Life was so unfair sometimes.
Being that Christmas Eve was on Sunday, their off day, and Christmas... well, you'd have to be a Scrooge to make people working on Christmas, L came over at noon. And with him was Watari. Although confused, Matsuda didn't say anything, just smiled politely as Watari carried in one large duffel bag, the fake Christmas tree, and two medium-sized boxes. Once everything was in Matsuda's apartment, Watari had said good-bye and left.
"Um... Ryuuzaki-kun, what's with all the stuff?" Matsuda asked, staring at the pile of stuff by his couch.
"Decorations for the tree," L replied simply, bending down and extracting the pieces of the fake tree. Blinking, Matsuda bent down next to L and started putting the tree together. After much trouble, they finally got the tree all nice and pretty looking. By this time, Matsuda was panting, leaning against the couch and groaning.
"That was hard!" he complained, head tilted back so he was looking at the ceiling. L, who looked as he always did, smiled at Matsuda and opened one of the boxes he had brought along. Hearing the movement, Matsuda rolled his head so he could see what L had in the box and his eyes nearly popped out when he saw the contents.
"I've never seen so many candy canes..." Matsuda gaped, staring at the multi-colored canes. L merely smirked, taking one and taking off the wrapper before sticking it in his mouth. Getting another out of the box, he put a new candy cane on the tree, and then another, and another. There was no special pattern to how he was putting them on - just a candy cane on every branch available. After a moment, Matsuda began assisting L. If there was no pattern, it was pretty easy to decorate the tree.
Matsuda didn't know how many candy canes they put on the tree, but by the time they finished it looked as though the tree was made of the candy. And, naturally, L had made a dent and put cane after cane in his mouth. He was like a machine!
It was then that Matsuda realized they hadn't put any lights on the tree. Just as well though, because there was no way the light would have been able to show through. And just when he thought it was impossible to decorate the tree any further, L opened the second box and revealed...
Hair ties.
Staring at the box, Matsuda could only gape as L began to throw the hair ties on the tree. Literally throwing. This time, Matsuda didn't even help. He told L he was going to make supper, the shock of L's decorating methods too much for him to take.
By the time supper was made and ate, they both decided to go to sleep. And so, curled up together in Matsuda's bed, they dreamed of a Santa made of chocolate.
Well. That's what L dreamed of, anyway.