A/N: Part 3 of he holiday chapter

Dan's POV

Cat's mom was busy getting the brownies ready for everyone and I decided to join her in the kitchen of emotional connectedness. I mean with all of the shit that had happened over the course of the last couple of hours, I hadn't really gotten a chance to say much to either of her parents. And since Phil and Rick had had a moment in there, I figured we might get to have one too.

Lucy was looking around the cabinets trying to find saucers; it was obvious that she was having a hard time with it, given how short she was. Not to mention how drunk. "Allow me," I laughed as I stepped beside her and opened the cabinet where I knew Cat and Leila kept their plates. I counted out enough for all of us and sat them down on the counter.

I wondered briefly what Phil had said to Rick to initiate a conversation with him that didn't end with with Rick cutting him down. Not that I was worried that Lucy would do anything like that...

"Are you having a good time?" I asked, then laughed. "I mean, considering everything that happened?"

"Oh sweetie," she put her hand on my arm and smiled up at me. "I'm having a wonderful time. I don't care about any kind of drama," she shook her head. "Being with my baby girl makes all of that bullshit not matter." She pulled away from me as she opened the container that had a fuck load of brownies in it. They looked orgasmic. She paused for a second and turned to look up at me. "I've never seen her the way she is with you. Every time she looks over at you it's like her eyes just light up. You're good for her."

I smiled a very big, dimpled smile at her. Hearing that coming from Cat's mother made me feel really happy. She had known Cat for 25 years - if anyone could read her, it was her mother. "She's good for me," I told her as I grabbed a brownie and placed it on one of the saucers. "It's so hard to explain, but she's changed a lot things in my life over the last couple of month. I really couldn't imagine not having her in it, as strange as that probably sounds. I never knew someone could have such a huge impact on me, so hearing you say that, it means a lot."

She reached up and put her hand on my cheek much like Cat did quite often and she smiled up at me. "You are better than any guy I could have imagined for her. What you're feeling is how I felt when I met Cat's Daddy. It's a wonderful thing and I'm proud to say that those feelings never go away if you end up getting married like we did because you've found the right person. He's still my world. Apart from Cat," she laughed. "I've seen you two together on the internet in those live shows and I knew even then that you belonged with her. It's so obvious." She stood up on her tip toes like Cat always had to and kissed my cheek.

"Mommyyyy! I want brownies!" Cat whined from the dining room and we both laughed.

"Hold your horses, titty baby," her Mom called out as we started gathering up saucers. "Oh, Dan," she stopped me before we walked out. "Do me a favor? Make sure no one eats more than two of these."

"Uh.." I blinked a few times, my brow furrowed together as I looked down at her, terribly confused as to why she would tell me something like that. "Sure," I nodded, but before I could ask why, she shot me a smile saying thanks then marched into the dining room, passing the saucers she was carrying out.

I sat a plate down in front of Cat first so she could go ahead and have one, then I went to Phil, who was probably going to start whining like Cat did if he didn't get one fast enough, then I took my seat and looked down at mine.

They looked so amazing.

They had fudge on top of them and I could see bits of nuts and white chocolate poking through the sides.

Maybe she didn't want anyone to have more than two because she didn't want all of us to end up being morbidly obese.

I picked it up and took a bite from it and then instantly shoved the rest of it in my mouth.

So. Bloody. Good.

"Ov my gawr," I heard Leila mumble. "We neevd thisv recipe, Lucfy," she said to Cat's mom as she chewed.

"It's a family recipe," she told Leila as she picked up her own to take a bite. "It has a very secret ingredient but I'd be happy to make them for you anytime."

I noticed Cat stop chewing all of the sudden and turn slowly towards her Mom.

"What, baby? Eat your brownie," she flashed a big grin at her.

"You're gonna have to send us a batch of these for Christmas!" Leila's mom chirped. I looked down the table to see that her saucer was almost as clean as it had been before we put the brownies on them and that she was picking the crumbs off of it and eating them. "They're amazing!"

"They really are," I spoke up. "Actually, I think I'm going to have to have another one," I laughed, pushing my chair out. "Anyone else want seconds?"

Pretty much everyone spoke up to say yes, so instead of collecting the saucers I just went back into the kitchen and grabbed the entire container and started passing them out to everyone as I walked by them. When I got to Cat's mum, she looked up at me and smiled. "I think that's more than enough for everyone," she nodded then glanced towards the kitchen.

After grabbing another for myself, I took a big bite of it and proceeded to put them away before taking my seat beside Cat again.
"Excuse me if this is rude but I think that I've had an orgasm from how delicious these are," Phil spoke up as he started on his second brownie.

"I told you my Mom was a good cook," Cat said proudly, smiling at her Mom.

I had just finished my second brownie when I was pushing my chair out again. "I kind of want a third," I laughed, not really caring about the fact that I looked like the world's biggest glut. Cat's mom shot me a look and I instantly knew that I shouldn't have said that out loud.

Especially not when Phil, Leila, Leila's mom and Rick all agreed with me.

