12-Day Christmas Challenge 2014 ~Vanitas x {Name}~

[1] On the First Day of Christmas...

It's the start of the Christmas season; 'tis the season to be jolly. Well, for some people, anyway. Whilst some people are busy shopping for supplies to make their houses presentable for the holiday and competing against their neighbours by going overboard with the lights and Santa floats, the other half of the population are having a hard time getting gifts for friends and family. Mostly due to people tending to change their desires or the receiver doesn't give the person getting the gifts any details on what they want or need, but despite all that, there is one Grinch on the couch; face down, counting down the seconds he has left until a certain girl comes to barge in and make him move.

He glanced at the clock by the chimney, syncing its ticking to his countdown. He mumbles behind the arm of the couch. "In three...two...oneー"

Bang. "Vanitas!?" Not a second late, he thought, as the said girl he predicted stomps through the doors in search of him. He could hear her light footsteps going up the steps, probably to check his room, only to be disappointed or at least confused to find it empty. He hears her going down the stairs in a quick pace, heading for the kitchen next, no doubt. He decided to stay silent for a little while longer until he heard her mumble something along the lines of, "What is his scrawny ass up to now?".

A defeated sigh escaped his lips. Vanitas slightly sits up so his lips weren't muffled behind the armrest as he decided to respond to her calls. "I'm in here." He calls monotonously, face-planting the armrest again.

As soon as he called out to her, the girl quickly made her way out of the kitchen, down the foyer, passing the staircase and the door, walking through the archway that lead her into the lounge room, where the girl found said scrawny ass sprawled across the cream couch with his arms by his side, just in his boxers. She let out a tiresome, yet relieved sigh before walking towards him, making sure to stand in front of him with both hands akimbo, tapping her foot for his attention. It took him a whole minute before he decided to look up with a tired scowl on his face.

"What?" He dead-panned.

The girl growled from his response, clicking her tongue in annoyance. "What do you mean "what"? You promised me we'd do this twelve-day Christmas challenge."

{Name} {Surname} was her name, and bugging Vanitas was her game, unfortunately for him. She moved in to the house next door to Aqua, a few blocks around the corner from him. To be precise, the house behind his garden was hers. The meeting was accidental on her part. One night, Vanitas was having a party with members from his gang back in the day, and as he was smoking and drinking in solitude in his backyard, a raccoon suddenly popped out of nowhere from the opposite house to his backyard. It stood on the fence, looking from left to right, probably in search for any danger nearby, and seeing as it decided to jump down from the fence and onto his surprisingly green grass, Vanitas assumed it sensed no danger ーwhich is odd because if the raccoon hadn't noticed, he had been standing there watching the whole thing. The next thing the raccoon did was kind of...smart.

It scurried behind bushes and anything that can hide its' shadow as it made its way into Vanitas' house, passing people by and taking an armful and a mouthful of his food. At this point, Vanitas wasn't sure whether he had too much to drink ーthough he recalled it to be his fifteenth, so maybe not enough to get drunk on but probably enough to the point of being delusional. Whether it was the alcohol or not, Vanitas couldn't help but follow it with his eyes as it scurried back over the fence. He couldn't care less about the food the raccoon took, but he did notice the raccoon took something of importance to him. This brought the boy over the fence to catch the damned thieving raccoon only to be met by [long/short], sexy legs. As his eyes trailed up to have a good look of the owner of such fine legs, Vanitas was greeted by an unfamiliar face.