/HANGS MISTLETOE ALL OVER THE APARTMENT YUP
"What the..." The ceiling was covered in berries, little green holly leaves poking out from behind the. "Annise, what is all of this?"
She was in the living room, nose in a book. When he caught her eye she smiled sheepishly, shoulders shrugging as she sank into the couch. "I thought I would decorate for Christmas."
"Neither of us celebrate it?" His head tilted back, trying to count them. There were at least a dozen. Through the door to the bedroom he spied a few more. "I don't understand."
Red crept along her throat and she hid the colour behind her book. "I can take them down."
He considered it for a moment, then shrugged. "Leave them up, then." If anyone asked he would say it was an infestation. Annise returned to her book, throat redder than a cherry. They went about the rest of their evening as if nothing had happened.
As she was cooking dinner he kissed the back of her head. Kirrahe sat hunched over a desk, filling out his report, and felt a pair of his lips on her cheek. A kiss here, a smooch there. They lost count of which mistletoe had been used up and which had not seen them kiss under it. He was almost sorry when the holiday season was over and the berries went brown with age.
"We'll make it a tradition," she said with a happy hum, pulling him into one last, slow kiss before the last of the mistletoe fell.