Right, sorry for huge gap and now for the short chaper, took a couple of days to get past a terrible writing block :/ there should be another chapter up shortly and it will definatly be longer, I think after this next one there will be a max of two more before I move onto the next film. Hopefully one but you all know me XD I tend to go off on one. Hope you enjoy this little filler ^_^
Disclaimer ect: I only own Sophie, regrettably not Kelly or St. Trinians
Chapter 13: Christmas.
Soph was quite happily asleep until she felt someone shaking her shoulder; she gave an annoyed groan an rolled onto her front, burying her face into the pillow. She vaguely heard someone chuckle and the next thing she knew she was falling off the edge of the bed and onto the floor. She landed with a heavy thud on her back and sat up, scowling at a laughing Kelly.
"Merry Christmas." Soph stood up, brushing herself off and frowning at Kelly's cheerful tone.
"Yeah yeah, merry Christmas." She yawned and looked at the time.
"You woke me up at six in the morning, why?" She folded her arms across her chest and scowled at the older girl as she got up, apparently unfazed by her grumpy mood.
"Because it's Christmas morning, come on, we have to go meet everyone at the tree for presents."
She walked to the door, still in her pyjamas, and opened it, waiting. Soph sighed and held back a small smile at how into this holiday Kelly was.
"Fine. Let's go before I fall asleep." She walked over and took Kelly's hand, letting her lead them down to the recreation room where they'd set up the tree.
As she gradually woke up properly she could feel her heart rate go up, panicking slightly about the gift she'd gotten Kelly. Would she like it? She bit her lip as they reached the door and felt Kelly give her hand a small squeeze, she looked at her but Kelly wasn't looking back. She smiled slightly as they walked in, everyone was already sat waiting and there were six piles of gifts under the tree. Soph was glad she'd Annabelle's to Camilla, and vice versa, the day before because she could see them sat in the piles. She and Kelly sat down on the sofa next to Annabelle; Soph was scanning the piles, trying to figure out which was hers. She found the box that she knew contained Kelly's choker and quickly moved on, she couldn't let herself think about it. Apparently parents and relatives had sent things to the school since there were definitely more gifts than people here. She realise Kelly was speaking and pulled herself back to the conversation.
"... had a little trouble waking her up." Everyone chuckled and Soph yawned pointedly.
"I'm not a morning person." She flashed a grin and relaxed against the sofa.
"Well, now you're both here we can get started. Come on girlies. Let's have at it." Camilla seemed in a very good mood as she stood up and everyone rushed forward to the piles, finding theirs and sitting next to it as they picked up one to open. Soph moved a little slower than everyone else and sat down a little uncertainly next to her own. She picked up a medium sized parcel in brown paper and read the label, it was the obligatory box full of Jack Daniels her Dad sent every year then, she opened it and looked inside, more than usual this year, he must have heard about her ditching mother. She grinned slightly as she spotted the roll of money in the corner of the box. He must really approve. She put the lid back down and moved the box out of the way.
In the rest she found a short card from her mother and a rather awesome blood red pair of knee high dock martins from Annabelle. She smiled at her and Annabelle smiled back, raising her wrist so Soph could see she'd already found the bracelet she'd gotten for her. She turned back to her rapidly decreasing pile and opened the next one; a small smile came onto her face as she discovered her aunt had given her a small silver gun that on closer inspection turned out to be a lighter. She flashed a grin at her and she smiled back, she must have remembered Soph admiring hers during one of her visits to the headmistress's office. She put the lighter back into the box and moved it to one side, frowning slightly before she discovered a tiny box left on the floor, she smiled and picked it up, checking the tag. It was from Kelly. Soph glanced at her; she'd just picked up the one that Soph knew was from herself. They smiled at each other and set about opening them, she discovered it was a small box and opened it, smiling widely as she saw the single, small, loop earring. She took it out and spared a glace to Kelly, she grinned as she saw she was smiling. Suddenly much happier she took the time to look at the gift properly, it was a snake biting its own tail. She reached up and unclasped the earring she always wore, it was very worn down but some of the old rope pattern could still be seen. She smiled faintly and placed her old earring in the box, unclasping the new one and carefully placing it through her ear. After spinning it through a bit to make it sit in the right position she walked over to Kelly, kissing her cheek gently.
