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5. Winter

5.

It's Winter time, it being December and all, and GoGo's bundled up more than enough with a new purple winter coat Honey had gotten her to wear. Not that she would have wanted to don it on in the first place, but it's Honey, and, well, GoGo concedes (though she would never admit it) that the only other person who can convince her to do things she would rather not is one of her best friends- Tadashi Hamada. Still, GoGo decides she's actually pretty lucky to escape with only a single coat, when she sees Wasabi clad in two sweaters, a giant fur coat, green mittens and one fuzzy knit hat. She tries to stifle a laugh when she sees Fred dashing away in the opposite direction, with Honey hot on his heels holding onto yet another scarf. Her bubbly female companion is unusually persistent that everyone be dressed warmly enough for their walk in the snowy park- a rare break, and GoGo has to admit that she thinks the role suits Tadashi more. He is the guy trying to invent a nursing robot, after all.

Ignoring the slightly rambunctious scene, GoGo shoves her gloved hands into her coat pockets and trudges away. GoGo doesn't want her friends to find her childish, but she couldn't help being fascinated by the winter wonderland, albeit the said 'wonderland' only being an old park. Still, it's quiet and peaceful, since the people of San Fransyoko rarely ventured towards nature these days, and GoGo hasn't had her fair share of nature for a long time. So, she's perfectly contented craning her neck to observe every inch of the grounds. GoGo's starting to enjoy herself immensely, and she decides she better head back to where her friends are-

Until she trips on a ledge in the middle of the park.

GoGo almost squeals when she's suddenly falling face-first into the snowy ground. She's met by a mound of snow to her face, which, while fluffy, made her want to borrow all of Fred's three scarves (At least, she assumes that Honey has succeeded in wrapping the third one around Fred's scrawny neck.) She's convinced no one has noticed her slip and hurriedly gets to her knees, coughing out snow on the way.

GoGo takes back her claim that no one saw when she finds herself staring at Tadashi's knees.

"Had a little slip?" Tadashi teases. His body is shaking, and for a split second, GoGo wonders if it's from the cold, until she looks up at his face and realises he's shaking from laughter.

She grits her teeth in annoyance and feels her face flush red from embarrassment. Of all people, it couldn't be the ever sweet Honey who would have pretended she saw nothing because she knew of GoGo's pride, or the cautious Wasabi who would have pulled her up in worry, or even the laid-back Fred who would already have fallen on his own devices.

GoGo's thrown out of her silent tirade when Tadashi extends his hand and offers it to her. He's still grinning, but his eyes held a gentle gaze. Once more, GoGo felt her face flush, neither from the cold nor the fall this time round. She shakes her head, sighs, and reaches out for Tadashi's hand. As their fingers intertwine, GoGo smiles.

And yanks down at Tadashi's hand with all the force she can muster.

"Woah-" Tadashi's mid-protests are forcibly drowned out when he collides into another pile of snow, face-first, in a similar fashion as to what GoGo had done so before. GoGo laughs and scoffs at how he has fallen for such a simple trick, but elects to wait for Tadashi to extract himself from the ground as she settles into a sitting position and hugs her knees to herself.

"Unbelievable." Tadashi mutters, brushing snow off himself. GoGo grins and extracts a stick of bubblegum from her coat pocket, popping it into her mouth.

"Least we're even now, Hamada."

"Can you please stop using my last name when you're being sarcastic or sassy?"

"I'll stop doing that the same time you stop calling me Ethel when we're alone."

"I actually prefer Leiko. Suits you more-"

"It is not a choice, Hamada-"

"Again?! Unbelievable!"

"Oh, woman up!"

Their bantering comes to a halt when both of them run out of breath. And when GoGo finally has time to take in her current surroundings, she realises it's freezing cold. And wet. She thinks Tadashi notices her look- he finally laughs and flops back down the snow again.

"Wanna make snow angels-"

"Get real, Hamada."

"- Or," Tadashi pauses with a thoughtful look, "We can go get something warm to drink at Aunt Cass' store nearby. She's starting to sell bubblegum flavored coffee (1). I think it's cos of you,"

GoGo stares at Tadashi pointedly.

"Fine, it's bubblegum flavored coffee syrup, but close enough."

"I'll take up that offer over snow angels any day, Tadashi." This time, GoGo gets up of her own accord and so does Tadashi. She doesn't mind, though, because when they share smiles and Tadashi beckons Honey Lemon and the rest to hang out at the cafe for a while, GoGo decides her five seconds of klutziness was worth it.

(It helps, ten minutes later, when they're all crowded at one of the cafe tables and GoGo is holding onto a steaming mug of bubblegum flavored coffee. It's not exactly, bubblegum flavored coffee, she admits, but it's coffee with the said coffee syrup stirred into it, and she's quite satisfied that it's close enough.)

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(1) I actually did google it, but they only displayed bubblegum flavoured coffee syrup, so I amended it. I tried to find out if it could be used to make coffee but it didn't seem so, so I invented the idea of stirring it into the coffee instead.

I've been having a bit of writer's block; so feel free to add it in your comments or pm me if you have any tomadashi one-shot ideas, and I'll do my best to make it happen! I still have a few more fluffy chapters up my sleeves though, so no worries. Thank you for reading, and thanks for the support!