"So do you like him?" I asked Seohyun, after Yonghwa disappeared from sight.

She looked at me with surprise. "W-What?" she turned red.

"You like him, do you?" I asked, grinning. She was so cute when she was flustered!

"N--"

"Aww, our little Seohyunnie is in love~" I sang teasingly.

She flushed more. "Unnie!" she whined.

"Hey, you didn't come up with a nickname for me that fast …" I heard Tae whine.

"Aww, TaeTae is jealous," I cooed, wrapping an arm around her. Her body was so cuddly, I had to hold myself back from glomping her. Which was a quality I loved in her.

She huffed and turned her head away from me. "No I'm not," she said bluntly.

"Well, Tiff gave me the name 'Sica' pretty quickly, so I'm not jealous or anything …" Jessi said, joining in the teasing.

She shrugged my arm off. Even though I knew she was playing along, possibly to freak Seohyun out (which was my goal), I couldn't help but feel my heart sink a little.

"You guys are mean. I'm going to sleep," she said, walking towards the bedroom with a single bed.

"Aww, Taengoo … " Jessi whined, running up to her and hugging her from behind. "You know we're just teasing you …"

"Hmph,"

"Will you forgive me if I buy you ice cr--" before I could finish, I was cut off by Tae's childish squeal.

"ICE CREAM!" she screamed, squeezing Jessi before releasing her and squeezing me. I blushed.

"Yah! Do you want to make me go deaf?" Jessi whined, head bowed, hands over ears.

She released me (making me sorta sad from the loss of contact) and grinned at Jessi. "Sorry Sica," she said, turning back to me. "Come on, Fany! Ice cream!"

She said, pulling me (and Seohyun) towards the door. "Come one Sica!"

"Unnie, I have class in 15 minutes, though …"

"Aww," she turned around with a sad expression on her face, causing my heartstrings to tug painfully at the adorable sight. "You're no fun."

"But unnie, I can't skip--"

"I'm just kidding, Seohyun-ah," she said, smiling at her. "Have fun at class!"

"Deh, thank you unnie!"

Seohyun started walking away. Then, Taeyeon's face lit up. She grinned mischievously. "And may Yonghwa be in your class!"

Jessi and I laughed. "Unnie!" I heard Seohyun whine.

Tae joined our laughter. "Just kidding Seohyun!" she said, bending over, holding her stomach. "H…Have fun at class!" she told her in between laughs.

I swear I didn't mean to. But when I looked at Tae, I couldn't help but notice something white under her short-shorts, decorated with a few green peas in a pod.

I immediately looked up, blushing hard. Aww, she's so cute!

My eyes landed on the slowly shrinking figure of Seohyun walking away, but my mind drifted elsewhere. Back to when I found out she loved Dukong.

She was even cuter back then.

Well, equally as cute, I guess. One cannot be more cute than Taeyeon. It is a scientifically proven fact … by me.

But one thing i remember was when she showed up at my house in the middle of the night, hugging a Dukong plush. I still haven't figured out why, but she asked if she could stay over. So I got out 2 sleeping bags and laid them on the living room floor and fell asleep.

But before I fell asleep, I noticed Tae's sleeping position: she was curled up with her plush, squeezing the living peas out of that thing.

And I remember I became jealous of that plush. But even so, I fell asleep.

And I remember that I secretly stole the plush the next day, and slept with it ever since.

But all thievery aside, trust me. It was EXTREMELY cute.

So I win.

"Fany, what did you win?"

"Huh?"

"You just mumbled 'so I win' … "

"Oh, I did?" Darn it, I thought I got rid of that habit. "Uh, it wasn't anything," I reassured Tae.

Her face took a confused look. "She's just being weird again, Taengoo. Don't worry," Jessi said, patting her arm.

"H--"

"Oh, I got it!" she proclaimed, breaking into a smile. "You were talking about--"

"Taengoo, she was just mumbling to herself again. It's something she used to do in elementary school," Jessi cut her off.

"And I stopped around 5th grade after Jessi bullied me endlessly about that," I added.

Tae laughed. "Ah, I see. Well, it's so cute, it's hard not to make fun of!" My mouth stretched into an uncontrollable smile, face heating up.

"Yeah, Tiffany was really cute back then--"

"Was? Am I still not cute?" I asked, putting on the cutest puppy dog eyes I could muster, looking at Jessi curiously and tilting me head slightly to the side.

Even though I was concentrating my eyes on Jessi, in the very edge of my peripheral vision, I saw Tae smile, eyes completely melting. An immense sense of proudness overran my heart.

She chuckled. "Ok, kid. You're still pretty cute," she admitted.

"Yah, kid?" I used my peripheral vision to check on Tae again. She was still staring at me, smiling. Secretly, I smiled back. "I'm older than you!"

"Well no offense, but I think mentally, I'm older," Jessi said in a voice adults use when talking to their children about right from wrong. It was so effective, I caught myself nodding.

She broke out into laughter. "Y-You … you agreed … you agreed with m-me …" she said, doubling over, hand on stomach. "O-Oh … oh my god …"

Taeyeon joined Jessi in her laughter. "You're so obedient, Fany-ah …"

Even though that line was simple and innocent, my mind couldn't help but drift onto another instance of 'obedience'.

