On Saturday morning, Carole and Burt drove to the airport to pick up Blaine, Kurt and Finn. I told Vie that I was gonna just wrap the Christmas presents I had bought after that we´d been home alone for a while, and then I closed the door and pulled out the presents, two roles of wrap paper, tape, string and stickers to write the names on. Then I sat down on the floor, picked out the stuff I´d bought on the floor, and then I took a paper, and wrote "Don´t come in, I´m wrapping your presents" and hung it on my door.

I had gotten all of the presents on the red cross´ second- hand- store in town, and it was almost amazing how they seemed to have the perfect item for each and every one in my family, and my friends. Hayley ´s biggest interest, except music, was reading, watching TV and in other ways finding out more about extraordinary people. Like, Dave Pelzer, Aron Ralston or J. K. Rowling. For her I´d find a book called "Old before my time" Written by Hayley and Kerry Okines. For Tyler I had bought a T- shirt with the text. "I´ve got the world´s best girlfriend." And for Connor I´d found a CD with music by the fray. For Vie I found a hoodie and a jigsaw puzzle, for Carole a necklace with a clock, and for Burt a coffee cup that looked like a toilet (yes toilet). The boys had been the hardest ones to find presents for, as they were all so different, but then I found three packages of glowing (yes, glowing)) shoelaces. It had been three different colors and I´d decided to give the blue ones to Finn, the green to Blaine, and the red to Kurt.

Those were all the presents I had to wrap, I was on my way to wrap Blaine´s present when I heard the door open and close, and then the sound of voices. I heard the boys coming up the stairs with their suitcases , I heard laughing when they saw the note on my door, and then of them walking down the hall.

Vie pov

I had gotten some gift wrapping, tape, string, sticker and a pen from Burt and Carole, and I now sat on the floor in the room I had been sleeping in for the last days, and tried to wrap the present I had made for Carole, for about the hundredth time. When I heard the lock at the door being pressed down, I hurried to hide the presents behind my back in case it was Burt or Carole, but the boy that had opened it was someone I hadn´t seen before. He was tall and muscular, with short spiky dark hair.

"Hi" he said, I put my feet to the ground so I could run fast.

"Finn?" I heard another boys´ voice, and then footsteps of two pair of feat. "Who did you say hi to? Oh… hi." Two other boys came walking and now stood in the door with the first boy.

"Hi…"

"Oh… you must be…" the third boys said.

"Vie?" the second continued. I nodded.

"Well," the second boy said. "I´m Kurt, this is my stepbrother Finn, and this is my boyfriend Blaine. What you doing?" He looked at the mess on the floor, where pieces of Christmas wrapping and tape and string.

"I´m sorry for messing up your room Finn… I´ll clean it when I´m finished with this… really I´m so, so sorry... Please don´t be mad at me. I´ve never wrapped a present before, it was harder than I thought."

"VIE." Finn held up his hands. "It´s all right, I´m not mad at you, of course we´ll help you clean up…. I´m not very good at wrapping presents, but I think I know someone who could help you with that." Finn turned his head and looked to Kurt, who stepped forward and came over to me. He took a piece of the wrapping and started to wrap the kettle- holder for Carole.

"Put some tape here." He said, and I did as I was told.

"Did you make that kettle holder?" Blaine asked. I nodded.

"It… it is not very good… but I guess it´s all right, I wanted to make her something."

"I think she´ll love it. Is this for dad?" Kurt held up a small bag with caramels.

"Yeah, we made those at school, I saved mine so I would have something to give Burt."

"So," I put a piece of tape on Burt´s gift. "Have you got something more?"

"I really wanted to give something to Lex." I mumbled and looked to the floor. "But I could not think of anything."

"Well," Blaine began. "I and Kurt actually bought two presents for Lex." Blaine looked to Kurt, who nodded. "Maybe you would like to say one of them is from you?"

"I…. I can´t pay you back for that, I have no money."

"You don´t have to, I´ll go get it." Blaine stood up and walked out of the room. A few minutes later he came back with something in his hands. When I took it I could see it was a scrapbook.

"We…" Blaine was talking in almost a whisper so Lex wouldn´t hear. "We´ve also bought her a camera. But don´t tell her about that." I pretended to zip my lips together, Kurt helped me to wrap the present for Lex, and then we were done to clean the room. We had just started when Lex came walking with Christmas presents in her hands.

Lex pov

"Hi guys." I said. "Ehrm… I´d love to give you each welcome- home- hug, but I´ve got my hands full, I´ll just go put them under the tree." I walked downstairs and laid all the presents under the Christmas tree. Then I walked back upstairs to welcome the boys home.

Next morning, Christmas day

"Vie, Vie. Wake up it´s Christmas."

