You know who we haven't seen throughout this entire collection? Anyone who isn't in a pairing! We'll have to fix that, now won't we? This is a non-pairing drabble! The person who owns Yugioh is NOT ME!

It was a very good afternoon. No doubt about that.

Yugi, Joey, Tristan, and Tea were in Tea's living room, celebrating their own little holiday tradition. They were lounging around, waiting for the timer in the kitchen to go off. Some Christmas music was playing in the background as the teenagers told stories about Christmases gone past and what they absolutely must have for Christmas this year. The laughter ringing in the air from Tristan's last tale almost drowned out the shrill of the kitchen timer. But it didn't.

"They're done cooling!" Tea said as she stood up and raced into the kitchen. After a moment, she came out, arms loaded with plain sugar cookies. "Joey, did the icings harden?"

Joey moved the plastic knife through the saucers of colored icing. "Nope, they're all still good."

Tea piled the cookies in the center of the table and smiled at the boys. "Okay, everyone, let's start!"

The flood gates opened, and arms reached out for cookies to frost and plastic knives to frost with. Only after the other three had their stuff and were beginning to work did Tea start herself. After all, she wouldn't even get near the cookies if she tried to get them while they were starting. The conversations changed subjects to exactly what they were going to have their cookies look like.

Ten minutes flew by, and the once grand pile of cookies became a small bump. Everyone was still frosting, but they were also bragging over how artistic and/or random the design they'd just finished was.

"I did one of you, Joey," Yugi said in the short lull between boasts.

Joey looked up from his snowman cookie. "Really?"

Yugi nodded and lifted up the cookie to show his friends.

Tristan and Tea cracked up laughing. The design looked just like Joey did most of the time: blond hair, brown eyes, a smile, and winter clothing. What made it stand out was that it wasn't a human-shaped cookie; it was a dog.

"That does look like him!" Tea shouted while laughing.

"Man, if Kaiba saw that, you'd never hear the end of it!" Tristan added.

Joey reached over and smacked him on the head. "Tristan!" He said in a tone that was meant to sound like a warning, but that was wrecked by his bursting out into laughter afterward.

A great time was had by all in their traditional last gathering of the year. Most of them would travel to visit relatives and wouldn't be back until next week, or sometimes, if they were going far away, next year. But they always got together to make and decorate Christmas sugar cookies the day before the first of them left. It was very close to Christmas, because Joey normally left first, but he wasn't leaving town this time. Tea was flying out very early the next morning and wouldn't be back until 2007; Tristan was leaving that same afternoon to drive with his family to Tokyo.

That night, everyone said their good-byes tearfully. Hugging and wishing "Happy New Year" to Tea, the boys left her house and started the journeys homebound. Each loaded with a bag of cookies.

Time is flying right by, isn't it? I'll stop the world if I get a review! Especially if it's from you! (hint hint)