Fifth Link

[colorbymemory]

Characters: Namine and all visitors to the tea shop
Content: Christmas at the tea shop--Namine has decorated and made cookies.
Location: Traverse Town, Fourth District, Tea shop
Time of Day: Any time during the shop’s opening hours on Christmas Day.
Warnings: High potential for fluff and adorbs?

In the aftermath of the fight with the giant Nightmare, Namine stayed close to home. Given all that had happened, remaining quietly there for a while seemed best. It wasn’t a hardship, either, with so much to do to prepare for Christmas.

First, the shop needed to be decorated. While she wasn’t an expert in Christmas decorations or decorating in general, she managed to make plenty of paper snowflakes to hang from the ceiling, and small snow people to set on the tables. She’d used stencils to help make all the letters for “Merry Christmas” out of colored paper and tape them to the wall behind the counter so they spelled out the greeting properly. While she hadn’t made the small Christmas tree in the corner (and the one upstairs in the apartment), she had made all the ornaments. Finally, she’d taken a can of a white spray to the edges of the windows. It was supposed to give the effect of frost or snow, but she wasn’t quite convinced. Oh, well. One made do with what one had.

Then there were Christmas presents. She’d settled for making cookies for everyone instead of buying things; she wasn’t quite sure of what the others would like as gifts. So she got out the cookie cutters and made sugar cookies in the shapes of trees, Santas, angels, and stars. Once that was done, she made gingerbread men, enough for everyone to have one. Once they were packaged up, instead of writing names on the tags, she drew a picture of the recipient.

Fortunately, she had everything done by Christmas Day when she helped open the shop, presents stacked behind the counter. If some of the others didn’t stop by, she’d have to work out another delivery method.

[OOC: All characters are welcome to come get their Christmas cookies from Namine. Feel free to treat this party style--drop in on conversations/start a new one with someone who’s already arrived.]

Comments

[dork_of_keys]

She really didn't need to worry. As if he had room to talk. He was a little bit worried about how she'd feel about the gift he'd gotten her. He wasn't going to say so, of course.

"It's okay, Kairi." After all, the most important thing wasn't the gift, but the thought and caring that went into it. Practical, whimsical, symbolic... hell, even gag gifts could say you care. In their own way.

[paopucharm]

To that, she just smiles softly, appeased. He doesn't have to wait long to find out what she thinks to his present, as she finally looks down and begins to unwrap it. When she finished, her smiler grew wider, and she laughed, ever so slightly. "It's perfect," she said, taking it out of the box and holding it up to the light. "Really. Thanks, Sora."

[dork_of_keys]

It was only when he let it out in relief that Sora realized he'd held his breath when Kairi started opening the box. For all that he thought she shouldn't have worried about him liking his gift, here he was worried about her liking hers.

"I'm glad you like it."

[paopucharm]

"I do," Kairi smiled easily, lowering the charm slightly. "Can you give me a hand? With putting it on my necklace, I mean." she indicated her pendant with the hand that was still holding the box.