Okay for all you readers who didn't know,
I wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year, 春节快乐(that's Happy Chinese New Year in Chinese), and, everyone should know this:
Happy Valentine's Day to all of you!!! This chapter is a holiday special including both of these Holidays!!
Get ready for lots of fun, and stories!!!
Onward with the holiday specials! Remember, it's not a connected to the actual story, just a side story, but with everyone in the original story.
With the help of Tsparks158 with some of the guy songs, I'd like to give you my thanks!
Holiday Special 1: Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day
Max's POV
My mom seems to be very enthusiastic about celebrating all holidays, whether they were big or small, related to us or not. I figured this out just a few days ago, but my mom was holding a Valentine's Chinese New Year party right in our house, and thank god she didn't invite Brigid and Lissa over, or I may just have killed her and myself.
Anyways, Today is Chinese New Year, and Valentine's Day. Funny isn't it? Well, I think it is, but according to my mom, she didn't know today was Chinese New Year, only until Krissy's mom, who is Chinese told my mom. So, now everyone in the family is getting ready for the party. Krissy's family is also over to help with the food. Everyone else who is coming are going to bring snacks and drinks. Krissy's mom is such a good cook, she even makes food better than Iggy.
Right now though, Krissy's mom says they'll have to wait until they start making dumplings and buns. Can't you believe it? They're going to actually make enough dumplings for everyone, which is like, let me see, everyone is:
Mom, Jeb, me, Iggy, Ella, Gazzy, Angel, Fang, Nudge, Georgie, Mrs and Mr. Wright, Krissy, Serena, Mr. and Mrs. Lenning, Tom, Sera, Pebble, Mr. and Mrs. Windsbrook, Kyle, Will, Michael, and their parents, which is a total of 30 people! Oh my god, 30!!! Even my house filled with 30 people is a lot!
I can't wait to help make the dumplings. Krissy's mom says she's going to teach everyone how to make dumplings, and even if they're bad, she will still boil those, and everyone will get to eat them! I can't wait! Today is going to be soooo awesome.
Right now though, mom is making, with the help of Iggy, about a dozen batches of cookies, and two huge cakes, one like a fudge brownie kind, and another a vanilla white chocolate kind. She make's the best desserts ever! Sadly, I can't eat anything just yet!
About thirty minutes later, everyone had came, and mom made us all go into the living room, and she set out a karaoke machine and is forcing each one of us kids sing a song. More like each of sings a LOVE song because it wouldn't be Valentine's Day if we didn't sing those songs.
Oh well, guess I'll have to sing too.
Here's what I planned:
Every kid from each family will go after each other, and the first family, as my mom wants it to go is, obviously my family, and so, everyone is pleading me to go first, with their bambi-eyes. Ugh I hate myself for falling for those, but oh well, I chose the song... Ah, and this song is definitely not a love song, thannk god. I chose, Sk8r Boi, by Avril Lavigne, here goes,
He was a boy, She was a girl,
Can i make it any more obvious?
He was a punk, She did ballet,
What more can I say?
He wanted her,
She'd never tell secretly she wanted him as well,
But all of her friends, stuck up their nose
They had a problem with his baggy clothes.
He was a sk8er boi
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
She had a pretty face
But her head was up in space
She needed to come back down to earth
5 years from now, She still sits at home,
Feeding the baby she's all alone.
She turns on tv, guess who she sees?
Sk8er boi rockin on MTV.
She calls up her friends, they already know
And they've all get tickets to see his show.
She tags along, stands in the crowd,
Looks up at the man that she turned down.
He was a sk8er boi
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
Now he's a super star
Slamming on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he's worth?
He was a sk8er boi
She said see you later boy
He wasn't good enough for her
Now he's a super star
Slamming on his guitar
Does your pretty face see what he's worth?
Sorry girl but you missed out
Well tough luck that boy's mine now
We are more than just good friends
This is how the story ends
Too bad that you couldn't see,
See the man that boy could be
There is more that meets the eye
I see the soul that is inside
He's just a boy
And Im just a girl
Can I make it any more obvious
We are in love
Haven't you heard
How we rock each others world
I'm with the sk8er boi
I said see you later boy
I'll be back stage after the show
I'll be at the studio
Singing the song we wrote
About a girl he used to know
I'm with the sk8er boi
I said see you later boy
I'll be back stage after the show
I'll be at the studio
Singing the song we wrote
About a girl he used to know
When I was finished singing, everyone was clapping vigorously. Okay, my turn to choose who to sing. Hmm, I'll pick on,
"Iggy, your turn." I want to here Iggy, I've heard him sing before, and he's really good. Iggy chose the song, Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day. Everyone, and I mean everyone was amazed by how well his sang, it was, like amazing. He's great. Iggy then chose Gazzy to sing, who sang Don't Stop Believin' by Journey. Then, Gazzy picked Angel, and she sang beautifully, the song Temporary Home by Carrie Underwood:
Little boy, 6 years old
A little too used to bein' alone
Another new mom and dad,another school
Another house that'll never be home
When people ask him how he likes this place
He looks up and says with a smile upon his face
"This is my temporary home
It's not where I belong
Windows and rooms that I'm passin' through
This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going
I'm not afraid because I know this is my
Temporary Home."
Young mom on her own
She needs a little help got nowhere to go
She's lookin' for a job, lookin' for a way out
Because a half-way house will never be a home
At night she whispers to her baby girl
Someday we'll find a place here in this world
"This is our temporary home
It's not where we belong
Windows and rooms that we're passin' through
This is just a stop, on the way to where we're going
I'm not afraid because I know this is our
Temporary Home."
Old man, hospital bed
The room is filled with people he loves
And he whispers don't cry for me
I'll see you all someday
He looks up and says "I can see God's face."
