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Second Winter at Fire Lodge
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The guests were just beginning to stir the next morning when Jisoo came in with a box and a thermal bag containing the day's brunch. Chaeyoung saw her struggling to get through the door and rushed to take the box out of her hands.   "Thanks," Jisoo said. "I was trying to get it all at once, but it looks like it was too much for me, especially with the new combination lock on the door."   Chaeyoung put the box down on the sideboard and started unpacking the breads, juices, and pastries from it. "Is this everything?"   "That's everything for brunch," Jisoo said, already on her way back to the car. "I just have to get one more thing out of the car."   Chaeyoung had finished unpacking the cold brunch supplies and had moved on to setting up the warmers for the hot food when she heard Jisoo come back in - followed closely by a strange, muffled, fluttery sort of crash.   "Are you okay?" Chaeyoung called out.   "Fine," Jisoo responded.   "What was that?"   "Nothing," Jisoo said, the sound of her voice making it obvious she was moving around picking up something. "Just dropped some things."   By this time Chaeyoung had made it to the doorway and saw that Jisoo was picking up a stack of bridal magazines, each the size of a phonebook.   "What's all this?" Chaeyoung asked with a nervous laugh.   "I told you," Jisoo said, finally wrangling the stack into some semblance of order, "I want the fanciest wedding we can manage. So on the way to Penguin to pick up brunch, I stopped at the newsstand and bought some bridal magazines."   "Some?" Chaeyoung asked. "Are you sure you didn't buy all of them?"   Jisoo blushed - Chaeyoung knew her so well. "I didn't know which ones were good and which weren't, so I got one of everything: Bride, Modern Bride, Korean Bride, Bride Korea, Mountain Bride, Destination Weddings -"   Chaeyoung cut off the recitation of titles before Jisoo could go any further. "You do realize, don't you, that if you keep buying this many bridal magazines, we won't have any money left over for the wedding?"   "Oh, I don't have to keep buying all of them," Jisoo said, trying to neaten the stack of magazines and almost dropping it in the process. "Once I finish reading these, I'll know which one matches our wedding style, so I'll only need to buy that one."   "We have a wedding style?" Chaeyoung asked, getting more and more amused by this.   "We do," Jisoo said. "Or, at least, we will by the time I finish reading these." At this point Jisoo decided that the magazine on the bottom of the stack needed to be on the top, and facing the other way. She managed to get it done, but it made Chaeyoung nervous just to watch her.   "Here, let me get that," Chaeyoung said. She took the stack of magazines out of Jisoo's hands, put them down on the front desk, and in a matter of moments had them stacked in order of size, all neatly lined up and facing the same way.   "You always did have magic fingers," Jisoo said with a wink, making Chaeyoung blush. She picked up the stack of magazines off the desk. "I'll go put these in our room, and I'll let everyone else know that breakfast is ready.   ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^   During brunch, Lisa noticed that Jisoo and Chaeyoung seemed a lot happier than it seemed like a pair of chefs who'd just lost their kitchen normally would be. Finally, her curiosity got the better of her, and she had to ask "Jisoo, you and Chaeyoung seem pretty happy this morning. Any particular reason?"   Jisoo turned to Chaeyoung, mouthed something, to which Chaeyoung responded with a nod. "Last night, Chaeyoung asked me to marry her, and I said yes!"   "Congratulations!" "That's wonderful!" "Congrats!" "I'm so happy for you!" A wave of congratulations washed over the happy couple. When things had quieted down a bit, Jennie asked "Have you giv
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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