#noryn

MC’s POV

There was a park a short walk away from her grandfather’s manor. Looking at it now, it looked like a massive pile of white, fluffy pillows had invaded what used to be blades of grass for miles. ____ couldn’t contain her excitement. There was a hill where kids were already diving down in their sleds with parents waiting patiently at the top. There were some children making snowmen right by the playground, too. She turned her head to a couple that was using the swing. They both had black hair. The one on the swing was wearing glasses while the other one pushed her higher.

“Wait…” ____ had to squint and cover her eyes from snowfall. Was that - Oh my God, it was.

“MATTHEW! NORYN!” she shouts as loud as she can for them to hear. They stop moving at her cries. Yep, that’s them. She starts running across the snowy field to meet up with them. Noryn gets off of the swing and hugs her tight when she gets close enough. Matthew starts laughing and waves to his younger brother that’s taking his time to catch up.

Noryn’s jet black hair was covered in snowflakes. She looked like a snow queen with a garland of crystals. She was wearing a Ravenclaw scarf over her black coat. “I haven’t seen it snow this much on Christmas since forever!” she cheers, jumping up and down. ____ can’t help but giggle with her.

“Yeah! It didn’t even snow like this in London when we went on vacation a couple of years ago. I never knew snow could be this pretty in person.” Matthew can’t even fathom how beautiful the snow could be.

“I told you!” Noryn teases, then grabs the back of her boyfriend’s neck to give him a noogie on his head. They both start laughing.

“AHHH! I didn’t doubt it, Nor. It’s one thing to hear about it, but it’s another to see it for yourself!”

____ feels a glove hold her right hand in that moment. She turns to look up at Damien and smiles. His eyes that shared the color of purple pansies looked more like a shade of lavender with all of the snow in sight. Damien blushed while looking back at her.

“Hey, love birds!” a familiar voice taunts them. Noryn lets go of Matthew, only to have Matthew get hit in the face with a snowball. “Hahaha!” the Brute Demon starts laughing at the look on his younger brother’s face. Carrie, walking beside him, shoves him down so he falls over in the snow. Carrie smiles and runs up to ____.

“Heya! Glad we weren’t the only ones that planned on coming here. I was hoping we’d see you guys,” the brunette girl says with a smile. ____ and she high-five. She was wearing her signature shade of pink in both her coat and the puffball hat on her head. Sam sneaks up behind his wife to slide some snow down her neck. She shivers, turns around, and grabs the hat on her head to whack him with it on the arm over and over.

Matthew starts laughing uproariously. “That’s what you get for messing with your girl, Sam. You should know better!”

Still getting slammed with the wool hat, he collapses back into the snow once again. “Oh shut up, will ya?!” he yells, but with a smile on his face. He pulls Carrie down by the collar and rolls the two of them around so he’s on top of her. They laugh together while gazing into each other’s eyes.

“Now now, there are children present,” a certain gentleman chides them. ____ turns around to find the most fashionable of the incubi with his right arm locked together with his equally fashionable wife’s left arm. As always, they were matching in color scheme. This time around, the theme was red and white.

“Erik, Irene! It’s so good to see you both!” ____ greets them, then gets up on her tiptoes to hug Erik, then faces Irene to do “kisses”, where they air kiss each other’s cheeks. The two of them laugh together. Irene holds onto her shoulders and admires her basically sister in-law.

“You look absolutely adorable in those earmuffs, ____!” Irene comments.

At the sound “adorable”, a little white puffball emerges from Matthew’s hood. Its blood red eyes look around, then see ____. He instinctively crawls out of Matthew’s attire to swan dive into the snow and climb up onto ____’s shoulder. She can’t help but giggle and gently strokes his fur from his head all the way down to his tail. He snickers..

“Hello, everyone!” the eldest incubus calls out. “Did you all bring your sleds?” he asks them. Oh crap. ____ thought. That was the one thing she didn’t think to get. Damien turns to her and frowns. “I’m sorry…” he whispers to her.

Noryn holds her chin with her right index finger and thumb. “Oh! I know where ours are! At home!” she exclaims. Matthew couldn’t hold in his laughter at her response, which was clearly sarcastic but sounded sincere.

“Well, at least we weren’t the only ones to forget,” ____ says, reassuring her incubus that it was going to be okay.