Wendy is the captain of the ice hockey team who's famous for her short temper. She's always picking fights with her opponents in the ice rink. Sometimes, she'll pick fights with people outside the rink. People around her know that her attitude won't change, it can't. That, until Wendy meets Irene, who doesn't like violence. Irene loathes violence.

 

A/N: Quoted and bolded sentences (“example”) is the commentator’s dialogue

 

 

 

 

 

“Another fantastic goal from the team’s captain!” The commentator’s voice booms through the speaker as Wendy scored a goal against the team they’re against with. The black-haired girl skates through the ice rink with a smug smile displayed all over her face. She is smirking at her opponents, which earn few glares from them but the girl isn’t bothered since she is used to being this annoying towards people.

 

The score is now currently 3-1 with Wendy’s team leading the match. The captain huffs a few hot breaths before readying to continue the match. Smug smile never leaving her face as she is now facing her opponents, ref between the two of them with the puck on his hand.

 

As soon as the referee put down the puck on the ice rink, Wendy tries her hardest to pass it to her teammates. Unfortunately, as she was about to do so, her opponent gets a hold on the puck first and immediately passes it to her teammate. To make matter worse, the girl purposely collides her body onto Wendy hardly, making the latter fall on the ice on her back.

 

Wendy is fuming. She immediately stands up and skates towards the girl, face full of rage. She is famous for her short temper and tonight she’s going to prove it to the people what happens if they mess with her.

 

“You piece of .” The black-haired girl grumbles as she pushes her opponent on the shoulder, taunting her. In no time, all the attention is on them. Dropping her stick and her gloves, Wendy curled her fists, ready to fight the girl in front of her.

 

The other girl feels challenged and do the same, the referees are already on their position, ready to intervene whenever they have to.

 

Wendy throws the first punch, right into her opponent’s cheek, startling the girl in front of her. In a span of a few seconds, the two girls are throwing fists to each other, until their helmets are thrown to the ground. Wendy manage to cut the girl’s left lip, but, she herself was hurt. A punch from the girl manages to cut her right upper eyebrow, the cut was pretty deep. Blood is flowing out of the captain’s eyebrow and also the girl’s lip. Fortunately, before any more cuts are made, the referees intervene the fight, and give both of the girls their five minutes penalty.

 

Wendy is still mad as she skates at her penalty booth, wiping the blood on her eyebrow away.

 

She ended up with five stitches on her eyebrow that night.

 

Fortunately, her team win.

 

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Carrying her ice skate around the campus mindlessly, Wendy is walking aimlessly, following wherever her feet are carrying her. She had just finished her ice hockey practice for the day and realizing that she is free for the rest of the day, the girl decides to walk around the university’s campus.

 

The black-haired girl is wearing her earphones, listening to some of her favourite songs while bopping her head, following the beat of the song. Wendy is walking for more than ten minutes now and without her realizing, she is now standing in front of the theatre’s entrance. Shrugging, she walked into what it seems to be an empty theatre, quickly sitting at the back of the said place. Placing her ice skate on the empty seat beside her, Wendy continues to bop her head, daydreaming.

 

After a few minutes of daydreaming, the girl is disturbed by a voice that is coming from the stage. Pulling her earphone off her ears, Wendy is met with a girl who seems like she was rehearsing something, a play. Squinting her eyes, the ice hockey’s captain is now focused on whatever is happening on the front of the stage.

 

The girl, who is dressed comfortably in her oversized hoodie and a black puma track bottom has a paper on her right hand, reading whatever is printed on it with an expression which has manage to make Wendy mesmerized.

 

“Shhh! I’m cleaning – what does it look like? Don’t bother me.” The mysterious girl says with an irritated face, voicing out the words on the script she is holding.

 

Wendy finds herself holding her breath, enchanted by whatever the girl is doing on the big stage.

 

“You’re going to get us in trouble again.” The mysterious girl keeps on acting. Her expression is on point, like those actresses Wendy had seen in television.

 

Maybe she is rehearsing, Wendy thought quietly. Whatever this girl is doing, it already had Wendy hooked on her.

 

The captain ended up watching the entire rehearsal. Not that she minded anyway. And from that moment onwards, Wendy is determined to find out who that girl is.

 

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It isn’t that hard to find out who the mysterious theater girl is especially when you have a lot of connection. It only took Wendy about an hour of intense Instagram stalking, though the process is quite… complicated. Wendy found Irene, the theater girl’s profile after stalking Seulgi, her roommate’s, girlfriend’s profile in one of her tagged photos. Joy is friends with Irene, and the girl was more than ecstatic after finding out the fact. She’s gonna snatch Irene’s heart and she sure of it.

