"Who are you calling?"

Irene jabs a playful joke at her wife, after she saw the panic expression in the usual stoic face.

"Shuhua... She told me she's spending the night with Soojin, so... Hey!"

A deep frown starts to form in Seulgi's face as Irene pulls her phone away. The raven haired beauty showed her irritation by mumbling incessantly... But all Irene had to do was wrap her arms around her wife's lean shoulders and Seulgi fell quiet.

And just that quickly, Seulgi's frown was replaced by a smile. She didn't even try to figure out why. For her to screw that phone, for her nothing in this world that she would rather hold than this girl right here.

"You know I remember when I was in junior high school. There was this really, really, really hot sunbae that everyone is just crazy about..."

A cocky smirk starts to tug on the gorgeous lips of the raven haired beauty.

"Hmmm... I don't remember anything in high school." Seulgi pouts thoughtfully "Except for this wonderful, wonderful girl who would just sit and read in the library... She was the only memory worth remembering..."

As they slowly swayed to the sweet melodies of the song, they felt themselves being transported back in time where they were young and carefree.

"I remember how she was always so bent over some book. I felt like I never stood a chance against those romance novels. So I started visiting the library more..."

Irene's mellow laugh starts to fill the air as she listens to Seulgi recount those long, buried memories.

"But hey... that did you good cause you end up learning to read, right?" She teased her wife.

"Oh yes... I finally learned to read my ABCs..." Seulgi played along...

"Oh I remember... when this hot sunbae finally approached me... Ask me if I work there..."

"Pretty smooth, this hot sunbae..." Seulgi pointed out.

"I told her no, but that I could help her if she needs anything."

They continue to dance along to the rhythm. But this time, there was no exchange of words, instead they spoke their love through their sweet smiles and through their playful touches.

"It scared me when she asked me out, because she has this reputation of being a big player. I knew that if ever I was just a game to her, that it will really break my heart because I really like her."

"It scared me too..." Seulgi softly confessed, before she brushed away the loose strand of hair out of her wife's lovely face. "It turned out this quiet library girl has quite a fanclub. I didn't know how I matched against all the others."

"You didn't match..."

Seulgi frowned again, but just a peck on her lips and she was smiling again.

"You were the one they measured too... But one of my best memories of her was during one of our dates. She was about to take me home, but it started raining so since we were riding around on her motorcycle, we decided to take shed in this abandoned beach house... You know what happened there?"

"Best night of your life?"

Irene's laugh started to echo around the room, her wife's overwhelming love for herself still amused her til this day.

"I guess you can say that... How about you? Was it the best night of your life?"

"Hmmm?" Seulgi pouts thoughtfully... "No... more of a third?"

The revelation shocked Irene so much that she froze on her spot.

"Third?!"

Seulgi relishes the look of dismay from her gorgeous wife, but she loves her too much to keep this joke going.

"You know what the second and first one is?"

Irene just remains quiet, while Seulgi tries to appease her wife by nuzzling her perfect nose against her wife's.

"The second was when Minnie and Shuhua were born..."

A soft, shy smile slowly spreads on Irene's lips after she hears her wife's confession.

"So, what was the first?"

And Seulgi smiled, knowing that since then until this very second; this woman was the sole reason for all the best things in her life.

"When that wonderful, wonderful girl in the library said I love you too."

Just hearing those words out loud, made Irene blush unconsciously.

"You still got it Kang..." Irene teases, hoping to hide her deep blush.

"Only for you Yeh..." She leans closer, pressing her soft lips on her wife's fair skin. "By the way... we were in high school when we first did it?"

"Yes... I can't believe you forgot..."

"Oh babe... trust me I didn't forget... It's just I didn't realize we were that young..."

"Yes... But we didn't think we were young back then... Back to my point... What I'm trying to say is...What if I said no? What if I was too scared of getting my heart broken?"

Seulgi ends up burying her face in her wife's neck, just the thought of the love of her life saying no was enough to break her heart.

"I would forever be living in the what ifs... And you're not going to be the love of my life anymore..."

Irene kisses away the frown from the puppy eyed girl...

