Winters Kisses with Passionate Wishes
Chrissy

Chapter One: Jack Frost's Kiss

The Avaloran Winter had now truly set in. Quick, cold and sharp raindrops falling from the dark skies above, set the scene for many nights to come.

Tossing and turning in a sleepless slumber, the Princess of Avalor, her Royal Highness Elena Castillo Flores was woken up as she shivered from Jack Frost's kiss of a promised icy, polar Winter.

Darkened skies adorned with thick, gloomy rainclouds painted the heavens above her room nestled in the Palace. No glimpse of the moon nor the stars twinkling, Winter was truly upon the Kingdom.

Adding another blanket to her bed she was still unable to get any warmer by herself.

Rolling from one side to the other, and back again in her unruly bed, she sat up in a huff and puff.

Hmph

Sighing and cold, she threw the blankets off.

Fast asleep in the room down the hallway however was the newest member in the Avaloran Palace, The Royal Wizard, Mateo De Alva.

Although it had been six months since his arrival, Elena still felt butterflies swirling in her stomach at the thought of him living in her home. The home that has housed all of her regal ancestors, where she grew up with her Mami, Papi, Sister, Primo, Abuela and Abuelo, where she made some of the most amazing memories and the place she loved to be…

As the chilling rain and howling wind lashed against her windows, Miss Castillo Flores smiled a feline grin as she knew exactly what she wanted to do.

Sneaking back and forth between each other's rooms in the still of the night was not out of the ordinary for this magical duo. Mateo would often ask Elena to 'pop' by to run some magical spells past her, for her opinion on things he in fact knew the answer to and to just spend time with her. Elena would always make a point to wander past the 'out of the way' Wizard Quarters at the end of the hallway but Mateo always knew she was intentionally coming to see him. Often Elena would come by in the middle of the night as she was woken by nightmares. Even though it was late at night even early morning, Mateo didn't mind sitting in his pyjamas listening to the things that scared her and even what her nightmares were about.

She would often come in crying after her most prominent nightmare which included Shuriki…
THAT was her worst one. But so many hidden horrors clouded her mind at night…Mateo not scared away by this was always there to comfort her. For many years she chose to keep these bottled up until one night, shortly after arriving to the Palace, The Royal Wizard was awoken by the sound of crying. Not just anyone crying, it was Elena. Running to her aid with his tamborita in hand and his pyjamas on, he entered her room to see her sitting up, weeping about the nightmare she just had. Comforting her and talking until all hours of the morning, Mateo and Elena could feel the flame igniting between them, getting stronger. Mateo promised Elena then and there that if she was woken by a nightmare of any sort to always wake him up as he would always be there for her.

As they were beginning their journey into adulthood, both of them could feel some unexplained feelings growing between them for some time now. Neither knew how to act upon them.