Velvet (Stand-Alone-Human)

Bells

Chapter

1

"Holy Bells"

*VELVET*

The sound of the bells kept going off on Asia's new toy. I had a headache. They were the culprit of it, one from the toys, two from the lights still flashing from the stupid tree.

"Mommy, can you open this one?" Alyia asked, handing me another stupid plastic covered contraption. I groaned and grabbed the dull scissors from my daughter's crayon box. I had to keep them in there and beside me because all the trash they accumulated from opening up things late was driving me insane.

Organization screamed towards me!

"Mommy!" Asia stomped her little Christmas bootie on the floor.

"Baby---you guys don't have to open up everything. Leave something for later on this week when you get bored." I suggested.

Both girls looked at me as if I was from another planet. I groaned and took the dull scissors to the hard plastic in attempt to free the doll.

"It won't be Christmas later on this week. Everything has to be out today, momma." Asia, being the more opinionated one, shared.

If I could mock the child, I would but I wasn't in the mood to hearing momma's mouth about how I emotionally abused them.

After I freed the doll with sore fingers...I wondered how the hell plastic scissors can make your fingers hurt so badly, I rushed into the kitchen and saw my phone blinking.

"The hell?" I reached over and grabbed the phone noticing it was Jemma, my best friend.

Jemma and I were aces back in high school. No one bothered us and everyone tried to be our friends. We just hung out a lot until I really started watching out for my ....former. We were like two peas in a pod, dealing with shit as it came but now...we barely talked.

I knew it was that same old thing...she'd call to wish me a happy birthday or Merry Christmas and Happy Thanksgiving. I didn't even read the long, played out "I'm sorry we don't hang out anymore" talk.

Stuffing my phone in my bra, I grabbed some eggs from the fridge, bacon and bread for toast.

"Oh no," I groaned as I opened the box of eggs...there was only one left.

Mom was in the living room, dad was asleep and my sisters were gone. After my interview, I went home only a little while before going back over to my girls. I had packed their gifts up in the car and let them open them later...I just felt it would be nice to let them share Christmas with mom and dad first.

They had so much stuff, you couldn't stir it with a stick! I had to realize thought---grandparents were always going to be the spoilers.

I walked back into the living room and the girls were having a ball tossing some sort of bell back and forward. It bothered me...I spent so much money on their toys only for them to play with an ornament off the tree? Really?

"Girls, I need to go to the store to get some eggs. Stay with Grandma." I told them while grabbing my purse.

"Uh...momma, you going out like that?" Asia's defined brow arched and her little finger sized me up and down.

I looked down at my sleeping pajamas and scoffed at her comment. There was nothing wrong with my clothes.

"I'm fine. No one is out this time of the morning." I glanced at the clock seeing it was before seven in the morning.

"It's not even Christmas anymore!" I yelled out hoping I wouldn't wake up my mother.

They woke up Christmas morning with my mom and dad; this was a new day now.