Angels VS Demons #1

Chapter 24: Christmas Celebration!

"So, you're still sure that you're dad won't mind us being over for Christmas?" Lucas asked. It was day three of the journey back to Leopold's house and only two days till Christmas.

"Yes, it will be fine." Leopold assured. "Plus, I'd like for father to be in as much shock as I will be in!" He laughed and looked over at Mikayla. "So, how do you think this year will be, Mikayla?"

Mikayla shrugged. "More chaos as usual I'd guess..."

"How bad is it usually?" Ivory asked.

Leopold sighed. "Well last year Charlotte had her first drink of alcohol and was out of it the entire day. Same for me the year before... Three years ago father didn't even show up as he got lost in the middle of nowhere!"

Mikayla nodded. "And don't forget our first Christmas with Lemia and Mia..."

Lucas raised an eyebrow and gave a little, faint laugh. "You seem like you have one hell of a family, Leo. But what do you think will cause the problems this year?"

Leopold scratched his head and started off for a minute. "Well there are always plenty of things. Our first Christmas with you two, your new relationship, first year of school, father's new wife, him trying to set me up with Mikayla again..."

Mikayla laughed and gave Leopold a smile. "That does sound like Master John. He sure is an extroverted one..." She was sure right. When it came to Leopold's father, he was absolutely positively nothing like Leopold at all...

"He sounds nice." Ivory commented. "But I still don't know how our meeting will go considering I'm royalty. Won't he be a bit too surprised for my arrival?"

Leopold nervously grinned, knowing she had a point. "He may be a bit surprised for new visitors in the first place, but I'm sure that he'll be fine after a bit. He's had worse surprise visitors in his life time."

"Like what?" Lucas asked.

Leopold narrowed his eyes and thought to himself. "Like a small boy with missing eyes and a rift hand that had been taken completely off... I still don't even know after eight years just why he would adopt me without almost any real reason."  Leopold shook himself and clicked his tongue. "It doesn't really matter. For now I need to worry about the problem at hand..." He looked over at Mikayla and frowned, her nodding back.

"Yes, your father is most likely to pull something again..."

"What does she mean?" Ivory questioned, seeing the two's odd conversation. "Does your father do something that's odd or something?"

"Kind of..." Leopold admitted. "Mikayla, can you explain it to them?"

"Sure." Mikayla cleared her throat and popped her knuckles. "You see, my mother and Leopold's father are trying to... get me and Leo to be forced into marriage. They think we're 'meant to be' and try every year to get us together. Last year they took pictures of us alone and protested that this means were basically a couple..."

"It was extremely embarrassing." Leopold remarked. "I like Mikayla sure, but that was extreme..." He looked over at Mikayla who was blushing a bit and smiled. "They'll probably try something worse this year..."

Ivory and Lucas laughed. "So, you really have that kind of chaos every Christmas?" Lucas asked. "Do you live on a rainbow or something?"

"That sure is crazy..." Ivory agreed. She looked over Leopold's shoulder and clicked her tongue. "Welp, that looks like the city you mentioned, Leopold."

Leopold looked over his shoulder and nodded. The city his house was located in was called Stellarship city. It was a decently sized city and was where Leopold had spent now half of his life. "Home..."  He suddenly felt the tap of Mikayla's arm and looked over at his maid and friend.