"Hey, Sonia, do you really think we need to bring so many cookies?"

Sonia nodded, carrying several bags in her arms. "Of course we do. My Alcremie even helped me make them, so they're definitely going to be good. That means that everyone will keep wanting more and more of them."

Her red-headed sister nodded slowly, holding a box of Christmas cookies. "Alright. . ." She sighed. "Can I eat one now?"

Sonia turned around, her ponyta-tail coming around to hit her in the face. "No! These are for Leon's party!"

"I know." Rose closed her eyes. "But I'm hungry and tired and. . ."

"Well, we're almost there." Sonia looked up, seeing her friend's large tan house up ahead. "Come on!" She quickened her pace, leaving her twin with no choice but to jog in order to keep up.

The two reached the front of the house a few moments later. They could hear shouts coming from the other side of the door, and glanced at each other.

"You first," Sonia said, nudging Rose ahead of herself. Rose shot her an annoyed glare but didn't argue.

Rose stepped forward and lifted her right knee up to support the box of cookies, using her left hand to hold the other end. She raised her right hand and knocked a few times on the door.

A few seconds passed before the door opened, revealing a boy who was looking over his shoulder. He had brown skin and short black hair, hidden behind a bright orange headband. "Mace! Calm down and quit chasing the poor cat!" he shouted behind him, not yet noticing the two girls in front of him. He sighed and turned his head to look back ahead, his eyes lighting up as he saw who was there.

"Rose!" A fanged grin spread across his face as his teal eyes met the girl's green ones. He glanced at her sister. "And Sonia, too!" He stepped back, allowing the two to come in.

"Wow, its very festive here," Rose commented, looking around at all of the red and green decorations.

Raihan nodded. "Yeah, and it's—" He stooped as a Purrloin jumped into his waist, dropping a rainbow-colored marble that she was holding in her mouth.

"Aha!" Another boy came running towards them, reaching down to pick up the colorful marble. At that moment, the Purrloin jumped off of Raihan, snatching up the marble before the new person could. "Ugh!" he whined. "You're as annoying here as you are back home!" The Purrloin simply snickered before darting up the stairs, making the boy chase after her.

"Mace!" Raihan shouted. He glanced back at Rose and Sonia for a second. "Sorry. I have to go get him— you can go put your things over there." He pointed to a table, which already had several items and trays of food on it. Then he turned and ran after Mace upstairs.

"Well, it certainly is crazy here," Sonia muttered, walking past Rose to place her bags on the table. Rose did the same thing with her box of cookies.

"Yeah," Rose told her, taking a cookie out for herself to munch on. "But it seems like it'll be fun." She glanced around. "Where do you think Piers could be?"

Sonia shrugged and went to go sit down at the living room sofa. "If I were to guess, he's probably stuck at home babysitting his little sister."

Rose nodded slowly, walking to join her sister. She closed her eyes and leaned her head back, finishing her cookie. "Hopefully he'll be here tomorrow at least; I'd hate for him to miss this party."

A loud cry came from upstairs, and both girls looked at the stairs to see Leon's mum walking down the stairs, carrying a sleeping baby in her arms. Behind her tailed both Raihan and Mace, both boys looking quite annoyed at everything and everyone.

"Oh, Sonia, Rose!" Mrs. Heyer said as she saw them sitting on the sofa. As she spoke, the baby she was holding opened his eyes and turned his head to the two strangers. He closed his eyes and smiled as he extended his small arm out to them. His mum sighed and glanced at the girls. "One of you wouldn't mind watching Hop, would you? I need to get everything ready for supper tonight."

"I'll help!" Rose shot up and hurried over to Mrs. Heyer, gently taking the little baby in her arms. "He's so cute!"

"Thank you, Rose." The woman gazed at her son lovingly before turning to retreat to the kitchen.

Rose went back to her spot next to Sonia, only to have Raihan and Mace plop down on either side of them. Hop laughed and reached for the boy sitting beside Rose, Mace.

Mace had dark skin and golden eyes, carrying a striking resemblance to Leon. The only difference was that Mace had short, whitish hair instead of it being purple.

"Y'know, I'm actually here visiting from Unova," Mace declared suddenly, putting his arms behind his head.

"Okay?" Sonia leaned forward and glanced at him. "Why are you telling us this?"

"Because." Mace lifted his nose into the air. "Once I become the champ there, I'm going to come here and defeat everyone!"

Rose rolled her eyes, glancing down at Hop. The young baby was gazing at the white-haired Unovan Trainer with huge eyes full of wonder.

