Secret Admirers No. 01: Snow Angel
Snow Angel
Secret Admirers
A Wonder Girls/Big Bang Drabble
Sunye / G-Dragon
originally posted 02.18.2008
Poster by Sachiko @ Soompi
Alternate Poster by digigirl99 @ Soompi
Sunye had missed winter.
Her favorite season and it had passed unlike any winter before. Not to say that she had been unhappy in Florida, but every morning that she had woken up to see palm trees instead of icicles, a pain tugged at her heart.
But maybe it wasn't just because she missed snowflakes.
She didn't know how it happened, but one night, she had been lying in her bed, trying to go to sleep. She had replayed the day in her head and then a sinking feeling had filled her stomach. She couldn't, no, she couldn't like him, but oh no, she did.
She knew he had a crush on someone, but he wouldn't tell her who. No matter how she begged, whined, or made puppy-dog faces, he refused to tell her. The idea had sneaked up on her that he might not be telling her because the girl he liked was...her...But no, that was impossible. Right?
Maybe not so impossible. Somehow everybody around them got the idea that they would make a cute couple. The way they bickered was apparently flirting. The way they joked around was apparently a sign of being meant for each other. All of their friends teased them incessantly and tried stupid plots to get them together.
Sunye secretly hoped that there was truth to what everybody else saw, but she couldn't be sure that he liked her. How could she be, when she couldn't see any difference in the way he was acting with her from before?
The school year had been nearing its end and she was ready for it to be vacation and to have something new and exciting come up in her life.
She hadn't expected that new and exciting thing to be America.
Her parents had told her that one night and Sunye had just sat there, numbly, disbelieving. Yes, she understood that her dad had a job to do, but couldn't she stay where her life was? How could they expect her to just leave when everything was just about to go right?
But no, they couldn't just leave her alone in Korea, and no, there wasn't going to be any complaining.
Sunye had been laughing and joking the next day at school, pretending that she was going to be walking those same hallways for the rest of the year. She didn't want to tell her friends yet, and she couldn't. She knew there would be a big hullabaloo and there would be sobs and ruined mascara and swollen faces from all of the crying. She couldn't deal with that.
So Sunye had linked arms with her friends and acted as if life was going to continue on the way it was. The straight and sure path that her life had been on suddenly veered even more when he tapped her on the shoulder and took her aside.
Sunye ignored the giggles of the friends behind her and cocked her head expectantly. He heaved a sigh and then breathed loudly several times. The sound of the birds and the passing people dimmed and it seemed as though there was silence. He opened his mouth to finally speak his mind when she blurted, "I'm moving next week."
His breath stopped and he shook his head. "What?"
"I'm moving. Next week."
"Oh...Do you want me to help you bring stuff to your new house or something? Is it going to take much longer to get to school?"
"No, no. I'm going really far away."
"So you won't even be going to this school anymore? Oh...Well, I can still visit often, can't I? We might not see each other in school, but..."
"No, you don't get it. I'm moving to America."
"I...Oh..."
"I'm sorry to just suddenly tell you...I didn't find out until yesterday." That deceptive silence again. "So...what were you going to tell me?"
"I...Never mind...Just...I'm going to miss you." He wrapped his arms around her and enveloped her in a tight embrace. Her fingers gently ran through his hair and she tried desperately to swallow that lump in her throat. She closed her eyes and didn't realize that he was doing the same as her.
So Sunye had left Korea behind along with her home, her school, her friends, and him. She had come to the land of constant sunshine and had somehow managed to build a semblance of a life. She had found friends somehow, and they were completely different than her friends back home. There weren't too many Korean people in her city, and she felt kind of glad. She didn't need any more reminders of the home she missed and that person left behind. November, December, January, February passed without one snowflake falling from the sky. The rest of the months went by with still the same sunshine and the same Sunye, feeling like a hole had been drilled through the center of her heart.
And now, she was finally back.
She had been greeted by a squealing crowd of old friends who hugged and cried and exclaimed things like "Oh my goodness, you've gotten so gorgeous!" and "I've missed you soooo much!"
A face was missing, though. Had he forgotten her? There must not have been anything there in the first place. What had she been thinking, to imagine that he could like her?
"Ooh! And we've got a surprise for you!"
Sunye looked to her parents and they nodded, a soft smile on their faces. They could see how much she had missed her friends.
Sunye yelped when darkness suddenly surrounded her. "What are you doing?" Sunye shouted, panicked.
"Don't worry about a thing, Sunye. It's just a blindfold."
"And why do I need a blindfold?" Sunye didn't like the sound of this.
"Just shush and you'll see."
There was a sequence of bus rides and walking, but finally Sunye must have made it to the final destination. Sunye heard giggling and the crunch of leaves as her friends must have gone away.
"Hello? Can I take off the blindfold now?"
And suddenly the blindfold was off and Sunye saw all around her paper snowflakes hanging from the tree branches. Glitter was everywhere and everything sparkled. White cotton fluff covered the ground and there was a tiny snow man made out of marshmallows.
But Sunye saw the most wonderful sight of all when he stepped out from behind her.
"Do you like it? I know you missed winter."
Sunye suddenly had trouble swallowing. Her voice cracked, "Jiyong, I love it!"
"I'm so glad. There was one thing missing, but now it's back where it belongs."
Sunye didn't understand. "What was missing?"
Jiyong took a step closer. "My favorite part of winter."
Sunye still was confused. And then Jiyong's face was mere centimeters away from hers and he smiled.
"Snow angels. There were no snow angels here before, but now mine is here."