Him who reminds me of Snow

Him who reminds me of Snow

Forewords

The gentle way snow fell from the dark gloomy sky.

The coldness when snow touched my skin.

The pure white innocent color.

The way it looked soft from a distance.

How snow made me fall in love with them just by all of those things.

Until I met him of course,

Him who reminds me of snow,

It is Him who I love the most.

An original story by Park RyeoNa

Featuring YunHo Jung of Dong Bang Shin Ki and SeulGi Bae.

Credits:

Poster/Background - Thanks to paopao of Moonlight Mysteries
http://moonlight-mysteries.co.nr


Chapter One: First Day of Snow

I stood still in the middle of nowhere. I could feel my surrounding cold. I was cold. All I could see was a pure white blanket of snow covering the earth and a distance forest. A freezing gust hit me out of nowhere that caused me to hug myself to obtain warm. I could also hear the sound of the frozen wind blowing quietly as it passed me. I looked up at the dark gloomy sky. The white snow was still falling gracefully. The gentle way it fell from the sky above. The coldness when it touched my warm skin. The pure white innocent color. How it looked soft from a distance. How it managed to cover the ground completely. I love the snow. I closed my eyes to feel the coldness devoured me.

“Yah! SeulGi Bae! Pay attention!” At that very moment, I felt something hit my head, hard. Continued by a tumbling sound. I immediately raised my face to see a frightening glaring teacher. And of course pairs of staring eyes, all looking directly at me. So, it was just a dream. A snow-dream I called it. I looked down at my desk and saw a mess of white powder along with two pieces of white chalks. Maybe it broke into half when it hit my head. I rubbed my skull where I guessed the chalk knocked me. Ms Shim sure could hit her target accurately. She was one of the teachers who were in charge of the Archery Club.

“SeulGi, are you ok?” My friend, SooYoung whispered softly. Her alto voice was a mixed of concern and confusion. You see I rarely slept in class. I stared at her worried face blankly before my brain finally received the message. I just woke up so I was a bit slow. I noticed her eyes were emerald green than the usual chocolate brown. She must be wearing contacts. I preferred her with brown eyes. It suits her clear pale oval face, small straight nose, high cheeks bones and long brown straight hair. Her hair was all tied up in a ponytail today. Normally she just let it down.

“Ms Bae, if you want to sleep. Do it after my class.” The teacher hissed menacingly and glared at my direction. She emphasized the word ‘after’ so I would think twice before taking another trip to dreamland during her lesson. She is history teacher. She stood in front of the class for another fifteen minutes before the bell rang indicating lunch period. She finally exited the room after reminding us of the history test that she would give next lesson. We all groaned in respond. I immediately lean back on my chair and sighed. I’m going to fail that test.

“SeulGi, You haven’t answered my question.” SooYoung pouted. Her pout was a bit unique in someway. It made you feel guilty in fact. In her hand was a Hello Kitty key chain, which was given to her by her boyfriend. He’s a sweet guy. He enjoys singing and dancing, in fact, he’s so good in singing he could be a singer. He is very cute too but he studies in a different high school. They met during a sport event sometime last month, they like each other a lot.

“I’m all right, SooYoung.” I smiled trying to convince her. I’m very glad she trusted my fake smile. The truth was I’m not fine. Last night, my parents were fighting again. I could not even close my eyes or think straight, let alone sleep. They were loud, shouting actually. Luckily InHwan, my six years old little brother was staying over at a friend’s house. He would cry if he ever heard their arguments. They were getting divorce. The worst part was they were fighting about who will take custody of InHwan and me. None of them wanted us. All they want was the house and the possessions in it.

“Good, because I was thinking of meeting SungMin later. Why don’t you tag along?” She beamed saying his name. Yes, SungMin was SooYoung’s boyfriend. Now I know why SooYoung was wearing contacts. She was going for a date. Since she does not want it to be awkward, she invited me along. They are still shy to each other, how sweet.

