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Second Winter at Fire Lodge
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Jennie found Lisa at the front desk, where she was folding some napkins.   "Can you get Sunmi to do that? I'd like to take you out for coffee."   "Sure," Lisa said. "Let me go find her and we can be on our way!"   A few minutes later, Jennie and Lisa were walking hand in hand down the street.   "There's been so much drama with the guests this weekend, it'll be nice to have a few minutes of quiet," Jennie said.   Lisa fixed her with a devilish grin. "How do you know I won't start any drama?"   Jennie laughed. "I know what you want to start, and it's not drama."   Lisa playfully slapped Jennie on the shoulder. "That's not the only thing I think of, you know!"   By this time they were at the coffee shop. They went in, ordered their coffee, and sat down on a loveseat by the back fireplace. Jennie remembered last year, when she and Lisa had come here for their first date. She had been about to bring it up when Lisa said "Don't look now, but look who just came in."   Jennie glanced up at the front door. Tzuyu was coming in, and with her was "Baek A-Yeon?"   Lisa looked at Jennie. "From the bar up the street?"   Jennie nodded. "So now we know who Tzuyu met last night."   "Do we want to see them?" Lisa asked.   "We'll leave it up to them - we'll stay here and stay quiet and see if they come up to us."   They sat looking at the fire, leaning their heads together and talking. Jennie saw that Tzuyu and A-Yeon got their coffees to go. A-Yeon waved on Jennie as she went out the door.   "That's good," Jennie said, "I'm enjoying having you all to myself."   ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^   Chaeyoung was just finishing the breakfast dishes when Jisoo came up and gave her a back hug.   "Chaeyoung," she said, "I've got an idea. Let's just put together cheese and meat trays for lunch and go for a walk."   Chaeyoung started thinking out loud as she dried the last of pan from breakfast. "We've got plenty of meat and cheese. We've just barely got enough bread. We could cut up some mangoes to go with the sandwiches. Yeaeh, sandwich trays sounds like a good idea, if..." she paused for emphasis, "if it'd be worth it to you to have to bake bread this afternoon on top of prepping for dinner."   Jisoo had already grabbed a knife and a couple of mangoes and was headed to the prep table. "For a morning off with you on a beautiful day like today? I'd bake a double batch of bread!"   "I think just one batch will do for today," Chaeyoung said with a laugh, "but someday I might hold you to that double batch promise."   "Bring it on!" Jisoo said. "I got an A with honors in bread!"   "That's only because your instructors weren't here to see you slapping the dough around last year," Chaeyoung teased.   The laughter and good-natured banter continued as they finished prepping for lunch - the kitchen at Fire Lodge was almost always a happy place.   "So," Chaeyoung asked as they finished and headed up the stairs, "were you planning a walk through town or a walk in the woods?"   "The woods," Jisoo answered decisively. "We can do a walk in town someday when it's not such beautiful weather."   By this time they reached the lobby and saw that Sunmi was manning the front desk.   "Hey, Sunmi," Chaeyoung called out. "Where are Lisa and Jennie? Jisoo and I were about to go for a walk and I wanted to let them know we're going."   "Oh, they went out for coffee a while ago," Sunmi said.   "They shouldn't be gone much longer," Jisoo said. "We can wait until they get back and still have plenty of time for our walk."   "Oh, you don't have to do that," Sunmi said. "They should be back soon and I've got everything under control here. You should go ahead and go."   Chaeyoung thought for a moment. They
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Much to my surprise, I'm back to writing Second Winter at Fire Lodge! A lot happens this chapter, but mainly centered around the minor characters.

And I promise all you Chaesoo shippers I'll have something good for you next time - there just wasn't room for it this time around!

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Astraea21 #1
Chapter 1: Starting this story now. :)
Craazy_hippo
#2
Chapter 1: ohh this is going to be good
Soshi1590
#3
Chapter 43: A mini Asia tour lol
Soshi1590
#4
Chapter 42: That a beautiful wedding. My chaesoo babies finally
iph1318
#5
Chapter 41: I enjoy how domestic they are lol.
Soshi1590
#6
Chapter 41: Don’t mess with Chaeyoung’s kitchen lol
Nice update
Soshi1590
#7
Chapter 40: Sunmi and hansol are cute
Jennie and Lisa are cuter
Chaeng and Jisoo are the cutest
Soshi1590
#8
Chapter 39: Saida reliving the memories lol
Soshi1590
#9
Chapter 38: Lisa is some kind of genius, isnt she? Planning ahead, saving money. She is the good luck charm of the place it seems

Chaesoo are the cutest