I pushed my mom's last piece of luggage in the trunk of her car, slammed the trunk car door shut, I sighed. Looked over to my mother which was putting first aid kits both in the front of the car and in the back. Skilar was shaking her head, small chuckles coming of her.
"Well, let's go, everything is ready to go!" Mom said. I nodded and got into the front seat, Skilar was in the back seat, my mom was driving. I connected my PearPod to the car.
"How long is this trip again?" Skilar asked.
"Probably just about an hour." I said, I put on Viola Lion by Isles and Glaciers, my mom pulled out of the Bushwell Plaza parking lot. I sighed, I looked up to what would be Carly's window. I shouldn't be so sad, I mean I get to spend Christmas with my best friends, what could be better? Maybe, because I never said goodbye to Sam. She was asleep it wasn't my fault in the first place. Still, I didn't like the idea of her waking up, finding out I'm not gonna be there for Christmas. She may see it as a blessing in disguise for her of course. I looked back through the back window of the car, the Bushwell looked like a small building now from how far we were from it now. I turned to look at Skilar, she wasn't wearing her contacts, she wears glasses, her frames were black, and looked weird because her makeup wasn't on, but she didn't look ghostly pale like other girls when they don't have there makeup on, Carly looks like that without her makeup on, kinda freaky. She was reading a book, really it was a manga but she still looked more like how she should look like.
"What?" Skilar asked, she must have realized I was looking at her.
"Nothing, its just I haven't seen you in your glasses for a long time." I said, she nodded, and started reading again.
"You okay Freddie?" Mom asked.
"Yeah, why shouldn't I be?" I asked, changing the current song that was playing.
"You seem down, is it because of Sam and Carly?" She asked, I leaned my head against the head rest on the seat of the car.
"Yeah, it's just I feel bad that I'm not gonna be there..." I said.
"Sweetheart, you have to remember that not all Christmas' you'll spend it with them, you know, you got your entire life ahead of you." Mom said.
"Thanks, Mom." I said.
"No problem, go ahead and get some sleep." She said, I nodded, before I closed my eyes, and fell asleep.
When we arrived at the cabin Monte and his family was already there.
"Is that you Marissa?" Monte's Mom said right when Mom got out of the car. They hugged, and talked, as we Monte's dad opened up the cabin and we entered it. It was a little chilly, but Monte and his dad went straight to getting the fireplace to work. My Mom, and Monte's mom went into the kitchen, and once the fireplace was working, and the heaters were on, Monte and I were putting up our luggage into our rooms.
"Like good old times huh?" Monte asked, when he entered our room, our arrangement works out like this, the boys (which would be us) would share a room, there was five twin beds in one room, girls (younger or older sisters, cousins) would stay in the room across the hall, parents would have their own room.
"Yeah. Can't wait 'till we get to go snowboarding." What? Did you think we just did nothing here? Nope, we snowboard.
"Yeah, you okay? I mean sorry if we kinda forced you to come or anything." Monte said, laying down on his bed, his bass in its case, next to his bed.
"No, God, No. You guys didn't force anything I wanted to come, I swear!" I said, smiling.
"'Kay, but dude, if you want to go back it's-"
"No need to worry." I said, interrupting him .
"Alright." He smiled. That's when we heard 'Oh my God, Brittany, you look fabulous!' Coming from my mother.
"Matt's here!" Monte said, getting up from his spot on his bed, the room smelled of burning dust from the heaters. We ran down the steps of the cabin, to see Matt and his family coming in from the cold.
Let me explain how the guys' families work. Let's start with Matt, since he came. Matt has 2 younger sisters, twins to be exact, their 13 years old. Their mother, Brittany, is a 32 year old beauty queen, that's right, Matt's mom was a pageant girl! She is blonde, tall, lean, and well pretty, but she's been passed around a lot, if you know what I mean. The sad thing is, his younger sisters are the same way, minus the passed around a lot thing, I think. Their preppy, spend to much money on their clothes, their airheads not that smart, and blonde too. If your wondering how Matt has black hair, well he dyes it. His dad died a few years ago in an car accident. Monte's family is the rich ones, they own a number of resturants in Seattle, his mom is a smart business woman, and his dad's a chef, he has a younger sister of the age of 2, her name is Hailey. Their an ordinary family, lucky for him he doesn't have much to complain about. Matt on the other hand has a mom that is trying to make him preppy, and he sometimes gets into fights with her, causing him to sometimes sleep over at one of our houses, his mom just doesn't get that he's different.
"Freddie! How are you?" One of Matt's twin sisters came up to me. I gulped, and laughed nervously.
"Fine...Um..." I said, her arm grabbed my almost non-existing bicep.
"Wow, good arms on you. How's iCarly doing?" She said, hugging my arm.
"Fine too..." I said, dying to just leave the room. I looked over to Monte, he had his hand on his mouth, refraining himself from laughing.