 

“Irene, as in… the Irene Bae?” Joy asks Wendy amusedly.

 

Both of the roommates are relaxing on the café nearby their dorm, a weekly routine that they always do. Wendy, without shame just decided to casually asks Joy about Irene, the girl whom she had been stalking for a few days now.

 

“Yeah,” The hockey captain answered confidently as she sipped on her favourite hot chocolate, eyes never leaving Joy’s amused ones. “Why are you reacting as if I want to do something bad to her or something?” The black-haired girl raised her eyebrow.

 

“Well,” The taller of the two put down her mug as she repositioned her body to a more comfortable position. “First of all, she’s not what you think she is.”

 

“What do you me-“

 

“Shush.” Joy put her index finger onto Wendy’s lips, silencing Wendy in an instant. The latter grimaces at the contact and have no other option but to shut up. “I’m not finished.” The taller girl said as she retracts her finger and continued, “Second of all, she doesn’t like people like you. No, scratch that. She hates people like you.”

 

“What does that have to mean?” Wendy scoffs and feels a bit insulted but she keeps it hidden.

 

“She hates violence, Wendy. And violence is written all over you.” Joy cackles as she rolled her eyes and continue sipping her tea. “This tea tastes exceptionally good today.”

 

“Well, you don’t know that yet. And I can change my attitude.”

 

“Pffttt. I’ll buy lottery if that happens.”

 

And now Wendy feels challenged.

 

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The next day, as if something had possessed her the night before, Wendy finally decides to confront Irene. She feels fueled with energy and determination especially after what Joy had told her at the café yesterday. Wendy will swipe Irene off her feet and she’s positive of it.

 

Walking to the performing art faculty’s building with a determined face, all eyes are on the hockey captain. Some of them are confused, some are amused and some are stunned on what in the world is she doing here. Wendy paid no attention to those staring and glancing eyes as she has her mind focused on finding Irene the whole time.

 

It isn’t that hard to find out where the subject of Wendy’s mission is, especially when the captain stalked the performing art student religiously for a few weeks now. Without failing, Wendy found Irene sitting alone at an empty table under a big tree, just outside the building. Smiling smugly, the black-haired girl walks confidently and immediately sit down across the unsuspecting brunette who was busy reading a script.

 

Realizing that Irene isn’t aware of Wendy’s presence, the black-haired girl fakes a – rather loud – cough just to get the former’s attention. Hearing Wendy’s fake cough out of nowhere, the brunette flinches and immediately looks up, and was met with an unfamiliar pair of eyes.

 

Wendy immediately flashes Irene her most charming smile, she was so sure that the smile alone will make Irene’s heart skipped thousands of beats.

 

“Hello, Irene.” The captain started as she was still smiling at the brunette in front of her, who was looking at her weirdly. “I’m W-“

 

“Wendy.” Irene cuts her out. “What are you doing here?”

 

Wait, she knows me? Wendy thought as she was having an internal fight with her mind. She is thrilled that Irene knows her. Holy .

 

“You know me?”

 

“Of course. Who wouldn’t?” The brunette says short before quickly packing, shoving her stuffs inside her bag hastily and as quickly as possible. Irene immediately stand up to walk away from there but the younger of the two is quick to her feet to chase Irene.

 

“Hey. I wasn’t done talking.” Wendy reasons out as she is now walking beside Irene who looks like she’s about to run anytime now.

 

“Well, make it fast. I don’t have enough time.” Irene says, without looking at the girl beside her. Irene’s steps are getting faster as seconds pass.

 

“O-Okay.” Wendy feels her confidence starts to plummet down to earth’s crust, but decides to go on with her plan anyway. “Anyway, I was wondering if-“

 

“No.” Again, Irene cuts the captain’s words out.

 

“You don’t even know what am I going to ask you!” Wendy unknowingly whines cutely, but the brunette finds it annoying instead of charming.

 

“You’re going to ask me out on a date, Wendy.”

 

“Wa- How did you know that?! Did Seulgi told you about my plan?”

 

Out of nowhere, Irene immediately stopped and looked at the latter straight in the eye. All of Wendy’s confidence vanished to thin air as soon as her eyes landed on Irene’s cold one. “No, she didn’t.” The brunette says coldly, hands gripping on the strap of her bag as she repositioned it. “What other purpose would you be here anyway? We didn’t share any class together for you to ask me to help you with studies or anything.” Irene says menacingly as she runs her fingers through her hair – which Wendy secretly finds hot – before continuing, “And I don’t want to get involved with you or anything.”

