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The months between then and Christmas flew past. Hurley had returned to education, and to stop from being harassed, the college had threatened that if anyone questioned him about his win they would be thrown off their courses. So his life had returned to normal…well as normal as it could get. Prom had pretty much been discussed to death and with less time to go people were excited.
Charlie had got up the guts to finally ask Claire on a date. He was planning on asking her to prom but with nerves it came out wrong, instead asking her out, to which she said yes before he could correct himself, and was quite surprised. With his confidence and assertiveness growing he finally got the words out right and asked her to prom as well.
Sayid and Shannon were as usual crazy about each other in the most visual and vocal ways possible, in whichever situation it arose.
Sawyer had asked Ana Lucia to prom and was returned with a black eye, to which everyone else found hilariously funny. Ana was not happy about prom but had already decided to herself that when it came to the day she was just going to go with him anyways.
And Jack still hadn't talked to Kate. He was hoping that with the festive period he could get some quality time with her to get the words out, and hope for the best.
The group had got together to watch a movie, and were busy discussing Hurley's recent weird antics more than concentrating on the movie itself.
"I swear I saw those numbers wrote on the back of one of his books." Charlie said.
"Yeah, he was whispering them the other day as well." Sayid mentioned.
"Maybe he's trying to start a music career. Be a rock star!" Sawyer got up and stood on the settee and started to air guitar and sing, Charlie got up beside him and started to hum a bass riff to go with it, "4! 8! 15! 16..." Kate threw a cushion at him, which knocked him off balance. "Hey what was that for?" He said, trying to act hurt, which made her laugh and shake her head at him. Charlie was still going until Claire gave his leg a tug to get him down.
"And on a different note, that film we were 'watching' just finished without us noticing…so what was it about?" Shannon asked the others, getting various different replies.
"Horses?" Kate started.
"Rabbits?" Sawyer added.
"Polar bears?" Charlie was thinking.
"Guns?" Ana Lucia asked.
"Whatever, I'll turn it off." Jack said, getting up and turning it off.
"Christmas soon! Yey!" Claire cheered.
"Oh yeah, I've been meaning to ask you all for a while, you are all invited to Christmas dinner if you haven't got any other plans, that is." Jack asked the entire group, "Oh and could you ask Hurley if you see him." He asked Ana Lucia. She nodded in response.
Everybody liked this idea and were positive that it would go ahead.
Christmas morning arrived, Kate woke up at first as normal, and then it hit her it was Christmas day. She headed down stairs to the kitchen where her parents were preparing breakfast, gave both a hug and wished them merry Christmas, and told them she was popping next door to give Jack his present.
"Don't you think you're a bit early this year, its only 9, he'll still be asleep?" Her mom asked her.
"He wont be asleep for long." She replied, grinning. "I'll be back for breakfast." She went through to the living room where she picked up the present that was for Jack and headed off next door.
When she got there, Jacks mom came over to her, gave her a hug, and told her that Jack wasn't up yet, when she saw glint in Kate's eyes, she knew that her son was going to be awake soon, whether he liked it or not. Kate took to the stairs leaping two at a time then slowing as she came to his door, she turned the handle slowly, allowing the door to minimally creak, and tip toed across his room to his bed.
The same thing had been going on for the past 15 years; this year was no different, except for one thing…
Kate got a grip on the duvet ready to whip it off and jump on the bed. She mentally counted to 3, and then tore it off to find…pillows?
"Huh?" She said to herself looking confused.
"Got you!" Jack shouted pouncing from behind and tackling her, laughing uncontrollably.
Kate hadn't expected it, not knowing what had hit her, and then found herself giggling. She had never thought once in all the years that one day he would get the better of her.
"Hey! And what would you have done if your present was breakable!" She said to him, trying to calm down.
"Er…Well then, I would have…given you this!" He said, ducking down and pulling a package from under his bed.
"Ooooh!" Kate's eyes widened. "Ok go on, open yours."
He started to tear the paper off and started to smile. He held up a football shirt of his favourite team, which had been signed by the whole team. "Wow, how did you…"
"My dad knew some people…connections." She said happy that he liked it.
She started to unwrap her own present now, and found a box. She opened it to find a silver heart shaped necklace and noticed a joint and opened it to find a picture of her and Jack from the last day of high school, and on the other side the picture of them that they had shown everyone from the album when they were three. She felt like she was about to melt.
"Jack, this is beautiful! Thank you!" She said and launched herself at him wrapping her arms around him and held on tightly. He held her back and rested his head on hers.
They moved apart slightly, still holding each other, he was looking her in the eyes, while she was still staring down. He wanted her to look at him so he could try and tell what she was thinking, but then she brought her head up and kissed him. He was caught by surprise at first, but then responded, keeping it slow, letting her know he wasn't freaking out. She brought her arms down and looked up at him and smiled, "Well, I guess I'll see you later for dinner." He loosened his grip letting his hand glide down her arm as she backed away and turned to the door. He headed downstairs to the kitchen and sat down in a chair.
"What's with you?" His mom asked him. "Did Kate give you something nice?"
"Yeah, she did." He replied, still smiling.
Around two o'clock, everyone turned up at Jacks house, Kate with her parents, Charlie and Claire with her mom, Sawyer with his, Sayid and Shannon came, Ana Lucia and her mom, and Hurley with his. Inside a huge table was set up with enough places for everyone, all the teens down one end so they could talk and the adults up the other. They ate their share of the large turkey that was in the middle, except Kate who just had everything except that, everyone pulled crackers and had fun, then exchanged gifts. While the parents stayed at the table, the group moved to the next room, where for Sayid and Shannon they felt more comfortable not being watched by everyone's parents while making out. Hurley sat down beside Sayid and patted him on the back laughing.
Claire and Charlie were sitting together hand entwined, whispering to each other, almost childishly, but it made them look cute together, where as Sawyer was trying to chat Ana Lucia up, which she replied by bashing him over the head by a cracker, but in a less threatening way than usual, and she was laughing at him in a friendly way while he tried to defend himself.
Kate looked over to Jack, who smiled and motioned for her to come over, she got up from her seat and sat down beside him. He stuck his arm around her shoulders and hugged her.
"Hey what's going on here?" Sawyer stopped flailing his arms around looked over.
"Shut up!" Ana Lucia did just that and shoved the cracker in his mouth.
Claire noticed this and gave Ana Lucia the thumbs up. Part 1 of the plan – complete! Claire thought to herself and turning back to Charlie.
Ok its up to you do you want some New Year fun or skip straight to the prom?
