Hm.

Christmas was in the air. You groan as you pass by children in Christmas-themed scarves and sweaters waiting for their school bus—Halloween just ended for Christ's sake! Mio glances at you as she adjusts her school jacket.

The walk to school is silent. There is a tense atmosphere around the two of you, but it's probably due to the fact that you snapped at Mio this morning. She was rushing you even though you were two minutes ahead of your normal schedule, plus you happened to fall asleep later than usual last night and managed to wake up on the wrong side of the bed…

You scoff and roll your eyes as you spot a car with antlers attached to the roof. Again, Mio spares a glance at you, but doesn't try to make conversation.

You spare her a glance out of the corner of her eye the moment she looks away from you. Studying how her breaths come out in small puffs and her neutral expression, you look down after a few moments at the icy sidewalks and adjust your shoulderbag. You fail to notice how Mio's gaze turns to you almost immediately.

It wasn't her fault that you snapped. It was a "wrong place at the wrong time" kind of thing. Heck, it was because you were in a pissy mood. You didn't mean what you said to her. Something dawns on you and you bite your lower lip in thought—you don't even hate Christmas.

Annoyance doesn't tingle your fingertips when you see Christmas decorations for sale across the street. Instead, you look away because you can't help but feel guilty about taking out your frustrations on your best friend—who goes out of her way to walk with you to school most of the time.

"I'm sorry about earlier…" You mumble as the two of you slow to a stop at an intersection. Cars are passing by but you stare at the orange hand symbol that means STOP across the street, waiting for some type of response from Mio. A few moments pass, and you accept the fact that she doesn't have to talk to you right now. She has every reason to be annoyed with you—

"It's okay…" She sighs, playfully bumping shoulders with you. "And I'm sorry too, it didn't help that I rushed you even though we had plenty of time to get to school…"

You aren't sure how to respond to her forgiving you so easily. You never know what to say when she does, no matter what you do or did to her. The orange hand symbol goes away, replaced by a blue man walking symbol that means GO. Mio takes off first, you're a step behind her.

"Why do you always do that? Forgive me so easily… " You ask, pulling your scarf up to your cheeks to prevent Mio from seeing how puzzled and miffed you are.

She shrugs, adjusting her shoulder bag. The walk to school is silent once again, but there is no longer anything tense about it. As the school comes into view, Mio slips her fingers into yours, mumbling something about not being able to feel her hands. Her hands are warm.

Hello again, thanks to those that favorited and followed. Trying my hand at another one of these one-shots. This one is literally something I dished out in under an hour.

I think I should point out that none of the chapters are related, unless I explicitly say so beforehand. And I'm going to try and update this story every Wednesday or something like that. I can't make any promises though. Please review and tell me what you thought about this!