The Technicolor Phase

Part 10- Merry Christmas!

[Adam's POV]

It was Christmas day. Over the past few weeks I've been getting better, I have been talking to Anna more. I have a scar on my right side from where I cut myself. The Christmas tree was up and decorated, me and Anna made cookies. We had breakfast and hot chocolate then we went to sit in the living room. I opened my Christmas gift from Anna, she got me a new TobyMac album. I hugged her. My parents got me a gift card to Best Buy. I got my parents a new coffee maker and I got Anna a new scarf. After we opened up gifts we played games. Then there was a knock at the door.

"Anna will you go get the door?" I asked, i looked at my parents and winked

Anna opened the door, it was her dad and her ex. She let out a little squeal. She hugged them, they followed her inside. I smiled, I already knew Anna's dad and I kinda knew Jordan. i introduced myself to him. Then we went out in the yard a threw snowballs at each other. I grabbed Anna around the waist and we fell in the snow. I smiled at her, her nose was red so was mine. Jordan yelled a weird battle cry and came and piled snow on top of us. I pocked my head out and got up and threw a snowball at Jordan. Anna was beside me.

"Attack Jordan!!" Anna yelled with a laugh.

Jordan had a playful look on his face and ran the other direction, I cased after him with Anna behind setting up a plan of attack. He ran around the house.

"Jordan, We're done chasing you, you can come out now." I said in a singsong voice

Jordan came cautiously walking around the house. I mouthed three....two.....

"One! Attack!" I yelled

Anna sprang up and started chucking snowballs at Jordan. I went up behind him and tackled him in the snow. he started laughing, pretty soon all three of us were lying on the ground laughing. Anna's Dad and my parents came out. We got up and got snowballs ready. They held their hands up in surrender.

[Anna's POV]

I stood ready to fire a snowball at my dad. Adam was beside me, he threw a snowball at his dad. This the got their own snowballs. My dad said we should do a snowball war. Kids against adults. We all agreed that we'd meet in the front yard in two hours. Adam and Jordan were pumped. I laughed at them as they were showing off. We got a plan ready. Jordan went to build us a fort. It was me and Adam inside drawing out a game plan. Adam sighed.

"what is it?" i asked him

"nothing i just sighed can't a person sigh without getting questioned every five minutes."

I smirked at him.

"Alright. i want to know how you and Jordan came together?" He asked me

"you mean as friends or ex?'

"both" he said

Now it was my turn to sigh. Adam smirked at me. i playfully punched him in the arm.

"We became friends, literally the day i first arrived in New York. He offered me a job at a thrift store and i excepted" i said

"is that it? No dates or no movies or anything. just he found you the day you first arrived and offered you a job with out knowing your background? No interviews?"

I laughed. "well, we did hang out on the weekends. a year went by, then another. and the third year he asked me to be his girlfriend and i said yes. then I moved back here when I heard you are making music. and when I told Jordan I'd be moving back to Minnesota his attitude changed towards me and..." I paused and swallowed "and when i came back earlier this summer..."

"that's when he did it with you." Adam finished

"yeah, before I left he was talking about it. But..." I said but got interrupted

"if you guys are done talking about me. you should really come and see the fort i made for us. and by the way. They bumped it up to twenty minutes so do you have the plan done?" Jordan asked

i spun around, I wondered how long he was standing there. My face was a flushed pink color. We grabbed the piece of paper and headed outside, Our fort was amazing! It was big enough for us to stand in and it had a small area for us to put snowballs. Our parents fort was small. My dad came out with a red flag.

"What's the flag for?" I asked

"we're playing Capture teh flag with snowballs!" my dad said

"hey that's not fair we don't have a flag!" Jordan said

"use Adam's hat" Adam's mom suggested

"Mom!" Adam said

"Sorry Adam" i said while taking off his hat and placing it on a dead branch of a tree beside our fort.

Adam frowned. He took his scarf and tied it around his head. he looked like a homeless person. We all laughed. He got red in the face. We started the game. i went left while Jordan went right. the red flag was in a bush near the other fort. I charged forward throwing snowballs at my dad. It missed him and hit Mr.Young in the leg. I was in reach of the flag. i grabbed it. Adam and Jordan cheered. i turned around to run back when i got nailed in the face with a snowball and couldn't see. I heard someone fall in the snow then I felt someone pick me up and carry me to our fort, or at least i think it's our fort. i heard Adam cheering,

"Anna we won but it was close. My dad had our flag excuse me, my hat but Jordan pushed him in the snow. picked you up and ran." Adam said with a giant grin across his face.

[Jordan's POV]

Anna's Dad came in the middle of the yard and said that we cheated. Adam protested by saying the rules didn't say how you had to get the flag to their base as long as they did. So we won fair and square. They demanded a rematch but we went inside to warm up with some hot chocolate and listen to Adam's music. While I was drinking my hot chocolate I looked around the room, i was grateful to have friends. i didn't tell Anna this but she thought i lived in a fancy house but i was really living off the streets. While Anna was here I lived with her dad and paid rent. I mean i did have a house in the summer when she came but i couldn't pay it so I lost my house. i smiled and took a long sip of my drink. Adam and Anna were sitting on the couch Mr and Mrs.Young were on the love seat and Anna's dad, his name is Bob, he was on the recliner and I was on a kitchen chair I brought in the living room. We laughed and talked till midnight. Then we went to bed. Mr and Mrs.young asked me and Bob if we wanted to stay till New Years but i said I couldn't I had to help with stuff. Anna had a sad look on her face. i told her We'll see each other again. Then everyone went to bed, I slept on the couch. Me and Bob have to get up early tomorrow to catch our flight. I fell asleep fast.

the next day

Anna came and woke me up at six in the morning. Everyone else was up.We had eggs for breakfast, then we went to the airport. i hugged Anna, man-hugged Adam and waved to Adma's parents. I cried a little when we were on the plane. I fell asleep on the plane then Bob woke me up when we got in New York. I sighed and got my bag. We exited the airport and went to bob's apartment. It felt good to be back in New York. But it'll never be the same. The day went fast. 

I laid in bed and stared at the ceiling and counted my blessing. Then I became a Christian that night. I prayed that I'd have a good year and see Anna and Adam a lot more. They're good together, now granted their life long friends. I wonder if they'll be more then that. I pondered the thought then I fell asleep.