Yay! I finally finished my Christmas story!
I started writing this the year before, but I was too slow and December was already over... so I finished it this year instead :)
I know it's not Christmas yet (not until another week) but the story starts December 17th and that's the date today. Seemed like a good plan to me.
I want to wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year in advance! :D
Please enjoy my complete Christmas story and don't forget to review if you did. It would make my Christmas already awesome~ ;)
Chapter 1
December 17th
'Come on, Matt! Move that lazy ass of yours and get rid of that Gameboy for once!'
It had snowed a lot the last few days and Mello finally succeeded to drag Matt outside to play in the fresh white snow. The problem was that Matt couldn't say goodbye to his games so easily…
'Nah, I rather defeat this boss so I can finally go to the next level. I'm outside, right? That's what you wanted,' Matt answered, not looking up from the small screen.
Mello huffed annoyed. 'Yeah, but I didn't mean this! Put down that thing or you'll regret it,' he threatened.
Matt didn't even look up from his game. 'I'm not afraid of you and you know that.'
Mello narrowed his eyes and looked around him. The white snow that surrounded them caught his eye and a plan was made. Matt was too busy with his game to see Mello bend down. By the time he noticed Mello was way too silent, it was too late. Mello had made a large snowball and threw it right at Matt's bare neck. It was a soft snowball so it didn't hurt, but it was freezing!
Matt yelped when he felt the snow melt into the collar of his jacket. He did some weird dance to shake the cold snow away from his skin and Mello almost dropped to the ground with laughter.
Matt shoved his Gameboy in his pocket, his game forgotten, and bend down to grab some snow.
'You wanna feel the snow too?' he said and threw his snowball towards his best friend. It was a good shot, but Mello managed to duck in time to dodge the snowball.
'You need to throw much better than that if you want to hit me!' Mello said, still grinning.
And so the snowball fight began. It was the first time they had no homework or chores to do and could relax. Well… Matt normally didn't make much homework anyway, but it was still different! That week the Christmas Break had started and everyone at Wammy House was free until the new year started.
Mello could dodge the snowballs pretty well, but Matt had a good aim. After some time a cold snowball hit him on the back of his head and before he could wipe the snow away some of it had fallen into his own collar, melting its way down his back.
'AARGH!' Mello yelled and tried to shake the snow out of his jacket. 'That's so freezing cold!' he complained.
Matt snickered when he saw he had successfully taken revenge. 'Yeah, it's weird but I had heard before that snow is normally cold.'
Mello glared at the redhead and within a second another snowball flew through the air and hit Matt on his chest. Mello didn't give the chance for Matt to throw back and began to chase him around the big garden around Wammy House.
Snowballs flew around Matt's as he tried to run as fast as he could while dodging. It didn't take long for Matt to trip over some branch hidden in the snow. He felt face first in the big pile of snow. Mello took his chance and grabbed hands full snow. Before Matt could roll on his back, Mello stuffed the snow in his jacket.
'I GIVE UP!' Matt shrieked. 'You win! No more snow please or I'll freeze to death!'
Mello looked happy with his victory and sat down besides Matt, who had turned and was laying on his back now. Together they caught their breaths. They had run almost around the whole garden and were now at the backside of the House. No one was at this side of the garden. The few that were outside at the moment were in the front.
'I'm exhausted,' Matt said eventually.
'That's your own fault. If you didn't play so many games all day, you'd have a better condition,' Mello scoffed.
Matt shrugged. 'I regret nothing.'
'Miaow… meow…'
Mello frowned lightly. 'Did you hear that too?'
Matt sat up and listened closely to the sounds around him.
'Meeow… moouw…'
'You're right! I hear it now!' Matt said.
The blonde stood up quickly and began to follow the sound. Matt followed after him and helped searching for the source of the sound. It sounded plaintive and a bit sad.
'I think it's a cat or something,' Mello thought out loud. 'It sounds like meowing.'
'One way to find out, isn't it?'
Mello and Matt stopped before a group of large bushes at the edge of the fence that separated Wammy's from the world outside. The pitiful meowing sounded louder now.
'I'm pretty sure the cat is in the bushes.' Matt turned to Mello. 'I'm going in there to look for the poor thing.'
Mello opened his mouth to answer, but Matt had already disappeared into the group of bushes. 'You have no idea what you're going to find, Matt. What if that cat is mean and claws your eyes out?'
'I'll watch out for th- Oh! I found him!'
The meowing stopped and there were rustling sounds from the bushes.
