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Ch 2. A Jolly Idea

Five days later, the day before Christmas Eve…

Loud virtual noises bounced around in the living room as Johnny Test and his pet dog and best friend, Dukey, along with Raimundo and Kimiko played against each other on Super Smash Bros on the Wii we bought at the start of the holiday season. Right now, Kimiko was kicking the other guys' butts as Zero Suit Samus, wiping the floor with them and off the battle field. "Yes! In your face, boys! Girl are stronger than boys ten times fold!" Kimiko cried out.

"Hey, come on girl, I'm trying here. It's not my fault we can't use game controllers on this gaming system." Raimundo complained.

"Yeah, whose bright idea was it to buy this really awesome but totally unfair gaming system and video game?" Johnny said when Kimiko's character threw a bomb at his character, Meta Knight.

"Uh, that would be you, Johnny." Dukey pointed out before his character, Diddy Kong, managed to hit Captain Falcon, Raimundo's character.

"Oh yeah." Then Johnny muttered, "I hate myself."

Bloom, Musa and Tecna watched them on the couch by the window while Stella did Flora's hair on the floor. Omi, Clay and Dojo watched them on the floor as well while Kevin was taking a nap on the opposite couch with Gwen reading and Ben watching the game in amusement.

That's when, all of a sudden, they all heard a loud voice growing louder in the hallway, coming in their direction. "What do you mean you won't be back till' next month?!" Ben recognized that voice as mine. He shot his head over the couch to see me talking on my communicator. He could hear someone else on the other line.

"Shorty, there's a big blizzard here on Hoth. The storm is getting worse and it's too dangerous to fly out right now. We'll have to wait until it clears out."

I frowned at hearing Anakin's bad news. It was bad enough that he couldn't be here until next month, but the fact that he, Ahsoka and Obi-Wan couldn't be here to celebrate Christmas with me, and it would be their first Christmas too, it sucks! All it that horrible realization made my chest bang with pain, as did my heart.

"Oh, I-I understand Master."

"I'm sorry, kid. I know you wanted us to celebrate our first Christmas together. Ahsoka was really looking forward to it. And I was too, and….." A tear was ready to slip out any second now. I wanted this to stop, even if I was about to break down, being the emotional one that I am. "Shorty? Are you still there?"

"Yes I am. I-I have to go." I was about to hang up when he stopped me. "Shorty wait!" My finger hovered over the 'end call' button. "What? Is there more bad news?"

"No. I don't want you to act moody while I'm still out here. I want you to promise me that you will have a great Christmas. And hey, you still have your team there. I'm sure you can celebrate with them."

"But it won't be the same if you guys aren't here."

"I know. But hey, even if we're not there, we'll still be with you. Do you promise me, Georgethe?" I sighed and I blinked the tears back, for now at least. "Yes, I promise."

"Good girl. Now, I better be going now. Obi-Wan wants to do a quick look-out first before we close the hanger doors to the base." I cleared my throat but my voice was still breaking up, "Um-o-okay. Say hi to them for me."

"I will. And don't worry about me. I'll be fine. We all will. And who knows, we might see each other sooner than we think." There he was again. He sounded so sure of himself. How weird. We said our final good-byes and I hung up. I breathed in and out through my nose and it was already dripping. I wiped it with my jacket sleeve.

The sudden bad news that Anakin and the others weren't coming to celebrate Christmas still made me ache. And tomorrow was Christmas Eve? How was I going to live with that? I didn't have all the answers.

"Hey Ge? Everything okay?" I looked up to see most of them team looking at me except Kevin, Raimundo, Kimiko, Johnny and Dukey. I strained a smile at him and cleared my throat again, "Um, I'm alright Ben. It was…nothing really. It was just a simple call from Hoth. It's no big deal." I could feel myself frowning to that lie.

"You sure?" I weakly smiled and nodded, telling them I was going to rest up a bit before I left for home. When I was out of sight, Ben already knew that I wasn't alright. And he said so himself. And everyone thought so too. Well, almost everyone. "I'm serious guys. Something is not right here. Did you see the look on her face? She looked…well…broken."

Gwen agreed when Kevin snored loudly. She shook his arm and he jolted awake. "What? What's wrong? Are we being attacked?" They both said no and that made Kevin fall asleep again, only for Gwen to shake his arm again. "Uh, if this is about me taking the last pudding cup, I was hungry." Ben said, "No, it's not about the pudding cup." That's when Johnny shouted at Kevin, "It was YOU who took it?! That was MY pudding cup, you thief!"

BOOM!

Dukey, Raimundo and Johnny cried out in agony, "NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!" But Kimiko jumped up and down in victory because she won the battle. "YYYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS! IN YOUR FACE, LOSERS!" The boys and dog were crying in utter shame and humiliation, the girls were looking at them weirdly but Omi, Clay and Dojo were laughing at their loss.

"Raimundo partner, this sure ain't your best day." Clay joked, punching Raimundo in the arm teasingly.

"Ah, you are right my friend Clay. He got his bulb handed to him!" Omi joked around too, but he didn't really say it right.

