Well my dear readers, I'm back with a new chapter, truth be told, I originally thought about writing a "sequel story" about Jade and Tori's first X-Mas as family but after some thinking, I decided to turn this whole thing into a mini saga where our favorite Vic women spend their first holidays as a married couple.
That being said, in here we'll see Jade and Tori getting their first Christmas tree as wife and wife, do enjoy reading as I had a lot of fun writing this because like in Halloween, you're in for quite the unexpected Jori surprise.
"Come on Jade!" Tori said cheerfully, excitedly clapping her hands as she got out of their car. "We don't want to miss our change getting a good Christmas tree!"
"Vega." The thespian yawned, getting out of the driving seat. "First of all, its eight in the freaking morning, most normal people are asleep by this time, second of all its November! Why the hell are we buying a tree now when we still got time?"
"Because the sooner we buy one, the longer we'll have it in our living room." Her wife squealed. "And let's not forget, this is our first tree we're getting together!"
"The hell are you talking about?" Jade snapped. "We gotten plenty of Christmas trees since we been in college!"
"Yes, artificial ones!" Tori replied. "And as girlfriends, bit this! THIS is our first Christmas as THE Mrs. And Mrs. West!"
"And it will be our last if you don't stop being cheery before I had my first cup of coffee." Jade grunted. "Just what did I marry into?"
"You can be a gank all you want baby, but you're not going to ruin my Christmas cheer." Tori grinned. "Its my favorite time of the year and the fact that I'm spending it with my wife makes it all the better!"
"It's November." Jade snapped. "Christmas it's still weeks away!"
"Tell you what." The Latina said mischievously. "If we find a tree, one that we both like and we enjoy decorating once we take it home, then you'll get twelve days of Christmas where you'll get a kissable present from me every time we come by the tree."
"I almost interested."
"Almost?"
"I'm too damn sleepy Vega."
"Well how about we get you some coffee after we get our tree and then you'll know what else I have planned for us."
"You had me at coffee."
Tori grabbed Jade's hand as she pulled her into the lot, determined to find the perfect tree for their first Christmas as a married couple.
That was the plan anyway.
"Its closed?!" Tori asked annoyed. "How can this be?!"
"Well Vega." Jade yawned. "The place doesn't open till noon and it's only eight, so let's go back home, sleep some more and then we can come back at a more reasonable hour."
The pale woman was about to get back to their car had she not heard her wife say some very colorful things in Spanish, so she turned around, her eyes widened in shock, the sleepiness gone in a matter of seconds.
"VEGA!" Jade bellowed. "What do you think you're doing?!"
"I'm not waiting for this place to open up!" Tori snapped, climbing up the fence. "We came here to pick up a Christmas tree and that's what we're going to do!"
"You do realize this is breaking and entering, right?!"
"Only technically." She shrugged.
"ONLY TECHNICALLY?!"
"Yup." Tori said she jumped on the other side of the fence. "We're not stealing anything, just browsing around."
She began to walk away.
"Vega get back here!" Jade ordered. "Vega!"
But Tori didn't listen, she simply was in a winter wonderland, marveling at all the pine trees, having a happiness overload.
"My God." Jade said. "I really am a bad influence on my wife."
She then went after her, determined to get them out before they got into trouble.
"First Tori makes a graveyard out of pumpkins and now she illegally looking around Christmas trees." Jade thought. "My wife is nuts… Which makes he want her even more."
After she climbed and jumped the fence, the former Goth went in search of her spouse who somehow seemed to have disappeared somewhere in the man-made pine tree forest.
"Vega!" Jade semi-shouts. "Whenever you are, get out of your hiding place so we can leave! I'm not about to explain to your dad why his daughter got arrested to close to Christmas! That's something he would expect from Trina's shenanigans! Not you!"
"It's the most wonderful time of the year!" Tori began to sing, which of course frustrated her wife who slaps her forehead in frustration.
"Should have known that this time of the year it would've make my wife go into cheerful overdrive, even Cat wasn't this happy." Jade groaned. "What did I marry into?"
Using the singing as a means to find the Latina, the pale woman kept walking the moment Tori's wife became louder only to hear it far away the next moment, it was like a twisted game of hide and seek, only the moment she found her wife, Jade was going to put her belt around Tori's writs and drag her out before the cops came and cuffed them both.
