There was a snowflake falling out as Mike was in her bedroom. She looked over to see her window and came close to see it was snowing! She was so excited. After being away from her home for a year on a deserted island, she never realized how much she had missed the snow.
"Oh, boy, snow!" Mike rushed downstairs, wearing red winter clothes with a white scarf, white earmuffs, white gloves, and dark crimson red boots with a Santa hat on. She then stopped as she saw her parents dressed in rather formal clothing.
"Hello, Michelene, dear," Mrs. Mavinsky greeted as she was helping her husband get his tie straightened as she was wearing an emerald-green dress with white and red spots over it. "Where are you in such a rush?"
"Uhh... Mom, it's snowing, I'm going outside." Mike shrugged, like her mother was rather slow.
"Haven't you forgotten the town's Christmas party tonight?" Mr. Mavinsky asked a bit firmly.
"Oh, yeah..." Mike muttered. "Do I have to go?"
"Oh, you don't have to go, only if you want to be on Santa's nice list." Mrs. Mavinsky chuckled.
Mike sighed in a bit of defeat.
After a little while, Mike was forced into a white dress with a red ribbon in the middle, red socks with black dress shoes, her pigtails were a bit fluffier and she had a big red bow in the middle of her hair with a golden bell in the center of the bow.
"Oh, don't we look lovely?" Mrs. Mavinsky beamed to her daughter, handing her coat over.
"Yeah, Mom..." Mike sighed, taking the coat and fastening it. "Why do I have to go, Mom? No one I know's gonna be there!"
"There might be some of your friends." Mrs. Mavinsky shrugged with a smile.
This was going to be a long evening before Christmas for Mike. She was in the backseat and her father was driving to the party. Mike folded her arms as she was riding through a few bumps and listening to the radio with stock Christmas carols playing to get the Mavinsky family in the Christmas spirit for their first time of the holiday in the cul-de-sac. The car stopped to a local center building, letting the family exit and walk up the steps to get inside.
"You brought yer kid?" a scarlet haired woman greeted, wearing a black dress with matching flats and even black eye-shadow. She had a cigarette between her fingers. Mike noticed she had some resemblance to Lee Kanker.
"Yes, Bebe, we were told that it would be nice to bring the children, where are your little angels?" Mrs. Mavinsky asked.
Ms. Kanker chuckled darkly, then eyed Mr. Mavinsky a little seductively. "Probably tearin' each other up in the trailer... Hello there, handsome."
"Um, hello, Bebe..." Mr. Mavinsky greeted, nervous of the woman.
Mike blinked, then walked away from her parents to go exploring.
"Oh, Jimmy, that's so sweet you made some gingerbread sailors for us when we get home, it'll be so worth it after the party!" a cream-colored woman in a bright red dress was on the telephone, she had to have been Jimmy Christenson's mother.
"Sheesh, there's no kids here!" Mike grunted, but bumped into a blonde girl in a green sweater top with a red skirt and a Santa hat. "Oh, I'm sorry."
"That's okay," the girl turned, revealing to be Nazz. "Oh, hey, Mike!"
Mike muttered something crude under her breath.
"Excuse me?" Nazz didn't hear or understand that.
"Oh, nothing," Mike shrugged. "So, did your parents drag you here?"
"Sorta, but I don't mind," Nazz smiled. "I'm hanging out with Joe."
"Who's Joe?" Mike raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, Joe's this cool kid who usually comes to the cul-de-sac during the summer!" Nazz beamed. "He had this major cool clubhouse that had a plane and everything! We should introduce you, you need a boyfriend!"
"I don't think so, I'm only 11."
"Aw, come on, Mike, you're in a new town now, this isn't the big city where the streets are paved with silver or something!"
"Gold."
"Whatever metal, but get with the program, come on, let's play some party games!" Nazz took Mike's arm and dragged her into the children's room where there were games only for small children, even Sarah and Jimmy would find them to be quite babyish.
