It was a fine sunny day to walk around before training well, atleast for Yujin who had 12 hours of sleep. Maybe, a reward for succesfully completing all of her requirements despite the tough training, Yujin have always loved volleyball as the girl always claimed that it was her first love ever since the age of seven. so regardless the heavy schedule and the workload that they were given Yujin still manages to make time for training as the Middle Blocker in their team, Yujin was wasn't very good when it comes to academics and it somehow frustrates her but in Volleyball... Yujin has always felt like she was in the top of everything, no criticism when it comes to her skills, no doubting as volleyball brings out the best in her when she stood by the net in every rally.

Yujin was walking near to their gym along holding a bottle of gatorade in her hand feeling the cold breeze of the morning which Yujin fancied a lot, not being able to attend classes was probably one of the best thing about being in the team, being excused in all of your classes and not being minded by the cocky professor that made her classmates cry because of the 2000 words of essay that they have to pass in the same day. 

"Hey, Ahn Yujin." Yujin shifted her gaze to familiar voice that belonged to the human duck, Choi Yena who was riding her bike 

Choi Yena has always been Yujin's best buddy ever since she started playing volleyball and along with Yujin the both of them entered the team but with Yena as the setter. 

"Hey." 

"The heck are you standing there for? Come on, we're late unless you want to do 50 push ups, heard coach is expecting us." Yena paddled quickly and made Yujin ran catching up on Yena who was half complaining when she was just so calm a minute a go enjoying her morning walk (way to ruin her morning Yena.)

Yujin ran through the neighborhood and immediately went for the gym, spotting Yena's bike that was left alone on the ground and without it's proper lock maybe Coach Yoonjung wasn't really in the mood today, Yujin swallowed the lump on and mentally face palmed thinking about the consequences that she might face, hurriedly Yujin opened the doors of the gym only to find the whole team gathered together in a circle while their Coach Bae Yoonjung. 

"You were nasty for doing me like that you know." Yujin complained while doing some stretching next to Yena who made her run for quite a distance only to find out that their Coach were announcing something that isn't very important just like their training schedule. 

"Pfft, it's alright to come early when you've been late for training the whole month." Yena following their usual stretching routine. 

"Touche but hey last night was rough, i had to catch up on essay Ms. Shin gave to the class last week, she's being fiercer you know." 

"Poor you, you know i actually feel lucky that Joyul's there to cover me up, she's such an Angel." 

"Just ask the girl out, she's been there for your in like... i don't know... forever." Yujin whined. 

"It's not that easy you know, i know she likes me alright but what will her parents say? dating a no good volleyball setter and not some academic wise kid who's as good as her?" 

"Hey, that's Insulting." Yujin raised her eyebrows regarding Yena's statement about volleyball and shoved the human duck lightly

"Whatever it's just it's not that easy when you know Joyul's parent's very well." 

Yujin stood up and took a bottle of water and sat in the bleachers along with Yena following her looking through their team mates who're working on their defense which Yujin really admired especially Nako, the girl didn't have the height but she swears that the team's powerful offense could be nothing without Nako's defense, Yujin stared back at Yena who's still stating reasons why she shouldn't confess to Yuri.

"Straight A's student, she could do anything Yujin!" Yena exclaiming possibly mentioning everything that Yuri can do including her ability to break a glass just with her voice. 

"Yeah, a straight A student who can do everything but be straight." Yujin chuckled.

"As if you are one." Yena snorted. " Hey, have you heard?" 

"Heard what?" Yujin crossed her arms admiring the team's strenght

"Remember good ol Mrs. Jang who lived two doors after mine?" Yujin's eyes again, shifted on Yena, hearing the duck's news immediately caught Yujin's attention.

"Mrs. Jang who gives red velvet cookies during our childhood?" Yujin swallowed the invisible lump on quite anxious of what Yena would say. 

"Yeah, that Ms. Jang well apparently they might move back here because her Husband left for cruise already, he's a Seaman you know and i think they're going to visit today." 

"What do you mean they?" Yujin's eyebrows raised along with Yena's statement. 

"Oh, you know her daughter? Jang Wonyoung we used to play along with that kid, you know the small kid who could barely steal the ball from you." Yena chuckled. 

