"Do you want to get on my shoulders or shall I go up the ladder?" Dick asks you putting another box of ornaments on the floor, watching you with a smile that's bordering on mocking as he sees you struggling to put up the Christmas tree ornaments, while Haley - Dick's puppy - fiddled with the colorful ribbons to make bows.

It was an annual thing between you, at least since you met. Sometimes they spent Christmas at your apartment and sometimes at his, like this time. So you've been decorating his apartment since morning, having to put up the artificial pine tree and untangle the strands of lights took longer than you'd thought.