"This is boring. And stupid."

"Jade, please cooperate. Now start helping me!"

Jade lets out a grunt, and Cat watches while she sifts through a box of ornaments.

"I like this one," Jade flashes an unconvincing smile as she holds up a candy cane shaped ornament.

"Urgh!" Cat's eyebrows plunge inward, "How many times do I have to explain? Normal, circular ornaments first, ― cute, unique ornaments after! Kapeesh?"

"Why does it matt―"

"This is our first Christmas together in our new apartment, it matters."

"Okay, okay," she threw her hands up in defeat. "What about these garlands?"

"Circular ornaments first. We'll get to those later," she assured.

"How about we take a break?"

"We just started!"

"Yeah, but…" Now, Cat usually reprised the role of annoying-person-who-never-shuts-up, but today it seemed like Jade was more than eager to play the part. "All this hard work is just nauseating."

Cat's shoulders slouched down, and her lips followed suit, "Jadey."

"Cat," she mocked the other girls whiny voice, advancing closer to her, leaning into her lips, but abruptly pausing a hairsbreadth away. "I can think of a few things we could do that are more fun than this," she sealed the open space between their lips, smirking into the kiss. Jade lightly ran her fingers through the other girl's bright red hair until Cat quickly pulled away.

"No, Jade! You cannot distract me! I am focused, and we will get this tree done!" She balled her fists and began shaking them up and down; as if she were banging on an invisible table.

"Cat?"

"What?"

"If you're so focused, then why haven't you been able to stop staring at my lips?"

"I―I'm not―I just―ugh!" Cat groaned, looking away almost immediately.

Jade chuckled, "How about we just do this tomorrow? Christmas is lame anyway, the less days we have dumb reindeer decorations up the better."

"No. You have been saying 'tomorrow' for the past week. Now it's December 10th and I love dumb reindeer decorations," she hung up a red ornament.

"Whatever. Hand me the box of decorations."

Cat did as Jade asked ― or demanded ― and slid a few more ornaments onto the tree while Jade rummaged through the box.

"Aha," the taller girl smiled, pulling out a mistletoe and holding it over their heads, "I guess we have to kiss now. You know, because of tradition and all."

Cat attempted to put on her angriest face but failed when it faded into a grin, "Okay, one more kiss," she stuck a finger up. The girl stood slightly on her tippy toes and pressed her lips up against Jade's, who was now releasing the mistletoe from her hands and allowing it to plop down on the ground. Cat's hands cupped Jade's cheeks, while Jade's hands traveled down to the small of her back, kissing the redhead a little more forcefully. What Cat intended to be a two second kiss ended up lasting for about five minutes. It wasn't until Jade tried pulling her shirt off when Cat pushed Jade away, breathless.

"Tell me that wasn't more fun than Christmas."

If Cat said it wasn't, she would only be lying. Instead, she shoved a bunch of candy cane ornaments in front of the other girl, "Here are your candy canes. You can put them on the tree now."

Jade shot the girl a confused look, "I thought you said big, round ornaments first?"

Cat sighed deeply, "The faster we finish the faster we can continue kissing." And Cat really wanted to continue kissing.

"Well why didn't you just say so?" She smirked, hanging a candy cane ornament on the Christmas tree.