After a week, Winter insisted on going to her college, and even tho Karina tried to prevent her from going, she couldn't do much because she said that if she miss more classes, she'll get F for her final exam.

"Are you sure you'll be fine, honey?", Karina said in concern as she pout while looking straight at Winter's eyes. Winter already standing right in front of the main door with her tote bag on, preparing to leave the house.

"I'll be fine, Rina. Ningning and Aeri promised to be with me today~", the younger girl replied with a little smile before Karina came closer to her and planted a soft peck on the younger girl's forehead.

"Take care, Winter. Tell me if you need anything later".

....

Winter, Ningning, and Aeri headed towards their class as usual. Despite many eyes looking at them, Winter tried to ignore them.

"Does the entire nation know your face, Winter?", Aeri asked and the younger girl immediately shook her head.

"No. Just this college. That's what Karina told me", Winter replied.

When they arrived at their class that was known full of Karina's fans, again many eyes were looking at Winter and anxious Winter couldn't help but grip both Aeri and Ning's arms tight. The three of them just walked towards their usual seats and sat there quietly. When Aeri saw someone was looking at Winter, the athlete gonna give them a death glare before they turn their head to somewhere else.

"Psst! Winter Kim!", The girl in front of them called Winter and Winter turn her head over to look at her classmates.

"Yeah... Yeji. Why?", WInter answered.

"Are you... really... Karina's-"

"Yes, she is. Why? Jealous?", Ning just cut Yeji's words and Yeji stop talking after that. The girl turns her head to the front again and talks to her seatmate which is Ryujin. Ning and Aeri just shook their head in annoyance. Now that everyone in the college knows, can't they just keep quiet about it and mind their business?

When the professor entered the class, the older man also gave Winter a look that she can't translate. But the way he looked at Winter wasn't the same as the students inside the college. The older man's eyes look nicer, and maybe he understands how is her situation better than the students here.

"Okay, class. Enough with your gossip or I'll give all of you F", he said boldly with his straight face and that's when everyone in the class became quiet again and stopped their activity from keep talking about Winter.

....

When the class ended, Aeri and Ningning were so responsible for keeping Winter safe and sound. They'll make sure that Winter gonna be at the center all the time, while Aeri is at her left and Ningning is on her right. It's all for Winter's protection and every time Winter said she wants to walk freely without being cornered like this, Aeri will smack her butt hard enough to make Winter give a death glare to her but at the same time couldn't fight back, and just follow their instructions.

"If you keep insisting, I'll tell Karina and I'll make sure that you got a smack from her as well!", Aeri nags at the younger girl, Ningning nodded her head in agreement while Winter rolled her eyes in annoyance.

"She'll never do that to me cuz she loves me to the moon!", Winter mumbled and Aeri just gave her a disbelief looks. Winter grinned as she knew that she win this time.

"Couldn't you guys stop fighting for a while, because someone is coming towards us...", Ningning stopped their dumb and dumber fight as she pointed her finger in a specific direction. When the other two girls' eyes shifted towards that direction, once again Winter rolled her eyes in annoyance, followed by Aeri as well.

"What the fuck! Why is he coming towards us?", Aeri cursed under her breath as she opened her arms wide in front of her cousin.

"Winter!", Jeno called when he was just meters away from the girls. Stupid Jeno. Because of his loud voice, again Winter became an attention to every student near them. Gossips gonna go on after this.

"Back off, Jeno. Winter doesn't want to see you!", Aeri said to him while Winter just kept her silence, afraid that if she say any words, people might talk about it later.

"Winter, listen to me. Please...", he pleaded and suddenly kneeled right in front of Winter. The three gasped in panic. He acted stupidly again! What will people say when they saw him kneeling right in front of Winter? Winter's threatening him? Winter asks him to kneel?

"Jeno, stand up! What are you doing?", this time Winter couldn't help but talk. Jeno acted too much, and if he does this to apologize, Winter admits that it was the right thing to do. But, the stupid thing is that why here from all of the places inside the campus? This is an open hallway where lots of students gonna walk here and now, see? There are maybe around thirty students looking at them, and soon enough it'll be forty and more than that.

