Nako is astonishingly strong for someone of her stature, Yujin thinks as she clings to a fence. The smaller girl is tugging on her shirt, heels firmly planted into the ground as she yanks and yanks. Yujin swears she can feel her shirt tearing in Nako's monstrous grip.

"Nako, you're going to tear my shirt off."

"If that's what it takes, then so be it!" Nako huffs. Her eyebrows are tightly knit as she summons all of her strength in her 4-foot-11 body.

"Ripping my clothes off will not change my mind," Yujin insists.

"I don't know why you think that's an appropriate sentence for someone your age," Nako grumbles, "but you are going on this damn cable car with me, whether you want it or not."

Yujin spares a glance behind her. Looming over the small figure of Nako is one of her greatest fears: the cable car. When their managers had announced that they had a couple of free days after their Hong Kong concert, Yujin was estatic. To her, this meant eating everything in sight and buying some cute accessories for her tiny partner-in-crime, one Yabuki Nako. She had imagined traipsing through bustling city streets and inhaling egg tarts, not... This.

"Nako, please, I can't." Yujin hates how her voice has taken on a pleading, whiny tone. She heaves a sigh in relief when the hands clutching at her shirt relax their grip for a moment.

"Does it make sense that a tall person is scared of heights?" Nako appears in front of her, pouting and putting on her best hurt-puppy look. How Yujin wants to reach out and pinch her cheeks and wipe away the pout from Nako's face. So she does, foolish and naive as she is, releasing her hold on the fence to place her hands on Nako's cheeks.

In a flash Nako grabs Yujin by the wrists and drags her towards a waiting cable car. Yujin immediately realises her mistake and squirms in Nako's grasp. She knows she's fighting a losing battle; god knows how much muscle mass Nako has put on just from exercising with Eunbi. She yelps as she is shoved into a gondola, lunging for the closing door as Nako gracefully slides in and sits down. Yujin drums her fists on the glass doors in a panic, but the cable car assistant has suddenly gone wonderfully deaf and blind.

As the gondola takes off from the ground, Yujin slumps to the ground. She glares at Nako, who wears a triumphant grin on her face. "Evil," Yujin mutters.

"Chicken," Nako retaliates. She lights up as they leave the station, pressing her face against the window to stare at the landscape below. Yujin quietly thinks Nako's wide eyes make her too cute for words. She'd never admit this to Nako, but as she sees the way Nako gasps and points in wonder at every little thing she spots, she's actually pretty happy that Nako's dragged her to this hellish place if it means she could watch the older girl fall in love with the world.

That is until Nako jabs a finger at the floor. "Yujin, look!" Yujin looks down instinctively and starts to have a mental breakdown -- the floor is made of glass. She can see trees, people walking under their feet, even buildings.

"Ohno-" Yujin scrambles to her feet and attempts to get herself as far away from the floor as possible. She curls up in one of the seats, tucking her head between her knees and squeezes her eyes shut. "How far more? Dear god, how far more?"

"Yujin, it's a 25-minute ride. We literally just left a minute ago." As excited as Nako is, she does now feel bad for dragging Yujin along. It just never occurred to her that a giant -- to her eyes, at least -- could be afraid of heights. Putting her excitement away for now, she sits down next to Yujin and takes the terrified girl's hands. "Hey, you okay?"

"I'm not listening, I'm not looking up, don't do anything, don't talk to me until this damn thing is over and we are on the ground please and thank you."

"Yujin." Nako shuffles over a little bit more and wraps the trembling girl in a warm embrace. She rubs Yujin's arm in encouragement. "It'll be fine. Just listen to my voice. I'm here with you."

Yujin just buries her head further into the crook of Nako's neck. She mumbles something incoherent as she reciprocrates the hug. Sighing, Nako looks around them, trying her best to appreciate the view for the both of them. Might as well one out of two girls take something good away from this experience, she thinks.

They remain in the same position for a good number of minutes until the gondola jerks to a stop. Yujin's head flies up and she quickly scans their surroundings. "Are we here?"

"Um..." Nako peeks at the glass floor. From what she can tell, they are well above a forest of some sort. "No? I think we're halfway there though, does that count?"

"Then why did we stop?" Yujin complains. She freezes in Nako's arms. "Oh , what if the cable car has broken down?"

"That's not going to happen," Nako assures her.

"Well, you don't know that! What if we're stuck here forever?" Yujin's eyes have grown wide and wild. She grabs Nako's shoulders and starts shaking her.

"Can you, like, not?" Nako wrestles Yujin away. Their violent movements cause the gondola to sway dangerously at the top of the cable car line.

"Did you feel that?" Yujin whispers.

Nako gulps. "No," she lies. She cups Yujin's face in her hands and stares into her eyes. "Look at me, . You need to calm down. Follow me and take deep breaths. In, and out. In, and out."

Yujin inhales and exhales, following Nako's pace, until she feels her heart stop racing a little.

"Okay?" Nako asks again.

"Maybe." Yujin huffs out a breath at Nako's raised brow. "Okay."

As they wait out the cable car, Nako lets her head drop into her hands. "God knows why Wonyo recommended this to me," she mutters under her breath. "She said you'd like it."

"Wonyo?" Yujin narrows her eyes. "Jang Wonyoung, my labelmate, the one who I basically shared my childhood with and knows my greatest fears, told you that I'd like to ride a cable car?"

"Well, she told me that we'd enjoy ourselves here, yes."

Yujin shakes her head, disappointed. What was their youngest member thinking?

Exhausted, Nako crosses her arms and closes her eyes. "God, I'm so tired. Let's just go to sleep, I'll wake you up when we reach the ground."

It's Yujin's turn to feel bad.  it, she thinks, and takes a risk. Without jostling the gondola too much, she pulls Nako onto her lap. Propping her chin on Nako's shoulder, she tries to dial up her charm to eleven. "If Wonyoung said we'd enjoy ourselves here somehow, then she must have thought of something. Right?"

Don't think about where you are, don't think about where you are, Yujin tells herself. Her arms snake around Nako's waist. "Like this?"

Nako shakes her head. "I'm not getting it."

Yujin tilts her head and places a light peck on Nako's collarbone. "How 'bout this?"

Nako fights the grin that threatens to bloom across her face. "Mm, not really working for me," she says as she leans back, giving Yujin more access to her neck.

"How about..."

Neither of them realise when the gondola starts to move again, but later that night, both girls individually head to Wonyoung's bedroom to thank her and agree that yes, they did in fact enjoy themselves during the cable car ride, and no, Yujin will not be riding the damned thing again.