High School For Prodiges

Christmas Eve

June P.O.V.

I pull on a red dress and some black heels. My mom is sitting in the kitchen when I walk in there.

"That's cute." She says.

"Your not seriously going out in that are you?" Metias. I turn to face him.

"Yes. Yes I am. Mom's okay with it."

"Well I'm not Mom." He says.

"That's exactly my point." I say walking out the door. Brothers.

I get in my car and drive over to Day's house. It's around two pm (1400) and he told me their party starts at three. I got bored.

I walk into the front door and immediately smell pine needles. I love it. Wait a minute, they have a fake tree. Well, everyone does around here.

"What's that smell?" I ask Grace, who's in the kitchen.

"A candle." She says. I take off my coat and Day hangs it up for me.

"You look pretty." He says.

"Thanks." I say walking into the kitchen.

"Hello Grace. Merry Christmas." I say.

"Merry Christmas June." She says. She seems to be frantically running throughout the kitchen.

"Mom." Day says. She looks up. "All you need to do is take the turkey out in an hour. The rest of the food is being brought by the other guests. Oh, and you need to make the salad but I can do that."

"Need help?" I ask.

"You want to mix the dressing?" He asks.

"Sure." I say. I add the ingredients and shake the small glass containers. There's two of them since a lot of people will be there.

Grace leaves looking a bit more calm than she was before.

Day pulls me back from the counter. I turn around and look into his gorgeous eyes.

"What's up?" I ask.

"Let's see." He looks up. "The ceiling."

"Okay idiot." I say. He pulls me by the waist to him and I walk away.

"June..." he groans.

"What?" I walk out into the living room and sit down with Eden.

"Hey." I say snapping my fingers. Why must I be so awkward?

"Hi June." He says, playing some video game.

"Tess coming here?" I ask.

"Yeah." He says.

Day sits down next to me and puts his arm around my waist.

"Eden aren't you going to get ready?" He asks. I guess he is still wearing pajamas.

"Yeah." He says. He leaves to go upstairs.

"Hey." I say turning towards Day.

"Hey." He says kissing my forehead. I rest my head on his shoulder. This has been an interesting year.

••••••

We are all sitting down to eat. I'm sitting with Day on my right and his cousin Maddie on my left. She's about eight years old if I had to guess.

Neither Day or I say much throughout dinner. His parents are talking to his aunts and grandparents.

I finish eating and grab Day's hand. We walk into his kitchen and put our dishes away.

"Merry Christmas, I don't think I've told you that yet." I say. He wraps his arms around me.

"You too." He whispers in my ear.

We are about to open the presents. It's about seven pm (1900 hours).

Grace gives me a small package. "Thank you." I say. I sit on the floor with Day and we all begin to open them.

"June, you can open that now." Grace says. I unwrap the string around the package and then open the main part of it.

It's a handbag, no doubt Grace picked it out considering I actually like it.

"Thanks!" I say. She nods.

Everyone else opens their presents. Day got a lot of cards mostly. Eden got a few different video games and then a new controller. He doesn't play video games all that much but enough that he was happy to get that.

Day and I are not really doing much right now. We went outside after people started to leave. It's a bit cold but not bad.

We sit on the swing that is in his backyard.

"What was it that made you first date Anden?" He asks.

"Oh. I don't know. He was nice and I figured I should give him a chance. I never really liked him though."

"Oh, Well that's kind of horrible." He says, from the way he's talking I can tell he's referring to the whole Carrie thing from elementary school.

"Don't even get me started on Carrie. That was horrible. And maybe when I started dating Anden it was horrible, but he cheated on me."

"I know sweetheart. I was just kidding." He says pulling me closer.

"I hate that guy." I say. Day laughs.

"Trust me, so do I."

"You wanna prank him?"

"You Serious?"

"Yeah. Let's go." I say.

"Oh now? Okay." We walk around to the front Of the house and drive to Anden's house. We park about a block away.

"What's our plan?" I ask.

"I don't know! You thought of this."

"Let's not point blame at anyone. I'll save us." He Shakes his head.

"Okay so we should knock on the door and run away. If one of his parents answers then w leave and go around back but if it's him we wait a few minutes and then go in."

"June! That's trespassing."

"Please, you think I don't have a search warrant?" I ask. "You'd be correct. Maybe this wasn't the best idea."

"No kidding." Day says. I glare at him.

"That was rude, We Should still at least go ring the doorbell to annoy him."

"That's the lamestprank I've ever heard. That's literally worse than calling him."

"Okay then. You have a better idea?" I challenge.

"No. We should just go home and mess with Eden."

"Okay." I say. We both laugh. This was a stupid idea. I'm not quite sure where it was ever going.

We drive back home and walk into the living room. Eden is sitting with Tess watching a movie.

We walk up behind them and they scream.

"Hey," I say jumping over the side of the couch and sitting down. Day walks around like a normal person. Boring.

"Can you guys get any more annoying?" Eden questions.

"Is that a challenge?" Day asks.

••••••

I walk to the door with Day. He wraps his arms around me and I take a moment to look at his beautiful eyes.

"Merry Christmas June." He says. I turn back around and kiss him lightly before leaving the door.

"Merry Christmas." I say.

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-Ava