This Christmas

Chapter 1, It's Time

Christmas. A time of cheer. A time of love. A time of laughter. But most importantly, a time of STRESS.

We all know that Christmas is stressful, but this year, in my house...it's worse. My name is Arysin (Ary) for short, I'm 24 and i just got a call from my boyfriend, who lives in Scotland (I live in England). He is coming to England for the holidays and he is going to spend his Christmas with me and my wonderful parents. They have only met twice before...so this is still going to be new to him and me.

Christmas needs to be extra perfect for him this year, there must be absolutely NO under-cooked pudding, NO embarrassing stories about me when i was 3 years old, NO Christmas trees falling over and burning half of the living room and most importantly NO embarrassing parents!

I live on my own, in my apartment, but it is a tradition to spend Christmas eve and Christmas day with my parents. My parents always have some ways to mess things up. Chicken instead of turkey, vanilla stead of chocolate. But this year, there is no room for error, everything must be right, because i want my boyfriend to enjoy his time here and to see that we are a perfectly normal family.

*RING RING RING*

I answer my phone, "hello."

"Hey babe!" Its William, my boyfriend.

"Will, whats ups?"

"I have a surprise..."

"What...your making me anxious..."

"I'm at the airport, getting onto my flight!"

"WHAT!" Y-your...early", oh no....

"Yeah, i wanted to surprise you!"

"Oh, okay..."

"Babe, are you okay, your seem, worried..."

"Oh...its nothing, just thinking about something important, talk to you later, okay, bye!"

"Bye."

OMG. He is coming early! I haven't even decorated my house, didn't put up a Christmas tree yet...damn now what? Okay, his flight is 15 hours, its 4 pm here, so he should arrive around 7 am tomorrow...damn no! I need to get decorating. I need to finish before dinner which is at 6.30 pm, so i have around 2 hours to get ready...its time.