I had to, who doesn't love a little fluff? Enjoy :)

Three days earlier -

It was half past five in the afternoon and Evelyn hadn't seen Michael all day. Caleb had arrived that morning to wish merry Christmas to his family before he travelled to Egypt with his girlfriend. But since Michael's brother had arrived six hours earlier, both Michael and Caleb had vanished. Evelyn had been keeping herself busy by helping Nancy with the housework and playing with Ericka.

Ericka was an extraordinary girl and Michael hadn't been kidding when he had said she was obsessed with unicorns. Evelyn now knew why unicorns where so rare to find, they were all locked in Ericka's bedroom.

"This one is Paula" she said placing a unicorn on the floor "And this one is Jake. Then there is Stacy, Missy, Vinnie, Boo, Daisy, Harry, Rambo, Neil, Tiffany, Pedro, Kiki, Destiny and starlight"

There was a long line of unicorns in front of Evelyn. She was half expecting the army of smiling, fluffy toys to attack her with their sharp horns.

"And that's only the teddy ones, here are my pencil case unicorns" she said running around her room "Millie, Callum, Joey, Fin, Barb, Nina, Taffy, Choo, Bernard, Kong..."

Evelyn felt like she was sitting on Ericka's bed for hours watching her huge collection of unicorns be placed on the floor in front of her. Then finally the door opened, someone had come to save her from the unicorns. Caleb's cheeky smile lively eyes came as one of the greatest reliefs ever.

"Has she been keeping you busy?" he said laughing

"Er, she's been showing her...lovely...unicorns" she said staring at the creepy unicorns that were all staring up at her

"Well, I'm afraid Evelyn has to go Ericka" he said to his little sister "Michael wants her in the stables"

Evelyn didn't need to be told twice. She carefully edged her way around the unicorns and dashed down the stairs. Freedom! She pulled on a coat before opening the front door and heading out into the cold, star filled night. In the summer everywhere would have been bright and filled with sunlight but the winter had made everything dark and shadowy.

As Evelyn got to the stable, she was surprised to find that when she opened the door she was greeted by a thick, red curtain. She pulled it back and her mouth dropped in awe. White feathers covered the floor making it look like snow, in the corner stood a large green Christmas tree with sparkling silver fairy lights. At the top was the most beautiful silver and gold angel Evelyn had ever seen. In the centre of the room was a pile of plumped pillows in various colours and patterns. A small table with the strange box Michael called a 'television' sat onto.

"Boo!" Evelyn jumped almost five foot into the air as Michael had snuck up behind her and scared her. He stood grinning whilst holding several blackest and some packets. "Did I scare you?"

Michael winked at her mischievously before dropping the blankets and food on the floor besides the pillows.

"Where did you get the feathers from?" she asked looking at all the soft, white feathers that had been scattered everywhere

"I live on a farm! We borrowed them from quackers!" he said shocking Evelyn. She had the image of a lonely, bald duck waddling around the farm in the cold winter wind "I'm joking! I robbed Adrian's pillow, right sit down"

Evelyn sat on the pillows, which were extremely comfortable, before Michael came and wrapped a blanket around her. He pressed a few buttons and the screen of the TV lit up. Evelyn cuddled closer into Michael as he wrapped another blanket around the two of them and continued to hug Evelyn.

The film they watched was called the Notebook. Michael didn't seem as interested in it as Evelyn was but he enjoyed watching her. It was a beautiful film about a boy and a girl in love and it had so many parts where Evelyn just wanted to cry.

At the end of the film Evelyn hadn't been able to fight them off any longer. Small tears began to fall down her cheeks as the end credits rolled up the screen. Why did all the best love stories have a sad ending? It simply wasn't fair.

"Why are you crying?" Michael asked wiping the tear tracks away

"Because it wasn't fair" she said feeling embarrassed "Why aren't you crying?"

"Because I'm not a wuss" he said giggling

"You are" she said smiling "A strong man would be able to show his emotions"

"Oh, so you think I'm weak?" he said leaning over before he started to tickle her "Who's weak now?"

Evelyn fell back in a fit of giggles and she tried her best to stop Michaels relentless tickling. She was barely able to breathe because of the laughter and her face was going very red. She stretched her hand out and grabbed a cushion before throwing it into Michaels face.

"Did you just throw a pillow at me?" he said grinning

"No!" she said still grinning as she got up "you were tickling me! I had to"

"You know this is war right? Pillow war!" he said picking up a pillow and chasing Evelyn around the stable. There wasn't that much space so eventually he caught her and the two of them fell back into the pile of soft pillows. Michael lay beside as the two tried to catch their breath back and recover from the fit of giggles. Michael leaned over and picked up a strand of hair that had fell in Evelyn's face before placing it behind her ear.

"Now it's time for your other surprise" he said jumping up with a broad smile "Come little eagle"

Evelyn followed Michael out of the stable to find Caleb...in a tuxedo. Even more surprising was the white Shire horse which was attached to a hay wagon. Caleb was wearing a top hat on his head and bowed to Evelyn as she walked out.

"So, brother...when are you paying me?" Caleb asked

"Later!" he said "Next Christmas maybe"

"As long as you don't forget" Caleb said climbing onto the horse "I don't like wearing these suits you know"

Michael helped Evelyn onto the wagon and after a few moments they began to roll through beautiful Irish countryside. It was freezing but the arm that Michael had draped over her shoulders was warm. Perhaps his warm heart just warmed his whole body.

"Merry Christmas" he whispered into her ear "I can't wait to give you your Christmas present"

"What is it?" she begged "Tell me! Please?"

"Nope" he said tapping his nose "It's a surprise"

"Why do you like surprises so much?"

"I like watching your reaction" he said "It makes me happy to watch the joy spread over your face. It might be cheesy but...yeah"

"It's not cheesy" she said smiling "It's sweet, you're sweet"

"Well, I do try" he said laughing "I'm scared one day you'll come to your senses and I'll have to use Amortenia on you...not that I would ever do that! It was just a joke"

"I know"

Suddenly white flecks began to fall from the air and stuck to Evelyn's hair and Michael's coat. Snow swirled all around them, trapping them in a winter wonderland. It looked like one of the beautiful scenes you would see in snow globes. Michaels hand tilted Evelyn's chin up and as he leaned closer he kissed her. His lips radiated warmth and as Evelyn wrapped her arms around his neck she felt like there couldn't have been a more perfect moment ever.