Hey everybody I'm back! (Awkward silence) I'm sorry it's taken me so long to update! I do have some excuses if you're interested in hearing them. In the time from when I last updated to now I've had writer's block, my mom had a baby (he is sooo cute!), we sold our house, my brothers and one of my sisters have a lot of soccer games, and I found a really good book series! (Check out The Adventures of Cat Royal.) Anyway I am sooo sorry, and I will have the next chapter up before January…probably. Thank you awesome reviewers! Have some Christmas cookies! Special thanks to Readinfreak3546 for reminding me that I hadn't updated in so long! I hope this chapter doesn't disappoint you guys! (Italics are what the people are thinking.)

Disclaimer: I still don't own the 39 clues.

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Finally it was Christmas morning. Dan woke up and jumped out of bed. He might be spending his Christmas with the Cobras, but it was still Christmas. Out of habit he went to Amy's room. He opened up the door, and jumped on her bed. She jolted awake, and kicked him off of her bed.

"Dan, it's five in the morning! Couldn't you have waited until six thirty?"

"No, and I saw Reagan and Madison heading over to Hamilton's room. He should be up in a minute." Just then they heard a loud thud. "Or maybe he's up now."

"Fine, just let me brush my hair."

"Whatever," replied Dan walking out of the room.

As he was walking to the stairs, he heard a scream come from Sinead's room. Everybody in the house must have heard the scream, because everybody ran to that room.

"Ned and Ted I'm going to kill you!" shouted Sinead.

Her hair was sticking in all directions. Apparently, Ted and Ned had shocked her to wake her up.

"Really guys?" asked Nellie, "You couldn't just poor water on her like normal people?"

Sinead gave her a dirty look. Amy paled and said, "Well don't give them any ideas!"

"Nellie, you of all people should know that Cahills aren't normal people," said Ted.

Before a fight could break out, Fiske suggested they go downstairs to the living room.

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Because everyone was arguing about who got to open a present first, Fiske suggested that they all open the presents together, starting with the Secret Santa presents. If the Cahills were normal this plan would have worked out fine, but as it is well known, Cahills are not normal.

This is what happened.

Nellie's P.O.V.

"Regular school day, Dan won't get up unless you poor a bucket of water on his head, Christmas and he wakes me up at five in the morning! Maybe I should just tell him its Christmas every day. My Secret Santa better have gotten me something good or waking up this early was pointless."

Nellie opened up her present to find an Ipod. This was from Jonah, and reminded her of what he did to her other Ipod.

"That little…" She threw it on the chair and tackled Jonah who screamed like a girl! Jonah didn't even get to appreciate his present from Hamilton.

Jonah's P.O.V.

"This is the craziest Christmas ever! I can totally write a song about this! I am the best Secret Santa ever! I mean sure, I may have done some things to Nellie's Ipod that I probably shouldn't have, but after Nellie gets her present the Ipod fiasco will all be forgotten."

Jonah opened his present. It was a book of Shakespeare poems! "H-dawg is the best!" Jonah was just about to get up and thank Hamilton, when Nellie jumped on top of him!

"Aaaaagggghhhhh!" followed by a thought, "I'm going to ruin my vocal cords!"

Dan's P.O.V.

"It's a good thing I forgot to go shopping until yesterday, and am Sinead's Secret Santa. My video game was on sale! And because Sinead likes boring things, she'll love that boring five-dollar puzzle I got her."

Dan opened his present from Ned. He found a box wrapped neatly in wrapping paper that was addressed to Natalie. He looked up at Ned, who nodded his head toward Natalie. Just then Nellie tackled Jonah. While Natalie was distracted, he put the present in her pile.

Natalie's P.O.V.

Natalie got the best present ever. There was a little metal device about as big as a ladybug, and a voice controlled remote.

A note said:

Dear Natalie,

This is an invention that Sinead made so that we can better control our brothers. I asked her to let you borrow it for the rest of the time you are here. Sorry, Natalie, but I don't think it would be a good idea to actually let you own one. I hope you like the present. Merry Christmas!

Love,

Amy

Natalie smiled scarily. "I guess I'll have to thank that colorblind peasant after all." Just then Nellie tackled Jonah. "Thank goodness I picked a seat far away from them." She reached for the next present, and opened it. Goo flung into her face. She dropped the present and screamed.

Ian's P.O.V.

Ian's present was some sort of earplug thing with a remote from Ted. He looked down at the note.

It read, "Dear cousin, what may look like simple earplugs are really very high tech, sound muting devices. I've already recorded all of our family members' voices. All you have to do is type the name into the remote and the earplugs will mute that particular person's voice. Pretty awesome, isn't it? Merry Christmas! –Ted"

Nellie tackled Jonah. He shoved the earplugs into his ears, and typed in Nellie and Jonah's names. Just then some green substance flew onto Natalie's face. She opened her mouth, but Ian typed in her name before anything could come out. He didn't hear a thing.

"This is the best present ever!"

A purple ball came out of nowhere and hit…

"This day is not going to end well."

Ned's P.O.V.

"Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot. Why did I give Dan that prank present for Natalie? She's going to poison me for sure… or maybe Ted since she can't tell us apart. But then Sinead will kill me for letting Natalie poison Ted for something I did." Ned looked up to see Ted looking at him. By the look on Ted's face Ned could tell that Ted knew what he had done, and had come to the same conclusion. As Ned opened his first present he was thinking to himself, "Please, oh please don't let Natalie kill me."