"Wow, what a party..." Mike muttered sarcastically, wishing Ed, Edd, and Eddy were here.
"I know, right?" Nazz smiled as she was playing with the deck of cards, making them a tower like in Dominoes.
Mike rolled her eyes at the girl. She had to admit though, Nazz was one of the nicer ones to her. She decided to make the most of it until her parents would call her and collect her to take her home for the evening to get ready for Santa's visit in the cul-de-sac.
Mike eventually grew more bored than her demeanor and went to her parents. "Mom, Dad, can we go home now?"
Mrs. Mavinsky sighed. "Okay, Michelene, we'll go home."
"Thank you!" Mike sounded relieved.
"Come on, dear," Mrs. Mavinsky pulled her husband away as he was dancing with Mrs. von Bartonschmeer, dragging him to the car. "Now, remember Mike, no opening presents until tomorrow morning."
"Yes, Mom... Can I go see my friends when we get home?" Mike asked.
"Oh, dear, no wonder you were so bored to not have any of your friends over!" Mr. Mavinsky sounded sympathetic.
"Yeah, that was it." Mike chimed.
"How about that Nazz girl?" Mrs. Mavinsky asked as she carefully drove along the icy sidewalks and slush covered roads. "She's a pretty girl."
"She's pretty alright," Mike sighed, rolling her eyes. "And snobby, and sometimes a little dim in the brain... She IS one of the few other kids I like around here."
"What about that Eddy boy?" Mrs. Mavinsky looked back to her daughter with a smile. "I think he likes you."
"Aw, Mom..." Mike sounded embarrassed.
"It's so cute how you have a little boyfriend in our new home." Mrs. Mavinsky continued to tease.
"Mom, stop before you give Dad a stroke about me having a boyfriend." Mike insisted.
"Oh, sorry, dear." Mrs. Mavinsky giggled while Mr. Mavinsky looked very stressed.
The car stopped and Mike went inside her house to get her coat, scarf, gloves, and a hat. She decided to get to Ed's house since Eddy's parents were at the party and it's very likely that Double D's parents had to work. Plus, her and the Ed's rarely met at her own house unless Mrs. Mavinsky had awesome snacks and they needed a friendly favor. Mike held herself, shivering a tiny bit and made it down the sidewalk as she passed Double D in a puffy orange coat with a gift in his hands.
"Oh, hey, Double D." Mike greeted.
"Salutations, Mike!" Double D smiled at her. "Ed has invited me over to spend Christmas Eve since Mother and Father have an important conference."
"Figures..." Mike muttered, walking with him. "Sheesh, aren't your parents ever home?"
"Hardly," Double D sighed. "During the summer, they usually leave sticky notes for me and I did my chores before I'd meet Ed and Eddy for our daily shenanigans. But, at least I get to see them for Christmas Eve dinner tonight before they go on another flight out of the country after midnight on Christmas Day."
"Sounds heart-warming," Mike deadpanned, knocking on the Hill household basement window. "Yo, Ed, open up!"
There was a loud exclamation heard on the other side and Ed popped his head out to see two of his best friends.
"A very Merry Christmas to you, Ed," Double D beamed. "Mike and I just thought we'd visit you before dinner, and I got you a-"
Ed had grabbed Mike and Double D and pulled them through the window. "I'll be home for Christmas, Mike and Double D for Santa Claus is coming!"
"I think you're shattering my pancreas!" Mike winced in slight pain.
"Let me be the first to say how happy I am for you, Ed," Double D was in a lot more pain. "But you're stretching my mittens!"
Double D and Mike were flung into the basement, smacking against the wall and their winter clothes were left behind. They slid down slowly from the wall like in a cartoon injury and landed flat on their backs with their eyes facing the ceiling.
"Santa's comfy zone!" Ed cleared the couch in the room of Double D and Mike's winter clothes to show a picture of Santa's behind for him to sit there. "Ed the elf has fixed it!"
"Ed the Elf owes me a chiropractor..." Mike dusted herself clean.
