The three of us had a small breakfast together as it seemed like Karin and Ria wouldn’t be getting up any time soon and Em was getting a bit hungry. We just toasted a bit of bread and smeared some honey on top. Easy, fast and tasty, my three favorite words when it comes to food.

“Mom, do you mind if Auro and I shovel some snow after this?”

“Why would I mind?” Ilse chuckled slightly, after which she took a bite off her own honeyed bread.

“Because you will be alone for a bit.”

“Emma, I am not someone who needs constant company.” Ilse laughs.

“I know… but the winter is such a cozy season… it’s meant to be experienced together.”

“You girls have kept me plenty of company recently, you don’t need to feel guilty to leave me alone for a little bit.” Em’s mom stood up from her seat and walked over to her daughter, hugging her from behind. “And you girls will always be in my heart, so it’s not like I’m ever truly alone.”

“Mom… I love you.”

“I love you too.”

Such a tender and lovely sight to behold. I’d almost stopped breathing just so I didn’t interrupt their moment.

“Do you know where the snow shovels are?” Em’s mom broke off her hug and walked back to her seat for another couple of bites of toast.

“Somewhere in the garage, I think.”

“If you can’t find them, call me and I will come looking with you.”

“Alright.” Em nodded and quickly finished her piece of toast. “Come, Auro, let’s go.”

“Hey, my toast is not done yet.” I took a couple of big bites, resulting in the utter deletion of my remaining toast. “And now I am done.” I laughed and looked at Em’s mom. “See you in a bit.”

Ilse nodded. “Make sure to dress warmly. And if it gets too cold, you can warm yourself in the garden annex.”

“Don’t worry about that. We will definitely keep that in mind.” I just barely managed to hold myself back from winking. If Em hadn’t practically pulled me away, I might just have.

And so, Em and I put on some nice, warm clothes that we had put on the heating to dry yesterday. After which, we headed to the garage to look for the snow shovels. Em’s garage was wide enough for three cars and then long enough for two cars to stand one before the other, although they usually just parked two cars inside according to Em so they had plenty of space to store stuff and so Helen could maintain the cars easily enough without having to squeeze in between two vehicles. Right now, only one of the cars was parked here, a small gray minivan. Very atypical for a rich family, but definitely practical if you want to take along a lot of things on a car holiday.

“I can’t immediately see the shovels, Auro.” Em commented.

“Hmm? Ah, right. I’d been staring into the garage for too long so Em had started looking on her own. “Aren’t those two snow shovels over there?” I pointed at the top shelf of a shelf in the corner of the room.

Em came over and stood next to me. “What, what are they doing over there? Shovels should not be on the top shelf of anything.”

“Hey, don’t ask me, I agree with you. If I had a garage, I’d definitely put them against a wall.” Even though a car wasn’t something I necessarily wanted. Having a garage to store bikes in would be quite useful. You don’t want your bikes to get stolen, after all.

“Can you help me get this ladder for a second?” Em asked, pointing at the ladder that was put against the wall, where it belongs, however there were a couple of boxes in front of it.

“Eh, I can put you on my neck so you can grab the shovels, that would be way quicker. Come.” I beckoned her over to the shelf where the shovels were at. I then crouched down.

“Uh, are you sure?”

“You know how strong I am. What’s the problem?”

“Hmm.” Em blushed and walked over. She stood in front of me so I could easily get her on my shoulder.

“Besides, there are worse places to be than between the thighs of your girlfriend.” I said as I lifted her up in the air.

“O-oh my Goddess, you’re unbelievable.” She smacked me softly on my head. I could only imagine how much she was blushing right now.

“Hehe.”

“Shush… just get me closer, I can almost reach them…”

I walked closer to the shelf, keeping a bit away so Em didn’t have to look uncomfortably straight up. In a matter of seconds, she’d managed to acquire the snow shovels. After which, I quickly lowered her back to the ground. “See, that was way faster than taking the ladder.”

Em rolled her eyes. “Yeah yeah, but please refrain from making comments like that when I’m on your neck…”

“I’ll try to remember for next time.” I grinned.

She rolled her eyes once more and handed one of the shovels to me. “Come, let’s go shovel a bit of snow now.”

“Of course.” I then lowered my voice. “We do want to keep up appearances after all.”

Em blushed. “Yeah…”

We went outside, first to the driveway of their house. It was still snowing a little but the broadcast had said it wouldn’t snow much anymore today, so at least we wouldn’t be shoveling snow in vain. We finished shoveling the snow off the driveway fast enough. It was me who was doing most of the work but that was to be expected since I was the super un-human of the two of us. Nonetheless, Em also did quite a bit of work. She didn’t want to be completely out-done by me, plus she said it was also pretty good exercise now that the track club had no practice in the snowy months.

After the driveway, we went on to the garden. Of course, clearing out all the snow wasn’t what we were going to do. Just clearing out a little bit of the very deep snow on our way to the garden annex would be more than enough, but since it had been snowing quite heavily throughout the night, the snow was already a lot deeper than it was yesterday. So when we finally arrived at the garden annex, Em was already quite tired. Inside the garden annex, it was actually pretty warm. Em’s mom must have remotely turned on the heating, expecting us to at least rest a bit inside. It was definitely welcome.

I took off my jacket and my boots and put them close to the heating unit inside. “Come, give me your clothes too, Em.” I said to my girlfriend, who was sitting on the couch.

“Yeah… give me a sec.” She was breathing pretty hard. She took a couple of deep breaths and then got up, getting rid of her jacket and boots as well.

“Don’t need to take off your pants?”

“No, it didn’t really get wet.”

“Hmm… it might get a bit hot though.” I smirked and hugged Em from behind and kissed her neck.

“Now that you say it…”

I smirked again and helped Em with unbuckling the buckle of her belt. And just like that, gone were her trousers.

“Want to turn the sofa into a bed?”

“Hmm, I don’t think I can wait that long. While shoveling snow didn’t tire me out… it has made me quite thirsty.” I kissed her neck a couple of times more.

“I-I see.” I could feel her heart starting to beat harder and louder. Her anticipation of what was to come was getting me quite excited as well. But I didn’t want to do it just yet. I wanted her body to dance to my whims first.

I slowly walked Em backwards to the sofa and I dropped myself in it, with Em following suit as I was still holding on to her tight. She was now sitting in between my legs. While I kept my left arm around her waist, I moved my right hand to her thigh and started drawing zigzagging lines with my index and middle finger from her knee all the way to her panties. She was getting goosebumps all over and I was just completely loving every single second of it. I didn’t stop there, and slid my hand under her shirt, gently moving upwards and upwards until I had reached her bra.

I was happy to discover she’d chosen to go for a bra with a front clasp, which I unlocked easily with one hand.

“Au…Auro…” Em crossed her arms over my left arm that was holding her waist.

“Mhmm?”

“Could you… could you start biting already…?”

“That eager?” I whispered into her ear.

“Mhmm…” She nodded slightly.

“But I can still play with them, right?” While I whispered that in her ear, I booped her left nipple underneath her shirt.

She moaned slightly as I did. “Mhmm…”

“Good.” I whispered back. “I won’t let you keep waiting then.” I kissed her behind her ear before I moved my mouth back down to her neck…