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Second Winter at Fire Lodge
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Sunmi opened the lock and got into the lobby, then turned and watched Hansol drive off. He waited until she was inside and had shut the door behind her, which she found quite touching. Other than that, she didn't know what to think.   She wandered from the lobby into the dining room. She'd never heard the lodge this quiet - there weren't any guests right now, Chaeyoung and Jisoo apparently weren't back from their grocery run, and Lisa and Jennie were. . . who knows where. Sunmi wandered through all the public areas of the lodge, turning on the lights. As she finished up, she noticed her tummy growling - apparently part of half an order of nachos did not make an adequate dinner. She remembered Jisoo saying they would leave dinner for Sunmi, Lisa, and Jennie in the fridge.   "I hope it's not cheese sandwiches and mango slices again," she thought as she walked down the stairs to the kitchen. "We are capable of warming up previousy cooked food, at the very least."   She the kitchen lights and looked around. She saw a loaf of bread on the prep table with a note pinned to it saying "This is part of dinner. The rest is in the fridge." She opened the fridge and found a pot of French onion soup with reheating directions on the shelf next to it, held in place by a baggie of shredded cheese. Sunmi read through the instructions - nothing she couldn't handle. Warm up the soup on the stove, assemble the bowls, and stick them under the broiler for a couple of minute to melt the cheese.   She put the pot of soup on the stove, the heat, and gave it a good stir. Then she went to the phone on the wall and dialed the number for Jennie's room; she hoped she wasn't interrupting anything, but she needed to know if Jennie and Lisa were in the lodge so she'd know whether or not to fix them dinner. Apparently she wasn't interrupting anything too pressing - Lisa answered on the second ring.   "Hello, it'sh Lisa!" From the sound of it, Lisa had been drinking.   "Hi Lisa. It's Sunmi. I'm warming up my dinner and I was wondering if you and Jennie are ready to eat."   "Jusht a second." Sunmi could hear Lisa putting her hand over the mouthpiece of the phone and consulting with Jennie. "Yeah, that'd be great! You need a help?"   Sunmi pictured the amount of damage a drunken Jennie and Lisa could do to Chaeyoung's kitchen in the time it would take Sunmi to warm up the soup. Nope, better not risk it. "No, I've got everything under control here. Just meet me in the dining room in 10 minutes."   "Soundsh great! See you then!" It took Lisa 3 tries to get the phone hung up properly.   Sunmi smiled as she stirred the soup. She'd never seen her bosses at the lodge anything but totally sober and in control. This promised to be an entertaining evening. While the soup warmed up, she the broiler to heat up, got down some bowls, and cut 3 slices of bread off the loaf. She then thought further and figured it would be better to risk the bread drying out than to risk a drunk Lisa or Jennie injuring themselves with the knife, so she went ahead and sliced the rest of the loaf, put it in the bread basket, and put the basket in the dumbwaiter. By this time the soup had warmed up. Sunmi followed the instructions precisely: Put the bowls on the half-sheet pan that was sitting on top of the stove, fill the bowls with soup, float a slice of bread in each bowl, sprinkle cheese over top, then put under the broiler for 2 minutes. Two minutes later, she pulled 3 perfect bowls of French onion soup out of the oven, then put them on a tray and carried them over to the dumbwaiter. Double-checking to be sure she'd turned off both the oven and stove, she went upstairs to see what sort of state Jennie and Lisa were in.   ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^   Lisa finished buttoning her shirt and turned to Jennie. "There! All good?"   Jennie looked her over from top to bottom. Based on the state of Lisa's clothes, the drinks had affected her mor
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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