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This is the first of technically three chapters to cover the holidays! Two of them will be for Christmas and the last for New Years. Christmas is separated into two chapters cause I want to cover everything and New Years is one cause there is less to cover.
So this first chapter will have two and a half of the five choices. This chapter will have Nick, Gage and Sam, Isaac, and Shane's half of Zach and Shane. I finally get to go back to Isaac!
This chapter might be a little longer than usual so be happy if it is. With out further delay here is the Holiday chapters of Life's Expectations!
Chatper 28 – Here's To Us
Gage's POV – Christmas Eve
Finally!!! The surgery happened and now I can hear out of my right ear. Downside: I cannot, under any circumstance, get any water into my ear. So I'm stuck having my mom come into the bathroom while I'm having a bath to bathe me like I'm six. Loads of fun.
Besides that I got to take a week off of school to recover. I had bandages around my head and the part over my ear was fun. When I woke up the morning after my surgery the blood had gone all the way through the bandage and my mom had a minor freak out. I was having fun watching her though.
So after that adventure school resumed for like a week and then Christmas Break happened. So its now X-man eve and of course Sam and Peter are over. Sometimes Matt and Tanis come over but this year they went away to their cousin's for Christmas. Sam is here though and that's all that matters.
I don't know about your parents but mine and Sam's let us open one gift on Christmas eve. It's 4:30 right now, we haven't even had dinner but I can't wait to open my present for tonight! I have to wait though, so here I am in my room dealing with Peter. "Dude how are you so good at this game? I suck!"
Peter and Nick were playing Borderlands. Peter failing at it. "I've played through it a few times now, so I know what I'm doing."
Peter grunted, Sam giggled, "Something your bad at, oh no, it's the end of the world!"
Peter gave Sam a nasty look and went back to playing the game. See Peter doesn't know that me and Sam are dating and we would love to keep it this way. Now there is one problem with that... we are snuggle bugs and we can't really do that in front of him. So to distract us we are competing in pokemon. I'm playing Diamond, he's playing Pearl, it's a real nail biter.
"Seriously how the fuck are you on fire?" Peter moaned. As you can tell he's playing Lilith. Peter is playing Mordicai
"I'm a siren, 'nough said."
"Sirens are mermaid like people not on fire bitches."
"Well in this game's logic it is. Get over it and grab a sniper."
"Snipers suck! I want to be up close and personal."
I look over with a shit grin. "Ya should of chosen yourself then." Peter gave me a questioning look. "Brick."
"Fuck you, I'm not that dumb!"
"But he punches stuff all the time."
Peter got up, "You know what fuck you guys. I'm gonna go do something else!" and he left the room in a fit. Peter hates hanging with us and we hate hanging with him so its for the best. Since now I can cuddle Sammy!
I pulled Sam to me after a few minutes, "You just wanted to snuggle."
"Maybe." I said with a cheeky smile. Sam just smacks me and snuggles up.
Dinner was called a little while after. We all went down and sat down. Both us the Bells and Sam's family the Littles. I gotta say it was a little awkward sitting in front of Sam's dad since he still doesn't know about us.
See Sam's mom is super short, barely making 5 feet. His dad though was 5 foot ten. Second tallest at the table, matching my sister but beaten by my dad by one inch! So to say he's intimidating is an understatement.
Sam's dad is rarely around too. He comes into town every so often when he's not working out at what ever camp he works at. His dad does some kind of construction type job. He living in a camp for three weeks and then comes home for a week.
Enough about his dad though. All that's left for you to know is that he started the dinner conversation. "So Clair how has Grade twelve been?"
"Overall a little more work than I thought it would be. I'm still getting the highest marks in my grade though."
"What about you Nick? How has grade eight been?" I could see in Sam's face that they hadn't had any kind of lengthy conversation on how his year was going.
"Good, I've made lots of new friends. I found out I kinda enjoy the woodwork course," Ya... more than one kind of wood too, "Next semester I have to go into cooking. I'm not looking forward to it."
Nick quickly put a big bite of food into this mouth. My mom spoke up, "What about you two?" looking to us, "How has your school year been?"
"Well the most significant thing that happened to me was I got my eardrum popped by Adam Bruce."
So Sam's dad asked how that happened and I told him. The entire time I felt bad for Sam. I mean his dad is striking more of a conversation with me than he is with his own son. When I finished I looked over at Sam, "Me and Sam will have something to do with the senior theater class' Sound of Music."
"Oh really?" His dad seamed really intrigued.
"Gage will be Friedrich in the play and I'm going to be backstage."
"So Gage is an Actor now and Sam is working the stage. I'm proud of you boys. What will you be doing backstage?"
Sam smiled and began his rant, "Well I'm mostly there as stage left manager but I will also be helping moving the sets around. I'm also responsible for helping Gage and the others through a costume change. It's not that much of a job, mostly just cleaning up after the actors and stuff."
I could tell that mom and dad noticed Sam brighten up when he started talking. Even Mrs. Little noticed, Mr. Little and Peter though different stories. Peter had a face that showed he was jealous of the attention that Sam was getting. His dad was oblivious to everything.
