We wake up the next morning, getting everything ready for our plane ride to Aly's house in Chicago for the holiday. I finish my packing after changing into just normal, lazy clothes and stretch then yawn.

"Here we go again." Alex says after changing himself.

"Yep, but at least we have a few days of no plane travel."

"Yeah." He agrees, pulling me into a hug.

"Awww." We hear Aly say from the now open connecting door.

"You just love interrupting don't you." Alex says amused.

"Sometimes." She laughs, then Mike comes up behind her.

"What did she do now?"

"We were hugging and she walks in and goes 'awww'." I laugh.

"You would." He says to her, chuckling.

"Shush." She says, sticking her tongue out.

"We do have a plane to get, that's why I came in here." She adds.

"Right, let's go." I say.

We grab all our stuff and check out before driving to the airport. We walk in and wait a bit until the plane gets there, and when it does we all get up and get on the plane.

"I can't wait to get home." Aly comments, looking out the window as we wait for takeoff.

"I bet." Mike chuckles.

Soon we take off and the flight is smooth and fairly peaceful. We land and get our luggage before heading out to Aly's car, which she had someone drop off for us.

"Yay, my car." She smiles.

"Which I can tell you missed haha." I laugh.

"Heck yes, I love my car."

"And it looks like we landed just in time, looks like it's snowing." I say looking around.

"I'm not sure whether or not to be real happy about it." Aly comments, staring at the sky briefly before we pile into her car.

"It may just be a passing flurry. Doesn't seem like anything to worry about."

"Probably not. Besides, it looks like there's white stuff on the ground anyway."

"Well at least it's on the ground already."

Aly nods and laughs as she drives to her house. We get there and go inside, unloading our stuff.

"Finally a few days of no drama...stalker free."

"Feels amazing." Aly sighs happily.

"So what're we doing now? Just hanging out or starting the decorating for Christmas?"

"We can decorate. The stuff is in the basement." She comments.

"I'll go get it."

"We can all go. The boys can carry the tree up." She adds.

"Well, let's go then."

She nods and leads the way down to the basement. Mike and Alex get the tree and take it upstairs. Aly and I grab the tubs of decorations and carry those up. They start setting up the tree, while we start decorating the room with the lights and the garland, etc. We finish that and start putting up the ornaments on the tree. Aly goes to turn around to get another ornament, but she's caught offguard by Mike suddenly kissing her.

"Not that I'm complaining but what was that-" She starts to say and then catches sight of the mistletoe.

"Ohhh you sneak." She laughs.

Meanwhile Alex has done the same to me.

"What was..." I say, after he pulls away but I too catch sight of the mistletoe.

"Aha, should've known." I laugh.

Both Mike and Alex smirk triumphantly. We shake our heads, laugh and then return to decorating the tree.

"I guess that mistletoe wasn't hidden very well." I whisper to her as we finish.

"I think they're trying to get us to take advantage of it too." She whispers back.

"I think we'll find they're going to use it as an excuse all the time."

"I wouldn't doubt it." She giggles faintly.

"Alright...the tree is done." I say, as the last ornament is put onto it.

"Yayyy. I'm going to make some hot chocolate, anyone want some?" Aly says.

"You know I do." I laugh.

"Of course." She laughs.

"I'll take some." Mike says.

"Alright. DC?"

"Sure." He nods.

She goes into the kitchen and makes it. She comes out with a tray that holds the drinks. She sets the tray down on the table and curls up beside Mike on one end of the big L-shaped couch.

"Two more days till Christmas Eve. Coming so fast."

"Yeah." Mike agrees, Alex and Aly both nod.

"And it looks like it's snowing pretty good out there now." I say looking out the window and we all look over.

"Yeesh." Aly comments.

"Oh come on, first snowfall we're seeing. It's pretty."

"Yeah but at the same time...bleh." She shrugs.

"Well it's not Christmas without snow."

"I think I could live without it."

"Well then just hope it doesn't stick around long haha."

She laughs and nods, sipping her hot chocolate. After I finish mine, I lay down.

