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So it's the holidays and I felt like I had to write a Fanfiction for the occasion.
I would like to wish you all now a wonderful Holidays! Enjoy!
Quote: "When you feel alone, just look at the spaces between your fingers, remember that in those spaces you can see my fingers locked with yours forever."
"Merry Christmas!" Chyna exclaimed as she barged though the Doyle's front door, her parents and brother steps behind. It was Christmas and Olive and her family were spending their Christmas day with Chyna and her family for the first time. Every since she could remember, Olive would spend Christmas day with Fletcher and his parents. Each year they would have a big dinner then open up Christmas presents by the warm fire. It was a tradition that had started when they were little. However this year, the Quimby family was out of town to spend Christmas with family, so the Doyle's were spending Christmas with the Parks.
"Merry Christmas" Olive replied tediously. Ever since Olive woke up she wasn't able to get into the "Christmas spirit."
"Why so glum?" Chyna asked after her parents and Cameron greeted Olive and made way for the kitchen were Olive's parents were located. Olive shrugged. "Cheer up, it's Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year!" Chyna sang.
"I don't know," Olive tugged her straight long blond hair behind her ear. "It just doesn't feel like Christmas."
Chyna eyed her best friend. The look on Olive's face told Chyna something was definitely not right. She wrapped her arm around Olive's shoulder and guided her to the kitchen where Olive's parents had prepared a five star meal, hoping the smell of the food would lift her spirits.
Olive bit her lip and pulled out a chair for herself, sighing as she sat down.
Dinner went by slow. Olive tried her best to act as if nothing was bothering her by talking during dinner and giving her best fake laugh at appropriate times. She thought she had done well in convincing everyone, but she could feel Chyna eyeballing her at times.
After dinner was finished, Olive excused herself from the table and sat down on the one person loveseat by the fire. She stared at the dancing orange flames allowing her mind to wander off. She couldn't put her finger on what was bothering her. Olive loved Christmas; it was her favourite time of the year. She always dressed in her dorky holiday sweaters and Santa hats on Christmas, but instead, she was wearing a pale pink long sleeve shirt with jeans. Olive toyed with the ends of her shirt and sighed.
Chyna came in the room and sat on the arm of the loveseat. In silence, she stared at the Christmas tree. "It's beautiful" Chyna whispered after a moment. Olive looked up at her best friend and smiled. Olive had to admit, it was beautiful. She and Fletcher always had a tradition to help each other put up their Christmas trees on the first weekend of December as their parents put up the lights on the house.
Chyna walked over to the tree and toyed with one of the hanging ornaments. She unhooked one of them, grazing her thumb over it before handing it over to Olive. It was a red ornament with a picture of Olive and Fletcher printed on the side. She remembered the day like it was yesterday. They were six at the time and their mothers had forced them into wearing the dorkiest sweaters they had ever seen. They were hugging each other tightly in the photo wearing the same perfect smiles. Olive giggled handing the ornament back to Chyna.
"How long ago was this?" Chyna smiled, staring at the picture.
"We are six in that photo" Olive replied, thinking back to that Christmas night a small smile appearing on her lips.
"It's cute" Chyna put the ornament back in its rightful spot. "So you want to go eat some desert?" Chyna poked Olive. "My mom made your favourite double fudge chocolate cake."
Olive couldn't say no to double fudge chocolate cake. She gave a real laugh and linked arms with Chyna as they made their way to the kitchen.
"Hold on a sec" Chyna said. She unlinked arms with Olive. "Go on, I will meet you in the kitchen." Olive nodded and headed to the kitchen. Chyna secretly went to her jacket and pulled out a small present from her pocket. She crept along the floor and slid it to the back of the Christmas tree unnoticed. Silently smiling, she made way for the kitchen.
"Present time!" Cameron announced excitedly as he dug under the tree for his presents. Chyna and Olive were handed their presents and soon wrapping paper was flung into the air.
"It's perfect!" Chyna announced holding up the silk scarf Olive had gotten her. She wrapped it around her neck. "I love it!" The two girls hugged each other.
"It's just what I wanted!" Cameron exclaimed admiring his new gaming system from his parents.
"This is for you," Chyna's parents handed her a present.
"And it looks like this last one is for you, Olive." Cameron said, grabbing a small present from under the tree and handing it to her. Olive stared at the perfectly wrapped present. Grabbing the present, Olive skimmed her finger over the pattern of the wrapping paper. As everyone else was opening their presents, Olive silently unwrapped hers. Underneath the Christmas wrapping paper was a dark blue velvet box. On top of the box was a small card. It read:
Dear, Olive
Merry Christmas!
Love, Fletcher
It wasn't much but Olive couldn't help but smile. She suddenly felt warm inside as the corners of her lips twitched upward. She had figured it out. He was the reason. Her Christmas felt completely out of place because he wasn't there with her. The sudden feeling she got inside was like something she had never experienced before. She missed him.
Chyna eyed her best friend with a knowing smile. "Open it," She whispered.
