“Tae! Watch where you’re going!”
“Huh? Oh…” Taeyeon looked down and saw a mud puddle inches below her feet. “Thanks, Tiff.” She walked around the puddle and continued on her way.
“Geez, what’s wrong with you?” Tiffany caught up to Taeyeon. Though she had only met Taeyeon recently, Tiffany had become one of her closest friends. “I didn’t want to say anything, but you look a little pale. And lately you’ve been such a space-case. You’ve dropped your books and almost walked into walls all week.”
“I know. It’s really nothing. I’m-“
“’-Busy a lot at nights.’ Yeah yeah, I’ve heard it all before.”
Taeyeon stopped walking. “I’m sorry.”
“Don’t be. I worry about you tough.” Tiffany gave Taeyeon a pat on the back. “Besides, today is not a day to be a downer. We have to find Sunny and the guys she wanted us to meet in a few minutes!” Before Taeyeon could protest, Tiffany grabbed her hand and dragged her to the entrance of a local amusement park. “Sunny!”
Near the entrance to a large open area stood a short girl with long straight hair that framed her eternally child-like face. With her were four guys.
Sunny turned and opened her arms for a hug. “Tae! Tiff-tiff! You guys made it.”
“I told you to stop calling me that. And no, I will not pay for your food if you keep doing that.” Tiffany said in reply. She did hug Sunny though.
Behind Sunny, the four guys stared at the three beautiful girls. After the girls greeted, giggled, and hugged, Sunny proceeded to introduce her friends to the boys.
“Tae, Tiff, these are Wooyoung, Onew, Eunhyuk,” Sunny started as she pointed to the boys behind her, “And this is Jiyoung. He’s a year older than us, so he is now G-oppa. We all have the same music teacher.”
Again, the girls repeated their greetings. The guys awkwardly replied. Their gazing was less than subtle and their immediate interest in Tiffany and Taeyeon was evident.
Tiffany didn’t need to do much to garner attention from the boys. From birth, she had a signature eye-smile that would make a crying baby stop. Her eye-smile was also enough to make the boys melt into a pile of love-sick goo. Taeyeon, on the other hand, had recently chopped the lower half of her hair and bleached the tips. This caught the eye of everyone around her, and drew attention to her sexy smile.
“Uh, guys?” Sunny waved her hands in front of everyone’s faces. “Not to break the awkward gawking, but we have tickets and I want to go on some rides.” With that, the group walked into SM Park.
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At about noon, a small red car pulled into a large parking lot that occupied nearly an entire block. A slender girl with light brown hair stepped out of the drivers seat and awed at the fresh air and sounds of excitement surrounding her. As she turned her back to the roller coasters and rides, she tipped her sunglasses from her forehead to her eyes to hide them from the sun.
“Sica, I love you and all, but can you try not to kill us when you drive?” said a girl from the front passenger seat. She, too, wore sunglasses.
A third girl poked her head out of the back window. Her short hair came down to her chin and slightly covered her face as the wind blew past her. “SooYoung is right. Slow down on those turns! You’ll flip the car or something if you aren’t careful.”
“Loosen up!” Jessica exclaimed. “We finally have a chance to relax. I know I’m excited to be on a mini-vacation, and I know for a fact that Yoona is even more excited than I am.” Jessica reached into the car and opened up the glove compartment. “By the way, here are my spare sunglasses. Put them on before someone sees you, Yoona.”