"Good, how are they gonna do it without their awesome tech producer?" She asked, I took a deep breath.
"They'll cope." I said.
"Really?" She smiled, she had braces on her teeth now, and lip gloss on her lips.
"Yeah." That's when Matt came over and pushed her off.
"Go annoy someone else, Miss Metalmouth." He said, she gasped.
"Mom! Matt's making fun of me again!" She whined, I flinched at the sound.
"Matt!" Matt's mom said, sternly, her hands on her hips, like Carly when I told her that I was coming here.
"What? She was annoying Ry-Ry. I had to do something." Matt said.
"I just asking him some questions, you know I like iCarly!" She whined more.
"Sure, and I'm gonna pretend I believe that." Matt said.
"Freddie, was Neveah annoying you?" Matt's Mom asked, I tensed, if I said no, Matt would get into trouble, if I said yes, Neaveh would hate me. Well, I didn't know her name was Neaveh in the first place, all I know about her is she's Matt's sister.
"Don't put him on the spot like that." Matt said, flipping his hair out of his face.
"Don't say anything mean to your sisters, or push them." Matt's Mom said. Matt rolled his eyes. Neaveh just scoffed at him and left to join her twin, who was talking to Skilar. Chad came next, with his little and older sister, and his mom and her boyfriend. His dad is in Minnesota, in a small town called Crookston, his parents are divorce, like mine. His little sister's name is Taylor, she's a lot like him, she's listens to same music he listens to, dresses in a similar way, just more like a female, and also 13 years old. She doesn't get along with the twins. His older sister, Amanda, is a short, like 4'10 short, also like him, except more like a female. She's a senior in high school this year, and hangs out with, what we call the J's. Why? We call them the J's because all their names start with the letter J. Juan, Jordan, and Johnny, are the emo J's. His mom works at an elementary school as the attendance sectary, her boyfriend's name is Ben, I think he works in a bank, that's what I think, I'm not so sure.
"Hey Freddie." Taylor passes me, I take a deep sigh of relief. No younger sister 'asking me questions' from Chad's side. Chad came up to us, dropping his bag at his side, his guitar gig bagon his shoulders.
"It's fucking cold." He said, I raised my eyebrows at him, Matt rolled his eyes, and Monte chuckled.
"Welcome to Steven's Pass." Monte said, before he ran up the stairs. We followed him. Chad and Matt got their stuff in place, while Monte and me laid down on our beds.
"So, what's up with your sisters?" I asked.
"Who's?" Chad asked.
"Matt's." I said, shivering slightly. Matt laughed.
"Their twins, their names are Neaveh and Heaven." Matt said.
"Neaveh and Heaven?" Monte asked.
"Yup. My mom thought it was cute or whatever. Remember this, Neaveh is the bad one, Heaven is the good one." Matt said.
"There's a good and a bad?" Chad asked.
"Mhm, Heaven is turning around, by the time she our age, she'll be like Skilar. Neaveh on the other hand will be a attention whore, like Carly Shay." Matt said.
"Evil. Carly isn't that bad." I said, shrugging off some snow that fell off Chad's jacket onto my bed.
"Your used to it, that's why." Chad said, I stuck out my tongue at him, he returned the gesture.
"Hey assholes who didn't come greet me at the door." Aiden entered the room, his hair not spiked, and a beanie on his head. Time to explain Aiden's family! Aiden also has a younger sister, she's also 13, weird it like all our parents were in accordancewith each other. Anyway, Aiden's younger sister, Morgan, is best friends with Chad's younger sister, Taylor. They both don't get along with the twins. Continuing, Aiden's dad is an elementary school teacher (he works in the same elementary school as Chad's mom). Aiden'smom works at a hotel, as a manager. Aiden is half-hispanic, his mom is Mexican, which is a great help when I'm having trouble on my Spanish homework.
"Sorry, didn't hear you come in." Chad said.
"Evil." He said. He went over to his bed, its kinda werid we know who's bed is who's. Monte always has the bed closest to the door, Aiden has on near a window, Matt like one near a heater, Chad always has the bed next to mine, and I like my bed second closest to the door.
"Guys!" Skilar came in running. We all looked at her. "Help me!"
"Why?" Monte asked.
"Matt's crazy sister, that's why." Skilar quickly hid underneath Chad's bed. We were all so confused, until Neaveh came into the room, holding pink nail polish, glitter lip gloss, and some other stuff I don't know shit about.
"Is Skilar here?" Neaveh asked. Heaven came in next.
"Leave her alone, her look is just fine." Heaven said.
"What are you brats doing?" Matt asked.
"I'm gonna give Skilar a make over so you could actually look feminine." Neaveh said.
"No, she's not." Heaven said, dragging Neaveh out of the room. Once they left, Skilar came out from out under the bed.
