areum chuckles gently and shakes her head. “ yeah, then legacy will have our heads with the amount of cavities they’d have to fill, ” she jokes. “ we’d never hear the end of it. ” not to mention how long it had been since areum last actually ate anything particularly sweet – a little treat here and there, but nothing more. despite her sweet tooth, she tended to not really have any time to put anything unsubstantial in her body. she barely had the time to put anything substantial in there in the first place, let alone anything to treat herself. “ i’m not even sure my stomach will be able to handle anything particularly sweet – let alone a whole container of icing on a few cookies, ” she points out, chuckling lightly.
at yinuo’s denial, areum whines slightly and pouts over at her friend. “ you’re no fun. ” she complains. “ after all, we don’t need to tell anyone that we made them in the first place – it could be our little secret, ” areum says. but then, she sighs heavily – “ but i guess you have a point, we should save them. ” she agrees. “ we’ll just save the best ones for ourselves. ” she states with a nod and a smile.
areum nods slowly at yinuo’s response. “ that’s fair. i can only imagine it’s a bit odd. ” areum says, giving a slight pout. even for herself, it was weird the first few holidays she spent sitting on her own in a dorm room full of unfamiliar people. despite her situation, she’d wanted more than anything to be home with her family, to be able to celebrate alongside them like they always had. but, areum was long past that now – but wondered if it only grew in other’s cases, ever holiday spent by oneself. “ did you guys have traditions you did every year ? ” she asks, curious. “ a long time ago, my family used to go out and see lights and stuff, never anything big but … ” she shrugs. “ what about you ? ”
“ i can definitely understand that, ” areum agrees, nodding. “ just … don’t get too wrapped up in that mindset, or you’ll end up like me and get a vocal chord injury like barely two years into being a trainee. ” areum says, smiling sheepishly over at the other girl. “ plus, i’m not sure that there’s anything to really catch up to, you know ? we’re all at different levels, and expectations aren’t necessarily the same for everyone. there’s no way they expect you to be at the level of a fourth, fifth, or sixth year trainee, you know ? that just seems a bit unrealistic. ” areum points out, then shrugs. “ it’s always good to want to grow, but i don’t know so much about catching up, per se. that can end up setting you back father rather than pushing yourself forward. ”
if yinuo had it her way, she would eat all of the cookies right here and now with areum. the consequences to follow later be damned, she’ll enjoy her holidays the way they should be: fat, happy, and in the company of good friends. but, alas, there’s that shred of responsibility in her that reminds her that she signed a contract, and that her primary focus still has to be on being a good trainee. getting sick on sweets isn’t exactly the perfect picture of a good trainee.
talking is a good enough distraction from the temptation of the sweets, so yinuo throws herself into conversation. nothing held back, certainly not from a good friend like areum. even if her language skills still aren’t the best, she thinks she can get the majority of the concepts out into words.
“my parents own a brewery back home,” she’s always so proud of that; she misses being behind the bar and all of the regulars who watched her grow up from the other side of the counter. they’re family just as much as her mom and dad are. “so we’d spend days decorating the place for christmas. there’d be.. what do you call it? the strings of pine needles? we wrapped them with lights around every post and beam. and my dad would have his workers help stack kegs up into a big triangle, and we’d hang lights from it like a christmas tree. it was so fun.” she can only smile at the memories, longing to be somewhere far away. and those were just the public traditions; at home, they’d stay up all night on christmas eve exchanging gifts, still awake when the sun rises on christmas morning. and after a good nap, the big family dinner was always divine.
yinuo sighs a bit. the homesickness doesn’t hit her with the same intensity it did when she first left, but it’s still there. she thinks it might always be.
“i’m just so behind everyone else right now,” her smile fades a bit, though not completely wiped from her face. “i didn’t know how to sing or dance or anything at my audition, so i just don’t want to lag behind and hold anyone back. we’re all a team, you know? even if we’re not a debuting group yet. and some of us might not even want to debut in a group. i don’t want to be the one who always needs extra help.” she does right now, but she’s doing everything she can to learn quickly. “i’m careful! i’m not gonna get hurt! and if i do, i know you’ll take good care of me,” yinuo beams at her friend, hopefully distracting from the more serious conversations with her teasing. “right?”
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