"I'm going back to sleep now." I laugh, flipping the hood up on my sweatshirt.

"I'll do you one better. Bye guys." Alex directs the last part to Aly and Mike before scooping me up and carrying me to the spare bedroom.

"Bye." Mike and her laugh.

"I am fully capable of walking." They hear me say as we walk away.

"I know." Alex replies, smirking.

Aly yawns lightly and picks up the empty mugs and tray, carrying then into the kitchen and putting them away.

"You tired too?" Mike asks, following her out into the kitchen.

She nods slowly as she puts the tray back where it goes.

"Well come on, we can take a nap so you can get more sleep." He says, wrapping his arms around her.

"Okay." She yawns and leans into him.

"Want me to carry you or can you walk?"

She snakes her arms around his neck and snuggles into him.

"I'll take that as carrying you." He chuckles, before picking her up and heading towards her room.

They get into her room and he shuts the door before setting her on her bed. She sighs in content, climbing under the covers and snuggling into her pillow.

"Feeling much better?"

She nods into her pillow as he slides in.

"Much."

"Well it's like they say, there's no place like home."

"Uh-huh...Dorothy." She giggles quietly.

"If I'm Dorothy, then who are you?" He chuckles.

"I don't know." She yawns.

"Alright, go to sleep." He says, kissing her cheek.

"Love you." She mumbles, curling into him.

"Love you too."

Meanwhile Alex had just finally put me down once we reached the room, and then he shut the door.

"You just love carrying me don't you?" I laugh.

"Yup." He grins.

"Of course. Should've guess that." I say, stretching and rubbing my eyes before sitting down on the bed.

"Alright. It's time for you to get some sleep. You're tired." Alex says.

"Maybe I don't need sleep. Can you prove that I'm tired?" I joke.

"You're yawning and rubbing your eyes." He points out.

"Oh those little things, I do that all the time."

"Yeah okay." He says sarcastically.

"Now you, can't make me go to sleep haha."

"Wanna bet?"

"Bring it on." I giggle.

He climbs onto the bed and tugs me over to him, getting comfortable. Then he runs his hands up and down my back and neck.

"Okay, so maybe it doesn't take much for you to make me go to sleep." I mumble.

"I win." He chuckles.

"You're not going to win all the time."

"I know. Sleep well love." He says as I start to drift off.

A few hours later, Aly and I both wake up in our rooms but Mike and Alex are still sleeping. I decide to come out of the room just as she was coming out of hers.

"Hey." She greets me.

"You were sleeping too?" I ask.

"Yeah. Mike's still out." She nods.

"Alex is still out too."

"And to think, we were the tired ones." She laughs as we walk towards the livingroom and kitchen.

"I know. Sometimes I wonder haha."

Aly nods, laughing.

"So what to do now?" She ponders as we go into the kitchen to get something to drink.

"Hmmm, I'm sure they're going to wake up soon or well eventually. I have an idea. Since there's enough snow on the ground outside, how about we make some snowballs, and find a good hiding spot. They'll obviously come out trying to find where we went. When their backs are turned we can throw the snowballs at them and hide again after each throw."

"Oh my god that is brilliant. Let's go get our winter gear on before they wake up."

I nod and we go back to our rooms and quietly go through our bags and grab our stuff, then walk back out while putting the stuff on.

"This is going to be so fun." She snickers as we sneak outside.

"There's a really good spot over here." She points out.

"Their faces are going to be priceless haha." I say as we head over to the spot.

She grins and nods. We hide and make a stockpile of snowballs. Soon we hear the front door open and the guys calling our names. We both put a hand over our mouths to stifle our laughter. I take a quick glimpse from the hiding spot and see that their backs are turned now. I signal to Aly to grab a snowball. We each grab one and I mouth 1 2 3 and we throw them, instantly ducking back into the hiding spot. We try not to laugh when we hear them yell in surprise.

"Could've fallen off the roof, there is snow on it." Mike points out.

We giggle quietly and when they turn their backs, we do it again.

