Jessica was standing on a frosty mountain in the Himalayas, mounted firmly, frozen actually in the knee high snow with her camera in hand getting the shots of the view of her descent. She was alone, not literally since she was with a guide, but still alone. She herself could not believe the audacity of the situation, she who was a strong believer in not sweating, is in fact drenched in frozen sweat, on a mountain. She hated sweating, but liked the cold, an even trade-off she said when she decided to come here. It’s taken her a week to make it up the mountain as far as she could go before her lungs would start to cry at her for oxygen. Now she’s on her way back down with two days left until she’s at the base.

She’d hope that this latest adventure would have freed her from her suffocation, but it didn’t. Being virtually alone and taking in some of the most breathtakingly beautiful pictures, should be working their magic and making her forget a certain someone, but it didn’t. She was bruised and scarred by Tiffany. Three years on this all paid for opportunity of any photographer’s lifetime and she’s still thinking about Tiffany. She sees her everywhere, in everything. Most people would say that’s the great power of love, but she wished the power plant would shut down, indefinitely. You’d think traveling the globe and going with the flow, would help her forget, but it hasn’t, yet. She hopes that maybe one day it will.

She was contracted by her very own uncle, one Mister Lee Sooman, Sunny’s father. He knew her situation, at the time, from Sunny and offered her the job. He said she’s, “got talent, and might as well do something great with it.” Mr. Lee thought she was wasting her talent doing puff-piece editorial pictures for magazines. Jessica, to him, was like another daughter and just wanted to help. So, he came up with the expedition to help Jessica, and also himself. He needed Sunny back in Korea to manage the growing branch of one of his companies.

Jessica was too entrapped in taking pictures, that she didn’t know that someone else had joined them on the mountain, but ascending. Jessica eventually noticed the girl when she was getting in her way. The person was a girl, face covered and had long black hair that she once had. The girl knew she was in the way of Jessica because she laughed when the latter let out a frustrated grunt. The girl was taller, and she faced Jessica and spoke, “You don’t have to get upset, it’s not even that great of a view.”

Jessica looked at the girl incredulously and replied coldly, but aggressively, “You’re wrong. It’s majestic view only enhanced by the beauty of the daylight.”

“Majestic? Hardly.”

“What would you know? You’re just a kid. Shouldn’t you be in school, little girl?” Somehow, Jessica felt something very familiar arguing with the tall girl.

“Yeah, but I had to come here and fetch my runaway of a sister.”

“What are--” Jessica stopped when the girl uncovered her face just a bit and revealed her eyes. Those eyes. Those eyes were cat-like, cunning and mischievous, and adorable. Those eyes belonged to her sister. Krystal smirked under the material that covered , “Finally you realized. You’re so dull, unnie.”

“Krystal. How?”

“You and Jaejoong oppa aren’t the only one with smart genes. I just hired some people.”

Jessica nearly dropped her camera as she made her way to Krystal and suffocated her with a massive hug. It’s been too long since she’s last seen her baby sister. Too long and now look, her baby sister is no more a baby than it was freezing around them. Krystal started gasping for air when her sister’s embrace became too much and Jessica immediately let go, and looked into her sister’s eyes. They weren’t the type to show their tears in front of others, so they both held it in knowing what the other was feeling.

“Don’t worry, Mom and Dad don’t know. I’ve been railroading them the last couple years.

“Why’re you here, in the middle of the mountains when you should be in school?”

“To get you, stupid. And don’t worry about school, I'm covered."

"You didn't have to come all the way here. You could've just called Sunny unnie and she would tell me and i would go straight to you."

"Eh," she shrugged her shoulders, "some things need to be done yourself."

"Why do you want me to go back all of a sudden?"

"It's not all of a sudden, stupid. It's been seven years and I want my sister back. Back for my graduation. You owe me at least that much."

"If it's for you, I'll go back."

"Good, then I'm leaving. It's too cold up here. My graduation is in two weeks so you better get your affairs in order when you get off of this frozen rock." Krystal hugged her sister an walked towards a helicopter that has come out from the mountains, gets on and says through the speakers, "I LOVE YOU UNNIE! YOU BETTER BE THERE OR ELSE!"

Jessica watched the helicopter until it disappeared. She had two weeks and change to get down from this blessed mountain and will herself back to Seoul.

******