Past and future

First Winter at Fire Lodge
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Chaeyoung and Jisoo bought the week's groceries, then went next door to Park's Liquors.   "How much did Lisa give you for the scotch?" Chaeyoung asked.   Jisoo told her the amount - it wasn't much.   "We're going to have to get creative if we want to find a good scotch for that amount. In fact, we're going to have to call in the big guns - I'm going to go ask Mr. Park."   Taking the money from Jisoo, Chaeyoung walked up to the front of the store. "Mr. Park, we have a dilemma. We need your help please."   The liquor store owner looked up from the magazine he was reading and pushed his glasses up his nose. "Chaeyoung! It's good to see you! And how is Jennie doing? That is such a shame, what happened to her parents. We all still miss them."   "Jennie's doing well," Chaeyoung said. "Keeping the lodge running is keeping her busy enough that she doesn't have time to feel sorry for herself."   "That's good," Mr. Park said, nodding. "Now, what is it that you need help with?" He noticed Jisoo for the first time. "And who is this lovely young lady?"   "This is Jisoo, my assistant-slash-girlfriend." She pulled Jisoo up beside her and put her arm around her shoulders.   "Hello," Jisoo said.   Mr. Park gave Chaeyoung an exaggerated wink and a thumbs up, then laughed. "Now, what can I do for you two lovely ladies?"   Chaeyoung showed him the money from Lisa. "Our assistant manager gave us this and asked us to get the best bottle of scotch we can with it."   "That does present a challenge. I could get you a nice Japanese whiskey for that price. Or Tattersall distillery makes a nice bourbon in that price range..."   "That's no good. It's got to be a scotch - sentimental reasons."   "Ah yes," Mr. Park said, nodding wisely. "Often the heart wants something particular even when the tongue cannot tell the difference." He walked up and down in front of the shelf of scotch whiskeys. From time to time he'd stop to look at one, once or twice even going so far as to take it off the shelf before rejecting it. Finally he settled on a bottle from the far end on one of the lower shelves. "There we go: The Famous Grouse. Best-selling whiskey in Scotland. Not the most sophisticated, but certainly far better than one should expect at this price range."   Chaeyoung thanked Mr. Park profusely. "You've made our assistant manager very happy, which will make Jennie very happy."   Mr. Park laughed. "Then I have done my good deed for today."   As they got in the truck and drove away, Jisoo said "I can't put my finger on it, but I feel like I've seen Mr. Park somewhere before."   "I'd be very surprised if you haven't," Chaeyoung said. 'Before he bought his liquor store out here in the mountains, he had a first career as a singer, under the name J.Y. Park."   Jisoo snapped her fingers. "That's it! I knew I'd seen him before."   "Between the town and the valley, you'll meet a lot of formerly famous people while working at the lodge," Chaeyoung said. "Some of them like talking about their 'glory days,' while others don't. It's considered very bad manners for you to be the one to bring it up. Now if they bring it up, then you can talk about it, but the first move has to be theirs."   "That makes sense," Jisoo said, nodding.   "Which brings us to our next stop, Aori Ramen," Chaeyoung continued. "It's owned and operated by Seungri - yes, that Seungri - but he never talks about his music career, and he'll throw you out of the restaurant if you bring it up. I've seen him do it. Something happened that he doesn't like to talk about. But he makes the best ramen and chicken skewers in town."   ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^   Jennie was pacing up and down in front of the lodge, hoping that the phone in her pocket wouldn't ring again, when Chaeyoung and Jisoo pulled up. She could tell by the way their faces fell when they saw her that she must look as worried as she felt.   "Hurry and get the groceries out of the truck," Jennie said as she climbed up the back wheel and into the back of the truck. "Ski patrol has taken Lisa to the emergency room. They think she broke her leg."   "Oh no," Chaeyoung said quickly pulling bins and coolers full of groceries out of the truck. "Do you want us to go with you?"   Jennie shook her head. "There's no point. They'll only let her have one visitor. You'd just end up spending the evening in the waiting room. It'd be a big help to me if you'd stay here, monitor the phone, and have some sandwiches or something ready to eat when we get back, whenever that may be," Jennie said, holding out the phone to Chaeyoung.   Chaeyoung took the phone and handed over the keys. "Okay, but if you need us, just call and we'll find a way to get to you."   Jennie stepped up and hugged Chaeyoung. "I know you would. Tha
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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!