Soon, the whole family went to the pageant. Chelsea was as proud as she could be of Kevin. Buzz was in the pageant too, but Kevin seemed to be more of the focus, then again, he did have the solo in the song. The brothers sang along with the choir of their Christmas Tree song while the school's music teacher accompanied them by piano. Everything was going well so far and the song was flowing with ease. Chelsea looked excited for Kevin. William was drinking his bottle.

Kate smiled. Frank was sleeping. The relatives passed along to each other that it was time for Kevin's solo. Leslie tried to wake her husband to spread the news while the other students were quieting down their parts of the song. Frank woke up. Chelsea smiled wider and had the proudest smile in the room. William was just drinking right then. Kevin took a small breath, then started to sing the song the best that he could.

Buzz decided to be a jerk and used his candle and another boy's candle around Kevin's ears to make it appear that they were glowing. For some reason, the audience found this funny. Kevin was always taught to tune out the audience when on stage, so he did, and he was unaware of Buzz's little prank. Chelsea looked both annoyed and worried. Uncle Frank was laughing too.

Kate wasn't laughing, shaking her head. William didn't know what was happening, and because almost everyone else was laughing and it was infectious to him, he laughed too. Buzz then used the candlesticks as sticks and Kevin's head as a drum while the audience laughed at the little joke. Leslie was trying to make her husband and children stop, but the laughter seemed to flood the room. Kevin felt something was wrong as he sang his solo, he turned around to see Buzz, knowing he had something to do with his humiliation, so he punched his older brother, shocking everyone as the set was now coming apart.

Chelsea looked proud of Kevin. William stopped laughing but clapped then. Kate looked disappointed as the children fell and the piano player fell too. Kevin didn't mean to cause a lot of destruction and chaos, but he had to punish Buzz to make him pay for the consequences of his actions.

The other choir members fell off their platform and now the crowd looked horrified. Chelsea was the only one who looked proud of Kevin, other than William who was giggling at the chaos. Kate shook her head. Peter stood with Kate as Kevin felt very much in trouble and the curtains closed on the choir, possibly leaving the rest of the pageant cancelled because of tonight's shenanigans.

Soon they were back at home, holding a family meeting. Chelsea had put William to bed and was taking Kevin's side.

Buzz tried to look very serious and mature about this whole thing. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury... I'd like to apologize to my family for whatever displeasure I might have caused you..."

"What?" Kevin glanced at his brother in disbelief, but he wasn't very vocal about it, so no one really heard him.

"My prank was immature and ill-timed." Buzz continued, sounding like the polar opposite of himself.

Chelsea shook her head at Buzz, her arm around Kevin. Kate looked approving at Buzz. Fuller hid a small chuckle as he remembered it and found it hilarious.

"I'd also like to apologize to my brother," Buzz said then, then turned to the youngest of his siblings. "Kevin... I'm sorry, I know Chelsea forgives you, but I'm sorry."

Kevin still glared to him and kept closer to Chelsea, she seemed to be the only one with a brain left in this household.

"You are the one who did something wrong." Chelsea mutters to Buzz.

"Thank you, Buzz... Kevin, do you have anything you want to say?" Kate asks, shooting a glare at Chelsea.

Kevin looked angry with the others as they praised Buzz like this was really all his fault when all he did was fight back.

Buzz pretended to have tears, then whispered lowly and grumbly towards Kevin. "Beat that, you little trout-sniffer..."

Kevin was very peeved again that he said that, but only he and Chelsea heard it, he then spoke up and called the others stupid for believing Buzz and letting him get away with everything like they did before, this was a lot like last Christmas and he was unhappy about it.

Chelsea was outraged at Buzz. "How dare you call Kevin a trout-sniffer, you little nerf herder!" She says, loudly but not too loud.

Kate sent both upstairs again, angry.

"Who wants to spend Christmas at a tropical climate anyways?" Kevin then brought back up one of his other reasons for being angry tonight.

This seemed to be like last Christmas, Kevin didn't want to see any of them again, only this time, he did want to see William, and was not angry for him laughing earlier since he was only a baby and he knew that babies were just that way sometimes.

"Go upstairs." Kate tells them.

"Don't ruin another family vacation, you little twerps." Frank says.

"Oh, no, don't want to ruin your holiday Uncle Cheapskate." Chelsea huffs, and headed upstairs with Kevin.

Kevin agreed with Chelsea about their miserable Uncle Frank. He didn't want to see any of his family again unless it were Chelsea or baby William. Sometimes he wished he could just run away with those two and leave the others to themselves, they probably wouldn't even notice the difference.

Chelsea looked at Kevin. "If you can deal with William if he cries, you can join me upstairs in my room." she says gently to Kevin.

"Might take getting used to..." Kevin shrugged, it would be better than the others yelling and blaming him anyway. "Did I cry a lot when I was a baby?" he then asked, curious, though William wasn't that much of a crier, only when Chelsea seemed to be away from him.

