Hello again! Here's chapter 3 on Ciel's and Sebastian's adventure on parenting! I really hope you enjoy it! :3
The next day Ciel woke up, no one had awakened him. He would not admit it to himself, but he was kind of excited on Christmas that day. He knew that they had spent Christmas the other years, but this year was still something special. This year he knew that he wanted to see the look on Alois' face when he opened his present.
He lay on his bed for about half an hour, just thinking, until he heard voices from outside the door.
"Do you think he's awake?" a child-voice whispered.
"Maybe, but he's going to be happy no matter what, if we wake him up or if he is already awake," another, darker and more male, voice said.
"Okay," the child whispered and opened the door. In came Alois holding a tray with toast, chocolate and coffee.
Ciel closed his eyes until Alois and Sebastian stood beside the bed. Alois put the tray on the nightstand and crawled up in the bed to his dad.
" 'Morning, dad," Alois said hugging him.
"Good morning, little feller," Ciel said, and asked Sebastian; "Why did you go through this trouble? Did you do it for me?" As he said that, he couldn't help but blush slightly and he couldn't hide a little smile.
"Of course." Sebastian smiled at him and leaned down to kiss him on the cheek. "For you, I'll go through every trouble in the world." He blinked to him.
"Me too," Alois grinned and snuggled into the pillows.
Ciel kept blushing and looked down at the tray, trying to hide his blush.
"I hope you don't mind that we have eaten already?" Sebastian asked, slowly changing subject.
"It's alright," Ciel replied, and continued after a little moment. "But you don't have to watch me eat, though."
"That's fine," Alois said, made himself comfortable.
Sebastian laughed and Ciel couldn't stop himself from laughing a little either.
"Mom! Dad! It's Christmas Eve!" Alois ran around in the living room and yelled.
"Yeah, goldilocks, but couldn't you try to sit still for a moment?" Sebastian asked him, trying to read the paper.
Alois sat on a chair, a little too high for him, and couldn't hold his legs still. Then he started to hum a Christmas song.
"Goldilocks, I am trying to read the paper, so if you have to make that much noise you have to go outside or in another room." Sebastian talked as calm as he could in that moment, so that the little boy wouldn't get sad or scared.
Alois tried to sit calm, to not get his mom angry. But after a couple of minutes he forgot and started to sing.
Sebastian slammed his paper down with a big sigh. Then he looked at Alois with anger in his eyes.
"Little feller, go to your room, I have to talk with your mom for a moment." Suddenly Ciel stood behind the chair Alois was sitting on.
Alois sniffed and jumped off the chair to go to his room, stomping out of the living room with an angry look on his face.
"What's wrong?" Sebastian sighed and tried to keep calm again.
"It's nothing about the kid. Don't worry, I won't yell at you." Ciel walked over to Sebastian and sat in the chair in front of him.
"What's wrong?" Sebastian could see the pain in his face and leaned closer to him.
Ciel hesitated, but then put himself together. "My work just called..."
Sebastian looked at him and was afraid what was coming.
"I have to go, I'm sorry..."
"But it's the 24th. Can't you just go to work another day? You're one of the most hardworking people I know..." Sebastian tried to make him stay.
"Sorry, but I have to go... It's my company, and I can't just abandon my co-workers," Ciel sounded lost.
"Can't you just tell everyone to go home? It's Christmas Eve, for god's sake!" Sebastian began to sound mad.
"Calm down, you know that it's not that easy," Ciel started to get angry too. First of all, he didn't want to go to work this day, and second of all, he didn't even have the one person he thought might understand him to count on. "I thought that you would understand." Ciel stood up and turned around.
Sebastian didn't say anything. He knew that Ciel had to go to work, because it was his company, and he knew that Ciel had counted on him to support him, but this day Sebastian couldn't support him to go to work. Not on Christmas Eve.
Ciel stepped out of the door, and was about to take his coat on, when he remembered something. He turned around and walked up the stairs to Alois' bedroom.