"As I was saying," Double D did the same, taking out a crumbled up present, revealing to be a festive plant. "I brought you what was once a poinsettia, Ed..."
"Aww..." Ed smiled at the two of them, holding out his arms. "Hug?"
"Uhh... I'm not one for hugs, but I think Double D is!" Mike quickly said.
Double D looked very nervous. Ed ignored what Mike said and grabbed the two of them in a back-breaking hug.
"ED!" Mike and Double D yelled out in pain.
"I feel all fuzzy inside, guys!" Ed beamed.
"Tis the season, Ed." Double D stated.
"To be jolly." Mike nearly sang. "I loved Christmas in New York... The ice skating along Rockefeller plaza, the lighting of the local Christmas Tree, the malls would be packed more than any other and it'd be dangerous for my parents like in the Vietnam War for my grandfathers... Not to mention the movie theater packed with those classic old, kinda boring, black and white movies like It's a Wonderful Life that just fills my kid spirit with holiday joy!"
"How wonderful for you, Mike," Double D smiled to hear her experiences of a holiday in the big city. "The warmth, Ed, that fuzzy feeling is the spirit of the holiday."
"Spirit?" Ed queried.
"From here, Ed." Mike put her hand on Ed's chest.
"My udder?" Ed tilted his head.
"You certainly know how to tax one's patience, Ed." Double D stated, though still happy, probably bitten by the holiday bug.
Eddy was heard and he kicked open the basement window to join his friends, though he seemed to be in a crabby mood.
"Eddy, Santa's coming to my house!" Ed beamed to him.
"Yeah, yeah," Eddy was angry. "And I'm a little leprechaun looking for his pot of gold!"
"Hey, be nice, it's Christmas Eve!" Mike snarled at him.
Eddy plopped down in the chair, folding his arms. "I hate Christmas..."
"Oh, come now, Eddy," Double D coaxed. "Surely you jest."
Ed looked deeply worried for his friend.
"What's wrong with you now, 'Edwin'?" Mike put her arm on his shoulder.
"You know what?" Eddy slapped her hand off. "I found my parents' Christmas stash, and all of my presents bite, Mike!"
"YOU DID WHAT!?" Double D panicked.
"Calm down or you'll be worse than my granny's blood pressure." Mike tried to relax the responsible Ed boy.
"I know," Double D moaned in sheer dismay. "Oh, Eddy, how could you have been so selfish? All your parents' trust! Shattered! Shame on you!"
"He kinda has a point there." Mike agreed with Double D, even if it gave her a migraine.
Ed seemed rushed and took Eddy off the chair, putting him right in front of Mike.
"Hey, you know it, and I know it," Eddy glared at Double D and Mike. "Christmas is the one time of year when parents are supposed to buy you everything you want, and all I got is lame 'ol clothes!"
"I hate getting clothes from my big cousin Rita, but at least she thought about me!" Mike snapped back. "The true meaning of Christmas isn't about what you get, it's about giving and sharing holiday cheer and the feeling you get from here..." she put her hand on Eddy's chest like Double D did with Ed.
Eddy visibly blushed when Mike touched him, but said nothing of it and quickly said something else. "That's my udder you're touching."
"Silly, Eddy," Ed chuckled as he was setting up the chair for Santa's visit. "Parents don't bring presents. SANTA DOES! Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy, I'm such a lucky elf!" he clapped, doing a dance.
"It's like a nightmare before Christmas, guys!" Eddy said to Mike and Double D.
"Come on, Eddy, Christmas is great, even if you get clothes," Mike tried to soothe her friend. "Whatya say? You, me, Double, and Ed hang out until we're called for dinner and eat some of my mom's cookie dough? I think it's time you adopted a better attitude!"
"'I think it's time you adopted a better attitude'," Eddy mocked her, he would almost never do that, he then had an evil gleam in his eye. "Adopt..." he grinned as he had an idea.