"You are going to be the one that got away... And I don't want that for the girls. I want them to experience the happiness that you can only feel when you meet that special one."

Her long, graceful fingers start tiptoeing along her wife's back. The touch, no matter how subtle, still created a searing effect in Seulgi's skin.

"I guess so... But still... it's different when it's your kids... Like you know... they're your kids... can't they just stay that way? As kids?"

"I know it's hard babe. But I trust Shuhua... In fact, the way she looks at Soojin reminded me of how this hot sunbae looked at me back then..."

"If that's the case... then those two will be up all night, then."

Irene slaps her wife in the arm, after what she's trying to imply.

"I mean up all night talking... geez... you look so angelic, but you're super byuntae..." Seulgi pokes fun at her wife.

They slowly started dancing again, arms still wrapped around each other, the teasing smile still evident.

"Babe?"

"Hmmm?"

"Our kids should never know that we started doing it in high school."

"Yup... never... We don't want them catching up to us..."

"Yes..." Irene agreed. "As far as they should know, if they ever wondered it was during our first night after being married."

"Yes... I agree with that."

The two nodded at the same time, before doing a pinkie swear to confirm their agreement.

***

Minnie could hardly contain herself as she saw Miyeon slowly approaching her. It's like one of those moments in those fairy tales or fan fiction. The kind of things you could only wish that someday would happen to you...

"Miyeon!!! LET'S DANCE!"

But of course in those fairy tales, cockblockers don't exist.

"Is that the girl you like?"

"What?!" Minnie turns around and finds her mommy Seulgi giving her that smug half grin. "Ummm well..."

Minnie was scrambling trying to figure out a way to say it. It was quite awkward to talk about things like this to your mom.

"Don't try to hide it kid..." Seulgi ruffles her daughter's honey blonde hair. "It's obvious..."

"Gosh mom..." Minnie mutters embarrassingly. "No need to be so blunt about it..."

"You know when I was in high school, I was this badass..."

"You beat up kids for their lunch money?"

"I don't have to beat them up... They would offer it to me..."

Minnie couldn't help but smile at her mom's uber pride at herself.

"I thought I could beat anything, beat anyone. But then I saw the most beautiful girl in the whole world right there in the library."

"Wait? You went to the library?!"

"I was looking for the bathroom..." Seulgi admitted... "But anyways, I saw her right there in the corner reading. I don't know what she was reading. But from then on, I started going to the library..."

"You were stalking her?"

"No..." The raven hair quickly dispels that idea. "I was admiring her from a distance! Can you let me finish my story?"

"Alright... alright..."

"Then, this guy started making a move on her."

Minnie bites her lower lip as she saw her mom frown from that awful memory.

"So, I said to myself that I will never forgive myself if I ever lose myself to him. So, that day I asked her if she works there..."

"I guess it worked, huh?"

"She was all over me after that."

Seulgi turns to her girl, talking with a few guests. They were older now, much older, but somehow every time she looked at Irene, it felt like it was the first time she saw her in the library. She was still as breathtaking, still so beautiful.

Irene was used to being gaze upon and admired. But with Seulgi, it was so different, just one look and she falters. Every time those dark brown eyes met hers, it was like she was falling all over again. It still felt like the first time they caught each other's gaze in the library. Seulgi still made her weak, Seulgi still made her fall to her knees.

Minnie found herself being awkwardly stuck in the middle, as her parents are doing their usual googly eye love stare."You know what? I'm getting sleepy..." Seulgi stretches her toned arms, while yawning, hoping to get the impression that she's tired. "Me and your mom are going home..."

"Mom doesn't look like she's tired." Minnie pokes jokingly.

The two looked over and Irene still looked so energized laughing with some guests.

"Yes she is!" Seulgi frowns. "She's just being polite."

Seulgi stood up, but not before patting her kid softly in the hair.

"Don't end up regretting this day, when it could have been the best night of your life."

***

Soojin decided not to say a word and just curiously watch her girl, playing around with her ice cream sundae. She wanted to ask what was going on but she didn't want to ruin the girl's concentration.