"I'm Leon's cousin, by the way," Mace spoke again, trying to start another conversation.

"Oh my gosh!" Raihan spoke up from his place next to Sonia. "No one cares, Mace!"

Mace frowned, crossing his arms. "Well, maybe you don't care, but maybe they want to know that that means my aunt is the strongest Unovan Champion—"

"Stop!" Sonia shouted, causing everyone to look at her. "You two are acting like children. Grow up." Hop laughed and clapped his hands as she finished speaking. Sonia glanced at him, a small smile on her face, before remembering what she was going to say. "Do either of you know where Leon is?"

"Upstairs," both boys replied, much to the annoyance of each other. They glared at each other with nothing but hate as Sonia nodded.

"Okay. Thanks." She cast an apologetic glance at Rose before standing up and walking up the stairs.

"So, Rose. Christmas is tomorrow." Raihan looked away from Mace and at Rose, smiling warmly. He scooted to where Sonia had been sitting a few seconds earlier.

"Yeah?" Rose tilted her head at him.

"Do you know what you want?"

She shrugged, bringing her attention back to Hop. "I don't really care what I get, as long as I get to see you all happy."

Mace huffed. "Well, I want a Mega Ring for my Mega Stone!" He pulled out the rainbow marble from his pocket. Apparently he had taken it back from the Purrloin when he was upstairs.

Raihan cast him a glare, which he missed. Then he looked back at Rose. "For me, I want the newest RotoPhone."

"Well I hope you get what you want," Rose told him, avoiding his gaze. Hop gripped her thumbs with his tiny fingers and let out a squeal of delight.

"Well I also really want something else. . ." He trailed off, looking at the redhead.

"What?" Rose looked at him, raising an eyebrow.

"He's trying to say that he likes you," Mace interrupted.

"No I don't!"

"Oh." Rose kept watching Hop as Raihan started yelling at Mace. "I already knew that."

Raihan stopped and looked at her. "Wait, really? You did?"

"Yeah. You make it so obvious." She looked at him for a second.

"So you'll like me ba—"

"No, sorry." She closed her eyes, only to open one again as Mace sighed loudly beside her.

"Aren't any of you going to ask about my Mega Stone?" He asked, trying to bring attention back to himself.

"No, because we don't care," Raihan responded, exasperated.

"Well, once my Trapinch evolves into Flygon. . ." Mace carried on over Raihan, much to his annoyance. "I'll make it a Mega Flygon!"

Raihan opened his mouth to reply to him, but just then they heard someone stepping down the stairs. Or really, two someone's.

"Hello," Leon greeted everyone, wearing a Santa hat and shirt. Behind him stood Sonia, a large and amused smile on her face. "Ho, Ho!" Leon walked over to where Rose was and picked his baby brother up. "Hello there, Hoppy—"

Hop interrupted with a loud scream, making Leon quickly shake his head free of the hat he was wearing.

"It's just me! Please stop!" Panic filled his voice as he tried desperately to get his brother to stop crying. "You're not helping," he muttered to Sonia, who was clutching her sides as she laughed.

"I know," she gasped out. "But this is too funny, watching him get the better of you."

Leon groaned in reply and looked to Rose for help. The girl smiled and took Hop back from him, her face lighting up as he calmed down almost immediately.

"Seems like he just doesn't like you," she said jokingly to Leon. He simply frowned at her.

"Well I'm going to help out with supper," Sonia announced, turning around to go into the kitchen.

"I'll help too!" Leon put his Santa hat back on and went after her.

"No way!" Sonia laughed. "Your cooking is terrible!" But she didn't try to stop him from following her.

Rose smiled softly, seeing her sister happy. She watched the two of them leave, thinking about how cute they were together.

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"It's snowing!!"

Rose and Sonia started awake, alarmed by Raihan's yelling. A few seconds later he burst through the room, only to freeze and quickly go back out. "Sorry!"

Rose shook her head, smiling softly. "It's fine," Sonia said to him.

A few more moments passed before Raihan spoke again. "It's Christmas today— and I think Piers's visiting today, too!"

"Alright, alright. We're getting ready," Sonia said to him, standing up. She waited until she was sure Raihan had left before glancing back at her sister. "Come on. Let's get changed and meet everyone downstairs for breakfast."

Rose yawned, regretting for a second how late she had stayed up. She was a bit surprised that Sonia wasn't more tired. "Yeah, fine." She stood up and stretched before walking past her sister and down the hallway to Leon's room. "Anyone in here?" She called out, but heard no reply. Together, she and Sonia stepped inside slowly, seeing some of Leon's old Christmas clothes on the bed for them.