"Alright man, that's not coming off the roof. Feels like it's coming from behind us." Alex comments.

Mike nods, looking around warily. Aly and look at each other and grin. We wait a while, and I make sure they're not turned around. We then throw yet another snowball as they're looking around, their backs still turned to us.

"Alright now we KNOW they're out here." Mike says, after jumping from the latest hit.

"They're going to find us." I whisper to Aly.

"This way." She hisses, giggling as we carefully sneak away.

We go to an even better hiding spot and just in time because where we were, they just looked there.

"Alright they're definitely out here, because there's the snowballs." Mike comments.

"Yeah." Alex agrees, looking around.

"Okay, we know you're both out here. You can't hide for long!"

We snicker and Aly nudges me, motioning to the next spot. We thought that we would be able to sneak away this time again, but we were wrong.

"Mike, I found them! They're making a break for it!"

"Run!" Aly laughs.

We start running, heading around tot he back of the house. Little did we know, Mike and Alex had a plan.

"Alright, you go the way they just went, I'll go this way. That way, they can't get away."

"Shoot!" Aly exclaims, skidding to a stop as she sees Mike.

"Other way, other way." I say, going to turn around but see Alex.

"Uh, I think we're trapped."

"Crap." She mutters as we back up into each other.

"Oh we got you two now." Mike chuckles.

"Awww man." Aly whines quietly.

"We have snow and aren't afraid to use it." I say, referring to the snow on the ground.

"So do we." Alex replies.

They both pick up some snow and form it into snowballs. They walk a little bit closer before getting ready to throw them at us. We duck as soon as they throw them and they end up hitting each other instead. Aly and I both bust up laughing after we see what happened.

"Ohhh that was a good one." I say, laughing still.

"Hahahaha, their faces were so funny."

"You two got to be quicker than that to be able to get us."

They finish wiping off their faces, and lunge after us.

"Nooo!" We both squeal.

We bolt off in opposite directions which causes the boys to break off after each of us. After a while of running, we slow down because running through the snow gets tiring. That's what causes them to grab us. I yelp as Alex picks me up and spins me around.

"That's what you get for starting the snow war haha." He laughs.

"But it was fun." I laugh.

"You're lucky I didn't take any and just dump it on your head." I add.

He chuckles and pulls me closer.

"Alright, let's go back inside. It's cold."

"Well that's why it's called winter haha."

"Okay, be quiet Miss Smarty." Alex teases, directing me to the door.

"Make me." I say, as we walk to it.

He spins me around and kisses me.

"I'll be quiet, for now." I smile, after we pull away.

"Good." He chuckles.

"Just one thing before we head inside." I say.

"Hey you two, wherever you are, we're heading inside! Just letting you know!" I yell, laughing.

"Okay!"

Then Alex and I head inside. Meanwhile Mike has caught Aly and hasn't let her go yet. He hands are free so she reaches down and grabs a handful of snow, shoving it in his face while laughing.

"Oh, it's like that now huh?" He replies raising an eyebrow and wiping snow off his face.

"Uh-huh." She giggles, backing away.

He picks up some snow, walks over to her and when she wasn't paying attention he dropped the snow over her head. She squeals loudly and grabs more snow, flinging it at him. He then retaliates by grabbing more snow and sneaking it into her jacket.

"Ahh!" She screeches, jumping around.

"You're evil!"

"You started the snow war." He comments.

"I didn't say shove snow down my jacket!"

"Take the jacket off for a moment and shake the snow out."

She does so and then drapes her jacket over her arm.

"Okay, I think it's time to go inside. I'm getting cold."

"Yeah I'm getting a bit cold myself." He agrees.

They trudge over to the door and go inside.

"Got cold already?" I as, as they walk in.

"Well we might've stayed out longer but genius over here put snow down my jacket." She motions to Mike when saying 'genius'.

"Well I partially blame myself. It was my idea to start the snow war technically." I add.

Aly nods and laughs a little.

"True."

Then she spots something in the top of the doorway.

"You two put that stuff wherever you could think of didn't you." She says to Mike and Alex.

