Winter walks towards her professor room while putting Kep1er's Giddy on a play. Her mouth turns into hums as the music bursts into her eardrums. The song just explained how much Winter is swayed for that one and only tattoo artist.

Oh. Winter is head over heels for that girl.

Winter knocked on the door three times and slowly opened the door, revealing her professor on his chair, flashing Winter with his small smile.

The girl immediately pulled out her sketchbook as promised to show him her design development. The moments Winter opened the first page, her professor nodded his head once in satisfaction.

"Hmm, I see better drawings from you, Winter", he praised.

"Thank you, sir", Winter smiled.

It isn't much, but Winter just adds some more colours and shapes into her drawing. Filling up that lonely dark figure in the middle with joyful and lively colours. Few blurry lines in the middle to express the curiousity feelings, to know more about the lonely figure.

Slowly, that figure came out to life.

"May I know who's this person actually?", he asked, and Winter couldn't help but feel a bit shy to answer him.

"I would say that's me", the girl scratched her neck softly with a soft chuckle, embarrassed by her own answer.

Despite the cliche answer, her professor nods his head again, looking straight at Winter with his eyes full of hope. A small smile flashed in his face. "I guess that feeling you found came from someone?", he asked.

Winter hesitated, but she slowly nodded her head as her face slowly turned red. Oh god, she remembered Karina crystal clear.

"Keep going on, Winter. I couldn't wait to see more of your developments".

....

It's five in the evening, and Karina is preparing to close her shop for the day. She knew Winter would not be here today since the younger girl had told her how busy she is today.

Despite not touching or having any sexual intercourse with the girl for a week, Karina is still in her right mind to hold herself.

She knew that one day she could touch that girl again.

After making sure all the things were back in place, Karina took her leather jacket from her closet before putting it on her top and headed towards her bike after locking the shop.

She crossed her legs on the black vehicle and pulled out her phone from her jeans, remembering something that she needed to tell Winter immediately.

Karina

I know you like to appear at my shop uninvited despite you said how busy you are.

Karina

I'm not at the shop tonight. I'm telling you just in case.

Karina
I don't want a cold girl shivering in front of my shop again.

Just don't do it. Or my neighbours will tell me for the second time that I let my friend outside in cold.

Just right after Karina put back her phone inside her jeans, the phone buzzed, and Karina pulled out her phone again, surprised by how fast Winter replied her messages.

Is it Winter or Summer?
So your neighbours said something to you, huh? I'm shook~

Is it Winter or Summer?
Awh... really? I just planned to stop by!

Is it Winter or Summer?
You believed that, right?

"Well, I am not", the artist scoffed with her tiny laughs.

Is it Winter or Summer?
Nope! I'm lying, you fool! I'm joking! 😗 I'm busy, I promise.

Karina scoffed once before putting back her phone inside her jeans for the second time and drove off. But later, she didn't realize that Winter left her another reply seconds after.

Is it Winter or Summer?
Btw, where are you going?

....

Karina walked inside the club and headed straight towards the counter to meet the bartender she knew. After lifting her hand up just to catch the bartender attention towards her, the other girl sneered once before walking towards Karina.

"Why are you here tonight?", Aeri asked as she wiped the shaker in her hands.

"Nothing. Just bored", the artist answered mindlessly. Her eyes were roaming around, looking at how drunk people and weirdos danced like a crap.

Some dance like chicken.

Some dance like horse.

Hell, some even dance like they're a b-boying expert while the fact that they just spin around the pole like kindergarten kids.

"Where's your fuck buddy? I thought you planned to bring her here to see me?", Aeri asked, finally wiped the shaker clean, and later handed her friend a glass of whiskey.

"She's busy", Karina said as she gulps down the alcohol down her throat.

"When was the last time you had sex with her?", Aeri asked, all eyes on the tattoo artist, interested in her story.

"I told you it wasn't actually sex. I'm the one who touched her while I'm still fully clothed", the artist answered and took another sip of whiskey.

"And it's been a week since I last touched her", she continued before slamming the glass on the counter roughly. The action success to bring the full interest of the bartender towards the tattoo artist.