Lucy just looked around at all of us like she was thinking very hard about what she should say. She looked over at Jude who was grinning at her and he nodded. "Oh, what the hell. Go for it," she shrugged.

The room was suddenly filled with the sound of everyone pushing their chairs back to go to the kitchen and get more brownies.

I was about to join them when Cat put her hand on my arm to stop me. "Do you want another too?" I asked.

She gave me a look that I couldn't quite read before she leaned in and whispered in my ear. "I just want you to know, before you eat another one of those, that the special ingredient my mom was talking about is pot."

Oh shit.

OH SHIT.

It was only then that I remembered the Skype call with her parents a few weeks earlier and her telling me about how her parents made special treats like that - and how messed up Leila had gotten off of them.

I was a little shocked, to say the least, and I honestly didn't know how to respond to that. I'd never eaten pot brownies before, so I didn't know what the fuck I was in store for.

But.. YOLO.

I don't think Lucy would have let everyone go in for thirds if they could actually hurt us...

"Cat!" I heard her mother hiss and we both glanced over at her.

"What?" Cat asked defensively, looking at her with an innocent expression.

Her mother didn't say anything, she just shook her head at her.

"Do you want me to get you two another?" I asked as I stood up.

Lucy and Jude looked at eachother then looked up at me, nodding. Lucy was shrugging her shoulders and Jude had the same big grin on his face as before.

I grabbed four more and passed them out to Cat and her parents and then started working on mine as I watched Phil stand in the kitchen of emotional connectedness with Leila's parents; I kind of felt like I should tell him about the special ingredient but figured it would be much more entertaining if he had no idea about it.

Leila joined us at the table, sitting down on our end as she took bites off of the brownie. "Do you guys see that," she commented, nodding towards the kitchen. "They're.. being nice. I mean, I'm so happy to see it but.. they were being such assholes to him earlier. Well, dad was," she shook her head and glanced over at Cat. "Why are you looking at me like that?" she laughed, wiping the side of her face like she was afraid that there was something on it.

"Nothing, lovely," Cat said nonchalantly as she popped a piece of her brownie into her mouth. She managed to get some of it on her bottom lip and I reached over to wipe it off with my thumb.

Her head was towards me so her parents couldn't see when she took that opportunity to wrap her lips around my finger and suck on it.

"Cat, please stop eating Dan's thumb," Olivia told her as she walked back into the room.

Cat started laughing. "Yes ma'am."

"Baby," I heard Jude whisper and of course Cat and I were nosy and turned our attention towards him. "These are strong!"

"I know," her Mum giggled. "I wanted to make sure it was a very Happy Thanksgiving," she shrugged like it wasn't a big deal that she'd just drugged everyone at the party without their knowledge.

Cat's Mum was a troll. I loved her.

"Wait..." Leila spoke up as she raised her hand out in front of her. "Were those..?"

Cat's mum smiled at her as she rested her chin against her palm, nodding her head.

"Oh my God."

"Were those what?" Rick looked very confused, as did Olivia.

"I'm just going to apologize in advance for anything I do or say this evening," Leila shook her head and then looked over at Cat, her jaw dropping. "That's what that look was about!" she gasped. "Ugh, Cat!" she balled her fists up like she was mad but it was easy to tell that she wasn't. "You know what happened last time! And you let me eat three of them!"

There was still a lot of confusion between The Fausts and Phil; and I sure as hell wasn't going to be the one to break the news to them that they had just been drugged.

Nope.

"I only did it because I love you," Cat told her while making a heart with her hands and using her puppy dog eyes.

"I'm so confused," Phil spoke up. He was holding another brownie.

Shit was about to get real.

"Babe," Leila leaned over the table to look at him, as he was sitting on the other end of it next to her parents. "You might not want to eat that," she offered, pointing at the brownie he had just held up to his lips. Her mother and father were staring at her like they were waiting for an explanation as to why he shouldn't. "They're laced with good ole THC... Pot, weed, Marijuana.."

Okay, now they understood what was happening.

Phil dropped his brownie, a look of shock on his face as he glanced from Leila, to her parents, to Cat's parents and finally at me. I shrugged my shoulders and flipped my palms up. "I didn't know," which was half true.

I was kind of waiting for Olivia to faint and for Rick's head to explode but much to my surprise they both started laughing.

I mean, throwing their heads back, filling up the apartment with their fucking giggles, laughing. Like it was the funniest thing ever, them being drugged.

"I can't believe you did this again!" Olivia said while pointing at Lucy. "You are sneaky. I should've known better." She turned to look over at us. "When Rick and I went to New Orleans for one of his business things we stayed with Lucy and Jude. Except that time she laced the cookies," she laughed. "It was one of the best nights ever."

"I don't see a thing wrong with it," Lucy said as she picked up her glass. "It's natural. It comes from the earth so why don't we partake, hm?"

"I love my wife," Jude sighed as he pushed his empty saucer away. Lucy looked over at him with a look on her face of a teenager in love. Jude leaned over and kissed her lips briefly but I saw the way her cheeks got a little pink. I didn't even know that love could still be that way after so many years.

