They won!

Minho and Sulli won first place as predicted by their teacher. The sports and dance club would each receive a handsome amount of funds from the total collection of the dinner thanks to their hard work. They were very happy that their hard work had paid off.

After the dinner was over, Sulli was heading to the backstage when she saw Minho hugging a slender looking girl. Her arms were around his waist. She couldn’t see her face because Minho was facing towards her. They looked like they have known each other for a long time.

“Oppa! Congratulations. Daebak! I didn’t know you have it in you”, the girl said.

Minho looked at her lovingly and kissed her forehead, before ruffling her hair.

Sulli saw red then. Her heart broke and her eyes were filled with tears. She knew that after this, the chance for her to be close with him was next to nothing. They were complete strangers three weeks ago and they will be again. She would go back to her classes and dancing lessons, while Minho would go back to medical school and continued on with his life. She was just a high school student to him, she thought. She ran to the changing room, hoping Minho didn’t see her on her way.

But he did see her. He saw her ran with her hands trying to wipe her tears away. Why would she be crying? They won didn’t they?

“Oppa? What’s wrong?” Krystal asked her brother, her arms were still around his waist. She noticed that her brother’s expression has changed.

Only then Minho realized what Sulli thought she had seen. Was she jealous? A faint glimmer of hope sparked inside of him. Could this mean that her feelings were true like his’? He had to find out.

She told her sister not to wait for him and go back home first with their mother. He gave her some lame excuses and after that, took his leave.

Sulli was behind the changing screen trying to get out of the costume. It was not an easy task since the zipper of the dress was at the back and her current feelings were really not helping. She struggled to pull the zipper down but in her haste, her hair was caught between the teeth of the zipper. She tugged and pulled but succeeding only to get more of her hair caught. At last she gave up in a whimper, plunked herself down on the floor and started bawling her eyes out.

Minho opened the door only to hear Sulli crying behind the changing screen. He closed the door and went to her. The scene that greeted him tugged his heart, a pitiful but beautiful looking Sulli, sitting on the floor, crying with her hair stuck at the dress zipper. He then kneeled down and gave her a back hug. He rested his chin on her right shoulder and whispered, “What’s wrong, Ssul baby? Hmm?”

Sulli was too shocked by his action to answer promptly. Her back was tingling by their closeness and his breathing was giving her goose bumps. She stopped crying and lied to him.

“My hair is caught, oppa”, she sniffed.

“Let me help you with this, OK?’ Minho offered. So, he started untangling her long hair from the mess but in order to do so, he had to pull the zipper downward bit by bit. In the end, he was able to free her hair without hurting her so much. He gathered her hair and gently put her long tress on her left shoulder so it wouldn’t get caught again. He was about to tell her that he was done but his eyes were caught by the sight of her spine. The little bumps looked like a line of pearls and they were perfect. He knew he shouldn’t but he couldn’t resist it.

Minho touched her and shivers ran up her spine. He could hear her intake of breath.

“Ssul?”

“Mmm?” Sulli answered. She was afraid to speak because then he would know how she felt.

“That girl back there … She is my sister.” he said testing the waters.

“Oh!” she replied shyly. She realized that Minho knew that she was watching them, which also meant that he knew why she was crying. As she was trying to compute this, she felt his face next to hers.

“There’s only you, Ssul”, Minho whispered in her ears.

“I want us to be together for real. Please be mine”, he continued and to seal his words, he kissed her exposed neck. Something that he had been wanting to do for the longest of time.

Sulli couldn’t believe her ears. The kiss sent her reeling. She never thought her neck would be one of her sensitive spots besides the curve of her spine. Trust Minho to find them, she smiled.  

She turned her head side-ways and kissed the side of his mouth. This time it was her turn to whisper in his ear, “I love you, Minho oppa”.

Minho couldn’t express his joy at hearing the words whispered by her with words. So, he turned her around and looked at her with flaming passionate eyes.

“I love you too, Ssul baby” he said and proceeded to kiss the breath out of her.