Because I am trying to reread TLH, but it is raping my soul BECAUSE DER YOU ARE A ROMAN YOU DUMBASS and Piper issues. But mainly I am doing it for Drew. Did you know she smells like Christmas?
xix. sugarplum princess
She loves the smell of Christmas. It smells like pine and nutmeg and happy. Or at least, it used to smell like that. Now, it just smells like Givenchy. But before, when daddy was still daddy and Ethan was still her brother and Maria was just daddy's secretary, not her stepmom, Christmas used to smell like Christmas.
Ethan, can you set the table?
Drew, are the presents ready?
Ethan, did you make the beds?
Drew, can you light the candles?
Ethan, have you put up the wreaths?
Drew, honey, can you get the door? Maria said she'd be stopping over.
Back when Christmas was Christmas, and not the Maria-and-daddy-pretend-they-are-not-having-sex-show, she used to love the smell of Christmas. She used to wish she could bottle it and use it as perfume.
She doesn't wish that anymore.