Marinette pulled the baking plate with the fresh baked cookies out of the oven. It was 7pm and she had an hour left before her friends would arrive. This year they would spent their Christmas at her place, changing out their secret Santa gifts.

Her parents were out tonight to enjoy some Christmas dinner party together and probably wouldn't come back home until midnight. So they had the place for themselves, which was great because Marinette didn't have to worry about her parents trying to embarrass her by telling her friends and boyfriend embarrassing stories of her childhood like they did a few years ago.

They told them a story of how she as a kid made a mess of the kitchen when she was five years old. Back then she tried to make Christmas cookies with her mother, but ended up getting the bowl with the ingredients on top of her head. She was completely white due to the flour and the raw eggs dripped down her her hair, over her face until it eventuality landed on the floor. Due to the fall of the bowl some of the flour had been spread into the air and landed on some different places onto the floor as well.

Worst part was that her parents even showed them a picture of the event. On the picture was Marinette standing completely in shock and complete white, the bowl was still on top of her head and her eyes were widened as well as on the edge of starting to cry. Alya simply made a joke that she already had her clumsiness at such a young age and Nino joined in a few seconds later, joking along with Alya.

However Adrien stayed quiet, as he probably didn't knew how to react at that time. Marinette was worried that he thought she was stupid or something, but he later told her she looked pretty cute as a five year old with flour, sugar, butter and raw eggs all over her.

"Marinette can I have one of those cookies?" Tikki asked, causing Marinette to get back from her thoughts.

"Actually they are for tonight Tikki." Marinette said.

Tikki pouted lightly before she looked at her holder with puppy eyes so she could get one. After all she knew that Marinette can't take it up to the puppy eyes, it was her weakness.

"Okay you can have one cookie, just one. I need the others for tonight."

Tikki squeaked in delight before she flew towards the baking plate to take a cookie. Marinette wanted to warn her that the plate was still very hot, but to her surprise it didn't had any effect on Tikki as she was able to pick it up easily and eat it right away like the cookie was just room temperature.

After Marinette had decorated the cookies she started to clean up the living room. It wasn't that messy, she just cleaned some of the dust form the shields, vacuum cleaned the floor and shook up the pillows. After that she placed the present she got for Adrien under the Christmas tree.

It was 7:50 when the doorbell rang. Marinette got to the door as soon as she could, as she was in the middle of applying her makeup. She had changed into a beautiful little black dress that had a little bit of silver glitters on the fabric and already had put on some subtle Smokey eye shadow and a winged eyeliner. All that was left for her to do was adding some lipstick and some glitter by her eyes.

She opened the door to reveal Alya who was standing there with a big winter coat on and a tick scarf. She didn't wore a knit hat like she normally would have with the cold weather, but Marinette guessed that that must be because she had put her hair up in a high ponytail.

"You're early." Marinette said as she opened the door further to let her friend inside.

"Of course I am. You should know that by now." Alya laughed as she walked in.

She took of her coat and scarf before she hung it at the coat rack. She was wearing a red strapless dress with an A-line skirt that came just above her knees.

"Do you want something to drink?" Marinette asked as they walked towards the living room.

"Hot chocolate would be nice. It's pretty cold outside."

Marinette nodded before she walked towards the open kitchen that was connected to their living room and began to make two cups of hot chocolate.

"by the way, you can put your present under the tree." she said as she placed two empty cups on the kitchen counter.

"Okay." Alya said before walking towards the Christmas tree and placed her present for Nino next to Marinette's present.

Once she finished the drinks she placed it on the coffee table together with a plate with the decorated cookies. She then excused herself for a moment to get the last bits of makeup done quickly. Alya let her go do that, but not after making a playful remark that she shouldn't get any more pretty or else Adrien would melt into a puddle because of her hotness.

A few minutes later Marinette came back into the living room and took her seat next to Alya on the couch. They chatted a bit as they both drunk their chocolate milk until the doorbell rang once again.

Marinette stood up and walked to the door she greeted both Nino and Adrien once she had opened it. Both were wearing thick winter coats. Both guys took of their coats and hung it on the coat rack before they all walked towards the living room. They both were wearing neat pants, a button up shirt and a tie that matched the color of their girlfriend's dress.

