Always and Forever

Chapter 16- Christmas in July... Sort of

Lily's POV~

I woke to Hope trying to wiggle out of my grasp. Tightening my hold on her, I cuddle closer to her, resting my head in the crook of her neck. "Stop moving, you're a great pillow." I say groggily. I can feel Hope laughing lightly. "Lil, I have to get up. I'll cuddle you later." she says quietly and tries to move again.

This time, however, I start kissing her neck, making her freeze in her movements. "Five. More. Minutes." I say in between kisses, and finally, she gives in and sinks back in bed, making smirk before nuzzling my face back into her neck happily. "God you're such a tease." Hope comments, but by the tone she used I can tell she's smiling. "Yes. But I'm your tease." I reply and cuddle into her more, if that's even possible.

After the five minutes, I let her go. Hope gets up and goes God knows where, and I fall back asleep for a little while.

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When I wake up again, it's cold in my room. Looking out the window, my eyes almost pop out, "It's snowing?" I ask myself.

Changing into black boots, jeans, a Salvatore shirt, and my back leather jacket along with a scarf, I go outside. Right after I walk out the front door, I'm pummeled with a snowball. Looking to where it was fired from, I smirk. "Oh... It's on Kaleb." I say before vamp speeding and throwing a snowball at him. I burst out laughing when it hits him in the face.

After about 15 minutes, I'm winning. I've hit Kaleb and a few other students more than they've hit me.

When I hear the door open again, I turn to look, and I see Hope coming out, but I also see Kaleb throw a snowball at Pedro, but he ducks. Speeding over to Hope, I move her out of the way just as the snowball was about to hit her. "Hi babe." I say with a smile and give her a small peck on the lips. "Uh, hi, uh, what's happening? Why is it snowing?" she asks me as she looks around at people making snowmen and riding sleds.

When I shrug, she walks over to Kaleb. "Kaleb, what the hell is going on?" she yells at him, and he walks over. "Don't be a Scrooge, Hope. It's Christmas." he answers with a smile. "No it's not it's October." she answers with a confused expression. "Christmas in July. Sort of." I tell her whilst nudging her. "Christmas is a state of mind. It's a feeling in the air. Now-" he pauses and wraps an arm around Hope's shoulders, "You feelin it?" he asks, and I respond before Hope can, "Definitely. Merry Christmas everyone."

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Hope's POV~

"Definitely. Merry Christmas everyone." when Lily said that, I turned to her with a confused expression, only to see her smiling happily. She turns to me, kisses me quickly and then smiles again, "cheer up babe. It's Christmas." is all she says before walking back inside. "Wha- Lily wait!" I say before going after her.

"Come on, this obviously another monst-" I start to say only for Lily to interrupt me, "Another monster here from Malivore, yes I know, but, this monster didn't bring zombies, or stupid riddles, or people back from the dead, or gross slugs that invade our brains or a weird 80s game world with a homicidal Minotaur. This monster, brought a holiday. One that I love. So... I'm enjoying it at least until the monster shows up. Then we'll have to kill it, and Christmas in-almost July, is over."

As I'm about to respond, Dr. Saltzman walks towards us. "Dr. Saltzman, I need your help-" I pause in my sentence once I see him and Dorian laughing in ugly sweaters. "What are you wearing?" Lily asks next to me with her nose scrunched up. "Dorian had an extra one. Lucky me right?" he answers, but before either of us could respond Dorian speaks up, "No Ric, we'rethe lucky ones. Because Dr. Saltzman is gonna spend Christmas with us!"