Of Christmas Wishes and New Year's Resolutions
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Special Holiday Project:
Foreword
Of Christmas Wishes:
On a chilly Friday evening, Hyoyeon stumbles into the coffee shop looking for something to warm up her almost blue fingers.
‘Unnie! Why don’t you use the mittens you got last Christmas? You would never lose them!’ she can almost hear Seohyun, her flatmate, whining.
And Seohyun is right, she supposes – the mittens had a string attached on either end so she could just wrap them around her neck instead of leaving it on bathroom counters, library shelves, dance class window-sills… the list went on; for Hyoyeon had a tendency to be forgetful. But even so! She doesn’t want to run the risk of losing them – they were a special gift, you see!
So yet another winter season is passing by, taking with it several victims – candy pink mittens from Tiffany, rainbow striped mittens her mother had picked up at the subway station, rabbit-shaped mittens she purchased from a street vendor in Myeongdong, even a pair of basic black ones from the Dollar Store. But through all this, the red and white mittens with pretty snowflakes sit preciously in the very box it came with – crinkled wrapping paper, lopsided bow and messily written card intact – inside the top drawer of her dresser.
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Of New Year's Resolutions:
``Hey Hyo! Are you ready to go?” Jung Jessica peeked into the candy-pink-stripes wallpapered room that belonged to her flatmate slash best-friend.
“Hyo? Kim Hyoyeon?”
Her voice took on a surprised tone when all that greeted her was silence and a gentle breeze that was making the lace curtains dance.
“Eh? I swear she went into her room straight after dance class. Did she jump out the window?” Without thinking it through, she hurried towards the open window to check – only realizing belatedly that there was just solid concrete pavement below.
“Aish, pabo!” The dancer major would never take such a risk.
“Then where could she be…”
Suddenly her eyes fell on the bed and sure enough, there was a slight lump underneath the perfectly made covers.
“Nice try, Kim Hyoyeon!” she smirked before pouncing on the bed and roughly yanking back the fluffy comforter. “Four hours to midnight, kiddo! We are going to find you a new man to kiss for the New Year!”
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