Judai's pov

Christmas. A fulfilling time filled event celebrating the end of the year and what is to come. Whether you're celebrating with friends, family or even a special someone. It's a joyous season, but everyone already knew that. For me and my friends and family, this one was going to be a new experience.

"Johan what do you mean we're going to your village for Christmas??" I spoke a little too loudly, surprise and shock clear on my face as I stood in the trio's little shack in the woods. Reason being that Johan called me up along with everyone else to let them know how we would be spending this special holiday.

"My father has cordially invited everyone to come. Sadly several can't make it. Mostly Alexis Addicus Zane Blair Syrus and Fuijiwara." Johan explains calmly reaching towards me as I start pacing his living room once more, my anxiousness trying to over take me.

It's been only a couple days since I woke up from my long coma to realize that I didn't remember who Johan even was to me, as a lover, as a friend and barely as a person. My memories have slowly started to come back but only some things, how we met both as children and as our teenage selves and some not so special memories mostly being at school but nothing concrete.

According to several of my friends and Johan himself, I have been to the werewolf village before. Oh yea, finding out your lover is a werewolf is a pretty surprising shock but according to Jim and Hassleberry; I took it surprisingly okay this time around and far better than how it originally happened, and were shocked that Johan didn't try to keep it a secret this time around.

"So that leaves… just a few of us?" I look at him with a raised brow. Johan reached towards me and tugs me down on the couch next to him. He wraps his arms around my waist and pins me close to his side where I get a face full of his upper body and his musky cologne that his mom gifted him early for Christmas. Sadly the smell worked too well and I was instantly red faced looking away from him.

"T-that cologne is pretty intense, Johan…" I tried to cover my face with my arm mostly to cover my nose but Johan saw right through me as he ruffled the back of my hair and snuggles me closer to his chest my face landing on his neck rather than his green Christmas sweater covered chest. "Sorry… I-it is pretty overpowering…" He says it's so casually yet I could tell the change in his voice sounded just a little husky.

"N-nows not the time for a hot steamy makeout session!" I huffed in feint annoyance mostly to snap him out of his little stupor. Johan's face flushes red just a little as his mind is brought back to reality and the plans for Christmas. "Haha… sorry about that Ju-Chan…" he ruffles his own hair feeling embarrassment well up but his arm never once moves away from my waist.

To clear the air I go back to the subject at hand. "So it's Chazz Aster Stella me and my family going to your village?" I spoke up making his green eyes snap to me as he nodded. "Yea, we'll be there for Christmas eve, stay for Christmas morning and leave later that day for everyone to still spend time with their own families."

"You sound like you've had this planned out." I patted his leg as I look up into his eyes which gleamed with a slight mischievousness as I leered at him in return.

"Don't tell me everyone knew about this plan except for me??" I groan slapping his leg again this time slightly harder as I pulled from his grip just a little to lean back to look at his face better. He winced just for a second which gives me just a little bit of joy. "I was going to tell you! I had this planned out weeks ago but you fell into a coma. What was I supposed to do??" Johan begs earnestly with me his hands moving up my body to caress my arms making me look at him a pleading expression now talking place the mischief he had a second ago.

I gave it a second thought for half a second and slapped my hand against my face. "You're right…. You're right, Jo-kun…" I rubbed my temple feeling an irritated migraine coming on from over thinking everything in the last 2 minutes. "I'm sorry for accusing you of planning stuff behind my back." I smiled warmly at him as his hands cupped mine before pressing warm kisses on them.

"I would never do such a thing. Now I'm sure your parents had already packed a bag for you. Go on home, I'll see you in the morning." I rolled my eyes as I heard Chazz's driver outside the woodsy shack honking his horn.

"Cmon Yuki! We got last minute shopping to do!" Chazz yelled out of the window as I laugh climbing off the couch. As I turn to walk away from him and head outside, Johan gripped my hand and tugged me down into his lap. I yelp for a second before feeling his warm breath and chaste lips on mine, but the kiss was anything but rough. It was tender and sweet. He pulls away after almost a minute before looking at my now obviously flushed face.

"Have fun.. I'll see you tomorrow." Johan smiled widely at me as I stumbled to get back on my feet rubbing my hands over my face as I took three shakey steps towards the patio before nearly falling off the damn thing onto the gravel below.

"You better not have broke him Johan! I still need him before the trip tomorrow!" Chazz virtuously got out of the car and helped my poor dazed ass off the ground and into the car. Johan walked out onto the patio, the light shining off of him in his green Christmas sweater and matching sweat pants, wearing some dark blue slippers to complete the look. "Have fun you guys." Johan waved teasingly as Chazz ordered the driver to step on it as I waved at him from the car my mind slightly clearing up.

About a minute from the house I screamed into my hands. Chazz looked at me as of the devil had entered his vehicle. "What's your deal?" I rubbed my red face viciously before looking up at him. "I fell off his patio in front of him….I'm becoming a klutz!"

Chazz was taking a sip of his coffee when he spit just a little caught off guard by my words as he snickered heavily. "That's just you being your goofy ass self!" Chazz pats my back heavily still snickering. His hand is sort of comforting but still laughing at my expense. "Thanks Chazz your words are always a comfort to me…" I sweat drop heavily at his expression which was just the biggest shit eating grin, half hiding his face behind his black and grey scarf.

"Anyway where are you dragging me off to for shopping..?" I chirped catching his attention making his attention to back to the whole reason he was picking me up from Johan's.

