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sweets, treats, and the overflowing glee of red and green christmas decorations after the twenty-fifth galore. it couldn’t be none other than hyemin’s gorgeous bakery – a favorite of jihyun’s to both frolic and wreck havoc whenever she felt like it. and what better way to start the grandeur year of the monkey with making her presence known to the beloved friends she so adored, and a few of the others that trailed into the warmth of the shop, too. she couldn’t be too greedy with the love, this year, though – the love she did have to spare was becoming very limited nowadays. but nevertheless, she spreads as much love as she can when she greets the others with a holly, jolly hello. nearly jumping hyemin on her way in as the other had tried to set up the table with the desserts she had made just for them that night.
( she even manages a passing wave to daewoong, a new leaf, she thinks when she sees him actually return it rather than give her his comical smirk )
she seats herself at the table, pushing over the prepared and extremely belated presents to each of the recipients seated at the table, more or less a randomized selection of boxers and socks she had dragged junseo to help her purchase all stuffed in a pretty paper bag and hidden beneath a ton of confection paper. hyemin’s gift is a cute frilly apron she had purchased several days earlier as well a book for the lonely girl who needed to meet the man of her dreams ( with an added bonus of jihyun writing on the inside cover: HE’S RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES ). all that was left, in the midst of the gift-giving was give tiffany hers to which – as jihyun finally realized, as she turns to look at the seat beside her, “hey, unni – where’s fany?” she blinks, leaning into her palms as she watches their table of mates blink in question of the missing hbc member.