Because the most valuable gift is not the expensive one.

But it is having someone you love beside you.

"Christmas" comes from the Old English word "Christmas".

Christes Maesse

It is first found in ancient English documents in the year 1038, and today the word has been changed to "Christ's Mass".

Christmas

Christmas is a day of celebration of the birth of Jesus and a celebration of God's love for the world. By sending his son, "Jesus", to be born as a human being to help atone for sin and save humans from doing evil. Therefore, today is a day that has important meaning for Christians around the world and greeting cards and gifts are sent.

to each other, including decorating houses with lights and a beautiful Christmas tree

And the first thing that people will think of as a symbol of Christmas is Santa Claus, a fat old man in a red suit. live at the north pole A sleigh is a vehicle pulled by reindeer and will visit all the children in the world on the occasion of Christmas by coming down the chimney of the house to bring gifts to those children according to the behavior of the stories told. By word of mouth it is said that the real Santa Claus was the first. Then there was Saint Nicholas. He climbed onto the roof of a poor girl's house and dropped a bag of money down the chimney. He accidentally dropped the bag of money onto the girl's socks hanging to dry by the fireplace. That's how the whole legend began. The story of Santa Claus and hanging stockings by the fireplace in order to receive gifts on Christmas Day.

Even though Santa Claus is only a legend that exists to celebrate Christmas, people hang their stockings by the fireplace, waiting to receive their Christmas gifts from Santa Claus, the gifts that their hearts desire like Mina's. Tozaki Sana

Gifts that other people desire might include wealth, a luxury car, a new house, a high-priced brand name bag, a classic perfume from the country of perfumery. Diamond ring from a lover Or a small item like a doll or a toy. It was whatever each person wished for each year, but Sana had never wanted a gift that cost that much. The only gift she wanted was to be with her lover.

For others, it may be easy to be with your loved one on this important holiday, without needing to ask Santa Claus to waste time. Just go find or make an appointment to meet, but it's not for her partner who has to live on different sides of the world because the other person has to study there for his own future and the two of us.

Her lover is a far-sighted person who always thinks about the future from the time they first met until they finally started dating each other. The other party, although younger, had a lot of maturity inside them. It's even taller than Sana. This is what made Sana fall in love with the other party.

Falling in love with a woman named Kim Dahyun

Because we were far apart and wanted Dahyun to be able to achieve what she wanted, Sana chose to keep us apart. At various festivals, no matter how much the other party wants to come back to you, it will be you who refuses, not wanting your lover to have to travel across seas to see you for just one or two days, wasting time.

But even so, she still hopes every year. Wishes for gifts from Santa Claus It wasn't just a normal Christmas present, but it was also a birthday present for her, which was only four days away from this important event. But... we can only hope because Sana celebrated Christmas and her birthday without it. I've been in love for three years now and today would be the fourth year.

Sigh...

Sana let out a deep sigh as she walked from her house to the fried chicken shop that she and her best friend had invested in. She saw the celebration of this important festival like every year and like in Every year she sees couples walking around holding hands, even at her fried chicken shop.

A fried chicken shop that was crowded with couples and families during the festival today. Her employees worked almost non-stop, including her and her close friends. Received good support from loved ones who hung around each other's side.

“Would you like some chocolate?”

The voice of her best friend's tall girlfriend brought Sana back to her senses. She looked at the other person's face before looking down at the chocolate in her hand. Chocolate that makes her think of someone on the other side of the world from her. Dahyun likes to eat chocolate more than anything, and that makes Sana like it too.

“I see you like to eat it often.”

That's right, like the person in front said, she eats it often. It's not because I like it personally. But when she thought of Dahyun and ate chocolate, it made her feel a bit less nostalgic, so it was not strange that the tall girl thought that she liked to eat it, and it wasn't the other party's fault that it made her nostalgic. Why don't you play with her like this?

