Soo sooo sorry!! School is soo crazy these last weeks, I was sick, I had presents to get ready, and I'm done with excuses!! I've been so busy, but I'm going to try and hopefully get all of these finished before Christmas. So I have 5 days. Great. Well, expect lots of updates in a short while! Thanks soo much to all my reviewers from the last chapter! You guys rock my sock!!!

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"I Really Can't Stay, but Baby it's Cold Outside"

Kelsi was sitting up in her dorm room, doing her homework for her Music Appreciation class. It was December, so there was Christmas music on the radio that she was currently listening to. It was, at the moment, playing a commercial, but a few minutes later it switched over to the radio station, and someone was singing about wanting a white Christmas. Kelsi was so into her work that she didn't even notice when the door opened, and her boyfriend, Ryan Evans walked in. He had to stifle a laugh at Kelsi; if she wasn't writing or playing music, she had to be listening to some. He walked up to her, and glanced at what she was writing; something homework-looking. She still didn't notice him standing there, and had started singing along to the song that was now playing on the radio.

"I really can't stay," she sang quietly.

"But baby it's cold outside," Ryan sang into her ear, startling her.

"Ryan!" she exclaimed. "Don't scare me like that!"

"Well you were so distracted, I could have probably run in here, set off a bomb, and you wouldn't have noticed," he shot back, grinning at her. "Wanna dance?"

"Well – I – wait what?" she stammered. "No, actually I have to finish this stupid homework."

"It can wait," he said, pulling her out of her chair, and up to him, and started swaying around the room. Kelsi giggled and gave in. She needed a break, and there was no arguing with Ryan when dancing was involved. He started singing softly along with the song again, and she joined in. She normally hated singing in front of people, but being with Ryan always made her feel comfortable.

The song ended then, and Ryan reluctantly let Kelsi get back to her homework, but stayed in the room, and was looking around at the pictures she had hanging on the walls. There were a few of her and her friends from high school, but he noticed that a lot had been replaced with pictures of her and friends from college. Although, he noted with a slight smile, there were a lot of the two of them together. Just then he felt Kelsi's arms slide around his waist.

"All done," she whispered in his ear.

"Cool," he replied, turning around to capture her lips to his. "How does a walk sound?"

"But, baby it's cold outside, like you said before," Kelsi said with a slight smirk.

"Okay, we'll stay here!" Ryan grinned back.

"Actually, I feel like a hot chocolate," was Kelsi's reply.

"Funny, you don't look like one!" Ryan said cheekily, before pulling her out to the hall, where they headed down for some hot chocolates.

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