#ceidi

Arms wrapped protectively around his girlfriend’s waist, Cormac’s body leaned into the girl’s back as his lips moved to press a kiss onto the girl’s cheek. “Thanks for coming,” he said with an honest smile. Untangling his arms from her waist, Cormac moved to face the girl.

Standing before her for a short moment, Cormac quickly moved to retrieve the last of the ten boxes that were  sitting upon the coffee table. Placing the box at their feet, Cormac smiled as he handed the girl a few of the ornaments. 

"My favorite thing about Christmas is the candy canes," he confessed honestly, his sweet tooth getting the best of him time and time again. 

"Oh really?" asked his girlfriend, with a smirk playing across her lips, "I could've sworn it was the cookies, which by the way you've promised me," she added. 

Chuckling a bit when the girl mentioned the cookies, Cormac nodded, "Well the cookies are pretty good too," he said definitively, "and I will surely get those cookies to you," he added as he put up a few of the remaining ornaments onto the tree. 

Steeping back from his spot, Cormac admired his girlfriend when she smiled at his response, and then again when she leaned up onto her tiptoes to get an ornament higher up on the twenty foot tree. 

Licking his lips unconsciously at the sight, Cormac moved himself  a bit closer to his girlfriend. "Need some help with that?" he asked, his tone laced with mischief as he moved to wrap his arms around the girl, raising her into the air without warning. Smirking when he heard the girl yell out "Cormac," in obvious protest, Cormac ignored the girl and held the girl in the air so that she could put an ornament high up onto the tree. 

Bringing her down slowly, Cormac turned her body in his arms and pressed his lips against her's in a forceful caress. Not quite wanting to dilly dally around the three that they had just spent hours decorating much longer. 

"I think we did a pretty good job on this damn tree didn't we?" he asked as he pulled away, his eyes lingering upon the fully decorated and lit tree. "But I think Heidi," he started with a smirk that reached his eyes. 

Before he could continue, he felt the girl's arms wrap around his neck slightly surprised when the girl pulled him close, Cormac's smirk grew as the girl brought her lips close to his ears, "There's something I know we can do better," she completed his sentence. 

Grinning widely at the words, Cormac instantly hoisted the girl into the air, throwing her over his shoulders rather unceremoniously Cormac hummed a random Christmas tune, all the way up to his bedroom.