Hey guys! So, I've been reading a lot of theme challenges of late and it made me want to take a shot at it! I found this one on deviantART and it's a winter theme challenge! Wee! If you knew me personally, you would all know that I LOVE WINTER so a winter themed challenge is right up my alley. Anyhoo, here's the first theme and I hope you all enjoy. Oh, and here's the link to the challenge!

journal/30-Day-Winter-Challenge-339205638

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"Remind me again why we're in a Target at six o' clock on Christmas Eve," Seto drawled, crossing his arms in front of his chest.

"I'm looking for ugly Christmas sweaters for Yugi's Christmas party tonight," Alissa answered, rummaging through the racks.

"And why did I have to leave work to accompany you?" She frowned at him.

"Gee, don't get too excited about spending time with me." He rolled his eyes with a sigh. Sometimes she took things he said too personally.

"You know that wasn't what I meant."

"Yeah, yeah. I know. I asked you to come with me because you're kind of overworking yourself again. The new duel disk is finished and it's been tested so there's no reason for you to be there anymore until the New Year. I also may have told Yugi and the gang that you'd come." His eyes narrowed.

"What?" he hissed. "You know how I feel about social gatherings, especially ones that involve your geeky friends. Why would you tell them that?"

"Look, I'm sorry. It's been a tradition every Christmas Eve now to have an ugly sweater contest at the party. Since this is the first time all of us are dating at the same time, Joey suggested we make it a couple contest. Yugi pointed out that you don't exactly enjoy parties or their company, so a couples contest wouldn't be fair to me. Then Joey said it wouldn't matter if you came anyway because I wouldn't win with you as my partner 'cause you're a stick in the mud. Well, I wasn't about to let him think that so I kind of just blurted out that he could suck my ass and that we'd be there." He let out a low sigh.

"Sometimes I really don't understand your thought process."

"Well, neither do I so that makes two of us." He joined her and quickly rummaged through the racks.

"We're aren't going to find one ugly enough here."

"We? Does that mean you're coming?"

"I may be a stick in the mud, but the one thing that I'm not is a loser. Let's show Wheeler exactly who he's dealing with. Let's head back to the mansion, I have something that might work in our favor."

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As soon as the couple returned to the mansion, the brunet made his way up to his room with his dark haired girlfriend behind him.

"Give me a second to grab them," he replied, heading towards his closet. She grabbed the throw from off his bed and threw it around her shoulders as she sat. For some reason it was always freezing in his bedroom. The brunet always did run warm. The CEO exited his closet with a large brown box in his arms.

"What is that?" she asked.

"Mokuba and I grew really close with one of the employees that worked at the orphanage as we were growing up. Every year we were at the orphanage, she'd knit Mokuba and me sweaters. Of course, once we were adopted, she stopped for a while. When I took over the company, she started sending them again. This box holds this year's sweaters. If we don't win with these, then your friends have bad taste. I should also mention that she's color blind and legally blind in one eye."

"Oh my God, I know who you're talking about. You're talking about Mrs. Chesterfield aren't you? The old lady with the glasses that are too big for her face?"

"The one in the same." He reached into the box and pulled out a brown, pink, yellow, blue, and red sweater. Her eyes widened as she took in the sweater. It was a yellow sweater with blue stars. A brown lump was in the middle of the sweater with a pink spot and a red spot.

"Why does that dog have herpes on its mouth?" she asked.

"It's supposed to be Rudolph." A shit-eating grin spread across her face.

"Oh. My. God. Does the nose glow? Please tell me the nose lights up."

"It does more than that." He pressed a lump in the middle of the reindeer's body and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" began to play.

"There's no way we'll lose with that one! Is Mokuba's the same? Do you think it would fit me?"

"No need, she sent three. One sweater for each of us, and to answer your question, yes they all match."

"That's so sweet of her."

"It isn't out of the ordinary. She's been sending one for each of us for three years now."

"What? Why wouldn't you give them to me?"

"I wasn't aware that you were fond of ugly sweaters."

"It doesn't matter, because we've got the ugly sweater crown in the bag!"

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"Well, the ballots have been counted and it looks like the winners of the ugly sweater contest are Alissa and Kaiba," Yugi replied.

"Fuck yes!" Alissa yelled in triumph. "I told ya so, Joey! You can suck my ass 'cause we just kicked yours!"

"Ya really win wid' grace don't ya, Alissa?"

"It doesn't matter, cause you and Mai just lost! The crown is still mine!"

"I still can't believe you convinced Kaiba to come, let alone convinced him to wear such an ugly sweater," Tristan said in surprise, throwing his arm around his girlfriend, Meredith.

"Well, once I mentioned that Joey thought he was going to win, he jumped at the opportunity."

"I hate both of ya. Mai and I woulda won if ya guys didn't show up."

"I don't know, Joey. Tea and Yugi's sweater are pretty ugly too," Alissa replied with a smirk.

"I hate ya so much right now, Alissa."

"Love you too, Brooklyn. Well, now that that's done, who wants fruitcake?" Seto watched as Alissa and the rest of her friends made their way to Yugi's kitchen. Long live the King and Queen.

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I. Love. Ugly. Sweaters. So obviously, that would be my approach with this theme. Since this is a 30-day challenge, I'm going to try to get one theme up each day. I'll really be flexing some writing muscles! Anyhoo, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Let me know what you thought and I'll talk to you all tomorrow!