All Childe had wanted to do was showing off his country to Lumine and Zhongli. He had long prepared for this journey. At first he also wanted them to meet his family, but in the end decided against it. It was too early to bring them with him and he had not yet told his family about both of them. Well, he had mentioned Zhongli and Lumine a lot in his letters, but never mentioned that he was together with them. In his opinion he should first inform his family about his matter before he brings his boyfriend and girlfriend home.

When they had arrived in Snezhnaya they had stayed in the harbor city for a night to recover from the long journey, to rest and to stock up on their resources. On the next day they had set out to the little cottage Childe had booked form them. It took them always the whole day to reach, but they were able to at least see a lot of Snezhnaya's snow fields. Zhongli had seemed to enjoy the view, while Lumine had no particular reaction. She was probably just looking out for monsters and fine with there not being any.
The area was safe, since the cottage was often used by young couples that didn't want their family to find out about their affair. A nice place out in nowhere. One may call it boring, but for couples that only wanted to spend some alone time together it was perfect and even more so for Childe and his loved ones. Nearby was a lake, so he could show them how ice fishing worked. Lumine could climb some of the nearby mountains and Zhongli surely enjoy the simple scenery of the white snow and the clear blue sky. Everything was perfect!
Unfortunately, all those plans had to be put aside. The day after reaching the cottage was opened with a snowstorm, which lasted all day and even got worse at the later hours.

The cottage itself consisted of three room. One bathroom, a bedroom and a room, which combined the kitchen and living room – it also had a fireplace to warm up the place a little bit. They had skipped breakfast and lunch had only consisted of some snakes that they ate while sitting on the relatively small sofa. Dinner had been cooked by Zhongli and Childe had to admit that he was surprised how good it had tasted. From now on he could push the duty of preparing their food to Zhongli as well – Lumine was also a great cook, but Childe didn't want her to take on more work, because being an adventurer was hard enough. Lumine needed to learn to let herself be pampered by her boyfriends.

At the moment Childe enjoyed some alone time with Lumine in the bedroom, while Zhongli took care of the fireplace and read a book about Snezhnaya's history.
He somehow had convinced Lumine that it would be warmer if they took off their clothes and cuddled like that with each other – something about body warmth being better. She had simply believed him, since he was from around here and must knew it better and she had to say that she wasn't cold at all. Many pillows and blankets covers and surrounded them and made their cuddling session very comfortable. Her head rested against his chest, while his left arm was warped around her, slowly drawing circles on her soft skin. Every now and then he placed a kiss on her head and shoulder. Before she had fallen asleep, she had always giggled a bit when he had done so, but know all he got was her steady breath – he did not mind it, since it meant that she felt secure. Honestly, it had surprised Zhongli and him extremely, when they figured out that Lumine actually suffered a lot of anxiety, while traveling. She had always looked so calm and collected. Now that she had her two boyfriends at her side all the time, there should be no reason for her to feel anything but safe and happy – at least Childe hoped she felt like this. He knew that Lumine was not always honest about her feelings and kept many things to herself. She had no ill intention with keeping to herself, it was just her personality – also she had spent most of her time with her twin, who understood her even without words. Hopefully, both of them would also be able to understand Lumine without any words someday. For now they needed to talk with each other – which sometimes wasn't so easy, because all of them liked to keep a secret or two –, though he did not mind that. Listening to Zhongli rambling on and on about every little thing he knew, was extremely soothing. He couldn't count how many times he had fallen asleep while listening to his boyfriend. Lumine often talked about her adventures and more than once he his heart almost stopped, until he reminded himself that she was way stronger than she looked. Still, he wished she would not be so nonchalant about it.

With a deep sigh he cuddled a bit closer to Lumine, which was almost impossible, since there was barely any space left between them. To lie in the same position for so long was getting uncomfortable, but he feared awaking Lumine up, so he tried not to move too much.
All their cuddling however was interrupted when Zhongli finally came into the bedroom as well.
With a low voice he asked Zhongli: "Already finished your book?"
"No, but it is getting too dark to read."
Right, the only source of light here was the sun, the moon and the fireplace. Due to the snowstorm neither the sun nor the moon could provide light, so only the fireplace was left and at some point it was not enough to read – even the eyes of a god could not see in the dark.
"Did I interrupt something?"
"No, no. Everything's fine."

