Ryujin loves Christmas.

Christmas is the main reason why she loves winter and snow, because both makes Christmas a day that is magical to everyone, and she'd always feel heartwarming on Christmas, especially when it is spent with her precious members.

And so Ryujin always look forward to Christmas every year, with the fact that she loves to spend the day with the maknae, Yuna.

"Yeddeong, did you saw who put this on my table?"

On Christmas Eve, Ryujin wakes up a little later than usual, and she finds Yeji already awake before her. As she gets down from her bed, rubbing her eyes, she sees the mocha bun and a glass of warm milk on her table.

"Hmm? No," Yeji sits comfortably beside Lia on the dining table when Ryujin comes out from her room, carrying the mocha bun and the glass of warm milk after freshening up.

"Where's Yuna and Chaeryeong?" Ryujin shrugs, taking a place opposite Yeji to eat her breakfast.

"They're taking the ornaments out from the store room," Lia answers, sipping her honey tea. "We're decorating our Christmas tree after our breakfast."

"Oh," Ryujin nods, eating her mocha bun in light speed since she loves mocha bun. A lot. 

After drinking her warm milk, Ryujin stands up and says, "I'm helping Yuna and Chaeryeong in the living room," then washes her glass up and goes to the living room.

Sure enough, both girls are carrying the little pine tree Ryujin bought last year, and settling it beside the TV.

"Do you need help?" Ryujin asks when Yuna sits down on the sofa beside her, panting.

Yuna's eyes lit up, "Yes! Defintely!"

Ryujin chuckles at Yuna's antics, missing how Chaeryeong rolls her eyes at the two.

"I wanna put the star and none of you can take it away from me!" Yuna shouts for a bit, letting Yeji and Lia who are in the dining area to hear what she said.

"Yes, yes, take it," Chaeryeong fishes the yellow star from the bag of ornaments out, and tosses it to Yuna. Ryujin catches the star ornament for Yuna.

"Say, Chaeryeong, is there any string inside?" Ryujin comes up with a silly idea.

Chaeryeong raises her brows, "What for?" 

"You'll see," Ryujin says, grinning at Yuna for her own idea.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Yuna backs away from Ryujin who smiles a little devilishly.

As soon as Ryujin gets her string from Chaeryeong, she pounces on Yuna, who leans backwards on the three-person sofa, and with Ryujin on top of her, tying the star ornament on top of Yuna's head.

"AHHHHHH NOOOOO RYUJIN UNNIEEEEE—" Yuna struggles to take off the star ornament which is currently being tied by Ryujin on her head.

Once done, Ryujin laughs and says, "You said none of us can take the star away from you, I'm just helping you to secure it."

Yuna suddenly stops struggling and blushes, "U-unnie..."

Ryujin looks down and finds herself on top of Yuna, her lips barely grazing over the younger's lips. She can literally feel Yuna's breath on her lips, smelling rather like strawberry, but also it's like mint cool.

She blushes hard, pulling away from Yuna.

"S-sorry...I didn't know we were that close..." 

The charismatic Shin Ryujin blushes hard, her cool image no longer maintained in front of her members. She hangs her head low, not daring to look at Yuna who she nearly just kissed.

The silence continues for some minutes before Chaeryeong fakes a cough and clears , "So...let's hang those ornaments onto the tree first, then we'll take a short rest, I guess?"

"Sure," Yeji comes over and picks a few ornaments for her and Lia, who then hangs them carefully onto the Christmas tree.

As Yuna stands up and joins the others, Ryujin sighs in relief, then looks up and sees Chaeryeong who smirks.

"You like Yuna, huh?" Chaeryeong asks in a low voice.

The question itself is enough to make the cool Shin Ryujin to blush again, "Not so loud, duh!"

"I think it's pretty obvious, you know? Yuna probably knows it too," Chaeryeong adds.

Ryujin glares at her fellow 01-liner and throws a red spherical ornament to Chaeryeong who backs away from her to dodge the attack. "Go and decorate the tree, Ryeongchae!"

Chaeryeong smirks again and glances at Yuna before getting away from Ryujin who leans onto the sofa and calms her fast-beating heart down.

Oh no, does Yuna know about my feelings?

Ryujin asks herself, and eventually lost in her own thoughts to determine whether she portrayed her feelings to Yuna in an obvious way before or not. Come to think of it, she's quite...reserved with her feelings, but how did Chaeryeong know about it?

Ryujin shakes her head, her hands covering up her face and groans.

"Unnie? Are you okay?"

Ryujin feels a hand lands on her head and combing through her hair gently, and Ryujin knows it's Yuna just by her voice.

Ryujin grunts, "Yeah, I'm fine."

