Riley & Lucas
Finding out the truth about Santa recently had shaken both Riley and Lucas but it was something that they'd been able to help each other with a little. They'd just gotten closer because of it. It was the first really hard thing they'd gone through together. The first real step toward having to be more grown up for real. It wasn't something town weirdness had forced upon them. It wasn't something that happened because they'd thought they were something they weren't yet. It was real.
Riley didn't like feeling more grown up. She wasn't ready to be more grown up.
Usually she didn't really feel she had to be when she and Lucas were just out having fun. She found him by the fire with hot chocolate for both of them in her hands, coming up behind him and bumping her knees against his back. "Surprise!"