"Thank you for the earring." She rested her hand on the back of Kelly's neck and her fingers met leather. Soph looked down and saw she'd put on the choker. She smiled and ran a finger over it lightly, looking back to Kelly in time to see her lean forward and kiss her. It was a mere brushing of lips, as much as Soph wanted to kiss her properly, the other people in the room made that impossible. She'd have to thank her again later. As they separated Soph turned her attention to Kelly's other gifts.
"So what else did you get? She sat down next to her and grinned. Kelly smiled and started going through what her parents and various others had sent her. Once she was done she asked what Soph had gotten.
"A large amount of whisky from my Dad. Lighter from Miss Fritton and a new pair of docks from Annabelle." She grinned, omitting the card from her mother. Kelly looked as though she was about to speak when Camilla spoke over them.
"Right then girlies. I hope we all got what we wanted, I know I did. Now, time for breakfast." She gave a girlish giggle and Soph raised an eyebrow, everyone seemed to be really into Christmas around here.
They all made their way to the dining hall, apparently the cook didn't even get Christmas off since as they walked in the smell of pancakes hit them like a sack of bricks. Though there was a slight difference in the way it was set out, all the pancakes were already on plates at the table, Soph raised an eyebrow questioningly as they sat down and Kelly leaned over to explain.
"We've done it this way since a couple of years ago everyone got into an argument over who got the last one and all the chairs got smashed." Soph chuckled and looked along the table, various toppings were laid out along it and she was happy to find the maple syrup nearby. She grabbed it and happily poured it over her own, grinning as Kelly took it from her when she was done. Good to know she had good taste in pancake toppings. Everyone chatted about what they'd been sent while they ate, apparently Carnaby was trying to bribe Annabelle home and had sent a motorbike, conveniently forgetting that Annabelle couldn't, and didn't want to learn how to, drive one. Soph said she'd buy it off of her and Annabelle agreed, they'd discuss prices later, but Soph was pretty determined, sneaking out on the twins bike had reminded her how much she loved riding, she'd trashed her own in an accident about a month after she passed her test, something she proceeded to explain to Kelly when she looked at her questioningly. Once they'd all finished eating they stayed talking for a while before leaving to get dressed, grabbing their gifts from by the tree on their way to the dorm rooms. Everything seemed as though there was a premade routine to it, Soph asked Kelly if this was the case while they got dressed, she grinned.
"Pretty much, it's Miss Fritton's attempt at making a family Christmas. After lunch later she'll break out the old board games and we'll watch a movie or something." She chuckled quietly at Soph's dumbfounded expression.
"Is that seriously what everyone else does at Christmas?" She's seen enough cheesy Christmas films to know everyone did pointless stuff at Christmas but she was dubious as to whether it was true.
"Pretty much, what do you usually do?" She turned back to face her as she finished fixing her hair. Soph stood up having done up her new boots.
"Nothing too different from my usual day, I drink my way through most of the whisky my Dad sends me and usually pull some kind of brilliant trick on whoever happens to still be in the school for the holidays. It's always a bit of a blur..." She chuckled quietly at the vague memory of putting a load of fast drying glue onto every seat in the dining hall and watching as everyone ended up stuck there for the whole day, and Kelly raised an eyebrow.
"Better not try that this time. Miss Fritton would go mental at you." She looked serious and Soph grinned, walking over and wrapping an arm around her waist.
"No need to worry about that, I only terrorise schools I hate." She flashed a grin and squeezed her waist slightly.
"So what do we do now?" Soph tilted her head slightly, wondering if they would have any free time today at all. Kelly grinned and leaned over to her ear.
