The morning came quickly and Lavinia raced down stairs, ready to open all the presents, Last time her record was one minute she intends to beat it, she waved to Y/n who was reading on the couch, she turned to look under the tree "Presents!" Lavinia exclaimed as she sat down, picking up the first gift and ripping it open, and then another and soon she was surrounded by wrapping paper and presents. She held the next chapter of her book close to her chest and sighed lovingly. Emily came downstairs staring at her sister, They weren't even all her presents Vinnie just loved the rush if opening presents. "Damn" Emily nodded impressed by how fast all the presents came out of their wrapping. "Total unwrapping achieved" Emily and Vinnie smiled at each other. "Thirty seconds, its a new record" Lavinia stated utterly impressed with herself.

"Anything good?" Emily asked, Lavinia held up the book insintely "I got the next chapter of bleak house." She said so excited. Emily's eyes lit up "Oh, nice. We'll find out who killed Tulkinghorn" Lavinia's smile dropped as the book and her hands fell on her lap. "Tulkinghorn dies?" She stated outraged at the spoiler "Oops." Emily said lifting her head and looked at Y/n across from them, reading a book Emily took out of her father's study. Lavinia groans, she grabbed something that was further in the tree. "Anyway, Dad got you something." Her sister told her and held out a rolled up cardboard. "You didn't open it?" Y/n asked almost shocked at that, its why she kept Emily's gift with her and didn't put it under the tree, she made the mistake of putting Sue's under there and it is currently under piles of wrapping paper. "He made me promise not to." Lavinia said as Emily took it from her hands, unraveling it, drawn on the paper was a beautiful garden inside a house of sorts. Y/n got up and went to look for Sue's gift under the wrapping paper mess "Vinnie did you see a gift i left for Sue?" Lavinia shook her head as she asked Emily what the drawing was. But Emily didn't even know, Lavinia found a card and handed it to Emily.

She found the present, holding up the box of jewelry for her sister, how she got it she would never tell, but that job at the inn sure helped. Emily looked up from the drawing to Y/n her eyes softened as they land on her smiling face. "Oh Em" She leaned in whispering she had her christmas present, but she will give it to her later. Emily nodded as she watched as Y/n stood up and walked away, her gaze shifted lower to her butt. Oh she had a nice butt. Emily blinked at her thought, of course she thought those things among others indecent ones, but they had been coming to her mind more, a lot more. She shook her head of those thoughts, coughing caught her off guard as she jumped slightly.

Emily turned to look who caused the noise. "Hell-" a nasty cough came out if the man's mouth "Hello, Dickinson's and Gilbert's." Ben turned his head to his left to look at the Gilbert girl, who was by the stairs, as she checked to see if her present was okay. She gave him a smile. With her talk with Emily last night she is going to be nicer, not that she wasn't but she couldn't keep the jealousy that curled inside her to not try to strike and sink it's fangs into what ever interaction happened between the two.

"Well it's soon to be one Gilbert. Unless you know how to stop a wedding then I am all ears." She laughed, a Ben cracked a smile. "no but in all seriousness if you do, do tell me cause the snake's I want to invade it can't arrive until a month after it" Her face dropped into a deadly serious face. Ben looked coserned but she laughed and it washed away. "I'm kidding." She stated before looking towards Emily who was already looking at her.

"What?" She mouthed as she moved closer to the poet. Who just shook her head and rolled her eyes a smiled planted in her lips, before Emily turned back to Ben.

"Merry Christmas." Ben said a smile erruped onto his face at the sight of the Gilbert girl not giving him a look of hatred, she did notice her look all night last night. He turned to face Emily "I forgot my mittens." He held up the mittens tightly gripped in his hands.

"I just came to pick them up." He closed the door, so he didn't let the cold air inside. He covered his mouth with the back of his hand as a cough left his mouth. The two Dickinson girls looked at each other before standing up "that sounds pretty bad." Emily stated whipping her palms on her dress. As Y/n towards Emily, placing a hand on her shoulder blade and leaned forward "I'm going to go find Sue." She whispered, Sue had taken a trip to the shops to get something quickly. Emily had to stop herself from kissing her girlfriend goodbye as she normally in privacy. "okay" she mumbled, "don't get sick." She added quietly before Y/n went to get her coat. "Oh come on you know me better then that" Y/n stated as she opened the door, fixing up her scarf quickly. "Last week you wanted to go in the snow at night because you wanted to see fairies" Emily stated as she arched an eyebrow at the girl, "yeah, yeah whatever." The women rolled her eyes as she walking past Ben who moved a little for her to get past, she shut the door behind her and ventured to find her Sister.

Emily turned her attention back to Ben, Ben didn't miss the little blush that painted her cheeks when the Gilbert girl and her were talking, he didn't miss a lot whenever the two were near. How they always had an excuse to touch, whether it was slight brushes or long hugs, you don't miss those thing or how in every conversation between himself and Emily, Her eyes always wanderer to Y/n, it didn't matter if she just walked into the room or was in a different room of the house, her eyes always followed the sound of her voice or her presents, or how the two always leaned in closer then necessary when whispering things to each other, like just then, Y/n's hand went straight to touch Emily's shoulder blade, and Emily's attention went straight towards her. It wouldn't matter if she was talking to the monarch of England and Y/n walked in, her attention would immediately go to the youngest Gilbert girl, it wouldn't matter, she would have Emily's attention. That what any man wants out of a women is for her to turn her attention and look at them with admiration and love, pure wholeheartedly love and want and that's exactly what Emily looks at Y/n with.

