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Author's Note: Hi everyone! How are you? Hope you're doing well! Today I have a new story for you, the first chapter of a new story that is. I know it's cutting it close to Christmas but I thought it would still be okay to start posting now instead of waiting till next year. And I have posts fics even closer to Christmas before lol. This fic is a little different, it's one that is mostly Red and Kitty, we will see other characters through out the story but for the most part the main characters will be Red and Kitty. And if you know me, you shouldn't be too surprised I finally decided to do a multichapter fic that stared the two of them. The fic is based off the movie Christmas with The Kranks, one of my personal favorite, you don't have to watch the movie to understand the story or read the book the movie is based off either. I really hope that you all enjoy this story, I'm really excited to be writing it but also kinda nervous because it is a story of mostly Red and Kitty and they don't have the biggest fanbase, so please if you are enjoying the story and wanting to read more let me know in a review! I'd love to hear from you, in fact if there's enough people interested I might do some quicker updates and attempt to post the whole fic close to Christmas. Thank you for stopping by to read, please review if you can, I hope you like, and as always please, Enjoy!


December 1, 1983

5:37 P.M.

Kitty Forman was practically skipping her way down the basement steps, a bright smile on her face and a plate of fresh warm cookies in her hands.

"Okay, who's ready for some Christmas…No, no!" she stopped mid question and said instead when she saw the two occupants standing by the room's exit, dressed in their winter apparel. Her grin fell like a glass ornament slipping off a weak tree branch and the sad expression she wore on her face resembled the sad image of that broken decoration.

"I do not know what a 'Christmas No No' is but I shall take a yummy Christmas cookie!" Fez happily announced, from his seat on the old sofa before plucking a colorful cookie off the tray in Kitty's hands.

Neither Fez's words nor his actions were given any attention from Kitty. Her focus remained on the young couple who looked ready to leave her home, leave her celebration, and most importantly, leave her!

"It is the first day of Christmas," she said as if she didn't need to give this reminder. "And you two think you can just up and leave?"

Hyde stared back at his surrogate mother. He knew she enjoyed the holidays but this might have been going too far. "Mrs. Forman, it's the first day of December, not the first day of Christmas."

"It's practically the same thing!" Kitty replied, her curls shook with her head.

"She's right, Steven," Hyde's girlfriend nodded her confirmation. "It's not our fault the guy in the song says there's only twelve days of Christmas. December 1st is also an important date. December 1st means there are only twenty-four more shopping days till Christmas. It's the one time of the year that days are counted by shopping days, I love it!"

Hearing the young girls excited squeal, Kitty hoped that it might mean she could get Jackie to back her up and maybe help her out by keeping Steven from taking off to wherever he was trying to sneak off to. It was the First day of Christmas! It was a day for family.

"December 1st is also the day that we start decorating the house and bake Christmas cookies, watch Christmas movies, do all those nice Christmas-y things…because it's tradition, darn it!"

"Sorry, Mrs. Forman, I guess I forgot about the tradition," Hyde apologized even though he knew the tradition had been skipped over since the year Forman had gone to Africa. "Didn't even cross my mind when we made these plans."

Kitty was surprised that plans had actually been made and the pair weren't just trying to skip out on her decorating like she had imagined. It didn't mean she was now okay with them leaving and not participating in the tradition but she would be willing to at least hear them out.

"Well, these plans better be gosh darn good plans for you to be missing out on our December first traditions," Kitty said, her way of telling them she wanted to hear these so called plans.

Hyde glanced over at Jackie as if trying to gather courage from her, then looked back at the waiting Mrs. Forman, he drew in a breath. "We're goin' over to see W.B. and Angie. Figured since we didn't get to see 'em for Thanksgiving we'd go over now. Spend some time with 'em 'fore all the other commercialized holidays start up."

Jackie had been smiling and nodding her head along to her boyfriend's words but his comment about holidays being commercialized earned him a quick smack on the arm. Luckily Kitty didn't appear to have heard that comment but had clearly heard all of the rest.

"Ooohhh!" she cooed, taking one hand off her cookie plate and placing it over her heart. Her face looked like she was about to cry and Hyde really wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not. "Oh, those are good plans! They are such good plans because you have such a good heart, Steven. Why it is just the sweetest idea…"

"Is it sweet enough to make Steven's rich dad go out and buy us really good and really expensive presents for Christmas?" Jackie interrupted Kitty's gushing over the idea with an important question of her own.

Before Kitty could give her reply to Jackie, Hyde was sending an unamused look her way.

"Jackie…"

"What? Steven, this is the first time in years that I will know someone who can actually afford to get me the gifts that I really want for Christmas. Years Steven," she tried to stress this as much as she could. "I am not letting this opportunity slip by me!"

Turning away from his girlfriend's pointed index finger, Hyde looked over at his surrogate mother. She looked less angry but sadder, disappointed—and Hyde hated disappointing the woman who thought so highly of him, who had done so much for him. "Mrs. Forman, I feel bad about forgetting this whole December 1st thing. I can hold off on seein' W.B…."

"No!" Two voices cut him off, one sounding more urgent than the other.

Hyde scowled at Jackie's wide-eyed panicked expression until it suddenly turned into a sweet happy grin.

