#the first person who tells me that giffing tik tok challenges is easier...

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Under the Mistletoe

Ok, there are no Ethan Keppen GIFs but this is one with Mitch as your brother, so we’re gonna go with a Mitch GIF. ANYWAY, this was requested forever ago, but since I’ve been studying and also suck, I just finished it, so I hope you like it! 

Also Merry Christmas in July, I saw @hockeylvr59​ doing something with Christmas in July and it kinda inspired me to do it, too (if you hate that I’ll take it down 😶)

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Ethan insisted that you go to the party since it was the first one where everyone in his group of friends was home from school and hockey in the last few years. You tried to tell him you didn’t want to, especially since he and your brother had a lot of mutual friends from playing hockey growing up, but he thought it would be fine since Mitch wasn’t going to even be home for another day or two. Ethan was still afraid to tell Mitch that you two were dating, and honestly, you felt the same way. You loved Mitch, but as his younger sister, his protectiveness of you was absolutely terrifying.

You were sitting on the couch that was in the basement, one of the guys convinced his parents to let him have ‘a few friends over,’ which turned into the entire hockey team that he and Ethan were on, random kids from the school they went to, and anyone else that heard about it showing up and probably trashing the house. He had managed to decorate his basement with Christmas decorations, half the guys wearing Santa hats, the other half wearing an open Santa suit jacket with no shirt on underneath it. Why they did this, you didn’t know, but you had to admit, the thought of Ethan with just the suit jacket on was a nice one, even if he had opted for the Santa hat. 

“But it’s your first Christmas together, you have to post some sort of picture on your Instas!” Jacklyn whines, throwing herself down on the couch next to you. Ethan jumps a little, not expecting his beer to spill on his leg, throwing his arm around you and pulling you in trying to ward off Jacklyn. “Or, ohh! Do that Tik Tok challenge where it’s like one person is like ‘this is my best friend, they don’t know I’m in love with them, why don’t I kiss them!’”

“There are so many things wrong with what just came out of you,” you say, laughing, Ethan not even paying attention to the conversation. “First, there is nothing anywhere that says we have to post a picture. Second, Mitch follows us on social media and would murder both of us if he found out we were dating by seeing a picture instead of telling him. Third, I don’t have a Tik Tok and don’t want to make a video. And, fourth, there are so many challenges out there, and you pick that one? We’re already dating.”

“It’s funny, it’s cute, and why not? Oh, come on! Ethan, you have a Tik Tok, don’t you?”

“What?” he says, snapping away from the conversation with the guy standing in front of him, who now was also paying attention to the conversation.

Jacklyn goes on to explain the challenge she was telling you about, Ethan raising his eyebrow and giving her a look that says, ‘you’ve got to be kidding.’ “That sounds like a better challenge for you and Aidan.” Your jaw drops as Jacklyn’s face goes white.

“I don’t like you. We’re not friends,” she deadpans, Ethan’s friend freaking out about it.

“No way, is this the girl Aidan was talking about?” his friend asks, plopping down at your feet. “Oh, I’m Trevor, by the way,” he says, reaching out his hand to you. Not really processing what was going on past Jacklyn and Aidan, you reach out and half-heartedly introduced yourself. Jacklyn and Aidan would be cute together, and that was what you were focused on more. “He’s been talking about this one girl who he’s like in love with, who he thought only liked as a friend. That’s got to be you, he said you two were like best friends.”

“Oh, come on. He’s close with a lot of girls, it could be anyone” Jacklyn tries to defend herself. You look over to Ethan who nods, mouthing ‘it’s her.’ 

“Nah, he said something about the ring this girl always wears; it’s extravagant and her dad gave it to her for her last birthday. It’s got the red birthstone on it,” Trevor goes on while Jacklyn looks at the ring on her middle finger, the one fitting Trevors description. While Trevor thinks more about the girl that had to be Jacklyn, he snags Ethan’s beer and downs what was left of it. 

“I was drinking that!” he protests, removing his arm from around you to go get more, “And you’re talking about a ruby, dude.” 

“He knows birthstones?” Jacklyn asks.

“His mom’s best friend owns the jewelry store downtown, remember? But that’s not what we’re talking about. Why don’t you go do that Tik Tok Challenge with Aidan since you two aren’t already dating like Ethan and I are?” 

“There’s no way I could do that! He’s talking to people!” Jacklyn squeals, tucking her legs underneath her.

“Isn’t the point of the challenge to catch them off guard?” you ask her. 

Ethan comes back, drinks in hand for you, him, and Trevor. “If he rejects you then you tell him we dared you to do it and that you never back down from a dare.”

“If I do this, then you have to post a picture of you and Y/N kissing under the mistletoe,” she tries to bargain with you. 

She’s good enough friends with both you and Ethan to know that doing that would lead to Mitch finding out. You look at Ethan again, taking a drink of the beer. If this was something you had to do, it would be easier if weren’t completely sober for this. “I could put it on snap, Mitch doesn’t have me there,” he suggests. 

“You actually have to kiss him first or we aren’t doing it,” you tell her.

Trevor from the floor, says, “I’ll film it,” as he’s watching the interaction unfold, Jacklyn’s face getting more and more red as time goes on. You all look over to the wall where Aidan was standing, talking to one of the guys from the team and what looked to be his girlfriend. “We can do that, ‘there’s my best friend part he doesn’t know I’m in love with him,’ while he’s talking to them.” 

“I still don’t know what this whole thing entails but whatever,” you say, snuggling closer to Ethan as he kisses your head. “You’re sure you don’t follow my brother on Snapchat?”

