Buford is Santa's right-hand elf, and he knows Christmas success hinges on one thing: his yearly pre-sleigh-launch good deed. This year, though, he's not having any luck finding a deed that needs doing. Santa's son Michael works at the mall while he studies business management and the cute cashier he manages. The cute cashier doesn't seem to even notice Michael, making Christmas less bright than it could be. Buford decides matchmaking will be his good deed. Can he get Michael and the cute cashier together and save Christmas? — Written as part of the Choose Your Own M/M Story challenge hosted by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group. The story prompts for the author were:

1. Setting: a shopping mall on Christmas eve and don’t forget the stressed-out staff and overly vigilant security! AND waiting in the queue at the best Christmas tree lot in the area
2. Background to one of the main protags ~ one has an unusual form of Christmas carol Tourette's
3. Another character: an obsessively superstitious Christmas elf
4. A conflict: animated mistletoe that seems to delight in appearing above the strangest pairings in order to create the most fuss
5. An object/phrase/theme/whatever to be mentioned in the story somewhere: a tinsel g-string