What's Held Within

Exchanges

The smell of pine filled the air. The ground laced with drops of dew. Twas Christmas morning, and all but he children of the town were still asleep.
As the morning went on, parent were forced to wake up and watch as the child gleefully opened packages from a saint of the world and thank him of their new found gifts.

But some people asked themselves a very important question. What do you give to a man who has everything?
Chad was holding a Christmas party for his friends. He wanted to make this an annual thing, so hopefully it goes well. He woke in the late morning to hear that everything was ready, all he needed to do was wrap the gifts for his friends.

They decided to do a secrecy Santa this year. They didn't want anyone to miss out, so everyone was invited. All the gifts were to be unlabelled and one by one, each person would choose a random gift. No need to be angry with one another over a crappy gift. They saw this as the fairest way.

Chad clambered out of bed and began wrapping his gift, a beautiful writing set. With a quill, ink pot and embellished parchment paper made it even more special. The oak box was engraved with a special message. But that was for the recipient to find out.

During this process, Chad floor shaky managed to skip breakfast. So, he moved straight on to lunch. He sat down at the long wooden table and asked Kurt a question. "Kurt, why is this table always so empty?" He asked quizzically. "I couldn't tell you sire, you have friends, you however aren't in a relationship." Kurt replied. "Well, I'm not going to have kids at my age" he laughed in response. "But sometimes, it just feels empty." Sighed Chad. "For now, sire, you have me" smiled Kurt as he let Chad finish his meal.

Chad changed into more comfortable clothing and set up a room for his friends to be seated in. A room full of couches, pillows, tables and presents. Everyone was there; Doc, Guude, Kurt, Nebris, Jsano, Milbee, Pyro, Aureylian, Baj, Beef, Arkas, Adlington, Seth and Sevadus. All dressed casually, sitting around a table, acting like children. This was something Chad had never been aloud before, to be childish in a world full of adults and big responsibility.

Time came for the exchanging of the last gifts. All the gifts were placed on the table as everyone say around it. Names were written on parchment and drawn from a box. "Nebris!" Exclaimed Kurt. Nebris drew a package from the pile and unwrapped it. His gift was safe, something everyone would like. Chocolate chip cookies. A very big box of them too. He began salivating over just how many there were.

"Jeff!" Nebris exclaimed. He drew an odd shaped package from the pile and tore open the wrapping. Inside was a garment. A cloak of sorts. A robe even. A beautiful thing given to a man that needs more down time to use such a thing. "Thanks!" Said Jsano as he read out the next name.
"Pyro!" He said loudly. Pyro shoves his hand into the once mountain and pulled out a small box. Inside was a replica of the emblem of Mindcrack. With a tiny flag also inside. Pyro thanked the anonymous gifted for this one of a kind gift.

Pyro them pulled a name, "Seth!"
Seth took the first gift he saw. A small, flat box. Inside, the box wAs littered with glittery redstone dust. "How fitting" he said sarcastically. He pulled out the present to reveal, an engraved notebook, that said on the front; "You aren't defined by your job, you're defined by being yourself" - The Book of Notch

Seth's name read "Aurey!" She grabbed a hefty box and gnawed into the paper. The present was very appropriate; a cookbook. Something that everyone needed in that room. She laughed and pulled out one of two names. "Chad!" She cried.
Chad pulled out a long tube wrapped in brown paper. The gift seemed odd, but he couldn't tell why. Chad popped open the top and slid out a rose. And a note that read; You are a friend that I could never had wished for. Thank you for being there for me at all times. Love Saint Nick.
This gift seemed out of place to many. But it was perfect in Chad's heart.

There was no need to reveal the last name. So Chad just called out for the recipient, "And last but not least, Sev!" He said as he handed Sevadus the last gift. Sev pulled off the ribbon and carefully removed the paper. Inside was a clock, a clock with special times on it. It was a clock that predicted the weather. He found this to be quite a cool gift. Thanked his gifter and Kurt said a few thankyoua for the opportunity to do this with people they love.

This was the point where it was so late, that people just crashed in the palace's party room. And they slept until the Moroni g would call them to clean up the mess they made. Kurt the clean freak won't be to happy...