She had never saw Shuhua's face this serious. Her brow was all knitted together, her forehead all scrunched up as she was meticulously putting chocolate syrup on her vanilla ice cream.

"Ahhhh..." Shuhua squeals in a victorious glee. "TADA!"

Soojin almost smashes her forehead on the table while thinking for a second about Shuhua being serious. Of course, her girlfriend was making, of all things, a Kkuma ice cream sundae.

"I always wonder why you like Rilakkuma so much..."

Shuhua gingerly moves the ice cream sundae next to Soojin, before pulling out her phone to take a picture of her two favorite bears.

"It's okay baobei... you will always be my favorite bear."

"I'm not wondering about that. It's just that I have never known anybody who loves Rilakkuma that much."

"Well..." Shuhua said before taking a spoonful of kkuma's ear. "You know when I was young I always thought that mommy Seulgi could defeat any monsters in the world. You know what? Come to think of it, I still think that way until now."

"Ok..."

"But she travels a lot because of her job, so it's just me, unnie and mommy Irene left at home. I would always be so scared when she's away, because I feel like monsters would come get us. So, one day after she traveled from Japan, she brought me this Rilakkuma teddy bear. And she told me that Rilakkuma would be our bodyguard when she was away and I was never scared after that..."

Shuhua's innocence was able to tug Soojin's heartstrings once again.

"And she also bought Minnie unnie, a dookong. Now that I try to remember it, I don't remember she bought mommy Irene anything. But still they were so happy even if they 're sick."

"Sick?"

"Yes... actually that was the first time that I noticed them having those allergy bites."

"Allergy bites?"

"Yes... It's like everywhere on their neck and shoulders. One time I saw mommy Irene wearing shorts and it's even on her thighs!"

Shuhua says in disbelief, flailing her arms around in pure astonishment. Poor Soojin could only cover her face with embarrassment. It befuddled her how someone as Shuhua could be quite innocent as she says.

"It's like every morning it will only get worse, because there it is again... more than the day before!"

Soojin's ice cream was melting so fast with how intense she was staring at it.

"It's a good thing it's not hereditary..."

The dark haired girl made a mental note to not be too rough when she and Shuhua would be-

She started wolfing down her sundae, hoping the effect of the ice cream could cool down her blushing cheeks. Why on Earth is she even thinking this way about someone as innocent as Shuhua? It feels like such a crime...

"So, where would we go next?"

"Anywhere you like..."

***

"How come I'm not surprised you brought me here?"

Soojin pokes at the girl who looks so serious looking through the song list.

"Of course! you said you will make my wish come true... So, you have to sing to me..."

"But I already sang to you earlier."

"Two lines don't count, although your voice sounds so sexy. That's why I feel like I need to hear more... And it's my birthday... so... you have to do whatever I say..."

"Could I just sing to you, happy birthday?" Soojin tries to get away from it.

"Nope..." Shuhua quickly answers "Ahhh... here you go... A song from the queen for my queen..."

Just seeing the title made the uptight Soojin raise a brow.

"Eat you up?"

"Uh... uh huh... uh huh... You don't have to dance, just sing it..."

Soojin could only exhale in defeat. She stood in front so motionless, she lifted the mic to her lips and started going along with the colored words on screen.

When I first saw you I knew nothing's like it used to be

Boy, you have got to be the finest thing in history

When she started "singing", it sounded like Soojin was reading a passage from the Holy Scripture.

"NO! NO! NO! NO!"

If Shuhua could rip out the plug for the karaoke machine she would. Soojin just turned such a sexy song into something vanilla.

"That's not how you sing that..."

"Why don't you sing it?"

"I can't..." Shuhua quickly declines.

"Why not?"

"It will destroy my innocent image."

"Oh please..." Soojin rolls her eyes at the girl's excuse. "It's just the two of us."

"No... I have an image that I have to maintain. I could sing Wolf by Exo."

"Oh singing Eat you up? Would destroy your image but singing Wolf wouldn't?"

"It's complicated... Are you ready, Jinjin?"

"Fine..."

***

"Omo! Omo! Omo! Omo!" Shuhua was flailing around so excitedly that she's making her and Soojin's ferris wheel cab shake.

