Preparations again

First Winter at Fire Lodge
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Lisa helped get the guests checked out and then went to order the flowers for Sana.   First she dialed the number Jennie had given her for Chaeyoung. It rang half a dozen times and was probably about to go to voicemail when someone finally answered it.   "Hello?" The woman on the other end of the line had obviously had to scramble for the phone.   "Hi. This is Lisa from Fire Lodge. Is this Chaeyoung?"   "No, this is Mina. Chaeyoung can't get to the phone right now. Maybe I could help you?"   Lisa remembered that Mina was one of Chaeyoung's girlfriends (how did that even work?) so she hoped Mina would have the information she needed. "I hope so. We wanted to send flowers to Sana. Do you know which hospital she's in? And her room number?"   "I've got that written down right over here. Just a second."   Lisa got the information from Mina, then signed off with "We're looking forward to seeing you later this week."   "We're looking forward to it too - our time at Fire Lodge is one of our favorite times of the year."   After getting off the phone with Mina, Lisa checked online for a list of florists that delivered to that hospital. The she remembered she'd need to get the debit card from Jennie.   After seeing that Jennie wasn't at the front desk, Lisa used the phone to call her room. Jennie answered on the first ring "Hello?"   "Hi Jennie. Its Lisa."   "Oh! We were supposed to go for a walk this morning, weren't we? I'll meet you at the front desk in just a few minutes."   "Well, that sounds great, but actually I was calling to get the debit card so I can order the flowers for Sana."   "It's in the bottom of the register drawer. You go ahead and finish that, and I should be up there by the time you're done.   It actually took Jennie longer to make it to the desk than it took Lisa to order the flowers, so she had some time left over to worry about the walk and what she was going to say and how Jennie might respond and what if Dahyun was wrong and . . . and . . ."   Lisa closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths to calm herself. She was interrupted by someone patting her on her hand "Are you OK?"   Jumping a little, she opened her eyes and saw that it was Jennie. "Oh, ummm, yeah, I'm fine. I was just doing a mindfulness exercise while I was waiting for you."   "Oh, like meditation? My mom used to meditate every day. I don't seem to have the time or the patience to. Anyway, you ready for a walk?"   "Sure!"   As they were putting on their jackets, Jennie said "We're going to be staying kind of close to the lodge, and the forecast today is for clear whether, so we shouldn't need the blizzard kit, but I want you to carry it anyway, so you get used to the feel of it on your back."   "Sure thing!" Lisa grabbed one of the blaze orange backpacks hanging in the staff area. She checked the contents - first aid kit, rope, bottled water, emergency food, space blanket - and repacked them under Jennie's approving eye.   "And now," Jennie said, "I think we're ready to go."   ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^   Jisoo sat on a stool watching Chaeyoung do the dishes.   "Oh yes," Chaeyoung said laughing. "I'm building up all kinds of good karma. Once your hand heals, I won't have to do dishes for at least a week."   "You're the head chef," Jisoo pointed out. "You can do that anyway."   Chaeyoung nodded as she put the plate in the rack to dry. "That's true. But what's the point of having underlings if you can't take advantage of their misfortunes?"   Chaeyoung dried her hands, threw the towel into the laundry, and then crossed over to stand in front of Jisoo. "You know I'm just messing with you, right? The way you were talking this morning, you sounded like you wanted to be punished for your perceived shortcomings, so I didn't want to disappoint you - even if your shortcomings are more perceived than actual." She leaned forward and kissed Jisoo on the forehead.   Chaeyoung leaned against the prep table. "Let's see how much you remember from last week. What's the next thing we should do?"   "Plan next weekend's menu!"   "Yes! And then?"   Jisoo thought for a moment. "Inventory the pantry and make the shopping list!"   "Right again! And then?"   Jisoo was practically bouncing in her seat. "Go to the grocery store! Will I get to go with you again?"   "Probably - it's up to Jennie. And that should remind you of the very important step you left out."   Jisoo clapped her hand to her forehead. "Get Jennie to approve the grocery list and get the debit card."   "Yeah, we'd have looked pretty silly with a cart full of groceries and no way to pay for them."   Chaeyoung went and retrieved her notebooks from the pantry. She opened them up on the prep table - first her record of guests' preferences and dislikes, then next to that her recipe notebook, then on the far end a blank notebook for making the shopping list in.   "Come around on this side," Chaeyoung said. "You'll be in charge of writing things down."   With Jisoo to write things down, Chaeyoung didn't
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After reading the first comments to come in and doing some serious thinking, I've decided to mark this one complete. I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you stick around to see what I write next. ^_^

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Astraea21 #1
Chapter 19: Can't wait for the sequel. :) Awesome!
Astraea21 #2
Chapter 1: Looking forward to finishing this in no time. :)
IROSEI #3
Chapter 19: Wooooooooo!!! I'm so happy n.n
Daddy_Lisa
#4
Chapter 18: This is the ending? Seemed very empty but I'll take it
oeschinen
#5
Chapter 18: I am actually quite satisfied with the ending. If you, the author, feels that it has come to an end then this is the end :)
Personally, I ended one fic I wrote too because I thought the characters were happy enough and they are right where they need to be, even if there were a few more subplots and scenes I wanted to put in; in this case, the two main couples (Chaesoo and Jenlisa) already have a little bit of something going on when they all started as barely knowing each other.

Of course, then again, I'd like to point out that you tagged this as "slice of life". The genre came from anime which I think you're familiar with. SOL are known to revolve around a few characters just living their life working in their professions as they deal with normal life situations; marriage, break-ups, crushes, new/losing jobs etc. It's known to not have a plot and just revolve around well "life" which was what I felt for "First Winter at Fire Lodge" and I think it did stay true to the genre indeed :)

I enjoyed this. I'm on board and eager to see new fics that you'll come up with ^^
mitsii_chickin
#6
Chapter 18: Ahhhhh this is the end?
Casti1004
#7
Chapter 18: Awww this was cute
LALISAKIM #8
Chapter 18: Yay~ Jenlisa *i’m screaming*
ps. HAPPY ROSIE POSIE DAY
mangoshu
#9
Chapter 18: Oh~so we get to choose what we wanted?!
Ok~~then I'll choose "THE END" for <Fire Lodge>? Don't get me wrong though. Honestly, I like this story as it's slightly different. More real life in a way? But I dunno~~from the moment Lisa asked Jennie for a coffee date to Lisa's plan for a 2nd fire ceremony, I already felt that it's coming close to an end? And when I saw the title for this chapter, I'm quite sure it's the end already. But then again cos I couldn't see the word "completed" under its status, so yeah....I was actually confused in a way???
So yup, an end to this and a beginning to a NEW story, haha!