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"I am here!" Thirteen opened her arms, waiting for Iman to run up to her for a hug. "You're finally here, if you had stayed out any longer I would have thought you went to set a trap for Solomon." Kissing the top of her girlfriend's nose she went to make herself comfortable in the human's bed.
"I wouldn't dare to miss our movie night for the world, especially with the holiday coming. I am not going to catch you alone any time soon with everyone going around." Flashing Iman a big grin Thirteen continues. "Besides, I've already made sure to set up a trap for that sorcerer, I was late because I couldn't decide on a way to wrap up your present."
It didn't seem to be a big present, but knowing Thirteen anything could be in there. "Are those some of your minitraps taped on the present?" Iman pointed towards the neatly packed present. It was dark green with a bit of white sprayed on in order to resemble snow on a tree while what seemed to be tiny red bombs evenly scattered along the package resembled small Christmas globes.
"I call these little guys, exploding surprise nr. 36, they are set to go off if anyone besides you or me tries to open up your present." Pointing towards it, Thirteen started to explain more about her new invention. "I made sure to put a spell so your present wouldn't get damaged if the bombs were to go off." Looking one last glance at the gift, she finally put it away.
"I say we leave the gift giving for after we are done watching some movies. I've picked some Christmas themed ones from the human world." Iman said as she was browsing through the list of movies that she picked. "I am sure you'll like these ones in particular, the main character sets up some pretty elaborate traps for the bad guys." After she pressed start on the movie, Iman climbed in bed, wrapping her arms around her girlfriend. Thirteen made herself more comfortable in her girlfriend's embrace, back against her chest.
Throughout the duration of the movies, the reaper seemed to take note of various traps set by the kid. "I may use some of these traps myself in the future, that kid is a genius!" After that comment both of them proceeded to get into a comfortable silence. The only lights in the room coming from the TV, the Christmas lights outside of the window and some weird faint glow coming from Thirteen's present.
After a few movies Thirteen started to get bored of them. She would constantly shift her position making Iman also not be able to focus on the movies at all. "Did you really get that bored of them?" Thirteen looked up at her girlfriend in annoyance. "Not only did they change the main character, the traps aren't as interesting! It doesn't feel genuine anymore"
Iman sighed and got up from the bed in order to change the movies. While she had her back facing she started to hear some rustling sound that sounded all too familiar. "Wait, don't tell me-" Turning around she caught her girlfriend red handed. "Are you really trying to sneak a look at your gift!?" Blushing upon being caught Thirteen tried to deny it. "Of course not! Why would I want to do that anyway? It's not like I want to see what you got me, why would I want that in the first place?!" She turned her head in a way she wouldn't be able to see the deadpaned look on her girlfriend's face. If she pretends like she didn't just get caught trying to steal a look at the present maybe Iman will believe her.
She did not believe her in fact but she couldn't bring herself to be annoyed at Thirteen at all, especially when she was acting to flustered. "Maybe we can take a break from the movies and exchange the gifts, while we are at it we might as well get some more snacks, we really ate them all in such a short span." She was aware that Thirteen had a sweet tooth, especially when it comes to anything Luke would bake but it was still ridiculous! She could give Beel a run for his money when it came to eating sweets.
Thirteen hearing about both the sweets and the presents turned to face Iman. "I'm going to bring the snacks, you get your present ready for me!" After making sure Thirteen left Iman went to retrieve her gift bag. From the looks of it Thirteen didn't get to see what she actually got her, and even if she did she would be confused since there were two items in it.
Inside there were two matching Christmas sweaters. One of them had a skull resembling Thirteen's tatto on her leg, but instead of the eyes being simple circle they were shaped like Christmas trees. It mostly red and green with a black contour around the skull. Iman had this sweater costom made just for Thirteen. The other sweater was way more simple. It was just in red and white with snowflakes around it. The only thing more special about it was the image of a white book with a red Christmas tree on its cover.
Thirteen didn't take long to come back with a big variety of snacks since the kitchen was next to Iman's room. "I got there before Beel had the chance to raid the whole place." After dumping all the snacks on the table she proceeded go get even more out of her pockets. "I've decided to take some more, I don't think there will be any more left once he finally steps foot into the kitchen"
She picked some cookies and went over to Iman who was waiting for her in order to exchange gifts. "Since you were so curious about what I got you, you'll be the first to open it."
Handing the gift to Thirteen, Iman waited anxiously to see her girlfriend's reaction. She has waited weeks for that gift to be delivered and she nearly gave up on it so she really hoped it will be well received or else, she would got to dig a hole for herself and die.
Thirteen grabbed the sweater with the skull on it first. "You actually managed to find a Christmas sweater with a skull on it?! Where did you even buy it?" A sigh of relief left Iman's lips as she saw the excited look on girlfriend's face. "I had it be custom made, and if you look closely, it should remind you of something." Thirteen threw her a suspicious look and inspected the sweater even more. "Wait...this looks like my tattoo"
Throwing her arms around around Iman she hugs her tightly. "Thank you so much! You're really something else." Thirteen started to leave kisses all over her girlfriend's face which made her giggle." Wait stop, that tickles!" Iman lost her balance in her fit of giggles and fell, taking Thirteen down with her and despite both of them falling down on the floor."Wait, shit, I am so sorry! Are you ok?" She tried to appear serious but it failed miserably by bursting out laughing. "You don't look really sorry to me" Iman tried to fake being mad while catching her breath from all the laughing but she couldn't stop smiling.
