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Counting Down to You: Day 8 (0.7K)
December 8th
The following morning is easy, and I find myself clutching the box of ornaments set aside for the winner. Boy, yesterday was weird.
In all my years, there has never been a tie, and we had no idea how to cope, and it took a while for my mom to answer, and when she did I explained the situation, and she laughed.
That helps the situation.
She then told us that there are no rules on how to break the tie since it was never needed.
That left us stumped.
Jonathan wanted to do physical activities, which dad and I voted against it.
Dad and I suggest Candyland while trying to keep it fair and sticking to a Christmas theme.
We then all stay up into the late hours of the night and make hot cross buns, where Lily judges.
I crush Jon and dad at Candyland, and I could taste victory, but by the end of the night, it was crushed by Jon winning the baking competition.
Today is the last day before I leave in a few hours, so our rock paper scissors battle begins in 5 minutes.
There is no way we can let him win, and how did he make delicious hot cross buns.
Jace tries calling me all morning, but I need to focus and send him a text, to which he responses with a 4-leaf clover.
Jon and I meet in the kitchen at 10 am on the dot, where it is like a western standoff.
We agree to 3 rounds.
Dad says, go.
Jon and I tie with rock.
Then we tie with paper. Geez.
I then play rock, and he goes to paper. Crap.
Next, I go rock, since scissors haven't been played yet.
I was right, and I crush Jon's scissors.
Tied again
I go scissors, and Jon goes scissors too.
This is too intense for rock, paper, scissors.
I play rock as he plays rock too… mmmm.
I play rock, and he plays paper. My heart stops; I lost. Jonathan gets his choice of themes.
He jumps and down with joy like a child on Christmas.
I sigh. We are doomed.
My dad offers him congratulations.
Lily walks to the Santa Hat and pulls out the slip of paper with Jon's name and clears her throat.
"I declare Jonathan Morgenstern the winner of the 2020 family Christmas tree." Then she opens the paper and continues with, "His tree theme is dinosaurs."
My head snaps to Jon, and I bark, "Dinosaurs? You are a child."
He rolls his eyes and climbs off his stool, and goes to his room, where he pulls a model T Rex out and tells us this is the topper.
We decorated the tree with dinosaurs left from his old room for the next hour, where we tie string and hooks to them.
Eventually, it is time for me to leave, and I pack up, and my father drives me home, which takes an hour. We talk about the weekend and how he can't believe Jon won and he is going to have to look at dinosaurs now
He drops me off outside at 7 pm, and the temperature has dropped enough for me to have to wear a coat as I rush inside.
I throw my stuff around and throw myself on the couch where I scroll through Instagram. Then at 8 pm, the timmer for my Xmas tree goes off, and I remember.
My advent.
I go to the tree and pick up the green box and shake it. No noise.
I text Jace, and he says to go ahead because he is at dinner.
I untie the red ribbon that matches my hair and opens the tiny box.
My heart soars
It is a pair of fluffy of reindeer slippers that are so soft.
I throw my socks off and put them on and dance around.
I send thank you texts, and I am met with silence.
Leaving me disappointed.
But that can't take away my joy, and I tidy the apartment and climb into bed for work tomorrow.
Falling into a pit of darkness.
AN: SOOOOO Jon won. He picked dinos. Interesting, what theme would you want?
I'll be posting the pictures of the slippers and tree in a few days on my insta, since I don't want to spoil much for anyone.
Questions: What colour is next?(Posted on ig, hint we have seen it before) Why the silence from Jace?
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