Le challenge rules:
I shall put my music library on shuffle and pair her top 10 ships with the first 10 songs. Each ship gets a story related to the song with decreasing times: ship #1 gets 10 min., ship #2 gets 9 min., ship #3 gets 8 min., etc. So ship #10 is a hot mess 1 min. panic attack.
And you don't HAVE to listen to the song first...but you might want to. And author's notes are bolded.
4. PamxJim (The Office) – "The Holly and the Ivy" by Christmas Carol – 7 min. timer
Umm how do I say who this is by, it's just a Christmas carol from some random CD of miscellaneous Christmas music, lol, there's no artist to be known.
"Phyllis took down my decorations." Pam sighed and looked dejectedly at her desk. "I guess maybe I should have just painted something. But I thought literally decking the halls with boughs of holly would be nice."
"It was nice!" Jim quickly agreed. "That's probably why she took it down. She was just jealous of your absolute supreme decorating ability."
"Hmph."
"Something to add, Angela?" he asked, annoyed.
"That's not why she took them down. It's because she hates anything that could be construed as Christian."
"But-" Pam looked confused. "-it's just a plant."
"Red berry for blood. Prickle for thorns. Remember last year? She shoved Jesus in a drawer."
"And why shouldn't I?" Phyllis suddenly announced from behind, making them all jump. "My pastor father made me give my baby away because he couldn't handle the scandal."
Then, in a completely uncharacteristic move, Angela hugged her."I'm getting you an Ancestry DNA kit for Christmas. And a study Bible. I'm going to help you find your child and Jesus."
Phyllis burst into tears, and Pam got teary-eyed too, and Jim looked up and noticed that there was one piece of greenery that hadn't been taken down.
"Mistletoe?" he asked, arching an eyebrow.
THAT GOT CRACKIER WITH EVERY SENTENCE. But I lowkey loved it, lol, I forgot how mad I was at Phyllis for shoving Jesus in a drawer and how sad I was that they totally dropped the missing baby plotline. And then towards the end I remembered that this was supposed to be PamxJim, oops, lol. Also, I definitely have never looked up the lyrics to this song, but they're full of nice, Jesus-y imagery. (Okay, update) I wikipediaed it, and it says in some Where Are They Now thing that she tracked down her daughter, and she and her husband moved to be by her, hooray! It also says that she's Lutheran, so, you know what, maybe everything I know is a lie. But she definitely shoved Jesus in a drawer, I remember that. Though I also wrote "Meredith" instead of "Phyllis" while I was writing this, so maybe I remember nothing.
