Marinette, Alya, Nino and Adrien stood at the bus station were those touting busses picked people up. Alya had surprised Marinette with a one week skiing trip in Austria. It was almost 11:00 am, just 20 more minutes until the bus will arrive to take the girl to Vienna in Austria. The ride would take 18 hours so they would arrive there in the morning on Christmas day.

The girls really looked forward to the trip, however the guys were a little less excited about it. Of course they were happy for them that they would go skiing in a foreign country, but on the other hand now they didn't really knew what to do with themselves on Christmas day. Adrien didn't really had family to celebrate it with, and Nino didn't want to let his best bud down during the holidays.

"Make sure to message me when you get there." Adrien told Marinette when the drove onto the station.
"I will message you once we get there, but don't expect me to text you all the time. I'll be skiing out there most of the time as well as enjoying the small pubs over there at night." Marinette said as she touched the tip of his nose playfully.

She knew how clingy Adrien could get from time to time, as well that he could worry a lot when she didn't let anything hear from her. Sometimes it was a bit tiring, but on the other hand it was quite adorable as well. However the reason why he was like that was pretty sad. When he was younger he happened to be awake when his mother was about to leave the house for good, she told him back then that she would comeback soon. Although days had become months, which had become years of waiting. He still believed that his mother would come back one day, but the hope he has was starting to die more and more each passing days. Due to that he had gotten a fear of losing the ones he loved and cared for deeply, causing him to overthink the lack of replies that she had left him or that she had gotten hurt. His father's relationship didn't help in this situation at all, as he had never praised his son, nor let he knew him that he cared for him a lot. Due to that Adrien tented to be a bit hesitant about believing that others loved him or cared for him.

Marinette remembered to struggle with it a lot in the beginning but in the end they were able to make it work. Adrien had told his story of why he was like that and Marinette was able to tell him what kind of signals that behavior sent to her. It was also that day they had a good talk that Marinette was able to convince him that she loved him with all her heart and would never leave him out of the blue.

"Will you at least text me when you get back into your hotel room?" He asked her as he looked her into her eyes, the worrying of her getting hurt was something that still hadn't become less.
"I will, but please don't stay up until you get the text. It will tire you out if you would do that."

Adrien nodded. He was glad that Marinette didn't get that annoyed anymore with all his worrying. Marinette smiled at him before she wrapped her arms around Adrien's neck and pressed her lips on his. Adrien closed his eyes and kissed her back as he wrapped his arms around her waist to pull her closer. It would take a while until they would be able to kiss each other again, so they could better make the most out of it.

A flash of a camera made them broke their kiss. It was Alya who had taken a picture with her camera of the two. Alya knew that Marinette would miss her boyfriend a lot too and all though she had heard her best friend say that she wouldn't text him a lot, she knew that Marinette would have a hard time doing so. So maybe a picture of the two could cheer her up a little.

Nino and Alya on the other hand were a couple that was more lay back. They loved each other but also gave each other enough space to do other things as well. So Alya leaving to Austria for a whole week and Nino staying behind in France wasn't that much of a big deal to them. Of course they would miss each other a bit, but they knew that the week would be over in no time. Or well it would for Alya, Nino wasn't that sure of it as he had no idea what he would be doing throughout the week.

"I hope you will have a lot of fun there." Nino said before pressing a kiss on Alya's cheek.
"I'm sure we will have fun. There is a lot planned out that week, so we will be fine." Alya said with a smile. "Oh before I forget… Marinette probably didn't ask you because she doesn't want to bother you, but could you keep an eye on Adrien for her. You know how he is quite the over thinker and she didn't want him to go through that alone on Christmas and all."
"Don't worry, I was already planning on spending the week with him as much as possible. You can tell Marinette that everything will be fine here."
"Thank you dear."

The group walked towards the bus, the guys helping the girls with their luggage. Once that was all being put in the trunk of the bus, Alya and Marinette walked to the driver to scan their bus tickets. The driver scanned their tickets, checked their ID cards and then let them into the bus. Nino and Adrien stood outside as they waited for the girls to take a seat. It took just a minute before they had picked a seat at the side of the bus were they would be able to see each other through the window.

Once all the passengers were inside the bus, the driver got in and closed the door and soon drove away with the bus. Marinette, Alya, Nino and Adrien waved until they were out of sight of each other.

"Are you alright, dude?" Nino asked once he notice Adrien standing completely still and his stare being aimed in the direction the bus has drove off to.
"I'm just a bit scared something would happen to her… it's an 18 hour bus ride. What if she got uncomfortable in the bus? Or it starts snowing way too much and then she has to stay in a cold bus for days?"
"Dude, please chill a bit. I understand you're worried, really I do. It's the first time Alya and I are both in other countries, and it worries me too that I won't be able to get to her fast enough if she needed me. But I do know that she is an amazing grown up woman who can take care for herself and knows what she's doing and I'm sure Marinette is capable of doing so too. Besides, they got each other so I'm sure everything will be fine."
"You're right… They will be fine."

