Promise// Mileven fluff

Mistletoe

Hey guys! I was gonna try and do a short Christmas one-shot every day until Christmas... but I clearly haven't done that... anyway, thanks to dorkywheeler  for giving me this one-shot idea on our group chat its perfect!

Did y'all see the article that said season 3 would be released in April? Is that just speculation or confirmed?

Mike

I hastily wrapped one of El's many presents and set it under the tree. Today was December 23rd, 1985, Christmas eve-eve and the party was coming over to my house today to have our own little Christmas party since we would be spending actual Christmas with our own families. I got El tons of vinyl records that she loved so much with tons of love songs that she claimed to love because they "remind her of me" along with a few other things like some of my sweaters that she would have stolen anyway and velvet scrunchies that she used to pull back her now past shoulder length hair

I blushed at the thought of her brushing her hair out of her face and smiling at me as she placed her hands on the back of her head and tied her hair into a short ponytail. I set the last part of her plethora of presents and pushed myself off of the floor.

I had spent hour's over the past weeks preparing the house since it was only El's 2nd proper Christmas and she was super sad after the season ended last year. Usually, I don't care if we decorate the house or not, but El got so excited when she saw that I had put up a wreath on the front door that I didn't stop until the whole house looked like the north pole threw up on it and then some.

"Mike!" my mom called while she walked down the steps, "what time is everyone coming over?" she asked and pulled some gingerbread cookies out of the oven.

"Um, like 5? They should be over in about 30 minutes I guess," I smiled and tried to grab a cookie but she batted my hands away.

"I'm so glad over the past year you've finally gotten into the Christmas spirit!" she smiled and began frosting the cookies, "a few years ago you basically could care less about it, what happened?" she asked and sprinkled red sprinkles on one of the small gingerbread men.

"Oh, um I don't know," I bit my lip to try and stop myself from smiling and pushed the thoughts about El, how she shot out of bed every morning when it snowed, how she never stopped singing Christmas carols, and how beautiful her eyes looked when they were lit up by thousands of Christmas lights, to the back of my head.

"Could it have to do something with, oh I don't know, maybe a girl?" she smiled and pressed on glancing up at me.

"What? No! I uh- I just like... Christmas I guess," I bit the insides of my cheeks to stop myself from grinning and quickly turned around to cover the red that was growing in my cheeks.

"Uh huh, ok sure," she said smirking and returned back to the cookies.

I heard a knock at the door and practically sprinted away from the kitchen to reach the foyer and get away from the conversation.

"Happy Holidays Mike!" Lucas and Max both said in unison and Max pulled me into a hug.

"Merry Christmas guys!" I said smiling and wrapping my arms tightly around her.

"We brought presents!" Lucas said leaning around a giant stack of boxes piled up around him shielding his face from me.

"Oh my goodness, um ok you can bring them and put them under the tree," I smiled and pointed to the large tree that sat in the living room.

"Jesus Mike are these all for El?" Lucas asked as he squatted down to put down the wrapped presents.

"Um, no, I uh I think that one over there is for Will," I said pointing to a small box that sat under the tree looking puny and lonely next to the ones that I had wrapped in brightly colored paper for El.