Yujin sighed, She felt anxious. The last time she felt anxious like that was during their match for Do or Die along with Hanlim, Yujin biting her cheek trying to distract the fact that Jang Wonyoung is coming back, she closed her eyes for a second and tried to catch her breath, It's a few years ago and Wonyoung might've forgot those things, Yujin can't be bothered it's training soon and if she doesn't want to receive a facial hit she must focus. 

"Hey, i saw her Instagram though, you know what she's cute it's like she's made out of Girlfriend material." 

"Yena, that's pretty cringey. What's next? I know what's your shirt's material is, GIRLFRIEND MATERIAL! This is why Yuri is concerned about you." 

"No, Yuri's concerned about me because she likes me and so do you, so you better dress well when you come to my house later for Mom's Birthday besides, you're going to meet your bride after a long while i mean... you promised you'd marry her and mom said Wonyoung's had the height."

Before Yujin could reply, Yena ran off to the court as she heard the whistle blow their coach reminding them that it's their turn but Yujin could only sigh after all those years the crack head could've remember a Mathematics solution but no, Yena's braincells chose Yujin's faith of marrying Wonyoung, it was a bit embarassing to tell but Yujin has no choice as Yena remembers it, Yujin hoped that out of all those adventures of their childhood Yena could remember, she chose that memory.

Yujin jumped for the net and succesfully reaching the top of it and preparing to attack the ball from their equipment. 

"Yujin work on your foot work!" She heard their coach shouted. 

Yujin should be focused and not stress about Wonyoung. 

Training ended and it was time to go home, Yujin and Yena dropped off to a convenience store to buy their favourite snacks and it just worries Yujin to go home since she has no escape for dinner as her whole family is also invited to Yena's family dinner as their parents were also friends and even stuck with Yena on their way home, she really has no choice but to attend the dinner where Wonyoung is also invited.

Yujin parted with Yena and arrived home and found her Mom getting ready for the said dinner, Yujin greeted her Mom like the usual and went to her room and of course, her mom reminding her that she should take a shower and get changed as Yena's Mom already called Yujin's Mom. 

Yujin entered her room and placed her backpack down, she sat on her customized chair and played with her balling setting it again and again clearly has no worries if she ever breaks her lights. 

"She's coming back." Yujin's lips turned into a curve after all those years Wonyoung is coming back. 

Yujin placed the ball down and reached for a photo album under her bed which she kept a long time ago, Yujin opened the photobook seeing all those memories from her childhood, she found a photo of her and toothless Yena eating their ice cream, a photo of her in her rocking horse, more photos of toothless Yena, a photo of Her, Yena and Wonyoung in their little tents that they made, Yujin could still remember how she struggled making her tent and finally, her favourite photo, a photo of her and Wonyoung holding each other's hands and Yujin couldn't help but smile at how little Wonyoung looked on the photo.

The three of them were inseperable during their childhood even in the age of 6 when Yujin had the habit of annoying little Wonyoung in some ways. Hiding Wonyoung's favourite Teddy Bear, eating all the cake that was left in their counter that Wonyoung reserved for herself, snatching away her controller once Wonyoung gets ahead of Yujin in Mario Kart. For a five years old, it's normal to throw tantrums but Wonyoung couldn't just get easily mad at Yujin when the older girl actually makes her happy by simpling watching the girl eat her cake, leaving the pink icing on the blue shirt that she oftenly wears and when Wonyoung felt secured by holding Yujin's hand instead of Yena's knowing that the other girl was more of a klutz than Yujin, Because in Little Wonyoung's perspective Yujin is warm.

So it wasn't a surprise when the childish antics started to kick in as they play on Yena's porch, Yena as the great Pirate, Wonyoung as the Governor's Daughter and Of course, Yujin who was proudly wearing her white long sleeve and a very Will Turner sword, In the end the great Will Turner defeated the Pirate and gets to save the Governor's Daughter and that's when they blurted out the promise. 

"Yujin, you always save me when we play why can't you just protect me permanently?" Wonyoung said out of the blue while sitting beside Yujin and Yena on their porch holding an Ice Cream from the Ice Cream truck that just passed by

"What do you mean protect you permanently? I mean Yujin can't tie her shoelaces properly so i doubt that Wonyoung." Yena chuckled and later elbowed by Yujin who seemed so proud about Wonyoung being grateful that she always gets to save her. 

