This time of year, snow is common. What’s uncommon is the single, strange snowfall that glistened like tiny diamonds. Everything about the snow seemed normal—it’s cold, wet, and melts just like any other snow, it just also happens to look like tiny little gems are falling from the sky. Depending on who you’re with, it’s either incredibly strange, or incredibly romantic.
Christmas shopping was always high on the list of Carlee’s favorite things…but when she got to do it with a friend…that made it shoot right out of the ‘favorite things’ category and right into ‘the best things ever’ category. And today was absolutely no different. She had been shopping with Ciel, and it had been a pretty good time, all things considered…Carlee had managed to get a gift for everyone…everyone but Ciel…who was proving quite difficult to shop for…she had thought about maybe just making some cookies for her friend…but that seemed like such a copout…especially with Arias owning a bakery…
She could picture the whole scene perfectly in her mind. Baking a dozen cookies and putting them in a fancy box, for Ciel to be so utterly disappointed and wonder why she just stole some cookies from her brother…it was the worst possible situation that could ever happen, and for a moment, Carlee had to pause in her walking just to realize that she had utterly no idea what so ever. “Ciel!”
The brunette looked at her friend hopelessly and reached up to brush away a piece of snow that hit her cheek. “I have no idea what to get you…What do you want for Christmas?”
Another piece of snow fell, this time landing right on Carlee’s nose. She brushed it away swiftly too, looking at her white haired friend.
She didn’t notice anything strange about the snowfall…who had time for that when there was a real crisis going on?
Aurelius0815
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2017 11:48 am
Orangeish Sherbert
Ciel was really happy at the moment, she had just spent the afternoon shopping with one of her best friends and she had managed to finish all of her christmas shopping, both for her powered friends and her normal friends not that she was able to tell Carlee about the powered friends but still.
She still had one last person to buy for, the girl walking right next to her. She wanted to get the perfect present for her friend. She felt like she had gotten close to Carlee in the past few months. She was alot of fun to hang out with.
She was taken from her thoughts when Carlee turned to her and asked her what she wanted for Christmas. She was surprised and a blush etched itself across her face that Carlee would ask her so directly. "Um I mean you don't have to..." A look at her friend told her that probably wouldn't be good enough. "Um I don't know maybe like a cute stuffed animal." She mumbled with a blush. She did have a collection that she was fond of, all named after knights of the round table of course.
She looked out at the snow. "Is it me or does the snow looks more sparkly than normal." She said changing the subject, it wasn't just an attempt to shift the conversation it did actually look weird. She took a closer look at the snow as it fell on her open palm. The snow flakes looked like tiny diamonds but it soon melted just the same as any other snow flake. Was this more holiday magic at work. "It looks like diamonds. How pretty." She gushed.
For some reason, the idea of getting Ciel a stuffed animal didn't seem like it would cut it at all...after all, who got their best friend who obviously had everything...a simple stuffed animal? That was silly. "I know I don't have to get you anything, but I want to, you're my best friend, Ciel and I just want you to be happy for Christmas, you know?"
Carlee paused at Ciel's words and looked around, her eyes going wide as she watched the snow glittering. Her friend was right...it did look like diamonds! "Oh! Ciel it's so beautiful! Reaching out, she took Ciel's hand without really thinking about it...it just felt like the right thing to do at the moment. "I wonder why it looks so magical? Do you think it's just Christmas Magic or something? Because, let me tell you, I believe in Christmas Magic a lot...obviously."
She paused, hesitating for a moment, because of course Ciel wouldn't really understand...and she couldn't just tell her the biggest reason why she believed in Christmas Magic but...but still.
Carlee squeezed the other girl's hand and moved a little closer. "I'm glad you're here with me today. Shopping was really, really fun."
Aurelius0815
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 11:49 am
Orangeish Sherbert
"I mean, I'm happy to get anything from you." She said sincerely.
Ciel blushed when Carlee took her hand, but she didn't pull away. Carlee's warm hand felt good in hers. "I don't think you can see something like this and not believe in magic." She responded.
That was not an understatement this was no normal snow, it looked like something she would see on a wonder, some place with alot of magic. She wished she could talk to Carlee about it, about all of the confusing magical happening during the holidays but she wasn't if Carlee would understand or how she would react.
As Carlee moved close Ciel felt her heart beat quicken. "Me too." She said squeezed Carlee's hand.
Ciel didn’t pull her hand away, and that thought made its way quickly through Carlee’s mind, causing her mouth to feel suddenly dry. Without her permission, her thumb made a gentle motion across the back of Ciel’s hand and opening her mouth to speak, Carlee suddenly didn’t know what to say. Why was her stomach feeling like this? Why was her heart thumping so hard.
“U-um Ciel…what are you doing for Christmas…? Do you…would you want to come for dinner at my house? I know my parents wouldn’t mind…I’ve been telling them about you for months now…and my brother and his boyfriend will be there and…”
She swallowed, tearing her eyes away from the snow and looking once more at the white haired teen. “I’d like you to come…if you want.”
