(Wow. Today alone I have written 3 or 4 updates to my stories and 2 chapters of a new one. I'm so proud right now. I'm never done more than 1 a day. So enjoy!)

Christmas Time. A hectice time for anyone and everyone. So after successfully burning toast and getting to school late AND flunking a French test, Cade was happy for the weekend.

"Thank God! What will we do tonight?" she asked Pony as they walked home, Pony shrugged,

"Dunno. Something, dare I say, normal?"

Cade and Casey just looked at him strangely.

"You're right. Normal is too much for us." Johnny said, laughing slightly.

Cade lightly hit Johnny,

"You're a meanie."

"Bitch."

"Jerk."

Soda and Casey both looked confused, Pony just held up his hand.

"I suggest you stay FAR out of this one." He noted. Casey all of a sudden got an idea,

"LET'S GO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!" she said. Everyone turned to look at her. She stopped jumping,

"What?"

Cade walked in the door to find Dallas sitting at the kitchen table, drinking coffee and reading. Wait…Dallas was…READING? Two things that should never be combined. Cade poked him,

"Poke…poke….poke…"

"Whaddya want?" he asked, irritated.

"What'cha reading?" she asked. He cocked an eyebrow at her,

"Why do you…never mind. Newspaper. Tim got a paragraph and I was just reading."

"I swear to God with you boys it's all 'violence this' 'violence that' can we read about peace for a change?"

Dallas just stared at her,

"Well, I'm going out tonight. Don't expect me home." He spat. Even though he was getting used to Cade, having her around bugged him. He had never been around someone besides the gang for this long….and it scared him.

Cade shrugged,

"Fine. I'm going shopping with Casey and Johnny."

"Johnny…shopping?" Dallas almost fell out of his chair.

"haha. He's coming Christmas shopping with us."

"Ohh..Christmas shopping." He said, grabbing his leather jacket and walking out, not even bothering with a goodbye. Cade shrugged again and went to her room, shutting the door and falling on her bed, going to sleep.

"Cade? Cade?" a voice asked, poking her. Cade swatted the hand away,

"Five more minutes Dal…" she mumbled. But the hand came back, she turned to yell at the person at fault and Johnny stood there, hands shoved into his pockets,

"We gotta go." He said quietly, "Sorry I woke you."

Cade yanwed,

"I'll get you back later." She mumbled, walking out the door.

At the mall, Casey was as excited as a Golden Retriver puppy and of course, Casey's energy is contagious, so Cade was laughing and goofing off with her. They went into a department store and Cade grabbed a cart, standing on the bar and using her foot to push it down the aisles. Casey found a reindeer that sang 'Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer' and put it in her cart before hopping on her own, and they both took off, Cade shouted wildly,

"I'M THE REINDEER! I'M THE REINDEER!"

Johnny stood there, his face in his hand, rubbing his forehead,

"This CANNOT end well."

"You guys are such idiots." Johnny mumbled, walking in the snow with Cade and Casey laughing their heads off.

"I can't believe you RAN INTO the manager with the cart!" Casey said, doubling over in laughter. Cade smiled and took a bow, falling over from being high on life. Johnny just turned,

"You know we can never go back there, right?"

"Aw, give it a week Johnnycake. We'll be back." Casey said, standing up.

"Well…we didn't get any gifts." Cade said, shrugging.

"We still got three weeks." Johnny noted. Cade shrugged,

"Yea…but…LOOK A SQURRIEL!"

Cade walked into the house, falling on the couch. It was now midnight and after a crazy Dingo run, Cade was ready to sleep her life away. She dozed off, curling up on the couch for warmth. But it was still too cold…part of her told her to get up and go get a blanket, but she was too lazy.

Dallas walked in around 3 AM. Normally he would have stayed out all night, but God knows what happened to Cade when he was gone. He saw asleep on the couch and stopped, looking at her. She looked cold, he noticed. She was probably too lazy to get up and get a blanket. Stupid kid. He thought, grabbing a blanket and throwing it over her, covering her. She immediately stopped shivering and lay still, her steady breaths moving the blanket up and down. Dallas shook his head before walking to his own room. He was softening up to her…he knew that, but what of his rep?