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taeyong. ⭐

Continuation of the Christmas specials 🎅🎄

Christmas has always been a time for family, close friends and overall love for eachother.

When I was a child, I would wake up just to find a whole bunch of presents under the Christmas tree waiting for my excited hands to destroy their neat wrapping paper and bow. I would eat sweets all day while thinking how nice it was of Santa to eat the cookies and drink the milk I had left for him the night before. I was a joyful child all year around, but I think I speak for everyone, grown ups included, that around the jolly time of the year where the snow seems so much more pleasing than during the rest of the winter, our happiness seems to grow through the roof.

Fast foward to a few years later and my joyful smile still painted my face whenever I would come down the stairs to see the presents left, not from Santa, but from my parents under the Christmas tree. Delicious cinnamon rolls would be waiting for me fresh off the oven while my mother watched me eat them delighted that her daughter was feeling an immense amount of joy that only seemed to come around during those short days.

As I started to live with my roommate after moving away from my family for college, Christmas was just slightly different. Although the jolly feeling was still fresh and glimmering every single minute of every day surrounding Christmas, my schedule was jam packed with my studies.

The Christmas tree was made by me and my roommate every year, of course. The lights would illuminate the living room and our balcony as we refused to go a single year without the happiness and tranquility that those lights brought us and maybe the people passing by our building. A few presents would sit under the tree but it wasn't the amount of gifts I had been used to when I was a child. It was enough, though. It was enough to see the lights everyday but most importantly, it was enough to see how my roommate would smile at the decorations every morning until he eventually left to spend the actual Christmas night with his family.

I, on the other side, couldn't. I was on a tight budget because living in Seoul is not cheap. I do work, but the money I make is enough to live in Seoul, not travel the world to get to visit my parents outside of the country. I missed them a lot. Me missing them, plus the studying even while on holiday and the absense of my roommate was enough to tear me to bits inside. I felt weird. I had never felt sad during Christmas.

My third year in college was going alright. My grades were good, social life was pretty stable and my sleeping schedule was quite organized. What I didn't expect was to catch feelings for my roommate.

Oh, right. My roommate is Lee Taeyong. He has lived with me ever since I started college and we have grown a strong bond between us, but maybe that bond wasn't enough for me anymore.

I looked at the clock on my desk. 11:34h. Pretty early. I had been studying for a couple of hours and my eyes were feeling droopy as if I had just woken up and I still had more studying in front of me through the day. My stomach growled. I took it as a fair opportunity to get some time away from the books in front of me.

I stood up and walked towards the fridge. All our magnets were in place, just like they were when I walked to the fridge a couple of hours prior to my second visit to the kitchen, yet one of them was holding something inside. It was a souvenir from when we visited Busan the year before. A magnet in the shape of a wooden chest that opened and closed. We thought it was cute and ever since, we started collecting magnets from wherever we visited.

Inside the tiny wooden chest, there was a small crumbled up paper. When I unfolded it, I was able to see some words.

'I know you'll probably read this paper first so I'm just here to tell you to check the Christmas tree'