"Bro, get up! You make our Winter looks bad!", Aeri gestured her hands, asking Jeno to get up but the guy was so stubborn to listen to anyone's advice.

"No! I'll keep kneeling here, in front of you and I want to say that I'm sorry for everything I've done!", he said out loud. Winter wants to cover her face so damn much. This is so embarrassing.

"Seriously, Jeno. Get up or I'll kill you!", Aeri was mad. But Jeno didn't care about any single words coming out from Winter's cousin.

"It's true that I liked you since high school. I'm sorry if I bullied you all these years, just because I want your attention despite your hatred towards me. Never once in my life, have I wanted your life to become miserable and I admit that what I did to you from the news was stupid and endangered your college life. Again, I'm really sorry, Winter"

He did apologize, but Winter just wishes that he did that where people aren't watching. Winter definitely will accept his apology sooner or later but the way he did this right now was just...

"I really, really, really, liked you, Winter Kim. I know I sound stupid but I liked you for years. I never thought you have anyone in your heart because the way you acted towards me and any other boys in our school was somehow frightening. I thought you have no intention to love anyone. I never thought you're Karina's wife and I'm really guilty for the news I've spread", he continued and Winter just sighed heavily after hearing all his long words.

Enough of the apologizing. Winter just wants him to get up, seriously.

"I understand, Jeno. But can you please get up or I'll never forgive you for god's sake..."

With Winter's words, finally, the stubborn guy stands up from his position and Winter can now sigh in relief a little bit. Aeri just gave the guy an angry look, because she keep telling him to stand up before but he never did so! This is so damn annoying.

"Fine. I'll forgive you, but I don't know if my wife will forgive you. She literally warned you more than once and you couldn't understand her at all"

"But that's because I don't know that she was your wife", he cut Winter's words, and Winter sigh again in annoyance.

"But now you know and her forgiveness was also a big matter. Won't you understand?", Winter said.

"But, Winter. I felt so unfair!", he confessed all of sudden, and again Winter don't know where this guy's brain are. He just couldn't understand what people trying to say to him.

"What did you say??", Winter scoffed in disbelief.

"It's unfair! Don't you see? I knew you before you knew Karina. I liked you before you love her. If only I didn't bully you since then, the results won't be like this!", he said and his voice was trembling. Aeri tried to pull her cousin away from this nonsense, but the way Jeno talks about her wife makes Winter stay and look at him full of tension.

"What did you say?"

"If I didn't bully you back then, we must be something by now, Winter Kim!"

"What nonsense are you trying to make everyone here hear, Lee Jeno!"

"I SAID THIS IS UNFAIR BECAUSE I LIKED YOU FIRST AND JUST BECAUSE I BULLIED YOU, YOU HATE ME ALL YOUR LIFE!!!", he shouted.

Yes, he shouted. So loud, so clear, and everyone was so startled by it, including Winter. His face is red, and his fist is pale enough to punch the wall near them. He just shouted right in front of Winter's face and Winter's tiny guts tell her to walk away as soon as she can.

Not until Jeno suddenly held her wrist.

"LET YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF FROM MY WIFE, YOU BASTARD!!", and Karina suddenly appeared out of nowhere, this time with no cast on her leg, rushing towards the scene with her fuming angry face that no one in the whole damn earth ever sees.

She pushed his hand away from her lovely wife's arm and now Karina was right in front of Winter. Winter's wrist that was held by Jeno just now was exchanged by Karina's possessive touch between their fingers. The older girl still looking at that dumbass full of anger.

"Rina...", Winter said from her wife's back.

"AND NO ONE CAN SHOUT TO MY WIFE LIKE THAT!", Karina continues to shout at him.

This was the second time Karina protected Winter from her college massacre and Winter couldn't help but to feel slightly guilty, but thankful and falling more for her wife at the same time.