12/21/10

4 Days till Christmas, Whoopee! Just around the corner, a girl I see. Come with soup and cookies and even tea. Bringing things that James will need.

Charlie was walking on the sidewalk to Jame's house. She was wearing white pants with green converse, a green shirt with an elf on it,and a Santa hat with the number 4 written on the white part. She wore a thin jacket to keep warm, unfortunately it was a little too thin and she was shaking the entire time to Jame's house.

In her hands she held a basket filled with a thermos filled with soup, Christmas cookies, and bags of Tea she got last minute for Mrs. Diamond. She strolled all the way their happy to see her friend, hopefully in a better mood.

She arrived to the Diamond residence in no time and checked under the mat, happy to see a key just like Mrs. Diamond had said. She unlocked the door and carefully stepped into the house, not wanting to disturb the possibly asleep boy.

"Hello?" she called. "James, are you here?" she closed the door behind her softly. She walked into the kitchen setting down her basket of goodies. She took off her jacket and set it on one of the chairs.

She decided to take a tour of the house, considering she hadn't been at James' house in over a month. They would always hang out at Kendall's. She walked up the stairs looking up and down the hallway. She walked down the hallway to what she remembered as James' room. She took her steps slowly as if she was in a haunted house. Although, the eerie silence wasn't helping the mood.

Once she reached his door she hesitated to knock on it, but finally found the courage to.

"James?" she called. "Are you in there?" On the other side of the door a head shot up.

"Charlie?"

"Hey! Your up!" he got up from his bed and started to put on some clothes.

"What are you doing in my house?"

"I called you yesterday to tell you I was gonna come by but you were in your room, so I told your mom and she left a key under the mat." he started to comb his hair. "Can I come in?" he finished and opened the door, looking up and down towards her outfit.

"You don't like?" she asked. He didn't answer and just walked out of his room closing the door behind him.

"Why are you here?" he asked walking down the stairs her trailing behind. He walked into the kitchen to see the basket she brought on the table. "What's this?"

"I brought you some soup also some Christmas cookies and Tea for your mom." she said taking the stuff out of the basket.

"What are you, Little Red Riding Hood?" he said taking a bite of one of the cookies. "Good Cookies."

"Thanks, and I was trying to help you feel better." he stopped eating and looked at her.

"Whadya mean?"

"You said you weren't feeling good," she picked up the thermos. "So I made soup for you to feel better."

"And the cookies?"

"It's Christmas!" she said cheerfully. He rolled his eyes, then looked at the thermos.

"You didn't have to make me soup."

"Of course I did silly!" she said pouring the soup into the cap of the thermos and sitting him down. "Now drink, it's chicken noodle~" he took the soup and drank it gratefully.

"Better?" she said sitting next to him.

"Uh...Yeah." he put the cup down and stared at it blankly.

"So..." Charlie broke the silence after several minutes.

"Where are the guys?"

"Oh, they couldn't come cause they had stuff to do but I said I'd drop by and hand out cookies. Wanna come with?" He shook his head.

"Nah, I just wanna stay home." Charlie raised an eyebrow.

"James Diamond, are you telling me that you would rather stay home, were no one can see you, then outside were you can flaunt your dazzling good looks?"

"Uh...Yeah." She got up from her chair.

"Oh no your not." She grabbed his arm and dragged him up the stair and into the bathroom. "You take a shower and get beautified, I'll get your clothes. We're leaving in 10 minutes." she closed the door on him and he just started the shower knowing it's best not to argue against Charlie. In less than 5 minutes he was showered and dressed. He blew dry his hair and neatly combed it out and was done within the time she gave him.

"You ready?" she called from the front door.

"Yeah." he walked out of the bathroom and down the stairs. He retrieved his jacket and walked out the front door with her.

They visited Carlos first, seeing him and his 3 other sisters fighting over what tree to get. They finally chose a nice small one that they all thought was adorable. Charlie handed out her cookies to Felicia, Rosalinda, Maria, Carlos, Mr. and Mrs. Garcia, even the guy who was loading the tree into the car. With her job done she moved on to Logan's house.

When arriving to Logan's house she was bombarded with relatives of his. There was his Cousins Albert, Claire and Heather, who were twins, from his mothers side with his Aunt Tanya and Uncle Tommy. And his cousins Lily and Shelby, also twins, from his fathers side, with his Aunt Stephanie and Uncle Alan. She was barely had enough cookies for all of them. Thankfully she decided to make a lot. She gave Logan his cookie, wished him good luck and left with James.

Next stop was Kendall's. They got their just when they were done cleaning. They were very thankful for the treat. His mother responded by giving gingerbread to her and James. She bit into the leg eating up while he bit into the head eating down. They said there goodbyes and left.

"You having fun yet?" she asked him as they walked blindly on the sidewalk.

"It's been...okay." she looped her arm through his.

"We'll have to fix that!" She started to run toward the woods, dragging James along.

"Where are we going?"

"You'll see!" she didn't stop, and only slowed down when they reached their destination. They stopped in front of a couple of giant trees.

"Ok, why'd you bring me here?" She pulled away some branches to show the view behind them. There he saw a beautiful frozen pond. There was also a bench on the side with a wooden box next to it.

"Whoa."

"I know." she said. "I found it at the beginning of the month. Although then it was all chipped and stuff, but then I started coming everyday and fixing it, shoveling more snow building the extra little stuff. That kinda stuff. I even managed to set this up." She walked over to a little generator. She flipped it on and lights started to sparkle around them in the trees.

"It's beautiful!" he said in awe.

"Yeah, I worked really hard for it to be like that. Wanna skate?" James looked at her confused.

"But we don't have skates." she walked over to the box and pulled out two pairs of skates. One pair with a bow on it.

"Where did you get those?"

"I was planning on bringing all of you here as a Christmas present," she gestured the skates with a bow on it towards him. "These are yours." She sat down with her skates and Jame's on the bench. "C'mon!"

He walked over to her and grabbed his new skates. By the time he put them on Charlie was already on the ice. They skated together for hours. Chasing each other, Charlie doing spins, anything you could think of. By the time they were done it was almost 11:00. Charlie walked James back to his house, talking about their adventures for that day.

"I had a lot of fun today."

"Bet your glad I forced you out, huh?" James laughed.

"Yeah, I am." They walked up to his door.

"Thanks Charloette."

"For what?" she asked confused.

"For watching out for me." She smiled.

"Don't thank me, I was just doing it cause you needed some cheering up. You've been acting weird lately."

"I have?"

"Yeah, you must be getting a fever or something."

"Oh...yeah. Well I'll just drink the rest of that soup."

"Good. Well I gotta get home. Bye James." she gave him a hug and a peck on the cheek before making her journey home.

James opened the door, to see his mother in the kitchen making meatloaf.

"Hey James! Your out late. Where were you?"

"Just hanging out with Charlie mom." he started to walk up the stair when his mom came out of the kitchen looking up at her son.

"Did you have a good time?"

"Yeah. She brought you some tea." he mumbled about to walk into his room until his mother called out his name.

"Do you wanna talk son?"

"About what?" he asked even though he knew exactly what she was talking about.

"Well, it's just with your fath-"

"It's okay mom! I'm fine!" he said storming into his room. He slammed his door harshly and jumped onto his bed, trying to prevent the tears that were threatening to fall.

Wow, haven't updated this since last year. I hope to have like most of the chapters later on tonight so watch out!