"What're you thinking?" Mike folded her arms.
"Stay with me," Eddy thought of a plan then pretended to be asleep, then woke up. "I wake up, it's Christmas morning, but I'm in someone else's house and I cash in on their swank presents! I'm putting myself up for adoption, guys!"
"Who would adopt you?" Mike pointed.
"No, Mike, I think the better thing to say is 'you can't forsake your own family'!" Double D cried out. "It's Christmas, Eddy!"
"That's right, and I want presents!" Eddy ran out to get adopted by one of the neighbors.
"You'll regret this, Eddy, don't turn your back on the true meaning of Christmas!" Double D yelled out for him.
"Santa's not going to like this one bit, guys." Ed said ominously.
"I better go after him before he gets himself hurt," Mike turned to the guys.
"Noble suggestion, Mike," Double D fawned over her. "Perhaps seeing his plan not work out will convince him to go back to his family for the holidays."
"Plus Eddy likes Mike!" Ed laughed a bit.
"Wait, what!?" Mike gaped at him.
"Nevermind him now," Double D put Mike in her winter clothes. "Run, Mike, bring Eddy home!"
"I'm on it and I'm a man of my word!" Mike nodded, then went out the basement window, walking in the crunchy and slippery white evening snow. "Eddy, wait up!"
"Can't wait to see what I'm gonna get this year!" Eddy beamed as he confidently walked through the snow, then saw Mike accompanying him. "Ah, Mike, come to your senses? I know you're an only child, but would you like a brother?"
"Get real, Eddy, you're going back home." Mike argued.
"Ugh, you're just like everyone else!" Eddy huffed.
"Fine, I'll go with you, but once you listen to me and Double D, you're going back to your parents, got it?" Mike glared at him rather fiercely.
"Alright, let's go then." Eddy followed along with her until they came to one of the houses and noticed something a little off. "Where'd the snow go?"
Mike looked around and saw the Grove family mailbox. "Oh, no... Not this house..." she face-palmed.
"Whatever," Eddy took her hand and knocked on the door and Jonny answered with Plank, dressed in an ice like outfit. "Ho, ho, ho, Jonny boy!"
Jonny leaned over and bit Eddy on the nose.
"Hey, what'd you do that for!?" Mike grabbed Jonny's collar, raising her fist high.
"Nippin' at Eddy's nose, Mike, get it?" Jonny chuckled. "I'm Jack Frost and Plank's Mr. Snowflake!"
"Why you dirty," Eddy scowled at him, then changed his mood and smirked at Mike to play along with this.
"This oughta be interesting..." Mike said to the audience.
"Listen up, Jonny, it's the darndest thing," Eddy began to make up a story. "Mike and I were just walking down the street, when a reindeer swoops down and lands beside us!"
"No way, Jose!" Jonny gasped.
"Way!" Eddy said, then continued. "And he had a note in his mouth. A telegram from Santa!"
"Right on!" Jonny cheered.
Eddy took out a random piece of paper which Mike could see it was a failed quiz from school. "Santa says he got so fat over the summer, he can't fit down mine or Mike's chimneys!"
"I don't have a chimney..." Mike muttered.
Eddy covered her mouth. "So he's gonna leave our presents at your house!"
"My house?" Jonny believed that, inviting Mike and Eddy in, to show his house was made out of ice. "Whatya waiting for? Make yourselves at home, guys!"
"Yeesh," Mike instantly shivered and her teeth chattered. "It's colder than Rockefeller Plaza in here!"
"Do you wanna warm up by th fire?" Jonny offered, the fireplace and flames were also made of snow and ice. "Cuz ya can't, it's ice! I'm Jack Frost and he's Mr. Snowflake!"
Eddy muttered under his breath, then spoke clearly. "So, what's with the snow and the ice?" he nearly slipped everywhere he would walk.
"Each Christmas we bring winter inside, Eddy," Jonny smiled with glee. "It's our family tradition! A small thanks to Mother Nature for everything she's given us!" he then bit on Mike's nose this time and laughed. "Nipped your nose, Mike!"
