This is lovely! You do a wonderful job capturing all the uncertainty as they negotiate their way around each other, trying to find a way to be together.

And I loved this:

"In the past there were years we would go to the Cathedral on Christmas Eve to listen to the choir and bask in the heat emanating from the crowd of mortals and in the later years we would lavish Claudia with gifts, ignoring the chill in her eyes that spoke eloquently of her disdain for the front that we both put up for reasons of our own."