it's Christmas eve, and we're all going ice skating.

nobody from the group went home for the holiday. I know most visited their parents, but no one actually stayed over.

everyone has already left to go, but I and Blake am already here. we got to the skating rink about 30 minutes ago, Vivienne said she would meet us here, and the others did too.

we're already on the ice. we got tired of waiting for everyone.

"Blair!" I feel someone crash into me from behind. I turn around. it's Blake. she grabs onto my arm and starts falling. she's putting all her weight on me. holy shit. she's pulling me down with her.

"we're falling," she says, very loudly might I say. and in the next second, we're on the ground, right beside each other.

"holy shit blake." I look at her, and we're both still on the ground. her eyes are wide, she looks away from me and starts to look around us. her eyes got even wider.

I turn my head and look at where she is. oh my God. people are staring. a lot of people.

we fell flat on our asses and a whole bunch of people are staring and laughing. and oh my god. I can see Rowan.

he's staring right at us. his hand is covering his mouth. but I can still see a small smile peeking out. he's standing at the edge of where the ice starts, and he has his skates already on.

he's yelling now. I can't make out what it is, but I know he's yelling. he puts his hands up and gestures for us to come to him. I don't respond and he shakes his head. I can see him huff from all the way over here.

he's getting on the ice now. he puts his hands into his sweater pockets and skates along the sides of the rink towards us.

it takes him less than a minute to get here "what the heck are you guys doing? get up."

we don't move.

he huffs, puts out his hand and grabs my hand to pull me up. after that he grabs Blake's and pulls her up.

we're standing in front of each other, Rowan is in front of me and blake is beside me. "first of all, why the hell did you fall."

I turn my head and look at Blake, she turns hers as well, our eyes are wide and we both have a small smile on our faces. after a second I turn back to rowan "she pushed me."

I hear a gasp beside me "I did not fucking push you." Blake looks at me and then turns her head back to rowan.

"you did." I disagree.

"I did not," she says sternly.

I huff and look at Rowan, his face is now telling me he's confused. his eyes are wide and he keeps looking at both of us, his eyes moving back and forth at a fast speed. at me, then to Blake and then to me again.

"look you broke Rowan." I turn to her and shake my head. she rolls her eyes "it's Rowan." she says slowly "this is him acting Normal." she says as if it's obvious.

"what's that supposed to mean," Rowan asks. we stand there for a second and his eyebrows are furrowed but then a second later turns up and his eyes widen in realization "you're a bitch."

Blake's jaw drops, as well as mine. wow, Rowan doesn't have a filter. "I cannot-" Blake starts to say, but gets cut off. "hey guys." Luca, Leo and Vivienne appear beside Rowan.

Vivienne looks at me, Blake and then Rowan "what the hell happened?" she asks and looks down to my hand that has marks all up it from the fall."

I turn to Blake and point "she pushed me." Blake's jaw drops "for the last time, I did not push you." she shakes her head.

"you pushed her?" Luca asks dumbfounded.

she turns to me "this is your fault" she takes in a breath and turns back to Luca "I'm going to get hot chocolate, does anyone want some?" she looks at all of us.

everyone says yes. "I'll come help," Luca says. Blake nods and then they skate Away leaving Rowan, Luca, Leo Vivienne and me together.

"Does anyone want to play tag?" Rowan asks, I look at him and tilt my head to the side "tag?" I repeat.

he nods.

"hold on," Leo says from beside Rowan, "you want to play tag?"

rowan nods again, but this time it's more aggressive "did you not hear me the first time?" he pauses, and Leo nods "no I did-" Rowan cuts Leo off "exactly so, let's play tag."

Leo's eyes widen "Rowan we aren't 10 years old."

"obviously" he shakes his head "and what does that have to do with anything?"

"it's tag Rowan, only children-" Rowan slaps his arm, Leo looks Down towards where he slapped "you're it!" Rowan yells and then quickly skates away.

Leo looks up from his arm and glares at Rowan who is now on the other side of the rink. still skating away. at a really fast pace.

"Oh for fucks sake" Leo takes in a deep breath and then skates away, chasing after Rowan.

Leo's it.

Me, Vivienne and Rowan are skating away from him. Blake and Luca are sitting on a bench drinking hot chocolate.

I don't know why we agreed to play this. I haven't played tag ever since the 5th grade. and I've never played tag while ice skating. it's quite fun. a lot more than I expected.

I'm on the left side of the rink while rowan is in the middle and Vivienne is on the right. Leo is chasing after Rowan, they're yelling at each other.

it's extremely cold and it's snowing buckets out here. "Blair skate faster!" I hear someone yell. I look to my side and see Rowan yelling at me. my eyebrows furrow in confusion and then I feel it, someone taps my shoulder.

