"Winter, wait!", Ningning shouted when she saw how frantic her friend became as soon as they get off from the taxi.

Winter was running as fast as she can towards the accident scene with her teary eyes. Her heart beating so fast as the view of the scene became clearer in her eyes.

An ambulance, two police cars, and a few people surrounded the scene, two crashed motorcycles on the road, and one body was covered with blue cloth on the face.

Winter's heart dropped when she recognized one of the bikes.

It was Karina's.

"Rina...", Winter breathes out heavily, getting closer to the covered body on the road. All she could see it the back of the body, wearing a black leather jacket kind of similar to her girlfriend's.

With every step she takes, a tear fell down from her cheek. When she saw how the road was covered with blood and debris, Winter felt like choking.

Her sobs just get louder, trying to discover the truth behind the body. She prayed thousand times that the body wasn't her girlfriend.

"Rina, please...", she walks heavily with sobbing begs. But before she could reach the body, that familiar voice she was hoping for calling her from behind.

"Winter!"

The younger girl immediately turned her head around, and she saw her.

"Rina..."

Karina was sitting at the back of the ambulance open door. Her body is covered with a towel, and Winter could see there are some scars on the artist's cheek. Karina's leather jacket, on the left hand, got a small thorn and there were visible tiny injuries on her elbow.

Winter wasted no time running towards her girlfriend and Karina immediately stand up from the ambulance, abandoning the towel on her body that fell down on the road before Winter crashed her into a tight hug.

The younger girl is crying so hard, and Karina could only chuckle, patting the back of her girlfriend's back to comfort her.

"I thought I lost you!", Winter wails slowly.

"Oh, Winter. How can I leave you alone? I won't do that", the artist smiled once before slowly pulling away from their hug, wiping away the younger's tears with her thumb.

"How's your elbow?", Winter asked between her decreasing sobs.

"It stings a bit. But the paramedics said there was nothing serious. You don't have to worry", the artist answered, kissing Winter's crown gently, flashing a small smile on her face.

Ningning and Chaehyun came running towards the two girls, panting with their heavy breaths. They sigh in relief, knowing that Karina is fine.

"Hey, Ning, Chaehyun", Karina greeted Winter's two friends while Winter still clinging to her waist for dear life.

"Gosh, Karina. You scared me", Ningning gasped loudly and Karina felt a bit guilty for making the people worried about her. The concern is so visible on each of their faces, and the tattoo artist could only say sorry in return.

"What happened?", Winter lifted her head up, looking right into the artist's eyes. Karina smiled, pulling Winter again into a warm hug.

"Yeonjun came to my shop, and he said he'll pass the dare to another person. I became angry so I chased him until this happened", the tattoo artist sigh heavily, and shifted her eyes towards the lifeless figure on the road.

The other three girls gasped their mouths in shock, looking in the same direction.

"That's him?", Chaheyun asked with her mouth covered. Karina just nodded her head, sighing lightly, feeling a bit bad for what happened.

Yeonjun body was there, lying on the road with lots of blood gushing out from his head.

No helmet presence.

****

Despite being fine from the accident, Karina was instructed to head towards the hospital, just in case she got some unknown internal injuries. Winter was there with her the whole time, not letting go of her hand. After a few check-ups, Karina is allowed to go home.

The black bike, again, needs to be sent for a fix, so the two girls need to go home by taxi. After bidding goodbye towards Ningning and Chaehyun with their thanks, the couple headed straight home.

Winter was terrified for a short moment after what happened. This is the second time she needs to go through the heartbreak of Karina being hurt in a motorcycle crash, and she hopes it won't happen anymore.

When they went to bed, Winter hugged the artist tightly, pulling her as close as she can. Her head was placed in between Karina's chest, enjoying her presence with her grateful heart.

Karina is still there, with her, for her.

She loves her, a lot.

Karina kissed the younger girl on her crown, and not long after that the younger girl lifted her head up slowly, facing the artist with her tiny cute smile. Karina smiled back at how easily Winter can make her happy.

"Winter", the artist called her with her low voice that can sway Winter every time she heard it.

"Yeah?"

"I love you, and the whole you", the artist said with uncertain eyes, looking deep into Winter's directly. The younger shivers at how Karina's eyes and voice make her heart beat like crazy.

"Me too. A lot".

Karina's eyes moved to Winter's lips in the dark, before they went back to Winter's beautiful eyes. She'd been looking in her eyes with her knowing look, but later turns into fear and concern. It was easy for Winter to see the uncertainty in her girlfriend's eyes.

