Winter

Seventeen and Sixteen


TerribleFoolishly, yet so gently, like a cherry blossom petal, it places someone in its embrace.

The quick-witted girl flipped the piece of paper over and wrote on the back, as if to reciprocate:
"Just a light drizzle through the classroom window."
A few peach blossoms have peeked through the trees for a visit.
How can it get wet?pristine white paper
How can you scare a sixteen-year-old girl in the prime of her youth?
However, just as Taehyung read the reply, thunder rumbled, lightning flashed across the dry sky, and as if by conditioned reflex, the sixteen-year-old jumped closer. Taehyung grinned, his square grin widening:
"Thinking that at sixteen the moon is full, one fears nothing from the rumbling thunder."