"Well, that's how i am." Yujin said proudly "and besides, it's my duty to protect shorties like you." Yujin teased. 

"I'm not short, you're just taller so what do you say you protect me permanently?" Wonyoung's eyes lit up along with her smile facing Yujin. 

"Eh, that's difficult to happen you guys have to be bonded like some sort of marriage." Yena abrupted when the two started questioning Yena 

"So, we need to get married so that Yujin can protect me forever?" 

Yena nodded

"Yujin, promise me you'll marry me when we get older." Wonyoung pouted looking at Yujin and raising her pinky finger. 

"Nah, I can't do that you're not the same height as me!!" 

"But... But I'll grow too maybe even the same height as you please please please Yujin, you need to protect me from the monster inside my closet." 

Yujin stopped in her tracks, Wonyoung has monsters in her closet too? Yujin gulped and raised her pinky finger as well. 

"Alright, I promise I'll marry you... when you have the same height as me." Yujin grinned. 

"Really Yujin!?" 

"Yes, i'm gonna live in your house and I'll protect you from the monsters in your closet." 

"No, but your House is enormous we'll be moving in your house!!" 

Yujin wore her red usual flannel and matched it with ripped jeans and a pair of vans, the casual look the she would wear when hanging out with her friends, as much as how happy she is she actually feel pressured knowing the fact that Wonyoung is there, the only trust worthy item for her right now is her perfume and she's all set as she heard her Mother's voice already calling for her to go to Yena's house. 

They moment they opened the door they were welcomed by Yena's mother when Yujin kissed her Auntie on the cheek and went immediately on Yena's room who were laying on her bed playing her PS4, Yujin plugged the other controller as Yujin tried to avoid the topic of Wonyoung because surely Yena would freak out and might do something awkward, it's been years since she last saw Wonyoung and she haven't checked the girl's instagram yet; There are just some things that we can never forget. Who knew? Maybe Wonyoung has a Boyfriend or a Girlfriend now, Yujin thought that maybe it's always better to take your chances, it wasn't long until they heard Yena's mother called the both of them signaling that The Jang's has arrived and dinner is ready, Yena was ready to go when Yujin couldn't move from her spot. 

"Yena, i can't." 

"What a loser, come on food's ready i'm hungry." 

"Yena i can't, just bring me food in here I'm ready to stay here until midnight." 

"Boo you loser, come on I'm serious for real, i'm hungry." 

"Yena no." 

"Yujin, don't make me." 

and within a blink of an eye, Yujin was out there in the hallway of Yena's house on their way to the living room and within every footsteps Yujin could feel her heart bounce, Yujin could feel the greetings of Hi and Hello's of the elder people inside the living room. 

"What took you guys so long?" 

"Yujin just had to make sure the rings are ready." Yena snorted and her Mother's eyebrows crossed 

"O-kay? Go to the dining room the guests are waiting for all of us." 

Quickly getting pulled in the Dining Room by a hungry Yena. 

and There was Wonyoung, in her pink hoodie wearing her denim shorts along with her white sneakers, Yujin felt as if Wonyoung never left but Yujin thought, this Wonyoung is better, longer hair, soft hazel eyes, perfectly white teeth and her long hair not the same little bucked tooth Wonyoung who were always latched into her hand and gradually the corner of Yujin's lips turning into a curve, the Dinner went smoothly and just an actual conversations between their parents and some exchange of questions of Yena and Wonyoung, Yujin didn't talked or muttered a word the moment the dinner started she would casually steal glances at Wonyoung but the other girl caught Yujin and she couldn't help but smiled back to the girl she's been waiting for, Yujin found out that her parents might enroll Wonyoung in their current school and that delighted Yujin for the night. 

It wasn't long when their popped off the champagne and Yena asked Yujin to go to her room with her, Yujin shifted her gaze and looked at Wonyoung who happens to be uncomfortable in the current situations.

"Yena, what'd we do about Wonyoung?" 

"I don't know you take care of her, she's your bride after all hey, i'm just gonna go to Mom's bed room and sneak foods go ask Wonyoung to come with us." 

"But..." 