His son lay on his bed with a pillow covering his face. He didn't move when Ciel sat down on the bed beside him.
"Little feller?" Ciel talked quietly. "Are you okay? I need to talk to you about something."
Alois didn't respond, so Ciel continued.
"My work just called..." he made a pause, but then continued when Alois still didn't answer. "I'm sorry, but I have to go to work today..."
Ciel expected Alois to respond to that, maybe argue with it, but he didn't so Ciel stood up again and started to walk towards the door.
"Okay then..." When he reached the door he stopped and turned around again. "I am sorry that I have to work this day, but I hope that we see each other tonight before you're going to bed. I'm sorry. I love you."
Alois still didn't say anything, so Ciel mumbled "goodbye" and walked out the door.
When Alois heard the door close behind his dad, he removed the pillow from his face. His eyes were wet and teardrops ran down his face, just kept running without an end.
Sebastian sat in his chair in the living room with his head resting in his hands. Ciel had just left. He hadn't said goodbye to him. When he came down the stairs and had taken his coat on, he just stared at Sebastian for a moment. Then he left.
Sebastian hated when they were fighting. Especially on Christmas Eve. Why did this happen? He hated it! And who was it that had to say sorry first? Of course it was him! Ciel would never do it by himself!
He tried to think about something else. Well, there was quiet now, so why not use the time to read the paper?
Alois was sitting in his room, trying not to make a sound when the tears ran down his face. He didn't want to bother his mom. And his dad had left. But he didn't need any help. He could do fine all by himself! He didn't need anyone else...
Alois didn't want to cry anymore, so he took a pen and paper and tried to concentrate on his drawing instead. But every time he didn't know what to draw, his thoughts kept coming back on what had happened.
He didn't want to make any trouble for his parents anymore, so he put himself together and made a tough decision. He took a clean paper and wrote a short note. Then he laid it on the bed with his favourite stuffed animal on it so it wouldn't fly away, and opened the window. He took a deep breath... then...
Sebastian didn't notice anything down in the living room. He was reading his paper, but suddenly the door slammed open. He looked up and in stepped Ciel. He had snowflakes on his coat and in his hair, and made a cautious smile.
"I..." Ciel didn't say anything more, before Sebastian hurried up and buried him in his arms.
"I'm sorry..." he whispered. "I know that it's your company and I should have been more supportive. Can you ever forgive me?"
At first Ciel was speechless and a little out of breath. Then he took a little step back to see Sebastian's face. "I'm sorry too. I don't know what I was thinking, so I sent my co-workers home and told them that they shouldn't work on Christmas Eve. I'm sorry..." he told Sebastian with inferiority in his voice. He looked down.
Sebastian had never guessed that Ciel would apologise to him. He lifted Ciel's head to look him in the eyes. Then he took his arms around him again and whispered, "I love you."
"I love you too," Ciel whispered back.
After a moment Sebastian slowly let go of Ciel. "Let's go up to Alois and start Christmas Eve."
They went up the stairs and Sebastian knocked on Alois' door. When nobody answered, he opened the door, just to find that nobody was there.
"Is he downstairs?" Ciel wondered.
"No, I haven't..." Then Sebastian spotted the letter on his bed. "Look." He took it and looked at the childish handwritten letter with a lot of misspellings. Then he read it out loud. "Deer mom and dad! I wont make anymore trobble for you. I can handel mysef so dont look for me! I am sorry for everything I have don. I love you. Alois. p.s. Mery christmas!
They didn't say anything for about a minute, then Sebastian looked around in the room, to look after something suspicious.
He saw that the window was open and in came all the cold weather and a few snowflakes. Sebastian went over to the window and looked out.
"ALOOOIS!" he screamed out in the wind.
Ciel couldn't move. His body was locked and he couldn't think straight. Was it his fault? Because he had left for work? He didn't know and now he maybe wouldn't find out.
So? Surprised? Please tell me what you think about this chapter :3 Goodbye for now... X3