Note; I know its weird that in the kids' POV that they mention their dads names in their thoughts but I came across the problem of being able to tell which Dad they are thinking about "/ Enjoy!
Chapter 8
About one year later…
Hope POV
I blinked one eye open and shut it instantly. The curtain had a gap in it again and the light poured in. It took me a while to realise what day it was today but today was Christmas day! And I was really excited. We were spending it with Liam, Uncle Harry and Tom. Liam was a year and a bit younger than us but he was fun to play with. I jumped out of bed and rushed out of our bedroom and into our Dads' bedroom, trying my best to be quiet but stopped in my tracks when a thought hit me. I ran back into our room and grabbed Alex, pulling him straight out of bed and starting to giggle at his reaction. "Huh? What's going on?" he said confused and pulled his duvet off his bed on top of him. "It's Christmas!" I said excitedly and pulled it back off him. "You sound like uncle Tom!" he said and I stuck my tongue out at him. "Let's go wake them up, I thought it'd be more fun if you did it with me" I grinned evilly. "I like the way you think" he laughed. We both tiptoed back into their room again. Alex signalled; one, two, three and we both jumped onto their bed shouting out loud and waking them up. "It's Christmas!" we shouted. "It begins" Danny laughed and buried himself into the duvet. "Let's go then" Dougie said grabbing me and putting me on his shoulders. I always loved it when he did it. We all sat around the tree, our other dad joining us a couple minutes later. "You can only open the ones from me and Dan for now" Dougie said, tickling me slightly. "okay! Okay! Stop, it tickles!" I squealed. We ran up closer to the tree. The first one was a shared present for both of us, we both grabbed one side each and yanked at the same time, revealing two Vortex Nerf Guns, we opened our separate presents before getting out the guns. I got six shirts with funny brands and pictures on them and a new skateboard! "What did you get Al?" I smiled happily. "I got a few shirts, jeans and a premier league football" he grinned. He loved his football unlike me, I couldn't play even if my life depended on it.
We drove straight to our Uncles' straight after. "Why do we have to drive? They only live a couple of houses away?" I asked. "Because it's cold outside and I don't want you two getting ill" Dougie said. I rushed inside with my gun hidden behind my back. "Wanna get Liam?" Alex grinned and I nodded. I swear he could read my mind sometimes or it's the twin thing. "Merry Christmas! Liam's upstairs if you two want to play with him" said a very happy Uncle Tom. We ran upstairs army style doing drop rolls and hiding behind stuff. I pushed Liam's bedroom door open then hid again. "Hello?" I heard him call out and Alex signalled to stay put, I nodded. "Dad?" he shouted again but again no one replied. I heard his footsteps getting closer. "He's coming" I mouthed, he took a step out of his room then yelped and ran back in. Me and Alex gave chase, but regretted it, Liam held a full automatic and unleashed tons of bullets on us. "Argh!" I shouted, firing back, eventually we were all out of ammo. "Hi guys!" he grinned. "How you been dude?" I smiled back. "Here, there, Christmas is like a religion in this house!" he laughed. "So… What should we do?" Alex asked. "Err, we could go to war with our Dads?" he grinned. We all agreed and began loading our guns again.
We snuck back towards the stairs and looked down into the front room. All four of them were on the sofa in the living room just talking. "Why are adults so boring?" I whispered. "Dunno, well let's make them regret buying us these guns" Liam whispered back and I held back a laugh. We all ran down the stairs together and fired at them. Uncle Harry was the first to react who charged right at Liam and picked him up, spinning him around. "I surrender!" he shouted. "Looks like it's only us!" I said to Alex. "Would I want it any other way?" he replied, we charged at uncle Tom and shot at him while he tried his best to cover himself with a cushion. Next thing I knew I was upside down and I saw Alex in the same way next to me. "Give up?" I heard. "Never!" I laughed. "Death by tickling it is then" I heard our dads' say and just like that they were tickling my feet. "No fair! I can't do anything about it!" Was all I could shout before I was laughing like there was no tomorrow. "Okay we give in!" Alex shouted, the tickling stopped and we landed on the sofas.
In the end we all sat together for dinner. Me and Alex stuffed our faces quickly then left the table to watch cartoons, I loved spending time with Alex, most of the time we were inseparable and when we were apart, we would feel lost, well that's how I felt, I'm not really sure about Alex, I think he feels the same, well I hope he does! "Alex? Have you ever thought about how weird this family is?" I asked. "What do you mean?" he replied, looking at me a bit confused. "Well, we have two dads" I said. "Isn't that normal?" he asked. "Well, I've seen people at the park with their mums and dads, but we don't have a mum" I said. "Hmm, maybe some people don't have mums and some do, guess we just choose" he said. "Yeah, maybe" I said then turned on Finding Nemo which just made me think more. Nemo has a mum but she died, did our mum die? The part that scared me the most in this film was when he got lost, I'd hate to be on my own or taken away from Alex and my Dads. It always reminded me of last year when our Dads had left us to set up for our birthday but I ran out after them but got lost.
