My Christmas Wish - Ep. 2

~Lucia~

"You ready for our Christmas shopping trip Lucia?!" Mum pokes her head around my door to say. I was struggling to get my cape on, I felt too tired.

"Let me help you sweetie"

Mum comes in and puts my cape on for me. She holds my hand and leads me into the hallway where Aaron is on his phone.

"Sara just sent me a text saying that her, Jessica and Jacob have just left. Did Jacob send you a message too Aaron?"

"Yeah..." he replies annoyed

"Oh come on, Aaron. He just wants to be friends..."

"I know but-"

"No buts." she turns "Logan! We're going!"

I look up to see dad jog down the stairs and kiss mum on the cheek

"Alright love..." he says to mum, "be good you two."

I giggle as he walks into the study.

#~#~#

"Jessica!" I squeal

"Lucia!" she replies as we hug.

Mum walks to Jessica's mum Sara and Jacob (Jessica's brother) skips to Aaron. They all talk in pairs for about a minute before mum turns and tells us to go and look at the decorations with the boys. We all wander over and Jessica and I run to a shelf full of decorations. Shiny, sparkly, pretty. We both loved it and skipped around holding every decoration in our chubby hands.

"Lucia!" I turn to face Aaron

"Don't touch that, if you break it, it will cost a lot of money..."

"Okay..."

I give it to Jessica to put back on the shelf but as she stretches up to reach the shelf another decoration comes crashing down to the floor.

CRASH!

Aaron sighs in frustration and begins to pick up the pieces angrily, shoving them into either my or Jessica's hands. Meanwhile, Jacob waves his hand to get the attention of the store assistant but there's no need every one in the shop is staring at us. Including mum and Sara. The store assistant walks to a cupboard and gets out a dustpan and brush before wandering over to us and beginning to speak, "That was worth £35 sir..."

"I know, I know... I'll pay..." replies Aaron fumbling around in his pocket.

"No, I'll pay the money!" shouts mum from their table in the cafe.

A different store assistant walks all 4 of us back to the table and picks up a piece of paper from the table, "I'll take your receipt and re-write it but wi-"

Mum snatches it from the woman's hand.

"No, that's not from today...it's...er... something different" she passes it to Sara who puts it in her pocket. Mum reaches into her handbag and pulls out 2 £20 notes and passes them to the assistant.

"There, in cash. Keep the change..."

Aaron, Jacob, Jessica and me all pull out a chair and sit down, looking into our laps to try and avoid the lecture that was bound to come, except it didn't. Mum and Sara just casually continued talking.

"So did Michael not want to come today?" asks Mum

"No, he's stayed at home with Rose... They said they might go out for a meal later."

"Ooh, is it getting serious?"

"Oh my goodness, have I not told you yet?"

"No, told me what?!"

"He's going to propose to her!"

I start to roll a napkin into a ball and throw it at Jessica.

"Really! When?"

She picks it up and throws it back.

"He doesn't know yet, either Christmas day or New Years Eve"

I move the potted plant in the middle of the table so it's in between me and Jessica.

"He better choose soon. Only 2 more weeks..."

I throw it over the plant

"And only 2 more weeks until you'll know about the... the..."

She misses it and crawls under he table to get it

"Receipt? Yes, I don't know if he would betray me like that..."

We both suddenly pay attention, Jessica still on the floor. They switch the topic when they realise they are staring at them.

"Jessica, get up off the floor." Sara demands

Jessica gradually climbs on to the seat.

"Anyway girls, not long until your sleepover!" Sara begins again

We both stare at each other excited

"Sara, it's Lucia's check-up at the doctors first so we might be a bit late..."

"Oh don't worry. We'll be looking forward to seeing you..."

#~#~#

"Hey darling..." dad says kissing both me and mum.

"Hey, Aar-" he continues but Aaron's already gone up to his bedroom.

"Nevermind... Hey Lucia, do want to see something special?"

I nod frantically looking at dad. He takes my hand guiding me in to the living room.

"Surprise!"

In the corner of the living room is a ginormous Christmas tree ready to be decorated. I gasp

"I thought I might as well bring it in now as it would be dark when you got home..."

mum turns and kisses him on the cheek, "How thoughtful"

We decorate the tree as a family ,just without Aaron, and I fall asleep on the sofa in mum's arms...