(  cold eyes like winter !  )

─────  THE IMAGE OF SMOKE filled yara's vision as it stood out against the street lights shining on the dark and empty city. yara leaned her back against the the school building, her throat feeling a slight sting, the dangerous white stick dangling in between her pale fingers. her eyes trained on the small and beautiful garden across from her, although, she didn't have anything in particular on her mind.

"are you done?" eunji's voice sounded from the stairs leading into the gymnasium.

yara glanced at the blonde through the corner of her eyes, puffing out a wave of smoke, she didn't say a word as she dropped the cigarette on the ground and stepped on it. fixing the strap of her bag once it brushed against her neck roughly.

the duo walked in silence towards the entrance of the building. awaiting their best friend's arrival from detention. out of the corner of her eye, yara sees a familiar head of long blonde hair, images from this morning suddenly flashed through her mind.

the blonde was sitting alone on a bench in front of the school, most likely waiting on her ride, yara would have ignored the situation if it wasn't for the blonde shivering slightly. not knowing what came over her, yara unzipped her bag and reached inside, making her way over to yeojin after telling eunji to wait a second.

yeojin sat quietly scrolling through her phone, txt blasting through her airpods. she honestly was bored, a slight shiver ran through her body as the wind picked up, and cold. she cursed herself; silently wishing she had asked haseul for the car keys. now she had to wait for her sister to get out of debate.

yeojin felt kinda lonely just sitting there by herself, but she didn't have much of a choice. chaewon practically refused to speak with her after lunch today. and since hyejoo is basically chaewon's lapdog, everything chaewon wants hyejoo provides, she hadn't spoken to yeojin much either.

it didn't help that yerim had to go straight to her aunts house today to babysit her cousin. yeojin had never been this bored before. she was pulled out of her thoughts, jumping slightly when she felt something being placed over her shoulders.

"third times a charm, or i've heard" yara chuckled out lowly as she met yeojin's eyes.

"where'd you come from?" yeojin asked as she looked at yara incredulously.

she wasn't aware that any students were still lingering by the school. it was around 6pm so she assumed most kids were gone or stuck with after school tutoring or club activities. however, she didn't remember seeing anyone when she walked out.

"i'm waiting on ryujin" yara responded, her voice firm and cold reminding yeojin of the cold weather around them.

"what are you still doing here?"

"my sister's in debate" yeojin sighed as she checked the time on her phone, she was getting hungry.

"you know, most teens take the bus instead of freezing in the cold" yara sounded causing yeojin to let out a slight scoff.

"thanks, but i have a sister who has a car so why would i go through the torture of walking?" yeojin retorted, turning her head when someone cleared their throat. yara sighed before turning around to face ryujin and eunji who stood there with blank stares.

"we gotta go to the company" ryujin stated. yara only nodded before setting her gaze back on yeojin.

"see ya tomorrow, shorty" yara smiled before getting up and walking off with her friends.. yeojin paused for a second before realizing what was said.

"hey! i'm not short!" yeojin yelled out. she could hear the deep chuckle coming from yara as she got further and further away from yeojin's sight.

"yeah and i'm passing my chem class" yeojin's older sister, haseul, joked as she walked up to yeojin ; who looked at her in confusion.

"what?"

"sorry, i thought were saying thing we wish were true" haseul said slowly.

yeojin just groaned annoyingly and made her way to the car. haseul's melodious laughter didn't make yeojin feel any better about the jabs at her height. it wasn't her fault that her mother's family were cursed with the short genes.

"i need food" she grumbled as she slammed the car door shut as she could still hear haseul's laugh from outside the car.

once haseul situated herself in the car, driving off to the closest convenience store. yeojin found herself eyeing the black zip up hoodie around her shoulders. before her mind could stray back to yara's cat like gaze, she decided to just ask haseul about why she exactly couldn't get the girl out of her mind.

"what does it mean when you can't stop thinking about someone... but you've only just met them?" yeojin hesitated slightly.

haseul thought about it for a second, she had no idea what the hell yeojin meant by that.

"like... like thinking about them in what way?" haseul asked with furrowed eyebrows.

"i don't know! i just know i can't get her out of my head!"

"okay! stop yelling!" yeojin shut her mouth as haseul let out a sigh. "how long have you been thinking about her?"

"all day? i don't really know, i bumped into this pretty girl at school..." yeojin explained and haseul's small smile slowly grew until she was cheesing. yeojin shot the older a disturbed look.

"what the hell? why do you have that look on your face?"

"sounds like a crush to me sissy~"

"never call me that again" yeojin deadpanned. "and that's impossible! i've never liked anyone before"

haseul nodded her head before snapping her fingers as she remembered something.

haseul nodded her head before snapping her fingers as she remembered something.

"it could be like love at first sight, jinsol is always talking my ears off about couples on reddit who fell in love like 4 minutes of getting to know each other" haseul shrugged once she finished, looking over for a quick second to see yeojin biting her lip, her eyes trained on the city flying past.

"oh, before i forget,my friend seokmin is coming over in a few days, i said he could bring his sister since she's around your age" haseul reminded yeojin, who shrugged it off.

on that day would yeojin regret not preparing herself of what was to come.