Hello!
I'm finally here with the first part of my Christmas story! It's just a sort of quick introduction but I wanted to do something like this to set up the story before I get into the main parts of it. Plus, I just wanted to get another chapter up for you. I hate leaving you without content for too long! XD
Speaking of leaving you without content for too long, I might as well just get straight into the story!
The 21st of December was a rather important date for the residents of the beach. So important, in fact, that Lela had been looking forward to it for weeks. Not only was it just four days away from Christmas itself, but it was also the day of the Wet Side Story characters' infamous Christmas party. It wasn't surprising that no one knew about it though since, you know…their movie's set in summer. But nonetheless, the annual Christmas party was always one of the best events of the year. And this year seemed to be no different. That is, until Giggles went back to look over her photos.
"I've had so much fun tonight, thanks guys," Lela smiled, gently stroking her new present from Tanner with the back of her hand.
"Hey, we're the ones that should be thanking you," Seacat said, adjusting his arm around CheeChee's shoulders. "You're the one that organised it all."
"I just wanted to do something special for everyone before we all went home for the holidays," Lela explained as Tanner carefully nudged the bundle of white fluff to stop it walking off the biker girl's lap from beside her.
"Well it's definitely been special," Struts grinned up at Lugnut, who was sat half beside – half behind her, before he planted a quick kiss on her forehead.
"Ya can say that again," Butchy slurred as Giggles tried her best to prop him up with her shoulder.
"Anyone want any more cookies?"
"No, I'm stuffed," Lugnut sighed, flopping back in his chair as he declined the waitress' offer, who moved on to another table soon afterwards.
"Tell me about it," Seacat agreed, looking down at his stomach in disgust. "I can't believe I ate so much food. I haven't eaten like that since Thanksgiving."
"Yeah, I haven't eaten like that since Thanksgiving," Rascal echoed, looking up from the Christmas cracker jigsaw that he was trying to piece together with Kiki.
"Thanksgivin' was only like a month ago," Struts said, dipping one of her eyebrows as her gaze flickered between the three boys.
"And your point is?" Lugnut asked. "That doesn't stop me from feelin' like a pig."
"I know, I've just been eating for a month straight. I don't know how I can still move," Seacat said, almost mustering a chuckle but giving up halfway through. To be honest, he just wanted to nap off all the food he had consumed over the course of the evening and this conversation was the only thing keeping me from doing that.
"Oh stop your whinin'," CheeChee drawled, rolling her eyes at her boyfriend before leaning in closer to him. So close that she could feel the rise and fall of his chest on the back of her head. Obviously she hadn't been too annoyed at him.
"You're not helping matters, CheeChee," Kiki piped up with a chuckle. "You're the one that bought him food for a present."
"Ugh," Seacat sighed, teasing CheeChee and earning a light dig to the ribs because of it.
"Along with other things," CheeChee said, defending herself as best as she could. "And Seacat loved his new beach towel and sneakers, thank ya very much," she sniffed, wearing a scowl on her red lip gloss clad lips until she felt a soft kiss on the shoulder.
"Of course I did," Seacat said quietly, his mouth her ear as he moved his head up from her shoulder, making the biker girl's face break into a grin.
"Yeah, and at least Chee didn't buy her date a moggie," Butchy quipped, directly aiming his comment at Tanner, who honestly didn't seem that bothered at all by it. But then again, that's just Tanner being Tanner and seeing the bright side in anything. Besides, he didn't have to do anything because Lela was already there to fight his corner for him.
"Hey, don't call Holly that!" she squeaked, protectively clutching the tiny mass of white fur to her chest.
"Who?" Giggles asked, obviously confused at the mention of the new name.
"Holly, I decided to call her Holly," Lela explained, holding up the little, white kitten, which let out a quiet mewl at the sudden movement.
"Course ya did," Butchy grumbled, quite clearly not too happy about the new addition to the siblings' household.