"Mm." Vie groaned.

"Come on sleepyhead, wake up." I shook her, and finally she opened her eyes to me.

"Merry Christmas Vie." I said.

"Merry Christmas." She mumbled.

"Vie, we have already been up for a while, don´t mind change clothes, we´ve got a little surprise for you downstairs." Vie kicked her covers of and sat up, for the moment she was dressed in one of Burt´s T- shirts, which was so big it almost looked like a long dress at her. She stood up, and walked after me downstairs. The others were all down in the kitchen, gathered around the kitchen table, on the table laid a big gift for Vie. I and Vie sat down by the table and then pushed the gift towards her.

"That is…" Burt began

"….the gift for you…" Carole continued

"…. From all of us…" Finn continued

"….And we´re giving it to you now…" Blaine continued.

"…Because we thought…" Kurt continued.

"….That you would need it today." I had the last part. Vie looked a bit confused, and then she lifted her hands and started pulling in the gift wrapping. She did it slowly, as if she wanted to make it last longer. When she had gotten all the paper off, it revealed a big carton. She stood up so she could look down at it, and then she lifted the lock of, and then she just stood there, her chin dropped and she just stared down in the box.

"Hello-o I said after a while. "Earth to Vie Geller."

"I…" she began. "I… I don´t know… what to say…." She reached her hands down in the carton and pulled out a smaller carton, and she opened it.

"Oh…" now she had tears in her eyes.

"What´s the matter?" Burt asked. "Don´t you like it?"

"I… I love it… but it´s so much… it´s too much."

"It is just enough." I said. "Told you I would make this a great Christmas."

"It… Oh thank you so much. Thank you." Vie seemed overwhelmed.

"Sorry, I don´t wanna interrupt this moment," Carole began. "But we gotta be at church in one and a half hour…"

"I´ll go dress." Vie took her cartons and ran out of the room. When she came back again, she was wearing what had been in the box. With black tights, tartan skirt in red, black grey and gold, red hoodie, and black and grey winter- shoes. She was also holding a headband in her hand, and she gave it to Carole, who tied it so it held her long brown hair back. Then she turned around and looked at us others.

"Come on, let me take a photo before we go." Burt said. We walked over to the living room and the Christmas tree. Where Finn, Blaine, Kurt and I stood, so Burt could take a photo of us, and then we talked Vie into also being a part of the photo. When it was time to take a photo of just the "family" I, Blaine and Vie left, and Blaine took the camera, so Burt and Carole could be a part of the picture, and then it was time to leave for church.

When we came home later, I took my rucksack and put the presents for Connor, Tyler and Hayley in it, then I walked downstairs.

"Carole, I´m just walking over to my friends´ to hand them their presents." I said.

"You´re sure they´re at home?"

"Yes, I spoke to them about this on Friday, see you later bye." I closed the door and started walking down the street. Connor´s house was the first one I reached, and I stepped up on the stairs, knocked the door. The one who opened the door was an- about six or seven year old girl with braids.

"Hi," I sat bent down to reach the girl´s level. "Is this were Connor lives?" The girl nodded, but before she could shout for him, a woman with a roundish face and blonde hair came in the door.

"Emily," the woman said. "How many times do I need to tell you to not make the guests wait at the door, let them in instead." She turned to me. "Hi…. Excuse me for making you wait here out in the cold. Come inside." I didn´t really want to go inside, but I did not wanna be rude, so I walked up the two stairs and stepped over the threshold.

"I´m Angie," the woman said. "You must be…"

"Lex?" Connor came walking out in the hallway. "Hi and Merry Christmas."

"Yes, merry Christmas Connor" I gave Connor a quick careen of my rucksack and opening it. I pulled out the present I had for Connor and gave it to him.

"Thanks," he said. "Just wait here one second, I have a gift for you as well." He walked through a door and disappeared. Angie continued talking.

"So you´re one of Connor´s friends!" I nodded. "Well it´s a pleasure to meet you… what did you say your name was?"

"Lex."

"Well, Lex, do you wanna come in and meet the others, you see it´s so rare that someone of Connor´s friends come over."

"No thanks. I was just…"

"Well you gotta meet the others… HONEY. Get the kids and come to the hallway, one of Connor´s friends is here." I blushed, but I didn´t wanna be rude, so I guessed that I´d have to meet the others. After just a couple of minutes a man in his mid- forties came walking, along with five children, all younger than Connor, four girls and one boy. Right after that also Connor came.

"Mum." Connor protested, "you don´t need to…"

"Oh don´t be rude now Connor, we need to tell this nice girl our names." I could feel I blushed again, and one after the one the people in the hall started telling me their names and ages.

"Arthur," the man said. "Forty six."