Mike winced in pain and punched him, rubbing her rounded nose. "Okay, Eddy, we can't spend Christmas with 'Jack and Snowball', let's go back to your parents, huh?"
Eddy tried to follow her out, but slid backwards against the frozen Christmas tree and saw many ice sculptured gifts. "Presents! Hey Jack, give me an ice pick, will ya? I wanna see what I got!"
"Ice pick?" Jonny looked at him, then put Plank up to his ear. "Mr. Snowflake says no problem, Eddy!"
"So, what're ya waiting for?" Eddy was still in delight. "It'll take all night to crack these babies open."
Jonny threw a trash can lid, which moved the present out of Eddy's hands. Suddenly, Jonny pulled a lever and made Eddy fall through a hole and landed right outside in the Grove backyard.
"So, Mike, now that we're alone..." Jonny put an arm around the city girl. "Ya wanna cozy up by the fire?"
"Let me think about it," Mike said. "I've thought about it." she then said and jumped in the hole after Eddy.
Eddy screamed as he was going all around like a roller coaster with Mike behind him. Eddy beamed right out and hit a tree while Mike was flying through the air, she grabbed the trash can lid like a skateboard and landed on it swiftly, smiling all around.
"Mike, you tell Eddy we're on to his shtick!" Jonny yelled from inside. "Mr. Snowflake had him figured from the get go! He's nothing but a greedy Pete trying to steal our Christmas!" he slammed the door then to join his parents in family tradition.
"You okay, Eddy?" Mike asked, helping the short boy down.
"Ah, who needs him?" Eddy scoffed. "We got a million Christmases on this block!" he stormed off.
Mike sighed and followed Eddy.
The two were walking through the snow as there was light humming heard as Rolf is dressed like a sheep and decorating with meat and fish around his house. Mike blinked and did a double take.
"Woe is us, woe is us..." Eddy feigned depression.
"Look at you, Ed boy," Rolf came down to see his guests. "Why does your face sag like Papa's pot of parsnips?"
"Our parents were attacked by renegade baggage handlers, Rolf!" Eddy cried, once again, dragging Mike into this mess. "And they stole all our presents!"
"Is this true, Masculine Named Girl?" Rolf turned to Mike.
"I guess so..." Mike shrugged.
"Scoundrels!" Rolf took that as a yes. "Rolf is wise to the tote-handlers! Still, they are a higher caste than the son of a shepherd. Rolf cannot help you both with his manner."
"No, wait, we're beggin' ya, Rolf!" Eddy cried out. "We've got no Christmas. No presents, no family, no nothing, please, Rolf!"
"Please, we are down on our knees..." Mike muttered, rolling her eyes.
"You have pulled Rolf's eggplant, half men, half women, Ed boy and Masculine Named Girl," Rolf grabbed Mike and Eddy, throwing them into the house. "Come, grab the tail of Rolf's sheep of joy and enjoy the season of mirth."
"Funny, I feel so hungry now..." Mike rubbed her belly as she saw meat decorated in the house surprisingly. What kind of Christmas did the Kelamis family celebrate?
"Behold the toil of 24 days, Ed boy and Masculine Named Girl!" Rolf cheered. "A celebration of what-nots, bangles, knick-knacks, doodads, and an assortment of cured, smoked, poached, and other mammal flesh!"
"What kind of Christmas is this?" Mike looked around.
"Not being Christmas," a frail woman who resembled Rolf spoke in a thicker accent than her son. "It is being the celebration festival of Yeshmiyek!"
"Yak what?" Mike blinked.
"Yeshmiyek!" Rolf corrected proudly. "Surely you recognize the great Yeshmiyek, she who lives in the center of the Earth, where she prepares the holiday for good males and females!"
"Wonderful day we are having!" Mrs. Kelamis beamed happily.
"What about presents?" Mike asked, knowing that's why Eddy would want to come over on a day like today.
