Chapter 5: Not a Fond of Penguins

They head to one more place, karaoke. They had fun. They head back to the car. On the way, Minah sees a cute penguin in the claw machine.

"How cute." Youngjae sees the penguin. "That is cute?" "Isn't it?" "It's ugly." She gasp. "No its not." "It's cute. Can you get it for me?" "Why?" "Humph." Minah pouts. "Fine. I'll get it myself."

Minah grabs quarters out of her bag and puts one in the claw machine. She slowly trying to get the penguin but she fails. "argh." She tries again and again but she still fails.

Youngjae sees how hard she's trying to get the penguin and she's making a serious face. He chuckles. He pulls out his cellphone once more and takes a picture of her.

Soon he puts it away and he asks, "Why not buy one at the store?" "No. I want this one." She uses all of her quarters. "Awhh....in the end, I didn't get it." "Let's just go." Youngjae went ahead then hears someone bawling behind him. He turns around and it was Minah. "H-hey!!" Youngjae startles and went up to her. He covers her mouth but she slaps his hand.

People around them turns and look at them. "Hey. What's wrong? Why are you crying?" She cries,"I want that penguin..." "Let's just go. Next time." "No. Now." She continues to bawl her eyes out.

A stranger said, "What's wrong getting for your girlfriend? Just get it. Don't make her cry." He turns to Minah, wiping her tears. He's giving in. "Okay. Okay. I'll get it for you." She stops and said, "R-really? You will?" "Yeah so stop crying." She nods.

Youngjae sighs and puts the quarters in. It took him a few quite until he finally caught it. "Yay!!!" Minah jumps up and down, so cheerfully. Youngjae looks how happy she is. (Wish I could capture your happy smile in this moment.)

Youngjae grabs it and hands it to her. "Here." She takes it and kiss him on the cheek. "Thank you." She then looks at the penguin so joyful. Youngjae was dumbfound and reaches to touch the place that she kissed him.

She turns and looks at him. She smiles so brightly. He snaps back in reality and grabs her hand. "Let's take you home now. Before.." (I lose control). His heart was pounding so loud that he was afraid that she could hear it.

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As they reach to her house, she smiles shyly. He wasn't sure why she's acting like that. She looks down and he follows her gaze. He just realized that he's been holding onto her hand. He lets go. "Sorry." "Want to come inside?" "Eh?" "My parents are not home." (Ah...her parents are not home...and she invites me....)

His face and ears went red. "Youngjae. Are you okay?" "I-I-I-I'm okay. S-so your parents are not home." "Yes. So you want to come inside?" "U-Um...I don't think its a good idea.." "Why?" "I-I-I mean....unless you want to...." Minah doesn't know why he's stuttering. (Why is he acting like this? I'm just inviting him over...unless...)

She grins. "Youngjae." "H-Hmm?" "Are you....having dirty thoughts?" His face blushed. (So it's true...) Youngjae startles and said, "Oh my, look at the time. I got to go." He dashes away. "And he runs away." Minah laughs.

Minah watches him go further away from her. "I wish you could stay longer." She sadly smiles. Then she went inside of her house. She turns on the lights in her bedroom.

She sits on bed, holding the penguin that Youngjae got for her. She smiles. "I'm not a fond of penguins, but I got it because you liked them, Youngjae." She holds the penguin close to her and laid down on her bed. She slowly closed her eyes and fallen asleep.

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Youngjae got home and went straight to bed. He lays down and recalls what happen. He touch his lip. (I kiss her....Oh my god! I kissed her?) His face blushed. He puts both of his hand to cover his face and roll around his bed. (I kissed her...I kissed her.)

He sits up and calm himself down. He grabs his cellphone out of his jacket. He looks through the pictures that he took. He smiles on every single one. He then send a goodnight text to Minah. He sighs.

He stands up but his head are thumping like crazy. "Argh." His phone dropped on the floor. He fell on his knees. He sees some flashback. He groans very loud.

His mother hears it and went to check on him. She opens the door and sees him in pain on the floor. "Youngjae!"

She went up to him. "Mom. My head hurts. It's hurts." She grabs his phone and calls 911.