"I bet it's going to hit Phil before anyone else," Cat giggled.

"I'm scared!" he blurted out. "I've never gotten high. Oh God. I apologize in advance for anything I do." He was looking over at Rick. No amount of male bonding can keep a guy from being afraid of his girlfriend's father.

"You'll be fine, son," Rick told him as he reached over and patted his back. "Your girlfriend is probably the one you should worry about. I've seen her drunk before."

"I love drunk Leila," Cat laughed.

"High Leila is even worse," Leila laughed. "You should be okay, babe. I had Dan slip you a Xanax earlier, so you-" she stopped talking and started giggling. "Everyone is druggin' Phil," she said in a deep dramatic voice as she continued laughing. "Ah, fuck. I am already feeling it."

"You what?!" Phil shrieked, looking down the table at Leila and me. "I've been drugged twice tonight?" he asked looking very disturbed. "Wow. I don't even know what to think. What is my life?"

Cat started giggling. I mean like giggling big time and it was a girly giggle I rarely heard from her unless I was inside of her.

I looked over at her and tilted my head. "You okay over there?"

"I think I'm starting to feel it," she laughed.

"Lightweight," her Dad laughed. "You can tell she's been away from home for a while."

"She's not a lightweight," Lucy laughed. "That shit is just really strong. That's why I was limiting everyone to two."

"My bad," I laughed and threw my hands up. "I didn't know until it was too late... My mouth is really dry," I smacked my lips together. "Oh shit my body feels heavy," I said as I looked down at my legs as I tried to lift them up.

"We should do something," Jude commented, looking around the table. "Maybe we should watch a movie?" he proposed.

Leila threw her head back and started laughing. "Never gonna happen daddy J. We're all about to be like Cat times five hundred. We'll never focus on a t.v screen."

"Wow. Imagine if there were 500 of me. That is a fucking terrifying thought," Cat spoke up looking completely serious.
"I would have no hair," Lucy laughed.

"I feel like I'm starting to levitate or something. Is that normal?" Phil asked which made Cat crack up laughing.

"No, Phil. It's not. You're about to float away into space like that evil bitch in Harry Potter. Did y'all know she played Ms. Trunchbull in that movie Matilda? Oh my God. I love that movie so much." Cat just rambled away.

"Aunt Petunia fucked Ben Barnes in Dorian Gray!" Leila blurted out.

"Aunt Petunia was on True Blood!" Cat added excitedly.

"What the fuck are y'all talkin' about?" Jude asked, laughing.

"I have a strong desire to sing that song by One Direction," Cat said as she leaned back in her chair and started kicking her feet until her heels fell off. "Baby you light up my world like nobody else!" she sang while leaning towards me before she kissed the tip of my nose.

"I love that song!" Olivia gasped and clapped her hands. "It's so catchy!"

"They way you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed," Leila added, flipping Cat's hair as she sang. "AWWWW MY CAAAAAAAAT," Leila flung her arms out and squeezed her, nuzzling her face against the side of Cat's head just like Cat does to Phil all the time. "HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY, THAT I LOVEEEEEE YOUUUU," she sang.

"We need music!" Rick shouted then literally hopped out of his chair and to his feet and started walking around. "Uh, where the fuck is a radio?"

"DAD! DID YOU JUST SAY FUCK!" Leila shouted at him before laughing.

Cat had wrapped her arms around Leila as well and they were snuggling all over each other. In the perverted area of my brain I noticed that this was like the beginning of a porn.

"Oh my glob!" Cat squealed looking super shocked. "Rick said fuck!" she laughed. "Do it again, Rick! Say iiit!"
"FUCK!" Rick repeated. "Fuck, fuckitty, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK! WHERE IS THE FUCKING RADIO AT, EH?"

"Do we even have a fucking radio?" Leila asked, looking around the dining room. "I don't know. I'm never even in his damn place. I'm always at Phil's."

"We've got one at my place," I laughed, thoroughly amused at what was happening around me. "Hey Phil wanna go with me to get the radio?" I asked, looking at Phil who looked like he might have been freaking out a bit.

"GET YOUR DDR MAT!" Leila squealed and flailed her arms.

"DDR!" Jude nodded excitedly. "I fuckin' love that game!"

"DADDY!" Cat squealed. "DDR battle! You and me!" she pointed towards him.

"You're goin' down, little girl," he pointed at her.

"Psh. I got skills," she laughed.

"Jude plays that game every damn day," Lucy laughed, shaking her head. "Then he walks around humming all the songs from it."

"Um, yeah. I'll go with you," Phil replied to me as he slowly pushed his chair back. He stood up and looked around for a second before stepping to the side. "Okay. Yeah. I'm fine," he nodded.

"Baby!" Leila's dad yelled from the living room as Phil and I were making our way out of the dining room. "I didn't know ya'll already had a Christmas tree!" he shrieked. "Let's decorate it!"

"Ohhh OKAY!" Leila squealed as she got up from her chair, she ran by Phil and I into the living room. "Uhhhhh..." she turned around and ran right back by us without saying a word to anyone and disappeared down the hallway.

