Winter's feelings for Karina just got stronger, and Karina craved more for Winter. They met up frequently, around three or four times a week, despite the reason why they are meeting.

Sometimes they meet just to talk. Sometimes for Winter gains more ideas for her drawing just by looking at the artist doing her works on her other clients. Sometimes, they ate outside together. But most of the time, they did enjoy each other's touch.

Days, weeks. It's now have been two months since the first time they knew each other. Despite Karina still with her usual attitude, quiet but kind, cold but needy, Winter just loves her even more.

Tonight, Winter can't meet Karina like she always did when her department held a night eat-out. Winter was awkward with every of her classmates. She doesn't even know her seniors and juniors. She knew she couldn't survive the night without her two friends.

But, sadly, on the same night, Ning had a date with her girlfriend, and Chaehyun was in her hometown in Busan.

Winter was now all alone, feeling pressure from every side.

The table Winter is in right now, half of the students are all boys. Only three girls, including Winter there. The girl on Winter's left already passed out from drinking too much. While the girl on Winter's left--

Beside the girl is her own boyfriend, and they keep fucking each other's eyes all night.

It isn't weird. Of course, it isn't weird.

What's weirder is that the people in the table was crazy enough to play truth or dare. But the craziest thing is that Winter wasn't allowed to leave the table before the clock hit 11, or they would humiliate her reputation to her whole department with the words...

"Winter Kim is afraid of challenges"

Winter won't allow that to happen, of course. She is known as one of the best students in the department.

She won't allow these crazy bastards to take that away from her.

But the worst part, and the part she hates the most is that...

That two crazy trash weirdo is in the same table as her!

"Come on, Kim! Say it!", drunk Yeonjun shouted as he pointed his shaky finger to Winter. The others were looking at her full of anticipation, and Winter couldn't help but get a slight panic from the attention.

Why is it so long for the clock to hit 11? Winter cursed inside her mind.

"D-Dare", Winter said, feeling nervous by her own word.

"Kiss Jeno on the lips now!", Yeonjun howling happily while Winter immediately stood up from her seat with a slam on the table. These guys are crazy!

"-No freaking way!!"

"Why, Kim? Afraid? Or do you're currently in a relationship?", Yeonjun's smirks hit the deepest parts of Winter's nerves, and the attention she's receiving right now is the worst.

Why in the world did she's the only one who's still sober again?

"This dare is such a crap!", Winter confessed, but the people around her reacted none.

"Come on. Just say that you're afraid", Jeno said before laughing his lungs out, followed by the others. Winter regretted her decision to come to this bizarre eat-out for the tenth time.

"N-No! It's just... I have- a girlfriend!"

Her statement got the fullest attention of others towards her panic face. They began to howl, shout, and whisteling to Winter. Yeonjun smirk again before slamming the bottle on the table.

"Then, I'm changing your dare. Ask your girlfriend to come and take you away. Easy? Ain't it?", he laughs.

"Or you wanna tell us that you lied and you're afraid of our dare?", he smiled just enough to make Winter sick in the stomach.

Winter knew well enough that she's lying, there's no doubt. She didn't have a girlfriend, even tho the moment she said that, Karina was right there inside her mind.

How she thought it would be so nice if Karina were her girlfriend.

....

Karina is currently drawing a tattoo on a man's wrist at the moment. She already draw the roses, and only letters left to finish her last order that night. She smoked her usual grape flavour pod and began to draw the first letter diligently.

Not until her phone inside her jeans buzzed the moment she started the second letter.

"Winter?", Karina blurted out when she saw the caller's name.

"Do you need to take the call?", her customer said before Karina let out a tiny sigh, with a slight guilty expression on her face.

"I'm sorry, but I really need to answer this", she said, and her customer just nodded his head before the artist walked inside the second door and picked up the phone call.

"Winter, I'm-"

"Rina, help..."

Help.

That one word succeeded to bring Karina's full attention to Winter.

"What happ-"

"I'm at XXX restaurant near my college, and the boys are messing up with me!", Winter shouted in a whispering voice, signing Karina that the younger girl might hiding somewhere in the moment.

