At Christmas day evening, we all sat in the living room talking, one hour, two hours, when the clock had reached eleven, Vie had fallen asleep in the sofa, Finn lifted her up, and carried her up to my room. When Finn had left the room, I and Carole undressed Vie, and dressed her in Burt´s T- shirt. Then we laid her down at the mattress next to my bed, I laid the teddy- bear, that she had named BooBoo next to her, and then pulled her covers over her, and as quiet as we could, I got my diary, and my pencil- case, and sneaked out of the room. I walked downstairs, sat down in the sofa again, and wrote about the best Christmas of my life.

Dear Clara
Even though it´s three hours since they told me, I still can´t believe this is really happening. Who told me what? Well, the last Christmas- present for this evening, it was from Burt and Carole to me, and they said, that they wanna adopt me. Can you believe it? They´re really gonna adopt me, I am really gonna be a part of their family. I really hope you can believe it, because I can´t. They want me, with all my good sides, all my flaws, they really want me. I´ve never really felt wanted before.
Lex

I stopped writing, and laid the book down on the living room table.

Late night, at new year´s eve, we were going to the park, Rebeccah had arrived here two days after Christmas, she was nice, we got along well. At the park there were gonna be fireworks. We dressed in warm clothes, but when I, Vie, Rebeccah Burt and Carole were outside, the boys were still inside the house. Fixing with something. I looked up to the skies, there were no clouds on the skyline, but stars. Millions and millions of stars. I took a deep breath, and for a second, I thought back on new year´s eve last year. Brian had had some friends over, they had pushed me out of the house, I had sat on the staircase to the house, and it had been raining as if the skies were falling down. When midnight got closer I had heard the shouts from inside… FIVE… FOUR… THREE…. When they were all shouting "HAPPY NEW YEAR" it rained worse than ever, I was only dressed in my usual sweatpants and sweatshirt, and it was only a few degrease Celsius outside.

I sighed and shook the thoughts of me, and looked to the ground. I looked up again when I heard the door open, and the boys finally came out.

"Look." Finn said. "We´re so awesome even our shoelaces are glowing." I looked to their feet, and smiled when I saw that this was the reason they hadn´t mentioned a word about what I had given them for Christmas. Now they were all wearing black sneakers, with each pair of glowing shoelaces. Burt chuckled, and together we walked towards the park. We would meet up with Tyler and his family there as well, James and Vie were the same age, maybe they could play around a bit if they got along. I was also gonna tell Tyler about the cruise, ask him if he wanted to come.

When we got to the park, I spotted Tyler right away.

"There they are." I said to the others, and ran over to Tyler. Who looked really (faked) sad.

"Hi. What is it Tyler?"

"I´m so sad." He said.

"Oh, why?"

"Because I didn´t get no Christmas kiss, and I haven´t gotten one single kiss after that either. I´m in a state of lack of kisses." I laughed, and kissed Tyler on the mouth fast.

"That´s much better, but…" he leaned down, and held his face really close to mine, I had my arms around his neck. "…I think we can make it even better!" He kissed me again, and this time, none of us let go, until James spoke up.

"Oh, yuk, come on guys, get a room if you wanna snog." I leaned back a bit more, then leaned my head against Tyler´s chest, shaking of laughter.

"Seriously Lex," Tyler said. "Stop laughing," then he started laughing too, I turned around to see what James was doing, and what I saw, well, there was no way to misunderstand it. He was staring at Vie, with a dreaming glance, his mouth was half open, and he was drooling.

"James," Tyler spoke up. "Girls doesn´t like boys who drool." James immediately closed his mouth, and dried his chin with his sleeve- before he stumbled towards Vie, and reached out his hand, Vie took it.

"Hi I´m James." He slurred, and then I could not keep a straight face anymore, I started giggling, Tyler joined in.

"Seriously," Mrs. Benton said. "It´s not funny, you shouldn´t la…"

"AAAH." James had stared at Vie, at the same time as he tried to walk, with the conclusion that he stumbled, and fell. He jumped up again.

"I´m all right," he pulled his shirt. "I´m fine." Now I and Tyler laughed harder than ever. Blaine, Kurt and Finn had joined in, Rebeccah too, even though she tried not to laugh. Now also Burt and Carole, and Mr. and Mrs. Benton also had started giggling, and it ended up with all of us, except Vie and James, standing there and laughing, and laughing… and laughing. Vie and James, as well as the others in the park looked at us with strange glares, as if we were crazy, but it didn´t matter. We could not stop laughing. Finally, when we all stood gasping for breath, there was just a few minutes to midnight.

We all sat down on the ground, Tyler had his arms around me. Blaine and Kurt sat close to each other, as well as Finn and Rebeccah, and Burt and Carole. James and Vie sat next to each other, and James was still staring. Mrs. Benton sat behind me and Tyler, and Mr. Benton in the outcast of the group, and then it started.

"FIVE."

All the people in the park started the countdown.

"FOUR."

We stood up

"THREE"

The shouts grew louder and louder.

"TWO."

So close

"ONE"

Last second of 2016

"HAPPY NEW YEAR."

So, this was the beginning of 2017.

So, that´s the end of this chapter. Hope you liked it, I had loads of fun writing that part about James falling in love with Vie. What did you think of it?