Snow and Ice || 태국

Winter activity

Both Taehyung and Jungkook originally signed up for figure skating. However, they parted ways after a few lessons. Under the ice skating club's suggestion, Taehyung went to learn speed skating. As for Jungkook, he was noticed by a coach from the ice hockey club next door and was hauled off to learn ice hockey.

Since both activities still involved exercising, the two children's parents were not too particular about the exact sport they signed up for.

Slowly, it was nearly the end of the school term.

Taehyung went to visit his grandpa and he restated his promise of bringing him to Disneyland if he becomes the top scorer in the class.

At this time, there was no Disneyland in South Korea.

To achieve his dream of going to Disneyland, Taehyung activated the skill that he was best at—oppressing Jungkook. He informed Jungkook, if you score full marks for both papers again, I would stuff your pencil case with caterpillars. There would one for each day, and it would be a different kind every day.

Under this threat, Jungkook purposely answered a fill-in-the-blank question for the maths paper wrongly, resulting in a score of 98.

After factoring in the literature paper, his total score was 198.

Mm, still the class's top scorer.

Taehyung was a little dejected.

His mother told him that he needed to self-reflect.

Taehyung thought that this was very reasonable. From that day on, he formed the habit of eating walnuts every day. Yup, he needed to boost his brainpower.

......

During winter vacation, both Taehyung and Jungkook signed up for a volunteer program for primary school students organized by the community club—youth guides.

They were all assigned to various places of interest as free guides for tourists. Taehyung and Jungkook were sent to the ruins of a battlefield in the west of the city. The sides of the battlefield were overrun with weeds while the actual site held excavated artifacts and reconstructed items from historical records organized to make the area seem happening.

Unfortunately, it seemed that not many people were interested in touring the remnants of a battlefield in this age of peace. The human traffic here was pitiful compared to that of other scenic attractions.

To raise the children's enthusiasm, the activity organizer regulated that after every completed tour, the young guides could ask for the tourists' ticket stubs. Every three stubs can be exchanged for a red flower and the red flowers can be exchanged for various prizes such as school bags, stationery, toys, etc.

There were always four youth guides on duty at the battlefield ruins. At this unpopular attraction, the awkward scenario of not having enough tourists for everyone would inevitably occur.

Facing this competitive environment, Taehyung was in his element.

Upon seeing anyone, this rascal would noisily bound over, blink his large eyes and innocently ask: Older brother/ older sister/ uncle/ auntie/ grandpa/ grandma, can I guide you through this place? It's free! 

Who could say no?

And then, in a daze, this group of people would be led away by Taehyung.

The history of the battlefield was rather dry. Taehyung did not properly memorize it when undergoing training. As he rambled on, he forgot what came next and his mind went blank.

It's alright, those weren't important at all! Self-confidence was still key!

Therefore, Taehyung only paused for a little while before starting to BS, earnestly sharing a whole bunch of nonsense.

The tourists all came in a daze and left in the same state. Before leaving, they gave Taehyung their ticket stubs.

Principal Kim was standing at the entrance. He stopped a tourist and quietly asked, "How was he as a guide?"

The tourist had a bewildered expression. "He said that this was the battlefield of Ultraman and Godzilla, and carried out a demonstration of the weapons."

Principal Kim was so embarrassed that he wanted to disappear. At the same time, he was a little puzzled. "Why did you still give him your ticket stub?"

The tourist's eye shone. "He's just too adorable!"

......

Taehyung obtained yet another ticket stub and came out to see the arrival of a new tourist. It was a young woman. At his side were two boys scrambling to be his guide.

Jungkook was standing behind the youth guide table, quietly looking at them.

He seemed somewhat lonely.

Taehyung felt something surge in his heart. This feeling was along the lines of "this person is under my care". He walked over and grabbed Jungkook's hand, leading him over to the young woman.

The two boys were still competing. One said "Auntie, I've memorized everything very well, choose me", while the other went "Auntie, I've won a speech competition before, choose me, choose me".

Taehyung opened his mouth, and in his naturally cutesy voice spoke in an unhurried manner that enunciated every word. "Hello, older sister."

These three words immediately struck the female tourist's heart.

The female tourist was stirred and looked at Taehyung with a smile. "Why did you call me older sister?"

"You're so young, I can't possibly call you auntie."

Oh! The female tourist clutched her heart. Whose child was this, she wanted to steal him home!

Taehyung tugged at Jungkook's hand and said, "Older sister, he's called Jungkook. We are volunteering as free tour guides. Jungkook has yet to guide once today! Can you let him guide you? Pretty please!"

The female tourist looked at Jungkook. Oh my, she wanted to steal this one as well!

"You can also call me older sister." She beamed at Jungkook.

Jungkook was a little embarrassed. He softly called out, "Older sister."

And then he welcomed his first tour of the day.

Following this, the tourists to the battlefield ruins were monopolized by Taehyung and Jungkook. The other volunteers in the same group silently grumbled in their hearts but did not dare to vocalize their anger.

At the end of this activity, Taehyung obtained 7 red flowers in total while Jungkook obtained 6. Taehyung took all 13 red flowers to the teacher. For himself, he exchanged a giant Winnie the Pooh plush toy while for Jungkook, he exchanged an eraser.

Jungkook looked at the eraser in his hand and was so touched that he wanted to hit someone.

He should have expected that he was his free labor.

There must be something wrong with his brain for him to feel touched earlier.