Aeri is all smirking while looking at her friend in a tease.

"You look frustrated", Aeri faked her gasp.

"I am".

"You and your horny ass. You see that woman who's singing Titanic song at that pole?", Aeri said asshe pointed her finger towards a certain weirdo woman. "Why don't you go to her and ask her for a sex? Problem solved!"

Karina shot her head up, looking at her friend in a deathly glare. Aeri flinch once, but that glare isn't scary enough for her to shout and ask for help. Instead, the bartender just laughed her heart out.

"I'm not that crazy, Aeri. You knew me!", the artist groans in frustration, and Aeri is just giggling happily like there's no tomorrow. Despite how cold Karina looks sometimes, teasing the tattoo artist is so easy and will not bring you harm.

Aeri has been doing this for five years, and Karina has never killed her yet.

"Why Winter out of all people, Rina? I'm curious as hell", Aeri asked while wiping the happy tears from her eyes just now.

"I mean, there's lots of cute girls out there, but you never ask any of them for sex. Then when this Winter suddenly burst into your shop one day and obviously tried to show you how much she likes you, you told her and only her that you need sex?"

Aeri question left Karina frozen for a while. Her friend is right. Karina is never like this to anyone. Despite how desperate she is to touch someone, she never asks anyone for it. Only to Winter that she did.

"Maybe... because I knew... she likes me? So having sex with her won't bring harms to both of us", Karina hesitated with her own answer.

Aeri gave her a curious look. The bartender eyebrows lifted, looking at Karina in a concerned expression. Aeri doesn't know how she should react with her friend answer.

"Aren't you afraid that you'll hurt her feelings? She's obviously loves you, but you used her for only your desire", Aeri asked.

Karina didn't answer her friend question. She was deep in her own thoughts, swaying the glass of whiskey in her hand in a slow circle motion.

Will Winter get hurt by her action?

"I didn't even know her much, Aeri...", the artist sighed.

"We just do it twice. I'll see where it goes...", Karina answered with her low voice, somehow thinking about her words.

"By the way, you said that that Winter studied for art at XX University, right?"

"Yeah..."

"I think there's big possibilities that my girlfriend knew her", Aeri asked before taking the empty glass away from Karina's hand, filling it up with a new amount of whiskey.

"Really? Ningning?", Karina asked, and the bartender nodded her head. Karina knew Aeri had a girlfriend named Ningning but never met her even once.

"I think I'll ask her about Winter for you", Aeri said while giving a wink to her friend, and later, the tattoo artist reacted with her faked disgusted face.

....

Winter step inside their studio like any other day. Usually, whe will be greeted by her two best friends no other than the Chinese Ningning and another Busan girl, Chaehyun.

But strangely, her two best friends weren't in sight at all.

Despite, there are these two human that Winter once liked but not anymore after knowing their true identity and attitude, smiling towards her at the center of the studio, so wide, that it makes Winter want to puke.

"Eyyo, Winter!", Yeonjun greeted her with his cheeku not so impressive smile that Winter hates since 4 months ago. Beside him, Jeno, with his not so charming yet so annoying smile that Winter wants to smack at since 5 months ago.

Winter didn't answer them at all. Not even looking, to be honest.

She just went straight towards an empty chair, sitting quietly and pulling out her phone immediately for an SOS.

Winter
Where the hell are you guys? And why the fuck is this two human I most hate in the whole world is inside our studio??!

Winter
SAVE ME!! HURRY!!

As she typed for another text on her phone, she received a tap on her shoulder and when Winter turn her head around, the two most hated guy in her entire life was there, inches right behind her.

"We called you. Why aren't you answering?", Jeno asked.

Don't wanna be near this two virus any longer, Winter immediately stands up from her seat before rushing out from the studio. Her hand is busy to call Ningning, and when the chinese girl picked up, Winter heard only a whisper like voice through the line.

"We're consulting right now. Call us later, Win..."

And the call ended just like that.

Oh.

So her friends are with the professor. Now, that's not surprising.

But it is still surprising that the two viruses were calling for her inside the studio just now.

"What's wrong with those guys?"