Long chapter hell yeah! This chapter takes place in a setting where MARI does not die. I hope everyone enjoys this holiday season, and I also hope you enjoy this special chapter, :]

Real World!Characters (Minus HERO and MARI) x Reader

Happy Holidays!

(Also there is cursing, cause of AUBREY and all …)

Walking through the familiar suburbs of FARAWAY TOWN, you shivered as a breeze of cold air made its way through the cold winter weather. You were internally scolding yourself for not bringing an actual winter coat, but you didn’t want to dampen your outfit, and in your defense, it looked sunny outside-- but clearly, that was a deception. At least you were wearing a beanie.

You wore a maroon sweater with a cute reindeer on it that was slightly tucked into light brown pants/skirt, the outfit had a nice holiday vibe to it without being too obnoxious. Walking through the snow-coated pavement, you had different gift bags for your friends handing on your arms. HERO invited everyone over for the annual Christmas party that the group of you had as a tradition for what seems like forever now.

As you walked by the suburban houses were all decorated with different assortments of lights, wreaths, and different front yard decorations. You smiled softly at the sight, as you approached KEL and HERO’s house.

Knocking firmly on the door, you were met by BASIL as he opened it. “Oh! Y/N You’re here!” He said with a closed-eye smile, He greeted you with a quick but warm hug. His boldness took you by surprise but you wrapped your hand around him as well --well as much as you could anyway, as your hands were still full of gifts. He backed away, a small polite smile still present on his face.

He took a moment to look at you silently, you were about to ask if something was wrong until he mumbled: “ᵘʰᵐ, ʸᵒᵘʳ ᵒᵘᵗᶠᶦᵗ ˡᵒᵒᵏˢ ʳᵉᵃˡˡʸ ⁿᶦᶜᵉ...”

“Thanks!” You chirped, “your’s look good too! Red is a nice color on you.” BASIL was wearing a white sweater with red Christmas accents, he also wore a matching holly leaf in his hair, which complemented the outfit well.

You couldn’t help but giggle into your hand as the poor boy flushed after you said that, his red face being an accent to his outfit. BASIL wordlessly stepped back and allowed you into the house. From the looks of it, you were the last one to arrive.

“Y/N is here!” BASIL called the rest of the guests inside the house.

“Oh, wonderful!” MARI said from the kitchen, HERO was with her, they were probably preparing for the dinner that everyone was going to share. AUBREY was chasing KEL around the living room, fury in her eyes, KEL had probably teased her about something and she was not having it. SUNNY just sat on the couch with the slightest bit of amusement as he watched the usual chaos that was happening in front of him. Everyone’s attention focused on you when BASIL announced that you had arrived.

“Oh thank God you’re here Y/N, KEL won't leave me the fuck alone.” She hooked her arm around your neck in a friendly manner in an attempt to guide you away from the mess.

“

HEY! You started it!” KEL complained, “ and you can’t just steal Y/N away!” He pouted. SUNNY joined as all three of them crowded you at the door.

“They have been like this ever since they arrived-”

“It’s not my fault KEL’s an asshole!”

“Says you!”

The commotion only continued around you. You looked at BASIL, who was standing at the side of the ruckus, your eyes pleading for help. He met your eyes with a nervous glance but spoke out to the group,

“Actually, uh, the tree still needs to be decorated.  Y/N do you want to help?”

You breathed a sigh of relief. Sure you loved your friends, but jeez could they be overwhelming sometimes, especially since you literally just walked through the door. “Sure! I’d love to!”

The Christmas tree was set up to the left of the fireplace, next to it were a couple of boxes, filled with various ornaments that were collected over the years and colorful lights in the other. You carefully placed the presents you brought under the tree and  BASIL took a moment to observe what was inside the boxes, “ okay! I think we should start with the lights first since it would probably be difficult to put them on after the ornaments,” he chuckled lightly to himself.

“Yeah, that’s probably a good idea!” You agreed, and started reaching for the lights.” You took the start of the string of lights and reached the top of the tree on the tips of your toes, you and BASIL stood on opposite sides of the tree, passing the lights around until the tree was fully covered. Occasionally while doing this, your fingers would brush while passing off the bundle of lights. Just the little touch would make BASIL blush, it was quite endearing how he would do this each time without fail. You smiled to yourself with adoration as the both of you finished putting lights on the tree.