Olive's breath hitched in her throat as she opened the box. Inside was a silver heart-shaped locket. Olive gasped, along with everyone else in the room.
"It's beautiful" Olive heard someone say but she was too busy focusing on the beauty of the locket to recognize the voice.
Olive exhaled. Slowly, she opened the locket. One side of the locket had the picture of the two of them when they were younger; the same one which was on the ornament. The other side of the locket had the word, forever.
"Awww!" Sounded some more voices.
Olive could not erase the smile on her face no matter how hard she tried. Secretly, Olive felt a lump in her throat form and tears threatening to fall, but she would not let them. At that moment, Olive couldn't decide whether she was more happy or sad. She was mirthful about the locket and what was inside, but she also felt sorrowful that she wasn't spending her Christmas with the one person who made her Christmas joyful.
As voices chatted around her, Olive stared at the word forever carved into the locket thinking, what does it mean?
After the last present was open, and members from both families were scattered around the living room talking, Olive excused herself and went to her room.
Olive sat on her bed tracing her finger across the locket. She didn't know if she felt like crying tears of joy or screaming in frustration. She settled for a sigh as she lay back on her bed, her head landing softly on her pillow. I miss him, were the only words going through her mind. Olive tightly closed her eyes hoping when she opened them she would be waking up from a nightmare and it would be Christmas morning again where Fletcher was there with her. However that was not the case. There was a knock on her bedroom door after many moments of silence, and Chyna walked in.
"Hey" she said softly closing the door behind her.
"Hi" Olive responded, her eyes back on the locket in her hand.
"I had a wonderful time tonight" She said.
Olive continued to stare at the locket, not knowing how to respond. She had had a good time, she just felt like everything was messed up, and a large part of her wished Fletcher was there with her. "Me too" Olive finally said.
Chyna sat on the edge of Olive's bed. "You miss him" she whispered.
Olive was in no mood to argue so she just nodded swiftly. Chyna looked up at her friend's sad face than at the locket. "It's a gorgeous locket" she stated.
"It is," Olive replied truthfully. "I don't know how he managed to get it under the tree though without me noticing it." Olive laughed softly. "I always watch the number of presents grow each year and when I see my name on one of carefully wrapped unknown objects, I examine it and try to guess what is inside."
Chyna smiled. "He asked me to do it for him."
"What?" Olive questioned.
"He wanted you to be surprised so he asked me to put it under the tree right before we opened presents."
Olive hugged Chyna. "You're a good friend" she whispered in her ear.
"Why don't you give him a call?" Chyna suggested softly when they broke apart.
"No I can't" Olive said. "He's probably eating dinner or something."
Chyna looked at Olive's bedside clock. "At nine o'clock at night?"
"Lots of people eat dinner at this hour" Olive protested.
"I don't know any" Chyna said. "Just call him. He's probably craving your voice as much as you're craving his."
"I don't know" Olive's voice trailed off.
Chyna pulled out her cell phone, and scrolled through her contacts list until she hit the one she wanted. She pressed the call button and handed the phone over to Olive. "It's ringing," she said.
"No I can't!" Olive threw the phone back to Chyna. Chyna grabbed the phone and placed it on Olive's ear.
"Hey Chyna" the familiar voice Olive had been yearning for hours said flatly through the phone. Olive glared at Chyna before taking the phone from her and holding it to her ear.
"I-It's not Chyna" Olive stuttered. "It's Olive."
"Really?" His voice became filled with happiness within seconds and even Chyna, who was standing out of ear shot, could tell by the growing smile on Olive's face.
"Really." Olive twirled a strand of blond hair around her finger in nervousness.
Chyna gave a knowing smile and silently excused herself from the room, closing the door behind her to give them privacy.
"How are you doing?" Fletcher asked.
"Okay" Olive sighed. "Christmas is not the same without you."
"No it's not" Fletcher agreed.
"Thank you for the locket" Olive said, the smile on her face never disappearing.
Fletcher gave a breathed laugh. "You're welcome. Were you surprised?"
Olive giggled, "very."
Olive ran he finger over the locket and smiled. She couldn't think of a better time than that moment, so she gathered all the courage she had and after a long moment of silence she voiced softly, "I miss you."
It took Fletcher a moment to corral what she had said and when he had, he couldn't help but smile. "I miss you too." He replied.
On the other side of Olive's bedroom door, Chyna gave a little clap of glee.
A/N: I wasn't actually planning on this chapter to be so long. I wanted to write this story in what I call skeleton writing, which is just the basics of the story. I think I did that but anyone who truly knows me, knows I like my writing to continue on with lots of detail.
I've always wanted a locket for Christmas, or just in general, which is why I chose it as Olive's present. I chose a scarf for Chyna's present because my friend just gave me the cutest scarf in the world and I can't take it off! And as for Cameron's present, I could think of much of what a teenage boy would want.
I really like this story and I hope you do to. This is my Christmas present to all my readers.
I am planning for this short story to have one more chapter in Fletchers POV…..if I get many good reviews, (15 reviews minimum) I will post the next chapter on Christmas.
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