"I'm not wearing that." Gail refused to even touch the outfit. Red and green tights, green dress, red pointy hat with a bell on the tip, and matching pointy slippers, all laid out neatly on Holly's bed.
Holly slumped her shoulders, her expression falling down with them. "Please?" She asked politely.
"Nope. Never gonna happen." Gail shook her head vigorously. She glanced at the brunette and back to the elf costume, and added a few more nope's just to be sure, she didn't care how pleadingly her girlfriend looked, nothing would get her to put on the ridiculous outfit let alone go out in it too. Nothing.
"Please." Holly drug out the word, adding in puppy eyes and a pouted lip.
"What did I just say, Hol?"
Holly's pout went from cute and begging to defeated in less then a second. She let out a drawn breath and scooped out the elf costume, throwing into her closet, "who's going to help me now? I can't do it by myself."
"I'll still help, I'm not cruel, I'm just not touching that awful outfit." Gail sated simply, trailing over to the brunette to try and cool her off, she could see great disappointment in her lips and wanted to wipe it away with her own. She slowly wrapped her arms around Holly's waist and placed feather kisses to the back of her neck.
She sighed. "You have to wear the costume to help."
"Wow. Strict rules at the Stewart Family Christmas." Gail half joked into the soft skin behind the brunette's ear. Earning herself a quiet chuckle.
"Its tradition, can't break from it." Holly mused, lacing her fingers with the blonde's.
"God forbid."
There was a pause, a pause Gail had started to learn was Holly's thoughtful silence, and in that moment it could only mean trouble.
She was miserable. A miserable, scratchy, elf. If her friends could her her they'd never, ever, let it down. Hell even she couldn't let it down. Gail looked ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous in tights and a dress, dawned with matching pointy hat and shoes, there wasn't enough money in the world to get her to ever do it again. But it wasn't money, and it was alcohol, it was sex. Well implied sex. Holly had finally agreed to put on Gail's cheer uniform, and nothing else could happen after but sex. Right?
Gail was counting on it, otherwise she'd be pissed. She'd already gotten a slowly forming bruise on her shin, a sneeze to the face, eggnog in her hair, and a paper cut, all from the grimy little snots that made up Holly's cousins. The paper cut hadn't been so bad, mostly her own doing, but Holly had swooped in and done her sexy doctor thing. Kissed it better and everything.
"Hey grumpous, have you seen my girlfriend, I've got a present for her." Holly sweetly walked up to a sulking Gail.
Gail sent her a daring look, not happy at all about the night. When she'd first agreed to go to Holly's family Christmas she didn't know it entailed so much. "Last I saw her was at your house. She said something about needing to find the perfect knife for her plan."
Holly fixed her with a crooked smile. "Oh. Then I guess I'll just keep onto this until she gets back."
"I don't know if she'll ever be back." Gail continued to message her sore feet. Another thing the darling children did, apparently they aren't the most coordinated bunch.
"That's too bad, I really liked her, she was funny." Holly plopped into the seat next to the grumpy elf, placing the neatly wrapped present onto the table behind them. She held in a smile when she caught Gail eyeing the gift, sizing it up and trying to school the want behind her eyes.
"Weird, most people are disappointed about losing the amazing sex. I heard through the grapevine that she's the best anyone's ever had."
Holly shrugged and pretended to be indifferent. "I have no idea what grapevine you've been listening to, but I have it under good authority that I have been her only. And between you and me, it's only alright."
Gail dropped her foot and turned to the peppy elf, mouth agape, a scoff creeping up from her chest. Holly shrugged and kept eye contact for as long as she could before cracking a smile.
"Take that back, Stewart." Gail tried to threaten but it only came out adorably with offence, tied in a cute bow with her elf hat tucked nicely behind her ears.
Holly shook her head, totally giving into the amusement and letting her smile freely take up all of her features. She loved teasing her usually steely and feared girlfriend. And riling her up whole dressed as an elf was an opportunity she couldn't pass on.
"Take. It. Back." Gail growled, her eyes igniting with fire while turning to ice, it was the most beautiful blue Holly had ever seen, a colour she'd forever entice to the surface. Holly smirked again, stood from her seat, and let her hair create a curtain around them.
"Make me." And just like that she was gone, headed toward the bathrooms with a swing in her hips.
Gail wasted no time in running after her.
It'd been four hours. Four hours of loud, sticky children. Four hours of awkward small talk with Holly's Aunts and Uncles. Four hours of pulling, itching, and readjusting her clothes. Four hours of Holly mercilessly teasing her, sending her winks, biting her lip while watching her with dark hungry eyes, brushing up against her at every chance. It was brutal.
Gail scratched at the rough seem at the back of her neck for what felt like the millionth time. She scowled at her girlfriend, "remind me again why I'm wearing this?"
Holly's cheerful smile fell into a crooked smirk, the one that brought Gail to her knees, the one that never failed to start a fire in the pit of her stomach. Gail swallowed hard in anticipation. Holly leaned in close, brushed her lips against her ear before kissing just shy of her strong jaw.
"Because I'm going to put on your cheerleader uniform," she kissed under her jaw, "and you are going to prove your skills to me." Holly bit her ear lobe and bounced back as if nothing had happened, smiling widely at her little cousins.
Gail was sure the tips of her ears were red, her mouth drier than the desert itself. She took a few breaths in an attempt to steady herself, she had a long night ahead of herself, and at the rate it was going she was going to fail, hard. She glanced back at the brunette, bent over talking very closely with a snotty nosed boy. Two more hours, she told herself, two more hours and they'd be back at Holly's.
Holly caught her daze eyed stare and sent her a wink before grabbing her cousins hand and letting him guide her to his new toy.