"This is my temporary Home
It's not where I belong
Windows and rooms that I'm passin' through
This was just a stop,on the way To where I'm going
I'm not afraid because I know this was
My temporary home."
This is our temporary home
"Good job Angel!"
"Thanks Max, I really like that song by the way!" Ha, that's my Angel, she's sooo sweet! Next was Ella who sang, Innocence by Avril Lavigne. I guess we have the same interests. Because everyone in my family besides Tom had already went, Ella had to pick him. The song he was going to choose, I wasn't sure, but I guess I'll find out. He chose his song, oh, it was Ready to Roll by Jet Black Stare, to tell you the true, it wasn't that bad,
fast lane through a hurricane
open road and i'm ready to roll
put the pedal down right away
redline and i'm given it more
[chorus]
city lights are burning bright behind me (woah)
top down, i push it to the floor (woah, woah)
street signs and the centerlines spinning (woah, woah)
running hot, i feel like i'm ready to roll
taking off like a jet plane
high speeds and she's ready to go
fuel burning like a freight train
redline and i'm given it more
[chorus]
give me room to run, one more road i'm on
give me room to run away
i feel like i'm ready to roll
fast lane through a hurricane
top down on the highway
taking off like a jet plane
redline and i'm given it more
(woah, woah)
street signs and the centerlines spinning (woah, woah)
running hot, i feel like i'm ready to roll
give me room to run, one more road i'm on
give me room to run away
i feel like i'm ready to roll
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Nice, that song was really good! Maybe I should learn it sometime!
Next up, Krissy's family.
Krissy went singing Change by Taylor Swift. Her and her Taylor Swiftness, but that song really reminds me of myself. Serena, on the other hand really didn't want to sing, so she escaped to the kitchen to help her mom with the food!
Well, then Fang's family started, with Fang singing, Ten Thousand Fists, by disturbed, but where he learned this song, I have no idea!
Survivor, oooh,
Survivor, oooh!
One more God damn day,
When I know what I want,
And my want will be considered tonight,
Huh, huh,
Considered tonight!
Huh, huh!
Just another day,
When all that I want
Will mark me as a sinner tonight,
I'm a sinner tonight, yeah!
People can no longer cover their eyes,
If this disturbs you then walk away!
You will remember the night
You were struck by the sight of,
Ten thousand fists in the air!
Power unrestrained,
Dead on the mark,
Is what we will deliver tonight,
huh, huh,
Deliver tonight!
Huh, huh!
Pleasure fused with pain,
This triumph of the soul
Will make you shiver tonight,
We'll make you shiver tonight, yeah!
People can no longer cover their eyes,
If this disturbs you then walk away!
You will remember the night
You were struck by the sight of,
Ten thousand fists in the air!
[Guitar solo]
We are the ones
That are up in your mind,
Leave the weak
And the haunted behind
We are the ones
That will open your mind,
Leave the weak
And the haunted behind
We are the ones
That will up in your mind,
Leave the weak
And the haunted behind
We are the ones
That will open your mind,
Leave the weak
And the haunted behind
Evil can no longer cover their eyes,
If this disturbs you then walk away!
You will remember the night
You were struck by the sight of,
Ten thousand fists in the air!
Ten thousand fists in the air!
Ten thousand fists in the air!
Okay, that was a little powerful, and I don't know, but he was really good, everyone was Clapping when he finished
Then, everyone went,
Nudge singing, I'm Alive by Celine Dion
Georgie singing, Vida la viva, by coldplay,
Sera sang, Love Story by Taylor Swift,
Pebble, singing a chinese song, that only Sera and Krissy could actually know what she was saying, Sweet Dreams by Jang Nara, was that her name?
Following were the guys,
Kyle sang How to Save a Life by the Fray,
Will sang, My Wish by Rascal Flatts, and,
Michael finished singing, Do I by Luke Bryan.
Everyone was great, and we ended up not singing all that many love songs. Ew, just thinking about it makes me shiver.
"Max!!! Come bring everyone in to make dumplings!"
Oh yeah, we're going to have soo much fun, and we are going to make such a mess! everyone seemed as excited as me, and we all headed for the kitchen, where Krissy (how did she get there), Serena, and her mom were already making the dumplings.
"Hey no fair, why did you guys get a head start?"
"Well, if everyone was here, we may not get many very well done ones done that fast, so I'm setting aside Krissy and Serena, Sera, and Pebble, 'cuz know how to make the actual dumplings, and then I'll teach you guys how to make the dumplings."
"Okay, whatever you say Mrs. Lenning!"
"Sure, no problem."
After about 10 minutes of teaching, everyone was unsuccessfully trying to use chopsticks to get the filling onto the dumpling. In the end, everyone was using spoons to put to filling on, and we sure made a big mess.
Krissy's mom was patient enough with us, and actually put all of the dumplings into the pot to cook, but she did seperate Krissy's, Serena's, Sera's and Pebble's to cook. We were given lots to eat during dinnertime. We had dumplings, buns, noodles, and then various chinese food, like Sweet and sour chicken, Hot spicy tofu, which is better than you think, bamboo shoots, that were amazingly cooked, and other really nice food. This day was a wonderful day, and I wish this can happen every year, because not only is the food good, everyone has fun as well! Happy Chinese New Year, and Valentine's Day everyone!
Okay, I understand you think this holiday special is rather short, but i could only use one day's time to update, and I'm not that great of a writer.
But, how did you like it? I hope it was good to you! Anyways, I'll try to post the other chapter ASAP, and the next chapter for MATW, and if I don't, please don't kill me, I feel bad enough already!
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I'm flying out,
~TaylorSwiftTwilightFan75