BEAUTY AND WEALTH | WINRINA

05 | Sleepover

"So, uh, tell us about Busan." Jimin asked. Though, she was not sure if she'd call her Minjeong or Winter.

"... Busan? I suppose it's okay. It's just much more different from here, though Seoul is beautiful aswell." Minjeong spoke. She doesn't have much to say.

"I bet Busan is awesome! I would love to go there someday." The Chinese exclaims.

"How about you and Karina? Like your relationship, how did you two meet?" Aeri asked, tilting her head looking at the two. Ningning seemed interested aswell.

"Uh..." Minjeong glanced over at Jimin,

Jimin remained quiet for a few moment, then spoke
"Our dads are close friends and tend to visit during the holidays. My mom says the first time I met... her was when she was just born." Jimin didn't say Minjeong's name since she did not know what to refer Minjeong as, Minjeong or Winter.

"Her birthday is on the 1st of January, it was still snowy at the time so that's how she got her nickname from me." Jimin continued as she picked her lips as a habit she has been doing since she was younger. She seems to try to be careful of her words, she didn't want the others to think they got off on bad terms the last time they met.

The Chinese and the Japanese listened carefully to every detail and did not cut off Jimin, Jimin was clearly out of it. "What about your nickname, Karina? Did Winter give it to you?"

Jimin snapped out of her head and glanced over at Minjeong, blinking multiple times.

"... Yeah, I did." Minjeong finally spoke up.

"Kari-... uh, Jimin-unnie got that nickname because she liked a model named Katarina, therefore I shortened it." Minjeong also did not know how to refer to Jimin, Jimin or Karina she wondered.

"Why don't you both call each other that now?" The youngest asked without thinking, got a punch on the shoulder by Aeri.

Minjeong and Jimin avoided eye contact.
Which Ningning and Aeri noticed.

"Well, how about your childhood memories together? That could be fun to listen to. I would love to know how Winter was like when she was younger." Aeri changed the subject into a fun one.

Jimin looked at Minjeong as in asking for permission to tell their childhood memories but not in detail. Minjeong nodded. "Well... once we broke a neighbour's car while playing baseball." Jimin chuckled which made others laugh.

"Minjeong-ah liked music and reading. She was good at playing instruments and writing poems."
Jimin finally said her name.

"And we used to race a lot at my backyard, I remembered I broke a tooth for tripping." Jimin already expected Ningning and Aeri to laugh and make fun of her, but she wasn't expecting for Minjeong to laugh as well.

She's glad that Minjeong is feeling comfortable.

She hasn't heard a laugh from her for years.

KARINA'S POV

My gaze softens as I heard Minjeong laughing softly along with Ningning and Aeri. I stared at her, watching her smile. She's enjoying this.

"What else? What else?!" Ningning asked me and Minjeong.

"We did have a sleepover like this all the time since the Kim's needed a place to stay for the holiday, which we didn't mind." I spoke.

"Hey, Winter. How was Karina when she was younger?" Aeri asked, which made me tensed up a bit since as a child I was... wild.

I saw Minjeong slowly turning her head towards me, "Well..." She says. "Jimin-Unnie had multiple magazines of models, especially vogue. posters everywhere in her room." I noticed Minjeong's tone gets softer and softer as she speaks more about our core memories.

"And she'd often... watch ridiculous stuff." She giggled.

"Pfft, don't bring up that. It was just... a process through teenage hood." I chuckled.

"Liar. You were watching it because you liked it."

"I do not."

"Yes you do."

Then I realised.

We were getting along,

Again.

Hearing the others laugh at us is nothing, but hearing her enjoying this conversation with me,

I missed this.

I've always missed this.

"Seems like Winter is finally loosening up a bit." Aeri whispered to me, I agreed. Minjeong is feeling much comfortable now.

NO ONE'S POV

...

9:20pm

The four girls went down the stairs from Jimin's bedroom and sat down on the couch, each of them had either one or two snacks and Ningning had more than four. "Alright girls, what's the genre for tonight? Romance? Horror? Thriller?" The oldest asked, there were multiple choices. "Romance!" "No, horror! Romance movies are yucks." The Japanese and the Chinese fought over the genre. As the two were fighting, Jimin asked Minjeong instead, "What do you want to watch?". Minjeong thought for a moment and then spoke "Musical or either comedy.", Jimin already knew Minjeong would choose those as her suggestions. Minjeong had like music since she was an infant, her gentle voice fits perfectly in any type of song she listens to.

Jimin remembered when they were in elementary school, Minjeong had to sing 'Not Here, Not Yet'. She still remembers it clearly since after that Minjeong cried because she sang a wrong note on the stage. "High School Musical it is." Jimin says it loudly and clearly, enough for the two foreign girls to turn their attention towards Jimin. The film was being put on and there the movie starts.

...

Time passes quite quickly, they've watched three movies so far and it was around 10:42pm. Jimin took a look at Aeri and Ningning, Ningning had fallen asleep on Aeri's lap while her legs were on top of Jimin's lap. Jimin chuckled and gave Aeri a thumbs up to see if she's okay, the Japanese assured with a thumbs up. Though, Aeri pointed beside Jimin, signalling Jimin to look beside her. When she did turn her head to look beside her, Minjeong had fallen asleep aswell. Two youngest had fallen asleep and two oldest were still awake, watching the movie. Minjeong would wake up from time to time but then would end up sleeping again after two minutes. Though... while Jimin was focusing on the movie, she felt Minjeong resting her head on her shoulder. Of course, Jimin remained quiet but her heart was screaming. Ningning had woken up aswell before and took a few pictures of Jimin and Minjeong, putting it on her story and caption is 'Childhood Friends Reunion!'

It was great.

'This was a fun sleepover.'