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Can we weave our Christmas hearts together?
It was late in the evening when Chan was coming back to the dorms after making the finishing touches on an upcoming Christmas song they were preparing to release in a few weeks. They had been in a crunch trying to get everything ready as it had been a last minute decision to make a Christmas song and have it out before Christmas, But, after many gruelling and sleepless nights, they had managed to pull through and Chan was confident that they could get it out in time.
He stepped up to the door to the dorms, unlocked it, and quietly let himself in not wanting to wake any of the others up. He slipped off his shoes, put them aside, and walked down the hall to his room. On the way there he noticed that the light was on in the kitchen, which made him stop and looked into the kitchen.
There Jeongin was sitting hunched over with his phone propped up against a glass as a video was playing on it. He kept pausing and starting the video as he looked up from what he was working on. Chan couldn’t see what it was, so out of curiosity he stepped into the kitchen.
“What are you doing, Innie?” Chan asked.
Jeongin let out a little sound of surprise and nearly fell out of his chair as he turned around to look at Chan.
“Oh my gosh, hyung, I didn’t hear you come in at all, you gave me a right fright,” he said as he held a hand up to his heart.
Chan let out a little laugh as he stepped up to the table to look at what Jeongin was making. He looked at the table in confusion as it was all a colourful mess of glossy and crumpled up paper that looked like it had been cut in some type of half heart with weird strips at the end. Chan picked one up and examined it. It looked like Jeongin had tried to weave the strips together to create a full heart of the two parts and it seemed like it would make a little heart basket.
“What is this?” he asked, placing the heart down and sitting at the table.
“It is a type of decoration I saw online that I wanted to try and see if I could learn how to do it, but it is really not going that well as you can see,” Jeongin said and he gestured at all of his failed attempts around him with a sigh.
“I’m really trying to follow this tutorial, but it isn’t easy as it isn’t in Korean or English and doesn’t have any subtitles.”
Chan turned the phone towards him and started the video from the start again. He watched as a lady voice spoke in a foreign language as she explained how to do the steps while doing the steps as well. He watched it all the way through, then placed the phone down again and picked up two pieces of the glossy paper.
“From what I could gather from what she showed, it seems important that the strips have to be the same length on both sides,” Chan said as he folded the two pieces over each other and started to cut out the shape for the heart.
Jeongin looked on as Chan tried to do the craft. Jeongin couldn’t help but think how cute Chan looked as he concentrated on weaving the strips together, how his brows started to crease, how he slowly started to pout over not being able to do the craft, and how he wanted to kiss those plush-looking lips.
“Argh, that is more difficult than it looks,” Chan exclaimed as he threw the unfinished heart down on the table and leaned back. In the process, he brought Jeongin out of his little daydream.
Chan looked over at Jeongin and noticed the small blush that was slowly spreading across the boy's face. He thought to himself that it really made him look awfully cute and all Chan wanted in that moment was to lean over and kiss the other boy's cheek. He shook his head and looked down at the heart again and sighed.
“How are you even going to do it?” Chan said, frustrated, as he picked the heart up and flipped it over again. Jeongin reached over, took it from Chan's hand, and looked at it as well.
“Well it doesn’t look that way off from the tutorial,” he said and tried to pull the strips of papers through the others, but ended up ripping it.
“Whoops.” Jeongin looked over at Chan who just stared at the broken heart.
“Maybe we should try and make one together?” Chan said as he pulled a new piece of paper over and started folding it over and cutting it in the right shapes. When he was done he handed it over to Jeongin, who weaved some of the strips together and handed it back to Chan as he waved the next strip together. Without realising it, they slowly got closer to each other and when they finally weaved the last strip together and completed the heart, their heads were basically touching.
“We did it,” Chan whispered and held the heart up to Jeongin.
“We managed to weave our hearts together.”
At that, Jeongin couldn't help himself. He leaned over and placed a small kiss on Chan’s lips.
“We did it in more than one way,” Jeongin said with a smile as he pulled away.
A smile spread across Chan's face as he pulled Jeongin in for another kiss, the Christmas heart forgotten on the table, as they lost themselves in the kiss and the feeling of the others' love consuming them.
They pulled away from each other and smiled at the other. Chan then got up and pulled Jeongin with him and down the hall to his bedroom.
And that night they weaved their hearts together and their life.