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"Doesn't that just look lovely?"Mrs. Corvin asked smiling at Selene. The tree was full of sparkling lights and the fire was crackling. Michael was pretending to drink eggnog while holding onto her shoulders.

"It's really nice, Mary." And it was. Selene was all for pretty lights in trees. The cute clearly hand-made ornaments Mrs. Corvin had hung in it made her both happy and sad. Michael and Maria had made those as kids. When they had been carefree and young. She wished she could remember a time when she had felt like that.

"We'll have a tree just like this next year. We can even make our own ornaments," Michael whispered next to her ear as Mrs. Corvin and Maria disappeared out to the kitchen and the radio talker stopped chattering and a jolly but quite annoying song started playing.

"I think-"

"Don't even bother denying that you liked the homemade ones the best. God knows why. They're horrible." He looked closer at a Santa Claus made from red paper and a cotton ball that had the most lopsided grin Selene had ever seen. She strongly suspected it was he who had created the fine piece of… art.

"I was going to say – I think that would be very lovely." Then Michael smiled and Selene was suddenly very happy.

"I love you," he said softly and that made it all the more wonderful. Not that she didn't know he loved her – but hearing him say it for no other reason than because he wanted - was nice.

Especially with the open fire, the beautiful tree and the carols playing in the background. With all that, Selene supposed this Christmas thing wasn't too bad after all.

Maybe, just maybe, she could even get use to it.

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