"What's wrong?", she asked.

Karina let out a heavy sigh in frustration. Her eyes went shut before it opened again. "I want to make love with you, but you know-- I'm afraid that--", not until her words were cut off when Winter kissed her deeply on her lips.

It didn't take long for Karina to kiss her back passionately in sync before she gain dominance and permission to feel Winter's tongue between hers. Their kiss is slow and passionate but desperate at the same time. After a few seconds that feels too short, they pulled out to catch their breath. Winter then let out a tiny smile.

"If it's you, I will be okay, and I would love to. You don't need to be worried about it", she smiled warmly towards the artist, sending signals between their eyes before closing the gap between them again for another passionate kiss.

Winter lips are intimidating, and Karina will never get enough of it. Winter's hands moved to Karina's shoulder, circling her arms around them tightly, pulling her closer than ever. Karina kissed went trailing down Winter's neck, and slow moans became music in the room.

It didn't take long for both of them to lose every single piece of fabric from their body. Breathless, Karina went claiming the scars on Winter's neck tenderly as her hands moved by Winter's waist in soft movements. When she moved down towards Winter's breast, she shifted her eyes to look at her girlfriend's expression for a few moments.

Winter was smiling at her, and Karina was grateful that she's finally been able to enjoy this.

The tattoo artist claimed the tiny star under Winter's right breast with a soft kiss, before slowly licking it, moving downwards towards the other tiny tattoo on the younger's navel. She did the same treatment by planting a soft kiss on it and giving some love and attention on the spot.

Winter's moans became a bit louder as the artist gave her full attention towards her opening. Each trust sends Winter's mind to heaven, and she couldn't help to feel more of Karina's skilful tongue on her clit by pulling the artist's head closer to her.

The tattoo artist was soft towards her, afraid that Winter will be horrified and get another panic attack from their sexual activity. But Winter wants her, and she wants Winter as well. Both of them want to feel the love of each other.

When Winter had her first release, Karina came back up for a hungry kiss on her lips as her legs slowly worked on, intertwining their core with Winter's, brushing it lightly between their kisses that slowly turns into a mess.

When Karina moved her hip, Winter moaned in pleasure and her eyes went fluttered, thus, fluttering Karina's heart by the ethereal view. As she moved harder, she pulled away from Winter's lips, focusing on how she moved her core between Winter's.

Winter fall first for her.

But Karina falls harder.

****

The submission day, and also the exhibition day. Winter went to her college first after bidding goodbye to Karina on their now usual morning routine kiss. She invited the older to her exhibit, but before the artist can go, she need to meet a few police officers for yesterday's speeding incident.

Karina had given them the CCTV video proof from her tattoo shop, linking Yeonjun's case with Jeno's, defending herself that she had a reason to chase him that day. The police agreed, letting her go after she need to pay a number of fines for speeding. The tattoo artist had no problem with that, as long as there will be no one to mess up with her girlfriend ever again.

Karina took a taxi ride towards the younger girl's college in anticipation. With every step she takes, a pair of eyes will follow her movements. Why not when there's this tall, beautiful, hot girl walking around on their campus in black, enjoying the grape pods in her mouth innocently? But Karina didn't actually mind the attention.

She remembered the way to the Department of Painting from her past visit with Winter. When she arrived at the building, there was a big banner of the exhibit, and Karina made her way inside the hall filled with many elit-looking people. The artist still has her common sense, putting the pod inside her sling bag since it will be inappropriate for her to smoke here.

The hall is bigger than she expected, filled with different types of paintings on the walls with dim white lighting and tiny annotations beside each painting. She tried to find Winter's painting, but it was a bit hard for her to find it sooner since there were a lot of paintings inside the hall.

Karina couldn't find any presence of her girlfriend, or her two friends. Instead, she found Aeri, standing right in front of a painting on the wall with a proud smile. The tattoo artist gave her a light tap on her shoulder, startling the Japanese.

"Oh. Hi, Rina", Aeri greeted her with a happy smile before turning her body back towards the painting on the wall.

It was Ningning's.

Karina studied Ningning's painting carefully. The Chinese had drawn a building, and beside it was two figure holding each other's hand. The background is filled with mostly dark colours and the night sky. Karina could tell enough that the Chinese expressing her moments with her girlfriend.

"So, Ningning painted you as well?", the tattoo artist asked and her friend nods her head with a smile.

