The Queen of Ice

Chapter 18

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[December 19th]

"Yah, yah, are you ready for the birthday surprise?"

"Wait... what are we going to do again?" Jungkook asked.

Jimin hit Jungkook's head lightly as he said, "We're going to surprise her tomorrow at dawn. She hates waking up in the morning, so let's surprise her at that time."

"In front of the girls dormitory?" Jungkook asked. "What if Ms. Choi finds us? We won't be allowed to be noisy at night."

"Dumbass," Jiwoo said, "we'll be celebrating it in my room."

"Are you sure that we won't be scolded by the supervisors?"

Jiwoo sighed. "So what do you want to do? It's already 10 pm and you still have two hours before midnight if you have another idea."

"Do the dormitory supervisors, Ms. Choi and Mr. Song, not really care if we get noisy unless someone reports us to them?" Jimin asked, "and Jiwoo ah, doesn't your mom know that tomorrow is Dahyun's birthday?"

"Exactly. My mom obviously knows about it and I already told her that I would probably be noisy because I would give her a surprise. I'm sure she understood and she told the other professors too," Jiwoo said, "but I agree with buying her a birthday cake for her and us to enjoy it."

"I'll buy the birthday cake. I'll ask Taehyung to come with me," Jimin said.

"Yah," Jiwoo said, "where's Taehyung?"

"He's kind of dealing with his family problem, but don't worry, it's not a big problem," Jungkook replied.

"What happened?" Jimin asked.

"Something about her mom. He just gets too emotional and he needs an alone time," Jungkook said, "Dahyun is probably with him right now."

"Nah, Dahyun is in her room. She probably got too tired from the physical test from her ice energy class," Jiwoo replied.

"Wait, about the birthday cake," Jimin said, "can I ask the cafeteria ahjumma to make one? She once made it for the principal's birthday, right?"

"You can ask her if you want to."

"Alright, I'll be right back," Jimin said as he headed to the cafeteria, "you guys prepare for the surprise. Don't ruin it."

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"It's almost midnight and I thought you were resting."

"I got bored."

"How did you find me?"

"Isn't it obvious that you love being in here?" she said, "ever since you discovered this place, you love going here and making yourself relaxed."

"I never knew that you observed me that much," he said as he chuckled.

"Yah, I'm not observing you."

"Then...?"

She chuckled. "Yah, stop teasing me."

Taehyung looked at the sky as he was staring the uncountable stars. Dahyun noticed him being kind of quiet. She asked, "By the way, why are you here?"

"You said it yourself that I love going here according to your observation."

"I'm not observing you," she said, "I know that you love going to this lake, but it's unusual that you skipped dinner and hanging out here alone unless something's going on. What's wrong?"

Taehyung shaked his head. "Nothing happened."

"Perhaps," she said, "you're expecting your mom to come back here? You're sitting on the edge of this lake because you're waiting for your mom?"

Taehyung didn't answer her directly. Instead, he just smiled while still looking at the dark sky.

"My mom used to take me and my hyungs to look at the sky and to study about the stars," he said while pointing to each star, "that's Libra, that's Virgo, that's Hydra, that's Leo, that's Orion, that's Eridanus, that's Scorpius, that's Cassiopeia, that's..."

While Taehyung was pointing out each star, Dahyun couldn't help but staring the guy beside her. She kept asking to herself like how could she end up with him, how could he make her heart kept shaking up, and how could he kept making her thought about him all the time?

"Dahyun ah, I know that I'm handsome but are you actually listening?"

Dahyun snapped back to the reality as she raised her eyebrow, "Yah, what kind of self-confidence is that?"

He chuckled. "Don't deny it, Dahyun. I know that you're thinking about me."

"Why do you keep teasing me?"

"Why do you blush?"

Dahyun widened her eyes as she smacked Taehyung's arm lightly. "I don't."

"Yeah, you do. Your cheeks are turning red."

Dahyun widened her eyes even more as she turned around, backfacing Taehyung.

"Yah, why are you so embarrassed?"

"It's a curse that my cheeks always turn red. It's embarrassing."

"Come on, it's cute."

"No, it's not."

Taehyung chuckled as he stood up, then kneeled in front of her. He cupped her face and said, "Aigho, look at this cutie. How dare you saying the fact that your cheeks turn to red is a curse? You look adorable."

Dahyun's cheeks turned even more red. Her face probably looked like a boiled tomato.

"Dahyun ah, why are you blushing?" he asked as he giggled, "do I keep making your heart fluttered?"

Dahyun pouted as she let go of her face from Taehyung's giant hands. She stood up and backfaced him.

Taehyung kept chuckling as he backhugged Dahyun. "Are you mad, Dahyun ah?"

She was relieved that she backfaced him because her cheeks probably had turned to boiled cheeks. This was the first time that Taehyung backhugged her, and her heart surely beated faster than usual. She felt the backhug was nice though.

Before anyone could hear how fast her heart beated, she tried to let go of his hands. "Taehyung ah."

Instead of letting go, he hugged her even tighter. "Let's stay like this for a few minutes."

"Alright."

A few minutes passed and both of them were still enjoying the backhug. Taehyung felt the hug was warm and Dahyun felt like she was safe in his arms.

Taehyung finally let go of her as he turned her around. They were facing each other with both of their faces wasn't any further than 4 cm.

"Dahyun ah," he said, which made her felt more nervous. "You make me so happy. Everytime I see you, my heart beats really fast and I love when you talk either about random things or your problems. I fell for you since the first time we met and not only for your face, but also for your personality. I don't care what people say about you, because the Kim Dahyun I know is a beautiful and loving girl."

"I love you, Kim Dahyun."

Dahyun felt something touched her lips, and it was Taehyung's. She widened her eyes at first, but she enjoyed it. Not in a kinky way, but she enjoyed it in a romantic way. It wasn't a wild or passionate kiss, it was the kiss that every girl dreamed of. Even though this wasn't her first kiss, but it was her first dreamy and loving kiss.

Taehyung let go of the kiss as he stared into Dahyun's sparkle eyes. He smiled, then said, "Happy birthday, Kim Dahyun."