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"That was your favorite memory? Me falling on my butt in front of hundreds of our friends and family!" Jack exclaimed as his friend's snickered around him.
Jack and his wife Rapunzel were hosting their annual Christmas party with their best friends Merida and Hiccup Haddock. They sat in the living room surrounded by hot coco and Christmas decorations. The Christmas tree was the brightest thing in the room next to Rapunzel's smile as she laughed at her husband's reaction to her favorite memory. It was a tradition in Rapunzel's family to go around and talk about their favorite memory of the year. Jack and Rapunzel had just gotten married earlier in the year and she had just explained how her favorite memory was when Jack had missed a step coming off of the altar and had fallen flat on his butt in front of everyone.
"Not oh when Jack professed his love for me in his vows, or having our first dance, no it was me embarrassing myself," Jack continued to ramble on.
"Oh come on Jack it was pretty funny," Merida replied
"Yeah, I thought I was going to do the same thing," Hiccup said lifting the arm with a cast,
Hiccup was known as the clumsy one of the group. He wasn't really that clumsy, but he did have a habit of getting injured a lot. Last week he had broken his arm after falling off the ladder when putting up Christmas lights. Merida had told him to wait for her to come out and help, but Hiccup was too excited to wait.
"To be honest I thought so too," Merida joked giving her husband an elbow nudge.
"Okay your turn Merida what was your favorite memory of this year?" Rapunzel asked.
Merida smiled thinking of all the good memories she had made this year. One stood out like a sore thumb among the others though.
"Oh I know what my favorite was, it happened just earlier this month," Merida smiled.
*******************Merida's Memory***********************
Merida sighed sadly as she drove by the downtown square. What once was her favorite childhood place to go during the holidays had now become an empty shadow. The downtown square of her small town used to contain lights and decorations that were put up by the town's local baker Angus. However, Angus had decided to move when he retired and the block's other shops began to dwindle as well. Small business began disappearing and were now replaced with vacant buildings that had become to expensive to rent. She knew it would never be like the town square she had remembered all those years ago. The whole town would come for the lighting ceremony and the local high school's jazz choir would sing Christmas music and people would dance in the square. It was her favorite family tradition and now it was gone.
She parked her car in her driveway and smiled as she saw the decorations out on her lawn. All that was left to do was to hang the lights. At least her house would be decorated and have the Christmas spirit she thought.
Merida walked up the steps carrying too many shopping bags to count, she fumbled with her keys and unlocked her front door.
"SHIELD YOUR EYES!" her husband yelled as he closed the door on her making two of her bags fall.
"Dammit Hiccup you're not done yet?" She complained as she picked up the bags that had dropped,
Hiccup went around and popped his head out of the front window.
"Sorry! No it's just Toothless keeps ripping up the wrapping paper," he said talking about the couple's mischievous black cat.
"Well I have a lot in my hands and I need to put them in our room so I can start wrapping some of them," she explained.