"Yeah. She told me about it", Aeri answered proudly, and before Karina can ask her more, the bartender cuts her first. "Did you find Winter's?".

"No. Not yet. There's a lot of painting here. Have you seen hers?"

Aeri pointed her finger in a specific direction and Karina's eyes follows her in the direction where there were a lot of people circling a single painting.

"Apparently, your girlfriend's painting was a hit. Many people loved it", Aeri smiled happily, giving a proud shrug on the artist's shoulder, just enough to make the tattoo artist more curious than ever.

After bidding her goodbye to her friend, Karina moved towards that direction. Her heart thumps in joy and anticipation, looking forward to what her girlfriend's painting will look like.

Winter has been hiding her painting from the artist for two days, and Karina didn't know what the younger had put on her painting for the final details.

Making her way between the small crowd of people, the first thing that captured Karina's eyes is the figure at the centre of her girlfriend's painting.

There are now two black figures.

Her painting contains lots of colours, and Karina could feel different kinds of emotions from every stroke and line. There's loneliness, and sadness, but the amount of happiness and love overcome the others. The painting was darker on the bottom, but getting brighter reaching the top.

The sky was filled with dots of stars and a constellation. Karina had never seen an aurora before, but Winter's painting seems like one to her. The result was just overwhelming, knowing how much effort and tears Winter had put into the painting and every stroke of colours. Karina's eyes went teary at how proud she is of the younger girl despite the hard time she was going through.

The tattoo artist then moved her attention to the annotation beside the artwork. That's when she can't hold her tears any longer. A big smile formed on her face, hearts fluttering, falling for Winter even more.

Meeting You; the title of her piece, with the annotations...

Lost and lonely, fears were overcome with delightful joy and the embrace of love. Strength, and the figure embrace each other's weaknesses for a brighter chapter to reach the destination of stars, constellations, and happiness. Loneliness is exchanged with the presence of support. Fear turns to strength. Love reached the stars. Lost is now found. I love you. KY.

KY. That was Karina's initial.

Karina Yu.

"She did a great job", the man's voice beside the artist startled her for a moment, later realised it was the man that Karina had met once.

"Thanks to you, she had done so well", the man nodded his head knowingly before shifting her eyes towards the teary tattoo artist. Karina just replied to him with a thankful smile.

"I wish both of you happiness", the man said.

***

Her eyes wanders around the hall to find the younger girl but she was nowhere present. When she saw that Ningning is now right beside Aeri, she ran towards their direction, startling the couple.

"The hell, Rina. You're in a hall-- Wait- You are crying!", Aeri laughs at her friend with a tiny scoff before Karina turns her attention to the Chinese.

"Where's Winter?", she asked.

"She's outside with Chaehyun because there are too many people surrounding her painting", Ningning answered and Karina look at her thankfully before rushing out from the hall, looking around for her girlfriend.

When her eyes caught her girlfriend's figure among many people standing outside the hall, she called her name once, and when Winter turns her head around towards the source of the voice, her face formed into a cute happy smile.

Karina almost felt like her walks turns into runs. Shit. She didn't care anymore about her cool dignity and image when there was Winter, right in front of her for her to run to and crashed their body together into a tight hug. Karina stroked her girlfriend's head gently. The smile never leaves her face.

"Have you seen it?", the younger asked between her tiny laughs, finding Karina's overwhelmed demeanour extremely cute.

"I'm so proud of you", Karina squealed happily, wiping a tear that fell from her eyes with her hand. "You surprised me with the annotation. Are you trying to confess your love to me to the whole people?", the artist sneered.

"I don't mind letting people know how much I love you", Winter smiled widely, finally holding Karina tight around her waist. "I'm so in love with you, Rina", she continued.

"Me too, Winter. Me too", the artist replied with a low scoff, pulling out from Winter before crashing their lips together in a tender kiss.

Their relationship might be a grave mistake at first? But who knows, the end turns out to a heartwarming results.

- - -

The actress points the television remote control towards the screen happily, feeling so proud that her guess is correct all along, and wants to brag to her wife about it.

"See? I told you that the artist will be the kindest- Oh- Winter?"

Her wife is sound asleep.

Karina sneered happily, before planting a quick peck on the younger girl's cheek with her smile. She then put the movie on her favourite list, taking a mental note to watch the ending with her wife the next day.

Then, she shut the television off.

THE END

*A/N - someone asked me to drop my reference for the painting. so yeah, add those three together with your own imaginations LOL! thank you for the love and support from each of you. *sending virtual hugs 💙