Tangled should have won. I'm depressed.
Anyway… I had to write another family story to make myself happy…er… from the results last night. Hope you enjoy!
"Mommy, Daddy, get up! It's Christmas!" Annika sprinted out of the room to wake up her sibling.
"Eugene… what's the time?" Rapunzel whispered.
"Four in the morning," Eugene answered with a sigh. Rapunzel rolled over and squeezed her husband's hand.
"I'll go put them back to bed." Eugene grunted in response as Rapunzel went to chase her daughter.
"Annika! Anni, stop making so much noise!" Rapunzel swept Annika, who was still laughing and shouting, off the floor. "Anni, shh… yes, merry Christmas." Rapunzel headed for the girl's room.
"Mommy, what are you doing?"
"Putting you back to bed." Annika kicked her arms and legs, protesting.
"No! Presents!"
"Annika May Fitzherbert, stop kicking!" Annika immediately stopped at the sound of her full name. Rapunzel leaned over her bed and placed Annika down. She crossed her arms and frowned.
"Six o'clock, okay? Love you," Rapunzel said, kissing the top of Annika's head. She shut the door quietly and ran into Eugene as she made her way back to her room.
"What are you doing up?"
"Lily just came in. She heard Annika before." Half asleep, Rapunzel closed the door and crawled into bed.
"You got her to sleep?"
"Told her I'd take away all their presents if she didn't." Rapunzel smacked his arm.
"Eugene!"
"What? It's four in the stinkin' morning, Rapunzel." Rapunzel didn't argue. Shivering, she slid over, closer to Eugene. He was nearly asleep, but he wrapped his arm around Rapunzel. She smiled and the two of them fell into a deep sleep.
"Daddy… get… up!" Lily tugged on her father's arm.
"Mommy, wake Daddy up!" Annika jumped up and down as Rapunzel sat up.
"Morning, girls. Lily, stop pulling your father's arm." Lily reluctantly stopped.
"Mom, it's six fifteen!" Rapunzel leaned over Eugene.
"Time to get up, dear." Eugene groaned and opened his eyes.
"He's up! Anni, he's up!" The children jumped onto the bed and hugged Eugene.
"Morning. Merry Christmas." Eugene hugged his girls back and then they ran out of the room yelling,
"Presents, presents!"
"Guess we better get down there before they wake the whole castle up," Eugene said, slowly sitting up.
"Too late for that, I believe." The King and Queen appeared at their bedroom door.
"Oh, gosh, I'm so sorry! We didn't mean to wake anyone up," Rapunzel said, walking to her parents.
"It's fine. Kids will be kids," the Queen responded with a smile.
"How are you doing over there, Eugene?" the King asked, laughing.
"Wonderful," Eugene replied, standing up.
"Mom! Dad! Are you coming or what?" Lily yelled up the stairs.
"Yes, Lils, we're coming."
The day slowly passed by, and Eugene could barely keep his eyes open.
"Daddy, we're gonna go outside with Mommy. Wanna come?" Lily asked, pulling on his sleeve. He looked down at his daughter, whose lower lip was beginning to stick out slightly, and her eyes were wide open.
"Your mother taught you that one, didn't she? All right, I'll come." Lily grinned and ran off to Rapunzel.
"Dad, I'm going to kick your butt in our snowball fight," Annika told him confidently.
"Is that so? Well, your mother can be the judge of that." Eugene patted her head and the family walked outside.
"Mom, it's snowing!" Lily exclaimed, scooping up a handful of snow. The girls shrieked with laughter as they chased each other around. Eugene placed his arm around Rapunzel's shoulders and said,
"I know you taught Lils that look."
"Well, it does get you every time," Rapunzel replied, smiling.
"Mom, look! I made a snow angel!" Annika yelled, pointing at the ground.
"Yeah, it's very nice Anni!" Rapunzel looked at Eugene and gestured for them to join their children. "I know you don't like snow, but we should join them." Rapunzel made the same face Lily had and Eugene couldn't say no.
