Hope you enjoy this chapter
"Hey Mal, Evie, do you have a Christmas jumper?" Audrey asked after they had finished their rehearsal.
"Christmas jumper?" Mal asked confused.
"What's one of those?" Evie asked confused.
"It's a jumper or some people wear t-shirts of a Christmas theme, some light up, some have a Christmas design on or just a plain snowman or Santa, an usually made out of wool" Audrey said.
"And some are very ugly," Doug said as he joined in on the conversation.
"Like Chads last year," Ben said.
"It was wasn't it, I chose one with a reindeer that had a red pompom for the nose and the snow design lit up," Chad said as he remembered.
"Dude, why?" Evie asked.
"Audrey bet me $15 that I couldn't wear an ugly Christmas jumper for the whole day," Chad said.
"Ahh," Evie said. "How did you manage?"
"I lasted pretty long," Chad said as he scratched the back of his head.
"He lasted twenty minutes," Ben said.
"Oh, come on man, the jumper was terrible," Chad said.
"True, but you still lost out on $15," Audrey teased.
"Where can you get Christmas jumpers from?" Evie asked, wanting to see what they all looked like.
"Any clothing store and some people make them," Audrey said.
"Okay so, design ideas?" Evie asked.
"Wait, you are seriously going to make Christmas jumpers? Aren't you making gowns for the Christmas ball?" Audrey asked.
"Yeah but, I can sew fast and I haven't done any knitting in a while," Evie said, getting out her sketch book filled with fashion designs.
"Only if you're sure?" Doug asked, not wanting his girlfriend to give herself to much work.
"I'm sure and I need more material for the gowns anyway," Evie said and soon the group was giving her their ideas.
"So, Chad you want a snowman with a crown on, Audrey you want a Christmas design and Doug you want a list of Santas reindeer," Evie said as she listed what she had so far.
"Mal, Ben what do you guys want?" Evie asked.
"I dunno...Merry Christmas and a few snowflakes and what about Jay and Carlos?" Mal asked.
"Oh yeah, maybe we could surprise them, think of our own designs for them," Evie suggested writing down Mals idea.
"Great idea you should make Jays an elf," Mal said, Evie chuckled a bit at the thought.
"What about Carlos?" Evie asked.
"Well how about a Christmas tree," Ben suggested.
"I like it," Evie said. "But what about you Ben?"
"I'll take a Christmas design," Ben said.
"Right let's go and get the material," Audrey said, and the group left to head for town.
While at the store they made up designs for Lonnie and Jane. Lonnie would have an array of snowflakes and Jane would have polar bear wearing a Santa hat.
"What kind of Christmas design were you guys thinking?" Evie asked as she paid for the material.
"Umm, how about rows of Christmas trees then snowman," Ben suggested for his.
"How about a Santa face with different coloured sparkly pompoms," Evie suggested. "Let's see if you can last longer than Chad Audrey,"
"Oh, I can definitely last longer than Chad," Audrey said.
"Sure, you wanna bet?" Chad asked, thinking Audrey would last only five minutes.
"Sure, how much are we talking?" Audrey asked as they made their way back to school.
"Let's say $20," Chad said holding out his hand.
"Deal," Audrey said taking his hand and giving it a shake closing the deal.
Two hours later and Evie was trimming the ends off the final jumper.
"There we go," Evie said as she finished of Jays jumper.
"You knit fast," Audrey said.
"Well I guess mother did come in handy for some things, being able to create an out in under three hours.
"How long am I wearing this for?" Audrey asked, as she held up her jumper.
"Till curfew," Chad said.
"Okay," Audrey said as she put the jumper on.
"Let's go find the others and give them their jumpers," Ben said.
It took hem a while to find the others Jane was helping her mom out with the Christmas ball, Lonnie was practicing her fencing technique while Jay and Carlos were sparing.
"What did you want to show us?" Lonnie asked as she put down her sabre.
"Christmas jumpers, Evie made them," Doug said as he gave them their jumpers.
"Awesome thanks E," Jay said.
"Cool," Lonnie said.
"Hey Dude, check this out," Carlos said.
"Cool, you look awesome," Dude said.
"Well Dude I made you a matching one," Evie said as she put it on him.
"Thanks Evie," Doug said as he jumped around.
"No offense Audrey, but why is yours so...ugly?" Lonnie asked.
"I am doing what Chad couldn't $20 this time," Audrey said. "Got to wear this till curfew piece of cake,"
"Well she has lasted longer than Chad has so Audrey does have a chance here," Ben said.
"Mine was uglier," Chad said, trying to hide he was jealous that Audrey lasted longer.
"True, but she has still lasted longer," Lonnie said giving Chad a light punch to the arm to show she was only joking.
"Anyway, we better go grab something to eat quick before next period starts," Ben said and the group headed to the canteen.
"See ya guys later," Chad and Jane said as they headed in the opposite direction to the others.
Lessons went buy fast, people commenting on the jumpers Evie made asking if she could make them one, Evie said she would and took down everyone's idea luckily, she had most people's measurement's down and only needed to take a few.
"This is so good," Mal said as she finished her bowl of vegetable soup.
"Mrs Pots does make the best soups," Ben said in agreement.
"It was so nice of her to cook for tea for us today," Carlos said, as he ate his pudding.
"Yeah she does that sometimes which is nice as she always cooks food that makes you feel homey," Doug said.
"I love how the bread rolls were shaped like snowmen," Mal said.
"Yeah that was neat," Jay said.
"You guys wanna chill and watch a movie?" Jane asked as they walked towards the dorm.
"Sure," Jay said, they all decided to watch The Grinch earning laughter.
"Awe that kid is like you Ben, wanting to give everyone a chance," Mal said as she smiled up at him.
"Yeah maybe this movie made an imprint on you," Evie suggested.
"Well it is one of my favourite movies and I watched it a lot growing up," Ben said.
After the movie ended everyone started to tidy up placing the blankets back on the bed and cushions on the couch.
"Hey Chad pay up," Audrey said as she walked over to him.
"Oh, come on, how did you last longer than me?" Chad asked as he took out his money.
"Like you said earlier my jumper was not as ugly as yours was, but we made a deal," Audrey said. "Thank you,"
"Next year one of you guys are doing it," Chad said.
"We'll see," Ben said wandering if this would be a Christmas tradition amongst them.
Hope you liked this chapter I want Chad and Audrey to be included in some of the VKs adventures in this story any way.