Another time skip.

It's Winter.
Finally..

Quartet Night..
is already successful.
But they're still growing.
They're pretty famous..
and well-known to everyone.

Lily is about to go out by herself,
but Ai notices her and calls out to her.

"Lily, where are you going?"
Ai asks her right away.

Lily smiles at him, "I'm
gonna go out with Ringo-sensei,
we'll be buying some gifts for
everyone this Christmas! :D"
She happily informed him.

"Gifts? Oh yeah, humans are
  used to giving out gifts specially
  every Christmas. I should buy
  too for our friends and specially..
  for you. I'm gonna go with you."
Ai crosses his arms and touches his
lip with his forefinger. Then he tells
her he's going with her.

"Nope! You can't go! Gifts are supposed
  to be surprises, right? Hihi, I want to
  surprise you, Ai-kun. So you can't :P"
She giggles happily as she informs
him that he can't go with her.
"I'm sorry Ai-kun!~ ^-^"
Lily tilts her head and smiles
apologetically.

"If you look so happy like that,
  I can tell you are excited and
  you really want to surprise me..
  Then I cant go. Hmm.. it's okay.
  But how can you leave without
  even paying attention to me?
  How rude, did you forget about me?"
Ai teases her.

She smiles and walks back up to him,
"Awww I'm so sorry, I just didn't
  want you to suspect me of readying
  a surprise gift for you, hehe."
Lily embraces him. "There, please
 don't be mad at me anymore? I
  promise to be back too soon~"

"Really? Do you really, really, really promise?
  Hmm, I don't believe you yet, can you
  please prove it?"
Ai goes along with her and embraces
her back as he speaks.

"How can I prove it?"
Lily looks at him with a smile.

Obviously, these two's smiles on
their faces just won't get off.
A real sign of 2 people madly in love.

"I don't know.. hmm.. a kiss?"
Ai requests in a cute manner,
he moves his eyes around
avoiding eye-contact to make
It look like he's still 'mad'

"If I do that, will you forgive me then?"
She asks him.

"Who knows? Why don't you test
  the theory, hmmpft."
Ai continues to play the "jealous boyfriend"
without being jealous over anyone XD

Lily looks at him and smiles,
then she kisses him in the cheek once.
"There, are you happy now?"

Ai shakes his head.
"No, that is not enough.
  I want more of your sweet kisses."
He begins kissing her as he said so.

A/N: I'm sorry for all the kisses, lol XD

After that, Ai releases her and she
waves at him as she leaves with Ringo.

The two proceeded to the mall,
looking for gifts.

Lily is in a jewelry shop.
She's thinking of buying Ai a watch.

"Wow, Lily-chan, you're buying that one?
  That's really luxurious and elegant!
  Meaning.. it's very expensive! :o"
Ringo exclaims as he saw Lily's gift
for Ai being wrapped up.

"I could care less about the money, haha.
  I want to make Ai-kun happy. I think
  he would like this, I hope he will!"
Lily responded lively with a smile.

"Lily-chan.. the first time we met,
  You're as dead as a muted-player.
  Now, you're so lively. I'm glad you've
  become a lot more cheerful lately! :'D"
Ringo smiles as he notices Lily's
personality changes.

"You think so? Hmm.. I've never been
  this happy too.. It's all because I
  love Ai-kun so much and the fact
  that he feels the same makes me happy.."
She smiles so lovingly as he pictured
Ai's loving expression that he always
gives out for only her.

"Hihi, oh lucky, lovely couples in love,
  being loved back by the person you
  love the most.. it's the best feeling.
  Treasure it. :')"
Ringo advices her cheerfully.

"Yes, it is. It's my first time too.."
She smiles, "Thank you, Ringo-sensei.
 Everyone.. you guys are also
 me and Ai-kun's first friends.
 That's why, we treasure you so much."
And thanks Ringo.

"That's so sweet of you! I'm sure
  everyone feels the same. Now,
  let's hurry up, before someone
  sees me haha, this is the mall
  you know? Keeping a disguise
  is hard."
Ringo jokes around.

"But Ringo-sensei, you're not
  in a disguise, you're normal at the moment..
  Haha, like a normal man :D
 But you look fine either way~"
She tells Ringo.

"Hehe, thanks."
Ringo thanks her.

The two went back to their homes.

"Tadaima~"
Lily said as she entered the door.

"Welcome home. Are you tired?"
Ai welcomed her with a kiss
on the cheek and helped her
with her stuffs.

"Hehe, not at all. I'm honestly
  feeling so alive. It's like..
  my best year so far."
Lily giggles as she says so.

"No, Lily. It's our best year,
  it's because.. we're together."
Ai corrects her calmly.

"Oh, yes, you're right! Absolutely!~"
Lily nodded twice as she agreed.