“Sorry SooYoung but I can’t. I have to take care of InHwan.” I force a fake apologetic face. It was not like I hate SungMin. It was just that I do not want to be the third wheel. Plus with my state of stress now, I really do not want to ruin their date. The part about InHwan was true though but he can always go to a friend’s house again. SooYoung seemed to understand and let it go. She then talked about something else. She does not know about my parents though. In fact nobody know or even care. Unlike SooYoung who was pretty, smart and athletic, I’m just average. I do not excel in anything.

“Want to go out for lunch?” SooYoung asked raising her right eyebrow. I looked outside from the classroom square window. The trees have lost all of their leaves, leaving them bare with their wood dark brown branches. It was winter in Seoul. The sky was dark and cloudy. It looked like it was going to rain. It also looked freezing outside with the wind blowing the tiny branches lightly. I smiled and nodded. I love the cold. I took out my lunch box from my bag and exited the warm classroom to the busy hallway. Students were staring at me again. I tried to ignore them as usual. Just because I was not born in Korea and did not take my stepfather’s family name, I have become the center of attention. I moved from my birth country when I was three years old. People treated me somewhat different, because of my mother. It was a long story and rather painful to recall. I do not like to think about it. From a distance, I spotted SiWon. He was one of the well-known students in the school and also my neighbor since I moved to Seoul. He was both manly and very polite. He looks very handsome when he smiles. His cheekbones made his face unique, it’s high and define like a model’s. He is a gentleman too. He also has this habit of moving his hand; in other words gesturing. He always makes me laugh when he gestured; not only his hands are moving but the rest of his body follow. Ok I admitted it. I used to have a crush on him, used to. As we passed each other, I saw his soft brown eyes glanced at me. Even though we are childhood friends, we never talked to each other in school. I’ve requested him not to speak to me when we’re in school. It might expose me to the student body. I don’t like attention unlike any other normal person. I like to blend in with the background with no one discovering me and be invisible. I tend to runaway if there’s a problem. I’m just a coward I guessed.

We finally reached outside where all the tables and chairs were. It was colder than I thought and the place was deserted. I wondered why SooYoung took me here. She hates cold deserted places. However I love being alone where it was quiet like this. Makes me wonder more how we managed to become best friends despite our differences.

“SiWon was looking at you” she grinned. We sat down on a clean table and I decided to ignore her by eating my lunch. Even though SooYoung was my best friend but she doesn’t know about SiWon and I. I’m very good with keeping secrets that always make me somehow mysterious. SooYoung noticed I was ignoring her and she began eating her food too. I looked up at the dark sky and saw something white falling lightly. My face immediately formed a smile. I felt happiness building in me.

“Snow” I muttered. SooYoung looked up and agreed with me. Today was the first day of snow.


Chapter Two: Him

As the snow began piling on the ground covering my shoes and uniform with white powder, my gaze never left the gray sky. Some snow fell on my face and it felt really cold against my skin. My fingers were shaking and pink due to the freezing condition. I forgot to take my gloves with me. I could see my breathe in front of me when I exhaled. I looked over at SooYoung and she was staring at me. Her nose was kind of pinkish red and her cheeks were flushed due to the frosty situation. She was sensitive to the cold, nothing like me. She then smiled at me.

“It has been a while since I saw you smile like that,” she said still smiling. From that, I realized that I could never fool SooYoung. Maybe sometimes but she seems to notice every single bits of details about me. I never really smile out of joy since my parents began fighting. SooYoung realized that and now I know why she took me here. It was to cheer me up. Of course, it did manage to lift up my spirit. I’m very lucky to have her has my best friend. Just then the school bell rang. However I didn’t move, I just stayed outside absorbing the beautiful scenery of the falling snow. SooYoung had to drag me inside because of that. I just can’t leave the place. It was so captivating. Class started as soon as we sat on our chairs. I kept looking outside of the window while the teacher explained endlessly at the front of the classroom. Snow was deposited on the trees’ branches making them look white with white powder like leaves. It looked colder than before with the wind blowing the snow, creating a wave like flow. It almost looked like a white cold sea, flowing gracefully with the controlling wind.

