What Derrick had failed to realise was that before he had escaped the elves, he'd been hit by a small piece of a snowball that one of the elves threw at him that he had dodged, causing it to hit the corner of a building instead, but that small piece was just enough, and it had been working slowly through his system, infecting him without him even knowing it!
By the same token, when he had touched Tanya before when he came in, he had passed the infection onto her too, so both of their fates had already been sealed.
As they watched the movie, they failed to notice themselves slowly transform while getting younger. Both were sixteen, but that would soon change with the rest of them.
As they reached fifteen, their ears started to grow slightly larger and more pointed.
When they reached fourteen, their ears were now twice as large as they originally were, while showing more definite points.
Reaching thirteen, their ears were now three times the original size, and pointy.
Coming upon age twelve, their irises started to grow inside their eyes.
When they became eleven, their irises filled their eyes entirely.
At ten years of age, their pupils were gone, but in their eyes were now sparkles like a starry sky.
At nine years old, they gained rosy cheeks.
At eight, their noses became sharpened to a point.
And lastly at the stopping age of seven, their poiny noses were now three inches in front of their faces, but they were too busy watching the movie to notice.
As their clothing changed into more festive wear, they each started thinking of eachother.
As Derrick's clothes became a green shirt with long white sleeves with red stripes, green shorts with white leggings having red stripes, and green shoes that curled up into swirls at the tips, he thought of how nice Tanya was, and how sweet she was.....like.......peppermint........she was the sweetest. He felt more strongly about her now, but was too nervous to tell her how he felt.
As Tanya's clothes became a red shirt with long white sleeves with green stripes, a red skirt with white leggings having green stripes, and red shoes that curled up into swirls at the tips, she thought of how nice Derrick was, and how sweet he was.....like.......gingerbread cookies........he was the sweetest. She felt more strongly about him now, but was too nervous to tell him how she felt.
"Why can't I just tell Tanya that I love her?" he thought to himself as a poiny green hat appeared on his head "I'd like to build a snowfort with her. We could be on the same team and throw snowballs at the others together. We'd always have eachother's backs no matter what!"
"Why can't I just tell
Why can't I just tell Derrick that I love him?" she thought to herself as a poiny red hat appeared on her head "I'd like to go ice-scating with him. We'd dance on the ice and be the best team ever. We'd always catch eachother if the other slipped and fell. It oh by golly, it would be soo romantic!"
As they had these thoughts, the two new elf kids couldn't help smiling unnaturally wide grins.
Slowly, they inched closer to eachother,..........until they were right next to eachother. Carefully, they placed their arms over eachother's shoulders.
"This is it!" They both thought happily "Now I just have to close my eyes, and move in for the kiss!"
So both elves closed their eyes, turned towards eachother, and almost kissed eachother when their pointy noses got in the way!
This caused them both to open their eyes and see eachother. Looking at themselves, and at eachother, they both knew that they'd been infected, and were elf kids now.
They just stared at eachother, but instead of being scared as they would've been if they were still human, each one reached out a hand, and felt the other's face. Their faces were soft and tender, and they smiled warmly at eachother.
Both elves then hugged eachother, and being careful not to poke eachother with their noses again, gently kissed on the lips.
When this exchange was over, both of them just sat there, straring at eachother, and giggling while wiggling their huge, pointy ears.
"You're such a cutie, Derrick!" Tanya said as she giggled.
"Thanks Tanya." Derrick said as he giggled "You're cute too!"
"I....I think I love you! Hee-hee-hee!" Tanya said to Derrick with a grin.
"I think I love you too! Hee-hee-hee!" Derrick told Tanya with his own grin.
"I want to be with you forever!" both elf kids said to eachother as they burst into another massive giggle-fit.
"What do you want to do, Tanya my love?" the pale-skinned elf boy asked her "Whatever it is, I'll do it with you without question!"
"Well," the dark-skinned elf girl replied with a big grin .......