Santa Baby

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Kellin was not having a good Christmas Eve, and that was being generous.

The day should have been spent with family and friends, but his was spent tiptoeing around little kids in hopes that they wouldn’t cry, because a few weeks before hand, his mother had insisted he get a holiday job at the mall.

Of course, this late no one was looking for help, all the stores had found their holiday employees well before Black Friday, but just his luck, the Santa village had just been set up and they were looking to employ elves to help “Santa” out. It also just happened to be his luck that he was short enough to fill the position. The job didn’t pay very well and he was basically at the mall from open to close, which meant a lot of long hours, but it was a job and it would get his mom off his back so he took it.

The worst part about the job, though, was the kids.

It wasn’t that Kellin didn’t like kids, he had two younger brothers and a younger sister at home, but these were other people’s kids and for some reason, they were more fragile. If Kellin had a dollar for every time he sat a kid on Santa’s lap and they cried from that alone, he would have more money than he had actually earned so far doing this stupid job in the first place, and don’t even get him started on the biters. They were definitely not on Santa’s nice list.

The only saving grace for this job, and really, the only reason he had stayed this long, was Santa.

That sounded kind of gross, because usually mall Santas were old and fat, but this year they hadn’t been able to find an old fat guy, so they dressed up a young, soincrediblyhot guy to play the part.

His name was Justin, and other than the fact that he was soincrediblyhot, that was really all that Kellin knew about him.

Most of their interactions had been as Santa and his number one (and only) elf. They took breaks together but Kellin didn’t actually know what Justin did during his breaks, and the time before and after their shifts was spent either preparing for the long day ahead of them, or trying to get out of there as fast as possible.

There was one time though, the first day, Justin had been walking by him, and he smirked and flicked Kellin in the butt. Nice tights, he had said. Kellin hadn’t really been listening to that part though, because he was thinking how he really wanted this soincrediblyhot guy to do other things to his butt.

Since then, Kellin had tried doing small things, like bending over in front of Santa to pick up kids, or casually brushing against him to get Justin’s attention, but so far it didn’t really seem like it was working.

But since today was Christmas Eve, it was the last day he was going to see Justin and he was determined to get his attention in one way or another.

It had been a long day, everyone was rushing around the mall trying to get all their last minute shopping done, and parents were piling into Santa’s village to get their kids pictures taken with Santa. The mall was well passed closing time now though, and everyone had gone home, but it was Kellin and Justin’s responsibility to take down the set and put it in the mall’s basement, where they would keep it until next year.

So far neither of them had made a move to do anything. Justin was sitting in his oversized chair, one leg draped over the arm, and Kellin was trying to clean his shirt. About an hour before they closed the village, Kellin had been lifting a kid onto Santa’s lap, and the kid had puked all over him, of course. He had rushed to the bathroom and scrubbed it off before it could dry, but the smell still lingered and it kind of made him want to puke.

“Fuck it.” He groaned before unbuckling the belt around his waist and pulling the ridiculous red top off. The bells hanging off the bottom jingled as he threw it on the floor. He still had his shorts on, and the tight, candy cane striped long sleeve top that went under the one he had just taken off, and of course his tights, so it wasn’t like he was running around the mall half naked, but he heard a quiet hum behind him, and he spun around to face Justin, because quite frankly that was the first time Justin had really acknowledged him since the first day.