Attack of the Dead 2

Chapter 6

"Merry Christmas bitches!" I screamed on our first Christmas as a new family.

We had skipped our first Christmas in the new world, so I told myself that I would make this one the best Christmas ever. Actually, Christmas was a week away, but we needed some Christmas cheer. "Jasmine, why should we celebrate Christmas? We have no presents, we have no tree, we have nothing," Tate said.

"We have  each other, we have a beautiful child who deserves a merry ass Christmas!" I screamed at Tate.

"Who wants to get some Christmas in this damn house!" We all heard Starr scream from the other room.

We all ran into the room, and we saw Starr in a Santa's outfit, and she had Christmas decorations in her arms. "Where the hell did you get those?"  We all asked at the same time.

"The attic, I don't know why we never looked up there in the first place, the people that used to live here were fucking hoarders!!!"

We all ran up the Attic stairs, and she was right! They had decorations for every type of holiday, they had shirts that were to small for any of us, but I could sew them into dresses for Starr, Cleta, and I. There were tuxedos that Tate and Jake could wear at the wedding, and there was a ton of make up! "Starr, I think you know what this means!" I told her in my excited voice.

"Makeovers!" We both screamed at each other.

"Shit!" The boys said when they heard our screech.

We gathered everything up so that we could take it down stairs, and we started to put everything up. "What are we going to do for the tree?" I asked after a half an hour.

"Tate and I can get it!" Jake chimed in. "We can use the tools in the attic, and we can go look for a tree!"

They went off to look for a tree, and Starr and I kept decorating the house. I looked over my shoulder to check on Cleta, but I saw something that I didn't expect. 

Starr was sitting with Cleta, and she was holding her up. She did this all of the time, but Cleta had never actually walked before! "OH MY GOD!!! Starr, she's walking!" 

We helped her walk between us for about two hours, before she started to walk on her own. I let go of her hands to see if she would even try to walk on her own, and she took two steps before she fell down!

"It's a Christmas miracle! Do you like to walk? Is it fun?" I asked Cleta in my baby voice.

She laughed at me. She always laughed at me when I talked to her, and I always laughed back. "What have you guys been doing for the past two hours? Nothing had change since when we left," Tate excliamed when he walked into the door. 

"If you must know, Cleta took her first steps today!" I replied with a scowl on my face.

"Really?"

"Really."

Jake came into the cabin then, and Tate told him everything. "I'm so proud of her."

He walked over to me, and he gave Cleta and me a huge bear hug. "Now, we're going to have to watch her even more closely," Jake said aloud, but it sounded more like a comment to himself.

I sat her back down next to me, and I started to work on the living room again. Everybody followed me, and in no time, we finished the room.  Jake and Tate brought in the tree, and we all decorated the tree. Cleta even got to help put the star on the tree. In the end, the cabin was beautiful. There were lights everywhere, the tree was huge, and we were all singing Christmas carols.

Throughout the rest of the week, Starr and I got together the Christmas feast, Jake and Tate chased Cleta around the whole house, and I walked in on Tate and Starr making out.

It was the day before Christmas Eve, and I was walking into the bedroom to put Cleta down for a nap, but instead I walked in on my two best friends making out! "Sorry, sorry," I repeated over and over as I started to back out of the room.

"Jasmine, it's ok. We were going to say something earlier, we just didn't know how to tell you and Jake," Starr explained.

I smiled at them, and I gave them my congratulations. "I love you guys, but you guys have to kiss somewhere else. Cleta's getting cranky, and I don't want you guys to wake her up. Also, no more children, at least for a year," I said as we walked out of the room.

"Yes mother," They said like I was ordering them to take out the garbage or something!

We walked into the living room, and I sat down next to Jake, while Starr and Tate sat down holding hands. Jake never noticed that they were holding hands, and I thought that I would let him figure it out on his own.

On Christmas Day, I woke up to Starr jumping on the bed, and Cleta screaming her head off. "Starr, calm the fuck down! You're scaring Cleta!"

I picked Cleta up, but before I could calm her down, Starr waas dragging me into the living room. I looked around in aw. All of the lights were on, there were blue, green, red, white, yellow, and pink lights. There was every color of garland imaginable, and there were a ton of presents under the tree. 

Where the hell did those come from?" I asked.

"Santa brought them!" Starr explained.

"No really, where did they come from?"

"They all say that Santa brought them," Starr said while looking at the presents.

Tate walked in, and we all decided to open the presents. Starr got a yellow shirt, some yellow jeans, a yellow hat, and a dolly with a yellow dress. Starr lit up brighter than the moon because of all of the yellow.

I got a couple of books, a pink t-shirt that said  "Kiss me I'm a mother", a pair of jeans, and a doll that held a baby. I loved my presents, but I still wondered who brought the gifts?

Tate got a new sword, a pair of socks, a lump of coal, a t-shirt that looked like a tuxedo, and a pair of jeans. He loved everything that he got, and he kept wanting to kill something with his sword.

Jake got a t-shirt that said "Father of an Angel", a book on how to cut down a tree, and he also got a lump of coal.

We all sat around the fire for a while, and we just talked. I held Cleta in my arms, Jake had his arms around us, Starr sat next to us, and Tate had his arms around her. Jake had found out about them, and he really didn't care.

I would have to say that this Christmas was the best Christmas ever.