Dinner was over a short while after that. We all sat down in the living room with a hot cocoa and just had family time. At 7, it was time! Time to open the one present we are allowed to open on Christmas eve!
"Youngest first!" Peter screamed knowing dam well it was oldest first.
My Dad just looked at him. "You know very well it's oldest first."
"But Clair is 17!"
Unimpressed my dad continued, "And we allow this tradition until your 18. Now wait your turn or you wont open a gift."
"Your not my father!"
It was time now for Sam's mom to step in, "But it is his home, Peter. So I suggest you respect Mr. Bells and listen to him. That or I'll have to return all your presents."
Peter let out a huff, "At least I'll get the ones from Santa. You can't reach him in time he's already flying around!" Ya he still believes in Santa Clause...
His mom just lets out a sigh, "He has a cell Peter." Peter shut up and sat down after that comment.
So Clair chose her present. Now before I tell you what she got I will explain the family rules of this event. First rule: The oldest goes first. You will wait your turn and be respectful of the person who is unwrapping. Second: You cannot choose your biggest gift under the tree. This present is deemed by the parents. Third: You may wish to save it for Christmas day.
So with that I think Clair chose the smallest gift under the tree with her name on it. And showed it to Mom and Dad. They nodded approval and she opened it up. It was a necklace that was once our grandmother's before passing away. I could tell that Clair loved it. "Mom you don't have too." She has tears swelling in her eyes.
Mom wasn't any better. She was shaking her head, "My mother made it very clear. That the necklace would be yours on the Christmas you had turned 17. I will respect your Grandmother's wish."
Lets say this, Our grandmother got married with this necklace on, not once but twice. It was something she only ever wore on special occasions and it was something we could never touch. So I gotta say that's a pretty good gift.
Now something I hate to admit, but Sam is older than me. Its only like 68 days or something but it bugs me sometimes. I like being the older on in relationships, leave me alone. Anyways though it's now Sam's turn to open something. So he opened one of his smaller, but not smallest sized gifts. Now don't get too excited, it's only a one terabyte hard drive.
So now it's my turn! So as soon as Sam sat down I shot up. I give my respect until he sits down, then I disregard all of it. Okay most of it. So I grabbed the gift I've been eying since it got put out two weeks ago. I grabbed it and showed it to my parents with an intense look in my eyes. "Yes Gage you can open it now."
So to say I tore it open would be generous. I knew what is was from the beginning but I had to have it that day. It just tore me apart knowing it's right there. Apparently one of my Dad's friends found a Theater store where he lives and it has a whole bunch of techie things. So they got him to pick me up a "Master level" Techie set.
So it has a set of gloves for focusing lights. A flash light that shines blue. A black shirt and pants. And to top it all off it had a set of walkie talkies in it to top it off. To say I wasn't happy would be a lie. It came in the mail... I retrieved it... its hard not to know.
When I sat down Nick got up. Grabbed a gift, I don't know medium sized and was told it was his "Biggest gift" so he grabbed another one. It ended up being Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Gamecube. Shut up we never got it when it first came out.
Peter ended up unwrapping some hunting gear or some dumb thing. I don't like Peter leave me alone.
So Christmas day went as normal. We unwrapped everything we had and spent all day playing with them. My big gift ended up being my grandpa's old watch. It's super expensive. Sam got a Macbook Pro for part Xmas, part birthday. Lets just say there was a lot of conditions to it. Nick, he got some huge lego thing. He liked it that's all that mattered.
Christmas was good this year all in all.
Isaac's POV – Christmas Day
Christmas usually sucks in my house. Mom and Dad always get into fights about money. Jenni is only ever in the house for Christmas Eve and Day. To top it all off the youth center closes for Eve, Day and boxing day. At least it opens longer for the days that it is opened though.
Today is Christmas day though so it's closed. We've opened all of our gifts. I basically got cloths and a cheep cell phone. It's a cell phone none-the-less though so I can't complain. Mom and Dad had gotten it set up and everything.
So right now Mom and Dad are making Dinner. A "medium" sized turkey and other stuff. I'm sitting here figuring out my new phone. Jennifer is using the computer that WE got. So I'm stuck figuring out my phone while She's chatting away.
It was about 3 o'clock when I thought I had figured everything out. I still couldn't write stuff down very fast but I guess I'll get better with practice. Now if only my sister would get off the computer so I can get people's numbers.
So meekly I walked into our room and started to think up how I could ask. I could just ask. She'll probably yell at me and not even know what I said though. If I bring mom and dad into this already she'll just hate me... Is there no way around her wrath?
So I guess while I was thinking she realized I was there and started to yell at me anyways, "What the hell do you think your doing!?"
"Nothing, I swear!"
She got up and walked right up to me making me back up, "You were reading my conversations weren't you!?"
I shook my head violently, "No I wasn't, I swear!"
She stormed out of the room. I heard her practically yell at our parents I was snooping in on her. Next thing I know I'm getting called out to the living room. I slowly make my way out. No doubt that will be grounded for something I didn't do again.
"Isaac..." My father started, "Were you snooping in on your sister's conversations?"