"Your girlfriend is full Le-le," I laughed then stepped towards the front door. Phil was still standing there, mouth breathing as he stared a hole through the wall. "Phil. Phil... Jesus on a boat," I rolled my eyes and walked back over to him. "Phil, snap out of it!" I laughed, snapping my fingers in front of his face.

"What?" he jumped and looked at me like I was crazy but then started laughing. "Oops. Sorry," he said through his giggling. "Wait. What are we doing?"

"Oh God. Philertons is gone," Cat laughed.

"We're getting the radio and DDR from our flat," I shook my head as I laughed at him. "Come on, before you forget again," I said, dragging him by the sleeve of his shirt towards the front door.

"I feel amazing," Phil told me, giggling as I pulled him along. "Amazing. AmazingPhil! That's me!" he pointed at himself as we walked out of the flat and into the hallway. "Hey Dan? Hey Dan. Hey Dan. Dan. Hey Dan. Hey Dan. Hey-"

Normally I would have shouted at him for the 'Hey Dan's' but I didn't have it in me to do anything but laugh. "What, AmazingPhil?" I asked as I pulled my key out of my pocket and unlocked the front door.

He looked around and tilted his head to the side. "I don't know. I forgot," he laughed. "Cat needs to make these brownies for us like every day."

"No offense Phil, but I don't think you need to eat those every day," I shook my head as I opened the door. Luckily the light in the living room was still on and I didn't have to go searching for the switch. We would have been there for hours because my memory was just as spacey. "That would be like me doing Cocaine everyday. That would just be bad for the world."

I started looking around and I realized how slow I was moving and how much more attention I was paying to every little detail. "We need to dust," I said as I ran my finger across the shelf where the radio was sitting. "I've got to piss," I blurted out. "And fuck my mouth is so dry!"

Phil was walking really slowly as well and he was staring at something like it was the most fascinating thing he'd ever seen. I watched him as he moved closer and closer to the tetris lamp and he bent down to pick it up before sitting on the couch with it. "This is the prettiest thing I have ever seen," he told me as he started moving around parts of it. "Other than Leila."

I'm not sure what it was about it, but when he said that, I lost my shit and started cracking. "It is pretty," I nodded once I'd finally calmed down, stepping towards him to look at it. "What am I even doing?" I thought out loud, then leaned back up to look around.

"Seriously..." I shook my head.

What the fuck were we supposed to -

I glanced at the radio and it hit me. "The radio!" I gasped, walking over towards it to unplug it. "Oh and the DDR mat!" I sat the radio down on Phil's lap so I wouldn't forget about it then started walking around the room, looking for the game we had come for.

"Dan?" Phil suddenly sounded all serious and I turned around to look at him. "Do you realize that we're in these super serious relationships with these girls who are like really hot and amazing? How the fuck did that happen? That's just crazy!" he held his hands out like he was talking about an explosion. "I wish I had some chocolate covered pretzels."

"I don't know," I said honestly as I grabbed the mat and turned back around to face him. "It's like everything bloody changed over the last few months and I don't even know how or why. Well I mean, they changed our lives, but why us, you know? They're both way too good for us and probably way too hot too. I mean I've dated good looking girls but Cat? Waaaaaaaaaaaay out of my league." I threw my hands out to my sides, as if I were trying to show him just how far out of my league she was. "I want some Coke. Fucking dry mouth of mine," I smacked my lips again.

"Cat is out of your league? When did you play baseball? What the hell, Dan? Do you have some kind of secret life I don't know about?"

I facepalmed myself and shook my head. "Oh Phil, you're an idiot. Thank you for reminding me of that. Yes, you and I both play baseball and obviously Leila is out of your league too."

He was silent for a few seconds and I looked over at him again to see he was staring at his phone. "Hey Dan?" he spoke up again as he looked up at me. He had a very serious look on his face despite being so fucking high. "I think- I mean- I know- Well, I think I- I wanna marry Leila," he finally blurted out.

Now it was my turn to look like a mouth breather. Did he really just say that?

Like... Am I high or?

I finally closed my mouth and then moved across the living room and sat down beside him. I wasn't really sure what to say. I mean, because, I wasn't sure if he was just so high that it sounded like a good idea to say, or if he actually meant it.

Of course I couldn't judge him if he did mean it.

I had literally told Cat the same thing a few weeks ago, when we both thought we were going to be skinned alive. And again after that; I meant it both times.

"Seriously?" Oh, brilliant, Dan. "Are you going to like.. ask her.. soon.. ish?" I asked. This was definitely a conversation I didn't see myself having tonight.

"I've been thinking about it for a while. Is that crazy? Yes. It's probably crazy," he sighed and raked his fingers through his hair which fucked it up big time. "She just, oh my God. She's perfect. I can't even begin to explain how I feel about that woman. I can't imagine ever finding someone who is going to make me feel that way again. It's like I wasn't even really me before I met her. You know?" He sighed again. "Shit. I think I'm really, really high."

"You are, really, really high," I giggled. Yes, giggled. Shut up. I'm fucking baked.