CHRISTMAS DAY

A party is held at Reiji's place.
Everyone else is there.

They began exchanging gifts..
But the two lovers decided
to exchange gifts when they're
finally alone.

"Merry Christmas, everyone!!~"

They all happily greet each other.

Everyone received gifts from each other..
Eating together, fooling around, chatting..
They're enjoying Christmas much more this time.

When it's finally time to go home,
they bid farewell to everyone as they leave.
The two lovers proceed to walk home.

But they pass by an amusement park.

"Ai-kun..?"
Lily wondered why Ai stopped
and looked up at the ferris wheel.

"Let's go in."
Ai suddenly spoke.

"Ehh? But it's closed!"
Lily said.

"It's alright."
Ai smiled so gently and took
her hand, they slowly walked in.

As they walked in, the
lights slowly turned on.
One by one, as if the
whole park was theirs
for tonight.

Well, it is.
Ai rented the place.

"Y-You rented the place?!"
Lily was surprised.

"Yes. What? It's nothing.
  Hey, let's ride that."
Ai pointed at the ferris wheel.

"Eh.. alright then. This is
  so great! But it'd be more
  fun if everyone was here.."
She said.

"All that matters to me right now..
  is you. The one person I treasure.
  I wanted to be alone with you, okay?"
Ai said calmly.

She just smiled and nodded while blushing.

They ride the ferris wheel,
and it slowly moved.

"It's so beautiful up from here"
Lily comments as she looks below.

"But not as beautiful as you."
Ai suddenly adds.

"Oh you.. you keep making me
  feel flattered!"
Lily laughs.

"I'm just being honest."
Ai smiles at her.
"Hey, come over here."

"Hm?"
Lily wondered and
stood in front of him.

"No, come over here,"
Ai taps the wood, indicating
her to sit over there, (right
next to him.)

Lily realizes that and
blushes, she sits right
next to Ai and asks, "Okay,
I'm here now! What is it? :D"

"Come even closer."
Ai demanded her to be
even closer to him.

"Aw fine :"")"
She sits even closer.

Then he stares at her,
"Ah, now I have a beautiful human next to me.."
Ai sighs as if he was relieved, teasing Lily.

"Oh Ai-kun! XD.. Wait, give me your hand!~"
Lily said.

"Why?"
Ai asks her.

"Just do it! And oh, close your eyes!"
Lily demanded in a cute manner.

"Okay, fine."
Ai lets her hold his arms and
covers his eyes with his free hand.

"Okay.. here it goes.."
Lily pulls out a box from
her bag. "Hey, no peeking!"
She catches Ai slowly peeking.

"Haha.. sorry, sorry."
Ai laughed and apologized cutely.

She stares at Ai first and ensures
he isn't peeking.. and she slowly
unwraps the box, opens it and
makes Ai wear the watch.

"There~ You can look now ^^"
Lily said.

Ai slowly removed his hands
that were covering his eyes.
And he gives out  a really
warm, loving expression as
he lays his eyes on her gift.

"Lily... it's wonderful, it suits me well,
  and it suits my taste & style. I like it very much,
  thank you. I really do appreciate this,
  I will treasure it forever."
Ai hugged her as he thanked her.

"You're welcome, Ai-kun. I'm so happy
  that you liked it! I chose it very carefully! :D"
She smiles in relief knowing that he liked it.

"Now, it's your turn to close your eyes."
Ai backed away a little and look into her eyes.

As he said that, all the lights went off.
Stopping the ferris wheel.

"H-Hey!"
Lily was about to stand and panic
but, Ai remained calm and stopped
her by grabbing her arm gently.

"It's okay, stay here."
He tells her calmly.

"A-Are you sure? I'm worried.."
Lily feels afraid.

"I'm here, Lily. Relax."
He smiles at her.

"O-Okay.."
She tries her best to relax
and sits back again.

"Close your eyes."
Ai whispered so softly
and sweetly in her ears.

So she does.
By the time she did,
Ai kissed her cheek,
"I love you."

and then he took her hand..
slowly placed a beautiful
ring on her ring finger.

She obviously felt it and
figured it was a ring.
She stops her mouth
from falling open XD

"Lily, one day, let's get married.
  We promised, right? I love you,
  Emily Venus. You are.. my life now."
He tells her as he kissed her lips
gently while her eyes are still closed.

"Thank you so much.. Ai-kun..
  You give me so much happiness..
  Of course, who else would I want
  to marry? Haha. No one else but you."
A single streak of happy tear automatically
ran down from her eyes, she thanks him.

"Merry Christmas, Lily."
He smiles so lovingly as
he greets her and wipes
her happy tears.

"Yeah, Merry Christmas, Ai-kun."
She greets him in return and
holds his hand that was caressing her cheeks.

Chapter 21 -
Merry Christmas!