New Year's Day
Basil Grimm, youngest Grimm, was five today, on New Year's day. And proud of it.
"Red! Red!" He hurried as fast as his five-year-old legs could carry him across the kitchen to his older 'sister'.
"What, Dumplin'?" Red turned from the sink, using the name she had made especially for him.
"Does my cake say I'm five?" The small red haired boy looked anxiously up at his idol cleaning the cake decorating tools.
Red bent down to his eye level, drying her hands on a dish cloth as she did. "Of course it does, Dumplin'. It's also got 'Happy Birthday, Basil!" on it. Do you want to see?"
The five-year old nodded enthusiastically, and Red smiled as she scooped him up and carried him to the table to see her handiwork. Basil's eyes grew wide at the sight of the three layer, German's chocolate, cream cheese icing confection. "Wow."
Red nodded. "Isn't it cool?" She asked happily. "What color is it?"
Basil eyed the cake carefully. "Um... Blue and brown!" He decided.
Red shook her head. "Nope. But you were close! It's blue and yellow."
Basil clapped his hands, and kissed his adoptive sister on the cheek. "Tank you!" Red blushed and smiled at him. She was still getting used to a family who really loved her, and she had to say, Basil was her favorite adoptive sibling.
"You're welcome." She set him down. "Now, go take a nap, and let me finish cleaning this mess up."
"Okay! I love you!" The five year old todled out of the kitchen. Red watched him go, a smile on her lips as shefinished cleaning.
~The Sisters Grimm~
Five years later, Red was the coolest person, next to Puck, that Basil knew. At ten for him, sixteen(appearance-wise, anyway), she was still baking his birthday cakes, playing video games with him, and making sure his shirts were clean. She was the ultimate big-sister-best-friend-mom combo. He loved his mother and sisters, but they weren't all in one. But Red was. Which made her awesome.
"Hey, Basil." Red called up the stairs. "Your Mom needs some things for supper tomorrow for New Year's. Want to drive to the grocery store with me?"
Of course, she knew the answer to that. The words were hardly out of her mouth and he was already sliding down the banister. "Duh!" He smiled up at his ultimate combo family member. Red chuckled.
"Go get your coat, it's cold out."
See? There was the mother part of his combo.
~The Sisters Grimm~
At twenty, Basil was in love. And creeped out. And confused. All. At. The. Same. Time.
He had felt this before, minus the creeped out part. He had ad crushes, and girlfriends before. But now it was directed at... Red. Creepy. She was his big-sister-best-friend-mother ultimate combo. He was sure she saw him as her little brother. And that was confusing.
But when he asked her out on New Year's day, just seconds after the clock had signified the New Year, she had smiled brightly, lighting up his world, and said yes.
Maybe it wasn't creepy or strange. Maybe she loved him that way, too. That would be awesome.
~The Sisters Grimm~
Just seven years after his confusion(Puck had cleared it up. "Look. The Old Lady adopted me. I'm somewhat Sabrina's uncle. But is that creepy? No. At least, that's what Marshmellow says. Anyway, you two aren't related. Marshmellow likes to think of it as falling for your best friend. Got it?"), Basil was in love. And so was Red.
And it was a very big day.
A very, very big day, Basil thought, as he slipped his hand into his pocket and fingered the small box in his jacket pocket.
It was New Year's eve. And Basil was a man with a plan.
"Basil!" Red bounced up beside him, cheeks pink, curly hair pulling loose from it's ponytail. Basil turned and kissed her on the cheek, already fumbling. Inwardly, he sighed. He hadn't even made it to the first step and he wanted to curl up and hide.
Red smiled up at her boyfriend. Maybe this year he would propose. Maybe, in 2051, he would finally ask. A girl could dream.
"So, ready to ring in the New Year?" Red asked, slipping her small, slim hand into his sweating larger one.
Basil smiled down at her, hoping shecouldn't guess butterflies were doing the waltz in his stomach. "Again? I've only done, what, fourty three?"
"My, you don't look your age. Red giggled.
"Back at cha." Basil retorted.
Red grinned, and pulled him towards the living room. "Come on. Before Puck decides we were being "All stange and romantic"."
~The Sisters Grimm~
"Ten, Nine..." Basil wiped his hands on his pants, and reached into his pocket. Before he could chicken out, he dropped to one knee in front of Red. She looked at him, and her eyes got wide, her hands already flying to cover her mouth.
Basil grinned. This was almost a sure sign that she would say yes. It usually did when he offered her a boquet of flowers and a huge box of chocolate on Valentines day, any way. Swallowing, very concious of the fact that his entire family was watching, that Daphne was almost eating her hand, and that Sabrina had just elbowed Puck to get him to look up from his soda pop, Basil whispered "Will you marry me?"
Red's very enthusiastic kiss, just as the clock hit 12, was all the answer he needed.
~The Sisters Grimm~
One year later exactly, to the second, Basil and Red kissed, her arms winding around his neck, his around her waist. Basil ignored the roses tickling his head, she ignored the tie pressing into her. After all, they had just said they'd spent forever together, in front of a priest, their family, and God.
New Year's, Basil decided, pulling back from his wife and turning to his family, was the best time of year.
~The Sisters Grimm~
Hi, everyone! If you've been following, eaing, reviewing, and just generally not ignoring my story, 'College Life for a Human and a Fairy'(I have got to find a better title!), you will know that this has been coming. You will also realize that I hit witers bock with my continuing story.
But anyway, how do you like this? I just realized a few days ago while working on this, that 'Random Things in the lives of the Grimms' began with Puck and Sabrina. "More Random Things in the Lives of the Grimms' began with Daphne and Pinnochino. And finally, "Even More Random Things in the Lives of the Grimms" began with Basil and Red. Cool, right?
In this story, I will NOT be accepting requests. I'm sorry, but the idea is for me to come up with an idea, and to, by writing it, refind my creativity for 'College Life for a Human and a Fairy'.
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