 

“Hey.” The captain scoffs unbelievably and raises her right eyebrow. “What does that supposed to mean.”

 

“I don’t like you.” Irene says straight to the point. “Or at least I don’t like your attitude.”

 

“Is it because I’m violent.”

 

“Exactly.” The brunette rolls her eyes as she continues walking again. Wendy tried to follow but only to be stopped by Irene’s cold glare. “Stop following me.”

 

The hockey captain immediately stops as she looks at Irene’s disappearing figure.

 

“I’m still gonna ask you out though!”

 

“You’ll have to get in line for that.”

 

And with that, Irene is gone inside the building of the performing arts’.

 

“Damn.” Wendy whispers to herself before walking away from there. “She really hates me huh?” The captain then kicks some rock on the pathway before smiling to herself.

 

“That’s hot.”

 

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Giving up, is not in Wendy’s dictionary. If she says she’s gonna get the girl, she really will do whatever it takes to achieve that. After the humiliating rejection by Irene, Wendy keeps on stalking and bothering the girl all over the campus, and all the other students couldn’t help but to notice Wendy’s moves on Irene.

 

Irene however, doesn’t like the spotlight given to her. Mainly because she hates being involved in some dumb, baseless rumour.

 

“Looks like Wendy got herself a new girl.” One student says as the theatre girl made her way to her class. No name is mentioned but Irene know too well that they’re talking about her.

 

“I bet she’ll leave her as soon as she gets into her pants.” Another student says, and Irene can’t help but to feel uncomfortable. Very uncomfortable.

 

The brunette hangs her head low and plugs in her earphones, trying to kill the voice of other students around her. She never hangs her head that low.

 

Damn you Wendy.

 

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Wendy, on the other hand doesn’t even mind the constant stares and whispers she’s getting since she’s used to all of it. She ignores all of them and keeps on bugging Irene, who looked as if she’s on the verge of dying due to the rumours.

 

It was Friday, around 3 pm and Wendy is busy practising with her whole team for hours now. They managed to qualify to the finals and they’re determined to defend their title. Until then, they have approximately three weeks till the competition.

 

Even with her tight schedule, the hockey captain would find her time to bother Irene. It has been going on for weeks till the theatre girl had enough. It’s time for her to take the right step.

 

The hockey team has finished their training for today and like a robot, Wendy immediately packs her stuffs and jogs to the art faculty’s building. The black-haired girl knows Irene had just finished her class for today and she would bug the latter, like she usually does the whole weeks.

 

Waiting for Irene outside the building, the hockey captain hums some random songs as she was playing with her phone, trying to waste time.

 

About three minutes later, Wendy notices Irene and her friends walk out of the building, and as if on cue, the girl immediately walk towards Irene and her group of friends confidently.

 

“Hey Irene.” Wendy says, in a confident tone and a charming smile.

 

“Oh god.” Irene sighs as all her friends look at her while grinning.

 

“We’ll be going ahead Irene~” Her friends coo, purposely leaving her with Wendy. The poor girl can’t help but to groan in frustration. But, that’s what friends are for, right?

 

They left her. Alone, with Wendy.

 

“What do you want, Wendy?” Irene starts walking, rolling her eyes at the girl who is following her, still smiling like a fool.

 

“A date.”

 

“Oh my god will you ever give up?” The brunette stops on her track as she glares at Wendy.

 

“Giving up is not in my dictionary.” The hockey captain rubs her nape and looks down, somehow feel a little bit shy at Irene’s glare.

 

What a weird girl, Irene thought.

 

Groaning, this time a bit louder, the theatre girl has no other options as she closes her eyes forcefully and massages her temples. “Fine.”

 

“R-Really?” Shock is written all over Wendy’s face. After all the weeks, Irene finally agrees to go on a date with her. She just hit home run.

 

“One date.” Irene sternly says, and glares at Wendy again. “And promise that you’ll stop bothering me.”

 

“Deal.”

 

Wendy is on cloud nine.

 

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After telling Joy about Irene agreeing to go out on a date with Wendy, the tall girl couldn’t help but to feel amused at the situation.

 

“So, she finally agrees, huh?” Joy asks and chuckles at Wendy’s funny expression. “I guess she can’t wait to get rid of you.”

 

“Hey!” Wendy immediately frown and scoffs. “I still got a chance to snatch her heart.”

 

“Yeah.” Joy shrugs Wendy off disinterestedly. “Good luck with that. She has a stone heart.”

 

The tall girl then immediately walks inside her room after receiving a call from a certain neighbourhood bear, leaving Wendy alone in the living room.

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