Soojin squeezes the other girl's hand, hoping it will calm the girl. "Calm yourself."

"Okay..." Shuhua still herself "Omo..." She says but this time she says it in a whisper.

Her girlfriend just smiles at Shuhua's hyperness, and Shuhua returns Soojin's smile. Actually, there is no way she can't stop smiling. This wasn't just the best birthday she ever had, but also the happiest one...

When they reach the very peak, Shuhua could feel Soojin's grip getting tighter.

"Are you scared?"

"No.. of course not..."

Shuhua pulls her hand away from Soojin, and wraps her girl in an embrace.

"Now you don't have any reason to be scared anymore."

"You're too sweet, don't you know that?"

Kekekekekeke...

Shuhua chuckles, before burying her head in the crook of Soojin's neck. But she slowly looked up, when she felt a cold metal slipping on her finger.

"Happy Birthday, baby monkey..."

The birthday girl for once was frozen, as she saw the ring in her finger.

And as the ferris wheel starts to descend back down to Earth, Shuhua slowly leans closer and presses a thank you kiss on those ravishing red lips.

A thank you for the ring, A thank you for the best birthday gift and a big thank you for choosing to love her.

***********************

"So, do you hear it? Do you hear the difference?"

All Soyeon could hear was Moonbyul's continuous asking, as she asked Soyeon to do a test run on her newly bought "EXPENSIVE" headphones.

"Naaahhh..." Soyeon returns Moonbyul's 60 dollar headphones. "I don't hear it, it sounded like your 20 dollar headphone."

"NO IT DOESN'T!" Moonbyul was fuming, shaking her expensive headphones in the air. "There is a huge difference! Can't you hear the bass?"

"The bass?"

"You know those low, deep beats of the bass... Gosh!"

Moonbyul cranked the volume higher to make sure Soyeon would hear better.

"Do you hear it now? It's like G Dragon is seducing you with his voice..."

"Sorry... I don't..."

The girl yanks the headphones off her former best friend's head.

"You know what? Screw you and your awful hearing... I'm sure Soojin here could hear the difference, right bud?"

"Hmmm?" Soojin says absentmindedly. She should have known that the happy friends sh*t moment won't last long, and now they're back to arguing again. She has grown so used to it, that she sometimes just tuned them out.

"What's up with you?" Moonbyul asks, taking advantage of Soojin's quietness by forking from Soojin's plate.

"Oh... ummm... nothing... I just received a proposal from the campaign parties, asking me about the campaign."

Her friends all gulp at the same time, exchanging worried glances at each other.

"Is it that time of the year again?" Moonbyul whispers cautiously.

"What?" Soojin asks confusedly as she sees the expression on her friends' faces.

"No offense Seo... but you're not really... ummm... how do I put it? You're not nice. When it's campaign season."

"What?"

The two started to cower in their seats, as Soojin stood up, high and mighty to prove her point.

"It's just that there are too many things to do and-" Soojin starts mumbling fast as she defends herself.

Soyeon clears her throat and decides to let Soojin know the truth.

"I think the thing with you Soojin is, you don't trust anyone. You have this stick shove up your hiney and you are quite a perfectionist."

"Since when is being a perfectionist a bad thing?"

"No it's not... But if you're making people cry then that's something."

"So... you want to be president again?"

Soojin wishes she has a clear cut answer to that. But the truth was, she's stuck in a boundary between what she likes and what people expected her to be like.

She could clearly say that Shuhua has a lot to do with all this confusion. Meeting and falling for the girl, it sort of made her realize things she never thought she wanted. The simple things of hanging out with friends, going out on dates, movies, things that she constantly has to set aside for the sake of running the school.

Seeing Soojin's silence gave Soyeon the chance to speak up.

"You know... no one is forcing you to run. And people would still respect you big time even if you're not president anymore."

"Yeah... You know it's time to be like a teenager in love, Just going out on dates with your lover girl and hanging out with your sh*t friends."

"Oh you guys are still not over that phase."

***

Soojin hasn't stepped in the coffee shop but she already got flagged down by the two girls sharing a milkshake by the corner booth.