Surrogate (Unfinished and Abandoned)

part 9

Freed's POV
Mira smiled as she opened the door for us. "Merry Christmas Eve!"

We were the first ones at her house, and I was glad because it was nice to spend time alone with Mira.

"So, how's it goin'?" Laxus asked Mira tiredly. Mira grinned brightly.

"I'm so excited!" she pointed to the tree in the corner of the room. "Can't wait 'till the others get here, and I can't wait 'till you guys see the presents I got you!"

I made a face at Laxus, making him suppress a laugh. I sure wish we didn't burn our tree, I thought. But in reality, the small Christmas we had planned was kinda pathetic. Plus, we should spend Christmas together with the woman carrying our child, right?

On cue, the guests mentioned knocked on the door. "I'll get it!" I offered, running up to answer the door. I hoped that the people at the door at least included Bixslow. Unfortunately, when I opened the door, Evergreen was standing there. Not that I had anything against her, she was one of my best friends, but she had been acting a bit weird lately.

"Hi!" I greeted. Elfman followed Evergreen closely behind.

I sat down next to Laxus again, Elfman and Evergreen on the couch opposite. We sat there awkwardly until Mira shot up in her chair, startling all of us. She went into the small kitchen before reappearing with some chips and guacamole.

"When the others get here, we're gonna play truth or dare!" Mira exclaimed. I heard Laxus groan loudly beside me and Mira smirked.

"Mira! Remember what happened last time?" Laxus yelled. Evergreen started laughing hysterically from across the room.

"That wasn't Mira's fault! You were so drunk!" She said through giggles. I was confused but everyone else in the room seemed to know what they were referencing. Laxus hid his face in his hands, but it was noticeably red.

"Guys, can we not--"

"Remember, that was when Natsu and Lucy--" Elfman cut himself off with laughter.

"Ummm..." I interrupted the laughter and Laxus put a hand on my shoulder.

"You don't need to know," he replied.

But Evergreen explained it to me anyway. "So, we were at this party with Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Juvia, Erza, Jellal, Gajeel and Levy. Oh, and Bixslow and Lisanna of course. And Mira forced us to play truth or dare. I guess you were gone that day or something, I'm not really sure. And... things happened."

I frowned.

"Okay, okay. So... Laxus may or may not have come out to us that day." My mind exploded. "But not really directly. So... Natsu got a dare to kiss someone in the room, and was about to kiss Lucy when Laxus shoved her out of the way. Gray began to shout 'gaaay' repeatedly when Laxus, who was very drunk at the time, shouted 'well that's not a problem for me'. Then he passed out on the couch but we heard a lot of mumbling. Mira always swore that he was mumbling about you."

I was blushing, but not nearly as much as Laxus. I laughed and grinned. "Aren't you glad I got you to stop drinking?" I chuckled, stealing a small kiss on the cheek. He tried to keep his frown, but the corners of his mouth curved upwards slightly, suppressing a smile.

Suddenly we heard 'ding dong' and Mira ran up to get the door. We all silently agreed that no matter how much Mira begged, we wouldn't play truth or dare.

We ended up playing charades, and as always, I made a fool of myself. Laxus was laughing the entire time, not being at all serious about the game, and of course we lost. Elfman and Evergreen won, they got really into the game and Evergreen yelled at Elfman the whole time.

After that we are dinner, Mira had made us salmon.

I thanked her a lot before we all went to bed, Bixslow and Lisanna in the small spare room, and me and Laxus stuck with Elfman and Evergreen in the living room.

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Laxus' POV

I woke up first. Smirking from my place on the floor (apparently Freed had kicked me off the couch in the middle of the night), I slowly sat up. Freed's usually neat green hair was tangled from sleep, his cowlicks sticking in strange directions. One leg was on the floor, one rested on the armrest of the couch. The small blanket on top of him was slipping off, and I moved it to the side before kneeling besides Freed's sleeping body on the couch.

"Hey, wake up, sleeping beauty." I whispered in my most sarcastic voice. My lips gently kissed his forehead and his eyes slowly fluttered open.

"Err. Five more minutes." He mumbled.

"No. It's already 9:00 and it's Christmas."

"Oh yeah," he mumbled, still not waking up. Suddenly I got a great idea. Knowing right where he was ticklish, I crawled around to the side if the couch to tickle his feet. He shot up straight, pulling in his feet.

"Hey.." I chuckled, reaching forward to tickle them again. He laughed and pulled his legs up to his chest, sticking out his tongue. I migrated to the couch, where I attempted to move my tickling to his armpits, but he stopped me with a kiss on the lips. Grinning through the kiss, he shot out his tongue. I accepted his tongue, and moved my hands to his waist, his on my shoulders.

"Hey, you two, get a room." I heard a familiar voice call from across the room. I pulled away, and looked toward the voice, who happened to be Evergreen.

"Shut up," I muttered and she laughed, very loudly, and I was surprised she didn't wake Elfman up, or anyone else for that matter.

"Merry Christmas," she said cheerily, a bit sarcasm soaking her words.

Freed gave me a look, and I nodded. We both grinned, lunging at Evergreen as she screamed.

Freed went for the stomach and I went for the armpits. She laughed uncontrollably until not only was everyone up, but Mira was in devil mode. More like double-devil mode, it had increased a bit since she had gotten pregnant. Freed gulped beside me as Mira grabbed us both and set us on the couch beside her, one of us on each side.

"Don't interrupt my sleep again," she growled before returning to her normal self. "Time to open presents!" She smiled, then flashed me an evil look then smiled again.

"Merry Christmas everyone!"

A/N Wow sorry for the late update (I know it's not very late but I kinda promised myself I would post every Monday and now it's Thursday...) but I have been freaking out over school a bit. It's fine now and I'm glad to get this chapter done. I've also had a bit of writer's block lately so hopefully I can get back in my schedule and post another chapter before Monday!