"But, that's not crazy..." I cleared my throat. I could relate to everything he was saying, because I felt the exact same way about Cat. "I would marry Cat," I admitted. "I mean, of course not right now because that might be a bit insane, but honestly? I can't see myself with anyone else but I can see myself with her.. forever."

Forever.

Wow.

The weirdest part of all of this was that I actually meant it and could see myself with her forever.

"And if I know anything about Leila, and I think I know her pretty good by now," I paused, nodding. "She doesn't want anyone else. I mean, you remember what she said at dinner, right?" I laughed but I'm not sure why because her explosion wasn't funny. "She pretty much backed her dad into a corner over you and then dropped the almost-baby-Phileila bomb on him. If that isn't love, then I don't know what is."

He looked sort of shocked by everything I was saying up until when I started talking about Leila. Then he was grinning from ear to ear. "What's weird is that I don't really question whether she'll say yes or not and I'm not some super confident guy or anything but I feel like I know her well enough to know she would say yes," he said as he stood up from the couch. "I just don't know if the timing of it makes it crazy," he shrugged. "But I'm not asking her like really soon. I've just been thinking about it a lot." He laughed. "Let's just make sure we tell each other when or if we do propose so we don't end up barging in on each other and fucking something up. Like when you walked in on Leila and I."

"Phil," I shook my head, scrunching my face up as the memory of those two in the throws flashed before my eyes. "That's not exactly something I wanted to relive," I laughed as I stood up too. "But when I ask Cat, you'll be the first to know. I promise," I patted him on the shoulder. "And likewise, it won't be anytime soon, but.. I know it will happen," I sighed happily as I walked back across the living room and to the front door. I held it open for Phil then walked out behind him after and locked it.

From the hallway I could hear noise coming from their end of the building and I started laughing. "I wonder what we've missed," I commented as I headed towards their door.

I opened it and I was met with the sight of Lucy and Olivia hugging each other, both of them holding beer bottles.

"THEY'RE BACK!" Jude shouted. "DDR TIME. YOU'RE GOIN' DOWN, CAT!" he laughed as he jumped up off of the couch.

Leila was sitting on the coffee table looking through a box and her dad was standing in front of the Christmas tree watching her. He looked up and smiled at me and then looked over my shoulder where Phil was standing, holding the radio. "Come here son," he motioned for Phil to join him. "I want to talk to you, and you need to help us decorate this tree."

I couldn't help but feel a bit nervous for Phil, even though they seemed to be on better terms. Leila's dad was still scary, even scarier when he starts out with 'I need to talk to you.'

My attention was quickly pulled away from that when I felt arms wrap around my mid-section and looked down to see my very, very high girlfriend looking up at me. "Hiiii!" she laughed. "I missed you. You were gone like five-ever."

"That means I love you more than forever!" she and Leila yelled at the same time before erupting into a fit of giggles.

Cat smashed her face against the front of my shirt as she laughed and then she tried her best to get her mouth up to my ear. "I would really, really, really enjoy having sex with you right now," she whispered in my ear and at the same time her hand slipped from my back, around to my stomach and then down.

Oh bloody hell. What was she trying to do to me?

"Oh bloody hell," I blurted out, looking around to make sure no one had saw what she just did to me. Luckily everyone seemed to have their attention elsewhere and didn't notice it.

"I would, really, really, really, enjoy that as well," I whispered back at her. "But there are six other people in this room, two of which I don't think would appreciate that," I laughed, pulling away so that I could see her face.

Of course she went into full pouty face mode. "Fiiine," she grumbled before pulling my face down to hers so she could kiss my lips. "You're mine later though," she whispered against my lips before dragging her tongue across my bottom lip.

"Catherine Radley!" Lucy laughed. "Get your hormones in check, girl!"

"Sorry Mama!" she laughed and kissed my lips one more time before turning away and skipping over to where her Dad had already set up the D.D.R mats.

I checked her ass out as she moved away and when I looked back over at her mum, she was already looking at me, smiling at me as she shook her head. "I can't help myself," I shrugged, then immediately started to feel a little embarrassed that she had just caught me checking out her daughter's ass without any shame.

I made my way into the kitchen and grabbed myself a beer, because everyone else in the room had one except for me. Well, and Phil, so being the nice friend that I am, I grabbed one for him as well.

Once I was back in the living room I took a seat on the couch and looked around, checking out what everyone was up to.

"Wait, wait, wait," Phil held his hands up as he stepped back from where he was standing by the tree, Leila, and Rick. "We're decorating-"

"You're decorating me!" Rick said as he pointed at himself. "I wanna be a Christmas tree!"

"Rick, are you okay, honey?" Olivia asked, laughing as she did.

"Yes, dammit! I just wanna be the Christmas tree. It's not that difficult. Come on, Leila! It'll be fun!"
What the fuck did I just walk in on?

