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Chapter 39 Ez's POV {All's Fair in Love And Mistlefoe}

"Merry Christmas!" I yell as both me and Ellis tackle Callum. He sputters in surprise before he goes down.

I'm not sure how long we took, but it ends with Callum's elbow in my face, Ellis' hair in his mouth, and my knee on Ellis' back. Rayla stands over us all with a smirk. At some point, she arrived and dominated us all.

"Hey, that's cheating!" Callum exclaims.

"Yeah, Ezran, get off!" Ellis protests. I roll over, but now my leg is twisted under Callum's legs. He yelps.

"I beat you all, didn't I?" Rayla points out.

Huh. Well, she has a point.

When we finally untangle ourselves, we head to the kitchen. Mom is pulling out gingerbread men from the oven in addition -do my eyes and nose deceive me?- jelly tarts!

"Are those jelly tarts?" I ask, my mouth watering at the sight of the delicious triangular treats.

Mom laughs and offers me the tray. "Help yourself, Ez."

At that, everyone, Mom included, attacks the tray. It's empty in minutes. Our bellies are not. Oh, and Mom mentioned more in the oven. I sigh happily. It's just like how things used to be.

Mom gets up from the table and stirs the noodle soup frantically. The noodles are probably already overcooked, but they'll be hot.

Just then, a crash echoes through the house. Callum, Rayla, Ellis, and me all dash over to the source. It sounded like it came from the living room.

Just as we round the corner and Gren and Amaya leap out, smirking. Gren points up, and everyone prepares to tackle Rayla.

"Ah, but it isn't mistlefoe." Gren notes. Everyone freezes. Slowly, I turn my head up, and much to my horror, it's not a spotted red that I see, but the pure white of... Mistletoe. That's just great. I'm standing right under it.

I gulp nervously.

Well, what are you waiting for? Amaya asked in sign language. Go on, you guys. You can do it.

I turn to Ellis. Her beautiful dark brown eyes meet mine, and they're nervous, but full of warmth and excitement as they always are. ((I warned y'all of Ez × Ellis fluff 😇)) When I kiss her, a jolt of electricity goes through me, like I just got Zym-Zapped.

When we separate, we immediately turn to see if Rayllum Rayla and Callum did it yet. Ellis'cheeks are bright red like my sweater, and I'm pretty sure mine are too.

Rayla studies Callum, sighs, then quickly kissed him. She pulled away in a second, but Callum looked like a goldfish. Wide eyes and wider mouth. I thought he was gonna suffocate, 'cause he wasn't breathing.

Everything was funny, until Runaan appeared. Then everything was kinda awkward from there. Runaan and Ethari were on different sides, so they saw different angles. Uh...

"Lovebirds." Runaan teased Rayla. Her face was red. "I- I just- Gren- Mistletoe-"

Runaan looked up, saw the mistletoe, and raised his eyebrows at Ethari.

"You're not under the mistletoe." Ethari pointed out before walking off. Runaan slumped, and Rayla grinned. "Lovebirds." She echoed.

"Oh, be quiet." Runaan grumbled.

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When dinner rolled around, the doorbell rang. Wait, who else did Callum invite?

There was a high-pitched scream from the front door, and I arrived just in time to see an over-eager Rayla tackle Genelyn. She shrieked and wailed for her Honeykins. Who?

Callum dashed up immediately, but Amaya blew her whistle loudly.

All's fair in love and mistlefoe.

So Rayla got to thoroughly whoop Genelyn.

It was highly amusing.

Finally, everyone was introduced, and seated around the dining table. I sat with Callum on one side, and Ellis on my other. Genelyn had wrapped herself around Callum's other side, and she was being disgusting.

Dinner passed with jelly tarts, and then it was time. Everything that could alarm in the house was set. Then, Rayla stood up on her chair and said the magic words.

"3!"

"2!"

"1!"

Everyone yelled. "DECEMBER!"

I grinned. Midnight was here. The annual Winter Tournament had begun.

Now, the first challenge. Trash-talk the other team until 6:00 AM.