Sana let out a small smile at the tall man in front of her before stretching out her hand to pick up the chocolate in the other's hand and thanking him before being pinched by her close friend. on the upper arm until he had to cry out loud

"What is this? Why are you pinching his arm?"

Sana let out a little laugh at the pronoun that a tall person used to refer to her close friend. In fact, her close friend was not fat at all. She appears to be a petite person, but with a round face, lots of cheeks, and a large upper body, it makes her friend appear to be plump by default.

Her best friend rolled her already large eyes at her lover before turning to apologize on behalf of the tall man next to him for his inconsiderate actions just now. But like I said, the tall kid didn't do anything wrong in doing that. Sana shook her head slightly. It's an indication that it's okay to go back.

“Come on, you giant is really busy.”

Her friend pulled her lover's arm away and Sana looked on with a smile. Even though they both like to argue and tease each other, there is hardly any sweet or cute side. It even came out to be seen. But they still have each other, each other's smiles and happiness. Sana has never seen the two of them shed tears or be sad at all. That's why they were born together and complement each other like the perfect combination of spices marinated in chicken meat.

Zhou Tzuyu is the perfect combination of Park Jihyo.

And because of this important holiday, our store has chosen to remain closed longer than usual in order for our employees to go home to celebrate Christmas with their families and for her dear friends to celebrate with her. The person she loves personally chooses to be the one who closes the shop herself and sits and leaves time alone with a short message from her lover.

But this year, there wasn't even a single message sent to her. Maybe it was because the other party studied harder because it was the last year and the two of you were going to be together again. Choose to understand and endure the loneliness of being alone in the store, watching people pass by, person after person, and the hands of the clock keep moving forward. Don't wait until the long and short lengths come together at the number twelve, indicating that this important festival is over.

Sana pushed herself up from her chair and twisted around to relieve her fatigue. Grab your favorite bag and a t-shirt and put on a small smile. It's decorated on your face as soon as you step outside your shop.

“Happy New Day, Sana.”

After the festival ended, everything returned to normal. She woke up and opened the shop as usual. There are customers coming and going into the store even though there aren't as many as during festivals. But there were enough people to come into the store all day without interruption, so Sana didn't have to think about her lover who was probably busy studying.

Who said that only happy times pass quickly? Times of daily hard work also pass quickly. One day passed, then two days passed, then three days, until we entered the 29th day. of the month, which is Sana's birthday

Sana is someone who doesn't really care about her birthday. She doesn't see the importance of having a birthday celebration. I don't know the reason why we have to organize it. It's just an ordinary day that tells us how many years we've been born in this world. It is also the day that causes the most pain for mothers. So why do people celebrate birthdays like this?

Celebrating a mother's pain...is that right?

So Sana chooses to be indifferent about a day like this. She had never given anyone a birthday present until she met Dahyun who refused to give because she thought that giving a gift would cause discomfort and embarrassment rather than the suffering of having to smile and accept it if she received something she didn't want. She likes and is embarrassed to give things in return, which is why Sana chooses not to give gifts to anyone, but Dahyun makes her understand anew.

Dahyun taught her that giving gifts doesn't have to be something valuable and expensive that makes the other person uncomfortable. There's no need to be afraid that the person you're giving it to will like or dislike your gift just because. We only intended to send it and the receiver would be happy and like our gift and that would make her change her mind and attitude towards giving gifts to others.

Sana wakes up to work like every morning. She opened the door to the fried chicken shop and it was unusually quiet this morning even though it wasn't yet time to open the shop. But it was too quiet, there wasn't even a single employee who was supposed to be preparing to open the shop, or even her best friend who had disappeared somewhere.

But her doubts were dispelled the next minute when the sounds of Happy Birthday singing rang out as everyone in the store came out of hiding and Jihyo walked around holding a large bowl of ice cream with candles on it. stopped in front of Sana

"Happy Birthday, please."

Sana let out a smile and nodded. Take Jihyo's word. Closing her pretty eyes, she made a wish for the same thing she wanted for Christmas and every birthday. Years ago, even if it didn't come true, she would still make the same wish because it was her only wish before she opened her eyes and blew out the candles.