Leila looked from her Dad to Phil and back again before throwing her hands up and shrugging as she laughed. "If you insist, Dad," she shook her head, leaning down the grab the long string of garland. She handed Phil one end of it and then started walking backwards to unwind it. She ended up walking right into the real tree though, and -

"OH SHIT!" I jumped over to the other couch cushion - I don't know how my reflexes were so fast considering my state of mind - just as the tree was toppling over, Leila following it. It hit against the couch then fell behind it and Leila fell back against the wall, laughing like that was the most hilarious thing in the world instead of the most horrific.

"Are you okay, honey!" Rick gasped as he and Phil both stepped towards her at the same time, both of them offering to help her up. Rick paused and glanced at Phil before smiling and nodding towards Leila and backing away.

Aw, did they just have a moment?

I think they had a moment.

"Come on, sweetheart," Phil said as he reached down for her and pulled her up. She was still laughing when she got to her feet. "You scared the hell out of me," he laughed as he pushed a piece of hair out of her eyes.

"You okay, Lele?" Cat asked before taking a long sip of beer. "I'm sure she is. Once she fell down 2 flights of stairs when we were shitfaced and she walked it off like a boss. It was amazing." She laughed. "And we were also naked."

That only seemed to make Leila laugh even harder and she swayed over sideways, almost falling again but luckily Phil snatched her up before she could. "I can't believe you brought that up!" Leila snorted, shaking her head as she wrapped her arm around Phil to sturdy herself.

"Were you two really naked?" I asked for clarification.

Leila couldn't speak because she was too busy laughing so she just nodded at me.

"What the hell? Why were you two naked?" I blurted out, not really grasping the fact that both of their parents were right bloody there.

"Skinny - dipping," Leila managed to get out before losing her shit again.

"She had a giant bruise on her asscheek for weeks," Cat laughed, shaking her head.

"I'm about to start this round without you, kid!" Jude told her.

"No way!" she squealed as she sat her beer down. "Okay. Let's do this." She was bouncing around like she was ready to box someone.

"How often do you and Cat spend time together naked?" Phil asked out of nowhere and I shook my head. I couldn't believe he asked that in front of her parents.

"Oh, girls don't give a shit about stuff like that, Phil," Olivia waved in his direction with her hand. "We all have the same set up."

"I think he was asking for certain reasons, sweetheart," Rick informed her. "Why am I not a Christmas tree yet? You two suck at this."

"Oh, no you didn't," Leila rolled her neck then snapped her fingers. "Phil, lets show this dingleberry what we're made out of!" She said, holding the garland up in the air before she started wrapping it around her dad's shoulders.

"You're supposed to start at the bottom!" Rick and Phil said at the same time, then they both started laughing, amused.

"I'm startin' to like this kid more and more, Leila. At least he knows how to properly decorate a tree!" Rick told her.

"That's what she said!" Cat yelled while dancing away on her mat. I looked at them right when her Dad reached over and nudged her shoulder making her stumble to the side. Cat gasped and put her hands on her hips, glaring up at her Dad. "Mama! Daddy is cheating again! He pushed me off my mat!"

"Dammit, Jude. Stop being a dick wrinkle!" Lucy yelled and then started laughing at herself.

"I didn't do anything!" Jude turned around trying to look innocent.

"My ass," she rolled her eyes.

"I need a break. Damn. I'm out of shape," Cat said as she fanned her face. She picked her beer up before walking over to me and sitting on my lap.

"Hey hot guy. What's your name?" she asked as she started running her fingers through the back of my hair.

"Dan," I told her as I looked up at her. "Sorry though, I've got a girlfriend. If she catches you on my lap she'd probably beat the shit out of you," I sighed, shaking my head.

She rolled her eyes. "Psh. I could probably handle her," she winked at me and laughed. "Are you having fun, baby?"

"I am, actually," I nodded, sliding arm around her back. "Much more fun than I thought I would be having." That was so true. I mean, I knew her parents would be a trip, but I didn't see us munching out on weed brownies then binge drinking and playing DDR while Leila's dad got morphed into a Christmas tree.

"Me too," she said as she laid her head on my shoulder. "This is probably my favoritest Thanksgiving ever."

"Favoritest is not a word, Cat," Phil said from across the room.

She leaned up to look over at him. "Yeah, well. Your butt is super white so neener, neener!"

"His butt is cute!" Leila defended and I'm pretty sure that she grabbed it because of the way Phil jumped and squealed out of nowhere.

"Ha!" Phil pointed at Cat, laughing before he turned back around to continue helping Leila decorate Rick.

Decorate Rick.

That's not something you get to say very often.

"Hey." Rick grabbed Phil's arm and my heart fell out of my asshole. Phil's eyes got huge and he stared down at Rick's hand wrapped around his arm. "Listen, Phil. I want to apologize for the way I treated you. I was an asshole."

Phil had this sort of shocked yet relieved look on his face. "Don't worry about it," he smiled. "I know why you did it."

Wow. That was unexpected.

The eight of us spent the next couple of hours drinking beer and chatting. Well, after Leila and Phil fixed Rick up like a Christmas tree and Cat took multiple pictures of it.

Cat's mom and Leila's mom ended up having a DDR battle - let me just say, that was some quality entertainment. There wasn't a winner, because they were both horrible at it.

