Hey! Hope you all liked the last chap.. Heres the next one! This ones the shortest of the three but its my favorite :] I love Christmas!
Love always, Girl of the moment
"Annabeth" Percy whispered. We were in his cabin at camp. Suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my chest.
"Mommy! Mommy! Wake up!" Mommy?
I rubbed my eyes as they opened. Ali was sitting on her knees half on me, half on Percy.
"Ali? What time is it?" I looked over to my alarm clock..6am.
"It's Christmas Mommy! Santa came last night!" She said grabbing my hand as Percy woke up and realized what was going on.
"Daddy! We have to get up!" She said grabbing his hand to and trying to drag us out of bed.
"Wow there Ali bear" He said grabbing her around the waist and pulling her inbetween us.
"Daddy! We have to goooo!" She said as she sat up.
"Ali how about you go let Jake out of his cage, and we'll come down" I said sleepily drooping back into my pillow.
"Ok!" She yelled and ran downstairs.
"We should get up" I muttered as Percy laid back down putting his arm around me.
"Yeah" He said closing his eyes. We laid like this in that peaceful state between reality and dreams for all of a minute before we had not one, but two little things jumping on us.
"Come onnnn!" Ali begged pulling our arms as Jake had curled up between me and Percy.
"Ok, ok" Percy said sitting up.
"Did Santa come Ali?" I as Jake ran in little circles around Ali's legs.
"Yes! All our stocking are full and theirs pesants! A lot bunch mommy!" She said smiling hugely.
"Well then we better go" I said getting out of bed.
We walked down the stairs and the tree looked just as it had last night.
"Can I start?" Ali said looking at the four stocking on the fireplace mantel.
"Wait let me get my camera" I said running to the kitchen and grabbing the black camera off the charger. When I got back Ali was holding her stocking. We had got them last month. They were deep red velvet and had a different Christmas scene stitched into them. My mother had got them for us. Mine was a reindeer sniffing the snow. Ali's was an angel standing in a field of snow. Surprisingly she had also got one for Percy. It was Santa putting presents under a tree. The last was a regular stocking with dog bone and Jakes name stitched on the bone.
Jakes was laid out in front of him s he sniffed the insides if it, which was mostly rawhide bones and dog treats. Ali had hers sitting on her lap and Percy was holding his.
"Can I open it now?" She asked pleadingly. I snapped a picture.
"Go for it" I said. And with that the opening began. In her stocking from Santa was a bunch of little nail polishes, candies, and odd little things I had picked up all around. I had packed mine and Percy's with a coffee mug each and Ghirardelli chocolates.
"Kay Ali pick your first present" I said. She picked a medium sized package from the front marked 'to Ali from Santa!'. She started peeling back the paper and her eyes got huge.
"What is it?" I asked, not to sure myself.
"A Barbie house! The three story one from toys r us mamma!" She said ripping the rest of the wrapping off and sat it up by her and smiled looking at it.
"Wow" Percy said looking at me smiling. In half an hour the living room floor was scattered with art supplies, Barbie's, boxes of Barbie clothes (and purses, cars, bikes, and shoes), three new Barbie movies (Mariposa, a fashion fairytale, and the island princess.) bored games, five different Disney princess movies, clothes and wait for it, sparkles. I might have gone a little over board on presents. Just a little. But she's my only daughter.. And some of its from Santa.
"Ali do you wanna open the ones from Grandma Sally and Papa Paul?" I asked looking at some of the last presents under the tree.
"Wait, heres one for you daddy!" She said handing him the box I had so carefully wrapped.
"It's from me and mommy!" She said smiling.
"Well.." He said taking it. "Should I open it?"
"Yeah!" She said wiggling between me and Percy on the couch. Percy peeled back the red and white 'no peeking' wrapping paper to the white Macys box. He looked at me quizzically.
"It's not clothes" I said smiling. He opened the Macys box to see red tissue paper which he also tore back. On the top was a highly sparkly picutre Ali had made that read "I love my daddy!". Precy looked at it speechless.
"I made it daddy! Just for you." She said looking at it. A huge smiled spread across Percy's face.
"It's prefect Ali bear" He hugging her.
"Now open the rest!" She said picking up her picture. Underneath was a wrapped something in gold paper. He picked it up and took the wrapping paper off revealing a deep blue photo album with a picture of Ali two months ago at Nico and Kati's wedding in her white flower girl dress with her flower veil on. He opened it up to the first page where there were two pictures. One of him holding Ali at the orphanage and the other of us both standing outside holding Ali.
"Look daddy that's me!" She said pointing at her.
"Yeah it is" He said putting her arm around her as he looked through the rest. There was pictures from everything I could find. From Alice's first trip to Olympus to the first time Sally met her . From Easter in her big pink dress to her preschools Christmas recital where she was an elf. From the fourth of July in her re, white and blue dress to our vacation to California this summer. From Her first day of preschool with Violet to her last Halloween where she was Cinderella. He looked at the all without saying a word till the very end. He looked up at us and his eyes started to water.
"It's perfect" He said.
"Oh Percy" I said hugging him. Ali popped up and hugged him too.
"My girls" he said squeezing us before letting go.
"So you like it I take?" I asked as Ali got back on the floor and dragged out the presents from Sally and Paul.
"I love it. I feel bad that I don't have anything for you though." He said as I took a picture of Ali then laid back in his arms.
"Don't worry" I said looking up at him "I got everything I wanted this Christmas."
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