I look to the side, it's Leo. "you're it." he says and then skates away. what the fuck.

I stare at him dumbfounded, he's still skating away. he looks like he has no care in the world, he's skating extremely slowly.

I look to the other side and see Rowan beside Vivienne, they're skating away from me, at a really fast pace.

I start to skate towards Leo, I get about 5 feet away from him but he looks back. when he sees me he smiles right at me and then turns his head and skates away faster.

I start to chase after him and he starts to skate even faster. I'm about 2 feet away from him now.

I reach my arm out and go to touch his shoulder, but he abruptly stops right as I'm about to do it.

oh my god, I can't stop.

my hands hit his back, and my whole body does too. I'm going to fall. again. his whole body stills right as I hit him, and I feel myself falling.

I feel Leo quickly turn around to face me, his arms go to my waist and keep a firm grip there. he pulls me up, and he's staring right at me "are you okay?" he asks me, his eyes wide and filled with concern.

I nod "yup" I look into his eyes, and I can see him swallow and takes in a breath. he moves his head a little closer to mine, his hands still on my waist.

his hair is slightly covering his forehead, he has slight curls in his hair, and his hair is a dark brown, almost black. it looks so soft.

"Are you sure?" he asks again, more slowly this time. I nod again and he moves his head closer.

I can see him swallow, and I do too.

I quickly tear my eyes away "do you want to get some hot chocolate?"

he takes his hands off my waist and pulls away and nods his head "yeah" he pauses "let's get the others and go."

we didn't end up drinking hot chocolate. Rowan didn't want to. instead, we ended up at his house. his parent's house. yo apparently bake cookies.

his parents aren't home according to him, and we're all in the kitchen surrounding his kitchen island.

"no! you're not supposed to put 4 eggs!" Rowan shakes his head and yells. Luca takes in a breath "it says 4 on the box Rowan."

now Rowan takes in a breath "I've made this before and I always use 3." he says. Luca shakes his head "we'll we've already made a batch" he points to the oven.

"then you've ruined my fucking Christmas cookies!" Rowan yells.

"Can you stop yelling?" Vivienne speaks up, she sitting behind the island on a bar stool with everyone else while I'm standing by the stove with Rowan. "you're going to make my eardrums burst."

Rowan grabs the batter from Lucas's hands "what the fuck Rowan!" Luca yells, but Rowan doesn't respond, Luca tries to get the batter back from Rowan and try's to pull it out of his hands.

Rowan does let him, he keeps pulling back. they're fighting over goddam cookie batter. "just let go Rowan." Luca yells and pulls it towards him again. "okay." Rowan smiles. he let's go and- oh my god.

the bowl falls onto Luca's shirt, and the batter spills all onto it "what the fuck!" Luca yells and looks at Rowan "Rowan!"

Rowan shrugs and smiles "you told me to let go." Luca takes in a breath and takes the brown off his chest, he reaches into the bowl and takes out another handful of batter with his hand.

oh no.

Rowan's eyes widen, and Luca smiles and throws it right at Rowan's shirt. "fucking hell Luca!" Luca rips the bowl out of his hands and grabs more dough and whips it right at Luca, but it does just land on him. it lands on Leo and Vivienne too.

"Rowan!" Vivienne yells and looks down at her shirt. Leo's eyes widen, and it's all over his arms "how much batter did you guys make?" Leo says slowly and loudly.

Blake starts laughing and looks at me "this is so funny, you guys are covered in cookie batter."

I smile "I agree."

Vivienne raises her eyebrow and takes the bowl out off the table and grabs the last of the batter in there and throws part of it at blake and then at me.

it's all over my neck and shirt. and all over blake, on her face, arms and shirt. "Vivienne!" Blake yells, Vivienne smiles and laughs. "now this is funny."

"This is not-" Vivienne looks at me and raises her eyebrows. I start to laugh, "this isn't funny." im hysterically laughing now.

Blake and Rowan laugh as well, I look at Leo Leo and see him attempting to cover his smile but it doesn't work, now he's laughing too. luca's face is emotionless. but when we all look at him he starts to laugh as well.

"there's cookie dough everywhere," I say and look around at the counter and walls. everyone else looks around and their eyes widen. "shit." Leo says.

"we'll help you clean Rowan." I turn to him and he smiles. "oh no, Blair why would you say that?" Luca asks.

I look at him with wide eyes "now you guys have to help me." Rowan smiles and turns to Luca "oh and you're buying me new cookies considering you ruined mine."

Luca takes in a breath and stands up from his seat, "fine." he pauses "let's clean up now."