Before getting together with Zhongli and Lumine, he never had any other romantic relationship. He had been hesitant at first, because being together with two people at the same time surely was stressful and bound to trouble. However, Zhongli and Lumine had no problem with it and even had expressed that they also had been hesitant about their feelings. In the end, their relationship wasn't as stressful and troublesome as expected, but at times more complicated as a normal relationship between just two people.
He honestly wasn't mad that Zhongli, he just had wanted a few more hours with Lumine alone. Why were feelings so complicated? He loved spending time with Zhongli; he loved spending time with Lumine; he loved seeing Zhongli and Lumine spending time with each other; he loved spending time with Zhongli and Lumine; he loved Zhongli; he loved Lumine. He loved! Yet at the same time he sometimes felt strange. Seeing Zhongli and Lumine enjoying time together filled him with warmth, yet at the same time he wanted to be part of it. When Zhongli interrupted his alone time with Lumine, he wasn't mad, but also not all too happy, no matter how many hours he had spent with Lumine. When Lumine interrupted his alone time with Zhongli, he wasn't mad at her, but also not quite happy about it, no matter how long he had been with Zhongli. Was he too greedy? Or not yet used to this relationship thing?
"Hm."
Silently Zhongli walked up to him and placed a kiss on his forehead.
"Sorry to interrupt, but I am really tired."
"No problem. I'm not mad."
He finally let go of Lumine and lied on his back to have a better look at his handsome boyfriend. Therewith a part of the blanked slipped out of place and revealed his bare skin. Zhongli's fond expression changed into a worried one.
"Why are you not waring some clothes? It is clod."
"It will be easier to share your warmth with your loved ones this way", Lumine explained. "At least that what he said."
"I see."
"Did we wake you up?"
"Not really. Will you join us now, Zhongli?"
Sleepy Lumine sat up and stretched a bit. She also had stayed in the same position for a long time.
"I will, but first…"
Without finishing his sentence, Zhongli walked to the wardrobe and pulled out a few more pillows and blankets.

Wordlessly Zhongli started to build a pillow wall next to Childe. When asked, what he was doing, he simply explained that this way the cold would not be able to reach Childe so easily. He did the same with the bed end, so their feet stayed warm. If the feet were old, the whole body would turn cold sooner than later. Afterwards he went into the bathroom to prepare for the night. Just like his morning routine his bedtime routine was very long.
During their wait Lumine and Childe lied on their backs and starred at the ceiling. Lumine had pulled her blanked up to her nose.
"Are you cold?"
"No. But if I don't cover myself, I will be."
Silence.

"Are you mad?"
"No. But I would have liked more time with you. Though having time with both of you is why we're here, I guess."
"You sound unhappy."
"I… am… confused."
"Wanting everything for yourself?"
"Yeah."
"How childish."
She giggled and he let her enjoy the moment. Maybe he truly was childish. But in his defense it was his first time being in a relationship – and with two people at the same. How was he supposed to know how to feel or act?
Before they would continue their conversation or silence Zhongli returned. Instead of in his pajama, he stood there in his underwear. Apparently Zhongli trusted Childe's words as well and wanted to try out the whole "sharing body warmth" – though looked at bit awkward. Now that he thought about it, it was the first time that Zhongli exposed so much skin – the same could be said about himself and Lumine. Despite their daily cuddles they always kept on their clothes. Childe had always wished to feel more of his girlfriend and boyfriend, but those two never seemed interested or comfortable with it. Maybe they were just shy and he should have just asked.
There was so much they still had to learn in their relationship.

