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Rei looked up from the fire at Kyouju, who was asleep on the couch, his head in Hikaru's lap. Hikaru glanced up and smiled, saying nothing. Rei chuckled, then glanced at Takao and Max, who were also asleep and sitting, leaning against the couch Kai was on, heads rested on eachother's. Kai was asleep as well, surprisingly. He was lying down across the couch and he was using his arms as a pillow.
"It's weird how this is boring, but..." Hikaru said, voice near whisper so that she didn't wake anyone up. Rei smiled softly. Despite she had trailed off it was obvious what she meant.
"Yeah." he replied, shortly, unable to think of anything to say.
"Did you get presents for everyone?" She asked.
"Yeah... Even one for you." Rei decided to clarify to her that he had something for her, not just because she liked presents but because she seemed hesitant still. Not that she showed it, she just seemed like she thought they didn't quite accept her. Once again; she covered it up, and possibly didn't even notice, but she brightened at that statement. After all, this was probably important, it was her first christmas with them.
"I got presents for everyone too." She said, then looked down at Kyouju. After a short silence, not akward or because they had nothing to say, just because you couldn't talk for too long straight at times like these. After a while she started again.
"Kai doesn't usually get people presents, right?" She asked.
"Yeah, I don't think he ever has." Rei smiled. "But he cares about us, all of us. He just doesn't like showing it." Hikaru nodded. She whispered something to herself sounding to Rei like "Yarn" But he brushed it off since that made no sense. Hikaru tried to stifle a yawn, but failed. She looked around, suddenly looking very tired.
"I'll just... Sleep now..." She mumbled and shifted so that she had her head against the arm of the chair and Kyouju in her arms. (The couches at this particular apartment were actually fold out beds, but they had all fallen asleep before unfolding them.)
Within seconds Rei could hear her breathing even out, fading into the sound of everyone else's breathing pattern. He glanced at the clock. Four thirty two. Kyouju had fallen asleep at about one, being young and in need of extra sleep. Takao fell asleep a little before Max (by roughly an hour) at two-ish. Kai... Rei wasn't sure exactly when Kai had fallen asleep. He had been silent and Rei hadn't been watching, but had eventually focussed on the sound of the room, noticing that everyone's breathing was almost in sync. And Kai had been asleep, so he had no idea when it happened.
He turned as he heard a crackling noise and looked at the fire infront of him as it gave off it's last sparks and went out, the room becoming pitch black, as a silent order for Rei to go to bed.
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