"They are doing truth and dare, and they dare me to kiss this one guy that I hate in his lips and-"

"Wait-- What?", Karina was taken aback by Winter's words. Never in Karina's imagination to let Winter kiss someone else other than her.

"They wanted me to kiss this one guy, but I refused when I said I have a girlfriend! I'm in a tight situation right between they caught my lies for not having a girlfriend or I will be exposed and humiliated to the whole department!"

"Can you come and-"

"HEYY, KIM! GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE FOR ANOTHER DARE!!", a voice from far away inside the phone was heard. Someone was calling Winter, and the idea of another dare might be worse, Karina thought inside her mind.

"Save me, Rina! You know what I mean!", another desperate voice from Winter.

"Wint-"

"Are you calling someone for help?", a man's voice was heard from the phone before the call suddenly ended. Karina pulled away her phone from her ear, looking at her phone screen with the call ended display. Her head was a mess all of sudden.

Winter is surrounded by drunk people.

Lewd dare which also challenges the rights of Karina and Winter's business.

Just thinking about it makes Karina want to punch anyone who wanted Winter to do that.

She rushed out from her living space, walking back towards her customer with a guilty expression. Her customer sends to get the idea just by reading the situation.

Karina really needs to go because the bizarre idea in her head drives her crazy.

"I'm really sorry but I-"

"Go on", her customer said.

"I'll come back tomorrow to finish the letters"

....

Karina searched the restaurant Winter had mentioned to her, and as soon as she arrived outside the dim coloured restaurant, her eyes caught the amount of drunk people inside the restaurant who's currently- being drunk.

She recognises Winter just by the younger girl's back.

The seat beside Winter is already empty, and the girl is the only woman on the table surrounded by 7 boys who's all obviously drunk as hell.

Trying to calm herself down, Karina slowly walked towards the girl figure, who was slowly shrinking, somehow trying to hide or run away from the situation. When Karina is just right behind her girl, she taps Winter's shoulder gently before pulling one of her arms with her hand.

"Rina...", and Winter were surprised by the sudden action.

"Let's go", Karina said with her deep voice, and Winter wasted no time and stood up from her seat, letting Karina hold her by her waist.

Not until Yeonjun stops her again.

"Oh? Are you Winter's girlfriend?", he scoffed once, but Karina answered none. When they started to walk away again, that drunk guy spoke again.

"I'm sorry, miss,but Winter Kim is only allowed to leave with her girlfriend. An unknown woman like you is not certified to take her away!", that guy sometimes shouts. Sometimes laughs. Sometimes smiles. Sometimes scoffs.

Karina could tell he is drunk as hell, the same as his other friends. Hell, if Karina push him lightly, he can even fall down and roll his body like he's falling from a 500-foot mountain!

"Why are you- attending this again?", Karina sigh once before looking at Winter. The younger girl obviously uncomfortable with her situation.

"Let's just go, please..."

Karina sighed one last time before giving an angry glare to all of the boys. She took Winter by the waist as they headed out from the restaurant. When they finally reach Karina's black bike, Karina let out another heavy sigh.

"You really shouldn't- hang out with them ever again...", the artist pulled her hair up in frustration. She ain't angry at Winter tho. She is just feeling something else.

"I would never", Winter replied immediately, turning her body towards Karina, who kept sighing as soon as they came out.

"Are you angry at me?"

"It wasn't like that, Winter...", Karina hissed once.

"Then, why are you acting like this?"

"Why aren't you leaving, Winter? You can see that they were obviously drunk. Even strong wind can blew 'em away! Why did you decide to stay there and sit with them just to wait until I come?"Karina's frustration was so obvious that it sent chills to every sense of Winter.

She couldn't understand what Karina's feeling right now.

"They are threatening me, and... somehow, I want you to come so they can see that I have a girlfriend-"

"But we're not girlfriends!", Karina huffed once, realizing that what she said might hurt Winter as soon as she saw the girl suddenly freeze and say nothing back in return.

Frustrated but guilty, Karina pulled Winter by her wrist towards her bike after she took a breath of air to calm herself down.

"Let's go... I'll send you home"

*A/N - She is just worried and jealous, yet she won't admit it herself. Let Karina be~ 🤣