Advent calendar | Yoonmin [English]

2. December

He shook his head quickly and held up the packet.

"I wanted to see what was inside with you."

Yoongi ran his hand through his tousled black hair in resignation. He had already told him yesterday that he knew what was in every box. It was still kind of sweet, though. His gaze went towards the clock, then towards Jimin.

The slight blush on his cheeks and his embarrassed expression made him smile.

"OK, I'll just get ready. Can you pour me a coffee?"

Yoongi got up and shuffled towards the bathroom. When Jimin didn't move, he half turned back to him.

"Or do you want to help me with that?"

He mischievously licked the corner of his mouth and winked at Jimin. The latter winced and finally seemed to regain his composure.

"Ew, no. Don't go on too long."

With that, he quickly disappeared into the kitchen while Yoongi scrambled into the bathroom. His cheeks and embarrassed expression made him smile.

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Jimin shook his head vehemently and slapped his palms against his cheeks a few times. His mind kept wandering to the things Yoongi was doing in his bathroom to get rid of his 'problem'.

"What are you doing?"

Caught off guard, Jimin flinched and looked up. The man in question had just entered the kitchen with a wet towel around his shoulders. His wet hair was sticking out in all directions.

"Don't worry, I was just taking a shower."

Yoongi gave him a knowing look and then dropped onto the kitchen chair. He pulled out the filled coffee cup and sipped.

"Now open it already."

Yoongi pointed to the packet lingering next to Jimin's cup. He swallowed his thoughts and nodded.

"It took you quite a while. I almost opened it without you."

He pulled at the bow and ran two fingers and his thumb inside. He pulled out a packet of gingerbread spice, a tube with different types of sprinkles and a rolled-up piece of paper. 

Confused, Jimin looked at the ingredients, then unrolled the piece of paper.

"A recipe for gingerbread?"

He looked up at Yoongi questioningly.

"I thought it was daft to pack you ready-made gingerbread and saw in your planner that you're free today. Of course, I couldn't fit all the ingredients in the parcel, but I thought we could bake together today."

"Stalker."

"Hey!"

Yoongi raised his hands in defence, but Jimin only laughed, which is why he immediately lowered them again.

"Good idea, let's go shopping right away."

Jimin took another sip of his coffee and read through the recipe.

~

"What's that supposed to be?"

Laughing, Yoongi leant over to Jimin's work surface and scrutinised the shapeless lump of brown dough.

"That's easy for you to say, you're just making little blobs."

Jimin shot back and impatiently kneaded a corner of dough.

"You've got that wrong, they're all little shookys"

Yoongi began sticking small balls of dough onto the larger lumps of dough as arms and legs and draping almonds in place of the eyes.

"So, what's this supposed to be?"

He pointed at Jimin's still indefinable lump.

"I wanted to make a dog."

Frustrated, he let go of the dough and took a few steps back. As if automatically, he ran his hands through his hair and put his head back on his neck with a loud sigh.

"Let me."

Yoongi pushed Jimin aside with his hips and turned his attention to the dough. Jimin watched in fascination as something formed under Yoongi's long, skilful fingers.

"You can spread chocolate drops on the Shookys for so long."

Yoongi didn't look up, but immersed himself in his work. Jimin nodded, but watched him for a while longer. When Yoongi finally reached for a small bowl, the eggs and the icing sugar, Jimin finally started to randomly spread chocolate drops on Yoongi's work.

"Have you got the yellow food colouring for me?"

Jimin nodded and handed over the small bottle. In front of Yoongi was a larger dough shape with a white, round patch of icing at the top. Now he mixed the yellow colour into the bowl of icing and spread it over the rest of the biscuit.

"Chocolate drops."

Yoongi held out his hand and Jimin gave him what he wanted.

"Almonds."

Again, Jimin passed the requested item. Satisfied, Yoongi placed everything on the dough and took a step back.

"Tadaa~!"

He proudly presented his work. In front of him on the kitchen counter was a plate-sized gingerbread Chimmy. Jimin was amazed.

"Wow, that turned out really cool!"

"Maybe we'll have to keep an eye on it when we're baking, the specified time certainly doesn't count for him."