The little book of Queen Weeks

The prettiest angel

Prompt: decorating the Christmas tree
Roger's POV
"You've never had a Christmas tree before?" Brian asked and Freddie looked a little nervous, shaking his head.

"No, we didn't do that kind of thing at home" he said and I looked at John and Brian who were obviously already planning something. When they both looked at me, I knew what they were planning already. I got up straight away and rushed out of the room, up the stairs and pulled the ladder down for the attic.

I immediately saw all of the Christmas decorations and when I saw John at the bottom of the ladder, started handing all of the boxes down to him. Once we had them all out, I went back down and put the ladder away then helped them put up the decorations on the fireplace, the chimney-breast and the walls.

Everything was covered in tinsel, stars and tiny father christmases and it brightened up the room so much, it looked great. Brian kept Freddie in the back room so he couldn't see us putting up the tree and decorating it with baubles and little ceramic trimmings that showed little reindeer and snowflakes with mine, John's and Brian's names on them.

Once we were all done, Brian brought Freddie in and he was looking around with the biggest smile on his face that I'd ever seen, "wow... it's-i love it" he looked at us then hugged us all, "you haven't even seen the best bit! Come on, I'll let you do the tree. Rog, get the angel for me" Brian said and Freddie squealed in excitement.

I got the angel out of its small box and hooked it up to the power then handed it to John as Brian got Freddie up on his shoulders. "Ready, babe?" Brian asked and Freddie nodded with a huge grin.

"I'm ready" he said and reached for the angel as John passed it to him, being careful of the wire. Freddie held onto the top of the tree and gently placed the angel on top. I went and turned the lights off and we all started cheering as the tree lit up in vibrant colours, flashing and glowing.

The angel looked so beautiful on the top, illuminated perfectly with lights around her, but Freddie looked even more beautiful. His smile was so pure, so innocent and I felt my heart melt as it only grew at all the lights and decorations. "I love it. It's so beautiful" he said and I could see John smiling, looking like a lovestruck puppy at Freddie, "thank you, boys... it's going to be a great first Christmas"