"Not a lot... Only when I wasn't around... They had to get me a tutor for a couple of years until you were old enough to go to Kindergarten." Chelsea smiled.

Kevin had a small smile. "It's like you were raised to be a good mother, because you're a wonderful sister."

Chelsea smiled and almost cried herself. She hugged him gently. Kevin hugged back, as long as they stuck together, they would be just fine. He still wanted to go on a vacation without the rest of the family, he and Chelsea got their wish last year, maybe they would get it again this year. If only he had the money though. The rest of the night passed peacefully for the siblings, William was more quiet than usual, nothing wrong, just happy with both his favorite people in the room. Unfortunately, just like last year, the wind was going strong outside and it was turning off the alarm clocks and delaying the family to wake up for their Floridan vacation this year, but other than that, the family slept warmly and comfortably in their beds without a worry in the world.

Luckily, William woke Kevin and Chelsea in time. They even got breakfast before they had to go. The others woke late and were in a rush to get ready.

Frank couldn't help but comment. "Not to be rude, but you guys give the lousiest wake-up calls." he says.

Kevin was a little tired when he first woke up, but he was more awake now as they were actually on time instead of the rest of the family. Leslie handed tickets around as she went with her part of the family to go on one van while the others would go on the other one. Chelsea got in the front with a William and Kevin.

Kate handed out the tickets to her family. "Kevin and Chelsea and William." she reads out.

The family was silent as they couldn't find them at first.

"Right here," Kevin took their tickets from her. "It's a good thing we have our own tickets, otherwise William would be introduced to the family tradition of you guys trying to ditch us."

"Yes." Chelsea said.

The vans drove to the airport. The others mumbled as the vans took off, but they had bigger things to worry about, such as making it to their flight to Florida on time.

Kevin played around with his tape recorder, but frowned, it was running low on batteries. Peter ended up running next to Kevin, William, and Chelsea. Chelsea was trying to keep William calm, and kept close to Kevin.

"Dad, I need batteries!" Kevin piped up.

"I got some batteries in my bag, I'll give them to you on the plane." Peter replied, very rushed.

There was no time for small talk, it was getting closer and closer to them having to go and make it to their gate.

Chelsea stuck close to Kevin. "Dad, give me the bag, I had to put William's bottle in there." she says.

Kate ran with her family. Peter looked to her and gave it to her way. Kevin was looking for batteries for his tape recorder inside of their father's bag, it being more of his focus than getting on the plane on time, passing the bottle and finding money, but he would never take Peter's money for himself. After Kevin got his batteries, Chelsea ran with him, thinking they were following Peter.

"Dad, wait up!" Kevin called as he was closer to Chelsea and the rest of the family was farther away from them.

They weren't waited on however, but they rushed and followed the best they could to make it to their gate and plane.

A blonde woman was taking tickets and joked along with the passengers who just now made it as the plane was nearly ready to take off. Chelsea tried to stop, but Kevin had her and William's ticket. Kate tried to count her family but was told to just get on. The flight attendants promised everyone would make it on the plane, urging Kate to go sit down as the plane was now boarding. The door was just about to close after the man who Kevin and Chelsea thought was their father made it in.

"WAAAAIT!" Kevin cried, accidentally running into the woman and knocking her things down. "I'm sorry..." he apologized her, sincerely.

"That's all right..." the woman gathered her things with his help, she then smiled at the cute baby. "Are you all on this flight?" she then asked.

William cooed.

Chelsea nodded. "That man in the brown coat... He was our dad." she says.

"They're already on the plane and we don't wanna be left behind." Kevin said to her once he got her things together for her.

"Do you have boarding passes?" the woman asked once she collected her items.

"They're somewhere..." Kevin tried to look for them.

"They're in that pile." Chelsea says, pointing to the boarding passes.

William started to fuss, he wanted his bottle, but they needed to get on the plane. A man came to them, it was getting close for the plane to take off.

The woman took the passes and allowed them to get on the plane, she didn't want to rush them, but they were running out of time. "Do you guys see your family?" she asked them since she was told to make sure the family was on board too before they would leave Chicago.

Kevin pointed to a familiar looking man putting his bag above his seat. "There's our dad over there."

"Okay, well go find a seat," the woman told them with the best friendly smile she could do for their sake. "Merry Christmas." she told them before leaving.

"You too." Kevin nodded back to her.

"Merry Christmas." Chelsea smiled. Luckily, she and Kevin got to sit together. She then started to feed William.

William sucked on his bottle happily. Kevin looked around for the others, but shrugged it off, he decided to listen to some music to pass the flight time while Chelsea would be busy with little William. Chelsea had to talk over the info to soothe William. But soon, the plane took off. The planes were now taking off and now, everybody could relax until they would reach their destination.

Chelsea smiled at her brother and cooed at William. The ride was going very smoothly and it looked like they were going to have a decent landing. Little did the McCallister trio know that this year was going to be like last year, only they won't be home alone, they will be somewhere else for the holiday season. Chelsea followed Kevin out once they landed. She was glad there wasn't loud noises as William was sleeping.