At about three in the morning The Fausts and the Radleys ended up passing out on the couch together while Cat and Leila did the same on the loveseat, cuddled up like they might have been in a relationship.

Cat was even more drunk when I woke her up than she was when she had fallen asleep so I had to carry her to bed.

Also, she was too drunk to really carry out all of those plans to molest me, which was quite disheartening, but I somehow got over it. I guess that was for the best, since her parents were staying in the flat, and Leila's parents.

Phil and Leila don't really matter. They'd heard us having sex loads of times.

I was very close to dozing off when I heard something outside of the door before the door swung open and his against the wall, followed by loud, drunken laughter. "Oh shit!"

That was Leila.

Leila was drunk.

"HEY! Are you two having sex?" she asked through the darkness. I could hear something hitting the wall. I'm guessing it was Leila.

"No," I answered her groggily.

The room got really bright and I had to hide my head under the blanket because it was hurting my eyes. "Turn that light off," I groaned, flailing around the bed. "Aren't you supposed to be asleep with Phil?"

"Dan!" Cat yelled out of nowhere. "Stop bloody moving. You're my pillow, fartface," she slurred.

I could hear Leila laughing again before I felt the mattress shift and she plopped down on top of it.

"I missed you guys!" she told us as she bounced around on the bed.

"Where the hell did you get all of this bloody energy from?" I asked as I pulled the cover off of my face, then screamed because she was nose to nose with me.

"Phil's penis," she rocked on the bed. "Just kidding, I didn't get any of that tonight... Hey Cat!" Leila leaned over me and put her face very close to Cat's face then rubbed her nose against Cat's. "I love youuuuuuuu," she whispered.

"I love you toooooooooo," she mumbled against my chest. I was pretty sure she was drooling on me.

"Leila!" Phil was standing in the doorway looking very confused and very almost naked. "I go to the bathroom and come back and you're gone like aliens stole you!"

"Dan, why is everyone in our room?" Cat mumbled against me again. "Why aren't we having seeex? Gaaaah."

"I have no idea," I groaned, looking around with one eye open.

"I told you I missed you guys!" Leila said, bouncing on the bed again. "Phiiiiiiil," she whined and I could see her making grabby hands in his direction. "I miss you toooooooo."

"Someone please, for the love of Batman, turn that light off," Cat lifted her head and looked around at all of us like she was going to kill everyone.

Thankfully Phil was beside the lightswitch and he turned it off. "Yaaaaaay," Cat said in a creepily kid-like voice before lying her head back down on me and nuzzling her face against my neck.

I could feel the bed shifting around again and the covers lifting.

"Leila?" Cat spoke up. "Is that you poking my ass right now?"

"It's certainly not me," Phil laughed. "I'm poking Leila's."

"Uh..." Leila moved around. "No you're not, the closest thing to me right now is.." she felt around, her hand pushing against my face. "What the fuck is that?"

"Me," I laughed.

"Oh... well what's that?" she moved her hand again.

"You're getting very close to my penis, Leila," I warned.

"NO," she jerked her arm back and I heard it hit the wall before she started whining. "OWWWWW,"

"Um. Are we just not going to discuss the fact that I think Phil just fell asleep...spooning ME?" Cat asked. "I think I feel a part of him I never ever thought I'd feel."

"Oh my God," I laughed then raised my hand up, feeling around, trying to find Phil. When I thought I'd grabbed him, I started shaking him.

He reached up and grabbed my hand before moving it away from himself and I felt the bed shift a bit along with Cat tightening her grip on me. "Dan! I think Phil is trying to-"

"I'm not Phil," Phil spoke up in a super deep, super creepy voice. "I'm...Slenderman."

"Phil stop!" Cat whined, burrowing her face against my neck more. "Noooo. I don't like it."

He started laughing really hard and I felt the mattress shift. "Leila, could you please come over here and spoon your best friend so I can spoon you and you can stop molesting mine?"

"That was so confusing," Cat laughed.

The mattress moved again and then I felt a knee, or maybe an elbow, I'm not sure, pressing against my chest. "Oh Jesus on a boat, why didn't you just walk around the bed," I laughed, wiggling around as she climbed over me and Cat.

"Woah, I just copped a feel on Cat's boob," Leila chuckled.

I felt the bed shift yet again and the covers being yanked away from me as Leila snuggled up against Phil. "I finally found you!" she squealed sounding like a little kid.

I heard Phil laugh and then the sound of them kiss. "Yes you did, you incredibly cute and drunk girl."

I felt Cat raise up and her arm moved away from around my mid-section before the covers suddenly appeared back over us.

"Hey!" Phil whined.

"Yo. Go get your own covers, Philertons," Cat laughed. "I'm only wearing Dan's shirt and a pair of panties. I don't care to show that to the world," she said as she started getting comfortable again by laying her head on me. "Hey," she whispered against my ear. "I didn't get a goodnight kiss. What if I die in my sleep without my goodnight kiss? That would be so sad. Saaaaad."

