Septiishu's Little Girl

Merry Christmas Tig

Jack's POV

Today was the 24th of December. Do you know what that means? Christmas Eve!!

I can't wait to see Tig's face on Christmas morning when she sees her presents! Me and Signe had just finished wrapping the last of Tig's presents and we hid them in the wardrobe so she couldn't find them. We left the room and went to check on Tig who was silently playing in her room with Woolly, as always. She's such a quiet child. Never talks and never has tantrums which is super helpful with mine and Signe's work schedule since we are uploading more than usual and she just sits in her room and plays with her toys. Even when Signe uploaded her first video in a while, Tig just sat quietly beside Signe on the floor with Woolly.

We sat down beside Tig and she looks up at us and smiles.

"Hey Tig! You okay?" I ask.

She smiles and nods her head which means 'yes'. I smile.

"Are you excited for Santa to come tonight?" Signe asked.

Tig looked confused when she mentioned Santa. Did she know who he is?

"Do you not know who Santa is?" I ask.

She shakes her head. I looked at Signe and she looked confused as well. Didn't she have Christmas at the Care Home she was at? I decided that I should ring Victoria and ask. I stood up and walked out the room, grabbing my phone from my jean pocket and quickly went onto Victoria's contact and rang her. The phone rings twice before she answers.

"Hello Sean? Is everything okay?" She asked.

"Hey Vicky, er...you know when Tig was in your care...did she ever have a Christmas?" I ask.

"Well...she's only been here for 6 months so she never had Christmas here. And I don't know about the home she was in before us. So I don't know." She says.

"Oh...It makes sense now. She doesn't know who Santa is and that kinda got me worried a little since every kid should know who he is. But thank you!" I say.

We say our goodbyes and I went back into Tig's room where Signe was holding Woolly,pretending to give Tig kisses with him. I smile at them and sat back down. I turned to Signe.

"I found the reason why she doesn't know who Santa is...she never had a Christmas there and Vicky doesn't know anything about her previous Care Home." I say.

Signe nods.

"Should we tell her about him? It might get her into the Christmas spirit more." Signe says.

I nod and turn to Tig.

"Hey Tig? Do you want to know about what happens on Christmas Eve?" I ask her.

She nods.

Me and Signe spent a good hour explaining who Santa was, his job, where he lived, about the elves and so many things that she never even knew about. She smiled and giggled as I told her. She got more and more excited as I told her more. Before we know, it was time for her bedtime. We bought cookies earlier in the day so we laid them on a plate along with a carrot and a glass of milk and placed them in the living room. We took Tig to bed and kissed her goodnight. She fell straight to sleep and we closed her door and went to our room and got into bed. I pulled Signe close to my chest and kissed her forehead.

"I'm so lucky that Tig is having her first Christmas with us!" Signe says.

I chuckle.

"Me too!" I say.

We then hear our door open. We looked over to see Tig walking in with Woolly close to her chest. We both sat up and smiled.

"What you doing up. missy?" I ask her. "I'm pretty sure Santa only comes to children who are fast asleep."

"No likey Santa guy in house." She says as she stands beside our bed.

"Why Sweetie?" Signe asked.

"Santa sneak in house while we sleep...scwary." She says.

We cooed over her. We lift her into our bed and placed her in the middle of us and got her cosy.

"Santa's very nice. He's not scary at all. He's a fat and jolly man who likes to eat cookies and drink milk." I say.

Tig nods.

"Woolly scared too!" She says.

"Awh! Does he need a cuddle too?" I ask.

She nods. I grab woolly and kissed all over his face. This made Tig giggle. I give him back to her and cuddled her.

"Now. You go to sleep and in the morning, there will be presents just for you!" I say.

She snuggles into me and falls to sleep. I smile and me and Signe soon fall asleep.

Morning...

I woke up to the sun shining through the window. I stretch and looked around to see my girls still sleeping. I gently woke them both up.

"Wake up my Queen and Princess! It's Christmas morning! Time to open presents!" I say.

Tig was still half asleep so I picked her up and took her downstairs with Signe following me. I walk into the living room to see wrapped presents underneath the tree. Tig looks around with amazement. I placed her down on the floor near the presents. She just looked around.

"Go ahead and pick one Tig." I say.

She picks a medium sized present and brings it over to me and places it in my lap. She then looks up at me like she was waiting for something. I then realised what.

"It's yours Tig. You have to open it." I say.

"Ohhhh..." She says and starts to rip the wrapping paper off.

In less than 20 minutes, every present that was once wrapped, was unwrapped. Toys were scattered everywhere. Tig would go from one toy to the other. One point during her unwrapping presents, I guess she got a bit emotional due to all the presents she had got and this definitely told me she had never experienced Christmas in this way. But me and Signe gave her lots of kisses and cuddles to settle her and it worked.

I absolutely love this girl! I'm so glad we adopted her because she's definitely unique which is what I love most about her!

Tig's POV

I have never experienced this before in my life! I absolutely love today and I already can't wait until next year!

I like receiving presents,

I like Christmas,

I love Woolly!