They spent a few minutes to calm down and not burst into another fit of laughter just from looking at one another. "I saw that there was one more Christmas sweater. Is it also for me?" Iman shook and picked up the second sweater. "This one is actually for me! I thought it would be cute if we had matching sweaters!" Thirteen wanted to tell her how those sweaters don't match at all, but she couldn't bring herself to ruin Iman's exciment. After all, if her girlfriend said the sweaters match then they match. She will argue with anyone that says otherwise.
Suddenly getting an idea, Thirteen got up and grabbed her sweater with a big grin on her face. Iman seemed to be confused on what exactly the reaper wanted to do since she only got that look when she had an idea for something. "You said it would be cute if we matched right? Then we should do just that! I will go change over while you do it over here."
She went into the bathroom to change while leaving Iman alone. She was happy to see that Thirteen liked her present enough to go change into it in less than five minutes. Picking up her sweater she went to change herself.
Once both of them changed Iman thought they would get back to exchanging gifts but Thirteen kept looking her up and down. "I feel like there's something missing but I don't know what." She leaned closer to Iman trying to figure out what's missing. "That's it!" She bolted towards one of the dressers drawers in the room and pulled out numerous kinds of makeup products. "I am wearing makeup and you aren't. If we want to match you should let me do your makeup too."
Iman couldn't help but chuckle at Thirteen's logic. "Laugh all you want but that's not stopping me from doing your makeup. No go lie on the bed and leave everything to me." She just shook her head and complied to the request.
Once Iman laid in her bed Thirteen followed suit and sat on her lap. "Don't think anything weird about this ok?! This just makes it easier for me to do your makeup." The human wanted to raise an eyebrow at her girlfriend's comment but decided against it so she wouldn't make it harder to put makeup on. "You just made it sound ten times more suspicious with that comment of yours." Thirteen pinch Iman's cheek as a way to show her annoyance. "Here I am, doing you a favour and you keep on teasing me? I will require some special thanks after I am done doing your makeup!"
The room was silent as Thirteen was focusing on not fucking up the makeup. "I just have to trace this just at this angle and...I am done!" Making sure to close the eyeliner and toss aside. "I must say, I did a really good on job on this, but I think I still have a small detail to add."
"Like what? You have been working on my makeup for a while now." Thirteen didn't say anything as she gently cradled her girlfriend's face with her and left a kiss on the top of her nose. "This. Now it's perfect."
Iman just laid there dumbfounded as Thirteen got up and stretched like nothing happened. "Are you going to sleep over there or what? Get up, you still have to open your present!"
"Just promise me those mini bombs won't explode in my face." Thirteen eyes widened with feigned shock, putting a hand on her chest. "Are you saying that my traps will fail me? I've already told you it won't explode for either of." Iman rolled her eyes at her girlfriend's antics but she couldn't help the smile on her face. "I will take your word on it then."
She got out of the bed and walked over to Thirteen was holding the neatly packed present. She nearly felt bad for wasting the work she put in it. "If you worried about wasting the bombs, I will find another use for them later." Now she didn't what to focus on, the fact that Thirteen could read the concern on her face, which was sweet, or the fact that she will literally use bombs on someone, probably Solomon, later. It was no use to waste time thinking about it at the moment, especially that the anticipation about what her present she got was killing Iman.
"A book? Wait, this looks really familiar-" Thirteen couldn't help but grin. "And not just any book. This is one of the original mystery novels written by Agares you were searching for. It took me a while to find him in Devildom. It turned out he was on a vacation in the human world."
Opening the book on its first page, she points out to a signature. "I even got him to sign it for you. You have no idea how hard it to track him down." Iman closes the book to throw one more fond look at it before hugging Thirteen tightly. "Thank you so much! I have been looking for this book everywhere and not only did you find it, you got the author to sign it himself! I love you so much."
In her excitement she didn't realize she was squeezing her girlfriend a little too hard. "I am really glad you like, but can you please stop trying to hug me to death? I am the grim reaper here not you." Realizing what she was doing she immediately released her hold on Thirteen. "Sorry, I guess I didn't realize I could do that. I just got excited thinking I can finally read this book." She started to scratch the back of her neck in embarrassment.
"Then you should do just that." Iman threw her a confused look, not knowing what she was referring to. "You won't be able to focus on any of the movies because you're going to keep thinking about the book, so you might as well start reading it now." Thirteen said it as a matter of fact, like it was the most obvious thing on earth but Iman couldn't simply accept it. "And what about you? This movie night is for both of us. It would lose its meaning if I was the only one having fun."
Thirteen couldn't help but roll her eyes at the fact that her precious human couldn't get where she was coming from, even tho it wasn't obvious for anyone but her. "Isn't it obvious? You'll read it out loud for me to listen. This way we are both getting entertained. You are getting to read your book and I get to listen to you, which is way better than any Christmas movie." Maybe not better than the one with the little kid that sets traps that they've watched earlier but Iman didn't need to know that.
"If you say so, then I will take your word on it but I better hear no complaining that you're getting bored if you don't end up liking the story." And with that both of them settled to cuddle on the bed. Thirteen was resting her head on her girlfriend's chest, eyes closed in order to listen more carefully to the story while Iman had both of her hand around Thirteen. She used a spell so the book would levitate so she could read it with disturbing the grim reaper sleeping in her arms.
Besides Iman's voice reading the book the room was silent. Thirteen tried to keep up with the story but the human's voice was so soothing and the Christmas sweaters were so cozy but she couldn't but fall asleep, snuggling closer in her girlfriend's hold.
It took a while for Iman to notice this since she was so focused on her book, but when she did finally look down to see if Thirteen was still listening, she couldn't help but sigh when she saw her sleeping. "I should have expected this." Leaving a kiss on her head, she tighten her hold on Thirteen. "You're really lucky you're cute." And with that Iman went back to reading her book.