"Presents?" Rolf asked as he got an accordion to play the annual song with his aging father and younger brother who was around Sarah and Jimmy's age. "What presents?"
"Mike, we're outta here." Eddy said, taking Mike's hand and pulling her out to the next house on the block.
Mike let go and glared at him. "You find someone else, I'm leaving! My parents are probably worried sick!" she stormed off.
"Mike, come back, don't you want a real Christmas like anyone else?" Eddy asked.
"I don't care about that stuff," Mike looked back to him, darting her eyes. "Where I come from, Christmas is whenever your grandparents come over from long away despite arguing with your parents' skills about raising you! Christmas is about talking and loving each other on the one day a year you get time together! If you want to get stupid other stuff for Christmas, be my guest! I'm not wasting anymore time with the likes of you! Good night, Eddy and have a Happy Freakin' New Year!" she then stormed off to her house.
"Mike, are you okay?" Double D asked.
"No, I'm mad at that jerk, Eddy, I don't even get why we hang around him!" Mike folded her arms. "I was hoping this holiday would put him in a better mood, but nooo!"
"Oh, dear," Double D sighed. "There must be a way to get through Eddy what the true spirit of Christmas is about."
"Well, let me know when you do, I'm going home to make cookies with my Mom and then I'm going to bed to dream about sugar plums dancing in my head..." Mike stormed off.
At the Mavinsky house, Mike was warming up by the fire as her father had a few presents in his hands.
"What's that?" Mike saw the early presents.
"Early presents."
"From Granny?"
"Who else? Her presents are always here first." Mr. Mavinsky set them down by the tree.
"Ya know, some houses open one present on Christmas Eve first, can we do that?" Mike took one of the bigger boxes.
"Oh, I dunno, you HAVE been very good lately..." Mrs. Mavinsky said softly, with a smile. "Okay, just one, now, Michelene."
"Yes, Mom..." Mike agreed, then opened the biggest box that was for her and the smaller ones were for her parents. She ripped through the green background and brown reindeer with red-nosed reindeer decorated on it and smiled as she got it all opened up. She took a box of mistletoe. "Huh?"
"You know what happens under the mistletoe, right?" Mrs. Mavinsky giggled.
"Sure, I do..." Mike shrugged, wondering why her grandmother gave her such a thing for Christmas.
"I think you should use it on that Eddy boy, he likes you..." Mr. Mavinsky smirked. "I know he does..."
"That's what Ed said... and I think a lot of other kids in school too... Should I use it?" Mike tucked into her pocket.
"Yes, dear, go find him and share your Christmas joy with him!" Mrs. Mavinsky cheered.
Mike smiled, then went off to find Eddy and do just that. Mike had found Ed dressed like a shepherd and Double D dressed like an angel without wings.
"Uhh..." Mike looked at them.
"Don't ask." Double D muttered.
"Eddy made Double D wings go bye-bye, Mike!" Ed cried, squeezing the girl.
"Have you guys seen Eddy? I kinda got something for him..." Mike took out the mistletoe.
"We were looking for him, perhaps you could help us." Double D suggested and visibly smiled as he saw the mistletoe.
Ed chuckled cheekily as he followed Double D and Mike to look for Eddy. Soon enough, they did find Eddy as the boy was alone in the snow. There was an old light on a decorated forest tree. Eddy unscrewed that light and replaced it with one that somehow got into his back pocket and the tree glowed brightly and it was a heartwarming moment.
"Oh, Eddy, I'm so proud of you!" Double D beamed. "You did it!"
"A big hug for my little man!" Ed instantly hugged Eddy.
"What'd I do?" Eddy looked between them, then saw someone else. "Mike?"
"You replaced the bulb, Eddy!" Double D pointed as Ed let Eddy back down on the ground.
"So? The tree needed a light and I put it in, big whoop!" Eddy scoffed.
