The Mandela Catalogue

Christmas

Michael bursts in.
"MERRY FUCKING CHRISTMAS." he yells.
Me and Fox jump awake.
"MICHAEL I SWEAR TO GOD." Fox yells.
"HAH LOSER, no seriously we have been waiting. It's 11:30." he says, he walks out.
I get up and get dressed into some comfortable clothing, Fox does the same.

We go into the living room,
"who's going first?" Michael asks
"we'll I thought we'd do it at the same time." I say.
"but I wanna see your guys reactions!" Michael says.
"OK, who's going first then?" I ask.
"Jackie." Michael says.
"OK then." I say.
Jackie opens they're presents.
"thank you!" they say.
It was Fox's turn next.
He picks up the onesie and goes into the bathroom.
He comes back wearing it, he hugs me and sits back down.
He thanks the others as well.
"who's next?" I ask.
"you." Michael says.
"me?" I ask.

"yeah! Go on!" he says.
I get the one from Fox and open it up, inside was a cardboard box. I open it up to see a bunch of bubble wrap.
"where are you going with this?" I ask.
"keep going." Fox says.
I put my hand in and feel two things, I pull out one to see a picture frame, I look at the picture inside to see a little photo of Pepper and us. I pull out the other thing and it's a statue of a crow.
I smile.
"thank you." I say.
I get the one from Michael and open it up.
"this is from both me and Jackie." he says.

Inside was a Crow onesie.
"Fox we can be twins." I say.
"but that's a crow, I'm a Fox!" he says.
"I don't know!".
I go into my room and put I on, it is very comfortable.
I come back and sit down.
"right who is next?" I ask.
"wait." Twig says.
"I have something you can put in the frame with the photo." he says.
He takes my hand and holds it out.
He puts a black feather in my hand.
"it's one of Peppers." he says.
"thank you." I say, I put the feather in the picture frame.
Michael opens his presents and thanks us.

"does anyone want tea?" Twig asks.
"wait, we're not done." Michael says.
"hasn't everyone opened their presents?" he asks.
"not you?" I say.
"oh, I didn't think I was involved." he says.
"why wouldn't you be involved, your one of us now!" I say.
"sit." Michael says.
Twig sits on the sofa next to Michael.
"this is from all of us." he says passing Twig a nicely wrapped present.
He opens it up and his eyes widen.
He picks up a picture frame.
I come behind him to see the photo.
It was a group photo of all of us including Twig who was in the middle, we were stood Infront of the ocean back from when we went to my mums place.

"thank you." he says.
"no problem!" Michael says.
"i- I do not know what I would do without you." he says.
Michael hugs Twig.
We all hug Twig.
"oh-" he says, alarmed.
"Merry Christmas Twig." I say.
He smiles warmly.

(I tried to post this yesterday but my WiFi was acting up)