A Very Cahill Christmas chap 12
It was dinner on Christmas Eve at Amy and Dan's house, and it was awkward as hell. Natalie was being very nice to Dan and Dan just went with it, Sinead and Hamilton kept sneaking glances at each other than looking away, Ian and Amy were holding hands nonstop, leaving Jonah to glare at Ian (it seemed he had realized just how much he cared about Amy), and all of this left Ned, Ted, Reagan, and Madison to try and fill the uncomfortable silence with jokes on the holts part, and "fun facts" on the starling twins part.
Only problem, besides the awkwardness, was that the jokes sucked and the "fun facts" were not fun at all. The first to finish and leave was Natalie. As soon as she was out of the room Ian turned to Dan and said "what's Natalie mad at you about?" Dan looked at him surprised.
"What do you mean; she's been super nice all day." Ian shook his head and looked at Dan like he was such amateur. "That's how Natalie works. She's nice but eventually she gets back at you, in a cruel and horrible manner, which on occasion involves clowns." Ian shuddered at a memory involving Natalie and the clown. "Clowns?" Dan said with a nervous laugh. Ian nodded solemnly. "Interesting fun fact, did you know that pies were first mad by the ancient Egyptians." Ned said cheerfully. "No and we didn't want to know." Said Jonah glaring at Ned. It seemed he liked glaring ever since Amy turned her attention to Ian.
Ian tried to break the awkward silence by re-engaging in conversation with Dan, this showed just how desperate he was. "So what did you do?" Dan responded hesitantly. "Well I kinda replaced her poisons with soda." Ian looked at him mouth a gape. "Dear god man, how are you still alive? You never, ever, ever, mess with Natalie's poisons. Why did you do it?"
Dan looked at him like he could curl up and die. "I was worried how she would react when I… you know…" Dan pointed to his lips and Ian nodded. The others however were now engaged in the conversation. "Well we don't know." Amy said looking between Ian and Dan. Ian looked at Dan and smiled evilly then said "oh, well, you see Dan kissed my sister and they've been making out ever since."
Dan was about ready to strangle Ian when Amy said "No seriously what is it?" The Holts, the Starlings and Jonah all nodded wanting to know, even though technically they did know. Mwa ha ha. "Seriously Ian, you could have at least put a little more work into the lie. Dan and Natalie? The day they like each other is the day pigs fly and have zebra babies." Hamilton said shaking his head like Ian was an idiot. The others nodded in agreement and Sinead said "I mean first of all they hate each other, second of all Natalie's pretty, why would she be with Dan?"
Dan nodded smirking that Ian's plan had backfired, until he realized what Sinead had just said. "Are you saying that I'm not "good enough" to be with Natalie?" he said making air quotes when he said "good enough". Sinead looked at him, blinked, and then said "Well I tried not to say it outright. I think I implied it rather tactfully." Dan glared at her and said "I am good enough for her. I could go out with her anytime." Ian spoke trying not to laugh "but I thought you hated Natalie." He said smirking.
"I did, I mean I do. Yeah I do hate her." Dan said stumbling over the words. Ian's smirk broadened as the other Cahills stared at him. Dan was a horrible liar and they all new it. There was a long awkward pause (I told you this was an awkward dinner) and then Reagan shouted "OH MY GOD YOU HAVE A CRUSH ON NATALIE!" after that she Madison started singing "Dan and Natalie sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G" Amy had to smile at this, Dan was getting a taste of his own medicine. And Amy was relishing in his torment.
Eventually this got boring and so everyone headed off to do there own things. When Amy was on her way to the library she passed a closet that was a bit ajar. She was about to close it when a hand shot out and grabbed her arm pulling her in she would have screamed but a hand covered her mouth before she could.