"Connor seventeen. But you already know that."

"Hannah thirteen."

"Kate ten."

"Rosie, also ten."

"Emily six." I sat down on my knees to reach the same level as the smallest, a boy that had got his thumb in his mouth.

"And what´s your name?" I asked him.

"Oliver three… have you got Christmas presents for me?"

"OLIVER." Connor seemed angry. "You don´t ask that to someone that come into our house." I held my hands up to silent Connor.

"Nope… sorry. But I´m sure you´ll have loads of nice presents anyway." Oliver nodded. Connor gave me my present, that I placed in my rucksack, and then there was loads of Merry Christmas´s, and I walked out the door and towards Hayley´s. At her house, it was Hayley herself that opened the door, though with her parents right behind her.

"Hi," I said. "Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas Lex."

"Me… rry… Christ… mas." The man talked slowly, because of the brain tumor I guessed.

"Merry Christmas Mr. Gordon."

"I just wanted to give you this, hope you like it." I handed Hayley her present. Like Connor, she disappeared and came back with a gift, that felt like it had books in it. I waved the Gordon´s off, and then walked towards Tyler´s. At his, it was his nine- year old little brother that opened the door.

"Hi, merry Christmas." I said. "Is Tyler at home." James nodded and took a deep breath in.

"TYYYLER."

"Okay, okay, you don´t need to shout I´m right here." Tyler came walking from the room next to the hallway. "Hi Lex, Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas Tyler." I handed Tyler his present, and like both Connor and Hayley, he disappeared, and came back, with not one- but two gifts that I put in my rucksack.

"So," Tyler began when I had gotten my rucksack back on. "Have you gotten any Christmas- kiss from someone today."

"No."

"That we´ll need to fix in some way? Any ideas how."

"I think you can fix it," and then his face came closer to mine…

"Kissie, Kissie, Kissie." We heard James´ voice.

"JAMES." Tyler shouted angrily, but I just laughed at James, and then we gave each other a hug and I walked out the door and towards mine.

"Hmm, that´s weird." I said when I got the presents out of my rucksack and down under the three.

"What is?" Vie asked.

"Connor and Hayley gave me each present, Tyler gave me two, and they all seem to be about the same size and shape. I shook my head. "Well, it won´t be long until we find out why." I left the presents under the tree and went upstairs to leave my rucksack, then I walked downstairs to the other.

The afternoon came and went, I had my first real Christmas- dinner, but nothing more really happened during the afternoon, and then the evening came, and we gathered in the living room, to get our presents and open them.

"So, we hand out all the Christmas presents Burt said. "Nobody opens one present until everybody have got theirs. First one…" He read the tag. "From Lex to Finn, Merry Christmas." Finn took his present and laid it next to him, the next one was from Vie to Burt, and so it went on. The first present that was handed to me was from Tyler, and then we were finished, and it was time to start opening the presents. I started with solving the mystery of why the gifts from Tyler, Hayley and Connor were all the same shape. I started with the one from Connor. In that one I found the first and fifth Harry- Potter- book. And then everything started falling into place. I had had a talk with Tyler about what I wanted for Christmas, and he asked me about books, I had told him I once had bought all the Harry- Potter- books second hand, but that Brian had burned them when I had only read about three and a half books. I laid down the ones from Connor on the floor, and then opened the one from Hayley, oh yes I had been right, in that one I found the second and the fourth book, I guessed they had put two different books in every package, so the gifts would look the same size. The one from Tyler had the third and the sixth book, and the second one from Tyler had the seventh, it was a letter in that claiming that they had bought two books each and then bought the seventh together. I smiled, put the series in one pile, and took the next gift. But before I had reached it, there was a loud laughter from Burt, who had just opened his present from me.

"What is it dad?" Kurt asked. Burt who could not stop laughing held up the cup.

"Who´s it from?" Carole asked. Burt pointed to me, and the others laughed. Carole had just opened her present from Vie.

"Oh, Vie. Did you make this?" She asked. Vie nodded. "It´s so nice." Carole continued. Vie shrugged.

"It´s not very well made." She mumbled. But Carole supported her, claiming it was the nicest kettle holder she´d ever seen. Vie smiled and returned to unwrapping gifts. She did it really slowly, as if everything would disappear if she did it too fast. Right now she was unwrapping a big soft Teddy- bear from Finn, and next to her laid the jigsaw puzzle and the hoodie from me. And two unwrapped presents, which I knew was a set of scarf, mittens and a cap. And the one from Burt and Carole I knew had a winter- jacket in it. I smiled and reached for my present from Finn. I opened it, and found a T- shirt with the text "Short people, god only let things grow until they are perfect… some of us didn´t take as long as others." I laughed at it, and looked around the room, to see that Finn seemed to have fun T-shirts for everyone. Carole had one with a superman- logo and the text "Supermom." Burt had one that said "I love my fabulous gay son." Kurt had one that said "I´m so gay I can´t even drive straight." And Blaine had one with the text "I am… ga… strai… bise… hom… tra… A PERSON."