"Oh, fine! I really need to stop doing that." Rapunzel laughed and Eugene kissed her cheek. He was not expecting to get a face full of snow. He whirled around and saw Lily standing behind him, looking innocent. Wiping the snow off his face, he bent over and scooped up more snow.
"Two can play at that game." He threw the snow at Lily and hit her square in the chest.
"Daddy!" She squealed, grabbing more snow. Rapunzel had run off with Annika, most likely to stock up on snowballs. Eugene and Lily threw snowballs back and forth, hitting each other nearly every time.
"How did you get such good aim?" Eugene shouted as he barely missed a snowball. Lily continued to laugh and throw snowballs without stopping.
"Lily! Come here!" Rapunzel yelled from behind Eugene. Eugene looked behind him and saw that Rapunzel and Annika had made a fort. "Let's have a real snowball fight!"
"Boys against girls!" Annika shouted as Lily ran towards them.
"What? That's not fair!" Eugene exclaimed, even though his girls began throwing snowballs like crazy. He threw himself at the ground and began throwing snowballs back.
"C'mon Eugene, you can throw better than that!" Rapunzel yelled at him.
"You three can stop throwing so well whenever you like!" Eugene began crawling towards the snow fort, planning his attack. Lily and Annika were not even able to speak because they were laughing so hard.
"Anni, c'mon! We can beat your father!" Eugene was slowly making his way to the fort, and the snowballs had stopped flying so quickly.
"Girls, hurry up! We need more snowballs!" Rapunzel said.
"Mommy, do you think we beat Dad?"
"Dear, I know we beat Dad."
"Why did he stop throwing snowballs?" Lily peered over the top of the fort and Eugene jumped at her. She shrieked as Eugene pulled her to the ground.
"Daddy!"
"I've got you now!" Eugene said, laughing. Annika suddenly jumped onto Eugene as well. Eugene held each daughter in one arm and they calmed down.
"Daddy, we totally won," Annika said. Rapunzel walked over to her family and lay down next to them.
"I don't think so."
"Dad, what are you talking about? We kicked your butt."
"Hey, it was three against one. Not fair."
"Eugene, we beat you," Rapunzel added. The four of them lay on the ground, completely exhausted.
"Hey, girls?"
"What?" Annika and Lily asked at the same time.
"We're definitely having a rematch tomorrow." They all laughed.
"Will you beat us then, Daddy?" Annika asked.
"Oh, for sure, Anni."
"Okay, girls, time to head back in. It's almost dinner time," Rapunzel said, much to the children's dismay.
"No… Mommy… just five more minutes…"
"Oh, all right, fine. But, five minutes, okay?" Lily leapt up and exclaimed,
"Let's all make snow angels! Daddy, you go first, cause you're the tallest." Annika crawled off Eugene and he made his snow angel.
"Daddy, you look so pretty as an angel!" Annika yelled when he finished.
"Well, thank you, sweetie."
"Okay, now Mommy, you go next." Rapunzel lay on the ground and made her snow angel as well.
"How'd I do?" She asked.
"Well, let's just say you make excellent snow angels," Eugene replied, kissing Rapunzel's cheek.
"Now I'll go…" Lily slowly made her snow angel. "I want it to be perfect! Okay, Anni, now you go." Annika made hers and slowly stood up, trying not to ruin it.
"There we are," Eugene said smiling. He placed his hands on his children's shoulders and Rapunzel wrapped her arm around his waist. They all stared, smiling down at their snow angels.
"Daddy? Your snow angel is weird," Lily said, observing his.
"Thank you, Lils." She smiled up at him.
"All right girls, time to go in," Rapunzel said, not wanting to go in herself.
"Okay…" They headed back for the castle and Rapunzel took one last glance at the snow angels, not wanting this day to end. She looked back at her children, and her husband, not wanting this perfect day to end.
There you have it! This story makes me happy, despite my depression about Tangled not winning… :( Well, I hope you enjoyed it too!
Update: Changed the last sentence. Felt like I should let y'all know :D