Aurelius0815
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 7:29 pm
Orangeish Sherbert
"I would love that. I would love that alot." She said excitedly.
She stared at Carlee looking into her eyes, the snow wasn't the only diamonds she was looking at tonight.
In this moment she wished so badly that the war was over. That her good friend could just be safe. The thought of anything happening to Carlee made a pit in her stomach. But right now was not the time for such thoughts.
"It really is beautiful." She wasn't even sure if she was talking about the snow any more.
Carlee felt her face heating up despite the chill of the air and she found she couldn’t quite pull her gaze away from Ciel’s. Finally she swallowed and reached up her hand, placing her palm against the slightly older girl’s cheek. “You…you’re beautiful, you know…”
The words were a whisper, and in a rush of daring and courage that Carlee didn’t even know that she could ever possess, she leaned forward and brushed her lips against Ciel’s, then drew away quickly, her eyes widening in horror as she realized just what she had done.
“Oh…Oh gosh I’m sorry! I don’t know wh-why I did that…” Her face was all but glowing and both of her hands moved to cover it, her stomach churning with the sudden, brutal fear of rejection. “I didn’t mean to do that…I don’t know what c-came over me…”
Aurelius0815
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 8:19 pm
Orangeish Sherbert
Before she could even respond to what Carlee had said she felt her lips meet her own. It was true bliss that filled her in that moment. Her heart was beating a mile a minute, she was sure it was probably audible to anyone around her at the moment.
Then Carlee pulled away and covered her face. Spurred on by Carlee's actions Ciel gently took hold of the other's hands and pulled them away. She leaned foreward and returned the kiss she had just been given. She lingered just long enough to make her feelings known.
"Please don't say you didn't mean it." She said in a whisper as she pulled back. "mon amour."
There were a few tears glistening in the corners of the brunette’s eyes when her hands were pulled away. Tears born of utter humiliation and a budding sorrow and fear, though, when the soft lips were placed against hers once again, that fear seemed to melt away and drift off into the night. “Oh…”
Quickly, Carlee reached up and wiped the last traces of the tears away before giving a rather pathetic sniffle and then shaking her head. “I did…I did mean it…but I didn’t…mean to mean it I just…I got excited and overwhelmed and…doesn’t that mean my love? Are you calling me your love? Do…Ciel…are you asking me out or something…?”
Her heart was pounding again and she almost felt a little dizzy. This had been her first kiss…and it was with a girl…Arias was going to flip out…but he couldn’t judge her…after all, didn’t he have a boyfriend? …A boyfriend who had other boyfriends, even?
She could surely have a girlfriend…right?
“Because if you were…my answer is yes…”
Aurelius0815
Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 9:01 pm
Orangeish Sherbert
It was Ciel's turn to turn red, her face heating up so much she wondered if there was steam coming off of it.
"Umm if you'll have me. I've always thought you were really pretty and getting to know you these past few month, god it has made me so happy." She confessed.
Was this real, did she really have a girlfriend now, did she actually have her first romantic kiss. Somehow for the girl who regularly fought magical monsters this seemed too unreal.
"So um I guess we're a couple now." God it felt weird, in a good way, to say that. She wasn't sure what to do now, so many love stories didn't say what to do after the big I love you scene.
“Well…okay! Good!” Carlee swallowed and let out a nervous laugh. “Well…then I really have to find you something amazing for Christmas…and you’ll really have to come to dinner because I want my mom and dad to meet you, I think they’ll like you a lot…a-and I’ll teach you some sign language so you can at least talk a little to them, if you want…we can practice some before the dinner, b-because they’re deaf, and I don’t think I ever told you that.”
Her head was spinning and she felt as though a pressure was building inside of her to just go and tell someone. Anyone. That she had her first kiss…and had a girlfriend now.
“I think though…I think right now, if you don’t mind I’m going to head off from here and go visit my brother. I want to hide mom and dad’s things with him, so…but I’ll call you later, okay?”
Finally everything seemed to have gathered to make sense in Carlee’s head, and now she was beaming and looking rather foolish…or at least she thought she looked rather foolish.
She had a girlfriend now…how cool was that?
“Thank you again for going shopping with me, Ciel…I’ll talk to you soon, okay?” Leaning forward, Carlee kissed the other teen’s cheek and sped off down the road towards the bakery, her cheeks red again from the embarrassment of the kiss…but she liked it. She was excited.
She had to talk to Arias right now.
Aurelius0815
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2018 7:30 am
Orangeish Sherbert
fin
"Yeah definitely!" She called out to Carlee perhaps a little too excitedly. She waved at the other girl as she left.
Once she was left on her own Ciel couldn't stop her heart from beating a mile a minute nor her mind from racing. She had a girlfriend now, that was crazy.
She needed to find a place to breath and collect her thoughts. So she walked into a nearby alleyway and she transformed into Hyperborea. After reciting the oath she disapeared from the Earth. A little time on her wonder would help her calm down plus she could talk with Theseus there.
