Give Me Love

Chapter 7

Lisa was so happy to see Juan.

For his part, Juan was happy to see Lisa. But boy was he not happy to see her brothers.

"Leave that baby alone!" Marcy shook her finger at Mal.

Mal growled. "He can be alone in pieces!"

"Stop it!" Mercedes poked Mike's arm hard.

Mike gritted his teeth.

"Marc, you are too old to be hurting a small child!" Laura fussed.

Marc waved her away.

Quinn was exasperated by all of her brothers.

Maddie thought it was funny because she'd had to deal with this her whole life. Now they were leaving Stevie alone to run off Juan.

The kids looked between their parents wondering how this would play out.

Ellen couldn't believe the boys. They were acting like such cavemen. "Why can't you guys just be nice to Juan?"

Mal gasped.

"You better leave him alone or you gets to touch nothin!" Marcy threatened.

"I already can't touch anything."

"When I'm cleared!"

He gasped again. "You can't do that!"

"Watch me!"

"Elle-?!"

Ellen agreed. "You will be cut off."

"You, too Mikey!" Mercedes wasn't playing with him.

Mike's jaw dropped.

Marc turned to Laura. "Babe,-!"

"I can abstain." Laura raised a brow.

The trio was very put out.

"Now let's bake." Marcy glared at her husband before walking to the kitchen.

M&MC

Despite all the drama, everyone had fun baking different treats and making different drinks.

Now it was time to decorate the main tree. Bartana, Karnia, Pade and Clam came over with Natalia and her fiancé, Leonardo and his friend for London and, of course, London. It took about ten minutes more before the Stone family showed up.

A Christmas movie showed on the television in the formal living room where the main tree was erected. Christmas music played in the background as everyone tried to group together to knock out the steps to decorating.

Marcy liked one look for the main tree so after all this time, they knew what to do. It was now a matter of actually doing it.

The men strung cranberries and popcorn on red and green thread to give it a pop of color then the women chose ornaments to put on the tree. It was a fight every year because Marcy didn't allow more than fifteen, even though the tree was huge.

The kids got to choose what color of (non-peppermint) candy canes were going on the tree. Marcy polished the bowed bells that would be going on while Artie untangled the clear lights.

Luckily the rest of the house was already decorated. Since they had a villa now, a professional crew did most of the inside and all of the outside. The kids did their own rooms while the thruple did their own as well.

Lucia had been surprised when Marcy offered her, her choice of decorations for her rooms.

So it all came down to the tree.