Which of course would mean a very unpleasant talk with her father-in-law.
"If that happens, so help me Vega, I'm going to kill you!" Jade thought. "After the holidays that is."
The thespian kept walking back and forth, hearing Tori singing just about any Christmas song she knew, not once did she stopped to look at the trees, while she was certain that her wife was doing just that, Jade assumed Tori sang once she found a pine tree she particularly liked but wasn't sure, all she knew was that next year, they were definitely getting an artificial tree, just to avoid this madness.
"Tori… Oh Tori." Jade whispered in a sing-sang tone as she kept walking through the pine trees. "I know you're here somewhere… Here Vega, Vega, Vega… Let's go before anyone sees us and I get an overwhelming urge to chop down every damn tree I see!"
"I found it! Tori shouts excitedly, doing a little dance as she continued to say. "I found it! I found it! I found it!"
"And I found you!" The thespian bellowed getting out of the pine trees "AHA! VEGA! You got no place to run now!"
"Jade! Come here and look at this!" The Latina said cheerfully, not noticing the murder in her spouse's blue-green eyes, she instead grabbed Jade's hands and dragged her towards the object of her sudden glee.
"Look at it Jade!" Tori squealed. "Isn't it wonderful?"
"It's a pine tree." The former Goth said unimpressed. "After going around in this forest hell looking for you, I'm just about damn ready to burn this place down!"
"And that's the reason you're on Santa's naughty list."
"Newsflash Vega, I been on the naughty list since I was a newborn."
"I believe you." Tori chuckled. "You were a cute baby tough."
"My dad just had to show you my baby pictures. Jade groaned. "You're never going to let me live it down when I was in a ballerina bathing suit, are you?"
"Nope." Tori said cheekily. "It's nice to see a time when my dear wife was so innocent looking, I love that picture just as much as the one your mom took when you were like seven and wanted to see Santa but you felled asleep on the couch… It makes me feel so nostalgic, I remember doing that too, oh there's just something about Christmas that makes me feel like a little girl again."
"Before you start going down memory lane Vega, I gotta make one thing clear… I wasn't waiting for Santa."
"You weren't?"
"Of course not!" Jade snapped. "That fat judgmental bastard had me on the naughty list since I was born… I was actually waiting up to see Krampus."
"Who?"
"You know how Santa brings presents for all the good little boys and girls right?"
"Yeah?"
"Well Krampus is the opposite." Jade explained. "He's like some kind of goat demon thing that punishes little children who misbehave all year round, I thought meeting the guy would have been cool and I could capture him and teach Krampus that no one was naughtier than me and he couldn't do squat about it!"
"You're kidding."
"I figured, hey, I'm already in the naughty list." She shrugged. "What's Santa going to do to me if I trap Krampus? Plus, imagine having captured the dark side of Christmas? How cool would that have been?"
"Only you would wait up to see a demon goat thing instead of Jolly ol' Saint Nick on Christmas night."
"What can I say?" Jade smiled evilly, sighing in nostalgia afterwards. "We all had our Christmas traditions, mine just happened to be less normal than most, I remember once I tried to use a sack and hang him to the ceiling to capture him but I kinda trapped my dad instead and I might have let him up there all night as payback for calling my dream of being an actress, stupid."
"Now I know why you two never saw eye to eye." Tori said. "But not all Christmases' were terrible, right?"
"My best Christmas times were usually the ones I spent with you, Vega."
"Aww, that's so sweet but also very sad."
"Sad?"
"This is a time to spend with family, baby." Tori explained. "I don't like hearing that you never had one good Christmas growing up."
"What can I tell you Tor?" Jade shrugged. "What's done is done, you can't change the past but at least now I'll never have a crappy Christmas ever again with you by my side, I know you'll never be one let this time of year go to waste."
"You're right." Tori grinned. "And our first order of business is getting our Christmas tree! Just look at it! Isn't is a beauty?"
"Gotta tell you baby." Jade said with a raised eyebrow. "This isn't what I expected."
"Oh? What were you expecting?"
"I don't know… Something big I guess?" She shrugged. "remember that when I spend Christmas with your folks, you always had a huge ass pine tree in your living room."
"Yeah, because Trina always screeched for a humongous one." Tori replied. "So, it was either that or we would've spent till February hearing her complain about how our tree was puny compared to all the other ones that we could have bought, and I wasn't about to get on the naughty list for murdering my sister on Christmas eve."