"Are we still making cookies for tomorrow?" Yuna removes Ryujin's hands that are covering her face and looks intently onto Ryujin.

"Yeah. Why not?" Ryujin nods, "Anything in specific that you wanted to make for this year?"

"A gingerbread man for you, unnie!" Yuna exclaims, clapping her hands, "Ah...I mean...for the others, too."

Before Ryujin could react to Yuna's words, Yuna leaves in a dash, leaving Ryujin in her daze.

A gingerbread man for me?

Ryujin smiles like a lovesick girl.

On that night, they have their dinner with roasted turkey that their manager bought for them and some salads (Lia and Chaeryeong can't live without salads).

"So what are we going to do with our presents? Do we leave it under the tree and open it tomorrow morning? Or do we exchange it tomorrow?" After dinner, Yeji asks her members.

"I want to leave it under the tree, and tomorrow we write our answers down as in who's our secret Santa, and reveal it after we get our respective presents," Ryujin suggests.

Lia and Chaeryeong nods, "Sounds good."

"One thing," Yuna raises her hand. "Can I hang the stocking on my bed?"

"You have a stocking? Great! Let's see if there's any extra present for you tomorrow morning!" Chaeryeong says, then glancing at Ryujin.

Ryujin glares back for a second before averting her gaze. "We'll make biscuits and gingerbread man before we got our results tomorrow, okay?"

Yuna nods furiously with a wide sunny grin, "Okay!"

It's three am in the morning, and Ryujin makes sure everyone was asleep before she sneaks into Yuna's room.

Lia's snoring a little, but not too loud and Yuna's hugging her pillow tightly as she sleeps.

The red stocking is hung at the corner of Yuna's bed, and Ryujin hesitates when her fingers clutch onto the dark blue box she's holding.

Put it in. Don't. Put it in. Or not?

Ryujin's heart is beating fast, she's worried that one of the roommates might wake up suddenly, and she wants to do this as fast as she can.

The bronze bracelet with the metal plate carved with 'Y' is in the dark blue box and Ryujin wants to give it to Yuna. But it might be obvious once she wears her own bracelet, then it will be identical.

Ryujin grits her teeth and shuts her eyes, dropping the box into the stockings before leaving the room quickly but quietly.

And neither does she know, the moment she closes the door, a pair of eyes opens and her hand reached to the now-filled stocking, her lips curving upwards into a little smile.

The next morning Ryujin wakes with her alarm ringing beside her. 

She opens her eyes just in time to see Yeji coming into their room.

"Hey Yeddeong," Ryujin murmurs sleepily.

"Yo Ryuddaeng. What kept you up last night? You look tired," Yeji asks while placing a stack of clothes into Ryujin's closet.

Ryujin freezes for a while, then shakes her head. "Nothing. I'm off brushing my teeth and I'll prepare the ingredients to make the cookies."

Yeji nods, closing the closet door. "There's another mocha bun on the dining table this morning. And a cup of black coffee."

As both of them go out of their room, Yeji gestures to the mocha bun and the black coffee on the dining table. "Dunno who's your secret Santa but she's been taking care of your stomach well," she smirks.

"Yeah yeah I know. Just like how you've been trying to be all lovey dovey with Lia. When are you two going to be official?" Ryujin rolls her eyes.

Yeji smacks Ryujin on her shoulder, "I'm on it, and don't say it so loud!"

"You've been really obvious and I don't see the point as in why I can't be loud about it," Ryujin replies with a smirk.

Yeji rolls her eyes and groans at her roommate before leaving to help Lia with the decorative lights on the Christmas tree.

Ryujin laughs, approaching the dining table cheerfully. She picks up the mocha bun and tears off the packaging, then starts eating it fast.

She'd always love mocha bun, and everyone knows that.

Ryujin let's out a confused hum as she notices the sticky note on her cup—

Merry Christmas! I know you like mocha bun a lot so I went out to the bakery this morning and bought it. It's fresh from the oven! I hope you like it!

Ryujin feels her heart thumps hard against her chest. This handwriting, this tone...it can only be—

She glances up as a girl stands in front of her, grinning. "Mocha bun again, unnie?"

"Yeah..." Ryujin hastily keeps the note, "Have you eaten breakfast, Yuna?"

Yuna nods happily, "Quick unnie! I'm looking forward to the cookies!"

Ryujin glances at the dark blue box in Yuna's hand, "Oh, you really got a present from Santa?"

"Mmhmm. Possibly also from my secret Santa?" Yuna hums, looking at Ryujin with her sunny smile.

"That's great!" Ryujin replies, although her heart is beating crazily because she's the one who gave her the bracelet. "What's inside?"

As Ryujin asks, she finishes her black coffee fast and washes