[Secret Santa] What You Need for a Perfect Christmas [2/5]
Title: What You Need for a Perfect Christmas
Author:
mizu_from_kumo
Recipient:
bioniceye
Genre: Romance/General
Pairings: USUK
Rating/Warnings: T-ish...Just to be save, lots of fluff I believe
Summary: It's Alfred and Arthur's first Christmas together, and they want it to be perfect.
AN: Thanks to
usako_minamino for being my beta reader!
Second: Decorations for the tree
Alfred and Arthur had never really spent Christmas together. Alfred usually stayed home during Thanksgiving and cooked a somewhat traditional Thanksgiving dinner (it was just another dinner to Arthur). The two usually went home to their families for Christmas. Arthur flew to England and somehow managed to survive his visit home. Alfred went home as well and usually left a few days before New Years to come rescue Arthur from the airport. That’s why they didn’t have many decorations for the Christmas season.
Last year, however, Arthur had gotten into a rather nasty argument with his father and one of his brothers. Some things had been resolved, but Arthur did not feel like opening that can of worms just yet. So this year, he chose to stay at home, and Alfred wasn’t going to leave him be. Arthur didn’t want to invade Alfred’s family celebration, so Alfred went home for Thanksgiving and was going to spend Christmas with Arthur.
It was their first real Christmas together, alone. (No need to text the other about missing them, or secret phone calls in the night.) They both wanted it to be special, but they were too short of supplies to actually make it look so. Both could stare at the box labeled “Christmas” but it wasn’t going to get any fuller or become a portal to some Christmas land.
They clearly had two options, go out and buy decorations like there was no tomorrow, or make their own. They could very well go out and buy some decorations, they made ends meet, even with Alfred in college and Arthur working as a high school teacher. There was always some money left over for whatever they wanted to do, but the fake tree had somewhat cut into that. At least the thing had built-in lights. So far their only solution was staring at their shallow box of decorations.
Or that’s what they had been doing before Alfred’s mother called like she usually did each week to get an update. Alfred happily chatted with her, wandering about the apartment, while Arthur sighed and got up. He had tests and papers to grade, and staring at the box wasn’t going to help him do that either. Alfred disappeared into some room before he suddenly came racing back out and tore open the drawers in the kitchen.
He scribbled something down, finished up his conversation before grabbing his wallet and phone. “I’m going to run to the store really quick, be back soon.” Alfred said, giving Arthur’s temple a sharp kiss before getting out the door.
Alfred returned about an hour or so later, rather full of bags from some mainstream store Arthur couldn’t bring himself to really care about. The Englishman had managed to get a good deal of his grading done and was still trying to piece together the sudden departure of the American. However when Alfred dumped the stuff on their small table, Arthur couldn’t help peeking in. He found applesauce, cinnamon, pipe cleaners, Christmas themed cookie cutters, straws, rather nice looking ribbon, and other odd bits of crafts.
“What the bloody hell called for this bloody shopping spree?” Arthur asked rather confused, it wasn’t like they couldn’t afford anything in the bags, Arthur just couldn’t figure out what it was all for.
“Decorations!” Alfred said happily as he walked into the kitchen to toss out his list. Arthur made a sound and the America leaned in the doorway, trash having been tossed away. “Come on, we are not just having a tree with the odd bits of Christmas we have in that box.”
“That explained the crafts, but….”Arthur paused, pulling out the applesauce and raising a thick eyebrow.
Alfred grinned and pushed off towards the Englishman. “That’s for a recipe my mom is sending me to make ornaments.” The eyebrow arched a bit more. “Don’t worry too much, it will be awesome. For now you want to help me make some stuff with the pipe cleaners?”
A sigh escaped with a smile behind, Alfred somewhat always did that to Arthur and the Englishman was quite fine with it. He was quite fine with the three hours they spent fussing about with the crafts and snapping at each other on where to put it. He also found himself enjoy the Saturday he spent with Alfred making the ornaments he was convinced would attract bugs.
AN: Thanks everyone for reading this, I hope you enjoyed it. I have my first exam down and I failed it!!! Hopefully I don't fail class. In a way I kinda changed the prompt a bit. In the original it was their very first Christmas as a couple, but I made it their first Christmas alone as a couple. I don't know why, but I think they would the couple to wait a bit for such a major holiday. Anyway, hope you all enjoyed.
