August 4th

10: Very Merry

November closed with a frost and a chill. December opened with the lightest of snows on the ground. A pleasant sight for any day of the week.
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Beep Beep Beep

Dean's alarm was going off for school at the same time it did every morning, 6:30. The alarm wasn't too loud but it was soft enough not to even remotely wake Dean up.

Sam woke up and fixed his long hair with a single clean motion and got the stuff off the bed before it fell off. He walked over to where the alarm was and stopped it then went to where Dean was still sleeping.

"C'mon, Dean. We still have school." Sam said kinda loud so Dean would hear him and he shook his shoulder to try to wake him up.

"Morning, Sammy." Dean grumbled in response. Sam was getting ready and Dean went downstairs. He usually did before Sam. Even on Mondays.

They finished getting ready and Dean drove them to school after they picked Jimmy up. Jimmy didn't particularly like driving but then again he didn't hate it he just preferred that Dean drove him and don't even get them started on buses.

That's how it was until Christmas.

They still hung out and everything but Christmas usually changed something for a little bit. Jimmy and Dean usually got each other little things but this was the first year Jimmy and Dean were going to have a proper Christmas and of course Mrs. Novak invited Sam and Bobby (she also knew that if Sam came so did Gabriel).

Sam said that he was going to come and Bobby's exact words were "Ah, what the hell?"
But of course school came first and sure enough it took what felt like forever to get through to Dean at least. It passed with all the happy people in the hall because of Christmas and this made Dean a little less in the festive mood but he would never ever turn down a party with Jimmy.

The week off they have from school Mrs. Novak specifically told Bobby and the boys to stay home and not to come over at least until Christmas Eve evening and she also told them that they didn't have to being gifts if they didn't want to.

So around 7:00, after supper, the boys did come over and Gabriel was already there. Based on how much of his candy cane was gone Dean would say that he has been here for about 10 minutes.

"Hi, Gabe." Sam said with a smile and Gabriel responded and they got talking. Bobby was taking to Jimmy's parents. Dean got the joy of bringing in all the gifts in and Jimmy came to help him but Dean denied his help. Jimmy told him that he could put all the gifts in his room for later. It didn't take too long but after 3 trips up and down the same flight of stairs Dean noticed one thing that he knew about but never actually seen in real life- mistletoe.

After Dean was done he went into the living room and he thought that he had never seen so many decorations all in one place in his life at the same time that actually looked good. Even the air was good. It smelled like cinnamon, peppermint, pine, and maybe a hint of cookies. But the smell of pine had to be coming from the huge tree in the room. Not only was the scent of the tree good the tree also looked good. It had so many ornaments on it, there were twinkling lights strung around its green limbs, the skirt was a beautiful match, and the topper was a shining star. 

There was tinsel everywhere that looked good. Like on the mantle above the fireplace, which had a fire aglow in it, most doorways in the house and so many other places. There were also candles lit around the house. The whole atmosphere was just so comforting that it made Dean happy.

Dean noticed that there was Christmas music playing, he didn't know what song but he knew it was a Christmas song. He could mainly tell because there was a heavy beat of jingle bells
Gabriel was on the couch with his feet on Sam and he didn't seem bothered by it, Bobby was in an overstuffed chair reading the newspaper while Jimmy's parents, who were sitting in two other chairs talking.