Trust Me

1

Winter's

"So what flavor do you want, unnie?" I heard Ningning ask me, We're here at the convenience store buying some ice cream because we kinda craved some sweets earlier.

"Just anything," I said without looking at her and also looking for some drinks in the fridge. She didn't ask anymore, so I assumed that she's done picking some ice cream for us.

"Done?" I asked after I came towards Ningning at the counter, paying for the ice cream. It's our money anyway, so it's fine with me; I don't want her to pay for everything.

"Yeah, I also bought some for Jimin unnie and Aeri unnie," she said, so I just nodded and smiled at her.

The chimes of the glass window sounded so clearly today after we got out of the convenience store, maybe because it's already dark outside and there were just a few people passing by. It was really silent but not awkward. I want to take a walk like this for awhile; I need it.

"Aren't you gonna take your ice cream here, unnie?" Ningning suddenly asked while rummaging through our plastic bag that's full of our ice cream.

"What's mine?" I also asked and looked inside our plastic bag. I think we looked silly now because our heads were both looking inside the plastic bag.

"This is your- Yah unnie that's mine!" that's the last thing I heard from Yizhuo after I took her ice cream and ran away like my life depends on it while laughing so hard.

"Yah Minjeong unnie, give it back!" I heard Yizhuo while also running, so I ran fast. I know this is so childish; we look so goofy right now, but it's okay. I want us to be like this, just for a bit. Maybe. . . Just maybe I could forget about it.

I already arrived at our dorm while still running and laughing. I didn't know that Karina unnie was already in front of me until I crashed into her, and we both fell on the floor while I was on top of her.

I cursed lightly because my body aches a bit because of the impact, but I was so surprised that my face was too close to Karina's, so I immediately got up. That was so close; I literally could feel my heart's raising because of it, and I want it to stop beating like that because of her.

I realized that I didn't help Karina unnie get up when I heard her groan, so I quickly helped her and apologized for what happened. It looks like she really got hurt in our accidental collision, so I kind of feel guilty. I'm so stupid, dammit.

"I'm sorry unnie," I apologized again while fixing her clothes and lightly tapping them to take away the invisible dirt from them.

"It's fine Minjeong" I heard her say and held my wrist that fixing her clothes, my breath hitched from the physical contact, I felt like I didn't know how to breathe all of a sudden when she suddenly held my wrist.

Hearing her voice again so close like this makes me want to cry, I don't like this feeling.

"Why are you running anyway?" she asked, still clutching my wrist. I feel her eyes on me because I'm still not looking at her. I have no idea what to say because we're so close that I forgot how to speak. I don't like this, yet I don't want to push her away.

"Yah, unnie, why did you take my ice cream?" As if on cue, Yizhuo came into our dorm complaining why I stole her ice cream, so I quickly took back some steps away from Karina unnie when she got distracted by Ningning.

"Well, I realized I like this flavor. Sorry, Ning. I'll buy you one next time," I said, chuckling. I finally took back my wrist from Karina Unnie without being awkward.

"Well whatever, just next time, tell me what flavor you want. Alright, geez, I'm so tired of running" Ningning said, then sat on our dining table and took some random ice cream from our plastic bag earlier and ate it like nothing happened.

"Hmm, so that's why you're running here inside" I heard Karina unnie said so I looked back at her and quickly looked away.

"Yeah, sorry again, unnie" I didn't wait for her reply and took the plastic from the table. Ningning didn't complain anymore because she's already eating her ice cream. I took some ice cream inside the plastic and gave it to Karina unnie without saying anything, then brought it inside my room with Aeri-chan.