Quiet night

First Winter at Fire Lodge
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Jisoo watched everyone at the table as she quietly ate her soup. G-Dragon was as boisterous as he'd been the first time she saw him. Right now he was telling a story about his first time out on a search and rescue with the ski patrol. Jihyo and Tzuyu were listening to him, in between feeding each other bites of soup. Chaeyoung had obviously heard the story before, because she was interjecting at all the appropriate times. Jennie, Dahyun, and Lisa, on the other hand, seemed to be listening to the story with only half their attention, as if the main part of their mind was elsewhere. If it had been just Dahyun and Lisa acting this way, she would have chalked it up to them being tired from their recent adventure. But the fact that Jennie was acting the same way made the whole thing strange. Jisoo suspected it was related to the exciting news that Lisa wanted to tell her when they could get some time and privacy, but since that wouldn't be until after the guests checked out tomorrow, there was nothing she could do about it now.   She turned her attention back to her rapidly cooling bowl of shrimp bisque. She stirred it with the end of her breadstick and then took a bite. The process of cooking never ceased to amaze her. Somehow when a handful of simple ingredients were combined in a certain way, they made something far greater than the sum of its parts. She didn't have too much time to ponder the mysteries of cooking, though: She was ravenous after all their snowshoeing today, so she quickly finished her soup and got up for another bowl. While she was up, she refilled the bowls of anyone else who wanted more, which turned out to be everyone but Jennie, Dahyun, and Lisa, who were still halfway through their first bowls. Curiouser and curiouser.   One by one - or in the case of Jihyo and Tzuyu, two at once - everyone finished eating, said their goodnights, and drifted off to their rooms. Jennie tried to get G-Dragon to stay the night and then drive back to town tomorrow, but he refused, saying his shop had already been closed one day, he couldn't afford a second one without a good reason. Even the promise of Chaeyoung's French toast in the morning wasn't enough to get him to stay. He said his good-byes and left, but not before Jennie had extracted a promise from him that he would text her when he got back to town.   After everyone else was gone, Jisoo and Chaeyoung gathered up the dishes and the leftovers and sent them down the dumbwaiter. When they got down to the kitchen, Jisoo put the soup in the refrigerator and the breadsticks in the breadbox while Chaeyoung got started on the dishes. Chaeyoung tried to shoo Jisoo out, saying she'd take care of the dishes, but Jisoo wouldn't hear of it.   "If you won't let me help you with the dishes," Jisoo said, "the least I can do is stay down here and keep you company."   "I've got an idea," Chaeyoung said. "You make us some cocoa and after I finish the dishes we'll go sit out on the back porch, watch the stars and talk."   "Yes, Chef!" Jisoo said with a wink as she went off to gather the ingredients for cocoa.''   * * * * * *   Jennie went to Dahyun's room, totally unsure of what she was going to say, but aware that she had to have this conversation, and she had to have it now. She knocked on the door and Dahyun answered in her nightgown.   "Oh, hi!" said Dahyun. "I'm glad you stopped by. Come in." Her eyes, though, said to Jennie "I wish you were somebody else" so clearly that the words were unnecessary.   "I was just waiting until everyone was out of the way before I came to talk to you about this," Jennie said as she shut the door behind herself.   Dahyun sat down on the bed, then patted the bed to indicate that Jennie should sit on the bed next to her. "I hope you're bringing me good news," she said.   Jennie took a deep breath, not entirely sure what to say. "I'm not sure," she began. "I've been turning it over in my head since we got back to the lodge and I'm not sure what to say."   "It should be fairly easy, shouldn't it?" ask Dahyun, apparently confused by Jennie's indecision. "It's a simple yes or no question, isn't it? Should I make a play for Lisa or not?"   Jennie shook her head. "It's not that simple. That question is actually a number of different questions with a number of different answers. Do I think it would hurt Lisa if you tried for her? No. Do I think you'd stand a chance of success? I don't know. Do I want you to try for her? No. Am I being completely fair in my answers? I don't know." Jennie trailed off, as if she was a wind-up toy that had run down.   Dahyun looked even more confused than before as she ran through this string of questions. "You don't think Lisa would be hurt if I try for her. You don't know that I'd succeed if I tried, but you don't know that I'd fa
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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!