“And that’s the end of our lesson. Have a nice day class” Mr. Park, our English teacher smiled his angelic smile. Park YooChun was the most popular male teacher in the school. Who can deny that fact? He plays the piano; compose songs and sings. Not only that he has an angel smile, he was also sensitive, caring and funny. His skin was pale and smooth like a baby’s. He has the most cute cheekbones, adorable bubbly nose and magnificent eyes. On someone else head, the mushroom hairstyle looked stupid but on his, he looks dead gorgeous. Almost of the female students and some male worships his every movement. I have to admit, I like him but it’s just a small crush, nothing more.

“You sure you don’t want to come with us? You could bring InHwan with you.” SooYoung was practically begging. Once again, I tried to encourage her to go alone and have fun with SungMin. It was their date after all. After several minutes, she finally gave in but mostly because she was going to be late and she has to dash. I stayed in the classroom until everybody left. My gaze was still towards the square window. It was still snowing just like before. It’s much quieter now being alone in the classroom. I felt happy somehow. Suddenly, my phone rang, I bet its InHwan. I checked my inbox and my guess was right.

“Nuna, I’m staying at SiWon hyung’s house for a while. He got ‘Dragon Wars’! I have to play it! Hyung will bring me home before dinner. <3 InHwan” that kid. He loves playing games. His playing buddy was always SiWon. Those two should live together. SiWon was very good with the children, mostly because he also act like one and really likes children. I always tease him about when will he grow up and stop being so childish. However, that’s who he is, childish. I can’t change him. I also can’t change the fact that he is taller than me; I used to be taller than him. Then I remembered, dinner. My happiness just vanished from the inside me. My parents usually gets home late, dinner always consist of me and InHwan but since InHwan spent almost of his time at his friend’s house, dinner was always quiet with only me. I love being alone but dinner is always more enjoyable with family and friends around. The house was also quiet until of course my parents get back from work. Then they’ll continued shouting and yelling at each other.

I wonder what went wrong between the two of them. I hope my mom won’t repeat her mistakes like she did in Japan before she met my current dad. I did tell you about why people treated me somewhat different. The reason was hidden in my mother. My heart was in so much pain every time I tried recalling what happened. I was only three years old and I witnessed everything. I sometimes cried just thinking about it, it hurts so much. I gaze outside again for the last time and to my surprise, I saw a boy.

He was up on a flat roof, standing near the edge of the apartment. With nothing preventing his fall. I was both shock and mesmerized. Shock because I am about to witness a gruesome suicide and mesmerized because the boy was gorgeous. Yes, he was gorgeous, more breath taking than my English teacher. He was standing there. Eyes calmly looking down at the street covered snow and weren’t shivering in fear or cold. He was pale, tall and muscular. Never in my life I was so absorb in looking at someone, I didn’t realize he jumped. He jumped gracefully at mid air, wind blowing his dark brown hair. It was the most magnificent thing I ever observed. The boy disappeared from my view because of a nearby building was blocking. I don’t know what to do at first but then without thinking, I immediately rushed out from the classroom and ran through the silent narrow corridor of the school. I searched for him as soon as I reached the main gate. I finally found him in an alley. He was sitting on a pile of snow. I spotted two small skinny branches next to him and a long orange carrot. I’m guessing he fall on top of a snowman that the neighborhood children made. I felt relief he was all right. Afterwards, I was staring at him. From head to toe he was perfect. He had a pair of stunning dangerous eyes that could make me faint, straight beautiful nose and fine cheekbones. His face was perfectly sculptured like an angel from heaven but then again it’s too perfect. Maybe he is a demon from hell. He looked manlier and muscular from near. His biceps were in good shape. I was practically drooling at the sight of him. He was still pale, like the snow beneath him. He reminds me so much of the snow. From the first time I saw him till now.

