Making Friends...

Chapter eighteen, Christmas

The next few weeks passed and I eventually had to tell everyone about Noah, the months after that were uneventful, go to practice with my brothers In the studio, work on new songs, go on dates with Noah that continued to get more and more romantic, I learned of his family and why the subject hurt, we've had dinners with mom, just the three of us, it was nice.

The days got colder and soon Christmas arrived, we were all sitting in our living room, mom had come over the night before and by noon the next morning she had woken us all up with pancakes at the ready.

We ate and the migrated over to the floor in the living room, I sat in Noah's lap as his arms held me tightly in place. Remington was handing around presents, it's not like each of us had many but they're was still six of us with Larisa being here.

"Okay, presents are all out, go crazy" mom said happily as Remington sat back down on the floor next to her.

Don't ask me why we're not sitting on the couches, there's just something about Christmas and sitting on the floor instead of on the sofas, it's just not the same.

Everyone started tearing at the gift wrapping, Noah reaching around me to get to his. I watched as Remington's face lit up when he opened my present.

"No way" he exclaimed as he pulled it away from the wrapping

It was a wood set of a painting of the boats leading to Hogwarts, I knew he'd love it, it wasn't all that cheep but not too expensive either. Remington got up and gave me a hug, ignoring the groan we received from Noah because he couldn't see what he was doing.

"Thank you Emerson" Remington smiled as he went back over to his spot.

We continued with opening presents, mom got me new pencils and another sketch book, Sebastian and Larisa got me a new set of pens and rulers, Remington got me a new hat and some stuff to decorate it with and when I got to Noah's present he made me get off of his lap and sit opposite him. I opened the present and when I saw that it was a recording of one of Allan Watts' lectures I smiled widely and hugged him.

"Thank you" I whispered and gave him a kiss when I pulled away from the hug.

We finished opening the presents and then sat around watching old Christmas movies that mom brought over, she even played a few clips of us on Christmas when we were younger.

"Wait, I thought you said you didn't know who broke that vase!" Remington yelled as we watched twelve year old him knock over mom's favourite vase because he and Sebastian were wrestling in the dinning room.

"I lied, I just didn't want to make you feel guilty" mom smiled and ruffled Rem's flat hair

"Whatever"

We laughed at Remington and went back to watching. At around three Sebastian, Larisa and mom retreated into the kitchen to make Christmas dinner, we were sitting down and eating by six. After dinner and some awkward story's and laughs we went back into the living room and played bored games until midnight then we all retreated to bed. The next day is friendmas, it's where we invite all of our friends over, give presents to each other, set up a god awful mistletoe, Sebastian is preparing food all day and we watch horrible Christmas romance and comedy movies while we munch on snacks and drink alcohol.

This is the first friendmas with Noah's friends, and the first I'm actually going to attend instead of hiding in my room with Shy, Noah's helped me with a bit of my social anxiety towards anyone who isn't a fan of Palaye, and he's going to be there.

Noah and I didn't roll out of bed until we heard new voices downstairs and a knock on my bedroom door calling Noah's name. I groaned and got up to pull the door open to see a dark skinned, short haired five foot Nothing girl standing there with a smile on her face that gradually changed to confusion.