Christmas ITH hc: Benny + Nina + Mistletoe (or any other ships)
Sonny plants the idea. He’s a cheeky little shit.
He buys Mistletoe and waits to hang it until Benny is in the bodega. He strings it up and sighs loudly.
“I have mistletoe, now I just have to find someone to kiss under it.” He dramatically exclaims. Like…extremely dramatic. Sonny smirks as the light bulb comes on over Benny’s head. He texts Nina frantically to meet him at the bodega in fifteen, and he buys a pack of gum and nearly chews all of it while waiting for her.
Benny leans against the door frame and waits for her. Bad idea because there’s a lot of traffic in the bodega. He almost had to kiss Usnavi, Daniela, Camila, and Pete before he decided to move away from the mistletoe for the time being.
Then Nina walks in, staring at her phone, her eyebrows furrowed in concern.
“Nina, wait!” She halts, mid step and stares at Benny with wide eyes. She looks so cute. Like a deer in headlights.
“Back up.” She slowly backs up to the door, and then looks up. She snorts. Mistletoe? She thought he was injured.
“Are you kidding me? I thought-”
“Shhh. Merry Christmas,” he whispers, cupping her cheek and slowly presses his lips to hers. He can hear Usnavi rolling his eyes. He rolled them so hard it was audible and Sonny was giggling somewhere in the distance.
When they part, they’re both breathless.
“Mm, Feliz Navidad.” Nina takes Benny by the collar and pulls him back into a kiss.
Vanessa comes to the door and can’t get past the couple so she bangs loudly on the window.
“Ay! PDA is bad for business!” She pushes the two apart and marches to the counter. Benny laughs and wipes his lips. He wraps his arms around Nina and they step away from the door.
Vanessa moves to sit on the counter, her resident spot. “Plus,” she tugs Usnavi between her legs. “We do it better.” She winked at Nina and pulls Usnavi into a kiss.
“But there’s no mistletoe over us!” He whispers to her, in a panicked breath.
“Shut up, that’s not the point.” She rolled her eyes and kissed Usnavi, and she can feel him trying not to smile but they end up pulling away because they’re both laughing anyways.
They won Christmas.
Or maybe Sonny wins. He makes himself a headband of mistletoe so every time he crosses paths with Pete he is just FORCED to kiss him. Or that’s what he says.
“I’m just following the rules of Christmas, primo.” He grins at Usnavi over Pete’s shoulder.
“No more kissing in the kitchen. I eat in there.” Usnavi ushered Sonny and Pete out of the kitchen and they don’t even pull away to see where they’re going. Too deep into their love or whatever, they run into every wall on the way out of the kitchen and just end up kissing on the floor of the living room.