"This one's cute," Sonia said, picking up a white long-sleeved shirt with Stantler and Deerling on the front.

Rose nodded at her, taking a red shirt for herself, with Wooloo wool around the neck and wrists, making it warm. She glanced out the window, seeing white speckles of frozen water drift lazily down to the ground. "It's so pretty," she commented, getting closer to have a better view. "I wish I could live somewhere where it snows all the time."

"Yeah," Sonia told her, "but remember how cold it is? It would be miserable!"

Rose shook her head, glancing back at her. "It would be perfect."

"If you say so," Rose replied, turning to leave the room to change. "If you ever move someplace where it does snow every day, don't expect me to visit you."

Rose frowned. "Fine. I'll live someplace where it's not as cold." But her sister had already left.

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Rose and Sonia came downstairs, seeing everyone all dressed for Christmas. Mrs. Heyer had a red-and-white bow in her hair, as well as a light blue shirt. Mace was wearing a white ugly Christmas sweater, with a Unovan dragon on the front. Raihan had a light green shirt on and a red scarf and headband with little bells. And finally, Leon was dressed as Santa again, only now he was holding his brother, who was wearing a matching hat.

The seven of them ate breakfast, which was somehow better than what they had had the night before.

They opened their presents afterwards. Sonia got a Poké Ball from Leon, and inside was a little Yamper. Rose got a Stantler headband, which she put on immediately, and some toys to give to her Rookidee. Leon and Mace both received a signed card from a powerful Trainer back in Kanto, as well as a Dynamax Band and Mega Ring respectively.

Raihan opened his presents, finding himself holding the newest RotoPhone. He jumped up and down in joy, telling Rose how much he loved her, even though she wasn't the one to buy it for him.

Piers couldn't come by, as he was stuck at home with his parents. They refused to leave because of the small snowstorm, and they didn't want their daughter getting sick. They wished the merriest Christmas, though, to everyone.

"Rose, can I take a picture of you and me?" Raihan held his new phone up, only to have it pushed down by the redhead.

"I don't like pictures of myself. Sorry."

Raihan huffed and walked away to take selfies of himself with Leon and Sonia.

"Hey, Rose." Mace called her over to him. She walked to him, confused. She was holding Hop, and was careful to make sure he was safe. "Stand right here," he told her, motioning in front of a huge window.

"Okay?" Rose did as she was told and watched in confusion as he left. She looked down at Hop, seeing him share her expression.

"Hi." She looked up immediately, seeing Raihan walking to her, hands in his pockets.

"Hello," she replied back to him, frowning a bit in confusion. She said nothing as he walked beside her and looked out the window.

"Did you get everything you wanted for Christmas?"

Rose nodded. "I got to see you all happy, and that's what I wanted." She turned around and looked at his face. "What about you?"

"Well. . ." Raihan scratched the back of his head. "I mean, I got my RotoPhone, and I'm super happy about that. . . But. . ."

"But. . ?" Rose asked, watching him.

"There's something else I want."

"What is—" She stopped, noticing his phone in his pocket. "No, you're not getting a picture of me."

"That's not what I want!" He threw his hands up in the air defensively. "I mean, it would be nice, but I'm not going to force you into a picture if you don't want to."

Rose narrowed her eyes, still skeptical. She looked back down at Hop and smiled at the baby. "Then what is it?"

Something pressed against her cheek, and she felt her face heat up instantly. The sound of a camera taking a picture followed.

"Raihan!" She turned her head around, but he was already gone. Her cheeks reddened even more as she realized that he had taken a picture of her.

"What?" Raihan asked, behind her at the doorway. Rose's embarrassed frown caused him to laugh quietly. "Mistletoe?" He pointed up.

Rose forced herself to look up, seeing a few Mistletoe leaves handing from a thread above her. It was all planned! Mace. . .

"Merry Christmas, Rose. Love you!" Raihan said before turning to run as Rose chased after him, holding Hop and demanding to get rid of the pictures.

Secretly though, she was happy that he liked her. And although she wouldn't ever admit it, she liked him back.

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

I have been wanting so bad to write a Christmas special chapter, and this time I actually remembered to! So now I have a little oneshot of Rose and Raihan and everyone else from back when they were kids.

So I really hope you all enjoyed this, because I sure loved writing it. And may you all have a merry Christmas!

(Art above is not mine. My friend drew it for me for this chapter)