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It all started in middle school when a certain girl went to Wheein's desk, "Hey, do you want to be friends?" she asked. "I think you're my type of person!"
Wheein blushed at the sudden confession. It was a new term and nobody knows anybody yet.
"Sure!" Wheein answered. "It's nice to have a friend."
From that moment on, the pair became inseparable. They would have lunch together, spend their break times together, walk home together, play games together, and, study together.
One time, they were getting ready to go home after school and Hyejin was busy looking in her bag, frantically searching for something. Wheein just grabbed her backpack and went directly to the distraught girl. "What is it Hyejinie?" she asked.
"I lost my other glove!" Hyejin said in an annoyed tone. Wheein can now see that Hyejin's left hand is the only one in a glove. It was already winter and the temperature was very low that specific day.
"Aish, what is with today? It's much colder than usual and then I lost a glove?" Hyejin sighed as she ran a gloveless hand through her hair.
Wheein offered to help find her glove. They searched the backpack again and found nothing. They went to the lockers to see if it was left there but they still found nothing. There are only a few students left and it's almost time for the school to close for the day.
"I got an idea!" Wheein said as she proceeded to remove the glove from her right hand and gave it to Hyejin. "Huh? but won't you get cold? You don't have to do this Whee-" Hyejin was cut off by Wheein grabbing her hand and putting the glove in.
"You need it more than I do," Wheein said as she finished fixing the glove on her best friend's right hand. "Besides, we're still going to have tteokbokki, right? I'm getting so hungry already!" to emphasize how hungry she is, Wheein rubbed her own stomach in circles and pretended to be getting weak.
"Yeah, yeah. Let's go eat tteokbokki," Hyejin replied as she rolled her eyes, feeling a blush creep up her cheeks. 'It is getting colder,' she thought to herself and ignored how her heart sped up the moment as she replayed the bit where Wheein was so transfixed in fixing the glove on her right hand in her mind.
Wheein has always been helpful in times of need. Why is it different today? Hyejin dismissed her thoughts by lightly shaking her head and listened to the girl next to her who seems to be very enthusiastic with tteokbokki today.
Before they knew it, time flew fast and they are already in their senior year. Hyejin wants to perform on stage and Wheein wants to make and design jewelry. The two were worried that they might need to separate from each other for a while to achieve their dreams.
"It's okay if we have different things we want in life," Hyejin said one day, it was summer and they were at her house, watching television. "As long as we got each other, we'll be unstoppable!" she said cheerfully, raising her hands as if ready to go to war.
At that moment, Wheein felt something tugged in her heart. Maybe it's the way Hyejin gets excited when she gets determined that they won't part? or maybe it's the way Hyejin looks so cute as she pretends to fight off those invisible people who try to separate them?
But, why is it different today? They've had these kinds of talks for a while now. Wheein quickly shook her head to dismiss such thoughts and joined the girl in fighting invisible forces from breaking them apart.