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“Before I let you in, you guys have to kiss.”
The pair looked at Reiner, simultaneously raising their eyebrows. Bertholdt sighed while pointing at the mistletoe above their heads on the doorway. “Sorry guys, Reiner really wanted to even though I told him not to.”
Annie’s face flushes a light shade of pink. “Reiner. No.”
“YOU HAVE TO!”
“No.”
“YOU MUST. It’s tradition!”
Annie, realising that the conversation would go nowhere, nimbly squeezed through the boys’ bodies and ran off inside.
Reiner lowered his head in a sigh. “NO ONE EVER APPRECIATES MY EFFORT HERE.”
“There there, it’s okay.” Bertholdt patted Reiner’s back. “Mikasa come on in. Sorry about that, Reiner just really wanted his mistletoe to be of more use than just decoration.”
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By the time everyone had arrived, Reiner seemed to regain his high spirits. “KK time! Everyone, gather ‘round! Did everyone bring their presents?”
“Oh shit.”
“Annie! I even reminded you!”
“Sorry. I’ll get it now, shouldn’t take more than half an hour. Play a game or something while I’m gone.”
Mikasa grabbed Annie’s arm and smiled sheepishly. “I’ll come with you. It seems I forgot mine too.”
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[MIKASA’S POV]
Annie can’t find her gift so now we’re both frantically looking for it. I don’t like to keep people waiting. I remember her bringing it into my house though, so it’s bound to be here somewhere … Eren and Armin adorning my house with a heap of Christmas decorations certainly doesn’t make it easier. All I can see is red and green stuff everywhere. I don’t even know why they decided to decorate my house for me. I guess they thought I’d feel left out if they didn’t. I really don’t mind. They’re too nice sometimes. To speed up the process we’ve decided to look through different rooms. I’m searching in the kitchen while Annie’s searching the living room.
“Mikasa, where did you put it!? Maybe you put it in the kitchen.”
“Me?! I didn’t even touch your–“
Spinning my body around, I suddenly feel Annie’s body crash into mine and I kind of topple over her and we end up landing in a somewhat awkward position. During the fall I placed my hands down for support and they landed nowhere other than the location of Annie’s chest. Fuck me. This is so awkward. She’s just laying there on her back with each her legs sprawled on each side of me and staring at me. Due to the shock, I don’t realise that my hands were lingering for too long until it’s too late.
“Sorry.” Not knowing where to look, I kind of laugh hoping it’ll distract her from the heat I can feel burning my cheeks. I could probably blame it on the alcohol though.
She doesn’t say anything, and I notice her eyes focus on something above my head, but I don’t question it. Suddenly her face is all red and I’m tempted to look. Redder than my scarf. Like, seriously red. Maybe it’s a giant spider again.
“Pervert.”
Annie turns her head to the side and looks away. I should probably get off her. But the curiosity gets to me first. I glance upwards at the ceiling, and at that point my face is probably the same colour as hers. No, there’s no spider there, just a tiny little mistletoe. I swear Eren and Armin are spawns of Satan. I make a mental note to myself to kill them the next time I see them. I look back at Annie; she’s still got her head tilted to the side, and refuses to look at me. Her face is still flushed and she looks so damn cute and now I have an urge to kiss that face of hers. Our faces are already close, so I lean in and she turns her head back to look at me. I can’t tell what she’s thinking. She’s closed her eyes, which means she knows what’s going to happen, right? We’re close enough to feel each others’ breath, and suddenly I remember how she ran off when Reiner told her to kiss me. Oh no. She doesn’t want to kiss me. My eyes widen at the realisation that I may have just ruined our friendship forever. I pull back and I don’t know what to say except sorry again.
“Sorry.”
She opens her eyes and regards me for a moment before she grabs my sweater and pulls me back towards her. “Tradition, right?”
And before you know it her lips are on mine, and even though I’m sober, everything feels like a blur and all I can feel is the softness of her lips and the tenderness in her kiss and I can taste the hot chocolate I made for her earlier and when she breaks the kiss I’m brought back to the world. What just happened? I’m sure two suns have somehow entered each side of my face.
“Oh ho. Don’t tell me that was your first kiss?”
I’ll admit she’s so cute how she’s smiling and kind of smirking right now but it doesn’t help the fact that I am embarrassed as fuck. I don’t know what to say so my answer is given away in my face and in my silence.
She kind of stares at me for a bit before giggling to herself. “Mine too.”
“Sorry. I- Er... You didn’t- Um... you didn’t have to… If it was your first.”
My body is still awkwardly hovering over hers because I don’t want to crush her body so I decide to sit up again. I don’t realise her hands are still gripping my clothes until she tugs me towards her but this time more gently. My hands are holding me up now so my positioning feels less awkward than before, but I still don’t know what to do, so I just look at her. She smiles at me, but this time it’s different.
“I wanted to.”
I’ve seen Annie smile before, but never like this. It’s so gentle, so heartwarming, and it makes me want to kiss her again. And so I do. I lean in to kiss her, but I have no idea what to do next and I think Annie notices and takes the lead. She opens her mouth so I do too and then I feel her tongue in my mouth and I use my tongue too. My body is now on hers and when the possibility that I could flatten her tiny little figure comes to mind, I turn over and kind of carry her over too, so she’s on top. I’m guessing she understands why by the way she lets out a smile while we’re still kissing. We kiss for a while, before Annie starts to make these little moaning sounds. I put my hands inside her hoodie, at first caressing her back and lightly scratching her skin. I’m pretty sure I’m doing the right thing, because her breathing gets heavier and the sounds she’s making are getting louder. Reiner’s probably gonna come and find us like this if we don’t go back soon. It takes all my willpower to break the kiss. It’s really cute how she just stares at me slightly puzzled and confused.
“As much as I’m enjoying this, we have to find your present and go back before one of them comes looking for us and finds us like this.”
Suddenly, I feel Annie’s phone vibrate in her hoodie pocket. I bet it’s Reiner telling her to hurry up. I wait as she checks her phone and she stares at me with her expressionless face. “It’s Christa. She said we don’t have to come back because everyone is crazy drunk and most of them passed out.”
And then she grins. It’s the evilest grin I’ve ever seen. But also the sexiest. Thank god for mistletoes.