A/N: Hello! I know I promised I would have the next chapter out by yesterday, but yesterday was my older sister's birthday, I had church, I had to go shopping for my little sister, and I was just really busy. This whole week has been crazy busy actually. I had exams and on Friday I went to a friend's birthday party. BUT, I am now out on Christmas break so I should be able to update more quickly! (I was also kind of upset with the lack of reviews. Come on, I had 4. You guys can do better than that!) So, I am truly sorry for accidentally breaking my promise. I hope you guys are ready for the Christmas chapter because here it comes!

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Christmas

6:00 am

Nine year old Daniel Goode's emerald green eyes popped open suddenly. It was fairly early for him to be waking up, but this morning was special. It was Christmas!

He jumped out of bed, rushed out his bedroom door, down the hallway, and into his twin sister Abby's room.

"Abby! Abby! Abby! It's Christmas! Wake up! Wake up! Wake Uuuuup!" Daniel started to shake the younger twin trying to get her out of her unconscious state of sleep.

When she didn't even shift a little, he started to shake her harder. She gave no sign of response, so he turned around and walked out thinking he would have better luck in his younger brother's room.

"Alex, wake up. It's Christmas! We have to open our presents!" The only response Daniel got from his 6 year old brother was a quiet mumble.

Daniel sighed. He knew it was no use to try again so he walked out and went into his eleven year old sister, Aanna's room.

He entered the lime green bedroom, and immediately walked over to his sister's polka-dotted bed.

"Aanna," He said softly, "Please wake up. It's Christmas and I reeeeeally want to open my presents."

The result, unfortunately, was the same one he received from his other siblings. He had only one room left, and he started to make his way toward it.

He peeked his head through the doorway of his parent's room.

"Mama? Dad?" Daniel sighed. It was no use. Nobody wanted to wake up.

'Well then,' he thought, 'If they don't want to open presents then they don't have to. I'll go open my own.'

Daniel walked down the hallway, down the stairs, through the kitchen, into the living room, and plopped down in front of the tree.

He started to move the presents around trying to find his own, and when he got to the back of the tree, he struck gold. There was a whole mountain of presents with his name on it. He started to pull each one out one by one and unwrap them carefully. 'He wouldn't want to wake anyone up.' Daniel thought sarcastically.

20 minutes later

Daniel sat on the floor just looking at all the presents he had received. He had gotten the Lego set he wanted, a new video game, a ton of electronic devices he'd been wanting for a while, and a bunch of other stuff.

"Wow!" He whispered to himself. "I gotta go try these out."

'But first I should probably eat something.' Daniel thought to himself.

He stood up and maneuvered around his new things to get to the kitchen. He opened the refrigerator, and looked around at all its contents. 'Hmmm,' He thought, 'There are a ton of leftovers from last night including…this cherry pie!'

Daniel pulled it out and opened the lid.

"Now all I need is a fork!" He said aloud quietly. He walked over to the silverware drawer, opened it, and took out the fork he needed.

He grabbed the pie, stuck the fork in it, and decided to eat it while playing with his new toys. He walked back toward the living room, and sat down in his previous position, surrounded by all his new toys.

Daniel started to eat his pie and excitedly looked around at all of his new toys.

'What should I play with first?' He thought to himself, and as he looked around one more time he saw the Legos he'd been wanting and made his decision.

8:00 am

The Goode family, minus Daniel, all walked downstairs to open presents. The children were all excitedly chattering about what they thought they had gotten, Cammie was just watching her children with a smile, but Zach, he looked conflicted. He wasn't sure where his oldest son was. He figured they would find him downstairs on the couch waiting for them to open presents.

Zach was half right. They did find him downstairs and he was on the couch, but he most certainly had not waited for them. They knew this because when they made it downstairs there was Daniel sound asleep with all of his presents unwrapped, and with cherry pie all over his face.

"DANIEL!" Zach yelled.

Daniel's emerald green eyes popped open unexpectedly for the second time that morning, but the first time was for a much happier reason.

He slowly turned around and winced when he saw the anger on his father's face.

Daniel sheepishly spoke, "Hey everybody…Merry Christmas!"

A/N: There you go! The Christmas chapter done! What'd you think? I hope you liked it. The direction this took was totally different from what I originally had planned, but I kinda liked it. Hope you liked it.

Merry Christmas,

Pieces Of My Heart