Comet || An II Lightbulb AU.

Pre-Christmas special

Lightbulb closed the computer shut and leaned back in her chair, yawning widely. "Well, that's great." She commented sarcastically, stretching her legs. "You've had a long day," OJ agreed. "I bet." Salt agreed too. "Hey, speaking of long days..." OJ remarked What are your plans now?" He asked her. "Well, Christmas is coming up." She smiled giddily. OJ looked up. "We haven't done much yet... I need to go to the forest to cut a tree, And I'm hoping to do that with Paper and The Cherries. Maybe you can gather some people to help you put some decor up around the hotel? You seem to know way more than me about how the decorations work." OJ proposed. "Sounds good to me!" Lightbulb grinned happily.

"All right. Then we'll see you guys later then?" She asked "Definitely. And please, don't burn anything in the house while we're gone." OJ advised. "No promises." Lightbulb shrugged. She watched as OJ left her room, heading upstairs to his room, Probably to talk to Paper. She went to the hall, Called over the others, and went down to the basement. "Okay. Is everyone ready? Let's start gathering the supplies." She instructed. Everyone nodded their heads enthusiastically. "Good. Let's get started."

After a few minutes of planning, everyone gathered near the stairwell to the basement. "We don't need many decorations. Only decorations that we'll need around the house." Baseball said. "We'll need someone to put the lights outside and on the roof. Someone else to set some boxes of ornaments in the windowsills and on the doors so we can hang them without breaking anything." Lightbulb suggested. "And we still need a couple of chairs to sit in the living room. And candles." Salt added. "Do we actually need those things though?" Pepper wondered. "Uh, Yes? It's Christmas! It needs to look pretty!" Apple exclaimed. "But we have, like, a week before Christmas! How can we possibly make a big deal out of all this when-" she tried to say but Apple interrupted her. "Because this isn't just a normal holiday for people. This is full of presents and gifts and Santa and food and SANTA! We have to have some kind of festive atmosphere in the hotel!" Everyone exchanged looks and didn't reply immediately. Eventually, they sighed, giving in to the girl's insistence.

"Great." Lightbulb conceded. "Let's see what we can do." She took a deep breath. "Okay, so we're gonna have to make a list of everything we need. We already have some decorations, but we need some more. There must be some kind of stores nearby that sell stuff like that." She suggested. "Yeah, that sounds perfect! I'm on it!" Apple cheered excitedly, bouncing up and down. The others followed her example, and soon, all four of them were standing at one end of the hallway looking through the list.

Pepper walked up to Lightbulb and pointed to a line item on the list. "How about these, for the Christmas tree and the angel? That'll keep everything organized. And there's also a bunch of other smaller stuff that doesn't necessarily cost money, but would be fun to decorate the house with." She suggested. "I like the idea of using the same color garlands we use at home. It would be fun to have garlands everywhere." OJ smiled. "Yeah And we'll probably need to buy a lot." Lightbulb mused. "Why's that?" Pepper asked curiously.

"Well...it's gonna take us a long time to organize all of this. I think it'll be best if we start planning right away instead of waiting until Christmas Eve. Plus, It'll take a couple of days for any deliverymen to come, so it's best if we start decorating now." Lightbulb replied. Apple nodded enthusiastically in agreement "All right. Well, let's start then." She announced, smiling brightly.

"Alright. Me, Paper, Cocktail Cherry, and Mascara Cherry will go cut down a tree." OJ stated, "Apple, you can stay here, and start getting things ready to decorate this place. I'm sure you'll love it once we start making decorations." He grinned. She smiled wide. "Obviously! I'll get right to it!" She declared, running towards one of the rooms on the first floor of the hotel.

"Cherries, you're coming with me. Let's go find some trees." OJ announced, heading upstairs. Lightbulb made her way upstairs as well but went the opposite way. She called over Apple, Who giddily followed her. They had started to leave show grounds, with the rule that they had to be back in the boundaries within 7 hours. They headed downstairs and out of the hotel, making their way through the dirt road leading toward the nearby town. The two girls chatted as they walked.