Alya was almost startled when she woke up next to her boyfriend in an otherwise empty apartment. And when she said empty, she meant it.

It was literally empty. Their furniture hadn't arrived yet and so, only a few boxes had made their way into the empty rooms.

But they hadn't been able to wait.

Nino and Alya both had wanted to move in immediately after renting their new apartment and so, they had merely brought Alya's bed here, built it up again within a day, and had slept here.

She needed a moment to realize where she was and why she was here before rolling over and snuggling to Nino's back, pressing her nose against his bare back and grinning.

He stirred from that, giving a huff and mumbling something, before turning around after she scooted back and taking her in his arms. He was still sleeping, she realized, but suddenly he was hugging her tightly, his body pressed against hers and she realized, there was no place she'd rather be.

He was warm and the bed was soft. The gentle light of a clouded day fell through the windows and she sighed at his scent, deeply burying herself on him.

Nino huffed and kept her closer, his nose tightly pressed against her hair. This was where she could stay forever, she found.

Just a few minutes later, Nino slowly woke up, his arms twitching a little before he brushed over her back and she felt him smile into her hair, his breathing becoming less even and more awake by the second.

She grinned into his chest and kissed his skin, now finally looking up to him and seeing him blinking down to her.

"… Morning, beautiful.", he mumbled in that raspy just-woken-up voice that she loved so much on him. In return, she nudged his nose and hummed, pressing a light kiss to his lips.

"Morning, handsome."

He smiled at her soft affections and nudged her nose back, looking adorable with his mussed up hair that seemed to stick away from his head in spikes, with his golden, unfocused eyes and the light stubble he had discovered to like ever since he had finally grown a proper beard.

Alya nuzzled him and patted his chest, now slowly feeling restless, as if her limps tickled to do something.

"Wanna get up? Get some breakfast?"

Her boyfriend merely groaned in response and turned around to look at his phone that he had kept next to the ground, checking the time.

"Alya, it's 8 in the morning on a Saturday.", he whined and pulled out the last syllable, "What did I do to deserve you."

His girlfriend grinned and crawled up to straddle his hips, propping herself up on his chest like a little kid.
"C'mon, I wanna do something, let's do something!"

He sighed as he lied his head back but then he faltered and sighed.
"Fine. I'll get up."

With a cheer she was already on her feet and turned around to him, to see him sitting up and rubbing his eyes. She giggled and walked over to him to press a kiss on top of his head, smirking.

"Aww, don't pretend to be a martyr, Nino. There are worse things than getting up at 8 in the morning."

"Yeah, like getting up at 8 in the morning on a Saturday.", he replied sourly but she heard the mocking tone in his voice, as well as the smirk.

Without paying him any more mind, then, she trudged over to the window, to look outside and immediately be startled. Everything outside was suddenly white. It had snowed overnight, apparently. She squealed in glee, at the first snow of December, and jumped over to the bed to grab Nino's hand and pull him over, to show him the winter wonderland outside. Now, with the second glance, she also noticed it was still snowing.

"Nino! Oh gosh, look! We gotta build a snowman!"

He merely chuckled at that and shook his head, kissing her temple.

"I mean, it probably won't be enough for a big snowman, but we could build a small one on your car and waste the rest on a snowball fight?"

Immediately, Alya was on board and grinning with excitement, her eyes already searching for the rest of her clothes except her panties and shirt that she was wearing, and giggled like her sister did when they got excited.

"Absolutely! Wait, I'm just gonna get my stuff and-"

"Hoooold on a minute there, missy.", Nino laughed and held her back on the seam of the shirt, smirking as she turned around to him, "That's my shirt you're wearing."

She gave him a bright grin and pulled it off before going to search for her clothes, leaving him frozen and holding his shirt, furiously blushing.

"You coming?", she finally called as she already slipped in her jacket and put on her hat, waiting for him to move when he slowly blinked and stared at her.

"Oh come on, Nino. We're not 15 anymore. Are you coming?"

He blinked another time, swallowed, and then finally pulled his shirt over his head.

"S-Sure, yeah, I'm coming."

She smirked at that and he rolled his eyes, grabbing his pants as he came closer to her with a few steps.

"I will so rub some snow into your beautiful face for that.", he mumbled and she laughed.

Within minutes they were outside of their new apartment building and huddled into their warm jackets, trying to withstand the cold after just having gotten up from a very warm bed.

"Okay, new plan, we do the snow things later and first search for a nice place to have breakfast at?", Nino proposed and Alya snuggled to his side, nodding slightly.

"Hell yes. That sounds nice. After all we'll probably need that a lot more while we don't have a functioning kitchen yet."

Her boyfriend smirked and unfortunately for him, did not see the handful of snow coming right for his face, that Alya had just scooped up from a parking car.