Thanks to Ningning's threat that day after receiving a text from Aeri saying that Winter currently going to start another drama, and this time, with a man as her partner, Karina was afraid that she would lose her chance to confess.

So, that day, Ningning was the one who literally asked Karina to confess as soon as possible before it was too late. Thus, the older actress immediately agreed, afraid of whatever came next. But it would be better rather than Winter being with another man.

So, Karina did.

As they slowly pulled away from the kiss, Karina's eyes were still closed shut as Winter gazed at her reddening face with a tiny smile, before the older actress slowly opened her eyes, looking at Winter's who was just inches from her face.

"So, you wanna be my date?" Winter asked with a low chuckle, admiring the shyness of the older actress. God, she loves that reaction so much.

"C-Can I?"

Winter chuckled happily. "Of course you can, silly," Winter laughs before she continues with a smirk. "You wanna make this public or a secret?"

"Wow-wow! Wait!" Karina's eyes widened in shock, flustered and fluttered at every single word that came out from the younger actress's mouth. "We— I literally just confessed to you— T-This is too fast, Winter..." her voice was getting lower and lower from the embarrassment, but Winter kept glaring at her with her playful smirk.

Karina swear to god she could feel Winter's breath hit her skin.

"You don't want to? After working so hard getting me into the drama, begging your hearts out to the writers? How long have you liked me, actually?"

Karina didn't immediately reply to the question. She tried so hard to look away, avoiding any possible eye contact with the younger actress. Winter is too close to her, she might die young at this rate.

"D-Don't remind me of that. That's... really embarrassing..." Karina sighed, covering her face with both her hands.

"So, how long?"

"O-Over a year..."

Winter gasped lightly, yet playfully. "You've been liking me that long? Yet, you don't wanna be my date?"

Karina shakes her head lightly, "N-No. I want you— I mean—! I want to..."

God, this might be the most embarrassing moment in Karina Yu's twenty-six years of life.

"Great, because I want you too," Winter giggled, teasing Karina with her mistakes just now, just enough to get another flustered expression from the older actress. Winter might die just by watching how the older actress has become.

Karina keep looking away as Winter trying to have fun, teasing her even more. Okay, maybe enough teasing. Winter thought she got enough for today, poor the older actress's heart.

And so, Winter put her thumb on Karina's chin, turning the older actress's head towards Winter once again before Winter leaned in for another kiss on her lips.

This time, it wasn't acting.

*****

Since that day, Karina never came back to Winter's home for the second time. Never. Why?

Winter insisted that she would be the one who did the job of visiting the older actress's house, on a weekly basis. It all changed than before. Maybe their weekly schedule during their romcom shooting was to annoy each other, but this time it was different.

Winter's job on their weekly meetup was to sway Karina's heart all she pleased while Karina's job was to give in and give her heart because that's what she wanted to do so bad for over a year.

To be Winter's.

Winter would come to the older actress's house with food, like usual (despite the food being the excuse for her to come more than once a week), cuddling Karina on her couch, sometimes on the bed, sometimes just hugging non-stop at the kitchen. Winter couldn't help herself from enjoying this version of Karina Yu.

Shy, but needy. Winter's kind of taste.

Karina slowly got used to this. How Winter would always prioritise skinship more than talking could melt Karina's every time. Slowly, Karina herself became bolder, just enough until her stuttering mess was gone most of the time.

"Baby, you really need to let me go, just for ten minutes. You said you wanna eat some instant noodles. How am I able to cook this for you if you keep hugging me like this?" Karina giggled as she shook herself off from Winter's embrace.

Winter literally held Karina's whole body in a hug. Not even Karina's hand got free from it. Not even her arms.

"Let's make this public, come on! It's been three months! I wanna date you freely, babe!" Winter whines, still hugging Karina tightly, never letting her go.

Karina laughs lightly. Her deep voice could charm Winter every time. "You had one more month of your drama shooting. We agreed to do that after the drama ended. Hold it in a bit longer, hmm?"

Despite Karina's assurance, Winter whines even more, shaking Karina's body inside her embrace. "No! They started shipping me with Jaemin! Our Winrina tags are slowly gone because of my drama, I need them around the internet back, like the time when we did our romcom drama!"

About Winter's fan shipping her with her co-star, Jaemin. Karina couldn't lie that she felt extremely jealous every time an article came out about them. She wanna shout out to the world that this woman is her's. But that would end up giving a bad reputation to Winter's and Jaemin's current drama, and the team might sue Karina for that later.

"One more month, baby. One more month, and I promise you can do however you like to make our relationship public."

Winter pouts as she tilts her head to her girlfriend, "Really? However I like?" her eyes blink hopefully, too cute for Karina not to react before the older actress smiles.

Karina gave a short peck on the younger actress's lips, "However you like," before she smiled sweetly at her girlfriend.

Then, it happened. Exactly one week after the final episode of Winter's drama, an article popped out on the internet.

"Baby! You printed a banner? That's ridiculous!"

"You said I can do it however I want!"

END <33