I waited a couple of minutes before unwrapping the present from Vie and the one from Kurt and Blaine. And watched as Blaine unwrapped the present from Kurt, which was a Christmas bow- tie. And as Kurt unwrapped chocolate from Blaine. Then I turned to Carole who unwrapped the necklace- watch from me, and a kettle from Burt. She had also unwrapped a blanket with heating coils from Kurt and Blaine. Burt had gotten a button- up shirt and tie from Carole, and a bag with caramels from Vie.

Vie had unwrapped all her presents and now sat on the floor, hugging the teddy- bear from Finn. I smiled at her and started unwrapping the present from Kurt and Blaine. When I had opened it, I found a box, and the outside said it was a camera in it. I thanked Kurt and Blaine for it, and then put it to the side, to open the last present, that was from Vie. But I was interrupted when Burt made some weird sound, I looked over to him, and saw that he had just put one of the caramels from Vie in his mouth.

"Whawy." He tried to say something. "Whawy"

"Salty?" Kurt asked, as Burt grimaced and nodded.

"But… but…" Burt reached the bag towards Vie, she took one and put it in her mouth, and then grimaced. When both Burt and Vie finally had swallowed their caramels, and ate some real sweet candy to get rid of the taste Vie said.

"I didn´t put any salt in them… how could they be so salty?"

"Was it sugar in them?" Carole asked. Vie nodded. "There´s the answer you must have mixed up the sugar and the salt."

"I guess." Vie looked brokenhearted. I patted her shoulder.

"It´s no big deal Vie… it was just a mistake, and it´s the thought that counts." She nodded, and looked slightly happier. I opened the present I had gotten from her, and thanked her, and then she looked a bit happier.

"So, everyone´s opened their presents?" Burt asked.

"Yes." Came from every direction.

"So, we have a few more." Carole stood up and gave each envelope to me, Kurt and Finn. I opened it and found two tickets.

"Oh my god." I heard Kurt, apparently both his and Finn´s envelope had had two tickets in them. Kurt continued.

"Are we going on a cruise?" he asked.

"Yeah." Carole said. "You´ve gotten two tickets each, so maybe you could invite… some very ggood friend."

"Oh, Blaine… do you wanna…?" Kurt began.

"Of course I would" Blaine answered. I smiled and decided to ask Tyler, and then Burt and Carole stood up and walked over to me, I stood up too.

"So… Lex, we have one last gift, and it´s for you." Burt said. I nodded, Carole continued.

"We were thinking, how long has it been since you moved in here now?" I counted on my fingers.

"Two months."

"And yes," Burt continued. "We were thinking, we kind of like having you here, so we were wondering…"

"We were thinking, that if you want to we would make this official, and we would like to adopt you." I gasped and put my hands over my mouth. I could feel tears rising in my eyes, and I took one quick step forward and hugged both Burt and Carole. Crying of happiness.

"Is that a yes?" Burt asked, I leaned back a little.

"Yes… yes." I said. "That´s what I wanted more than anything else." Now it was time for Carole and Burt to hug me, and also Kurt and Finn came and joined our hug.

Vie pov

Lex, Carole, Burt, Kurt and Finn all hugged each other, and I could not help feeling a little bit outside, until Blaine came over to me, and hugged me.

"Us outsiders will just stay right here." He shouted to the others, with Lex in the middle of the group. They laughed, and told us to come, and together we hugged, all the time with Lex in the middle.

"You don´t need to break all of my ribs," Lex shouted after a while, and then we hugged her even harder.

Lex pov

A while later, the boys had fixed so my camera would work, and then I, Finn, Kurt, Burt and Carole gathered in front of the Christmas tree, to shoot a new family photo.

"Okay," Blaine held the camera up. "Everybody say just family."

"FAMILY." We shouted, and Blaine took the picture.

"So… we´re gonna be a family." Finn said.

"Yes," I agreed. "Just one big happy family."

Just one big happy family, how great that sounded. Just one big happy family.

So… okay this is by far the longest chapter I´ve ever written. I know there´s a lot of Christmas presents mentioned, and yes, I decided for over thirty Christmas presents, how the boys react to their new shoelaces will come up in the next chapter. So… merry Christmas… oh wait… a little bit too early for that… well, whatever.
I think Oliver´s so cute, don´t you?
Oh, and on my profile there´s yet another picture of a character… this time for Ethan.