Welcome to Gaia! ::

"You're right, Sergei!" Olga called to the living room cheerfully. "I should hire a knight babysitter. I'd see him more!"

She turned back to Nadia, and smiled. "Yeah! You're just a Skype call away, or a text or---something! Nah---I couldn't let you put your dreams on hold to look after me, Nads...I just...couldn't and not feel guilty." She watched with some anticipation as she opened the gift, and beamed with delight as she appreciated the scarf. "Oh---" She was about to reach for the envelope when it fell, but Nadia got it. Instead, Olga reached out to put her hands on Nadia's, stopping her from doing anything else with the envelope.

"Love letters." She dead panned at her friend, and then laughed, blushing a bit. "No...Um. Well, you know we were pen pals but since I moved here we haven't written, and I've missed it, so I spent the past few months writing you letters! You can't start opening them though until you're on the plane back to Russia! It's a letter a day after that, okay? There's enough in there to last you like a month---"

A pause.

"Or two."

She stared off into the distance.

"Hey!" Olga called back. "I'm not that bad!" Except, unbeknownst to her, she had been. Unbeknownst to her, she was running on limited time. Very limited.

"I think that's why it's called a sur---" Olga's face exploded into a furious shade of red as Nadia leaned and kissed her right on the mouth. That's what a surprise was. She reached up to tentatively place her fingers on her lips. Her first kiss---that wasn't, you know, family. Olga seemed unable to respond for a few moments before she finally managed to squeak:

"O-of course!"

Olga's blush was calming down, for a moment, right up until Nadia had to say that. Her face flared red again, and her hands reached up to cover her face for a few seconds. Man. Her face was so hot. "R-right!" She squeaked. "Kept it in the family." She whispered back, and then grinned, taking Nadia's hand and getting pulled back to the living room.

"Sounds good...!" She replied, also grabbing her hot chocolate on the way out of the kitchen. "Oh, pfft! Nadia, you know I annoy him just by breathing the same air." She laughed a bit then, and was more than happy to settle into the living room to watch some Christmas movies, between two of her favorite people.