"Now I thank you properly for the choker." She ran her tongue over Soph's new earring and around the shell of her ear. Soph felt a small shiver run down her spine, whether from Kelly's tongue or the low and quiet tone of her voice she didn't know. Completely disregarding the fact that they had just gotten dressed she turned to her, flashing a grin before kissing her, already walking them both back toward the bed.
Sometime much later Soph was sat up with her back against the headboard, one leg on either side of Kelly who sat in front of her, leaning back with her head against Soph's chest. They been talking for the past half an hour or so about past Christmas presents. Kelly shifted her head and seemed to wince slightly leaning forward and turning to look at Soph with a small frown. She lifted Soph necklace away from her chest and looked at it carefully, Soph held a small smile as she waited for the obvious question.
"What about this? I don't think I've ever seen you without it." She let the small circular pendant drop back down; Soph looked at it with a slight grin. She opened her mouth to speak but someone banged loudly on the door, instead she rolled her eyes and called out.
"What?"She couldn't hold back the slight annoyance in her voice and saw Kelly grin as she glared at the door. Annabelle's voice answered her, apparently unshaken by her irritated tone.
"Lunch is nearly done, you have five minutes." Soph scowled slightly and glanced at the time. They actually had been up here for about four hours... She grinned at the thought before turning back to Kelly.
"We'd better get dressed." Kelly nodded in reply and got up, beginning the usual search around their room for their clothes. One day they would take them off sensibly but until then it was a frequent occurrence to find various items of clothing hanging from lampshades and sitting on shelves.
"As for the necklace. It used to have an S on the front but it wore off a long time ago. I started keeping a tally on the back of how many schools I'd been to." She pulled her shirt back on and walked over before doing it up, flipping the pendant over and showing Kelly the back.
"See?" She grinned; she'd added the seventh shortly after coming here. Kelly smiled.
"Hopefully there won't be an eighth." She smiled slightly and Soph went back to getting dressed, buttoning her shirt up as she walked back around the side of the bed to get her jeans.
"I don't think there will be, this place has a few good points." She winked and Kelly laughed.
Once they were dressed they walked down to meet everyone in the dining hall. All of the food was laid out along the middle of one of the tables and there were places set for seven. Soph frowned as she counted people off in her head, there was one extra place. As though on cue Camilla entered the room, with Flash following her in, a big grin on his face and a Santa hat perched on top of his head.
"Merry Christmas girls!" He held his arms out wide and Annabelle, Taylor and Andrea all granted him a hug. Polly wasn't the hugging type so a friendly handshake was exchanged between the two before he turned to Kelly and Soph, his grin faltering slightly as he walked over.
"Erm, listen you two, I er, didn't mean to offend or nothin'. Didn't really think you two were, serious about it. If you er, get my meanin'." Soph and Kelly glanced at each other for a second before Soph stepped forward and held out a hand in truce. He took it and she forced a small smile.
"Merry Christmas Flash." She flashed a grin and he laughed, Soph released his hand and stepped back again, Kelly took her hand and gave it a gentle squeeze. Soph was pretty sure she knew exactly how hard it had just been not to crush his hand, but the memory of the black eye Kelly had given him had helped. Everyone had gone quiet to watch the exchange and as the three of them turned to look back at everyone Camilla spoke up.
"Right then everyone; let's not let the food go cold." They all nodded in agreement and sat down, she was quite happy sat between Camilla and Kelly, Soph saw that every plate had a Christmas cracker sat on it and she picked hers up with a small frown, Kelly chuckled quietly under her breath and held hers out to Polly on her other side, taking hold of the other end of Soph's with her free hand. Soph wore a confused expression as everyone proceeded to do the same around the table until it was just one long chain, Camilla held hers out to her and she took it.
