December 17 2014, Wednesday
09:23 AM.

The Holidays have arrived to Hiddenville so fast that some people hasn't realized it yet. Most people spend the whole year waiting for this season, just like the joyful Phoebe Thunderman, who right now is very concentrated with the Christmas decoration of the house. Christmas was always her favorite holiday, because she loves spending time with her family, watching all those specials on T.V., using her favorite winter clothes, and sometimes, eating some of those delicious meals that can only be tasted on these days.

Nobody knew it yet, but this year Phoebe has prepared something new for her family.

However, for Max Thunderman things were a little bit different. For him, Christmas was one of the most annoying holidays. Every year, he had to tolerate the carols, the red-green decorations, spending time with the family, the hugs, etc. Being a future villain, he simply felt he didn't fit with the celebrations, so every year he tried to ruin Christmas for his family. But somehow, all of his evil plans would be ruined, and at the end of the day, all the family would end up having a merry Christmas.

From all of them, Phoebe was always the most excited, and being in the living room decorating the Christmas tree, she couldn't do anything but smile every time she made a break to admire how beautiful it was getting. She put some other things around the living room, like a ornament wreath and some vases full with ornaments too, but without a doubt, the tree was the most important thing to do, and she had to dedicate the necessary time. That big and marvelous pine has remained in that spot since last day, after Hank flew to Metroburg to get it from one of the leafiest forests of the city, since that kind of vegetation doesn't really abound in Hiddenville.

"Yep, I need to put some ornaments over here." A concentrated Phoebe whispers, as she sees the tree very carefully.

07:35 AM.

The young hero programmed the wake up alarm of her MePhone M2 at 7:00 AM, and after she got up, she ran to her bathroom to doll herself. She was on vacations and it wasn't necessary to use make up or dress as a model, so she decided to use a simple outfit with different purple tones, and she tied her hair with a braid. When she went to the living room, Hank and Barb were in the kitchen, getting ready to go out shopping. All of her siblings were still sleeping for sure.

"Good morning!" A joyful Phoebe says as she walks down the stairs.

"Hi! Good morning!" Barb answers, and then she takes her purse from the table.

"Oh, you're leaving?" She curiously asks.

"Yeah, we're going to Cost Club, we have to buy some stuff for the dinner. You need some help with the tree?" Hank replies, without being able to stop eating cookies from a jar.

"Nah I'm fine, I'll take care of the decorations, and the house. But... drive safely." Phoebe says.

Once her parents closed the main door of the house, Phoebe walked up to the attic to find all the Christmas stuff, but she decided to leave the exterior to them. Not because she couldn't do it by herself, because with her telekinesis it was easy as pie, she just liked to share those moments with her family. Besides, using her powers to do all the decorations faster, would take all the fun away, it wouldn't' be the same.

But right now, after she had all she needed in the living room, she got down to work. From the black bags she found in the attic, she took out the lights in order to cover the tree with them, but not before untangle them, which took her some time.

09:40 AM.

Red, blue, pink, purple, silver, with all those colorful ornaments and candy bars, the tree was definitely reflecting the Christmas spirit. A couple hours have passed since she started covering it with all those lights, but she took a lot of time placing all the other stuff, and since she is a very attentive person, she wanted everything look perfect.

After putting the last ornaments on the branches, she couldn't be more satisfied with her work. And as she was contemplating the tree, she let out a big smile, and then she proceeded with the most important thing; light up the tree.

"Aw! you look so beautiful." Phoebe says with a sweet girly voice.

"Thank you Phoebe, you look beautiful too." She replied herself with a fake deep voice, pretending the tree was talking to her. She was unable to control her laughs.

Right now, hundreds of shining lights are covering the tree from her old home. She thought it looked cuter than in previous years. She didn't understand how people could not enjoy this celebration. She tried to stop thinking about it and continue with the other stuff.

"All right, what do we got here...?" She curiously says, taking one of the black bags.

She took out some cushions with some snowmen engraved, and then she put them on the couch, giving all the furniture a nice touch. Right after, she took one of the boxes. It was sealed with scotch tape, but she tried to open it anyway.

"Damn! I think dad was exaggerating with the tape last year." She says, a little bit annoyed.

She didn't have a cutter or scissors to cut them, but she came up with something; she could use her powers to remove the tape, and very carefully, she pointed her index finger and focused her telekinesis on one of the covered edges. She had a mental image of the tape getting ripped and a couple seconds later, she slightly moved her finger and finally the tape got ripped. She was now able to open the box, and she repeated the same process with the other boxes.

She took out some silver garlands, and then she walked to the stairs to place them on the rail. Soon by soon, she rolled all the garlands, and when the boxes were getting empty, she added some ornaments to give them a better view. She looked around and she was very happy to see how beautiful her house was looking now. She loves decorating.

10:37 AM.

