Ever After

Santa

James was standing with Emma in the mall. The four of them were supposed to be meeting Santa in ten minutes and the twins were nowhere to be seen.

If they were late, James was going to explode. They had an appointment. The twins were late almost every time they had a time limit, James wasn't putting up with it today.

The oldest took his phone out to call Ethan for the third time that morning before Emma grabbed his arm. "There!" She pointed.

James looked up, putting his phone in his back pocket when he saw the twins walking towards them. It looked like they were arguing, Grayson was talking pretty quickly and Ethan was trying to talk back but Grayson wouldn't let him.

Grayson quickly shut up when they approached the other two, glancing at James before making it a point to look the other way.

James chose to ignore him, if he fed into this right now then they'd actually be late. "Let's go, kitty girls. Our appointment is in five minutes." He didn't give anyone a chance to speak as he turned and started walking towards the Christmas set up in the middle of the mall.

Grayson was really starting to get on his nerves. He could faintly hear the twins' frantic whispers as he walked on, trying not to turn around and ask them to speak louder or shut the hell up.

It was obvious that they were talking about him. Every time James would glance back to make sure everyone was still following him, their conversation would stop.

James tried to ignore it. Grayson wouldn't have told Ethan without James, would he? James didn't care, they could at least not talk about him while he was only five feet away.

They made it to meet Santa right on time. James gave the lady his name and they were let in. Emma quickly turned on her camera, having already done the intro when they were together the other day, she started to film.

Everything was going great until Grayson's turn. Conveniently, he was last. The younger went ahead and sat on the old man's lap to tell him what he 'wanted' for christmas.

"-and for James to get a boyfriend so he can leave me alone." Grayson finished, making everyone laugh except the oldest.

He had to admit, it would have been funny if they weren't arguing right then. James couldn't get past his sly comments today though. It wasn't funny. If Grayson didn't like the way James acted around him then they didn't need to hang out.

"Emma, can we do the outro? I'm ready to go home." He stated, only covering for himself when the twins deadpanned at him. "Not feeling well." He said, glaring at Grayson.

The twin glared back, feeling only a little bad. He couldn't be nice to James right now. He'd told Ethan they were fighting over video ideas.

Emma held her laughter, but James could see she had chosen to be on his side through whatever this was.

She went and stood next to him, waiting for the twins to get in frame as well before they said bye. "Make sure to like and subscribe!" Emma said.

"And check out all the other sister squad videos on the rest of our channels!" James chimed in.

Leaving the twins to finish with. "All the links will be in the description!"

Emma turned her camera off and side hugged James. "Did you want to catch an Uber together?" She asked, waving at the twins as her and James started to walk towards the exit.

James thought for a minute. Had Grayson told Ethan? The older twin wasn't acting any different than usual; but would he? Neither of the twins had ever had a problem with him being gay before the party.