Pairing: Park Dojoon/Leo (The Rose) x Reader; Genre: Crack, Fluff, Established Relationship AU; Rating: sfw, PG-13; Warnings: Dojoon is teasing the reader; Wordcount: 679; Event: Winter Hearts from kdiarynet; Prompt: Number 26 - “Making winter kimchi together”
Summary: You never heard of the term winter kimchi before and after some teasing you decided to make some for yourself. Much to the dismay of your boyfriend, who never expected this result after teasing you.
“Babe?” You called from the living room for your boyfriend. “I just read something on the internet.”
“What is it?”
“This blog is writing about winter kimchi. I never heard of that before.”
Dojoon came into your view, nodding his head in thought, before he grinned brightly. “So you don’t know about the seasonal kimchis?”
You raised your eyebrows in wonder and slowly shook your head no.
He gasped in shock and clasped his hands over his chest. “I can’t believe you never heard of summer kimchi, or spring kimchi, not even autumn kimchi?”
Once again you shook your head, pouting slightly from the embarrassment of not knowing. You’ve been with Dojoon for a while now and you regularly ate kimchi but you still had no idea.
“What else is this blog writing?” Dojoon asked and came over to you, sitting down on the couch next to you. He scanned the screen of your laptop quickly, nodding at the information he got there. “Informative.”
“But it doesn’t explain the difference between the seasonal kimchis. It only explains the history of kimchi and how to make it.”
Dojoon snickered before he schooled his expression again. “Then you haven’t read it close enough.”
Your eyes flickered back to the screen immediately, reading the text over and over again. Still not getting the information you wanted, you turned back to Dojoon, seeing him smirk and a mischievous glint in his eyes.
“There are no seasonal kimchis, right?”
Dojoon bursts into laughter, falling on his side and holding his stomach. “I can’t believe you thought this was a thing!” He gasped between his giggles. Tears brimmed at the corners of his eyes and he gasped for air more repeatedly now.
You scoffed and crossed your arms in front of your chest. “Fine, you got me there but according to this blog winter kimchi exists. So let’s make it then.”
He stopped laughing and instantly straightened again, looking you right in the eyes. “Are you serious?!”
“Of course I am!”
“Uh,” Dojoon leaned closer to you again, reading over the instructions written on the blog, “sure. Seems easy enough. Do we have all the ingredients though?”
“Yep, we got everything here.”
“Hmm.”
You grinned triumphantly and stood up, pulling him along with you to the kitchen. While you took everything you needed out of the fridge, Dojoon stood in the middle of the room and just stared at your back blankly.
“And what exactly do you plan on doing with this much kimchi?”
Dojoon stared at you in disbelief when he saw the amount of ingredients you pulled out of the fridge.
“Haven’t you read the blog?” You teased him with a smile. “They mentioned a bunch of different foods where we can add the kimchi.
“This is going to be months worth of kimchi!”
“I know. And with every passing day it will taste differently. At least according to this blog.”
Dojoon sighed and stepped next to you, knowing he couldn’t argue with you anymore. Instead he decided to lower the chaos you created around the kitchen.
You even asked him if he made winter kimchi before, or actually kimchi at all. No matter the season. It made you laugh, hearing he helped a little as a kid but never too much, so he was surprised how much work making kimchi required.
“It is indeed more work than expected.”
“I should call my mom and thank her for all the hours she spent on making kimchi,” Dojoon mumbled and wrapped his arms around your middle. “Maybe I should thank you too.”
“No need, you can make summer kimchi once this batch is all eaten.”
Dojoon laughed loudly, overshadowing your light giggles. “I’ll even invent spring and autumn kimchi for you.” Promising you that, he kissed your temple and pulled you closer against his chest. “I’ll invent whatever you want or need.”
You smiled gently and pecked his cheek. “Right now, I need a container for all this kimchi.”
“Coming right up!” He gave you another kiss before he hurried to find some containers.