"So, this is the first time you're picking out a tree, you want then?"
"Yup." She nodded. "Just look at it Jade, its not big but its not small either, it's the perfect size for our living room and just imagine decorating it, the lights, the jingle bells and no artificial snow that gets on anyone's face!"
The thespian closed her eyes and was actually beginning to picture the whole thing, now the two of them would decorate their tree the way both of them always wanted, how at the end of it, they would put the gifts they bought for the other and most importantly, how Tori would most likely take photo after photo of their first Christmas… Just the two of them.
"Vega?"
"Yeah?"
"Is this why you dragged me here so early?" Jade questioned. "You wanted to have your say in the what tree you wanted?"
"That's part of it." Tori admitted. "But honestly? I made it my mission to give you a Merry Christmas, you always been a Grinch around this time of the year and I now I know why… People aren't born angry, that's usually because some crap that's been sent their way but no one should feel hate every minute of every day."
"You're rambling Vega."
"I just thought that if I started our own little Christmas traditions then I could give you a reason to look forward to the holidays, and I'd be able to see you smile a little more… I would get to see you happy and Jade? You more than anyone deserve to be happy."
"That pretty corny." Jade said. "But what else can I expect from my big dorky wife." She gave Tori a kiss afterwards. "And I wouldn't want you any other way."
"And I wouldn't want you to be anything but my scary wife."
"For the record Vega, as mushy as this may sound, you're the reason why I'm happy."
"Aww, Jade." The Latina cooed, resting her head on the Thespian's shoulder. "That's so sweet."
"Only you will get to see that sweetness." Jade said evenly. "No one else."
"Whatever you say baby," Tori replied coyly. "So, can we get this tree?"
"First we gotta wait till the lot opens in about… Two hours."
"Aw nuts!"
"Hey, I told you we should have gone back to bed!" The pale woman said. "Then the hours would have just gone by!"
"You're just saying that because you were hoping to get some before coming back."
"You can't deny, that's still a good way to make time fly by."
"I'll give you that."
"So?... You wanna?"
"And let anyone else get our tree?" Tori asked incredulously. "Over my dead body!"
"I'm beginning to hate pine tree." Jade thought annoyed. "They're getting in the way of my Tori loving time."
When it was time to actually decorate the tree, Jade and Tori had a blast as they both put ornaments, they always wanted to put but were never able because their families never allowed them to.
Tori put a few musical notes on the tree while Jade predictably put some scary ornaments to show the "dark side of X-Mas" at first, they fought over that but eventually both women agreed that the upper half of the tree they would put the traditional ornaments like the lights, cherry on top and dark on the bottom, jingle bells, scissors ornaments and so on.
All that was left was to lighten up the tree.
"Ready Jade?"
"Just plugged it in Vega."
"Here we go!"
And their very special pine tree was ready for them to see as the lights were on, the bells were glittering, the scissors clean enough to see their reflection and the presents were put neatly under the tree.
"I hate to admit it Vega." Jade said. "But I actually had fun decorating the tree."
"Glad to hear it baby."
"Better than actually searching for the damn thing."
"You're never going to let me live it down that I went a little overboard searching for our tree, are you?"
"A little overboard?" Jade retorted. "Buying a turkey and cooking it just for us was a little overboard, you technically broke the law! Imagine what your dad would say if he ever found out his little girl was responsible for breaking and entering!"
"Which is why, it will be our little secret."
"Don't worry, it will be."
"Good."
"You earned your place on the naughty list after that little stunt."
"JADE!"
Tori sure isn't having the best time with the holidays, on Halloween she made a Pumpkin grave yard, on Christmas she went on an unexpected level in search of a pine tree while but she technically succeeded in her mission as he is giving Jade unique happy memories they won't soon forget, XD.
What did you guys think? Honestly, I'm not at all satisfied with this X-Mas Jori time but I was on a deadline and I did want to post something… The bit about Krampus? I just thought it would be kinda funny if instead of Santa, Jade stayed up hoping to get a glimpse of the guy who punishes bad children.
Now, hopefully I can get something done for New Year's, if not then Valentine's Day will be the next chapter of the Jori Holidays!
Invader Johnny Signing Off.