No one Kyle knew went quite as overboard as Alfred during the holidays season.

It had begun with him desperately digging out a tangled mass of Christmas lights. Kyle had not exactly wanted to untangle all those lights while he was still adjusting to the different time zones, but had begrudgingly done so when Alfred looked at him with those puppy eyes.

Of course, that wasn't enough. Soon, Alfred tested all those different strands of lights, and discovered that only about half of them worked.

"It's because you don't take proper care of them. If you wrapped them up in loops with zip ties..."

"I know, I know, it's just so sad to pull them down after the end of the year..."

Kyle rolled his eyes, and soon enough Alfred was running out the door. "I'll go buy more lights! Can you hang the icicle ones along the eaves of the house."

Kyle made a grumbling agreement in the back of his throat and dressed up warmly before stepping outside. He was reminded as he looked around that Alfred had offered to celebrate Christmas in California.

"Since it's summer in your place, I thought that might be best. It's pretty cold here."

"I said I want a white Christmas, Alfred. Colorado will be fine."

Now he was regretting his decision.

He hung the lights swiftly, rushing back inside to warm his hands on the coffeepot before pouring himself another mug and drinking the hot liquid gold.

Alfred came back inside laughing. "I got all the lights! Let's get back to work."

"Do we have to? The icicles look nice on their own!" Kyle complained.

But when Alfred was enthusiastic, nothing short of a rampaging bull elephant could stop him, and Kyle was beginning to wonder if that would even work.

The posts on the porch were strung with red and white ropes to resemble candy canes, the real trees decorated with multicolor lights or bright blue LEDs or whatever color Alfred liked on that particular plant.

There was also the giant inflatable Santa, which Kyle immediately vetoed.

"I will not stay here if you put that thing up!"

"But Kyle-"

"No!"

"Please?" Alfred asked, using those puppy eyes again.

This time, Kyle resisted. "You had a snow globe one. Use that."

"But I put them both up..."

"The snow globe only!"

Finally, after much pouting and pleading, Alfred relented, and Kyle thanked the merciful God which had allowed him to win this fight.

Or, he would have if he hadn't woken up the next morning to find an entire nutcracker army had been set to face his side of the bed. He sat up in fright, but managed to kill the noise escaping his throat before it reached his mouth, resulting in nothing more than an undignified squeak

He glanced over, to where his stupid American boyfriend was peacefully sleeping. He took a deep breath, trying to not do anything too stupid.

Then he saw that face pull back into a smile.

"ALRIGHT, JACKASS, YOU HAD YOUR FUN!" He said, and Alfred definitely was wide awake before Kyle completely tackled him.

A 'no holiday decorations in the bedroom' rule was quickly established after that.