Happy Friday! I am excited to not do homework tonight.
This chapter is spread out through a few days and I don't know why. *shrugs*
December 21 (part two)
Sherlock, I've just gotten a call from my parents, and apparently I am going to be spending Christmas at home. I'll come back to 221B to pack after work, but my flight is at 20:30. JW [sent at 12:34]
Alright. SH [sent at 12:35]
That's it? I thought you'd be mad I couldn't tell you sooner or something. JW [sent at 12:36]
No, your sister texted me. I was already informed you were leaving tonight. SH [sent at 12:37]
You have Harry's number? JW [sent at 12:37]
Of course I do. SH [sent at 12:37]
Her grammar is atrocious. SH [sent at 12:38]
Maybe because she's drunk half the time. JW [sent at 12:39]
Perhaps. SH [sent at 12:39]
I'm sorry to leave you alone for Christmas. JW [sent at 12:41]
I wasn't going to do anything for it anyway, except maybe have breakfast with Mrs. Hudson. SH [sent at 12:42]
That sounds nice, actually. Nothing is ever that calm at my parent's house. JW [sent at 12:43]
Why is that? SH [sent at 12:43]
For one, I can't seem to convince them we're not dating. Add that fight to Harry's drinking, and you have a very tense and very loud family dinner. JW [sent at 12:46]
I see. SH [sent at 12:46]
'I see'? How come I'm the only one who ever seems to care when people think we're a couple? JW [sent at 12:47]
Sherlock? JW [sent at 12:58]
Sherlock? JW [sent at 13:06]
December 22
My flight was fine, thanks for asking. JW [sent at 10:13]
I'm glad to hear it. SH [sent at 10:14]
Bored. SH [sent at 12:45]
I am literally on the other side of the country, Sherlock, I can't help you. JW [sent at 12:46]
You can text me from the other side of the country. SH [sent at 12:46]
I'm with my family. JW [sent at 12:47]
So? SH [sent at 12:49]
So, if I'm texting you for an extended period of time, they'll continue to think you're my boyfriend. JW [sent at 12:51]
Why do you care so much? SH [sent at 12:52]
Why don't you? JW [sent at 12:54]
Sherlock? JW [sent at 13:14]
I get it, this is what it feels like when I don't answer you. Lesson learned. Now, please answer me. JW [sent at 15:17]
Honestly, John. You get busy with work, I get busy with experiments that need my full attention. SH [sent at 15:21]
Right, of course. JW [sent at 15:24]
Good luck with that. JW [sent at 15:25]
December 23
So you're not going to spend Christmas with your parents or Mycroft or anyone? JW [sent at 18:23]
I'm having breakfast with Mrs. Hudson. SH [sent at 18:24]
My parents invited me to join them and Mycroft to a musical I didn't bother to remember the name of, but I declined. SH [sent at 18:25]
Why? JW [sent at 18:26]
Because I don't have family values like you apparently do. SH [sent at 18:26]
John? SH [sent at 18:32]
Well, how did you want me to respond to that? JW [sent at 18:34]
Fine. SH [sent at 18:34]
I smiled at my screen and my mum saw, stop texting me. JW [sent at 18:35]
Why did you smile at your screen, I didn't saw anything amusing. SH [message deleted]
I wish you'd stop letting that get to you. SH [message deleted]
Okay. SH [sent at 18:27]
December 24
Lestrade's finally gotten me a case. SH [sent at 10:32]
John? SH [sent at 10:43]
I solved it. SH [sent at 13:06]
Lestrade said it was my Christmas gift. SH [sent at 13:06]
As if it could possibly pass off as a gift, it took me all of two hours to solve it. SH [sent at 13:06]
Are you doing family things? Is that why you aren't answering? SH [sent at 15:57]
John? SH [sent at 16:34]
Happy Christmas Eve, Sherlock. JW [sent at 21:04]
Christmas Eve is such a ridiculous thing to celebrate. It just gives people an excuse to another holiday. SH [sent at 21:06]
Christmas Eve is when my family has Christmas dinner. JW [sent at 21:10]
Why? SH [sent at 21:10]
Ask the relatives that started the tradition. JW [sent at 21:11]
Do you have their number? SH [sent at 21:11]
I don't think my great-great-grandparents have a phone number. JW [sent at 21:11]
Why not? SH [sent at 21:12]
Because they both died in 1965. JW [sent at 21:13]
I see. SH [sent at 21:13]
My condolences. SH [sent at 21:14]
I think the next chapter will include their Christmas Day texts.
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