You put your hands on your hips in pride as you stared at the now colorfully lit up tree. BASIL emerged from behind the tree, and stood next to you, a content smile on his face. “Alright! Should we start on the ornaments?” He suggested, turning to you.

“Yeah! I think so!” You eagerly grabbed a random ornament from the box. BASIL followed suit. Together, the pair of you started scattering ornaments of different sizes, shapes, and colors. You hummed to yourself quietly as you proceeded, BASIL said nothing, instead, he joined you in your humming.

Soon the both of you finished decorating the tree. You stepped back and admired it from a distance, BASIL joining you. “Well,” you started, ruffling his hair gently, causing the boy to blush while smiling slightly, “I think we are done here!” 

“Y-yeah! Thanks for helping me, Y/N” BASIL says warmly.

Right on cue, KEL grabs you by the shoulders, “Quick! Y/N! I just put one of HECTOR’s dog treats into AUBREY’s hot cocoa while she wasn’t looking, let's go outside! I don’t wanna face her wrath!” He was practically shoving you to the door.

“If you didn’t want to ‘face her wrath’ then why the heck did you put a dog treat into her hot chocolate?” You couldn't help but mutter as he pushed you to the door. All he did was simply shrug before he opened the door. But before he made his way outside, his eyes lit up like a little kid's. He reminded you of an excited puppy.

“It’s snowing!” He cheered before dragging you outside. HECTOR  wobbled outside as well, wearing a coat for dogs as well as boots to protect him from the cold. You had the urge to just scoop up the dog and steal him. 

Suddenly, you felt a cold hit to the back.

You turned to KEL who had a mischievous smirk on his face, a similar one manifesting its way onto your own. It’s too bad that KEL didn’t even get a moment to relish in his victory of the sneak attack before he was pummeled with snowballs one by one as you relentlessly attacked him.

Both of you laughed playfully, neither of you were dressed properly for this, KEL--being KEL-- was only wearing a reindeer onesie, and you were without a jacket yet that didn’t matter at the moment. After a vigorous snowball war, you plopped, laying back-first in the snow, KEL joined you, a wide grin on his face.

Staying like that while making idle conversation, the peacefulness in the snow was interrupted by movements on KEL’s behalf. You turned your head towards him to realize that he was making snow angels next to you. You couldn’t help but burst out laughing, watching you in your fit of laughter he started laughing too.

The pleasant moment faded as the coldness set in, you started to shiver and you got up from your place in the snow. You stood up over KEL who was still lying in the snow.  You rolled your eyes jokingly before you offered your hand for him to get up. “Alright, it’s freezing out here, we should head back. I don’t want to die of hypothermia.” 

You brushed it off as probably being from the cold but you could’ve sworn you saw a light red dust on his cheeks before he took your hand in his. You were about to head back toward the door before he engulfed you in a warm hug. “Thanks for coming with me Y/N! I had fun!” You smiled to yourself before heading inside.

Pacing immediately towards the fireplace to warm yourself up from spending time in the bitter cold. From the background you could hear AUBREY’s frustrated yells directed at KEL You chuckled to yourself before you could hear classic Christmas songs playing, someone must have turned it on while you and KEL were outside.

You sang along to the song as you were warming up. SUNNY, who was lying on the couch perked up a bit, for a while he wordlessly listened to you. It was like you were in your little world and he could admire it forever. He liked that about you; you always seemed so genuine. 

He stared at you fondly as you were off having a Christmas concert of your own. You always seemed open and eager to listen to him --despite there maybe not having much to listen to.  SUNNY was grateful for that, the two of you were close within your friend group, granted, that you were close with everyone. He honestly adored that about you. He buried his face in his hands, internally cringing at his sentimental thoughts, his face flushing. 

SUNNY got up off the couch, you weren't aware of this until you felt his arms hug you from behind. You turned your head to look at him, he usually did stuff like this often, but mainly with people, he was close with, like MARI. You chuckled lightly, “ are you having fun so far?” You asked.

“Yeah..” He mumbled, “I like it when everyone hangs out together.”

You nodded, “It’s nice,” you hummed.