I once again shook my head, "I was about to ask to use the computer for a few minutes. I was gonna message my friends my cell number."
"He's lying. He was standing there looking at the screen. He didn't say a word!"
I just looked at my mom and dad. They didn't show any sign of being on my side. This happens almost every time that Jennifer says something to get me in trouble when they don't know what exactly happened. They think she's an angel and I'm a demon.
So what do I do? I scream out, "You always take her side when she tell you things. Never mine!" So I marched into my room and put on my jacket and boot and walked out. My sister had this huge grin on her face as I stormed out of my house.
I walked as fast as I could away. I found my way to the entrance of the youth center. I knew it wasn't gonna open anytime soon but it gave me somewhere to think by myself.
I think I was there for half an hour or something when I heard someone say, "Isaac what are you doing here?" I looked up to see Anthony and Lucas with Anthony's dog Flare, "Shouldn't you be at home with your family?"
"I was... Then my sister decided to be a bitch." My eyes never left Flare.
Lucas noticed, "Anthony go run Flare I'll talk to Isaac." He nodded and ran off with Flare leading the way. "So what happened?"
I explained everything to him. He sat there and listened the entire time. When I finished I felt a lot better about the whole thing. "Thanks for listening to me rant about my life."
"Oh it's okay. I know where you come from. I have a little sister and She's a bitch and a half sometimes too." I didn't know that Lucas had a little sister. "She's only my stepsister. She is in your grade though, Rita Good."
"She's your sister!? She's a bitch! She's in my English and she always corrects grammar, even the teacher's!"
"Rita is a grammar Nazi." We both had a chuckle. "Listen though, I think if you were to talk to your parents one on one you would win. Now if your sister is a bitch enough to not let that happen. Sorry I tried."
"It's okay." Suddenly Flare was running right at us. My eyes went wide but before I could even move Flare was licking my face and practically over me. So I as any other person with a fear of dogs started to scream and flail myself.
Lucas got flare off of me and I back away into a corner looking at the dog in fear. "I'm so sorry Isaac! Flare just bolted and she wouldn't listen." Anthony put the leash on her and tied her up to a post. "She didn't hurt you did she?"
"No..." I got up and started walking home. My eyes not leaving the dog's. "Lucas you finish Flare's run I'll walk Isaac home."
So Anthony escorted me home and everything got sorted out. Now I was grounded for leaving like that but other than that nothing happened. In fact Jennifer was grounded from the computer cause they believed me.
Even though I think I almost died from my encounter with Flare, Christmas was overall... really good.
Shane's POV – Christmas Eve
This will mark my first Christmas ever with a boyfriend! So I managed to convince Scott and Paula to have it at Zach's house. So in total there will be Zach and his Aunt, Noah, Scott, Paula, Larrissa, Connor and myself all at Zach's place for Christmas dinner!!! I'm excited!
But that's not till tomorrow, today we have family time! So Noah is back from college and Larrissa is back from university. Connor's girlfriend went to visit her parents for Christmas so he' hanging out with us. So tonight for Christmas Eve its just a normal night, for the most part.
So I was sitting in my room when Larrissa walked in, "How is little Shane one this fine X-mas Eve?"
"I'm not little." I huffed
She laughed, "Ahh but you are the smallest here." She's barely taller than me and loves mentioning it. "It's okay though, it just makes you more loveable."
"What does Miss University want with the lowly grade 9?" Okay... probably should have asked that nicer. I ended up on the floor with a thud. When I went to glare at her she already had her eyes closed and her tongue out.
Noah from his room just shouted, "Shane stop picking on the big kids!"
"Stay out of my business Noah!" I got up onto my bed again and gave her a little push back. "So what's up?"
"So I heard you got yourself a boyfriend."
Seriously this is coming up now? "Ya since September."
"Hey every time I've been in town its been, 'oh hey see ya later going to hang out with my boyfriend!' and you leave..." She mimicked my voice in the middle part of that.
So I laid down on my stomach to day dream about Zach, "Zachy is amazing! He's very smart and super into brand names. He's got a closet filled with more cloths that you!"
"Girly-boy got it."
"He's not girly... He doesn't even have a 'gay accent' as you call them."
"I don't know what else to call it. Its and accent to me. Anyways I guess I'll meet him tomorrow anyways." She gave me a pat on the head and started to leave, "Just watch out for yourself okay Shane?"
"Stop mothering me and maybe I will. I'm very rebellious, you know." That gave her a good laugh before she left the room.
I hope Christmas with Zach doesn't turn into a bad idea. I just hope everyone gets along and nothing goes wrong. Holidays are meant for happy memories.
Chapter end
So here is the 1st of three holiday chapters. The next ones will come as soon as I'm done them. Remember after these chapters the speed of the story will increase. But before that, there will be some other stuff.
So next chapter will complete Zach and Shane's Christmas. As well as Kale's and Lucas and Anthony's. I might do a little thing for Tanis again... Do you want me too? Email me and tell me yes or no... or just send me a question/comment/concern to kuragari129@hotmail.com. Or send a message to the facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/LifesExpectations.
I hope you enjoyed that chapter and I will get the next one out Asap!
Thanks for reading!