Snow and Ice || 태국

Our Green Ice

The person in front of him was Jaehyun.

Taehyung did not expect to see him here. What a small world.

He looked the same as always—full of quiet elegance and appearing polite and refined. Nothing seemed to have changed. When Taehyung saw him, a wave of emotion somewhere between rue and lament suddenly surged within him.

After standing firm, Jaehyun pushed up his spectacles and looked at Taehyung.

Taehyung was unable to read the emotions in his eyes under the cover of his thick spectacle lens.

Taehyung asked him, "Why did you suddenly come to ice skate?" And doing it so terribly, too.

"I heard you went back to ice skating," Jaehyun said.

Taehyung was startled.

Jaehyun seemed a little embarrassed and said, "I was thinking, I want to understand it more."

Taehyung looked at his face. After a long while, he replied with an "oh".

Jaehyun did not dare to meet Taehyung's eyes. His sight kept drifting towards the Ferris wheel.

Taehyung glanced around and asked, "Alone?"

"Mm, you?"

"I—"

Before Taehyung could finish speaking, Jaehyun suddenly saw a figure from afar skate towards them at a high speed, appearing in front of him in a blink of an eye. The abrupt appearance of the large, looming figure gave Jaehyun the gut feeling that they were about to collide, causing him to instinctively take a step back. With this little movement, his skates slipped and he was once again unable to stay upright. His body plummeted to the ground.

However, that person did not crash into them. By simply angling one foot, he came to a beautiful halt at the very last minute and stood firm on the ground. When he braked, the blades scraped against the ice and stirred up a large smattering of ice fragments. Sitting on the ice, Jaehyun looked up just in time to see a swirl of ice fragments flying all over the place. Some tiny ice pieces landed on his face, cold and uncomfortable.

Before Jaehyun could fully react, something grabbed hold of his shoulder. With startlingly huge force, it smoothly hauled him up from the ice.

Jaehyun, "..."

As a man, it was rare for him to be in such a vulnerable position.

"Sorry." That person patted his arm. "I didn't expect you to be so timid."

Jaehyun was a little annoyed. He raised his head and through his spectacles—as well as the ice fragments on the lens—he saw that the person was Jungkook.

"The two of you..." he deliberated.

Jungkook flashed a smile and said, "I've known him much earlier than he's known you."

Jaehyun looked toward Taehyung.

Taehyung felt that Jaehyun cut a sorry figure like a punching bag. He gestured at Jungkook and gestured at himself, and explained, "Primary school classmates."

"It's deskmates." Jungkook emphasized.

Taehyung slanted his eyes towards Jungkook. "Weren't you unwilling to be deskmates with me?"

"Whether I'm willing or not, it's still a fact."

Without batting an eyelid, Jaehyun observed their expressions. Then, he lowered his head calmly and cleaned his spectacles. As he did so, he said to Taehyung, "Do you know that Teacher Lee has given birth?"