“Do you think she will like me?” Ask worried Nicole. She and her best friend were waiting in an indoor skating rink inside a mall. She was rubbing her hands together, not expecting to go somewhere cold. Key noticed her coldest and took of his sweater and gave it to her. He had already planned this date, but having Nicole meet his girlfriend wasn’t something he wasn’t planning to do for awhile. It was the encounter with Nicole’s friend that had driven to make such a bold move. He knew this meant that the relationship is serious, whether he liked it or not.

“I know she will love you like I do” He assured his best friend. Nicole faces was scrunched up, her lips pouting and her nose wrinkled. He wanted to laugh but before he could, someone had called out his name, “Kibum”

Nicole laughed, as they both turned around to be Key’s name was called. There, Nicole saw a girl, about the same age as her and Key, but she looked mature. She had a milky-white skin with long blonde hair with straight bangs that ends at her eyebrows. Even with heels, she ran gracefully. Nicole couldn’t help but feel jealous of her beauty. She looked like she could be a model, or even a Barbie doll. As she came, Nicole smiled happily to be meeting Key’s girlfriend.

“I’m sorry I’m late, Kibum” She said in a calm voice. Nicole noticed how tall she really was, especially with the heels and how skinny she was.

“Hello, I’m Nicole” Nicole bowed, and Key’s girlfriend did as well. As they rose up, they were both smiling to each other.

“I’m Nana, I know who you are” She laughed and grabbed Key’s hand, “Key has told me all about you, I feel like I know you already!”

“Oh really?” Nicole just said, smiling. She really didn’t know what to say back. In truth, Key hadn’t told her anything about Nana; expect they had met in Canada. They began to walk to the ice rink with the skates that the two best friends had got earlier.

“You shouldn’t call him Kibum, it really sounds funny!” Nicole told Nana as they put on their skates, “Call him Key, all his friends call him that!”

Nana nodded, “Key” She sounded as she was talking to herself, “I like it. It’s cute” They both exchanged smiles together.

At the same time, in the same mall, walked two close friends; Hara and Jiyoung. They had decided to spend the day together, and somehow ended in the mall. Jiyoung had her arms linked with Hara. Despite the age difference, they were comfortable with each other. They had just finished shopping and they had decided to go to the food court and get something to eat. As they were walking, Jiyoung had seen a familiar figure coming out a video game store.

“Taemin!” She yelled, as she began pushing Hara along with her.

“Jiyoung!” He replied too quickly, a smile growing on his face, “What are you doing here?” He asked.

“I’m shopping with Hara” She pointed to the long hair, slim-figured girl standing next to her.

“I’m with my brother!” He continued smiling, as on cue, there walked out Minho out of the video game store. He walked with confidence; head held high, back straight, Hara couldn’t help but blush.

“Hello Jiyoung!” Minho said in his deep voice, unaware of Hara yet. Hara stood too quietly, sometimes it was hard for her to be noticed when she was always with much prettier girls. “Minho-oppa, have you met Hara?” Jiyoung smiled looking at her quiet friend. Hara bowed quietly and Minho did the same, “We actually met already” He said.

“That’s great then!” Taemin said, “It’s not going to be awkward”

They stood in the mall facing each other.

“Hara and I were just going to get something to eat; do you want to join us?” Jiyoung asked the two boys, but her eyes only the younger one.

“We’d love too!” Taemin said way too quickly, that even Hara smiled at the younger two’s cuteness. It was easy to see that the two had feelings for each other. It was young love, as Hara heard.

As they began to walk, Taemin went straight to Jiyoung’s side and Minho followed behind the three. Though Hara didn’t want to be the third wheel, Jiyoung wouldn’t let go of her arm. She walked quietly, trying not to listen to the Jiyoung and Taemin’s conversation, but it was getting hard. Not only were they loud, they had often laughed, making Hara catch interest in their conversation. She never seen two people having a crush on each other, she was use to Seungyeon and Onew’s relationship and how comfortable they were with each other. While Jiyoung and Taemin had many flirtation going on. She was envious. Now that she was getting older, she wanted to feel the feeling of love.

“I’ll hold your bags for you” Said Minho to Hara. Hara hadn’t even noticed that they were left along. She shyly passed her bags to him, careful not to touch him in anyway.

“Where are two kids?” She asked quietly.

“They went to get something to eat” He said, looking at her while she looked down, “What would you like to eat?” He asked, trying to get her to look up. Minho wasn’t use to these types of girls- the shy ones. Even her friends were outgoing and loud. All the other girls he had been with were outgoing and loud... also -like, but he didn’t want to mention that.

