Twelve Days of Christmas

by Kiaran Dryaalis

Title should actually be Twelve Days until Christmas, but then it wouldn't make sense to me. It's twelve days until Christmas and Subaru finds an anonymous gift by his front door. As the days go by, he gets more gifts. But who's sending them?

10. December 23

December 23, 1997

The next gift was the most puzzling yet. Ten ornaments, made of silver, and painted to bring life to their depictions. All of them were penguins. I set the ornaments aside and added the accompanying candy cane to the pile I had created of the uneaten sweets. I had no tree on which to place the ornaments, as cute as they were, nor did I have much of a sweet-tooth.

Penguins. Nokoru-sama loved penguins. But…the time I caught Seishirou-san talking to penguins also comes to mind. I find myself secretly hoping that it is Nokoru-sama sending the gifts, not Seishirou-san.

Author's Note: Ha! Penguins! I was watching March of the Penguins when I came up with this idea. Kudos to my mom for buying the DVD.