"We're going to the outlet mall. The more expensive part of the outlet mall." I raised a brow at him. I never been to the expense side of the outlet mall. I did hear it held places such as a furniture store and even a store called Macy's. I shrugged my shoulder at his gaze, expecting a surprise reaction out of me. I knew Chaz could shop at the expensive side of the outlet mall, he just doesn't do it as much as I thought he would. Although he did tell me about the time him and Aster went there to buy their suits for the Christmas dance for school.

"I know you haven't bought Johan a Christmas gift." Chazz bluntly points out. It was my turn to start laughing because from how everyone reacts to how I am around Johan, they claim I was madly in love with him. I wouldn't be surprised if I was. Johan is a gorgeous man whose attention is never drawn away from me unless something interrupts.

"Of course I haven't… I haven't exactly had the time you do realize this right…" I say it blatantly which caused him to roll his eyes as his driver stopped the vehicle outside the outlet mall. Chazz opens the door and steps out, leaving me room to get out and stand next to him as he shuts the door but not before calling inside the car. "Come back in about two hours." His driver gave a swift nod before driving the car away from the curb as Chazz takes me by the arm and drags me to the one of many mall doors.

Xxx

An hour later Chazz is dragging around a few handful of bags. I'm just looking at him perplexed on why he had to buy out an entire section of the store as gifts. "Is that really practical..?" Chazz just clicks his tongue at my words.

"Says the one who's barely found a gift for his lover."

"He's not my lover!"

"Oh please Yuki. You may have forgotten him but the heart remembers everything. Your moved by him without realizing it. Besides that's not how it looked when you fell off his patio after one kiss." Chazz pokes fun at my expense as I groan at his words. I knew he was right, but who likes admitting that they were wrong. Nope definitely not me. That was one thing that was for sure.

"Let's just go to the winter department." I pushed against his back as I basically pushed him in the direction of the winter coats. I know he was a werewolf but maybe having a nice coat for the snow and cold that was to come in the coming weeks would be good.

"Finally figured out something?" Chazz sneers playfully as we get to the coats as I'm looking around the section. My mind wandered just a bit but not enough for me to miss a really nice blue leather jacket with a dark blue sheep skin insert inside the leather making it warmer inside than on the outside of the coat. It had large silver zippers that crossed on the front two for pockets and one for opening and closing the coat.

"Whoa… this looks amazing." I took it off the rack and feel the inside and stroke the fluff. As I stroke the fluff on the inside I check the size of the jacket. I vaguely recall his size but it matched the one from my memories even as fuzzy as they are.

"You gonna get that for him as a Christmas present?" Chazz came up next to me and snapped me out of la la lane to look at the price of the jacket. "Holy shit that's a lot of money…. 112 dollars for a jacket!" Chazz waved his hand at my worries. He pulled out his wallet and drags me by lacing my arm with his as he walked to a check out. "You're gonna give it to him, and I'm gonna pay for it." We stood in line for check out thankfully it was only 2 people.

"Chazz, I can't accept your help for this! That's crazy." Chazz looked at me as something passed over his eyes. A glimmer of something but it was gone in a flash as his smile widen. "Let me do it just this once…" I could tell by the plead in his voice that he meant it so I couldn't refuse him. I sigh and relinquished the jacket to the salesclerk as she rang up the jacket, the black haired male pulling out his platinum credit card to pay for it.

5 minutes later we walked out of the mall and waited for his driver to show up. "I can't thank you enough…"

"Well let's say a debt has been paid that he owed me." Chazz muttered as he looked at the newly boxed item in my arms. I blink in confusion at him as I notice a more somber mood settled over him. Whatever it was or whatever happened between Johan and Chazz must've been serious. I felt a little annoyed all of a sudden.

"What do you mean Chazz? What happened between the two of you?? You didn't have sex did you?!" I said that a little too loudly making other patrons look at us in either dismay or disgust as Chazz looked like he would either drop dead from embarrassment or choke me out right there.

"HUH!?!" Chazz's red face lit up as he dragged me from the store more confusion hit me as I had to assume what I didn't know was the worst. Altho it seems from Chazz's reaction something did happen between the two of them.

Thankfully his driver returned as he threw me into the back seat and shut the privacy window. "I should kill you for making such an assumption!" He crossed his legs and his arms looking throughly pissed for a change. I just look at him dumbfounded. "You said something happened between the two of you. I had to assume sex was-"

"Sex was never a REASON for anything!!!" Chazz cut my words off screaming at the top of his lungs as his hands snapped to my shoulders and shook me vigorously as if to get the notion out of my head.

"You dare think I would seduce the man you love?!? I'm in love with Aster! You know this, Yuki!"

"Then what did you mean?? What happened between the two of you??" I don't know why I couldn't let it go, something ached in my chest over the thought that something was clearly wrong and I could tell by the reaction on Chazz's face that it wasn't good.

Chazz looked away from me letting go of my shoulders to sit back down in the car seat. "I promised him I wouldn't tell you…" I suddenly felt uneasy like the inside of the car was pressing down on me, crushing me slowly.

"Let me out…" Chazz looked confused for a second but he noticed my grip on the car. "Judai…" he reached a hand out towards me. He grit his teeth and sighed before rubbing his face.

"I-I'll tell you… but Johan will kill me later…" my grip released from the car door as I looked at him dead in the eyes seeing his posture sag just a bit. By the way he looked, it was something grim.

"Johan… he tried to kill himself while you were in a coma…"

The impact of his words left me numb stunned and lightheaded as I leaned back into the car seat before my mind collapsed in a heap, everything going black.