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The Christmas Tree
“Ow!”
Tina collapsed in a heap on the middle of the attic floor, rubbing her ankle and rocking back and forth childishly with her eyes squeezed shut.
"T?" Bette’s muffled voice floated up to her. "Are you alright up there?"
"YEAH," Tina yelled back, a little louder than necessary. "I’ll be down in a minute!"
Tina sighed and pushed her hair out of her face. She was up here trying to find Christmas decorations when she’d tripped over Bette’s big, clunky, ugly easel. What was it up here for anyway? Bette never used it. Why did it have to sit up here to trip people?
Tina pulled herself up and brushed off her now dusty jeans. She looked around in annoyance. Where was that box? She couldn’t find anything up here. Tina hadn’t been up here since she had moved back in a few months ago, and it was far more crowded now than she remembered. Bette prided herself on being organized, but the state of this place told a different story. All kinds of junk were haphazardly stacked all around. Everything but what she needed. Tina sighed, and then froze when she heard a little noise that she knew SHE hadn’t made. Uneasily, she wondered if there were mice up here, too. All attics had mice, didn’t they? She shivered. Turning in a timid half circle, she resolved that if she couldn’t see the box from where she was, she’d go back down and ask Bette to find it. Yeah, that will go over real well, she told herself sarcastically. Bette was more inclined to just go out and buy new decorations every year rather than take them down and preserve them, but Tina had insisted on the last Christmas they had spent together that Bette stop the money-wasting practice. Now the stupid decorations were lost, probably shoved carelessly into the darkest, most rodent-infested corner of this stupid attic. Tina stood on tiptoe and craned her neck in a final sweep of the perimeter, squinting miserably in the dim light. Nothing.
"Forget it," she muttered, skittering down the ladder into the warmth and thankfully, the light. She compressed the ladder and closed the attic door with a firm push. "New decorations it is." She wandered into Angelica’s bedroom, where Bette was playing a somewhat stilted game of dolls with their daughter.
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IC seems to be allergic to charming, light-hearted scenes (especially involving Bette and Tina), so it’s a delight to encounter them in your stories. I have to agree with Bette on the subject of Xmas lights: white is definitely best!
i love the holiday season let tina have some fun decorating and bette needs to get more in the spirit of things,lol…
I think Bette makes the perfect Grinch and Tina a little cindy lou who…by the time christmas rolls around…bette will be into it..PPS
baaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Humbug………
I think that I will like this Christmas thing with Bette and Tina. I wonder why we never get to see the girls celebrate anything on the show. I know that is starts after Christmas but what about Valentine’s Day or something along those lines. Maybe you will have to write a story for every holiday for every country. I would enjoy that for sure.
Aww. That was mad sweet. I hope you give us some more scenes from their Christmas. Maybe even the weekend away. Putting up the Christmas tree is usually stressful. When I was a kid we moved next to a tree farm.. so that first Christmas in the new house we decided to cut down our own tree. Got it back in the house and it didn’t fit in the stand. My Dad started sawing away at the trunk in the living room of the house..which wasn’t even a year old. My Mom totally flipped out. We still laugh about it. The tree ended up getting so much hacked off of it that it looked like a tiny gumdrop.
What a delightful way to start a Sunday… it was ace! And I love the bit with Angie making the dolls kiss, that was too cute. Excellent, & more soon, please. Thanks!
That was very nice and warm thanks friend keep posting, i love your story i think it will be great.Love
Angelica making the dolls kiss and Tina saying “oh, dear” hahaha too funny but hey kids mimic what they see around them. I love them as family at home decorating trees, music playing ugh why weren’t there more moments like this on the show smh.