Ned was relieved to see a vial with a card that read, "This is an antidote that can save you from the most probable poison Natalie will give you. Ian gave me this, but don't worry, I'm ninety-nine percent sure it will work, Nellie."

Nellie tackled Jonah in a very painful way, but what made Ned wince was when Natalie screamed. He clutched his vial tightly. Just then a soccer ball flew through the air and hit…

"And I thought giving that prank present to Natalie was bad."

Ted's P.O.V.

"Ned is such an idiot! If Natalie poisons me because she thinks I'm Ned, I'll kill him!"

Ted opened his present and found a vial. A note inside said, "This is an antidote for the most probable poison Natalie would use on you if she was mad. There would have been more, but the tone-deaf babysitter insisted that you would want your brother to have some too. I think she was just too lazy to get him a gift. Ian"

"Thank you, Ian!"

Nellie tackled Jonah almost making Ted drop his vial. Not even a minute later Natalie was screaming because of the goo on her face. Then Ted noticed the soccer ball flying through the air. It hit…

"That's not good."

Hamilton's P.O.V.

Hamilton opened up his present, and found a football signed by Brett Favre, from Natalie.

"Yes! This is so awesome! The twins are going to be so jealous!" Just then Nellie tackled Jonah! Hamilton placed his football out of harms way, then jumped in to help Jonah. Hamilton looked up when Natalie screamed to see what was wrong, but it wasn't Natalie's goo covered face that made him gasp; it was a purple soccer ball's target.

Amy's P.O.V.

"What have I done?! Giving Natalie that invention was a horrible idea! Fiske is going to kill me when he finds out what I did. Poor Dan, I hope that new goo blaster I gave him will make up for what Natalie is going to do to him. Oh well, I might as well open up my present."

Amy opened up her present to find what looked like a pad lock. She read the note that came with it.

Dear Amy,

This isn't a normal padlock. It's a lock that takes a finger scan to unlock it. Also if anybody that's not you tries to get through it, it will shock him or her. I got the idea while fixing your laptop! This technically counts as a twenty dollar or under gift because the lock was ten dollars and I already had the other stuff that I needed to make it.

Merry Christmas,

Sinead

"Oh, this is the best present ever!"

Of course Amy's happy thoughts didn't last for long. Nellie tackled Jonah, Hamilton jumped up to help Jonah, and just as Amy got up Natalie started screaming because goo had flung into her face from a prank gift. That wasn't the worst of it though. The worst part was when a purple soccer ball hit…

Sinead's P.O.V.

"Yay, Amy likes her present! Now to see what I got." Sinead opened up her (very messily wrapped) present to find a 30 pc. Puzzle. "30 pieces?! I could do a 60 pc. puzzle when I was five years old! This is insulting!"

Sinead read the card that came with it. She noticed that the handwriting looked rushed, like someone waited until the last minute to write it.

Dear Sinead

I hop you like your puzzle. I know it was only five dollars but you wouldnt believe what happened to the other money. I was walking around the mall when a group of ninjas jumped out of nowere and attacked me. I fought back but they stole 15 dollars. I had to find something that was five dolars and that's what i found.

Danthe awesome ninja

"Well he was right, I don't believe what he said happened to the money." Nellie jumped on top of Jonah, Hamilton tried to intervene, Amy got up, and Natalie screamed. Sinead looked at Natalie, she had goo all over her face. "Ned and Ted better not of had anything to do with that!" Then a purple soccer ball hit…

"Oh no!"

Reagan's P.O.V.

"I can't wait for Ned and Ted to open their prank presents!" Reagan opened her present and found purple ballet shoes. "No way! This can't be that hundred dollar pair I wanted could it?"

The note said: "Merry Christmas, Reagan! I saw these shoes and knew they were that hundred dollar pair you wanted. You wouldn't believe how I got them for twenty dollars!

Madison

P.S. I think the blood on the toe part of the left shoe will come out after a while.

Just then Nellie tackled Jonah. Reagan turned towards Madison to see if she was going to help Hamilton get them apart, and she noticed her sister getting ready to kick the soccer ball she got her. Natalie screamed, and the ball went sailing right at…

"Uh oh," said Reagan.

Madison's P.O.V.

"I can't wait for Ned and Ted to open their prank presents!" Madison ripped the wrapping paper off of her present and found a purple soccer-ball with a picture of a moose on it, from Reagan. Just then Nellie tackled Jonah. Madison aimed her ball at them, and was just about to kick it when Natalie screamed. Distracted she kicked it in another direction and it hit…

"Oops!" said Madison.

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What is the ball going to hit?! Even I'm not completely sure yet. Sorry, this is my attempt at a cliffhanger. You see, I was originally going to make this my last chapter, but as I was writing it I discovered it was getting to long. I had gotten all the way to Madison's P.O.V. when all of a sudden that soccer ball idea was there. I love when I'm writing and the story just starts to write itself.

Sorry if you found this chapter confusing. I had some of my family members read it before I posted it, and they said it was confusing. If you have any questions you can PM me or review the story and I will answer them as soon as I can. And I wasn't trying to make Dan sound dumb, the spelling mistakes were just the mistakes anybody makes when trying to rush a letter or note.

Sorry for the long author's note!

~NatalieKfan