"Guilty as charged." Mike chuckles, while Alex grins and we both laugh.

"Speaking of which, you're both under it right now." I giggle and she looks up.

"So we are." She laughs lightly.

"We'll give you the privacy haha." I say, turning around.

Alex turns around too and then when we turn back around, Mike is pulling her up from being dipped with a satisfied smirk on his face.

"Awwww." I say, Aly giggles and Mike laughs.

"I think this time calls for Christmas movies. I know they're all on tv right now seeing as it's getting close to it." I comment.

"And if we don't like the ones that are on, then I have a bunch of them on dvd." She adds as Mike and her sit on the couch.

"Right. And nothing beats the classics like Rudolph and all that."

"Yeah. I have Rudolph, Frosty, Frosty Returns, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town...um...I think I have the Charlie Brown Christmas too."

"Oh Charlie Brown Christmas is the best, well one of the best ones anyway."

We all nod in agreement and start watching movies.

"Oh crap, you know what we still have to do? Christmas shopping."

"Aw hell. You're right. We should probably just go and get it over with now." Aly adds, making a face.

"Now you two have to stay here, we're shopping for you." She says to Mike and Alex.

"Awww." They pout.

"You can't see what we're buying haha."

"Dang." Alex whines.

"You have to wait until Saturday to see them. No peeking when we get back either."

"Damn." Mike mutters.

Aly and I get up from our spots and grab our jackets, putting them on. She grabs the car keys and we start heading for the door.

"We'll be back. Don't have too much fun without us. Haha."

"We wont but I think you're forgetting something." They say and point to their lips.

"Oh yes, that's right. Can't forget that."

We walk over and kiss them quickly, before heading out the door and getting into the car.

"The hard part is going to be finding these two something they don't already have." Aly comments while driving to the stores.

"Right. Why do they have to make shopping so difficult?" I laugh.

"Agreed." She laughs too.

"I have a feeling it's going to be a LONG day."

She nods and sighs as we pull into the parking lot. We walk in and start searching around for anything that might be good as a gift. Eventually we find a few thigns and buy them.

"Now are we hiding these or wrapping them when we get back?"

"Should probably wrap them. I can see those two being snoops." She says as we head back to her house.

"We'll have to prevent them from touching them when they're wrapped too because they'll try to figure out what the are by feeling them."

"Yeah, that too." She agrees as we turn down her street.

We pull into the driveway and get out, walking into the house. Then we immediately start heading to Aly's room to wrap what we got. The boys start to follow.

"Uh-uh." She shakes her head and stops them.

"No peeks." She scolds.

"Go back out into the livingroom." I add.

They both pout and snap their fingers before going back to the livingroom. We go into Aly's room and locks the door so we can wrap in peace. Once we're done wrapping, we walk out and put them under the tree.

"No touching the presents you two."

"And if we do?" Alex asks.

"Hmmm..."

"You won't be opening them Saturday if you do."

Mike and Alex both wince.

"Just keep your hands off and you'll be fine." Aly says.

"It's only for a few days, you can last."

"And no sulking either." She points at them.

"If we can wait to find out what you got us, you can wait to findo ut what we got you."

They sigh and nod.

"Let me tell you, it was not easy to find something that you don't already have." I say, sitting down on the couch.

"But you succeeded." Mike points out.

"Yes, it was hard but we did it." Aly agrees.

"Congratulations." Alex laughs.

"But now, I want to relax." I say, laying down on him.

He shifts to make it more comfortable, Aly lays on Mike too.

"So...what did you get me for Christmas." I laugh slightly.

"Not telling. You won't tell me mine so I wont tell you yours." Alex retorts.

"I know, I was kidding haha."

He sticks his tongue out and makes a face at me.

"The day just went by way too fast."

"Yeah it did." Aly agrees and the boys nod.

"Christmas Eve is going to drag Friday and Christmas is going to fly by Saturday." She adds.

"And then before we know it, it'll be New Years." She continues and I nod.

Neither of us notice Mike and Alex exchanging looks.

