It was during Valentine’s Day, on a recess, after Seunghyun slapped a band-aid on her finger and told her to stop crying, that Dara decides she's in love with him. And of course she is, because she's five, and five year-olds think infatuation is a lot like love so they don't bother to distinguish one from the other. She even goes back inside the school—abandoning the warm winter day and several rounds of slushy snowball fight—to clue him in on her affection. She can't tell him directly, of course, because this is her first love and she's much too shy to do something so bold. Taking out a fresh piece of drawing paper and her best box of coloring materials—the one her father gave her, the one with a wide array of crayons, pastels and paint, Dara gets right to work.

She draws and colors all through recess and most of arts and crafts to finish. Her sisters look at her curiously, but after asking a question or two they shrug and go back to their own devices. After all, when Dara gets into one of her artsy moods, it's best to leave her alone. Holding up her drawing, Dara looks the paper with critical, squinting eyes and a tongue sticking out at the corner of , before smiling brightly.
It's her best work yet.

At the end of the day when Seunghyun is packing up his books, Dara approaches him and proudly holds up her picture. She's certain that the bright red and yellow and blue convey her feelings clearly. This makes Dara feel bold like Hanbyul and sure like Bom and she forgets that she's shy and that shy girls aren't so brave with their first love.

"This is my heart," Dara explains, pointing to the red on the paper. "I'm giving it to you."

Seunghyun blinks and scrunches up his face in confusion. "Why?"

"Because I want you to have it."

"Why do you want me to have it?"

"Because."

"Because what?" he asks.

Dara smiles widely at him. "Just because." she chirps, holding it out for him again.

"Oh." With a shrug, he takes it because there's nothing else to do.

"Hey Seunghyun! Hurry it up, will ya?" Siwon hollers from the door at the same time that Bom calls out, "Dara, let's go!" The two glare at each other before looking away in contempt.

"Coming!" Dara and Seunghyun answer back. Dara turns to say goodbye to Seunghyun and sees him stuffing her heart into his backpack. She watches it crumble and crease under his hands. He zips it up and zooms toward his brothers.

Seunghyun doesn't say anything to Dara the next day or the next or the day after that and the da