My Christmas project for this year. Pretty simple but hopefully enjoyable. Yes, there are 12 following the actual 2 days of Christmas. Happy holidays!
No, I don't own 'em.
Please review.
Sora: Age 5
Riku: Age 6
Blue eyes widened in disbelief. "Whadya mean you don't do Christmas?"
Riku shrugged a little as if it wasn't a big deal. He continued picking at the peanut butter and jelly sandwich he had traded with Tidus for his own chicken salad. Every day, he traded his fancy, healthy sandwiches with whoever had the best looking pb and j. It usually ended up being Tidus; his mom had apparently perfected making the things because his always tasted the best. "We don't really do any holidays."
"What about your birthday?"
A strange look flitted across the silver-haired boy's expression. "What about it?"
"You have birthday parties, right?" Sora asked his new friend. They had met a few weeks ago on the playground at recess.
Riku had been sitting alone on the stone fence of the school yard and upon seeing him, Sora had asked if anyone knew who he was. Wakka had said the boy was in his grade but in the gifted classes and even though he was well-liked, he kept to himself for the most part. The younger child had decided right then and there that Riku was going to be his best friend.
"No."
"What?" Sora jumped up in shock. The very idea of not having a birthday party was a completely foreign concept to him. His mother made a big deal out of all holidays, especially Christmas and birthdays. "Are you kidding?"
Riku shook his head. "Why would I kid about that?"
"Why don't you?"
"I don't know," replied Riku, a frown pulling at the pale skin of his face. It had not been until last year when he first began attending school that Riku had even become aware that people did celebrate these occasions. "I asked Mom last year why and she just said we didn't do that kind of thing."
Sora's eyes brightened in that abrupt way that Riku had noted right away and was certain had to be a unique trait to the boy. "Well, you do now! I'm gonna teach you everything I know about Christmas!"
"I know about Christmas." Riku counted.
"Not the important stuff." The spiky brunet started listing things off on his fingers. "Like I bet you don't know how to decorate a tree or make Christmas cookies or making presents and getting presents or anything like that, do you?"
Riku looked down at his feet. No, he didn't know about any of that. He had been taught what the holiday meant, what its purpose was, but his mother had never gone into how people celebrated it. Since they didn't participate in those activities, why did he need to know?
But he wanted to know. He wanted to learn all about the things that people normally did at this time of year. He saw the decorated houses and yards and thought it could be fun to have his house done up also. Last year, he had heard the other kids talk about the gifts they had gotten and the games they had played with relatives that visited. He wanted to do these things, too.
"Come on!" Sora grabbed his hand and began pulling him toward the gate that let them out of the schoolyard. "We're going to my house and I'm gonna teach you everything!"
Riku let himself be dragged away and smiled. At first he had been a little uncertain about this spiky-haired brunet boy who tended to be on the hyperactive side. He had been even more uncertain about becoming best friends with him. Now he was glad Sora had burst into his life.
Somehow he knew that Christmas was going to become something special for their friendship.