"Well it's Christmas time, Butchy. What did you expect me to call her? Sandy?" Lela huffed, equally as unhappy as her brother, although it was for virtually the opposite reason.
"I think Holly's cute," Struts piped up, leaning across Lela to scratch the little cat behind its ear.
"Thanks, Struts," Lela smiled, almost instantly distracted by the biker girl's praise.
"Yeah, I got a really good picture of her playing with all the wrapping paper," Giggles added, awkwardly tucking a strand of hair behind her ear as Butchy slung his arm around her shoulders and started stupidly grinning at the side of her face.
"Ooh, can I see it?" Lela exclaimed, her eyes lighting up as she practically jumped out of her seat in excitement.
"Sure," Giggles replied, prising Butchy's arm away from her before squirming out of his grasp and scuttling over to the table where she had laid out all of her photos. Thanks to her boyfriend's present of an insta-print camera, Giggles had been snapping pictures of her friends all night long. After all, she wanted to have as many memories of the evening as possible. But as she bundled them up and started to shuffle through them, her smile sagged into a frown.
"What's wrong, Giggles?" Tanner asked, watching the surfer girl's face fall as she turned back around.
"These pictures don't look…right," Giggles replied, struggling to phrase her sentence without making it sound like she was being rude.
"Whatcha talkin' about?" CheeChee asked nonchalantly, taking out her new nail file (courtesy of Struts' present to her) and well…filing her nails.
"Um...you guys might just want to have a look yourselves," Giggles said nervously, placing the pile of pictures down on the table that her friends were gathered around and then spreading them out in front of them all.
The teens all stood up from their seats and suspiciously peered at the images. But their faces soon changed to those of dismay. These pictures certainly depicted a very different story to the one that they thought had taken place that night.
I hope that you liked it!
I know that it's quite short but I didn't intend for it to be too long. I hope that you don't mind too much, it's just like a prologue after all. :) And I know that I hinted at a lot of things throughout this chapter like Lela's Christmas present and Butchy's odd behaviour but they'll be explained further along with the various situations. Don't worry, they all have stories to fit into. :)
I also wanted to say thank you for all of the feedback that I got when I announced this story, I can't believe that it got 12 reviews so quickly! That's amazing, thank you so much! I'm so pleased that you're excited for it! Hopefully I can live up to your expectations then. XD
Speaking of the reviews, I mentioned in the announcement that I would be including a little surprise chapter as well and most of you already guessed what it was going to be! I guess I'm not very good at hiding things. XD And to those of you who asked (you know who you are and you know what question you asked) yes, yes I will. ;)
Oh my goodness! You all really ship Butchy & Giggles, don't you? A pretty big amount of you said that you wanted me to use them as a couple in this story, which I have absolutely no problem with because I've been hardcore shipping them lately (so much actually that I've been coming up with AU one-shot ideas, which isn't very good considering I've stopped doing one-shots now. Why do I have to get inspired by things that I'm not supposed to be concentrating on?!). And also, it didn't really come as a surprise that only one person voted for Coral & Butchy (thank you DerpyWither), I'd kind of picked up the message that everyone kind of hated her with Butchy anyway, or just hated her in general really. XD That isn't good though because she's still in a relationship with him in Reality Check (which I'm going back to after this) but you never know, things could change. ;) (Ooh, spoilers! I've got a lot of drama in store for that fic so I hope that you're ready for it!) But Snow bunny had a pretty cool suggestion for me to put Coral in anyway (don't worry, she's not going to be in it much) just not in a relationship with anyone. She'd just be a background character with a few lines but she wouldn't have a major roll in any of the stories. I don't have to go through with it if it's not a popular idea but I thought that I'd bring it up anyway. What do you think?
Also, which couples' awkward picture would you like to see explained first?
Struts & Lugnut?
Lela & Tanner?
Seacat & CheeChee?
Or Butchy & Giggles?
Let me know so I can get started on it as soon as possible!
I think that's all I have to say for now though. Thank you so much for reading!
-cherrygorilla