Marinette had asked them if they wanted to drink something, as well as told them that they could put their presents under the tree. She took Alya's and her own cup from the table for a refill and brought them towards the kitchen. There she took two new cups from the cabinet and then started to prepare four hot chocolates. Nino had already taken his seat next to his girlfriend, while Adrien joined his girlfriend in the kitchen.

"Need an help, beautiful?" he asked as he watched her pour the warm milk into the cups before she added the chocolate powder.

"If you could help me carry it to the coffee table that would be very nice, Handsome." she said with a light blush on her face.

Adrien complimenting her still had an effect on her, but ever since they started dating it wasn't that worse like it was when she was just crushing on him. She also knew that when she complimented Adrien, it has an effect on him. So when they both complemented each other they would end up acting like two awkward potatoes, or well that's how their best friends would call their behavior in that situation.

The two took each two cups in their hands before they walked to the coffee table and placed it on its surface. The group of friends drunk their hot chocolate, ate some of the cookies and chatted about their other holiday plans for quite some time.

"I love chatting with you all but we should start doing the presents." Alya said after a while, the excitement of how Nino will be reacting to her present for him had gotten to much.

"right we should. I will get the dice to decide who will be picking the first present." Marinette said and stood up.

She quickly rushed up stairs to her room to get the big bright yellow dice. Once she got it and gave it to Alya to roll it first. The dice rolled over the table before it landed on five. After that it was Adrien's turn who threw three. Then it was Nino's turn to roll the dice, which ended on six. Last but not least it was Marinette's turn, if she threw six, she and Nino had to do a rematch, however her luck wasn't there tonight as the dice landed on one.

Nino cheered before he stood up and picked a present randomly. They had a rule to not pick the gift they had bought themselves so he had to wait until someone else would pick his gift for Alya.

"Marinette." Nino read out loud from the name tag that was attached to the big box that was wrapped around in Rudolf the red nosed reindeer wrapping paper.

Marinette took the present from Nino and placed it on her lap. She then ripped the wrapping paper away, revealing a plain box. She looked bit confused at it before she opened the lid of the box. Her eyes widened and a huge smile appeared on her face.

"Look at all those satin fabrics." she exclaimed as she took ever fabric out of the box. "It's so smooth and soft and the colors are so pretty. And some of them look like the Gabriel fabrics he used last season, seriously I can make so many new dresses with those fabrics."

Adrien smiled at her reaction. He had picked the color's himself from his father's stockroom. It had taken him a few days to get through all the satin fabrics, as his father had a lot of fabrics. He was glad that Marinette only wanted to have high quality satin, if the kind of fabric didn't matter it probably had taken weeks to choose all the colors he wanted to give her. The cutting of all the fabrics took one and a half day.

"Actually it's official Gabriel satin." Adrien said, revealing himself that he was her secret Santa.

The secret Santa would always reveal themselves after their gift got opened, this because none of them could wait till the end to let them know about it.

"Oh my gosh, Adrien thank you so much! Is your father okay with it." She exclaimed when she hugged him tightly.

"It took some time but eventually I got him so far that he would have even allowed me to take some of every fabric in his stockroom if I wanted to…"

Adrien smiled as Marinette snuggled close to him while thanking him over and over again with a big smile on her face. That behavior was her way of showing she really liked something, and to Adrien that was the most adorable thing in the world.

"How did you even made your old man agree to that?" Nino asked in surprise. He had been at Adrien's place a lot and he knew that his best friend's father was even colder than the North Pole towards others.

"I've brought my mother up... I told him I love Marinette means just as much to me as my mother means to my father." Adrien said as a light blush appear on his cheeks. "After that he gave me the key almost immediately together with a notebook so I could write down how much I took from each color and kind of fabric. He also told me I could take as much as I wanted."

"Wow I can't believe you manipulate your own father." Alya Laughed.

"Ah well It's not like he never did that to me." he said sheepishly. "Anyways Marinette, it's your turn to pick a present."

