18 Days earlier

Yuri had just ended a short conversation with a business partner on the phone when the door to her office opened and Sooyoung came in.

"Here are the documents about the Cosh Company you asked me to check." Her best friend handed her the papers. "I've read up on that project, it sounds really good."

"I know," Yuri grinned in satisfaction. "The profit is damn tempting. I wasn't sure about the level of risk we'd take with that, though."

"Well, I've checked Cosh's financial status. They will have to rely on us, which means we're actually pretty safe. It's riskless."

Yuri nodded in acknowledgement. She was pleased. Very pleased. Business was thriving recently, and one of the reasons was that Sooyoung could always find a way to check on their business partner's financial status, making sure none of them could be a threat to their company.

"Here." Yuri took out a couple of small rectangular paper pieces from the drawer and handed them Sooyoung.

"Free tickets for a book fair?"

"Read below."

"OH MY GOD INCLUDING A FREE BUFFET?"

"Yeah... I've received the tickets as a gift but I don't have time to go there."

"Thank you Yuri!" Sooyoung bent over the desk and suffocated her.

"It's--alright--" she tried her best shoving the giant away. "Anyways, there are four tickets in total. Which means you can invite some other people."

Yuri looked down at the documents in front of her again, not seeing the evil smile creeping on Sooyoung's face.

Sooyoung knew exactly who she wanted to ask out.

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"Hello?"

"Hey Sunny! It's Sooyoung."

"Oh hiiiiiii Sooyoung."

Sooyoung nervously scratched her flushing cheek at the aegyo 'hi' the other girl used to greet her. She tried to speak as coolly and be as direct as possible. The longer the conversation, the bigger was the chance of her making a mistake.

"I have four free tickets for that huge book fair on Friday. Are you free?"

"Ahh that's really sweet of you. I've heard about that fair and I would love to come. But I already have plans to hang out with some friends that day."

"Oh."

Was all Sooyoung could say. She was disappointed and didn't even bother covering it up.

"Okay, maybe another time. Bye."

Sooyoung let out a long sigh as she leaned back into her chair, staring at the ceiling. She had met Sunny in a restaurant two weeks earlier and immediately was interested in the cute, little girl. Sunny left a really good impression on her - not just because the girl paid for Sooyoung's meal because Sooyoung forgot her purse that day. Sooyoung had invited her to a dinner in another restaurant the next day to return the money and successfully asked for the girl's number. From then on, she had always tried to think of some ways to ask Sunny out. The opportunity didn't come until Yuri gave her the free tickets today.

Sooyoung was getting back to work again when her cell phone rang loudly. Without looking at the caller ID, she grumpily picked up.

"Hello."

"Oh. Am I disturbing you?"

Sooyoung almost fell off her seat when she heard Sunny's cute voice again.

"N-no!" Her voice changed completely. "How did you come up with that? You and disturbing me? Never."

She had to fight against the urge to jump up in excitement as she heard a cute chuckle from the other end.

"Anyways, I just wanted to ask," Sunny said then. "Can I change my mind?"

"On what?"

"I've asked my friends about that fair and they wanted to come too. Do you mind?"

"Not at all!" Sooyoung eagerly replied. Having some people tagging along was still better than not seeing Sunny at all. "But I only have four tickets."

"Well, they're a couple."

"Cool." Double date? Perfect!

"You're so nice Sooyoung. See you on Friday then!"

Sooyoung pressed on the end-call button and smiled to herself like a total idiot. But there's nothing one can do - after all, she's in love.

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15 Days earlier

"Miyoung ah~"

"Don't call me that!"

"Then hurry up!"

Sunny chuckled as she watched Taeyeon pacing back and forth in front of her, a growl on the petite girl's face.

"How much time do we have left?" Taeyeon shouted.

"We still have half an hour. I knew this would happen beforehand so I came picking you guys up an hour earlier."

"Sorry Sunny," Taeyeon placed a hand on her shoulder apologetically. "Jessica has been such a bad influence on her. I'm going crazy on how her tardiness grows each day and I'm not able to do anything!"

"It's okay." Sunny comfortingly rubbed Taeyeon's back as the other girl gave a helpless sigh. "Talking about Jessica, how is she?"

"Oh she's good. She has some stress with her dad though. They want her to marry."

"An arranged marriage? I thought we're in the 21st century already!"

"No, no." Taeyeon laughed at Sunny's frustration. "They just suggest her to marry soon, but she's really harshly going against it."

"Why? What's so bad about marriage?"

"Nah, Sica has bad experiences with love. She..." Taeyeon hesitated. "Well, it's a long story. To make it short... she's positive about living well on her own. She sort of doesn't need anyone, so starting a relationship is pointless, according to her."

