semi-automatic ; j.d

eleven ; the christmas tree crisis

"our apartment looks so shitty," said jenna as her and mia each lay on a couch in the living room, sprawled out lazily like always on friday nights.

mia nods her head in agreement and glances around their apartment. it's almost the end of december and they literally don't have anything festive up. for the two years that they've lived together they've always decorated the place super cute for the holidays, but this year they're both too bummed to really do anything besides lay around and watch christmas movies while consuming unhealthy amounts of sugar cookies and puertorican eggnog, which is basically just a mix of eggnog and rum, so there's that.

"we don't even have a fucking tree," jenna continues, making a hand gesture towards the empty corner of the living room.

mia sighs a bit and puts another one of the cookies they spent hours baking into her mouth. "god. we're so pathetic."

the blonde girl sits up an looks over at her brunette best friend with determination on her face. "i think we should go get a tree."

"right now?" asks mia incredulously.

jenna nods. "right now."

"like a real tree, or a fake one?"

"we are not getting a fake tree," says jenna, like a fake tree is the worst idea she's ever heard. "there's a tree farm like fifteen minutes from here, remember we wanted to go last year but never did? let's go there!"

"ugh, jenna," mia groans in complain. "you choose today of all days to wanna do this? today is my lazy day."

"everyday is your lazy day."

"this is true."

"okay, c'mon, let's get ready and then we can get a tree and decorate it so that our apartment doesn't look like it belongs to two girls that are depressed over missing guys," jenna gets up from the couch and yanks on mia's arm to get her up, too. about half an hour later they're on the road to the christmas tree farm.

"JENNA PUT DOWN THE SAW!" mia yells as her best friend grabs a huge fucking saw for them to cut down the tree they chose. she knows that she's no way in hell that tiny little jenna is gonna be able to cut the tree.

the blonde girl grins, "we can do it, c'mon!"

"you're fucking psycho," states mia. she rubs her glove covered hands together in an attempt to keep them warm. "let's just ask one of the people that work here to do it."

jenna puts down the saw with a disappointed huff and then nods reluctantly. "you suck," she says and then goes over ask for help.

about an hour later they're driving back to the apartment complex with a huge ass christmas tree strapped to jenna's car, and a container of fresh donuts and two hot chocolates.

"are you coming with me on thursday?" asks the blonde as she drives.

mia's forgotten all about the fact that it's currently monday, and on thursday jenna is driving out to be with tyler for the last couple shows of the tour. their last show is the following monday, which is christmas eve.

she sighs a bit under her breath, "i'm not sure yet, i have to see what work's like and what essays i have due."

"oh, right," jenna nods a little bit. "well i hope you can."

"me too," mia says and takes another sip from her hot chocolate. she can't believe that it's already almost christmas and she'll be (hopefully) seeing josh soon.

unlocking her phone, she sees that he's sent her a text.

yoshua💕 : miss you