Author:
mizu_from_kumo
Recipient:
bioniceye
Genre: Romance/General
Pairings: USUK
Rating/Warnings: T-ish...Just to be save, lots of fluff I believe
Summary: It's Alfred and Arthur's first Christmas together, and they want it to be perfect.
AN: Thanks to
usako_minamino for being my beta reader!
Second: Decorations for the tree
Alfred and Arthur had never really spent Christmas together. Alfred usually stayed home during Thanksgiving and cooked a somewhat traditional Thanksgiving dinner (it was just another dinner to Arthur). The two usually went home to their families for Christmas. Arthur flew to England and somehow managed to survive his visit home. Alfred went home as well and usually left a few days before New Years to come rescue Arthur from the airport. That’s why they didn’t have many decorations for the Christmas season.
Last year, however, Arthur had gotten into a rather nasty argument with his father and one of his brothers. Some things had been resolved, but Arthur did not feel like opening that can of worms just yet. So this year, he chose to stay at home, and Alfred wasn’t going to leave him be. Arthur didn’t want to invade Alfred’s family celebration, so Alfred went home for Thanksgiving and was going to spend Christmas with Arthur.
It was their first real Christmas together, alone. (No need to text the other about missing them, or secret phone calls in the night.) They both wanted it to be special, but they were too short of supplies to actually make it look so. Both could stare at the box labeled “Christmas” but it wasn’t going to get any fuller or become a portal to some Christmas land.
They clearly had two options, go out and buy decorations like there was no tomorrow, or make their own. They could very well go out and buy some decorations, they made ends meet, even with Alfred in college and Arthur working as a high school teacher. There was always some money left over for whatever they wanted to do, but the fake tree had somewhat cut into that. At least the thing had built-in lights. So far their only solution was staring at their shallow box of decorations.
Or that’s what they had been doing before Alfred’s mother called like she usually did each week to get an update. Alfred happily chatted with her, wandering about the apartment, while Arthur sighed and got up. He had tests and papers to grade, and staring at the box wasn’t going to help him do that either. Alfred disappeared into some room before he suddenly came racing back out and tore open the drawers in the kitchen.
He scribbled something down, finished up his conversation before grabbing his wallet and phone. “I’m going to run to the store really quick, be back soon.” Alfred said, giving Arthur’s temple a sharp kiss before getting out the door.
Alfred returned about an hour or so later, rather full of bags from some mainstream store Arthur couldn’t bring himself to really care about. The Englishman had managed to get a good deal of his grading done and was still trying to piece together the sudden departure of the American. However when Alfred dumped the stuff on their small table, Arthur couldn’t help peeking in. He found applesauce, cinnamon, pipe cleaners, Christmas themed cookie cutters, straws, rather nice looking ribbon, and other odd bits of crafts.
“What the bloody hell called for this bloody shopping spree?” Arthur asked rather confused, it wasn’t like they couldn’t afford anything in the bags, Arthur just couldn’t figure out what it was all for.
“Decorations!” Alfred said happily as he walked into the kitchen to toss out his list. Arthur made a sound and the America leaned in the doorway, trash having been tossed away. “Come on, we are not just having a tree with the odd bits of Christmas we have in that box.”
“That explained the crafts, but….”Arthur paused, pulling out the applesauce and raising a thick eyebrow.
Alfred grinned and pushed off towards the Englishman. “That’s for a recipe my mom is sending me to make ornaments.” The eyebrow arched a bit more. “Don’t worry too much, it will be awesome. For now you want to help me make some stuff with the pipe cleaners?”
A sigh escaped with a smile behind, Alfred somewhat always did that to Arthur and the Englishman was quite fine with it. He was quite fine with the three hours they spent fussing about with the crafts and snapping at each other on where to put it. He also found himself enjoy the Saturday he spent with Alfred making the ornaments he was convinced would attract bugs.
AN: Thanks everyone for reading this, I hope you enjoyed it. I have my first exam down and I failed it!!! Hopefully I don't fail class. In a way I kinda changed the prompt a bit. In the original it was their very first Christmas as a couple, but I made it their first Christmas alone as a couple. I don't know why, but I think they would the couple to wait a bit for such a major holiday. Anyway, hope you all enjoyed.