You both stayed like that comfortably for a while, it pleased you to know that SUNNY was having a nice time, sometimes it was hard to tell with him. He wore a black sweater, similar to BASIL’s in the sense of the pattern: the majority of the sweater was black but it had a Christmas pattern in white on it. He was also wearing the same shorts he normally does, which makes you wonder how the hell did he stand the cold dressed like that?

“Well, I’m glad you’re having fun so far! That makes me happy,” you gave an honest grin, and he gave you one in return, his smiles were rare, but cute whenever they did make an appearance.

Suddenly you hear MARI’s voice calling from the dining room. you felt SUNNY let go of the hug and you both headed to the dining room.  There on the table were two different gingerbread house kits set up. 

This had been a tradition that the lot of you had done for a while now; everyone would be divided into two teams and the team that was able to produce the best-looking gingerbread house (judged by MARI) in the limited time that was given would win.

This year, you were selected to be on a team with AUBREY, HERO, and KEL, it would have probably made more sense to have KEL on BASIL and SUNNY's team, but after one year, it has proven to be a grave mistake to put AUBREY and KEL on opposing teams…

HERO was carefully trying to assemble the walls of the gingerbread house meanwhile you and AUBREY were meticulously decorating the pieces of the house. It was written all over her face: she loved competition and she loved winning said competition even more. 

And KEL…

…Well, he seemed to be having fun, so that’s what matters I guess.

KEL was behind his team, shoving marshmallows into his mouth, you could barely make out what in the world he was trying to say “mdnn- GOUH THEAM FYEW GOTH TIS!”

AUBREY just scoffed while her attention was still focused on decorating, “ Wow so mature KEL,” She said, sarcasm present in her voice. “Maybe if you helped out we could win.”

“Yeah KEL,” you nodded next to her and hummed in agreement. “ AUBREY’s right! I want to win this year.”

You heard KEL attempt to speak but it all got muffled by the marshmallows, making him spit them out to talk again. AUBREY pretended to gag, “Jesus, you could’ve just swallowed them jackass.”

You couldn’t help but giggle at her crude remarks, AUBREY sent a shit-eating grin to KEL, proud of herself that she was able to make you laugh. As cheesy as it is, your laugh sounded like music to her, a melody that she could never get tired of.

The pair of you worked together in trying to complete the gingerbread house, you both had the job of decorating the walls and roof while HERO was focused on gluing them together with frosting: an admittedly difficult job, that was probably best left to his care.

“Hold on,” AUBREY paused, setting the bag of frosting that she had in her hand down. She gently, but firmly grabbed you by the chin and turned your head to face hers. With her thumb, she wiped a smudge of frosting that was on your face, boldly cleaning off her thumb with her mouth.

You flushed under her touch and tried to distract yourself by refocusing on the gingerbread house, which was close to being completed. Yep, just going to focus on the house…

AUBREY just chuckled darkly at your efforts, “you’re adorable,” she muttered before she went back to working on the house with you.

Soon enough, your team was able to finish the gingerbread house before MARI called out that it was time for her judgment.

BASIL and SUNNY's gingerbread was truthfully kind of messy, but you could tell that it was made with care. It was still considered impressive since the teams weren't numerically fair.

Predictably, your team won, but MARI did give extra points to her brother's team due to their effort under their circumstances. After wrapping up the gingerbread competition, you helped the others clean up and set up the table for the dinner that HERO and MARI prepared.

Dinner was incredible --mainly due to HERO's talent. As the group ate, he and MARI received many compliments on their work.

After eating everyone decided to open presents, every present was new yet they still evoked the same nostalgic joy of watching people and opening gotta yourself. You were smiling the whole evening, you couldn't help but be grateful for everyone and everything, especially your friends.

The night ended with everyone cuddled together on the floor, HERO, and MARI on the couch, and everyone marathoning holiday classics. SUNNY was already out cold, his head in your lap. AUBREY and KEL were on opposite sides of you, meanwhile, BASIL was taking a photo from afar, wanting to savor another enjoyable Christmas party.

You started to yawn during the third movie that you were on, your head resting on the shoulder of one of your friends.

Slowly your eyes closed, and you were happy with the people that you were surrounded with.

God I suck at writing endings, anyway this was really rushed because J wanted this out before Christmas but I hope everyone has a merry Christmas and happy holidays!!