“As far as I know,” he shrugs, pulling out his phone to check. No Mitch Marner anywhere on his friend’s list. “Nope, we’re good.” 

Trevor starts filming Jacklyn with Aidan in the background, her looking more nervous than she wanted to show. There was no way she would actually do this. And that would mean no risk of your brother somehow seeing you kissing Ethan on social media. “Do you think she’ll actually go through with it?” you whisper in Ethan’s ear, reaching up to play with the end of his Santa hat. 

“Can I still kiss you under the mistletoe if she doesn’t?” he whispers back, his eyes flicking between your own and your lips. 

“That’s so cliche when you could just kiss me right now.” He does as you say, only to be interrupted by Jacklyn saying something about having to wait until she kisses Aidan. No way would she go through with this, right?

“Well, when are you going to actually do it?” you ask, finishing off the beer in your cup.

“Once he’s not with other people.”

“It’s a party. How likely is it that he’s going to be alone any time soon?” Trevor says, still holding the phone up to record what she’s about to do. 

“Looks like it would be pretty likely,” Ethan says, motioning over to a now alone Aidan, standing there looking at his phone while nursing the drink in his hand. 

Jacklyn looks at you, mortified, eyes wide and probably starting to shake. “You can’t be making me do this.” 

“You were going to make us do this. If you really don’t want to do it, no one is forcing you. Trevor can just delete the videos you already took,” you point out, which seems to calm her a little bit. “Seriously, you don’t have to do this if you aren’t comfortable doing it.”

She looks over at Aidan, him still looking down at his phone. Ethan and Trevor look back and forth between you and Jacklyn, “Get the camera ready,” she says to Trevor. 

She gets once Trevor has the video going, focusing on Aidan as Jacklyn goes up to him. They’re either far enough away that they’re out of earshot, or they’re just talking incredibly quietly so that you can’t hear them. You and Ethan are leaning forward, Ethan’s arm snaking around your waist and pulling him closer to you. If she does this, you would have to post the picture of you two under the mistletoe that’s hung at the bottom of the stairs, and even though Ethan knew he didn’t have your brother as a friend on Snapchat, something in him was convinced he would see it anyway. 

You could feel your heart racing, actually getting excited to see her kiss Aidan when you heard a commotion upstairs. Ignoring it, you put your hand on Ethan’s thigh, squeezing it as Jacklyn actually kisses Adian, taking way longer than the challenge was probably meant to take. She gives him a quick peck, pulling away as Aidan looks shocked, not saying anything. She stands there for a second before starting to pull away. Aidan puts his cup on the floor, grabbing her by the arm and spinning her around to kiss her again. 

“Oh, my god!” you hear yourself say, Ethan and Trevor also freaking out over what they were watching. They pull away, both of them beaming. “Looks like we’re posting a picture together,” you say to Ethan. Jacklyn comes back over, Trevor already starting to edit the video. “So that looked like fun!” 

“We’re going out to dinner on Thursday, and then back to his place,” she says, her cheeks red with excitement, none of you actually believing what just happened.

“I wonder what all that noise was about upstairs,” Trevor finally says something. 

You and Jacklyn shrug as Ethan lifts you off the couch. “Come on Trev, you’re still on camera duty.” He brings you over to the mistletoe at the bottom of the stairs, praying that no one comes down and photobombs the picture. Ethan pulls you close to him, his hand finding the small of your back.

“If we really wanted this to be more Christmas-y, you could take Trevor’s Santa jacket,” you suggest. He rolls his eyes, a smile on his face because it’s for you. He gets the jacket from Trevor, stripping his shirt off to get the full effect. 

“We could caption it ‘I saw a Marner kissing Santa Claus,’ he says, you throwing your head back in laughter. “Ready?” he turns to Trevor who gives the thumbs up. 

Ethan kisses you, short and sweet while Trevor takes the picture. You pull away, both of you beaming as Jacklyn starts getting all mushy about how cute the photo was, how she just wished you could post it everywhere for the world could see. You were about to say something about how the entire world was going to see her and Aidan’s first kiss while Ethan kisses your cheek again, when you hear someone yelling from the top of the stairs.

“What the hell are you doing?” You and Ethan snap your attention to the voice that seemingly fell down the stairs.

Your eyes go wide, turning to Ethan, “Oh, you should,”

“Run,” you say at the same time, Ethan trying to do as you say as Mitch comes flying down the stairs. You swear he looked like he was going to kill Ethan, your boyfriend getting away just in time for you you stop Mitch in his tracks.

“What the hell are you doing?” you say to him, trying to push him away from the corner Ethan was now trapped in. 

“What does he think he’s doing?” 

“The same thing he’s been doing for months! Giving me a kiss?”

“Months?” he looks at you, visibly hurt when he realizes this is something you’ve been keeping from him.

“Come on,” you say, dragging him up the stairs and out to the front of the house. “We’ve been dating since your last playoff run and we haven’t told you because you haven’t been home and we wanted to tell you in person,” you admit once you’re alone on the lawn.

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

“We were going to when you came home, which wasn’t supposed to be for a day or two, in my defense. Plus, every time I tell you about a new boyfriend you want to murder them.” 

“That is not true!” he defends himself. You raise your eyebrows at him, not amused when he knows you’re right. “Ok, but it’s because you’re my sister. I have to protect you.”

“That means you murder him after he breaks my heart, not when I start to fall for him.”

“Wait, do you love him,” he asks, pulling you in for a hug.

“I think so.” 

“Ugh,” he groans, dragging you back inside, “That means he’s going to be around for a while, doesn’t it?”

“Watch it, Marner.”