Chapter 1

"Yah, what are you up to?" An arm slips between yours. Jeon Heejin, the most beautiful girl you ever knew. Her eyes pierce yours, and you fear she can see through your feelings, your heart thumping as she smiles softly at you. But despite her rabbit-like cute features, she is blind as a bat when it comes to you. "Let's do something!"

"Ooh, I want in!" Another arm slips through on your other side. Kim Hyunjin, also the most beautiful girl your ever knew. Her eyes are large and round, almost catlike as they grow rounder when something interests her. Just like a cat she blows hot and cold—sometimes aloof, sometimes far too clingy. You liked Hyunjin, but you could never get a read on her. "Arcade? Or noraebang?"

"Hey Hyunjin, you two have the day off?"

"Mmhmm! The company gave us a few days break! What do you want to do, oppa?" You wince, Hyunjin loved to remind you of your age, despite being barely older than them.

"Whatever you want to do, it's your break," you deflect, but they don't take no for an answer.

"No, we want to do what you want to do!"

"Okay okay, arcade then?" They nod vigorously. You move your arms, trying to shrug them off, but they stay attached to you. "I can walk by myself you know."

"Nah, we're gonna stay stuck to you!"

"Aren't you two idols now, can you even do this?"

"It's fine! We're all wearing masks!" You sigh and shake your head. Locked between the two of them they quick march you to the arcade the three of you have always gone to. As usual the arcade becomes a battleground, a war between Heejin and Hyunjin, and you? You're the poor referee.

"Yah Kim Hyunjin, that's cheating!"

"It wasn't in the rules!"

"You can't just take all of my basketballs away!" Heejin complains, turning to you as Hyunjin returns them to the pop-a-shot game. "Oppa, that's cheating right?"

Hyunjin hurriedly starts the game before you can say anything. "Fine fine, ready? Go!" As she puts up a shot Heejin reaches over and swats it away—it was impressive, if it wasn't for the fact that you were in an arcade, and the ball goes flying all over the place.

"Yah, Jeon Heejin, you're not supposed to block my shot!"

"Why? That's not in the rules either!" They end up in a tussle, trying to steal basketballs from one another, and no shots get put up—it ends as a tie, zero zero.

"Oppa, who won?"

"Yeah, who won!"

You sigh and ignore them, walking to the air hockey table. They immediately start a game, and almost as soon as it begins there are arguments.

"You can't just trap and stop the puck!" Heejin complains again.

"What? Why? It's positioning!"

"Hmph, fine!" Heejin grabs another paddle, using two to block her goal.

"Yah, one per person!"

"Boo, where are the rules for that?"

"Hmph I want one too!" Hyunjin grabs a second paddle of her own, and the games devolves into the two of them waving both paddles wildly on the board, sending the disc flying all over the place. It ends up shooting off the table, landing at your feet.