On the fourth day of Sana's Christmas coupons, Mina and Sana were squished together on their tiny little sofa again with an atmosphere that was decidedly more heated than yesterday's peaceful reading session. Sana couldn't help but stare at Mina face as the younger girl sat in her lap, Mina's cheeks flushed and her breathing shallow, low gasps of appreciation escaping Mina's lips at all the right moments. They were nearly at the climax and Mina was so tense with anticipation that Sana could feel Mina's excitement swelling up to unbearable levels.

And then it finally came, the smash of The Hulk's fist against the Leviathan that hurtled toward the Avengers, a fiery explosion from Iron Man's missile that had chunks of burning Leviathan flesh falling to the ground, and the cinematic swell of music that accompanied the full camera pan of the assembled Avengers, Mina's favorite scene from her favorite Marvel movie.

[Rent a movie together]

Mina had unsurprisingly chosen to watch The Avengers for the umpteenth time upon seeing Sana's coupon this morning. Sana had no idea why they didn't already own a copy of the 2012 movie that they had watched more times than they could count, but there was a Blu-ray copy sitting under the Christmas tree for Mina this year, and Sana was pleased to see that Mina was still as excited over the Avengers movie as the first time they watched it as teenagers.

Sana still fondly remembered that date from over six years ago, one where Mina had paid more attention to the screen than to Sana's affections and where Sana had paid more attention to Mina's excitement than to the movie itself. That dynamic still existed to this day whenever they re-watched The Avengers. Sana couldn't understand everyone's fascination with superheroes and monsters and over-the-top powers, but Sana loved Mina's love for the genre.

"Whoa, that was so cool. Did you see that!?" Mina asked, turning to Sana with shining eyes and the kind of excitement that made Sana's heart feel light and full of happiness.

Sana's eyes crinkled with utmost affection for Mina, smiling at her with a softness that couldn't be described in words. "Yeah, I saw it," Sana replied fondly.

Mina giggled. "No you didn't. You're just watching me." She pressed her fingers against Sana's cheek and turned the older girl to face the TV. "Watch the movie. You're missing all of the best parts!"

"Fine, fine," Sana relented, turning her attention to the TV in order to appease Mina. But she continued to watch Mina out of the corner of her eye, feeling like she was already catching all the best parts of the movie.

On the morning of the fifth day, Mina found herself looking at a rather open-ended coupon.

[Your choice!]

"'Your choice?'" Mina wondered. "I get to choose whatever I want for today's couple's activity?"

"Whatever you want," Sana confirmed with a nervous smile. After five days of coupons, Mina had grown more comfortable with waking up and opening the little black box on her chest every morning while Sana had grown a little more insecure. "And you don't even have to pick a couple's activity for today. I mean, if you're tired of all the time we've been spending together lately, you could just use the coupon for a day of alone time--I swear I won't mind--and I'll just go off on my own and not bother you at all for the rest of the day and--"

Mina leaned in and kissed Sana slowly, lovingly, her tongue sliding between Sana's lips in a tender lollipop kiss.

"You're rambling," Mina observed, pulling back from Sana just enough to gaze into Sana's slightly anxious face.

"I am?"

"You are. And you only ramble when you're nervous."

"I do?"

"You do," Mina confirmed. She smiled gently at Sana, a hint of concern in her warm brown eyes. "Are you worried that I'm getting bored of hanging out with you?"

"Maybe..." Sana said with slight hesitation, but there was no point in denying the truth when Mina could read her like an open book. Sana felt like she was pressuring Mina to spend more time with her through these childish Christmas coupons.

Mina smiled affectionately at Sana's adverted gaze and sat up in bed. She reached out and pulled Sana towards her, ushering the older girl into her lap and wrapping her up in an encompassing hug. Mina knew there were times when her bubbly and cheerful Sana became very insecure, like right now, and Mina knew that it was partially her fault because while Sana's love was always out in the open with affectionate hugs and kisses and verbal declarations of love, Mina's love was occasionally much more internalized.

Even though Sana knew how much Mina loved her, sometimes it was harder for Sana to trust in Mina's less tangible feelings. So at times like these, it became Mina's job to remind Sana how beautiful she was, how amazing she was, how much Mina loved her to the moon and back and thirty seven times around the universe.

"Have you forgotten that I love you more than anything else in this world, Sattang?" Mina asked gently, sincerely. She nudged her nose against Sana's cheek as Sana settled comfortably into her lap.

"Maybe," Sana replied softly, repeating her last response with a tad less insecurity than before.

"And have you forgotten that my favorite thing to do in this whole world is to hang out with you?" Mina whispered tenderly into Sana's ear.