"Come inside or you will freeze to death."
With a nod Zhongli finally entered the bed. It took some moving here and there with them to get comfortable, but it the end result was worth it. Sadly, they didn't stay like this for long.
"Your feet are cold."
"They are not."
"They are."
"No."
"She's right. Maybe her feet are not warm, but they are also not cold."
Childe has been busy warming Lumine's feet that he knew for sure that they were not cold!
However, Zhongli did not accept their words and got out of bed again and walked to the wardrobe. After looking through it for some time he seemed to have found what he was searching. A pair of white, fluffy socks, which obviously belonged to Lumine.
"Here, put those on."
"I am not wearing socks in bed. It will be too warm as well."
"You can take them off, if it gets to warm. But for now you should wear them. Your feet will be the first part of your body that gets cold."
By now they should be used to Zhongli insistence on matters regarding their health. Usually he would only give his opinion on matters, but not more. However, as soon as he was of the opinion that their health was in danger he turned into a nagging overprotective mother hen. It was cute!
"Alright, I will put them on. Now come in or it will be your feet that freeze off!"

After another round of trying to find a comfortable position it was Lumine, who interrupted them in their cuddling session – or better said blocked it off, since they had not even started.
"Zhongli, you need a pillow wall as well or your back will fall off."
"I don't think we have anymore pillows and blankets."
Childe may have not counted, but he was very sure that no shack could have that many pillows and blankets.
"He's right. I used all of them before."
"No problem. Maybe it is not as good as your self-made wall, but it will be better than nothing."
With a grip into her invisible bag, Lumine pulled out a giant dragon plush.
"What's that?"
A reasonable question, if you asked Childe – but no one asked.
"Keqing gave me this Rex Lapis plush during my last stay in Liyue. She said something about it being on sale, so she took more than one and well, she didn't need that many, so she share one if me."
With a few movements Lumine placed the giant Rex Lapis plush behind the Rex Lapis human and then hopefully finally tug herself under her blanket once again.
"Now I think we are prepared for the night."
Hopefully.

"Then let's get into position."
Wordlessly they started to make themselves comfortable once again. Lumine lied between Zhongli and Childe with her back against Childe and her legs between his – he was still in charge of keeping her feet warm. Her head rested against Zhongli's chest, who draw small circles on her shoulder and like Childe before placed kisses on her forehead. Childe had placed his left arm around Lumine, so that his left hand was stuck between her belly and Zhongli's.

After taking care of Lumine for what felt like an eternity to Childe, Zhongli shifted his attention towards him. Tenderly he stroked a hair out of Childe's face and also gave a kiss on the other one's forehead. With his thump he gently caressed Childe's cheek. It was a repeating and soothing movement, which caused Childe to close his eyes and start to drift away – hoping his boyfriend would never stop.
Unfortunately, he stopped and let his hand wander down to Childe's hip, where it rested only for a few seconds, just to move tad upwards, so his fingers once again could feel Childe's warm and soft skin. There he draw circles with his fingertips. Childe could not put into words how it felt. It was not something one could describe as tender, but he also liked it a bit rougher sometimes – also he was ticklish and Zhongli shamelessly used that against him. Still he leaned into his boyfriend's movements. Now the only question was, whether he would fall asleep before Zhongli finished his little playing around or him still being awake when Zhongli finally placed his hand down on him. For whatever reason Childe always felt incredibly safe, whenever Zhongli put his hand on him. He didn't need any kind of strong grip, just feeling his boyfriend's hand was enough to warm his whole body and chase away any doubt or concern.
"Shameless! Using my only weakness against me for your own enjoyment. I thought better of you."
All he could do at the moment, before fallen asleep, was teasing Zhongli. It may not be his best tease, but better than nothing and letting this man have what he wanted without a "fight".
"I wonder, if Zhongli is also ticklish."
No answer from Zhongli himself. Consequently, if Lumine and Childe wanted an answer they had to try it out.
"Take revenge for me, Lumi!"
And So Lumine mimicked Zhongli's actions, which only caused him to show them a faint smile.

In the end they never found out, if Zhongli was ticklish or not. They could not remember when or how, but at some point they had all fallen asleep and bathed in the warmth and love of their lovers. Childe wished they could spent more nights like this. Just the three of them without any duties and responsibilities. Going to bed together, falling asleep together and waking up together. There was nothing better than that, he was sure. Hopefully they could spent the rest of their lives like this.

The cold would never again bother any of them. It never had a chance!