Sunny fought against her curiosity to know more about Jessica's life. But she and Jessica hadn't even met - she just knew that was the one Taeyeon and Tiffany cared about a lot - there's no point in squeezing information about Jessica out of Taeyeon's right now.

Ten minutes later, Tiffany came running out of the house, much to Taeyeon's relief. The poor girl was about to go off. Sunny wondered how it would work between Taeyeon and Tiffany if the shorter girl kept on being so impatient and Tiffany kept on being tardy. But then, those two had been together for almost ten years now - that little issue shouldn't cause problems. Sometimes, she found herself envying the duo about their sweet, enduring relationship. It's just a matter of time until Taeyeon would ask for Tiffany's hand, and then, she's sure about it, the world would be upside down if Tiffany didn't say 'yes'.

They drove to the fair while chatting happily along. Tiffany and Taeyeon had teased her about Sooyoung a lot ever since she told them about the book fair tickets, and unfortunately for her, they felt like it while being in the car too. It's not like Sunny minded though - in fact, she had admitted she was attracted to Sooyoung. And it wasn't just because Sooyoung was tall. Tall people always got extra points from her.

"Hey!"

Sunny had just parked the car when the three girls heard a voice. Turning around, they saw a tall girl approaching their car with a wide grin on her face.

"Hi Sooyoung!" Sunny cheerfully greeted as they got out of the car. She shortly introduced Taeyeon and Tiffany to Sooyoung and vice versa.

"I've tried getting tickets for this fair since last month when people announced it," Taeyeon immediately began to chat with her new found friend. "I'm a writer, you know. This really means a lot to me, thank you so much."

Sunny sulked together with Tiffany as they followed behind the happily chatting short and tall duo. How come Taeyeon and Sooyoung could get close so fast? And it's weird, because Taeyeon was talking about books all the time and Sooyoung about food. Still, somehow, the two managed to stay so deep in conversation that the two girls behind them felt totally ignored. The attempts of Tiffany and Sunny edging into the conversation were to no avail.

"Oh look! A sushi stand over there!" The tallest girl pulled the group along to the said place.

"Whoa you like sushi too? I've read a book about it not too long ago. 'The Legend of Sushi', do you know that?"

"Oh my god, I love that book! I remember I even drooled on it when I was reading the part they described the Tornado Roll with smoked salmon!"

Taeyeon laughed in amusement as Sooyoung began to pig herself out on the great amount of sushi offered on the plate. Tiffany and Sunny backed away from the two embarrassing dorks and pretended to not know them. Instead of trying out the food, they hold hands taking a look at all the books in the book stall beside.

"May I introduce you ladies the Bestseller of our publishing company?" A young man in uniform appeared in front of them, smiling.

"Oh of course." Tiffany flashed an eye-smile as the two girls followed the young man around the stand.

"This one," the man took a three-centimetre thick book from the shelf, holding it out proudly. "Is the best book I've personally ever read. It's written by Tamia Noggleshick, have you ever heard of her?"

Both of the girls shook their heads.

"No problem." The young man laughed heartily. "Then this will be the first one. I have two exemplars left, one for each of you."

"Uhh... thank you very much." Sunny smiled. She didn't understand why this bookseller was so eager, but she was thankful for his kindness. Probably because he hadn't had many visitors since this morning, judging from the amount of books that are still left on the shelves.

"What do you guys have there?"

Sooyoung and Taeyeon had finished trying out all the sushi plates and came to the two girls with chewing mouths.

"Ewww Taetae. Since when did you eat like a pig?" Tiffany complained as she took out a napkin and wiped Taeyeon's mouth.

"Since Sooyoung told me that's how she got this tall."

Tiffany and Sunny cracked laughter as Sooyoung playfully hit Taeyeon and pretended to be embarrassed. That giant was sure witty.

"So, what did you guys get from that book stand?"

Instead of answering, Tiffany handed Taeyeon her book, Sunny handed Sooyoung hers.

"How to unworkiee-fy workaholics." Sooyoung read and immediately, her eyes widened. "Oh my god, that figure on the cover looks so much like my best friend! And she's totally a workaholic."

Sooyoung hurriedly leafed through the book. Sunny could see the tall girl was fascinated by it.

"You know what, it's yours."

"Really? THANK YOU SO MUCH." Sooyoung bent down hugging Sunny, making the shorter girl blush madly.

"You don't know what that means to me," Sooyoung said out of breath after releasing Sunny again. "I've been hopelessly trying to get Yuri, my friend, out of that working obsession, but it was so in vain."

"How funny," Taeyeon commented as she examined the back of the book. "That figure on this side of the book cover looks like our Sica, don't you think Fany?"

