E✝ernal Soul

23

Jennie POV

"Jennieeee!" Jimin whines "It's not working"

I look up from my gingerbread house to see Jimin pouting at his icing-covered hands

"Jimin, you're supposed to put the metal tip into the bag before you put the icing in" I laugh

It's the day after Christmas and we are having a gingerbread house building contest in the dining room. We all got caught up in our mates yesterday, and never made it back downstairs for the rest of the Christmas festivities that had been planned. This morning, Lisa declared that we are going to do them today instead, which leads us to where we are now. Each couple is making and decorating their own gingerbread house and then we'll take a vote on the best one

Me and Taehyung's are very traditional. He piped on the icing outlines around the house because he has steady, doctor hands, and I'm laying gumdrops along the roof. The best part is the little chimney that we sprayed whipped cream on to look like smoke

Our time limit is an hour and we've almost hit that mark

"Jimin, let me do it! We're almost out of time!" Rose snaps taking the bag of icing out of his hands

Taehyung chuckles as he sets the "trees" he made onto the scenery around our house. The trees are made out of an upside down ice cream cone and some green icing, and they look amazing. He's very good at this, I can't believe he's never done this before

The timer goes off right as I place the last gumdrop on the roof of our house

"Time's up!" Lisa yells from the kitchen where she, Jungkook, Jisoo, and Jin have been making their houses "Everyone bring your houses into the kitchen"

Taehyung carefully picks ours up on the large plate it's sitting on and carries it to the kitchen counter. My mouth drops open when I see Lisa and Jungkook's creation. That's not a house, that's a gingerbread mansion. It's at least three stories tall with beautiful icing designs all over it. Jisoo and Jin's is next to it and it's very cute. It has light pink and light blue frosting all over it and a pink swirly chimney. Jimin and Rose's is small and simple. Rose managed to do damage control and make it look decent

"Okay everyone you know the rules. Write on one of the papers what your favorite is. Each person will vote individually and no voting for your own house" Lisa narrows her eyes on us "And, I'll know if you cheat"

She hands out small slips of paper to us and sets a jar in the middle of the houses for us to deposit our votes in. It's a hard decision because they're all so different and I like them all in their own way. Finally I choose Jisoo and Jin's, even though Lisa and Jungkook's is bigger, I like the design and colors in theirs

Once all of the votes are in, Taehyung declares that he will count them, apparently they all have a reputation for cheating

"Alright everyone, here is the final tally: 1 vote for Jimin and Rose, 1 vote for Jennie and I, 2 votes for Jisoo and Jin, and 4 votes for Lisa and Jungkook. So the winners of our first gingerbread house contest are Lisa and Jungkook"

Lisa squeals and throws herself into Jungkook's arms like they just won the lottery

"Aww man" Jimin groans "I'm not good at this girly stuff. Next year we're doing something else, something manly"

"What Christmas activity is manly, Jimin?" Jisoo asks him

"I don't know. Maybe something with fire or some kind of sports"

"No fire!" Taehyung says sternly and I giggle as I remember the story of Jimin having a bonfire in the living room of their last house

"Oh alright" Jimin grumbles "You're no fun"

"We should probably clean up all of the wrapping paper in the living room" I tell them, quickly changing the subject before Jimin can pout any more

"We can do it, love" Taehyung says

"I want to help. I'm not an invalid"

"I know" He grumbles and his pout matches Jimin's

"Come on" I laugh and take his hand

They follow us and start picking up the torn paper and throwing it into the waste basket. I clean up around the couch and start pulling scraps out from under it when my finger lands on something else. I pull it out to find that it's a picture. I gasp seeing that it's a picture of Taehyung and I in the mall, but his face has been burned off and so has my belly

"Jennie? What's wrong?" Taehyung asks from across the room. When I don't answer, he zooms over to me. His body freezes when he sees what I'm holding

"I found this under the couch. Where could it have come from?"

"I umm...-"

"We're going to go upstairs" Jimin says cutting him off and all of them sprint upstairs with guilty looks on their faces