The next morning, the Grinch woke up with a yawn on a soft bed. He didn't remember what happened and where his was yesterday, until when he looked around, he's in a guest room of the Lou-Who house. He remembered how tired he was after building those gizmos for the kitchen countertop, and replacing Christmas decorations with New Year once. He remembered that Donna Lou allowed him to stay in her house for the night. She was right. The Grinch was so tired to go back to his cave last night, and he'll be sleeping in the snow if he keep going.

Just then, Max enthusiastically jumped on his master's lap, and licked his face to wake him up.

"Okay, okay, Max, I'm away. I'm awake," Grinch gently shoved Max away from his face. "How's your morning? Did you sleep well?"

The dog nodded.

"That's great, but we can't stay here any longer, Max, we have to go back home. I don't think Donna Lou wants us to stay too long. She has to take care of her kids. I don't want her to take care of us, too."

When the Grinch carried Max in his arms and got out of the room, he discovered that Donna, Cindy Lou, Aggie, Bean and Buster are already at the kitchen, eating breakfast together. He also saw Donna used the invention he made for her.

"Oh, Bean, stop putting eggs on your brother's face," Donna told one of the twins as she was about to serve eggs to Aggie.

Aggie held her hand up, "Uh, no thanks, Ms. Who. I don't eat eggs. Bacon is enough."

"Why not? Why don't you like eggs?" Cindy Lou asked.

"My husband's a bird, pigs stole eggs beck in his home world, I laid an egg days ago." When Aggie explained her story , Donna and Cindy Lou were confused. She can see that through their faces as Aggie explained again specifically, "I'm a dimension traveler, I met my husband in another world and he was a bird. I can transform into a bird anytime. When I carried my 4th baby, I was a bird, so I laid an egg before I got here."

"Oh, I'm so sorry!" Donna felt so embarrassed when she was going to serve eggs to a mother who laid an egg.

"That's okay. You didn't know. I'll just eat bacon," Aggie took a bite on one of the bacon strips.

While chewing her food, Cindy Lou turned and saw the Grinch watching and holding Max with one arm.

"Good morning, Mr. Grinch!" she greeted him loudly, alerting Donna and Aggie. "Come and have breakfast with us."

"No, thanks, Cindy Lou. We're going back to my cave," the Grinch hesitated.

"Come on Grinch, I just started eating breakfast," Aggie convinced. "You should join us."

"I made good breakfast for you too," Donna added.

The Grinch wanted to hesitate again, but when Max hopped off his arm and joined the others. He has no choice but the join breakfast with his new friends. He sighed as he sat on a chair beside Cindy Lou. Donna then put bacon and eggs on his plate.

"Oh, thank you, Miss… er, Donna," the Grinch thanked her.

"No. I have to thank you for that," Donna smiled. "Your invention really helped me out this morning. The food is good too."

"Well, you're welcome. I've been thinking of building those ever since I saw you having a hard time unclogging the drain and making the twins' breakfast yesterday."

"That's very thoughtful of you, Grinch."

When they heard Grinch and Donna's compliments to each other, Cindy Lou and Aggie secretly fist-bumped.

After breakfast, the Grinch, Max and Aggie walked out of the Lou Who house to go back to Mt. Crumpit.

"Are you sure you don't want to stay for a little while?" Donna Lou asked.

"It's okay, Donna. You're done so much already for me, my dog and my… new friend here," Grinch replied. "I think you've done enough now."

"Alright, just be careful when you get back. Thank you for helping me again, Mr. Grinch."

"Thanks, and anytime."

Donna just smiled at him, and closed the door. Before the door was fully closed, Cindy Lou and Aggie exchanged salutes at each other, wishing each other good luck for getting Grinch and Donna together. The Grinch secretly noticed that, and became suspicious.

As the door closed, he looked down to Aggie with a suspicious look.

"What were you and Cindy Lou saluting about?"

"Nothing!" Aggie quickly said while folding her lip close. "Come on, let's just go home."

While walking pass Bricklebaum's house, the three were barked by a certain dog, and it's not Max. The bark was very loud and angry. It was Bricklebaum's pet bulldog, Mabel, who was tied on a leash.

The Grinch remembered how that dog attacked him when he attempted to still Bricklebaum's sleigh from his roof. The Grinch then started to laugh, "Look at that, Max. Remember that dog? Well, she can't attack me now because she was all tied up!"

When the bulldog moved aside, revealing that her leash wasn't chained up, the three's laughter faded, and the dog started to attack them. The Grinch, Max and Aggie ran away from Mabel as they made a chase scene around every tree in the area.

Mabel's bark was so loud, it alerted her master as he walked out of his house, "What's going on here?"

"Hey, Bricklebaum,"

He heard the Grinch's voice as he saw him and Max hanging on Aggie's feet, who flew up high to avoid from getting attack by a bulldog.

"A little help, please," The Grinch pleaded.

"Why do you have to be so heavy?" Aggie grunted when she tried to lift the Grinch a little higher from the ground, but she can't hold it much longer since the Grinch was too heavy for her to carry.

"Oh my gosh, Mr. Grinch, Ms. Aggie, I'm so sorry about that," Bricklebaum rushed to his dog, and held her away from his friends. "Leave Mr. Grinch alone, Mabel. He'll never do anything harm to you."

