steal away and Winter would always be left, labelled as the 'loner' of the group despite them being "a circle of friends"... That fear was even made worse when she'd realised that Karina had feelings for her... Of course she knew... She wasn't dumb and it feared her more because she too... Had harboured feelings for her newly made friend

But those actions caused her deep consequences and now she is once again left alone... This time... Because of her own ignorance. The funeral came... Giselle expected Winter to come but the girl was nowhere to be found, she could only wonder what was going through Winter's mind...

As Winter stood along the shoreline of the beach she once visited with Karina, she felt that same feeling that night... Her heart was racing... Her heart was beating loudly against her chest but only this time... It was because of sadness, guilt and anger instead of that night when she felt butterflies in her stomach... When she looked into Karina's eyes and in them were stars... She saw the whole universe in Karina's eyes and now... She can no longer see that sight once more

"I'll be with you Karina... I'll set things right... This time... I'll choose you"

And it was then Winter realised why Karina loved the water... Because it made her think of nothing else... Memories of Karina flashed through her mind as she walks into the water, no thought of stopping... A smile forms on her lips as she pictures Karina's look from that night once more... Before embracing the water that took her love, joining her in paradise...

(Additional A/N: I thought that maybe it (the ending) wouldn't matter but I realised that this ending is what makes the oneshot a little less of the red flag (angst) that it is because it's the satisfactorial ending... At least for me because I gotta be honest... I don't like angst endings with loose ends, Karina's original ending for the first part was a loose thread to Winter's character in the story and Winter's character was only briefly explained in that first part, in her eyes were a different story to tell so I figured that "Ahh, her perspective matters for this as well" because it didn't explain why she had done such a thing to Karina despite their closeness and as everyone says... There's always different sides to a story, in your eyes it's one thing... In someone else's eyes it's another and so on, so yeah...

And also writing this has relieved me of my stress over a matter (can't discuss here XD quite personal) Is it a similar experience? No, there's parts where I integrated the things I've experienced but mostly exaggerated but...

If you go back to the first part you'll see my question for the intro of the chapter, does that clear it a bit? If you were to ask, yes that question was one of the integrated things that I wrote

This has it's "Lesson" It's about losing something and not just yourself (selfishly and selflessly) because there'll be a time where you selfishly want to keep things to yourself and there'll also be times where you want to just pour your feelings out and if you fail to keep a balance between that selfishness and selflessness then you end up losing something either it be someone or something or even yourself... Anyways I've bored you enough with this whole thing XD hopefully even though it's a sad ending y'all still enjoyed it)