When they stepped out into the bitter cold, Alya already huffed and pulled her jacket tighter around her form. Nino sighed when he followed her, the biting cold of a late December evening piercing right down to their bones.

He huddled deeper into his scarf as well, staying close to his girlfriend as he quickly caught up to her fast steps, reaching over to let his hand slip into her pocket to interlace their fingers. She squeezed his hand and he heard a small happy sound, so he grinned and lightly squeezed back.

"You okay?", he mumbled and she looked up to him, shaking but smiling.

"Yeah. Thanks."

He blushed a bit and shrugged in turn, his thumb lovingly brushing over her index joint.

The sidewalk was a little slippery and they had to walk slowly, but Nino enjoyed every second. It was just the third time they had ever held hands like this and he loved it, he wanted to do it everytime. Alya wasn't much of a person to show affection openly so he didn't always have the chance to but sometimes, when he caught the right moment, he was overjoyed and knew she liked it, too.

Their hands slowly warmed up around each other and it left Nino's heart soaring and his whole body heated up and comfortably setting a contrast to the cool snow.

Much in contrary to Alya, though.

She seemed to shiver even more the longer they walked and first her chin, then her lips and finally her nose vanished within the depths of her scarf.

He couldn't help but chuckle at the adorable sight but after a short death glare he was silent. She really seemed to be cold.

He remembered that she had grown up in the warm environment of the Caribbean Islands, on Martinique, so she probably couldn't exactly handle the cold winters of Paris well. Considering that this was only her second Christmas in Paris, he could understand that she would react that way.

They reached the meeting spot in front of the cinema where they had agreed on with a group of friends, but it seemed like they were the first. Nino sighed as he turned to Alya, keeping their hands locked together.

"Hey beautiful.", he called her with a warm smile and her olive eyes turned up to him, a smile forming on her lips.

"H-Hi handsome.", she stuttered back, her whole body shaking with the cold. His smile slowly vanished.

"Wanna go inside already? We could warm up there and wait for them."

Alya shot a longing gaze to the insides of the relatively dark cinema but shook her head, frowning.

"We agreed on meeting here. They'll only take a few more minutes."

He couldn't help but smirk at her stubbornness, taking a tiny step closer to her to let her rest her head on his chest.

"If you say so.", he chuckled and kissed her hat, feeling how she begrudgingly snuggled up to him.

They waited for a few minutes, and a few minutes more, until Nino finally spoke up about her freezing to death right in his embrace.

He had known they had been too early but ten minutes had passed and nobody had shown up yet. For Adrien and Marinette, it was likely to be too late, for Marinette maybe even to show up when the movie already started. The rest of their friends were normally on time but they still had 5 minutes to their agreed time and Alya still didn't want go inside.

"Are you sure you don't-"

"Nope.", she interrupted him with a weak protest, her mouth muffled against his jacket.

He sighed but before he could in turn complain again, he had an idea. With an interested expression his gaze shot up and down her jacket and he grinned.

"Hey Alya? Which brand is your jacket from?"

He already knew which brand it was from. After all they had bought their jackets together.

She confusedly looked up to him, obviously remembering the same thing as he did, before naming the brand. He giggled in delight and parted from her to open his jacket.

"Wh-What're you doing, are you crazy?!", she immediately exclaimed, trying to stop him from dying an inevitable death of hypothermia, "Close it again! You're gonna freeze, I need your boyfriend warmth!"

Nino only laughed as he kissed her nose, then he unzipped the zipper completely and opened his arms.

"C'mon, do the same."

Her shocked, indignant face was a sight for the gods.

"… What."

"We'll zip our jackets together! C'mon, it's gonna be fun!", he laughed and wrapped his arms around his torso again, "It is cold, though."

She still eyed him suspiciously but unzipped her jacket and immediately stepped into his warmth to snuggle her cheek against his heated-up sweater, sighing in contentment. Not even a second later she felt him fumbling with the zipper of his jacket, to get it on hers. She was about to tell him to give up and close her jacket again, even if resting her cheek on his sweater had been a nice experience, when she suddenly heard a zip and felt something pulling on her side. He chuckled lightly and cheered before turning to the other side, connecting the zipper of her jacket with his as well, and she felt her body being pressed flush against his.

"Told it'd be warmer.", his voice was suddenly very close to her ear as he embraced her again, his arms still in the sleeves of his jacket, but his body suddenly so much closer, his warmth engulfing he like a wave. She merely hummed in response and he giggled as he felt her slipping her arms out of her sleeves to wrap them around his waist beneath the jacket, his warm body working like a heater.

Nino took her sleeves not to let any cold air in and wrapped them around her as well, then he stayed like that and snuggled her close, feeling her shivering slowly subsiding.

It took almost 10 more minutes for their friends to show up and as they did, they only found a very happy Nino grinning from ear to ear and a sleepy Alya leaning heavily onto her boyfriend, caught in the warmest embrace imaginable.