day 11 "i told you so"
Gahyeon rolls across the ground, barely dodging a snowball headed right for her stomach. She pops up and fires one back, hitting her girlfriend square in the shoulder. Siyeon yells in indignation as she ducks behind a tree and Gahyeon returns her attention to the other students around her, all firing off snowballs in a whirlwind of chaos that engulfs this section of campus.
She’s not really sure how it started. One moment, Gahyeon was walking back to the dorms after her last class of the day while Siyeon complained about all the homework her evil professor had assigned for the weekend. The next, she’s sucked into a conflict with loosely divided sides, the only goal really being to hit as many other people as possible and get more to join in.
Not that she’s that surprised. It is the first big snow of the year, and it happened to fall right before the weekend. What better time for a bunch of college students to enjoy the weather and get out some frustration from the long week?
A few successful hits and quite a few misses later, Gahyeon hears loud and distinctive laughter a little ways off to her left. Recognizing the turkey-like sound as Bora, she runs to her girlfriend to plot her next move.
Siyeon sees her approach with wide eyes and pelts her again with a snowball to the chest in an attempt to slow her down. Gahyeon fights the temptation to get her back and instead yells at her to wait.
“No, truce! Truce!” Siyeon pauses long enough for Gahyeon to catch up to her, and she lays a hand on the older girl’s back. Gahyeon points towards Bora, who’s caught up in the fight as well, teamed up with Yubin as they fire snowballs back and forth at Minji and Yoohyeon (who definitely look like they’ve taken a few hits). “I’ve got an idea.”
Together they sneak around to just behind Bora and Yubin, hiding behind a rudimentary snow wall some students had hastily built a little while ago. Gahyeon holds a finger to her lips when she makes eye contact with Minji. Thankfully she gets the message and continues her losing battle with the younger girls to buy the couple some time, and the two get to work gathering up snow for their ambush.
She’s distracted, however, by someone else not in the fight, lingering back on the path a little ways behind Minji and Yoohyeon. Struck by the fond look on her face, the absolute hearts pouring out of her eyes, Gahyeon can’t miss the opportunity to point it out to Siyeon.
“Siyeon, look! It’s Handong!” Gahyeon smacks the older girl’s shoulder and points to where the blond is standing and watching the fight.
Annoyed, Siyeon grunts out a ‘what?’ as she looks towards the path. “What about her?”
“The way she’s looking at Bora, do you see that? There’s no way you can still think they aren’t dating. Look at her face!”
Siyeon scoffs, but takes another look. “That doesn’t prove anything. Besides, I stand by what I said before - it’s Bora. I refuse to believe she wouldn’t have told us by now or at least let something slip if she were actually dating the girl of her dreams already.”
Gahyeon rolls her eyes. “And I stand by what I said. Bora doesn’t pine over her anymore, how is that not a clear sign to you?”
“She totally still does! What are you talking about-”
Their bickering gets cut short as they both look up just in time to see tragedy happen. Bora whips a snowball that overshoots Yoohyeon just enough to sail clear over her.
And nail Handong right in the face.
Everything in the immediate area stops. There’s still plenty of chaos happening further away as other students continue their battles, but the ones close enough to have seen what happened all stop and stare. Even other students who aren’t part of their little group but know who Handong is stop to see what happens.
Someone just hit Handong in the face with a snowball… They’re all about to bear witness to a murder.
That is, everyone stops… except for Bora. She’s cackling her manic laugh, only laughing harder when Handong dramatically wipes the snow off her face and a glare settles in.
Handong doesn’t break her stare, slowly setting her backpack down on the pathway and taking a moment to gather herself before standing back up and approaching the shorter girl. Who’s still laughing. But the closer the Chinese girl gets, the smaller Bora’s laughs get, until finally concern settles into her expression.
Bora almost involuntarily takes a step back, shrinking just a little under the glare still directed at her. Gahyeon wants to laugh at how unlike the boisterous girl it is to shy away from someone like that, and would if she weren’t so caught up in watching everything play out.
“Wait, shit did I actually hurt you?” Bora takes another step back as Handong continues her determined approach. Her hands come up as she tries to defuse the situation. “I’m sorry babe, I didn’t mean-”
Bora cuts herself off with a squeal, because Handong grabs the front of her shirt and dumps a whole wad of snow right down inside it. With a shove Bora lands ass first in a snow pile behind her. Everyone (including Gahyeon’s lovely, but oh-so-clueless girlfriend) gasps, but Handong just finally breaks and starts laughing just as hard as Bora was before.
Bora squirms, trying to get the snow out of her shirt. Once she finally settles, she looks up from the pile with a glare of her own. “Not fair!” she yells, and springs up to grab the younger girl. Handong has a moment where her face contorts comically, scrunching into the most perfect ‘oh shit’ expression Gahyeon’s maybe ever seen, and she takes off running.
Unfortunately it’s not enough and Bora quickly catches her. They fall to the ground, giggling and rolling as they each try to cover each other with more snow. Still tumbling, eventually they land with Bora firmly on top, pinning the younger girl down and making Gahyeon feel like she’s watching a romantic comedy.
Seriously, the way they just completely halt, staring into each other’s eyes like that? There might as well have a massive neon sign above them that says ‘we’re having a Moment’ and some cheesy music in the background.
Bora leans in a bit before stopping herself and abruptly pulling away, as if remembering where she is. It’s very unlike her, and Gahyeon figures it must be because Handong isn’t fond of public displays of affection or something. It would explain why Bora’s been so quiet about this relationship - that Gahyeon is certain has been going on for a while now - since caring about her girlfriend’s comfort is likely one of the only ways to get Bora to tone down enough to hide it this long.
To Bora’s surprise (and everyone else’s), Handong smirks and pulls her back down for the kiss worthy of such a Moment.
Gahyeon can’t help the grin. Sure it’s a tiny bit weird they’re just going for it and that everyone is still lowkey staring, but it’s just too cute for her not to. And in the other bystanders’ defences, they’re all likely still staring in shock more than anything else - that Handong of all people is dating Kim Bora.
What snaps Gahyeon out of it though, is the bewildered voice of her own girlfriend.
“No way.”
Gahyeon snaps her head towards Siyeon, taking in the shocked look on her face. A combination of triumph and indignation rushes through her and she stands up. “See! I told you so! I told you they were together already!”
With no response to that, Siyeon can only yell in return and use the snowballs initially meant for their friends to get some more shots in on Gahyeon. It seems to break the rest of the tension around them as the chaos kicks back into high gear, battles starting back up again and Minji and the others including the couple in their list of targets.
Dodging a snowball from Yubin, Gahyeon glances over again to see the two lovebirds still in their own world. She smiles... and beans Yoohyeon right in the butt with her own throw.
They’ll have plenty of time to tease Bora later.