present 2019


                                            [Recieved in a 2019 Secret Santa Exchange]


                                            Cold wind, lots of snow, just a regular Hearth's Warming to Cellophane...all alone.


                                            Ponies tell her that she's just being gloomy. Hearth's Warming is to be spent with family!


                                            ...which she doesn't really have. All she has, is staring at the snow fall outside her window in her home. Dark and gloomy, just like-


                                            *TAP TAP TAP*


                                            "Psst! Hey! Cellophane!"


                                            Lavender's voice comes muffled through the glass. The mare reaches for the window and she makes her way in. The filly wastes no time to get out of the winter snow, shaking off the excess like a wet dog.


                                            "Ahg, Lavender, what-"


                                            *TAP TAP TAP*


                                            "Ho! Ho! Ho! ...or whatever, let us in, it's cold out here."


                                            Before she could question the filly she bounded to the door and swung it open, Bath and Bath letting themselves in. Bath had a Santa hat while Bath had the rest of the outfit, carrying a brown burlap bag.


                                            "What...what are you all doing here?" Cellophane stared dumbfounded at the sudden intrusion of ponies and a human. All dressed in costume one way or another.


                                            "Hearth's warming!"


                                            "Christmas."


                                            "Did you think we'd let you spend it all alone?


                                            "Clearly not," Cellophane glanced between them, pausing at Lavender's outfit. "...why are you dressed like an elf?"


                                            "Because I'm helping!" The filly bounced in place like it was the best thing ever since plastic liquor bottles. "Guess which list you're on!"


                                            "...the naughty list?"


                                            "Correct!" She narrowed her eyes. "For moping around on a day like this! And naughty ponies get punished~"

                                            __________


                                            Cellophane next found herself tucked into a chair, blindfolded. It was so fast, she was bound and blinded before she could properly notice.


                                            "So, uh...is this a lewd thing?"


                                            "It might be. Why don't you take that off?" Bath's voice preceeded the feeling of her hooves being freed, and she quickly pulled the cloth around her eyes off.


                                            Before her, a spread of food that...well,it was no feast, but it smelled good. And her hungry stomach didn't care either way.


                                            "Is this...for me?"


                                            "For all of us actually," Bath said from one side of the tiny table. "what, didn't think the rest of us had to eat too?"


                                            "So, what do you think?" The other Bath asked form behind his own plate of food.


                                            Lavender came up to her and gave her a hug, putting a cheap gift cookie in her lap.


                                            "Happy Hearthswarming!"


                                            It was a pony-shaped cookie, cheaply decorated, but it had tan and brown icing. It looked like her. The corners of her mouth tugged upward into a faint smile.


                                            "Am I a good filly, Cellophane?"


                                            She wrapped a leg around the white filly's neck, and nuzzled her head.


                                            "The best filly. Thanks, kiddo. Happy Hearthswarming."