(PLAY AS RUI!!!! alt vers with Haruka on my profile... i love mafuruiharu siblings... aged up to 21, platonic only)

Christmas day was normally one of joy. Smiles, celebration, holiday cheer... Mafuyu didn't like it. Her mother was always overly nice during the Christmas months, though it was probably due to the amount of family she invites over.

But now Mafuyu didn't live with her. She escaped, now a successful adult. She managed to pursue her dream job despite her mother's insistence that she was going to ruin her future, and she was... content. Still not happy, but she felt like she had finally started to find her true identity, though occasionally there were setbacks that made her question if she was really making progress.

She had invited her brother to her apartment for Christmas, forcing him to leave his overwhelmingly loud boyfriend who he was basically attached to the hip with for a single day.

She heard a knock at the door of her apartment, getting up from her place on the couch to invite Rui in, not even bothering to put on her normal fake smile. Rui would see through it anyway. "Welcome, Rui."