Nino wrapped an arm around Adrien's shoulder.

"We should go back home." Nino said as he pulled Adrien along. "By the way do you have any plans for Christmas?"
"No I haven't made any plans."
"Good. Me neither."

Nino took Adrien to Adrien's apartment. He would have taken him to his and Alya's apartment, but due to all the packing it had become a complete mess. However once they got into Adrien's apartment Nino got shocked, this because there was no decoration to be seen.

"Where is all the Christmas decoration?" Nino asked shocked.
"I've been at Marinette's place since the beginning of December, so I kind of forgot about setting everything up at my own place…" Adrien admitted sheepishly.

Nino face-palmed and shook his head. He couldn't understand his friend, if he stayed at Marinette's place most of the time, why didn't he ask her to move in together or something? It was obvious those two loves each other to death, but sometimes they are quite slow with going to the next level in their relationship. After all it took them years before they started to realize they had been crushing on each other for such a long time.

"Okay, let's decorate this place first. We can't celebrate Christmas without Christmas decorations."

The got the boxes with the decorations from Adrien's basement in the apartment building, taking the three boxes with them. Once they were upstairs they started with the box that contained the fake Christmas tree and set it up. It took around an hour until the tree was into one piece and had its lights in it. After that they opened the box with the Christmas ornaments and put them into the tree.

Once the tree was completely done, the living room of Adrien's apartment looked already a lot more cozy and more Christmas like. They then opened the last box which contained different Christmas things. Things such as: CD's, figures of angels, some Christmas plush dolls and some other decoration. Nino had taken the CD with the best Christmas songs and placed it into the CD-player before he pressed play. They then continued with placing the decorations in Adrien's living room while singing along with All I want for Christmas and many other Christmas hit songs.

"This looks much better don't you think?" Nino asked as he took a good look around the decorated room.
"It really does." Adrien agreed.

He was really happy that his best friend was there to keep him distracted. If Nino wasn't here with him, then his mind probably would have made him go insane with all the overthinking.

"Okay it's 2pm, so what about we go to the super market."
"Um, sure? What do you want to get there?"
"The ingredients for a gingerbread house."
"You want us to bake it ourselves? You do know that Marinette is the baker, not me. I can't bake even when my life would be on the line."
"It won't be that bad, we can always try."

A trip to the supermarket later the guys got back with all the ingredients they needed as well as some pre-baked gingerbread village kit, just in case they would screw up baking their own.

The mixing of the products went alright. It all got mixed pretty well together, however some of the ingredients got onto their faces and into their hair. They didn't mind that too much, as it only caused them to laugh at each other's misfortune when it was their turn to mix.

In the progress of baking they did made some pictures and sent them to their groups WhatsApp with their girlfriends. They were still in the bus so they were able to react from time to time as well as sent a picture of either themselves in the bus or the view the had from the window.

When the dough was done and rolled out they cut it into the shapes needed for the house and then placed it onto the baking tray before they put it into the oven. The baking itself went alright too, it didn't got burned however the cut out window kind of looked like a mess as the cut out squares weren't squares anymore.

They set up the table with all the frosting and candies and the ginger bread village kit as they let the pieces of their gingerbread house cool down. Since their own made Gingerbread house was still hot, they decided to start on the pre-baked kit. Adrien opened the box and got everything out of it.

The kit had four houses, so both guys picked one to start off with. They enjoyed decorating it even though the lines made with frosting wasn't neat, and some of the candy didn't stick to well. Once they had decorated their first house, they pick both another of the kit and decorated those too. This time it went slightly better as they got used a bit more to the amount of frosting needed to make a candy stick to the house.

It didn't take long until they were done with their second house. They placed it all neatly in a row and then sent a picture to the girls. Alya commented that it was such a hilarious thing that they were doing those cliché Christmas activities, while Marinette told them the houses looked cute. However, she did gave a tip that they should decorate the pieces separately first before putting the pieces together. Both guys felt a bit stupid not to think of it themselves as it made lots of sense that that way would be way easier to decorate.

Taking that tip by heart they took their own baked house and placed it on the table. Nino got to decorate the roof and ¼ of the walls of the house while Adrien decorated ¾ of the walls of the house. Decorating the way Marinette told them to do really made the house look less messy then the other four were. Once every piece was decorated and the frosting got hard, they put the pieces together. They laughed as they saw their own Gingerbread house with the other houses from the kit. Their own house was twice the size of the small village kit houses.

They quickly sent another picture to the girls before they cleaned up the mess they made while decorating. After everything was completely cleaned up they ordered a pizza to eat, as it was time for dinner. When the pizza got delivered they went to sit down on the sofa with corner seat, each of them having a pizza box on their laps.

"Since we're doing all those cliché things, why don't we watch some Christmas movies? Like The Family man or something?" Adrien said.
"I've seen most of those Christmas movies already, but who cares let's do this."

Adrien logged into his Netflix account and put on a Christmas movie, which had become the start of a Christmas movie Marathon they would held all night long until they fall asleep.