When everything is fine now, Aggie lowered Grinch and Max down slowly back on the ground. The Grinch noticed something's different about Bricklebaum's house. It had decorations again, but this time, it has the same decorations as he, Max, Cindy Lou and Aggie made while decorating the Lou Who house. There are black white and golden balloons, paper flower balls, star papers, and a 'HAPPY NEW YEAR' balloons on the roof. They are New Year decorations!

"Hey, I see you have New Year decorations too. Where did you get these?" Grinch asked.

"I made them. Some are bought," Bricklebaum explained. "Haven's t you heard? When the mayor saw you decorating Donna's house with New Year decorations yesterday, she decided to the same for the whole town, and she wants New Year to be three times bigger this year. That means three time the decorations, three times the fireworks, three times…"

"Perfect inspiration!" Aggie guessed.

"That's a good one, Ms. Aggie."

"Just call me Aggie. I hate being called a 'miss' these days."

"The countdown started in the middle of the town where we can have a huge longer firework show."

"That's really great, Bricklebaum," The Grinch replied, the murmured quietly. "I can't believe the mayor saw what I did yesterday."

"And I haven't seen you since last night. You always come home after the end of the day."

"We were sleeping at Donna's last night!" Aggie answered.

The Grinch elbowed her on the shoulder, "Aggie!"

"Why did you sleep at Donna's? And why did decorate her house with New Year decorations? That was serious work out, and… Oooohhhh, wait a minute. I know why," Bricklebaum snickered.

"Hey, I know that look, and I know that tone! Look, I'm not myself this morning! Not because I'm tired. I have this kind of feeling that I can't put my finger on it."

"You're in love! That why."

"You really think I'm in love with her? No way! I like her too, but just friends, okay? For the last time, JUST FRIENDS!" The green Who groaned again, and turned around to the direction of his home. "Can we just all go home?!"

Max and Aggie followed him quickly as Bricklebaum waved them goodbye. "Oh man. Mr. Grinch. Never hit with the ladies for years."

When they made back to the cave, Max rushed to the kitchen to sleep on his doggy bed. He missed his doggy bed since last night. Of course he likes sleeping with his master, but his doggy bed was very comfy. While Aggie went back to her bedroom, the Grinch walked upstairs to his bedroom.

When he made it to his bedroom, the Grinch sat on his bed, and lied down. He can't sleep. He slept well last night. He can't even eat. He's already stuffed breakfast he ate at the Lou Who house. He has nothing to do for the rest of the day now. He just stared at the ceiling.

While staring up, the Grinch's mind was so blank lately, but when he was resting on his bed, he can't get those words out of his head about what Cindy Lou, Bricklebaum and Aggie about him falling in love with Donna Lou Who. Even his own dog noticed that last night. Is it true? I s he in love. No! He couldn't be! He was never been in love with women before. Not even a crush when he was at the orphanage. He and Donna just met last Christmas when Cindy Lou invited him to their Christmas dinner. He only helped her to make Cindy Lou's wish come true. They're just friends. That's how he can socialize with the Whos in town. But then, he remembered the moment when he went to her bedroom to clean the place up and noticed the picture of her and her husband their wedding day, he suddenly felt something different. He didn't what he felt yesterday when he saw the photo, but he knew he frowned when he looked at Donna and her husband smiling together. Even though he was no longer with her and their kids, Donna still can't find someone to accompany her, not only because she has three kids to take care of, but also she still loved her husband and stayed loyal to him. When he made that theory, the Grinch thought he has no hope to be with Donna if her heart still belonged to her deceased husband.

Wait a minute! What was he thinking? Why is he always thinking about Donna? She was just a friend with kind and strong personality. She's such a beautiful woman with silky blonde hair, wearing a cute pink headband, and sparkly blue eyes. And she's the most patient, nice and wonderful friend he'd ever met, just like her daughter. There it is again! The Grinch tried to snapped out of thinking about Donna, but he can't. It's too strong for him to resist. When he placed his hand on his chest, he felt something's wrong with his heart. It's still the same size that he has currently and stayed normal, but the beat of his heart was so loud and rapid. It's not normal volume and speed of a normal heart; this is so different.

The Grinch never felt this sudden feeling before. It's so strange. He can't put his finger on of what he was feeling since the day after Christmas or maybe since that Christmas dinner. It just happened. He's willingness to help, describing her beauty and kindness, feeling upset of losing hope to be with her, his heart beating loudly and fast. These never happened before when he was with any Who or with his fellow orphans, especially girls. This can only means one thing: Grinch has indeed falling in love with Donna Lou Who, the mother of the child who changed his life.

Is this really true? Is he in love? After more than 53 years of his life?

While trying to think about his new feelings, he was interrupted by a loud music. The music was inside the cave, but he didn't play any music nor Max did. Grinch found out that the music came from Aggie's room, who was playing an instrumental song of "Salute" by Little Mix.

Unable to think properly with this loud music, the Grinch got up of bed and went downstairs. He grabbed his scarf and wrapped it around his neck as he was about to head towards the door, but Max noticed him, and rushed to be with his matter. The dog thought his matter will go to town without him.

"No, Max. Just stay. I won't go to town. I'll be outside," The Grinch told his dog before going outside and closed the door leaving Max worried about him.