"Um, I believe it's 'he got his butt handed to him' little guy." Dojo explained to Omi. "Oh yeah, that too!"

But that's when Ben shouted loudly to get everyone's attention, "HEY PEOPLE!" There was silence at last. "Thank you. Now…"

After Ben explained the situation to everyone, they all thought about the reason why I was this way. "Maybe we should go up there and talk to her." Flora suggested.

"Eh, I think she needs some time to herself, Flora." Bloom pointed out.

"We could tell her some knock-knock jokes. I've come up with some pretty good ones for the past months. I even have a book filled with them." Dojo said before he pulled out his joke book.

"Or…we could give her some steak! I mean, really, who doesn't love steak? Steak actually sounds good right about now…" Dukey suggested when he was zoning out to the thought of steak.

Ben was glad his friends came up with these ideas. But they weren't good enough. He could hear Anakin on the other line and from what he heard, he knew everything. I wanted to celebrate my first Christmas with Anakin and his friends with us and he was surprised to know that I wanted us all here to celebrate our first Christmas here, in this cartoony world, with me.

He thought it was…really sweet of me to want to do this with them. I mean, we've all only known each other for a while now, but Ben and I have known each other since we were ten. Still, he saw it as a Christmas wish: to have all of us here together as a team, good friends, a family…But he knew that it couldn't happen. And thanks to that bad news, it made me upset. And he wanted to fix it. But how?

Suddenly, it clicked in his head. "I've got an idea! Or should I say…a jolly idea." He was smirking cleverly, making Gwen and Kevin look at each other, regretting for the worst. Ben wasn't that bad when it came to his ideas. But when it came to me, pray that it doesn't end with mushy friendship talk and gifts galore. It was a long story that could wait for another time…

"Bloom, call Will and the other girls. Kimiko, call Susan and Mary. And hurry up, because…we have some shopping to do." Everyone raised their brows at him in confusion when he ran up to the coat hanger and grabbed his green jacket. "Come on guys! We got to hurry!" Gwen asked, "Ben, what are we doing exactly?" He grabbed Gwen's wrist and tugged her jacket on while the others got their winter gear on. "Just trust me on this. Come on! We've got no time to lose!"

So, the whole gang left to who knows where, making me the last one in our base, which will be explained about for another time, and I was in my room. And what was I doing?

Well, I was crying. I was crying my heart out. I know I promised Anakin that I wouldn't be so moody. And I know that he said he might come back from Hoth, it wasn't guaranteed that he would. But I didn't care. I just did what I felt like doing. And right now, I felt like crying, hoping that it would make me feel better.

But I was still thinking about his words, saying he couldn't make it back till' next month, and that it was official. Not unless the storm cleared up, which wasn't likely to clear up anytime soon, not soon enough before tomorrow, Christmas Eve.

I looked up to see the starry night sky out my window. I wiped the tears and continuing to gaze at the star when I started singing.

~Where are you Christmas? Why can't I find you?

~Why have you gone away?~

~My world is changing, I'm rearranging~

~Does that mean Christmas changes too?~

I walked up to the window and I opened it as the wind blew the curtains, as well as my hair, and I looked up to see the starts twinkling brightly as I continued to sing.

~Where are you Christmas? Do you remember the girl you used to know?~

~You and I were so carefree~

~Now nothing's easy~

~Did Christmas change or just me?~

But as I tried to smile at the beautiful sight that never ceases to amaze me, I frowned. Even if I wished upon the biggest and brightest star, no wish in the world would bring Anakin and the others back. A tear slipped out and I sniffled, brushing it aside.

It was official.

This Christmas would be the worst one ever, in all my life, and I regretted for what tomorrow would bring me.

Meanwhile, back on Hoth, in the Republic base under the piles of earth and snow, Anakin regretted telling me the news like that. But it was better than not letting me know, worrying me to death. But there was a storm out there, and it was serious. After the look-out, Rex said it looked like it would clear up soon, but he didn't know when.

"This does not look good. But are you sure you want to do this?" Obi-Wan spoke as he walked up next to his former padawan, looking out the windows to see the snow hitting down hard. "It's obvious that the Separatists are out there and they somehow found a way to create this storm and trap us here so we couldn't escape the planet."

"Well, the sooner we find a way to leave and find them, the better." Obi-Wan left, leaving Anakin all alone. It made him think of how he left me alone. He knew how much it made me happy to imagine spending time with them on the most joyous holiday of the year and that I wanted to share it with them, with everyone. But I can't. And he felt regret for bringing my hopes up only to be crushed.

He had to fix this. He knew being there for me on this most special day meant so much to me, and he was going to make sure of it. Besides, he did say over our call that we would see each other sooner than we think. And we will. He will be there by Christmas morning, him and the others, for me, his Shorty.

But how?

So, our main OC (fictional me who I REALLY WISH I was RIGHT NOW!) is depressed, Ben's got an idea, and Anakin is determined to make it back in time for Christmas. But how?

So, leave me your predictions on what will happen, REVIEW/FAVORITE/FOLLOW me and this story, and I will see you guys soon, hopefully, when my mom doesn't make me want to jump off a cliff, ARGH!

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