Alice: Hoo-Rah the next chapter… whoop-de-doo!

Eru-chan: No need for sarcasm -.-

Alice: There's always a need for sarcasm…anyway, I hate this pairing, I hate this plot and I hate my story in general, but I own no characters or themes…TRY to enjoy it.

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Ryou woke up the next morning, sat up in bed and stretched his limbs to their full length. He glanced at the clock sleepily; surprised to see it was already 9:00 am. Yugi's party was at 10. Ryou walked slowly downstairs to his kitchen where he made himself a special Christmas breakfast of pancakes. He dug into the maple syrup covered stack of sweetness, brought it to his lips and savored the mouthful. He proceeded to repeat this until all of his breakfast was gone.

Ryou washed up his plate and went upstairs. He got changed out of his pajamas and seeing that the time was 9:45, he decided to grab the presents and leave. He got to Yugi's game shop 2 minutes before 10 and was welcomed at the door by Yugi's grandpa.

He walked into the lounge room to see a scene much like the one he saw the previous afternoon, Serenity was clueless that she stood beneath mistletoe and Tristan and Duke were vying for the spot next to her. Joey stood in the corner with Kaiba, a slightly confused glare on his face as Kaiba beat down his self esteem with long words that someone like Joey had no hope of understanding. Yugi was making a racket in the kitchen and Tea was sitting on the couch, legs crossed. Ryou sat on the couch next to Tea, taking in her gorgeous appearance. She had on a red and white striped dress that made her look like a big, cute candy cane.

Yugi entered the room and announced that it was time to exchange gifts, so the all sat on or around the several couches in the room. When the time came for Ryou to give Tea his present, he watched with delight as her eyes lit up when she opened it. She hugged him and passed him the gift she had gotten him. It was a fluffy home-made jumper with his name embroidered on it. He pulled it on, hugged her and voiced his thanks.

After all the presents were given out, they started to sing Christmas carols. Ryou sang very quietly, mainly focusing on Tea's beautiful singing voice. About halfway through 'Jingle Bells' she turned to him and smiled warmly, somewhere in his mind, he thought to himself that this was the best day ever.

They feasted on a lovely turkey lunch and sat around conversing for a while before it started getting late. A few minutes before everyone was scheduled to leave, Tristan hatched a plan and took the mistletoe from the ceiling and dangled it above Ryou and Tea. He coughed to get their attention and they both looked up. Both of them blushed slightly but leaned in anyway. When his lips touched Tea's warm, soft ones, Ryou agreed with that part of his mind that was now yelling at him that this is the best day ever.

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Alice: Erg! The fluffiness! It burns! Eru-chan, you'd better be thankful! And I ended it too quickly, sorry, but I could think of too much more to thicken it out with XP

Amu-chan: Why did it take so long to write something so short?

Alice: Well, I just wasn't inspired to write for a while, but I'm all better now :3

Even though it sucks, I hope you enjoyed it, and positive reviews will earn you imaginary candy canes.