That includes Y/n in a few of the limited conversation, like the one when they first met and Y/n came bouncing up to him asking about everything Emily had told about her and it was a lot, the way she smiled when her name was mentioned or how she lit up when she remembered events. Like how a couple of times, she would turn to her right to tell Y/n any news or a thought she randomly came up with and the excitement would immediately die down at the realisation that she isn't there, and the mood would shift. You could feel it in the air, how she would still talk and be happy and bubbly but it was nothing compared to when Y/n returned. How she ran straight into her arms, like she would cry if she didn't. He's not blind to love. He, himself knows what love looks like.

"it's just a cold, I stayed up to late and your father is working me to the bone." He explained his voice scratchy, "Well, I'll be off now." Also he's not stupid he noticed how the ring Emily had around her neck went around Y/n's.

Y/n walked down the snowy pathway, the sound of the snow crunching under her feet. She loved winter. Like LOVED. Winter, it didn't matter how cold. She loved snow, feeling the cold nip at her skin. How silent it was, how the wind brushed her hair lightly. She walked throught the little town village, looking for Sue. She walked around for a while, by then she got bored and just walked around the shops just looking at stuff she knows she could never buy, even if Emily's insists on days they go shopping.

Y/n would show interest in an item, Emily would pick it up and take it to the counter, which would cause Y/n to grab the Dickinson girl and take the item out of her hand, and on more then one accession she would go back and buy it anyway, a father that owns a law firm has its perks.

Y/n on the other hand comes from a dirt poor family, no money to her name. She can't work so she could never get money in the first place, and the only thing that would get her money is to marry into a wealth family. Which is something her parents always pushed her on, even from a young age.

Her fingers skimmed the books, on the shelf, dust layed on them. She was to caught up in her own world, to not realise that she ran into someone until the person landed on the floor with a thump. "Oh I am so sorry" Y/n turned around quickly to see a women on the floor, Y/n quickly helped her up whilst apologising profusely. "it's okay truely, no harm done" she said and extended an arm to the youngest gilbert. "Alice Bowles" the women spoke, as she smile at the girl. "Y/n Gilbert" the girl connected their hands, Alice bowed a little. Making Y/n laugh, Alice felt immediately drawn to this women, by her laugh the way she talked, how she acted.

"What brings you to Amherst?" Y/n asked, as she pulled her hand back. She admires this women's beauty and it's true she was beautiful. She had long black hair, that hung in ringlets. Green eyes, a pale complexion but it suited her in her teal dress. "Oh I'm just here to look around, I was told that everyone gathers for the fairs" Y/n tried to recall anything about the fairs. "Oh they are happening next year." The song writer spoke, alice nodded "ohhh" she realised she got the information wrong.

"What do you do here anyway?" Y/n hadn't noticed or if she had, she wouldn't have minded that the women got closer. As they started to walk out of the shop and around town. "Well in the winter they have beautiful deers that sit just by the outline of the forest. I found them last year."

A astonished sound came out if Alice's mouth "maybe we can visit sometime?" She asked, Y/n stiffened a little, this girl was asking her out. Y/n hadn't gotten the nervousness of asking someone out or getting asked out in a long time.

The girl wipped her hand on her dress, and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "um su-" a body slammed into her and wrapped her arms around the Gilbert's body. "Hi Sue" Y/n chuckled as her sister peeled herself away with a laugh "oh my goddess, Y/n you wouldn't believe what just happened" Sue sheepishly smiled.

"Sue if it's anything to do with your sex life, I don't want to know" Y/n stated as her helped her sister up. "You are just prone to crashing into people, aren't you?" The lovely voice of Alice broke to two sisters conversation. "Oh Y/n where are you manners!"

"Sue, this is Alice. Alice, this is my sister Sue." Y/n gestured between the two woman with her hands. Sue nudged Y/n in a way that said 'ohh Alice hey' Sue knew what she was doing. A bright blush painted her cheeks at her sisters teasing.

The three walked back to the house, Y/n and Alice were sucked into a conversation about which one was better Autumn or Winter. Sue was to busy looking at the twos mannerisms. How they acted around each other. Lavinia opened the door, greeting the three. "Y/n, Emily is still out with Ben" Lavinia caught Y/n up on everything. Before going back in the living room to read the next book.

"Would you like to come inside?" Y/n turned around in the dooreay to face the girl. "No it's okay, I have to get going now anyway." Y/n nodded and was taken suprise when she felt the women's lips on her cheek. A red blush painted her cheeks all the way up to her ears, "it was nice meeting you, Y/n" the blush dusted the other women's face as she walked down the stairs and walking away. Y/n shut the door, a smile on her lips, before her sister appeared in her face.

"What" Y/n asked as her sister dragged her up into Emily's room. When the door shut Y/n was forcibly sat on the bed. "Explain" She demanded as she sat down next to her, Y/n went into an explanation on who she was, all though it wasn't much, it still caused a long conversation "do you like her?" Y/n followed her eyes softly "Susan, we only just met and I'm in love with Emily" Y/n stated giving her a look. "Is she?" Sue staid before leaving the room. Leaving Y/n to ponder that question, is Emily in love with her.

"Is she?" Those two words bounced around her head.

She looked out the window and saw an old friend, one that hadn't visited her since Boston.