"Steven, sweetie, you should go see your father," Kitty mustered up a smile that she hoped Steven would find reassuring. "He's your family and Christmas is a time to spend with family."

Swiftly Jackie nodded her head, "What Mrs. Forman said."

When Kitty noticed that the young many still looked torn, she continued on. "Go, honey. I'll be fine," she pressed while literally giving him a small press on his upper right arm. "I'm happy you have your own family members that you can be excited to visit."

"Yeah, it's pretty cool," Hyde found himself admitting as a smirk twitched onto his lips. "Only other relative I was ever excited about seein' was my Cousin Eddie on visitation days at the jail."

Kitty's eyes blinked rapidly as she took in this new revelation. "Well…this is certainly a step up from that!"

Though Hyde kept smirking and moved his head in a nod, Kitty had said the statement mostly for her own benefit; a way to remind herself that Steven had a much better and happier life now, with lots of people who cared about him and gave him all the love he deserved.

"We'll help you with the decorating and all that when we get back Sunday," Hyde touched her elbow as he made this promise.

He is such a good boy, Kitty thought as she smiled up at him. "Okay, I'd…Sunday?" her smile had sunken into a deep frown. "What happened to Friday and Saturday?"

Jackie and Hyde looked at each other, exchanging looks, and silently arguing over who's turn it was to break bad news to Mrs. Forman. After a few moments of intense stares from Jackie and Zen ones from Hyde, Jackie knew it was her turn. She took a step forward, her hands nervously wringing together.

"Well, you see Mrs. Forman, since we're leaving to Chicago pretty late and the roads are pretty icy, we thought we should stat the weekend over at Steven's dad's mansion so we don't have to rush back on those dangerous roads," Jackie tried to make her explanation dramatic and emotional in order to get Kitty to understand and approve of their plans, but the older woman simply stared back at her. Thinking quickly, Jackie's index finger shot out at her boyfriend's standing beside her. "It was all Steven's idea!"

Hyde frowned at the petite brunette at his side, who was the original creator of their weekend plans. However, when she'd explained them to him her reasons were less about the dangerous roads and more about giving W.B. more time to know her and the gifts she wanted for Christmas.

A small sigh slumped Kitty's shoulders, "I suppose that is smart thinking with all the snow they're calling for tonight."

"Okay, it was my idea," Jackie announced, trying to appear humble.

"It's getting awfully late," said Kitty, after giving Jackie a small smile. "You two better get on the road before it gets too dark."

"Mrs. Forman, I feel real guilty about all this," Hyde's tone of voice told just how much he meant the words.

"Oh honey," she gave his arm another sympathetic rub. "Well okay, you can use that guilt when you're out buying my Christmas present," she broke out into one of her famous giggles. "I'm kidding, sweetie. I'm fine. Go, have fun. Here take some cookies with you for the road."

Kitty grabbed a least four of her sugar cookies and placed them in Jackie's hand before repeating the process with Steven—but giving him an extra cookie to assure him there were no hard feelings.

"Thanks Mrs. Forman," the couple echoed.

Smile in place, Kitty started to follow them as they walked out the door that would lead them outside of the basement. "Bye kids, be careful. And call when you get there!"

Jackie waved back few more times as she and Steven climbed up the concrete stairs, and then they were gone. Trying not to feel too sad, Kitty shut the door and looked around the nearly empty basement. It was sight that would have broken her heart if she hadn't spotted the lone occupant in the room, munching on cookies and glued to the television set that played Frosty the Snowman.

"Okay Fez, I guess it's just you and me," Kitty was thrilled that she still had one kid left in her basement. One kid was better than none. "We don't need the rest of them, in fact it'll be better without them, more cookies for us!" she ended with a laugh.

The sound of Kitty's jovial laughter only made Fez feel even more ashamed. "Aye Miss. Kitty, I do love your yummy sugar goodies but sadly I will have to say no," he hung his head remorsefully just for a moment or two before smiling again. "I have plans to see some very pretty ladies."

"Well," she pressed her lips together making them form a thin line. "What if I told you I know a way you could some yummy cookies and be in the presence of at least one pretty lady?"

Fez's eyebrows wrinkled close together as he watched Kitty struggling to hold back a giggle and then it dawned on him.

"Ah! I like where you are going with this," he told her, his grin spreading onto his lips. "I shall take the yummy goodies with me!"

And without another thought or a quick glance at the fallen expression on Kitty's face, Fez took the plate of cookies from her hands grabbed his coat and marched out the door with a big happy grin. The door shut with a slight slam, causing Kitty to jump before she nervously looked around the now empty room. It had been a long time since she'd seen this room completely empty. What was she supposed to do now?


Author's Note: So what did you think? Yay? Nay? A little of both? Should I continue or take it down and wait till next year? Be sure to let me know in a review!

I hope you all enjoyed the chapter! I'm planning on making these chapters a little shorter than my usual stuff so that I can try to update more frequently, fingers crossed :D

Next chapter, Red will find out about all the kids being gone. He takes the news better than Kitty that is until he sees how upset she is.

Until next time, thanks for reading, hope you liked, please review and lemme know what you think, stay tuned, take care, and have a nice day!