"I'm so scared!" She said, taking a deep breath afterwards. "What if she does something while I'm sleeping, like touch my hair or something!" Skilar is very protective of her hair, if you haven't noticed.
"Are you okay?" I asked her.
"No! I'm so scared, I mean, I won't be able to sleep with that preppy demon!" She lays next to me. I wrap my arm around her.
"Well, what are you gonna do?" Monte asked.
"Can I sleep here?" Skilar asked.
"Uh...I don't know. Boys and Girls always slept in different rooms." Aiden said.
"Oh come on, Matt would you really let me spend a week sharing a room with your sister?" She asked Matt.
"No. Come on guys, let her sleep here." Matt said.
"You can sleep with me." Chad winked.
"Dude, no, she'll be sleeping with me." I said, we're cousins, we did this before.
"Come on, we're all here, lets go look around." Monte said. We dressed in our warm clothes, and headed outside.
We walked around the Pass, going up a small hill, covered by trees and snow. We passed a slope people used for sledding. There was an Inn, we decided to go in, and see what kind of kids come to the Pass. Today was Christmas Eve, so it was packed from families wanting to spend Christmas here. We stood there for like half hour, then we left to go back. When we entered the cabin once again, there was presents underneath the tree.
"Santa came!" Aiden skipped to the tree, picked up one of the presents and shook it repeatedly. We laughed at him, we sometimes pretend that we still believe in Santa. I sat down in front of the fireplace to warm up from the cold. Hailey was walking around.
"Fred." She said, then she giggled, stretching out her arms toward me, I smiled. I pulled her onto my lap, she was about to suck on her thumb, but I grabbed her hand gently.
"No, that's a bad habit." I said to her. She giggled lightly before her eyes went all sleepy, then she rested her head against my chest and fell asleep. I smiled.
"Your sister is so cute." I said to Monte, he smiled too.
"I know." He said. She moved around in my arms, then landed in a comfortable spot for her. Then, a little Chihuahua dog ran past us, I raise my eyebrow.
"My dog." Aiden said. I nodded, looked back at Hailey.
"Wait, Lewbert let you have a dog?" I asked.
"Uh, he doesn't really know." Aiden said. I nodded again. Hailey then woke up, looked at me, then got teary eyed. I silently panicked, motioned for Monte to come over, when he did, Hailey started to cry. Monte grabbed her and took her upstairs. I took a deep breath. Then Aiden's dog came and snuggled up to me. I sighed. Time passed quickly. We played video games, talked, and played in the snow for hours. When it was around 11 we decided to go to bed. Skilar, already in the PJ's jumped into my bed. I shook my head, I pulled the covers and she fell to the ground with a thump.
"That was mean." I shrugged, and got under the covers, she joined me. The guys were in bed already, tomorrow was Christmas, we get to open those presents that were taunting us.
I woke up to Morgan and Taylor screaming at us to wake up because it was Christmas morning. I stumbled out of bed, along with the guys and Skilar behind us. We walked down the stairs, and the twins, Morgan, Taylor, Amanda, and all of our parents were down stairs already. They were passing out our presents. We quickly got to work unwrapping and opening. Matt got a kit of drumsticks, and a care kit too for his drums. Chad got a PearPod, the newest one. Monte got amp, a small, travel size one. Aiden got stuffed animal called a Pillow Pet, he's been wanting that for a long time. I got a new camera, a small one, not like the big one I use on iCarly. We also got other presents but I don't want to name the all. The phone rang, and my mom answered it.
"Freddie? Its your father." She said. I got up from the floor, and went to grab the phone.
"Hello?"
'Hey Fender! Merry Christmas!' My dad calls me 'Fender' because the day I was born, he got his first Fender guitar.
"Merry Christmas, Dad."
'I sent a gift to you, it's pretty big. Ask your mother for it.'
"Kay. Mom, Dad says to ask you for my gift." My mom nods and goes into a back room. She comes out with a big box with red wrapping paper.
"What is it?"
'It's Christmas! Open it!' I walk towards it, and grab the paper, and torn it off. In a glass case, was the Fender guitar my dad got when I was born. I gasped.
'I thought since your following the footsteps of your old man you'd like it.'
"Yeah, thanks Dad. I'll take good care of it."
'I know you will. Listen, Fender, I know I'm not around much, so I'm gonna make an offer, your semester ends soon, and uh... well I'm opening a spot in mi casa, for you, move down to L.A for school, just an offer, cuz I know you got your stuff to do up there. Merry Christmas!'
"Thanks for the offer, Dad. Merry Christmas." I put the phone down. Los Angles, huh, not a bad idea...
I know this might seemed rushed and everything, but come on, I had to have them have their Christmas before New Years. So, yeah. I hope you enjoyed, hope you had a nice Christmas, and have a nice New Year.