7 - Wonderful Christmastime
"I've told yer, Christmas is for family. I've never 'ad a proper family."
"But sweetheart! Christmas is wonderful! Food, presents, cheer! How can you hate it?"
"Because I've never had a wonderful Christmastime."
That's a challenge if he ever heard one. Make Christmas wonderful for her. They're together now. Only a couple of weeks, mind. But still. She deserves happiness over the festive period. She deserves happiness forever, actually. Life has been cruel to her. And so he buys her some nice yet not extravagant gifts, places a small tree up in her flat, attempts to cook her Christmas dinner.
She wakes up and wonders where he is. He did fall asleep next to her. Then she smells the burning. Fearing the worst, she leaps out of bed and into the living area, where he is flapping the oven with a tea towel. She laughs
"What are yer doin' Joey?" He turns and smiles sheepishly, gesturing to a tree and some presents she hadn't noticed.
"Merry Christmas, though I've ruined it no-" he stops as she starts laughing, tears falling down her cheeks.
"Martina?"
"Oh, you are one, aren't yer? Can't cook, but you try. Thanks. Maybe this Christmastime might be wonderful"