Mello sighed. 'Don't tell me you try to pick that beast up…'
Matt's head popped out the bushes first and wriggled the rest of his body out. In his arms was a fluffy hairy cat that looked way to skinny to be called healthy.
'Just look how she's shivering! I think she's freezing in this cold weather.' Matt held the cat closer to his warm body. The cat didn't struggle free and stayed calm while she looked at both of them.
'How do you know it's a female?'
'I saw it when I picked her up,' Matt answered.
Mello took a step forward to take a closer look. The cat had a warm chocolate brown color with white paws and chest. Big sparkly light grey eyes stared back at him. She was big enough to be called a grown-up cat.
'Can we keep her?' Matt asked hopefully.
'You know pets are not allowed in Wammy House. We can't-'
'Since when do you follow the rules?' Matt interrupted him. 'Come on, Mello! Look in those eyes and dare to say you don't want to keep her.'
Mello's eyes went back to the cat's and saw that even she looked hopeful at him. At least it looked like it.
'… Fine we keep her with us. But we have to make sure that no one sees her, especially not Roger!'
Matt smiled happily at his decision. 'Don't worry, I've got a plan!'
The redhead moved the cat so he held her with one arm. With the other he zipped his jacket open and put the cat under it. He closed the jacket carefully and the cat softly meowed.
'Shh, don't worry kitty, you can go out soon!' Matt said to the cat while he crossed his arms nonchalant. That way he held the cat save under his jacket and it didn't look to weird.
Apart from the little bulge the cat made under his jacket…
'We live in a house full of geniuses. Don't you think somebody is going to notice you suddenly got fatter?'
'Nah, we just have to avoid the others as much as possible,' Matt said carelessly.
Mello rolled his eyes. 'Just so you know. If we get caught I'm going to blame you.'
'Then we don't get caught!'
Matt started to walk away and Mello hurried after him. It was impossible to get through by Matt when he wanted something really bad. He hoped they would arrive without trouble by their room…
It was a true wonder, but they managed to get into their room without being caught by anyone. By the time they got into the house all the other children were gathered in the common room to sit by the warm fireplace or were in their rooms.
Mello shut the door quickly behind them and sighed with relief. Apparently the plan was so bad that it worked!
Matt unzipped his jacket and the cat landed on his paws. She sat on the ground and watched them curiously as if she expected something. When Mello and Matt just stared back in confusion the cat meowed pitiful.
'I think she's hungry,' Matt concluded.
'Of course she's hungry! She's way too skinny. We have to get her some food.'
Matt nodded. 'Yeah, you're right. And probably some water to drink too.'
'Water is not a problem. I'll go and take a small bowl from the kitchen when nobody is there. But the food…' Mello silenced in the middle of his sentence when he thought about that. Now and then they stole some snacks, but to do it a few times daily it would be too difficult to steal some food without getting caught.
'We could hide a bit of our meals in a napkin,' Matt suggested.
'Good idea, Matt!' Mello smiled.
Matt glowed with pride. 'I do my best.'
'Meow!'
They looked around the room to look for the cat and saw her laying on Mello's bed.
'Hey! That's my bed!' Mello exclaimed.
He took a step forward, but Matt held him back by holding his shoulder.
'She doesn't have her own place to sleep yet, so just let her for now,' he said. Mello looked at the tired cat that had curled up on his bed and was sound asleep now.
He sighed. 'Fine, for now the cat can sleep wherever she wants.'
'Mels, I just realized something,' Matt began. 'We can't call her 'cat' forever. She need a name.'
Both boys sat down on Matt's bed so the cat could sleep in peace. They thought hard about a good name for their new pet. It had to be a name that would fit her perfectly.
'What about Zazzles?' Matt suggested.
Mello shot a glare at him. 'You got that name from The Big Bang Theory, so no.'
'Why not? That show is amazing!'
'It stays a no, Matt! We're not going to name her after some silly name from a TV-show.'
The silence fell again and no name came to Mello's nor Matt's mind. Until…
'I've got it!,' Mello said. 'We name her Chrissy!'
'Why Chrissy?,' Matt asked as he looked confused at him.
'We found her just a week before Christmas, right? If you take the first five letters of Christmas you get Chris. Change it into Chrissy and you got a girl's name!' Mello explained to Matt.
'Hmm, Chrissy the Christmas Cat… I like it!' Matt said cheerfully.
Mello and Matt had to wait about an hour or so before diner started and they could feed her, but at least their new secret pet had a name of her own.
Chrissy.