He was perfect and cold...

...Like snow.


Chapter Three: Jung YunHo

“Well, aren’t you going to help me?” his right hand brushed some snow that was on his soft dark brown hair. He looked at me with his dim cold eyes sparkling like the night sky filled with stars. His deep voice sounded angry and yet mesmerizing at the same time. He almost represents an Ice King. Ice because he looked cold and unemotional, like he only depend on himself. King because he was perfect, handsome, muscular, tall, pale and looked royalty. His also have this aura that made you feel cold inside. Maybe he is a demon from hell sent to us to warn. I slowly walked over to him and bend down to help him up. My hands hesitated at first whether to touch him or not but in the end I grabbed his left hand and pull him up. I was right his biceps were in perfect shape. His hand was ice cold and looked paler than mine. Who exactly was this person? Is he even human? He muttered a quiet thank you and let go of my hand. He showed no expressions at all. As he walked away from me, I remembered he just jumped off from a building. He might be hurt.

“W-wait! Hey you!” I called out running to him. I didn’t know his name yet but at least he stopped. He turned around so suddenly that I accidentally crushed into him. His huge muscular arms captured me and it felt like he was hugging me. Instead of feeling the warmth from him, I felt like I just crushed into a freezing wall. His body was hard like stone, like his hands, his body was also freezing. When he was hugging me, I just realized what he was wearing. All this time I was so drawn into his face. I didn’t notice what was he wearing. He had a simple black coat on, too thin for the current weather. Maybe that’s why he feels so cold. He had a pair of black jeans that matches his long black coat. I noticed he was also wearing a shiny slivery necklace. It looked pretty around his long pale neck. I gazed from his neck to his chin then up to his pale red soft lips. My god, he was so perfect like an angel. Forget about the demon theory, this boy is far from being a demon.

“Hey, are you alright?” he asked. He was looking down at me. He was so tall that my head was the same level as his chest. Reminds me SiWon’s tallness. I immediately looked away from his lips and hid my red face under my long light brown hair, creating a curtain with it. I hope he didn’t see me blushed. He released me from his cold grip and began to look at me weirdly. “Are you ok?” he asked for the second time.

“Y-yes, I’m fine” I was shuttering, mainly because I was nervous. I never met someone like him before in my life. Sure I’ve met a lot of boys but never as wonderful as he was. His voice was deep yet soft to hear. I like hearing his voice. I wished I could kept hear him talking. Then I remembered what I was going to ask him. “Are you ok?” I questioned him. He looked perfectly fine actually, for a person who just jumped off a building that is. More than fine, he looked like nothing as happened.

“As you can see, I have no injuries” he spoke as he looked at himself. “Can you excuse me now?” he was about to walk away but I managed to pull his thin black coat. He had an annoying look on his face but I don’t care.

“Yah! You just jumped from a tall building! I can’t just let you go” I was worried about him. He might get a broken bone from that fall and acted like nothing happened. He might be in serious pain but hid it. “Come with me. I’ll take care of you”

“No need--” I dragged him to the direction of the school before he could finish his sentence. I have to get my bag first. I heard him complaining as I dragged him with me. “Don’t your parents be shock to see you come home with a with a guy?”

“Nope, they’ll be home late at night” I bluntly answered.
“How about your siblings? Won’t they tell your parents?” he asked again.
“InHwan will never do that and beside he’ll be home during dinner” one of the reason why I adore InHwan.
“How about--” endless questions was coming out from his soft pale red lips.

“You worry to much,” I giggled at his perfect handsome face. He looked cute when he’s being annoyed. He talks a lot now and I absolutely love to hear his vocal. “By the way, I’m Bae SeulGi” I introduced myself as we made our way through the empty corridor. He was silent along the way, which made me feel sad because he has stopped complaining. We finally arrived in my classroom. I was picking up my bag when he spoke in his deep soothing voice again.

“I’m Jung YunHo”

His voice is so captivating.