Marinette stood up and walked towards the tree, she kneeled down in front of it and took the thinnest presents that was that was wrapped around in snowmen themed wrapping paper in her hand before she stood back up straight.

"Nino." she read from the name tag.

She walked over to him and handed it to him before she took her seat next to Adrien again. Nino ripped the wrapping paper off, stopping abruptly when he recognized a little piece of the image of the box.

"No way. No. Freaking. Way." he exclaimed. "No, this can't be true."

He ripped the paper further off until everything was gone. On top of his lap laid the Z-Jay tablet he wanted to have for such a long time. He carefully opened the box and there it was the DJ gadget of his dreams. He pinched himself to see if it was a dream, but he didn't wake up. The smile grew bigger on his face as tears of happiness began to roll down his cheeks.

"I can't believe this is real… How…?" he said between his sniffs.

Alya smiled taking the box with the tablet from his lap and placing it on the table before pulled her boyfriend in a hug.

"I can understand you still need to let it sink in, but believe me it's real. I should know that of all people, since I've been to the store, I've got the receipt and a bank account that has become a bit emptier." She said sweetly.

"You bought it?" he asked as he looked up at Alya, Alya just nodded. "But it's so expensive."

"It was, but it was totally worth the money to make you so happy."

"You're the best Alya."

He pressed a quick kiss on top of her lips before he quickly wiped the happy tears away and got to the tree to pick out a present. He took the only present that was left that wasn't his own. It was a present that felt very soft and was wrapped around in snowflake wrapping paper.

"Adrien." he read out loud form the name tag.

He then walked towards Adrien and gave him the present. He then got back to his seat after he took two Christmas cookies with him, handing one to Alya. Adrien ripped the paper off and picked it up to hold it into the air for a better view. It was a Ladybug onesie. He then hugged the fabric as he had brought it close to him. The fleece fabric was very soft and must be warm too. He had complained a bit to Marinette that his room was always so cold in the winter, and didn't really warm up that well due to the size of his room. She had mentioned before that she could make a onesie if he wanted that.

"I'm glad you seem to like it." Marinette said with a smile.

"Like it? I love it! It's perfect! Thank you so much." Adrien said before he pressed a kiss on Marinette's cheek.

Adrien then fold the onesie and placed it next to him on the couch before he went to the Christmas tree to pick up the last present. It was a small box wrapped in luxurious wrapping paper. Wrapping paper he knew quite well, as he had seen it quite sometimes used in his father's store.

"Alya." he read from the name tag, even though there weren't any more left.

He walked towards Alya and handed her the present, before he took a seat next to Marinette. Alya ripped the paper off from the box, revealing a rectangle black box with the Gabriel logo on top of it. She smiled brightly as she opened the box and saw the Ladybug and Chat Noir Couple bracelets lying inside the box.

"A little bird told me that you wanted to have those for us as a couple item to wear, but you didn't wanted to force it on me." Nino said as Alya was still looking in awe at the bracelets. "But I wouldn't mind to wear one."

"You really wouldn't mind?" she asked as she looked at Nino.

Nino nodded in reply. Alya's smile turned even bigger before she tackle hugged him just like Marinette had done when she had gotten her gift.

"We should make so many pictures of those bracelets for the Ladyblog as well as for my personal Instagram and Facebook so I can let everyone know that I got the best boyfriend ever." she exclaimed.

Nino chuckled, his girlfriend was so adorable.

"We will do that." he said as he patted her head.

The rest of the night was mainly focusing on the presents they had gotten. Adrien had put his onesie on and sat on the couch with a cup of hot chocolate as he watch Marinette who was leaning against him sketch away in her sketch book as she tried to come up with a dress design that was worth it to be made out of official Gabriel fabrics.

Alya and Nino had made a bunch of pictures of their couple bracelets in different kind of settings. A few pictures were they held hands a few where they were about to pick up their cups with hot chocolate and so on. After the whole shoot they found their way back to the couch Alya snuggled close to Nino as she watch him try things out on his new Z-Jay tablet. Both had one earphone in their ear to listen to the sound.

They all agreed that it was a peaceful and very fun Christmas and couldn't wait until next year to be together like this again.