Complementaries

When Myoui Mina entered Son Chaeyoung's room, she didn't expect to find an art studio instead of a normal bedroom. A lot of drawings decorated the walls, pencils where scattered on the floor, the very floor on which Chaeyoung was sitting at the moment. The girl was busy painting the outline of something, headphones on, and didn't hear her entering the room at all.
Mina had to make the girl aware of her presence, but she was just awestruck by how she could smell art in the younger's room. Her eyes scanned the walls. Both realistic, manga and abstract drawings and paintings impacted her retina from afar, and she wished to see them upclose. But first...

"Chaeyoung?"

The girl jolted, almost spilling the green paint on the floor, at the sound of Mina's soft voice.

"Oh, hey Mina! You're early!" she said, bolting up and quickly putting the plastic cup on her desk. She distractedly cleaned her hands on her old salopette, a gesture clearly dictated by habit.

"Yeah, uhm... I'm sorry, I was waiting outside for the right time to come before knocking, but your mother saw me from the window and let me in. She said to me to come upstairs." Mina excused herself, but Chaeyoung just shrugged and smiled.

"You could come in anyway you know." She made a laugh, showing off her teeth and dimple. "I surely wouldn't leave you outside like a pretty penguin left alone in the jungle."

"There aren't penguins in the jungle though." Mina laughed too, blushing at the pretty word.

"Not that we know. Now that you're here and we have a little time left before our set Yu-Gi-Oh tournament, why don't you get a look?" Chaeyoung opened her arms, smiling wide, as she was showing her most precious treasure to Mina. "Be careful of the pencils please, I don't want you to get hurt. I was planning to clean before you arrived, but you preceeded me." Chaeyoung made a pout, so cute that Mina really wanted to poke her cheeks in that moment. But it would be awkward, right?

"Don't worry."

Mina started wandering around, while Chaeyoung took up the papers and the pencils from the floor. She looked closely to every one of them, so intensely that Chaeyoung started feeling a bit self conscious. But she was Mina. There was nothing to worry about.

"I really like this." Mina said, pointing at a totally green drawing of a weird monster. Chaeyoung must have done it when she was a kid.

"You like that? I did it when I was eight. It is one of the first ones I hung on the wall." The young girl got closer to Mina, looking at the paper too. "Do you like the monster, or the green?" She asked, scratching the bridge of her nose.

"Both. But more the green." Mina's answer made Chaeyoung's eyes glint. She made a gesture for Mina to follow her towards her desk. Opening the drawer she took out clean paper, placing it on her desk. Then she picked up the paintbrush left in the plastic cup, still half full of green paint.

"Paint a line."

"What?"

"Paint a line!" Chaeyoung repeated. The tiger seemed up to something.

Mina took the paintbrush hesitantly, looking at it before obliging. It was a nice green. Mint green, perhaps?

"Is this...?"

"Mint green. Yeah."

Mina carefully placed the brush on the paper. She traced a simple, thick line, then returned the paintbrush to Chaeyoung.

"Green is a great color. Its variations are all so refreshing."

Mina nodded. "It's my favourite."