In The Spirit Of Christmas #Wattys2016

DEC 23rd

Kaylee was walking down the highway crying. All these years… Nobody told her! How did this happen? Everything she knew, everything she loved gone in a minute. She was alone, no phone, no money, no one to call and nowhere to stay.

----------- Much earlier that day-----------

Kaylee woke up feeling much better than the day before. She was not over Seun yet! Oh no she wasn’t! But she was determined to try and move on with her life. Christmas was two days away and she wanted to enjoy every bit of it.

She rolled over on the bed and checked her phone before she got out of bed. She had about five missed calls and two text messages which she deleted without reading them.
Kaylee got down on her knees and prayed a little bit longer than usual. She felt like today was going to be a good day, bright and a good time to spend with family. She skipped downstairs and walked into the kitchen, to find Dapo and Florence having breakfast just like the day before.

“Someone is happy today” Dapo rested his head on his palm and smiled at Kaylee. "Tell me, is the Doctor coming today?”

Kaylee rolled her eyes. “No he is not. Must everything be about the Doctor?”

“Ow yes!” Dapo teased and went back to his breakfast.
Once breakfast was over and Kaylee washed the dishes and put them away, she joined Florence and Dapo in the sitting room for a movie.  It was late evening, when the fourth film they watched was over, that Florence announced that she wanted to decorate the Christmas tree and asked Kaylee to join her.
Dapo looked hurt as Kaylee rose to her feet, to help Florence with the Christmas decorations. It was something he and Florence did every year, decorating the tree together and then eating cupcakes with a cup of tea afterwards.

The two sister caught up on old memories as they decorated happily and hung several Christmas balls on the tree.

“Remember when mum insisted we all went for a Christmas carol and dad said he was not going?” Kaylee said laughing.

“Oh Yes. I do!” Florence joined Kaylee in laughing “Claire said if dad wasn’t going, she wasn’t going to go.”

“And you joined her, leaving me to go with mum.” Kaylee frowned at Florence. “I swear it was the worst carol ever! Mum made me sing 'joy to the world' in front of everyone! I was embarrassed.”

“Oh yes! I still have the video clip on my laptop.” Florence laughed harder.

“There was a video clip?” Kaylee screamed.

“Oh Oh!” Florence said giggling “you were not supposed to find out! Ever!”

“How come?”

“Mum videoed it. She was really excited to see you up there, you know.” Florence stuck her tongue out at Kaylee and threw one of the Christmas balls at Kaylee.

Kaylee retaliated by throwing the Christmas angel at Florence.
“Common not the angel.” Florence whined and picked up the final decoration of the tree.

“Could I be of help girls?” Dapo asked from behind Florence.

“Ladies Dapo.” Kaylee corrected as she hung another decoration on the tree.
Dapo raised his hands in surrender “I stand corrected” he laughed. “So?”

“No thank you, but we’ve got this.” Florence said with a monotone voice.

“Oh! I just thought we could decorate again this year, it use to be our thing you know?”

“Yeah! Emphasis on ‘Use to be’ Dapo. Thank you but Kaylee and I got this one.”

“I think we would need his help in hanging the Christmas Angel” Kaylee chirped.