A round of applause followed before every employee in the store came to wish her a happy birthday and give her a small gift. The price was not too expensive, so they dispersed and prepared to open the shop, leaving only Sana and Jihyo standing alone.

“Thank you for knowing exactly what I like.”

"We've been friends for how many years now? Why don't we know about this?"

Jihyo actually smiled like the wide-eyed person said. We've been friends for almost ten years and Na Jihyo knows what Sana likes just as much as Sana knows what Jihyo likes. The other person's bowl of ice cream spoke volumes. Even though one might think it was funny to use ice cream instead of cake and give it in the morning like this, for her it was a wonderful thing to be able to eat cold ice cream and refresh herself in the morning. morning

"It's not because I want to eat it myself, am I fat?"

The tall boy, the other party's lover, walked in with a teasing remark before turning and smiling at Sana, handing her a gift box in his hand.

“Happy birthday, a present from me and Jihyo unnie.”

Sana thanked her and took the gift box, which caused her to lose her favorite item the next minute. The ice cream cup in Jihyo's hand was shoved right into the tall girl's face. Before the two could prank each other with her birthday ice cream, Sana looked on with a smile before looking down at her phone, which was empty and there were no more messages from her lover.

Since last Christmas, Dahyun has been quiet due to the time difference and many other things. Make her choose to understand and put the phone down and start today's work.

Customers gradually come into the store, but since the opening of the store there has been almost no interruption. So today is another day when Sana doesn't have free time to sit and think about her lover until the shop is closed. And this is another day that she chooses to stay alone to celebrate her birthday by closing the shop. Even though Jihyo had invited her to celebrate her birthday together, she didn't want to rob her of the private time she could spend with her lover, so celebrating alone like this would be nice too.

Small batch of fried chicken The seaweed soup that a close friend had prepared for her was placed on the table next to the bottle of soju that had been placed before before the birthday girl sat down on a chair and carefully handled the food in front of her.

Sana planned to finish celebrating her birthday alone while counting the people she passed in front of her store until there were fifty before she could leave, because at least being at the store and doing something like this was... This will give her less time to think about Dahyun.

It didn't take long for the fried chicken and seaweed soup to disappear, leaving only a small amount of soju in the bottle. Sana sipped it while counting the people passing by. Today the crowd was not very lively, so it took her a while to count the number. As scheduled, it took hours.

“Forty-eight...forty-nine...”

The sound of the two people passing in pairs passed at the same time. Sana looked on with a smile as she prepared to pack up her things. Before realizing the shadow of the person passing by, a pair of beautiful eyes looked up and shouted out a number.

“Fifty...”

Sana froze when she saw the fifty-year-old's face as white as a sheet of a child. younger than you A face that she hadn't seen clearly like this for nearly four years. The person on the other side of the mirror picked up the phone before her phone started screaming loudly. Sana answered immediately without needing to see who was calling.

“Want to go for a walk?”

The two left the store after finishing that sentence. Dahyun led Sana as she walked slowly. On the way home Sana secretly looked at the other person from time to time. She received an answer from the white person next to her. And then the reason that disappeared was because the other party hurriedly arranged the work of sending the teacher and immediately flew to see her, wanting to come and surprise her without thinking of telling them for fear of being banned like in previous years, and Dahyun succeeded. She was really surprised.

“True, I was in a hurry to finish work so I didn't prepare a present for you.”

Dahyun said with a somewhat worried expression. The other person places great importance on giving me gifts. Even though we're far away, she still sends gifts every year. Sana let out a smile and shook her head lightly before turning to look at each other.

“Just the fact that we met was the best gift for me.”

Dahyun smiled as he raised his hand to gently caress his lover's face before slowly moving his face closer to the other's. Gently pressing my lips against yours is the best Christmas and birthday present of Sana's life.

Just having Dahyun is like her life is a precious gift.