"Maybe," Sana said with a shy smile, her insecurities disappearing as she sat within Mina's protective hug.

"So then you've definitely forgotten that no matter how much time we spend together, I would still choose to hang out with you over anything else. Tsk tsk," Mina scolded her girlfriend playfully. "We're gonna have to do something about that."

The younger girl reached across the bed to the discarded black velvet box and coupon. She picked up the folded piece of paper and pressed it gently into Sana's open palm. "I'm officially using today's coupon to hang out with you, Sattang."

Sana blushed slightly under Mina's tender affection, her hand closing around the coupon and Mina's warm fingers at the same time. "I officially accept."

"It's not like you could've refused anyway. I see no fine print on this coupon that says you can reject it," Mina laughed. She fell back onto their pillows and pulled Sana with her.

Sana rolled her eyes as she stretched out against the younger girl, draping herself comfortably across Mina's chest. "Did you have something specific in mind that you wanted to do today?"

Mina thought about it for a moment. "PUBG marathon please. It's been a while since we played video games together. Let's play Duo mode!"

Sana smiled at Mina, unable to think of a better way for them to spend their fifth day together leading up to Christmas. "An afternoon of headshots and bloody deaths? How romantic," Sana laughed.

A return to a more traditional kind of romance came on day six, when Sana presented Mina with a coupon that said:

[Make a romantic dinner for Mina]

"Do you really expect me to just sit here while you try to cook a full dinner on your own?" Mina asked as she sat on the sofa with a glass of wine, waiting for dinner to appear in front of her. She could hear Sana bustling around in the kitchen to prepare tonight's ambitious dinner of braised beef and veggies and a tray of brownies for dessert.

"I'm fine!" Sana called out from the kitchen. "Just enjoy your wine and I'll have dinner on the table before you--ahhh!"

Mina bolted up from the sofa and rushed over to the kitchen to find a jumbled mess of bakeware on the floor. Sana was a little frazzled, but otherwise unhurt.

"Looks like today's coupon is a couple's activity after all," Mina grinned as she threw on her apron. There was no way she could endure a whole hour of listening to Sana fumbling around in the kitchen on her own.

"But Mittang, I'm supposed to cook dinner for you. This is supposed to be romantic!" Sana complained.

"But it's more fun if we do it together," Mina reasoned. "What's more romantic than that?"

Sana continued to pout over the change in plans, so Mina decided to try another approach. "Let's do it like this: every time one of us makes a mistake while cooking, we have to kiss the other person. Romance and fun guaranteed."

With a small sigh, Sana nodded and agreed to Mina's suggestion. She really wanted to cook this dinner for Mina on her own, but they had a bigger chance of eating something edible tonight if Mina helped her. And the kissing angle did sound kind of fun.

"OK, fine. What counts as a mistake though?" Sana wondered. She stacked up the fallen cookie sheets and baking pans, placing them on the edge of the counter before promptly knocking them back to the ground by accident. Sana looked up at Mina and found the younger girl tapping her lips gently, smugly demanding a kiss for Sana's latest blunder. With an amused smile, Sana gave her a quick marshmallow kiss.

"I see," Sana said, picking up the bakeware much more carefully this time. "This'll be fun after all."

An hour of cooking later, the beef and veggies simmered on the stove as the brownies baked, and Mina had kissed Sana four times while Sana had given Mina thirty two kisses.

"Oh no, was that sugar?" Sana murmured after throwing a pinch of white powder into the pot of meat and veggies. She tasted the remainder on her fingers and wrinkled her nose. "Whoops, I meant to season with salt." She went over and placed a warm and languid lollipop kiss on Mina's lips as payment for the mistake before going to fetch the container of salt, not noticing the small groan of desire that escaped Mina's lips as they broke from the kiss.

Mina couldn't tell anymore if Sana was making mistakes on accident or on purpose. After thirty three kisses, each one seemingly better than the last, all Mina knew was that Sana was steadily stoking the fire that was slowly building up in the pit of her stomach. Mina was getting hungry now, and not just for dinner.

Sana returned to the stove with the salt, diligently seasoning and stirring and oblivious to the burning look of desire in Mina's eyes as the younger girl approached her from behind.

"I think it's almost done," Sana said with her back still to Mina. "Maybe another five minutes?"

Sana let out a small gasp as Mina unexpectedly spun her around and kissed her roughly, her tongue pressing into Sana's mouth and her teeth biting Sana's lips gently in a melty chocolate kiss full of passion.

"Hmm? What was your mistake?" Sana murmured, smiling as she rested her forehead against Mina's.

