Christmas 2016 💜

2. A Christmas Story part 1

AN: based from a true story. IRL, it's Japan and US. I made it Australia and US in this fic. :) edit: changed it back to Japan. just a fic so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
warning: long oneshot 🔫

"We were very young when we first met. We were six then, I think.

It was during a Christmas party. My first Christmas here in Japan.

James' family were a family friend. My mom and his mom were best friends since college. But they hadn't seen each other for a long while since his Mom married his Dad and they moved to Australia and my mom and dad started their family here in US. So when the family moved to Japan, we were invited to spend Christmas at their place.

After that it has been a tradition that every year, the two families would spend the holidays together.

We never really talked. He was a bit of a snob. He was always quiet, at least when I'm around. But I got along well with his older brother.

He's very nice to me. They were only two children and I think Kuya Lloyd wanted a little sister, and there's me.

I spend almost every second of my Christmas with Kuya Lloyd. We had fun playing in the snow or stealing cookies.

But my sister would always find us.

I remembered when Kuya Lloyd went and took the whole cookie jar. Ate Sarah was really mad.

"Kuya Lloyd! Why don't you act a bit more your age? And stop including my little sister in your mischief!" She had said.

"Come on, Ash, don't be such a two-goodie shoes! Relax! It's Christmas." Kuya Lloyd had said then, but still, he returned the cookie jar.

Kuya Lloyd was a few years older than Ate Sarah, but I knew he respects her.

For a few years, James and I.... we'd met but not talked. That was just the way we are. Sometimes, he would bring with him some of his friends to the celebration. That's the only times I see him laugh and be a kid. Other times he's like one of the older people.

Then that year when we were eleven years old; it was Christmas eve and the snow was falling hard and fast. I love snow. I'd always played in the snow during Christmas eve. When we were in America, I played with my Kuya Coco and Ate Sarah. When we came to Japan I played with Kuya Lloyd.

Kuya Coco stayed in Utah with my aunt. He was already in college and couldn't afford coming with us. Ate Sarah on the other hand didn't seem to be interested in playing anymore. But there was Kuya Lloyd who was always willing to play with me.

That Christmas though, Kuya Lloyd wasn't around because he didn't came home for the holidays. His mom said he stayed in their boarding school. I went outside anyway. I was a bit older then, I didn't think much of playing, but I'd feel unsatisfied if I didn't watch the snow on Christmas eve.

I went to Reid's backyard. There was a bench there and that's were I sat. I just watched the snow. I let it fall on me. I felt happy just by that.

I was too preoccupied I didn't noticed him approaching. I was startled when suddenly I couldn't feel the snow on me anymore. I looked up and realized James was standing behind me and staring right down at me, holding an umbrella for the both of us.