She then read the description, which was an excerpt of the content. "The perfect catalyst to increase the rate of the unworkiee-fying process of a no matter how obsessed Workiee is a cube of ice. In other words, a person who does not need the world, does not care about anything - the cube of ice - is the most appropriate stimulant to provoke workaholics. The reason is very simple--"

"That's exactly Jessica." Tiffany giggled as Taeyeon kept on reading.

"The Workiee lives the motto of 'I don't care about anything but work' while the ice cube has the engraved thoughts of 'I don't care about anyone, nor do I need anyone to care about me'. They are similar, yet exactly each other's opposites, and thus easily, naturally, inevitably distract and attract each other at the same time."

"Taeyeon..." Sooyoung had a blank expression on her face. Sunny guessed that's how the girl looked like when she got hit by an ingenius idea.

"Who's that Jessica? I need to meet her."

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13 Days earlier

"I've booked the vacation house for seven days."

"Do you think this will work?"

"Well, we have to try."

"But they will kill us afterwards!"

"Look, the book says 'the ice' and 'the workiee' need approximately a month quarrelling to finally get to the wanted result. That is if they can stand each other for that amount of time. Let's assume we will hook them up and make them see each other about two hours a day, it would take 60 hours in total. But locking them up together in a week, that's 24/7 Taeyeon! 168 hours and we don't have to work our butts off to think how to make them meet!"

"What if one of them gets killed by the other?"

"Umm... I haven't thought of that. But Yuri won't--"

"I'm talking about Jessica."

"You serious?"

"She's scary, so yeah."

"Yuri's strong. Oh, your phone's ringing."

"Hello?"

"YAH KIM TAEYEON WHERE ARE YOU?"

"Gosh, lower your voice Fany! I'm sitting with Sooyoung in the Cafe on the opposite of our apartment."

"Really? You didn't just walk hand-in-hand with a girl into the theatre?"

"Uhhhh... no? Soo, here, tell her."

"Hi Tiffany. Taeyeon just cropped a feel of the waitress's butt and--"

"OMFG Shut up and give me the phone!"

"Hmph--and she tried to ahaha--mmmhhh--"

"KIM! TAE! YEON!"

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Sooyoung was in her happy food dream when the loud ringing of her cell phone woke her up. Without opening her eyes, her hands searched for the annoying object before she picked up.

"Hello...?"

"Hey Soo. Are you still sleeping?"

"I was." She heard a giggle on the other end of the line. "What is it Taeng? It's Saturday. I'm supposed to sleep in, man."

"But I'm worried about Yuri and Jessica."

"Why?" She got a little more awake.

"Sooyoung! You need to be worried a little after the violent storm last night!"

"Why? I mean, Yuri and Jessica are all grown up, they aren't lil' kids who're afraid of thunders."

"But what if the electricity got cut? What if the house couldn't stand the storm? What if they got hurt or something? I mean, come on--"

"Alright alright. I'll be at your place in ten minutes."

And Sooyoung wasn't a tardy person. Taeyeon had just come out of the elevator when she saw Sooyoung's car stopping in front of the building. She quickly got in and the two drove off. The real drive only took about an hour - last time Sooyoung had taken a long way round just to mislead Yuri. But turned out it wasn't really necessary since Yuri didn't really care anyway.

"Do you think one of them is dead yet?"

"Yuri's gonna kill me if Jessica did something stupid."

Sooyoung sighed as she stopped the car. They had arrived in front of the vacation house.

"Don't worry." Taeyeon assured her as they got out of the car. "I just remembered Sica can't cook. Means she wouldn't kill Yuri - otherwise she would starve."

"Oh hahaha poor her. I bet Yuri didn't care and starved her already. I know my workaholic."

"No way." Taeyeon gulped. If that was true, she and Tiffany were dead. "I believe in the power of the ice princess."

"We'll see."

Sooyoung stuck the key in the doorknob and opened the door. The two girls nervously stepped in. The first thing they noticed was - and it was a relief - the house was undamaged. No signs of a fight, a battle, a war.

"Yuri? Jessica?"

No response. Sooyoung and Taeyeon looked around just to see the empty kitchen and living room. The glass door to the balcony was closed and it was unlikely Yuri and Jessica were both in the bathroom, so they made their way into the bedroom.

"Kwon Yuri!"

"Sica I'm here!"

The two shouted as soon as they saw the hump on the bed, knowing it had to be a person under the blanket. However, their eyes widened and their jaws dropped onto the ground as they took a closer look. Turned out the blanket lump wasn't just one person, but one lying beneath and another half-hovering above. And additionally to that, in smooching action.

"We're alive!"

Sooyoung and Taeyeon high-fived each other in joy as soon as they recovered from the shock. But a slapping sound the next second make them freeze completely again.

Yuri had landed on the ground, holding her cheek in pain.

"Jessica, I'm sorry I--"

"Get out!"