"Okiedokie, one, two three, pull!" Camilla shouted the last word and Soph pulled on both of the crackers, bangs echoes around the hall along with laughter at Andrea falling off of her seat from pulling too hard and loosing balance. As it turned out, everyone won one each; Soph looked inside her cracker and found she'd won a spinning top and a bright pink paper crown. She scowled at it in her hand for a second but fortunately Camilla offered to trade her for her blue one and she gratefully accepted, noting that everyone put theirs on and following suit, smiling briefly at Kelly who'd put on her own red one. Once the crackers were out of the way everyone set about getting food, Soph and Kelly helped each other out by putting when they could get hold of onto both of their plates, they knew each other well enough these day to know what the other did and didn't like and roughly how much they would eat. It wasn't long before they all held up their freshly filled glasses up and said Merry Christmas in unison. As they started to eat Soph smiled slightly, she decided she liked Christmas at St. Trinians, it was actually pretty nice.
When everyone had finished eating a mischievous grin spread across Camilla's face and she walked out of the room, Soph raised an eyebrow in confusion at Kelly who just grinned. The headmistress returned quickly with a plate holding a Christmas pudding, she put it down on the table and Soph realised quite how strongly it smelt of alcohol.
"Turn the lights off Flash, Sophie have you got your lighter?" She turned her attention to Soph who nodded, Camilla smiled as the lights went out and Flash walked back over, everyone stood up to get a better view as Soph pulled the lighter her aunt had bought for her out of her back pocket and held it out, Camilla shook her head and nodded at the pudding. Soph smiled slightly and pointed the lighter at the odd desert. Pulling the trigger and setting it off in a brilliant blue flame. She put the lighter back in her pocket and automatically wrapped an arm around Kelly's waist, earning a brief smile from her before they both turned back to watch the flame flicker and slowly shrink to nothing. When it was gone Flash turned the lights back on and they cut it up, having a small piece each because they were all about ready to burst after the enormous main course. After they'd all decided eating any more would probably kill them, they went back to the recreation room and Camilla put on some random Christmassy film. Soph felt herself getting oddly tired after the big meal and the warm, dark room was not helping matters, she saw Kelly hold back a laugh next to her as she nearly fell asleep. They were sat on their own on the smaller sofa so Soph didn't object when Kelly pulled her so her head was resting in the older girls lap. It wasn't long after then that she must have fallen asleep.
She woke up sharply, she didn't remember falling asleep but she apparently had since the films ending credits had just started and she only remembered the start of it. She sat up and received an amused smirk from Kelly. She scowled playfully at her but had to close her eyes as the lights suddenly came back on. She rolled her eyes as Camilla walked to a cupboard and returned with an armful of games, a wide grin on her face. Soph shot a pleading look at Kelly who laughed and shook her head, pulling her up off the sofa as they opened the first game. Twister. As it turned out St. Trinians girls cheated at everything, Flash lost every round of twister because he didn't dare get too close to certain parts of Kelly under Soph's glare and the other girls under Camilla's. Though when it was Soph's turn against Kelly the older girl blatantly cheated by she tickling the side of Soph's ribs and causing her to fall on the floor. Monopoly was simply full of cheating; Soph even swore she saw Camilla grab an extra couple of notes for herself every now and then. Despite this Soph still took all of her properties and left her bankrupt, along with everyone else. They eventually switched to playing various card games until Polly noticed they were into the early hours of the morning. Camilla offered Flash one of the empty staff rooms for the night and he accepted, everyone said goodnight and made their way to bed. Kelly yawned as they entered their room and Soph smiled, she was a little tired but falling asleep earlier had helped a lot. She sat up in bed reading with Kelly asleep beside her for some time before she finally felt tired enough to sleep. She set the book down and turned out the light, rolling onto her side and sliding her arm under the pillow beneath Kelly's head, she rested her free arm across her waist and smiling slightly as Kelly shifted in her sleep, placing her hand over Soph's.
"Merry Christmas Kel'..." She spoke barely above a whisper and gently planted a kiss against the back of the other girl's neck before letting herself drift off to sleep.