"Easy there, lass." Finn says, bracing his hands on Amanda's hips as she puts the ornaments on the higher parts of the 7ft tall tree… this was going to be their first Christmas together, both families were meeting up in Orlando… and Amanda was nervous, wanting to make sure everything would be perfect.

Amanda's family immediately took a liking to Finn and Finn's family were immediately impressed with Amanda… but she still got nervous.

"These things make you nervous, don't they?" Finn asks.

"Family get togethers? Yeah… but I think we've pretty much won each other's families over." Amanda says but Finn could tell that the holiday season brought up bittersweet memories for her.

"Whoa, watch out there!" Chris says after helping 16 year old Amanda down, Amanda having nearly fallen off the ladder… she still had an ornament in her left hand, a red one she made resembling a lowrider.

"It's been over a year since… we lost him." Amanda says quietly, running her slender fingers over the ornament as Chris rubbed her shoulders.

"He's never truly gone, kiddo… Eddie will always live on in our memories." Chris whispers, trying his best to console the heartbroken brunette as Amanda hung the ornament up on part of the tree…

"I've always hung it up on whatever tree any of us used that time… I thought it'd help me remember the good times but all it does is make me sad." Amanda says as she ran her slender fingers over the lowrider ornament before doing the same to the red and green snowflake one Chris and Daniel helped her make on Christmas Eve 2006.

"It's horrible when we lose the ones we love… especially before their time." Finn says, wrapping his arms around Amanda's shoulders and kissing her on her forehead. Amanda started to relax, she always felt better when Finn comforted her.

The quiet was interrupted by Sami and Enzo dragging a baby grand piano into the apartment, Finn and Amanda looking at each other before looking at their friends in confusion.

"Uh… I don't think this is what Mandy meant when she said musical entertainment, guys." Finn says.

"Well, there are gonna be small kids here, right?" Enzo asks.

"Yeah, better to not burst their eardrums with loudspeakers." Sami says.

Later at the party, Amanda set her half empty glass of red wine down and sat down at the piano, lightly running her fingers along it until she remembered a song Daniel liked and started playing Silent Night.

"Silent night… holy light… all is calm, all is bright… round young virgin, mother and child…" Amanda sang softly, Finn smiling as he ventured away from Enzo and Sami and over to Amanda, sitting next to Amanda and resting his left hand on her back, the lace of her dress tickling his hand slightly… Amanda looked at Finn before they leaned in and kissed under the mistletoe Cass had hung up earlier.

"Aw… now ain't that just cute…" John says quietly, watching them from a distance.

With John, it was instinctive to want to protect his baby sister… but he had to remind himself that his baby sister was no longer a kid.