Even before Yujin could reply Yena dashed onto the stais into her Mom's room leaving a fazed and anxious Yujin, Yujin didn't have a choice she indeed rejected most kids from School from asking her out on a date but she do have conscience thinking about how Wonyoung came from miles away just to be lonely and she actually hates the thought of it, In a heartbeat Yujin marched onto the corridors on her way to the living room where Wonyoung was lazily sitting, Yujin it costed Yujin her reputation the last time she risked herself, she couldn't possible embarass herself too much right now, so with a shaky hand Yujin walked up into the living room and as soon as she stepped her foot in the living room, Yujin met Wonyoung's eyes that made her bit her cheeks. 

Calm down Yujin, it's just Wonyoung. 

"H-hey Wonyoung." Yujin stuttered. 

"Hey.. Yujin." Wonyoung flashed a smile that Yujin couldn't get tired of. 

"Y-yena's up in her room, w-would... uh come and join us?" 

"I'd love to." 

Yujin had a little prayer in her mind actually rejoicing that she didn't embarass herself, Wonyoung stood up from the couch and was about to go with Yujin but then the puppy had an idea. 

"A-actually Wonyoung, i'm going out to buy us some foods in the convenience store would you like to go with me?" 

Wonyoung gradually accepted Yujin's offer, the duo snucked out of the house while their parents were in the dining area drinking some fine wine. Yujin sneakily closed the front door and walked with Wonyoung who was waiting for her, the convenience store wasn't really that far from Yena's house, it was merely a walking distance and that would make it a relief, Yujin only had to battle awkwardness in order to talk to Wonyoung, Yujin knows that literally nothing is going to happen once she stop talking to Wonyoung. 

The both of them walked silently as Yujin was starting to think of a topic, shall she talk about volleyball? no, Wonyoung might not be interested in Volleyball. School and academics? Nah, Yujin barely even attend her classes. Boyfriend? Nah, -- Yujin was in the middle of jamming her brain of what topic to talk to Wonyoung about when Wonyoung finally decided to break the ice. 

"So Yujin, it's been a while huh." Wonyoung flashed a cocky smile that made Yujin swallow the lump on  

"Yeah, it's been a while." again, Yujin muttered. 

"Why did i become too pretty that you can't even speak?" Wonyoung raised her eyebrows 

And with Wonyoung's stories the awkwardness was gone, the both of them got out of the convenience store with the bag of chips and the both of them casually holding their ice cream laughing at how the ice cream looked like since it was self service when Wonyoung haven't had those for years. 

"Mine looks like ." Wonyoung complained

"Well, you gotta perfect those it takes years to make the perfect ice cream twirl." Yujin chuckled taking a bite from her ice cream.

"So, you had a boyfriend yet?" Yujin was dying to ask Wonyoung this the whole night. 

"What makes you think that?" 

"Nothing, you look so different compared to the Wonyoung that we know, i mean it's a good difference. you were so little back then that you can't even steal the ball from me" Yujin chuckled. 

"But hey, atleast i grew how bout you got a girlfriend yet?" Wonyoung asked kicked the pebbles as they walked in the streets

"Hey, i asked first." 

"But i wanna know your answer first." 

"Wonny that's not fair, i asked first." 

"That's just boring and what did you just call me?" 

"Huh? What do you mean?" 

"You just called me something." 

"What?" 

"You called me Wonny." 

"Uh, yeah? we used to call you Wonny when you were young." 

"And you used to promise to marry me when i get pass your height." 

Yujin almost choked on the ice cream that she was eating, it was a topic that she was saving for the night when Yena is already snoring and asleep but Wonyoung has her ways. 

"Don't come for my neck like that oh my god." Yujin tried to clear while Wonyoung was patting her back. 

"I'm sorry, i didn't mean to shock you like that." Wonyoung laughed 

the both of them finally arrived Yena's house and as Yujin opened the gate she turned to Wonyoung to say something. 

"Wonyoung, you were asking me if i have a girlfriend right? The answer is no, i don't have any girlfriend." 

"Eh? Why not? That's impossible with a girl like you? you must have tons of admirers in school." Wonyoung's eyes rolled with Yujin's statement actually not believing the older girl. 

"I do have, but i don't like any of them haven't found the actual one in my High School." 

"Why is that?" 

"Silly, because just like you said  i promised to marry you when you're in my height." 

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So yeah, it's been awhile how is everybody?