"What if we freeze to death in our sleep!" Leila said as she yanked on the covers again, once more pulling them off of me.

"Oh my God, what is my life," I whined, snuggling up closer to Cat. I puckered my lips up and felt around her face trying to find her lips with my fingers. Once I found them I brushed them against hers. "Please don't die. That would be completely horrific," I whispered back to her.

"I'll never let go, Jack," Leila whispered.

"I'll never let go," Phil whispered as well, making his voice sound shaky.

Cat cracked up laughing and then stopped suddenly. "Leila are you trying to put your hand in my panties right now?"

"My hands are cold!" Leila whined.

"Okay if your hands are seriously in her knickers then we're going to have to go back to our room because I can't handle that thought without requiring sex," Phil informed her.

"I don't know if I can handle hands being in there without requiring sex," Cat laughed. "No more molesting, Leila. Time for sleepy sleep."

"But I wanna taaaaaalk. Let's talk, guys. We didn't get to talk all night!" I could feel the mattress moving again and I'm guessing she was kicking her legs around.

"Go the fuck to sleep!" I laughed. "It's like four in the morning right now!"

"It's five o'clock somewhere," she replied.

"It's news o'clock, bitch," Cat blurted out with my accent. "Actually, we didn't go around the table and say what we were thankful for today. We could do that now."

"Good idea! I forgot about that," Phil spoke up. "Leila, your bum is quite warm."

"I think I gave Phil my a.d.d," Cat laughed. "Okay, who wants to go first and I mean this is like serious stuff. Don't just say you're thankful for great sex and pot brownies."

"I do!" Leila squealed, kicking her feet again. "I am thankful for all three of you guys. Cat, for being my best friend. I love you Cat. Dan for being my other best friend who constantly gets shit on by me but loves me anyways. I love you Dan. And Phil, for being the most amazing man... ever. I'm thankful that you're mine! I love yoooou," she slurred and I heard her lips pop against some part of Phil's body.

Phil started giggling like a girl. "You kissed my nipple!" he laughed and then I heard another kiss. "I'll go next," he said after that. "I'm thankful for all of you, obviously. I'm thankful for Dan for being a total asshole that night so we were able to meet you two. I'm thankful for mine and Dan's friendship, for mine and Cat's friendship. But I'm most thankful for the fact that the best woman I've ever known actually loves me as much as I love her."

"Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!" Cat said in her cute little voice.

"I am the luckiest girl ever," I heard Leila say, her voice muffled by something. I don't even know what.

"Thanks for that, Phil," I laughed, referring to being called an asshole. "Okay, my turn," I wiggled around a bit. "I'm thankful for you too, Phil. Seriously, I don't ever tell you stuff like this, but I'm not sure where I'd be had we not became friends. So thanks... I'm thankful for Leila, you're a horrible troll woman, but I love you all the same. And of course," I paused and nuzzled my face against Cat's, speaking directly to her, "I'm thankful for you, Cat. You're the love of my life and knowing you has made me the happiest I've ever been," I said then popped a kiss against her lips.

"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" That one came from Leila.

"Awwww, baby!" she pulled herself closer to me and started kissing all over my face. "Oh fuck. I'm actually crying like a total twat," she laughed and then sniffled. "Okay, okay," she cleared her throat. "I'm thankful for my Lele." I felt her reaching back to do something. Probably pet Leila. "I would be a fucking bag of insane flaming assholes without you and you're like a sister to me. I'm thankful for Phil because I always wanted Leila to find someone who would love her the way she deserved and you've gone beyond that. You're also someone I consider to be my best friend now and you're soooo sweeeet. I just wanna squish you," she laughed and then I felt her hand on my cheek. "And I'm thankful for you. So thankful. I can't even-," she sighed. "You are more than what I've always wanted. I can't imagine my life without you. You've made me the happiest I've ever been as well. I love you so much." She leaned in and kissed my lips softly. "I love you guys too," she added, speaking a bit louder so they could hear.

"I love you too, Cat! And I love you, Dan!" Phil spoke up.

Leila started giggling. "You know how you said that Phil and I were the disgusting couple? Errrrrr! You guys just took the cake for that," she snorted. "Sorry, sorry, I know this was a serious moment. I love you too Cat, Dan, and my Phil," she sighed.

"I love all of you too," I finally responded. "This is the bed of emotional connectedness."

"The feels! So many feels!' Cat added dramatically.

"Yay! I love Thanksgiving!" Phil laughed.

"Right in the fangirl," Leila said out of nowhere then started laughing.

"It was definitely the most interesting Thanksgiving I've ever had," Cat laughed.

"Me too," Leila agreed with a yawn. I think she was finally spent.

"And next up, Christmas!" I laughed. I could only imagine how that would turn out.

"Oh God," Cat, Leila, and Phil all said at the same time.

"Serious business."

A/N: And another one down here as more of a disclaimer. We're not claiming that Dan and Phil eat pot brownies or smoke weed or do any drugs. Also please leave us a review and tell us what you think! We love hearing from you! You can do so here or on our Tumblr page. Thank you so much for reading!