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Oh Christmas Tree
Third Person POV
Snowflakes were falling all over the school grounds. This could only mean one thing: Christmas was close! Everyone had decided to spend Christmas at Anubis House, even Victor and Trudy, so they had to make the house as Christmasey as possible. The most important thing on the list of decorations? The Christmas tree.
And that is where our story begins.
Amber
I loved Christmas! The sparkly decorations, the presents, the mistletoe. Everything was so Christmasey! But there was one thing missing, something that Victor and Trudy had to let us go get today.
We needed a Christmas tree.
I cornered Trudy after breakfast and told her what was going on.
"Trudy, we need a Christmas tree!" I whined. "Really, we do! It just isn't Christmas without a tree!"
Trudy laughed. "Well, I suppose we can all go looking for one this afternoon. Go tell the others, dearie."
I smiled. "Thanks Trudy!" I called out as I sped off to tell everyone that we were going to get a Christmas tree.
This was going to be fun!
Eddie
Great, Christmas was going to be here soon and I had no idea what to get Yacker. What were you supposed to get someone who people described as a goth pixie? I knew she would probably want something non-traditional, so jewelry was out, but what should I get Patricia?
"Eddie!" a certain blonde relationship-guru said, bursting into my room. "We're getting a Christmas tree this afternoon!"
Just as Amber was starting to leave, I did something I never should have done. "Wait a minute, Amber. I need your help."
This got her attention. "Oh?"
Now I had to ask her. "What should I get Patricia for Christmas?"
Amber grinned, letting me know that this wasn't going to be pleasant on my part. Great, just great.
Fabian
Nina and I were talking in the common room when Alfie dive-bombed us. Literally, he jumped over the side of the couch and fell on Nina and me.
"Alfie!" Nina laughed, shoving him to the floor. He bounced up, apparently un-offended by what had happened.
"You guys, we're getting a Christmas tree later today! Amazeballs!"
I laughed. Alfie was definitely excited about getting a tree. Nina was excited, too.
"Do we get to pick it out?" she asked.
Alfie nodded. "Yeah, Trudy's taking us all after dinner. This is so cool!"
I laughed again. "Alfie, did you by chance get into any sugar in the last hour or so?"
"I may or may not have had some of the biscuits that were lying out in the kitchen," Alfie said with a sly grin. "I didn't want them to go bad. I better go tell Jerome! Bye guys!"
Nina and I both looked from Alfie's retreating form to each other before bursting out laughing. Anubis House was really excited for Christmas. Maybe a little too excited.
Mara
We went out after dinner to find the perfect Christmas tree, and I was really excited to do so. It was my first real Anubis Christmas. Every year I'd gone back home, but this year I'd decided to stay at Anubis House with everyone else.
When we got to the Christmas tree farm, everyone broke into groups to go find the perfect tree. Jerome and I were one group, Fabian and Nina, Amber and Alfie, Patricia and Eddie, and Joy and Trudy were the last group.
Jerome decided to make a huge joke of the whole thing by constantly trying to tip over some of the trees. I laughed as he managed to find one tall enough to climb and almost fell when he reached the top.
"That wasn't very funny, Jaffray," he grumbled as he climbed down the pine tree.
"You're right," I said, trying to keep a straight face. "It wasn't funny. It was hilarious."
Jerome smiled at me. "Oh, so you think that was funny? Well, how about this?"
Before I had time to think about what he said, Jerome threw a snowball at me and hit me in the face. Oh, he was going to regret that! We ended up having a huge snowball fight, the quest for the Christmas tree forgotten.
Nina
Fabian and I went looking for a Christmas tree together. I was excited to see what tree we would find, and it seemed Fabian was, too.
"Did you know that Christmas actually started out as a Pagan holiday?" he asked as we walked through rows and rows of pine trees.
"I didn't know that," I said, tapping a branch of one tree with my hand. The needles were a little sharp, but it was a pine tree after all.
Somehow we ended up talking about the history of Christmas and forgot all about the search for the Anubis House Christmas tree.
Patricia
I sneezed as we walked past yet another pine tree. Ugh, I hated pine trees! I was allergic to them. As I kept sneezing, Eddie finally noticed something was wrong.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
I nodded. "Yeah, I'm just allergic to pine trees." Ugh, I sounded stuffed up.
Eddie looked at me, his head tilted in confusion. "Since when?"
"Since I was libble," I said. Agh, I sounded horrible. "Can we leab? Please?"
"Sure," Eddie said, grabbing my wrist and pulling me away from the evil, evil pine trees.
Joy
"How about this one, Trudy?" I asked, my hand gripping the branches of a tall pine.
"It's perfect," Trudy said as she saw it. "We'll take a vote on the best tree, though. Whichever tree the others found against this one."
"Okay," I said. I vaguely wondered just how many of the other residents had managed to find a tree before getting distracted.
Alfie
"Alfie!" Amber cried, turning in circles. I snickered as she started looking for me behind the wrong tree. "Alfie, where are you?!"
"Here!" I called, jumping out in front of her.
Amber squealed. "Alfie! You scared me."
"Ah, but that is what ninjas do, is it not?" I asked cryptically. "We sneak and we scare and we sneak again."
"Why don't you sneak up on the perfect Christmas tree?" Amber suggested.
"Okay!" I said cheerfully. We wandered around the Christmas tree farm for a few minutes until Amber pointed out a tree. I had to admit, it was a pretty good tree. It wasn't too tall, not too short either, and wide enough to hold all the decorations we found in the attic.
It was the perfect Christmas tree.
"Hi guys," someone said from behind the tree. "Did you find a Christmas tree yet?"
Amber and I walked around the tree to see Joy standing there with Trudy.
"Yeah," I said. "This one." I pointed to the tree beside me.
Joy giggled. "That's the tree Trudy and I picked!"
Amber giggled too. "Looks like we found our tree!"
"Not exactly, dearies," Trudy said. "The others have to show us their pick as well."
"We didn't find a tree," Jerome said, walking up to us with his arm wrapped around Mara's shoulder. Strangely enough, both of them looked very wet.
"We ended up having a snowball fight," Mara explained.
"Well, we didn't find a tree, either," Nina said, coming over with Fabian.
"We were discussing the history of Christmas," Fabian added.
"And Yacker and I didn't find a tree," Eddie said from behind them. "She's allergic to pine trees."
"That's right, I forgot," Joy said. "Maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all."
"No," I said. "This was a great idea. We've all had fun and we found the perfect Christmas tree."
Everyone looked at me funny. "What did I say?"
Instead of answering me, everyone else just laughed. Trudy found the person who owned the Christmas tree farm and told him we found our tree. After the tree had been cut down and tied to the top of Trudy's van, which she'd had to use to get us all here, we started the drive back to Anubis House.
"Seriously," I said after Trudy started the engine. "What did I say?"
Okay, so this was my first real oneshot in this story-thingy. I really hope you liked it. Oh, and I'm taking any suggestions because I'm not really good at coming up with ideas. You can suggest any couple, and situation, anything and I'll try to write it. I'll even say who suggested each idea if you'd like. This oneshot was suggested by my mom, funnily enough. At least she can put up with my House of Anubis obsession. Thanks for reading!
~C
