Kate and Yoongi have been officially dating for three weeks now. Though they've only gone out on one date due to their different schedules. Yoongi picks up Kate from her classes, sometimes she doesn't listen and picks him up when her class dismisses early. Yoongi didn't care either way and would hold hands with her in the hallway.

He had almost forgotten what it felt like being with someone. Intimately, but also like his best friend.

"Yoongi," Kate called upon returning after buying herself a drink at the cafeteria. "Should I start calling you like honey? Baby?"

"How original."

"Milk baby?"

"Why milk, even?"

"Your skin is as white as snow."

Yoongi shakes his head while he tries to open his bottle of soda. "I prefer calling us by our names."

Kate sat across him, pouting, thinking of what they could do at this hour. "Want to go on a date, then?"

"I have classes in 2 hours."

"This won't take an hour. I promise!"

"What did you have in mind?"

An arcade. Kate took him to an arcade. Yoongi wasn't a fan of it since he's never been to one, actually. Just computer games. Kate bought the tokens for them to use for the machines. "This is Jung Kate's idea for a date, then?"

"Yeah!" She giggles, but it faded when he didn't react much to it. "Why? You don't like it?"

"No, it's not that. I've never played in one before."

"Really?! Then you're the arcade virgin." Yoongi's eyebrows furrowed weakly at that nickname, being dragged to one of the most popular machines played by kids. The table hockey game. "See, we use this to hit the puck to score. Simple. Like so."

Kate was in serious mode. Always has been when she plays her games. With a swift, firm move of her forearm, she scored effortlessly from Yoongi's open arms. He stared at her as if he didn't know her while she was smirking at her success. "Let's go." She challenged.

To her surprise, he was a natural. Every last puck they used, he was the victor in majority. It all came down to 5-9, Yoongi leading. He was waving his weapon with the puck in his hand, teasing her, "Oh? First time losing, Kate?"

She rolls her eyes, which earned another tease from him. "Aww, look at how cute she is when she's mad."

"Just hit the puck."

Yoongi did so after placing it down on the table, to his dismay, Kate fired it back, accidentally hitting his private part. He held on to it like crazy and Kate couldn't believe she did that, rushing to his side. "I-I'm sorry! No, no, no, no, this wasn't supposed to happen. That was an accident, I swear! Are you okay? Do you need to go to the clinic? There's a near one in the mall."

"N–No, I just need to. . sit down for a sec." Kate couldn't help but laugh at this incident; placing him gently on the playful bench she found outside the arcade. He was breathing quite heavily. It must've hurt a lot. "Were you really mad I was scoring higher than you were?"

She hesitated. "No."

"You were."

"No."

"You were mad."

"Okay, fine. I got carried away." She folded her arms across her chest, laying one leg over the other. "I didn't plan for that to hit you. I wanted to beat you, but I must've hit aimlessly."

Yoongi caresses the back of her head, playing with the strands of hair that was hanging behind her ponytail with his fingers. "I'll let you win next time."

"Stop teasing me." He couldn't help it. He liked seeing her pout like this, resting his head on her shoulder.

"So, what should we do now?"

"You have 35 minutes to spare." She was talking about agreeing to only spending time within 1 hour, not wanting her boyfriend to be late for class by taking up the other hour. "Should we go back now?"

"Let's stay like this for a bit. I'm tired." Kate thought of something. She laid her head on his lap as he tried to sleep, getting assistance from the backbone of the bench. "You might fall off, hold on to the bench." Knowing her, she held on around his waist, instead, earning a hearty laugh from him.

"I like this date better."

"Because you hit my penis with your puck?"

Kate lightly tapped on his stomach for that. "We're closer than before. I like this feeling."

It was his turn to surprise her; crouching down and planted a soft, gentle kiss on her lips for the first time. Kate had her eyes closed when he did it. When the kiss ended, his mouth was a few inches away; she placed her hands on her cheeks and pulled him into a kiss again. Yoongi had his arms wrapped around her to keep her from falling.

[ posted SEPTEMBER 12 2018 ]