Nick :)

cue his team at morning practice going “hey coach… why tf are you wearing a (rival school) sweatshirt???”

double points if they don't even plan to do it. they decide to soft launch via no longer actively hiding their relationship, just slowly acting more like a couple around other people. they're both at some event and ilya finds shane and just wraps his arm across his shoulders, which maybe that could just be ilya being ilya, but then shane just leans into it? like this is fine and normal? and when someone questions it shane panics and is just like "why wouldn't i? he's my boyfriend" and whoever they're talking to is like "what? since when?" and ilya is immediately onboard with this game "since 2017."

they just keep doubling down "you don't remember me sneaking out to go visit him every time we played in boston? you were all chirping me about it."

"wait, did you two drive here together?" "why would we take separate cars, we live together?" "you WHAT?"

when someone thinks they're joking they bring up the group chat with shane's parents, ilya scrolls back to a text where yuna calls him her favorite son. they bring up a video clip jackie sent of the twins saying "we love you uncle ilya!" shane brings up his thread with svetlana where she sends him russian words and phrases she thinks he should know.

they quickly enlist everyone who already knew, get them all onboard to pretend like their relationship wasn't ever top secret information. shane posts a picture of him with anya, when someone comments "that looks just like ilya rozanov's dog?" he just replies "yeah, we adopted her several months ago" and ilya replies "love our daughter ❤️"

jd and elliot are both navigating their first (?) holiday season post-divorce, figuring out who ollie will spend the day with, etc. maybe they spend it together for the ollie’s sake (also i just wanna know more about this mysterious child we’ve never met. how old are they? which parent do they take after more???)

and the interns end up celebrating together. asher can’t get back to his family in england, mysterious blake backstory situation, amara doesn’t wanna do another holiday with the extended family she lives with yet barely knows. idk why sam and dashana are there, but they are lol.