"A terrible mistake," Mina replied coyly. Her voice was hushed and throaty, almost desperate for Sana's attention. "I should've told you how badly I wanted you to touch me sooner."

Sana blinked, completely taken aback by the lustful confession. She was so absorbed in trying to cook properly that she missed the many cues indicating how aroused Mina had become as they cooked together under the kiss-filled cooking conditions. Sana's heart started to race as she noticed the hungry look in Mina's eyes and she quickly leaned in to kiss Mina back just as deeply, just as urgently.

Mina rarely ever initiated sex in their relationship. Mina loved sex just as much as Sana did, but Sana was by far the hungrier of the two and her sexual appetite kept them both well fed. But whenever Mina did initiate, it ignited a kind of frenzy in Sana that made the older girl drop whatever she was doing to satisfy her hungry Mittang.

Sana pushed Mina back into the counter with a rough kiss, at the same time trying to sweep away whatever items were sitting on the counter top behind Mina. A set of measuring spoons were haphazardly pushed onto the stove, a pot holder and the recipe card fell to the floor. Sana was creating a mess, but neither of them cared. Sana's kisses were deep and messy and sweet, and Mina could feel her body growing hotter with each intense kiss.

"That's at least two more mistakes," Mina mumbled against Sana's lips, kicking the fallen soy sauce bottle out of the way of Sana's path of destruction.

"Charge me a hundred mistakes if you want because I'll kiss you at least that many times." It was a promise that Sana immediately started working on as she lifted the front of Mina's shirt in order to lay a line of fiery strawberry kisses down the length of Mina's chest, as her tongue began to eagerly lap the fullness of Mina's breasts.

Mina laughed at the fervor of Sana's attention. Whenever Mina was in the mood first, it almost felt like Sana was the one who was more aroused than usual as she devoted herself to making the experience as pleasurable as possible for Mina. And Mina was more than happy to sit back and let Sana do her thing, running her fingers through Sana's hair as Sana's hands slid down Mina's taut stomach and gently removed her pants and underwear. Mina quickly reached over and turned down the heat on the bubbling pot as Sana lifted her onto the newly cleared counter top and there was a sudden shift in Sana's pace.

The urgent atmosphere slowed to a crawl as Sana leaned in and kissed Mina with a languid kind of desperation that caused the younger girl's body to groan with anticipation. Sana's hands stroked the inside of Mina's thighs as Sana's mouth trailed down her neck and chest and stomach leisurely, leaving cotton candy kisses in its wake before Sana's tongue dove deep between her dripping folds and Sana ate her out with slow and deliberate strokes. Mina leaned her head back against the upper cabinet, one leg thrown over Sana's shoulder, one hand laced through Sana's long brown hair and pulling her closer, the other hand blinding reaching out to silence the oven timer in the background.

"S-sattang, the brownies... they're gonna--they're gonna--" Mina mumbled between shuddered breaths, "they're gonna burn."

Sana straightened up and kissed Mina with utmost tenderness, her fingers now rubbing steadily between Mina's quivering thighs. "Let them burn," she whispered into Mina's mouth. "Just focus on me, Mittang, only on me. Does it feel good?"

The younger girl nodded and Sana smiled proudly, quickening the movements of her fingers. "Tell me how good it feels."

Mina closed her eyes and moaned, positively writhing under the intense touch of Sana's fingers. "It's good, so, so good..." She arched her back as her fingers gripped onto the edge of the counter. "Sa-Sattang, I'm gonna--"

Sana nibbled Mina's ear gently, high on the thrill of pushing Mina over the edge. "Come for me, Mittang," she whispered, and it was all that Mina needed to lose herself. She moaned loudly, her arms suddenly around Sana's neck for support as she came all over the counter top, a wet mess splashing into Sana's hand and spilling onto the floor.

It was indescribably satisfying for Sana to watch and to feel Mina come beautifully in her arms, intense and lingering, before leaning back against the cabinet with soft whimpers as Sana soothed and praised her lovingly. She pulled Mina forward gently onto her shoulder, happily supporting Mina and hugging her, wanting to be even closer to Mina as she slowly came down from the powerful orgasm.

"This was by far the most romantic dinner you've ever made me," Mina murmured into Sana's ear after several moments, still thoroughly exhausted. Sana laughed and kissed Mina's forehead gently, feeling like this was the most romantic dinner she had ever prepared for Mina, too.

Fifteen minutes later, they sat down at the coffee table to a dinner of overcooked beef, soggy veggies, and slightly burnt brownies, but the wine was good, the company was even better, and they were both thoroughly satiated.