"Eddy, you did something nice," Mike explained to him. "You gave willingly of your heart without thought of your own gain! This is the gift of giving, Eddy! This is what the spirit of Christmas is all about! And I've never been more proud of you!"
"It is?" Eddy blinked. "Hey, that didn't hurt a bit... Actually feels kinda good, guys. 'Cuz Christmas ain't about what you find under the tree... It's about what you find in your heart!"
The cul-de-sac kids then came by. Mike smiled at them for coming as they joined all together.
"That tree glows as though it were touched by an angel!" Jimmy beamed.
"It's absolutely beautiful." Nazz agreed.
"Awesome, to say the least." Even Kevin thought so.
"Plank says that's one hot looking tomato!" Jonny jeered.
Suddenly, a big red bag fell from the sky filled with gift wrapped boxes, making all the kids look up suddenly. They looked up to see Jolly Old Saint Nick himself flying away on his sleigh.
"Merry Christmas!" the jolly old voice called.
"Santa...?" Eddy couldn't believe it.
"Take me with you!" Ed chased after the legend of holiday tradition. "Ed, you, Santa, we good!"
"Merry Christmas, Edwin Sampson!" Mike beamed, hanging the mistletoe over Eddy's head, then pulled his face for a big kiss, making the other kids clamor together.
Eddy blushed deeply and nearly melted while Mike just pulled back gently with a wry smile and blush in her cheeks. She then opened the bag and showed the glowing presents for everyone in the cul-de-sac.
"There's one for Jonny, and Plank, and Sarah to Jimmy, Nazz, Kevin, Rolf, Ed, Edd, Eddy, and me!" Mike smiled at the kids, then handed them their presents.
"Right on!" Jonny opened his present to see a stump from a log. "Look Plank, I think you and Eddy got lucky this year!" he smiled suavely.
"Radical!" Nazz took out a tube of sun tan lotion for next summer.
"Sarah, it's lovely!" Jimmy took out an Easy-Bake oven with a recipe book.
"This is the best present ever!" Sarah beamed as she got a rather fancy looking pink doll house that had a garage and almost every possible accessory in all the rooms. "Polly will love it! I wonder if there's a car in the garage..." she leaned in and gasped in shock as there was a huge, big, ugly lump of coal.
"Why, Sarah, is that a lump of coal?" Mike teased, making the younger girl angry.
"What's this?" Kevin noticed a book next to his bike helmet given to him.
The kids looked to see they had books too.
"They're song books," Mike noticed. "Let's sing carols together!"
"Alright!" Eddy beamed as he was given money from his grandfather.
Suddenly, there came three crowned figures.
"Can it be?" Double D looked in surprised shock. "Three kings who have traveled afar?"
The 'kings' entered and revealed to be the Kanker sisters bundled up with crowns on their heads.
"A babe in the manger, huh?" Lee grinned. "We come bearing gifts!"
"See? Mold!" May held out her present.
"I brought franks and cents!" Marie added, taking out weenies and a few pennies.
"And fur!" Lee finished.
"Uh, how nice of you..." Mike wasn't sure how to properly respond to that.
"Well, this certainly has the Christmas spirit." Double D replied.
"Now it's time for our gifts!" May grinned.
"Payback!" Marie grinned. "Christmas kisses all around!"
"We ain't talkin' on the cheeks either!" Lee finished.
Mike handed them all three pieces of paper. "Merry Christmas, guys."
"What's this?" Lee looked at it.
"Restraining orders," Mike answered with a smirk. "You three aren't allowed to come near the Ed's until NEXT Christmas."
The Kanker sisters looked at each other in dismay and mumbled among each others.
"You're lucky that our Mom can't afford to go back to jail for our sake!" Lee stormed off.
"I oughta wrestle you into a pile drive!" Marie sneered at Mike, going off.
"Yeah!" May added, then went with her sisters.
"So, carols?" Mike turned to the other kids.
The kids all joined together to sing We Wish You a Merry Christmas until they would go home until the next morning.