Chapter 23
Note: This track doesn't exist in real life. It's just fanon. (But would be cute though) Night sledding on the other hand exists.
Later on that night, the Haas family together with Jin and Yi were out together on the hills all dressed up warm pulling in duo a sled behind them the hills up following a few other tourists, that were also present.
"Many of the riders seem to be younger than our parents" Yi mentioned looking at Jin, which walked beside her pulling together with her their sled.
"There are also a few under them, that seem to be in our age" Jin asserted watching a few persons behind them, most of them being from Asian descendants. "I think that guy over there is in my school" Jin mentioned looking back to a blonde young man walking together with a raven-haired girl.
"And the girl next to him is the girlfriend then?" Yi asked watching Jin shrug his shoulders.
"I never saw her in my life" Jin mentioned.
"Hey I've never asked this before, but where are you two originally from?" Mrs. Haas asked gazing at Jin and Yi. "I mean from where from China did you get here, where we are"
"Shanghai" Yi answered. "We grew up there"
"During the time we're at university, we live at the campus near our school in Beijing. We only manage to see our families on the school vacation," Jin told the family. "Most of the times, when it was possible I phoned with my parents or video called"
"And I did the same with mine" Yi added. "They tried their best to motivate me through the hardest times and so did I"
"Talking about that, the day I had to leave, my mom took me to the train station and she couldn't stop hugging me and spreading kisses all over my face" Jin mentioned a little embarrassed making Yi and Sonja laugh.
"You're still her baby boy, Jin" Sonja mentioned earning a nod from Yi.
"I'm an only child and she would be the rest of the time alone after I leave"
"I shared a long goodbye with my mother and grandmother. It was a painful moment, even for me" Yi confessed earning a nod from the parent.
"Thinking about this, we should at least spend a bit family time with our parents since we're off school" The raven-haired boy pointed out earning a nod from his crush.
"Yes, but we've been away for days and we haven't done anything with them together" Yi mentioned. "We should take care of that when we get back to Shanghai"
"Yes I agree"
"Are we there yet?" Ben asked looking up the hill seeing, that there were getting slowly closer to their destination.
"We're almost there Ben" The father answered.
"The ride will be amazing, I can assure it" Sonja said placing her hand on her brother's shoulder.
"I hope the whole walking up of the hills will be worth it," Jin mentioned. "Not complaining about being tired or anything, but from stomping into the snow during the walk it's a little exhausting"
"Don't worry, it will be worth it" Mr. Haas commented looking at Jin, who nodded.
"We have the luck here, that we had a lift up half of the hill," The wife of Mr. Haas mentioned.
"We're almost….almost….almost…..there" Ben hinted as they were close to the top. "We're here!" Ben shouted stopping together with his sister on the top of the hill followed by the others.
"Wow" The younger people gushed at seeing the track, which was slightly marked by the previous sledders.
"Where are the lights?" Jin asked Sonja, which sat on the sled behind her younger brother.
"More to the middle of the of the track" Sonja answered. "But don't worry, it will be enjoyable. Trust me" Sonja assured moving her feet on the ground together with Ben entering the track followed by a couple, that came behind the group.
"Come on you two, it will be fun" Mr. Haas said entering together with his wife on their sled sliding the track down following their children.
"Let's sit down Yi," Jin said sitting down on the sled, while Yi sat behind him and glanced over his shoulder.
"You're okay with sitting there?" Yi asked earning a nod from the boy.
"I'm fine, unless it's better for you here"
"I'm fine like this" Yi answered placing her hands around Jin's belly making him smile a little amused. "Are we going?"
"Yes," Jin answered slowly pushing with his feet against the ground to make the sled slide down on the track. "Here we go"
"You sure you can handle the sled, right?" Yi asked the boy close on his ears noticing him nodding.
"Don't worry" Jin answered. "It's left leg for left and right leg for right. It's going to be easy" Jin assured gazing at the track together with Yi slowly approaching the next left curve, which had on the longer side a few poles with red lightened smoke whizzing out of the top.
