Chapter 10

A few hours later, it was snowing lightly in New York and at the Madison Square Garden indoor arena, where the Christmas charity concert was held at, it was a packed-out and Trent, dressed in a black Italian silk suit and dress shoes. He even had a Christmas Santa Clause hat on his head and was backstage, working on his speech.

As he was waiting, Kira, dressed in a gold lace dress with black motorcycle boots, fishnet stocking with matching fishnet finger-less gloves and a Christmas hat, snuck up behind him.

"Hey, too."

"Hey, Kira."

"You ready for this concert to happen?"

"You know it. I got my guitar, my voice and my full-on Christmas spirit."

One of the stage managers walks up to Kira and tells her it's time for her to go to make-up, which she did and tells Trent that she'll see him on stage. Trent sees the rest of his friends, Conner, Ethan, Hayley and Dr. O,

Standing there alone, he overhears someone calling his name. Trying around, it was two teenagers walking up to him. One was in a red sweater under a Santa Clause jacket and black pants and the other had a Mrs. Santa Clause dress and black boots. They both had Christmas hats on their heads.

"Hello, sir."

"Hello."

"We just wanted to let you know that we're one of the performers of this Christmas concert."

"We're the Taylor Twins." Trent was puzzled when he heard that one of the performers was on the Taylor Twins, which that last name seemed familiar to me.

"Taylor? Why does that name sound so familiar?"

"Mr. Fernandez-Mercer?" A stage manager said. "We're about to go on in five minutes.

The Taylor Twins looked bug-eyed at each other and asked him,

"Excuse us, but are you Trent Fernandez-Mercer?"

"Yes. Why do you ask?"

"You were our late father's friend, Luke Taylor."

Trent's eyes popped out of his head when he heard that the Taylor Twins were Luke Taylor's children.

"You're his children?"

"Yes. I'm Chloe. I was named after my father's mother."

"And I'm Trent. Our father named me after you, his best friend."

Trent was absolutely touched when he said that after all those years before him and his father moved away from him, Luke named his son after him.

"He did?"

"Yeah. You were his best friend for life; you were partially his brother."

"Wow. And I'm sorry to hear about your father's death a few years ago."

"It's okay." They said, simultaneously.

They left for the stage after a stage manager told them it was time. As Trent was getting on stage, he sees his back-stabbing, money-stealing CFO and business manager, Bradley Ford and his hot blonde was standing next to him.

"Hello, Mr. Fernandez-Mercer."

"Bradley, so glad you can make it. This is…"

"Raquel, my girlfriend. I wouldn't miss this for the world."

"Of course you wouldn't." Trent mutters under his breath as he was walking to the stage.

Nevertheless, he walked up to the microphone stand with confidence and calmed the already-wild audience down.

"Hello, everyone! Merry Christmas and happy holidays! Because of your generous donations, we've raised over one million dollars for charity. And every single penny of that money is going to charity!" Putting the microphone down, looking offstage at Bradley,

"Oh, Bradley?" He gave Trent a full-on smile.

You are beyond fired." His face turned to confusion when he wanted to know what's going on. Behind him were two big and scary men behind him, grabbing his arms and placed handcuffs behind his back. Another woman came in and stand next to Raquel.

"W-w-what's going on?! Raquel? What's going on?!"

Raquel said with a sly look on her face,

"Merry Christmas, Bradley Ford." She hold to him an CIA badge, leaving him to be in complete shock.

The another woman standing next to her, showed her FBI badge and began to read Bradley the Miranda rights as they were taking him away.

"No! NO! I'm innocent. INNOCENT I TELL YA!"

Chucking to himself as he saw Bradley being arrested by FBI and CIA agents, he turns his attention back to the audience, continuing his speech.

"You know, I have to say something before we let our performers sing. Last night, I had...a rough night and I could barley sleep. But you know it? To be, a bad night of sleep is just want I needed. Before this concert...I really didn't really have the Christmas spirit I have now; I lost that spirit many years ago. I used to think of Christmas as a big blur and I didn't care that it was Christmas. But now, I have this new-found spirit that I want to keep inside of me all year around. I now see Christmas as the time to celebrate and be with the people you love and care for those who are less fortunate that you are. So from here on out, I'm going to do is donate my time and more of the fortune that my father, Anton Frederick Mercer..."

"Frederick? His father's middle name was Frederick?" Conner chuckled as he quietly asked Ethan, Kira, Dr. O and Hayley

"Conner?"

"What?"

"Shut up!"

"And I'm going to donate money to every shelter in this city and in my city of Reefside, California. Thank you and happy Holidays!"

The crowd, including his friends cheered at his speech.

"Now, to start this Christmas charity concert, I would like to present...my oldest best friend, Luke Taylor...may he rest in peace, his twin children, teen sensation duo, Chloe and Trent Taylor, also known as the Taylor Twins!"

He welcome the twins with a warm, hearty hug and began to sing a Christmas song, with Chloe singing in his mezzo-soprano-to-soprano voice range with Trent singing in a tenor voice range as he was next to her with his arm wrapped around her, just singing in high-Christmas-spirit.

After the audience's long applause from the performers of the concert, Kira joins them as they sang one of the most celebrated Christmas songs, 'We Wish You A Merry Christmas.'

"And now, to end this concert, we're going to sing one of the most celebrated Christmas songs."

We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
We wish you a Merry Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

Good tidings to you,
And all of your kin,
Good tidings for Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.

We all know that Santa's coming,
We all know that Santa's coming,
We all know that Santa's coming,
And soon will be here.

Good tidings to you,
And all of your kin,
Good tidings for Christmas,
And a Happy New Year.