I covered up my thoughts with a pouting frown. "Humph. You guys are so mean," I whined.

Taeyeon patted my back, sending electricity all over my body.

It still did that. Even after being friends with Tae for 8 years, I never got used to it.

"We're just teasing you, Fany-ah. Don't get too mad," she said, holding in her laughter. Jessi followed suit and subdued herself. Honestly, I don't get why it was so funny.

Well actually, there was one instance, now that I think about it. It was quite embarrassing, now that I'm remembering ...

"Sica, you promised me ice cream! Let's go!" she suddenly remembered amidst the 'excitement', pulling my and Jessi's hand to the elevator.

She sighed. "I just had to say that, didn't I?" she mumbled.

0*0*0*0

We must have been the strangest group of people you ever saw walking around the Stanford campus.

Tae was bouncing around excitedly, constantly running forward, looking back to notice we were still walking, run back to us, pull our hands, find out that we weren't about to go faster, and walked with us, bouncing around again.

Jessi was busy looking at her wallet, horror struck that she didn't have much cash on her. She created this rule for herself that she would only carry cash around, except one credit card for gas, so she wouldn't spend too much money, after a shopping spree followed by an angry mother.

It was pretty smart, but honestly, I wondered how much longer she would be able to keep her promise in check.

And then there was me, walking along side Jessi, smiling at Tae's cycle of restlessness.

"Come on, we're almost there!" Tae shouted, running ahead again. Of course she would remember where the cafe that sells ice cream is. We had visited Stanford a year ago for the sake of visiting colleges, and I had already forgotten everything about Stanford's interior except for the arch we entered through.

"We can split it if you want, Jessi," I told her, who was currently talking to herself, debating whether or not she should use her credit card if the situation arose where she didn't have enough cash to pay for the ice cream.

"Really?" Jessi asked, immediately brought out of her discussion with herself.

"Yeah," I replied. "We'd better hurry though. Tae's getting impatient," I said, nodding at her. She was currently holding open the door, ushering us in.

"…what?" She looked up at Tae. She broke into a smile. "Yeah, we'd better hrry," she said. The people who were entering and leaving were thanking her, and at the same time, giving her a weird look. I couldn't blame them though; a short, kid-like Asian waving her hand in our direction.

I picked up my pace to a fast walk.

0*0*0*0

When we finally got our ice cream, (it turns out Jessi had enough, with about 14 cents to spare), we sat down at a table.

"Hey look, another Korean!" she said, bringing up a spoon of chocolate mint ice cream to .

I followed her finger to look at, indeed, another Korean. "We should go introduce ourselves!" Tae said, bringing up another spoonful of that green colored ice cream, dotted with chunks of brown cubes to .

"Taengoo, if you continue eating that fast, you'll get a brain freeze," Jessi stated, using her mother tone again.

She immediately slowed down. I smiled and looked over at Jessi, who was also smiling. We shared eye contact before laughing a little.

However, Tae was already walking to the other Korean girl. I sighed and grabbed my bowl of strawberry (pink!) ice cream and followed Tae.

"Hi, I'm Taeyeon! What's your name?" she said, sitting down in front of her.

"Im Yoona," she said, grinning. Tae laughed. What was so funny?

Jessi chuckled, a second later. "Yah, don't you get it?" she said, slapping me in the back.

"Ow! No …"

" 'Im' is her family name," she explained.

I nodded. "Oooh …"

"You're worse than I am at Korean!" she laughed.

"Jessi, you're laughing a lot today. Did you take some happy gas this morning?"

"No," she replied, calming down.

"And these are my friends, Tiffany," I smiled and bowed. "and Jessica," she looked at her with her usual stare, as if she were looking into your soul to judge your personality.

Yoona smiled nervously. "H-Hi Tiffany, Hi Jes--" she stopped there after looking at her. She was still staring at her.

She whispered something to Tae. "Don't worry, she's usually like that around people she doesn't know. All you have to do is stand next to her. See?" she said, putting her spoon back in her bowl and getting up, walking to Jessi and stopping right next to her. She smiled at Yoona.

Jessi jumped. "Yah, Taengoo! I told you I don't like being close to people!"

Yoona laughed, before abruptly stopping herself as her eyes drifted back on Jessi.

"Sorry about that, you just look like someone I know …" Jessi said, apologizing.

Now that I think about it, she did look like someone we knew in elementary school. But it couldn't be her; she had a different name. Could it?

Hey, sorry for not updating in …3 weeks? o.o

But yeah. High school is pretty hard. Well actually, it's not only high school, but Youtube is working again, which means I spent most of my free time watching SNSD's variety shows. And considering most of them are an hour long … yeah

Another excuse I can throw at your face is because I didn't really know what to do with this chapter. I was about to introduce the conflict, but then I remembered that I needed to introduce Yoona.

Drama starts next chapter! Yaaay!

…

No? Well too bad >:D

A good story needs conflict, anyway. But hope you enjoyed!