tomorrow without you | TWICE Saida

31 the same

note : i'm literally the worst author ever i'm sorry this book is taking me like 2 years to complete :( thank you so much for sticking with this and not giving up despite my slow updates.

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"I see that everyone is tired! I'll allow you all to go to the supermarket down the road! Ten minutes! Group leaders, please bring your team back to the meeting point when they're done," Taehyung announced to the crowd.

Everyone slowly shuffled to the supermarket, still tired from the games.

"You," Sana pressed her finger against my head, trying to make an angry face.

I laughed, not because it was funny, because it was cute, because I was happy.

"Are you going to buy anything?" She asked me in an older sister tone, the kind that sounded like she was taking care of me.

"A drink, a sweet drink," I said excitedly.

"I hate sweet drinks,"

"Why?"

"They're too sweet," She scrunched her face at the thought.

"That's because you're old," I pointed out, matter-of-factly.

"Where is the link?" She laughed, gently smacking me on the shoulder.

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"Ice cream!" I ran to the frozen section.

"I thought you wanted a drink," She questioned, with a kind of adoring look.

"Both, I can get both," I turned to her with a quick bright smile before scanning for my favourite flavour.

"You like strawberry?" She tilted her head curiously.

"I only eat strawberry ice cream," I laughed.

Her eyes widened.

"I only eat vanilla ice cream," she replied, amused at this random similarity.

"Look at us, we have so much in common despite the age gap," I boasted, trying to prove our similarity.

As much as she liked teasing me, she couldn't disagree on this one.

"Okay now stop getting distracted!" She pointed a finger.

"Get your drink," She put both hands on my shoulders and pushed me to the drink section.

After choosing, we stood in line, unaware that no one from the school was in the supermarket.

"My phone is buzzing," I told her as if I didn't know what to do.

"Then pick it up?" She laughed, shaking her head in disbelief.

"It's Jihyo, they said everyone is outside waiting for us," I gave her a worried look.

"See! Whenever I'm with you..." She said but stopped and just shook her head in disbelief.

Like she didn't know how to phrase the upcoming words.

"Whenever you're with me..?" I initiated her to continue.

She pointed to the empty space in front of me, we reached the front of the queue.

We rushed out the moment I paid, to gave a crowd of students staring at us.

"Okay now that everyone is here, let's head back!" Irene said, starting to walk.

"I seem to forget everything," She softly spoke, it took me awhile to figure out she was continuing her sentence from before.

I smirked.

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Back at the campus, we were given time to write a reflection on todays games.

I found it pointless, but they convinced us it was for memory.

"A duck pencil case?" She stared skeptically but then casually pulled it from my side of the table to hers.

She observed it, unzipping it to explore its contents.

It felt so great, seeing her be so casual with me. It's only everything I've ever wanted since day one. So I let her explore, take out my stationary, mirror, other strange things I kept inside.

She seemed to be intrigued by a specific sticker pack I had.

"Cute stickers," She seemed impressed.

I laughed. "Do you want one," Sometimes I would be in disbelief. This woman was years older than me. Times like this.

She nodded.

"Let's have matching stickers!" I said excitedly.

Strangely, she agreed.

I excitedly took the sticker set from her hand and peeled a small one out.

One small enough to fit the corner of our phones.

I couldn't wait to show everyone the matching stickers, to show everyone how close Sana and I had become.

"Here," I handed her a small flower.

She stuck it at the top corner of her phone, sliding her fingers over it to squeeze the air bubbles out.

So it was for real now. We had matching stickers. We were definitely friends.

I excitedly put the same flower patterned sticker on the bottom left of mine.

"Look!" I slid my phone across the table to put it beside hers.

"Perfect," I smiled at the sight.

I couldn't believe this was really happening.

"Don't remove it, okay?" I said, pouting slightly.

"I won't," She laughed, keeping her phone back in her pocket.

It didn't matter if she only wanted the sticker on her phone because she thought it was cute. All that mattered was that we had matching stickers now. A small thing that made me feel like the happiest person in the world.

Something that would make me smile everytime I think about it, even to this day.

"Same," I took my eyes off the phone to look at her.

"We are the same," I giggled uncontrollably.