At that moment, she sees Nora and Billy walking down the stairs, and after they saw how the living room was looking now, they were stunned:

"Wow! Phoebe got here early." Billy says, looking around him.

"You did all this alone?" Nora asks, not being able to stop looking at the tree.

"Yep. You like it?" Phoebe replies very happy. Her smile could only grow right now.

"Sure! And I'm not gonna lose Max's expression when he see it, if he ever wakes up before afternoon." Nora says.

Right after, the girl with the red-green bow continued with her walk along with her brother, and they went to the back door, next to their garden. Phoebe got really curious after she realized her little siblings were overdressed. Its winter but it's not really cold outside, so she tried to solve her doubt:

"Oh and... why are you wearing your coats? Are you gonna play outside?" She curiously asks.

"Sort of… Billy came up with a couple ideas to have snow in Hiddenville, he wanna try them up." The little girl explains.

"A couple ideas?" The confused teenager asks.

"Yeah... I got surprised too." Nora says, provoking the appearance of a discrete smile on Phoebe's face.

The kids left the room after they ran to the garden, and once again, the teenager was alone in the house. Her parents went to the store and now her little sibling went to play outside, the only one left was her twin, Max. She stood there for a minute, next to the stairs, as though she was waiting to see him walking out of his lair, but it didn't happen. Phoebe thought he must be still sleeping. When she returned to reality, she realized that the living room was practically done, and she considered it was time to carry out her plan, so she quickly ran up to her room to get everything ready.

Once she got there, she searched inside her closet and took a little basket that she placed on her bed. Then she went to her desk and took some yellow sheets, a ballpoint pen, and a pair of scissors. She sits on the chair and proceeds to cut the sheets in 5 equal parts. When the last one was perfectly cut, she grabs the pen and begins writing something. "Barb", "Hank", "Billy", "Nora" and... "Max" That's what she wrote on the papers.

This was going to be the first Christmas they have in Hiddenville, and she knew it would be slightly different compared with the Christmas they had in her hometown, so she came up with the idea of planning a secret Santa gift exchange for the family. She just had to wait for the right moment to give out their names.

She folds the 5 little papers one by one, and then she put them inside of the basket, but after putting the last one, she hears an awkward sound coming from her closet. She approached there, and slowly opened the door. The next thing she sees is a box that fell from a shelf, but she didn't remember it, so she leaned there to open it.

"Damn I almost forgot!" She thought, after she saw what was inside of it.

She took the box and the basket, and then she ran out of her room.

10:53 AM.

When she returned to the living room, she placed the little basket on the central table, and with the box in her hands, she went to the stairs again. One by one, she begins to hang all of the 5 Christmas socks of the family. All of them were very similar, they had beautiful colors and shiny sequins, and they had the name of each family member written by them. They looked similar except for Max's. His Christmas sock was a simple dirty sock, with his name written in red.

When Phoebe took her twin's sock to put it on the rail, she stood there holding it with her right hand, and she couldn't help but remember the first time they used these socks to decorate their old house form Metroburg.

December 24 2011, Saturday.
04:45 PM.

It was 3 years ago in Metroburg. That day, Barb had an idea; create Christmas socks and put them on the chimney, and for that purpose, she took the whole morning and went to the mall to buy some stuff, so everyone could make their own sock. But they had one condition for it; they had to be ready before Christmas Eve, so everyone accepted this condition, all except for Max, of course.

"Christmas socks? I refuse to be part of this silly activity." Max said, standing up from the couch and crossing his arms, after he heard the wonderful idea his mother had.

But Barb made it clear that he had no choice:

"Well, you may not be part of this 'silly activity' but guess who's gonna wash the dishes all next week?" Barb replied, with a serious tone of voice.

So, Max was forced to participate as one of them, but he definitely was going to make it his own way, and less than 2 minutes later, he was returning from his room with Barb's petition on his hands, and leaving all his family speechless the moment they saw what he brought, specially Phoebe, who couldn't stop looking at her brother since he came back to the living room.

"This...?" Barb asked, a little bit confused.

"It has my name written in red and... it's a sock right?" He challengingly said.

"All right," Barb accepted, a little bit pissed off.

The young mother's eyes couldn't believe what they were looking at, and no matter how much she wanted to deny it, it was just what she asked, so Barb had no other choice but putting his old sock on the chimney, along with the others.

December 17 2014, Wednesday
11:05 AM.

The only thing Phoebe could do, was smile after she had those heartwarming memories back on her mind, she then kept hanging the 3 remaining socks. And while she was putting the last one, she saw a pair of jingle bells inside of the box, so she grabbed them and placed the empty box on one of the steps. Once she did that, she has done with the decorations.

At that very moment, Max enters in the living room and he instantly puts his eyes on his sister.

"Oh... Merry almost Christmas!" Phoebe happily says, while ringing the bells.

"Christmas? Again?" The young villain says, visibly annoyed.

To be continued...