"Yep, next Monday is the last Raw of the year." I agree.

"Hopefully it'll be decent."

"Hopefully." I repeat, nodding.

"And if not then I'm sure 2011 will be better."

"It better be."

"I think 2011 will be...awesome." Mike says as he and Alex share a secret grin.

"Well of course it'll be awesome you're WWE Champion." I laugh.

"Yeah that's true, but awesome for other reasons." He corrects.

"And what are those other reasons?"

"Can't tell you right now." Alex shrugs.

"Uh-huh...I have a feeling you're both up to something."

"Me too..." Aly trails off, looking at both of them.

"That is nothing that you two need to worry about." Mike says.

"That makes me even more curious." She says with a small frown.

"Hey, no frowning you." Mike points at her.

"But I want to know." She pouts.

"You have to wait until the new year."

She sticks her lower lip out in a deeper pout.

"Sorry, you're going to have to wait."

"Aww..."

"You can wait, I know you can."

"I guess..."

"The wait may kill us a little bit, but I know I can wait that long." I comment.

"Yeah." Aly nods.

"Hmmm, what to do now?"

"We could watch some more of the movies."

"Sounds like a plan." I agree.

Aly untangles herself from Mike to put in the next movie.

"You know there is one movie that we just have to watch on Christmas Eve. I've always watched it... A Christmas Story. They play 24 hours of it...Christmas Eve and Christmas Day." I mention.

"Okay, sounds fun."

"Of course I never stay up all night watching it. Because that's just crazy."

"Just a little." Mike laughs.

"I just left the tv on, and fell asleep to it. That way, I'm technically watching it but I'm not."

"Nice." Alex chuckles.

"It got me through the night, without having me wake up like every hour being all excited for

Christmas."

"Whatever works." Aly giggles.

We then go to watching the movie. The farther we get into the movies, the more Aly and I are falling asleep.

"Hey, Lyssa. Come on, you're falling asleep." Mike nudges her.

She whines and grumbles, clinging. He shuts off the movie and the tv, before picking her up. She curls into him and buries her face in his neck. He carries her to the bedroom, closing the door behind him. I'm awake enough to be able to get up. I walk over to the Christmas tree and shut it off before yawning. Alex gets up and stretches, dropping his arm around my shoulders as we walk to our room.

"You seem just as tired as I am." I laugh.

"I actually am." He says yawning.

"Well at least we'll get to sleep in tomorrow."

"That'll be nice."

"Unless you want to tire yourself out more right now with a late night snowball fight haha."

"No that's alright." He chuckles.

"I'd beat you anyway." I joke.

"Yeah okay."

"I'm serious haha. I got you multiple times today already."

"That wasn't really a fair fight though."

"But it was funny." I laugh as we walk into the room.

"To you maybe."

"Awe, don't be a fun sucker right now."

"And what would you do if I was?" He teases.

"I don't know but, you'll have to give me a raincheck on that. It's far too late and we're both tired."

"True." He agrees as I go to change.

After I come out, I immediately drop down onto the bed. Alex pulls me in closer and then I start laughing uncontrollably. He looks at me strangely.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah I'm okay." I say all calm, laying there for a few seconds before cracking up again.

"Alright I think you've lost it."

"I have not lost it. I am in full control of it. Whatever 'it' is."

"No you aren't." He chuckles, rubbing my arm.

"I'm tired. This is what happens when I'm really really tired. I laugh for no reason."

"Ah."

"Well stop laughing and go to sleep." He adds.

"I'll try." I giggle.

"No, you have to stop. There is no trying."

"Okay."

I do end up stopping, and quickly falling asleep. Meanwhile Aly's just coming back into her room from changing.

"...tired..."

"Then lay down and go to sleep." Mike replies.

She flops down on the bed and yawns.

"At least now we get to sleep in, in the morning."

She nods as she slowly crawls up in the bed and under the covers.

"Goodnight." He says, kissing her forehead.

"Night, love you." She mumbles.

"Love you too." He says, going to sleep himself.