Jin slowly sank his left leg on the ground to grind on the track making the sled turn and they managed to perform a curve with success in the middle of the road. Jin smiled at his success, then he heard behind them two people yell and he looked back along with Yi to see the blonde boy from before pass down with their sled waving at them.
"Hey watch the road!" Jin said jokingly, then looked at Yi, which was grinning joyfully about the other couple passing in front of them. The blonde beamed excited about the ride and looked forward together with the girlfriend on his ride leaving Jin and Yi behind.
"There's our next curve" Jin pointed out holding his right feet on the ground to make the next curve noticing again red colored lights with a bigger distance between the others on both sides of the curve.
"Can I try the next curve?" Yi asked earning a nod from Jin.
"I thought you were assisting me" Jin mentioned seeing Yi hit Jin playfully on his head, making him chuckle. "Okay we can do it together later" Jin promised observing them getting closer to the next curve. "On my command, you slowly place your left foot on the ground and you take it off after we're halfway through the curve," Jin instructed the girl, which obeyed the friend placing the foot on the ground seeing her foot cause bits of snow to fly from under her shoe as she brakes the sled on the curve. "Now lift it off," The Chinese boy said seeing the girl take her foot up again and the sled gets straight on their way again, being a little close to the left side of the piste.
In front of them was a small space, where there were several trees covered with snow and light blue lights and pink lights garland lights hang from one tree to the other over the highest branch of the tree. Jin and Yi smiled at seeing the couple they had came across before passing under the trees along with the Haas' noticing the lights shine on their winter jackets.
The two childhood friends passed under the trees, Yi enchanted by the lights moved her head up seeing the illumination shine down at her followed by a few snowflakes dropping down at the ground. Jin who admired the passage he turned his head back at Yi seeing her stuck her tongue out to catch a few snowflakes. Hit by Yi's idea Jin did the same putting his tongue out while closing his eyes to catch a snowflake, followed by a green, round husk land on his upper lip shrieking him and he caught the peel on his hands and looked at it. Jin heard Yi behind him chuckle at what had happened then Jin furrowed his eyebrows serious at the coincidence and he kept the packed walnut on his hands following the other sleds in front of them to the next curve, which was shaped after the S letter and both used their right leg to make together the first part of the curve, then they changed to the left leg to make the last part of the curve, nearly crashing with the Haas' siblings.
"Well done you two" Sonja complimented earning a smile from the teens. The sleds approached another part of the track with trees illuminated with long light strings by the red and orange colors. Yi beamed delighted by the look of the colors blinking under the trees, passing down under them making Yi sigh amorously at the atmosphere.
The teenage girl on the second sled noticed Yi spread her arms enjoying the time she was having on the piste and Jin glanced back to see the girl lying her back down on the sled making the boy smile in love with the girl. Soon as they got out of the mini-forest they saw the next curves, which consisted of a long slalom piste illuminated with colored smoke on the curves coming out from each pole, that stood on the sides attached to nets, which included basic daylights spelling the sledding track's name.
"This is amazing" Jin raved in surprise from their ride on the snow. "It's…..indescribable," Jin mentioned approaching the first 120° curve, then he placed his foot on the ground to steer the sled well enough to avoid crashing into Sonja and Ben, which performed the curve closer to the sides. Jin exchanged looks with Ben, which gave Jin a thumb up from the ride, therefore Jin gazed at the net they passed by with the track's description, soon he felt someone embrace him from behind and he noticed Yi was hugging him from behind while having her cheek leaned on his back smiling amorously at their ride. Jin opened his mouth amazed at the girl's affectionate behavior towards him. Jin slowly caressed the girl on the hands, letting the girl lean the way she was on his back and he sighed amatory continuing the ride along with Sonja and Ben, which had noticed, what had happened between the two, soon the two groups disappeared in the next curve followed by another sled, which was also participating the ride along other riders.