They walked to a fast-food stall, and patiently waited. It was awkward as neither spoke. Hara was being to feel bad that he is constantly being stuck with her. She wasn’t someone everyone wanted to be with.

“Jiyoung and Taemin are really cute together” She said in a quiet tone, which almost made Minho stops as they began move up the line.

The three people were enjoying themselves at the skating rink. It seemed like only Key was able to skate, while Nana and Nicole were struggling to stand on their feet. Nicole was always stayed in a 90 degree angle, only moving when she needed too. Nana on the other hand, couldn’t let go of Key’s hand. While Key, focused on his best friend. Nicole wasn’t the most coordinated person; she often blanked out while walking making her fall in the process. Nana walked with grace, he knew skating wasn’t so hard for her. Just as Nicole was about to fall, Key dropped his girlfriend’s hand to catch his best friend.

“Cole, you need to watch yourself!” He warned Nicole.

The two heard a bang on the ground, and a sudden cry that only belong to Nana. The two turned and quickly skated to the blonde girl- well Nicole had a harder time getting to her, even if she was just a few feet away.

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From a distance, a young girl had seen the whole thing. Jiyoung had sworn she had seen that same tall blonde girl skating here earlier in the week, and then she was skating perfectly fine, maybe even better than Key. She couldn’t understand why someone who lie on their skating abilities.

“Come on, Jiyoung” Said Taemin, snapping the young girl back into reality.

As they walked back to table, Jiyoung saw Minho and Hara having a conversation or at least at an attempt to have one. It was clear that Hara was having a hard time, she wasn’t very social. It had taken Jiyoung 3 months for Hara to become comfortable with the young girl. She was glad her friend was trying to become more social.

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“Nana, are you okay?” She managed to say, fully concern to her new friend. Key picked her up.

“Hm, yeah.... I think so” Nana said, “I think I hurt my ankle”

“Key, you should take her home” Nicole suggested. Key looked her, concern for his best friend, “I’ll be fine, Key. I promise!”  Nicole watched them leave the skating rink, and then walk out the door, while Nana was hopping on one foot, Key holding on to her arm fully concentred on his girlfriend.

It had taken Nicole about 20 minutes to get out off the skating rink with the help of two little boys and another 10 minutes to get out of her skates. By now she was walking out of the skating rink area, wondering how she would get home. Then she heard her name being called, it was Jiyoung’s voice.

“Nicole, why are you all alone?” Ask Jiyoung.

“I was with Key and his girlfriend earlier, but she got hurt” She said to her group of friends. Everyone expect Minho was shocked, they never would have thought Key would date someone, they expected him to wait for a special someone to realized their feelings, but they guessed they were wrong.

“You met Nana?” Minho asked Nicole, she nodded in reply. Minho had met her a couple of days ago with his Jonhyun, they were amazed on her beauty, but even more shocked in Key having a girlfriend. “Come on, we are about to go home, I’ll take you with me too” He slightly smiled to Nicole, worried about her feelings, but she just smiled and agreed.

In the car, Hara had sat in the front with Minho, driving. It was suppose to be Taemin, but he wanted to sit next to Jiyoung. Nicole had decided to sit in the middle of the kids, trying to be a parent. The back seat had all fallen sleep in the car 5 minutes into the ride, leaving Hara and Minho alone again. Hara had mostly looked out her window, watching as everything was a blur. She was thankful that Minho hadn’t started conversation with her. She knew he was really trying hard to make her feel comfortable, she felt guilty.

Before she knew it, she was facing her apartment. She heard Minho waking up the girls; they stirred in their seats before waking up and getting out of the car. Hara waited until the girls got inside the building before she turned to Minho. Minho was waiting for the girls to leave, but Hara had stayed in her seat, watching the other girls go inside. He wasn’t sure if she wanted to go with him. When she turned to face him, she had his full attention. He looked at her big brown eyes and her small lips curving into a smile.

“Thank you for the ride, again” She said, and then turned to open the door, before she got out of the car, she turned to face him again,  “I’m really sorry that you have to try harder to make me feel comfortable” With that she gracefully disappeared into the apartment door.

Minho was stunned; he didn’t know whether her innocence was something he thought was cute or stupid. 

Author's Note: Both my stories will come weekly now, because of school work. I'll try to come out with other chapter as soon as I can. Also I know you guys want me to add other characters, I'd love to, but I already have an plot line for this story so it's really hard for me to add someone without changing the everything else. Sorry, but I'll try my best!