Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 23:01:29 +0000
From: kuragari 129 <kuragari129@hotmail.com>
Subject: Life's Expectations - Chapter 28

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	This is the first of technically three chapters to cover the
holidays! Two of them will be for Christmas and the last for New
Years. Christmas is separated into two chapters cause I want to cover
everything and New Years is one cause there is less to cover.

	So this first chapter will have two and a half of the five
choices. This chapter will have Nick, Gage and Sam, Isaac, and Shane's half
of Zach and Shane. I finally get to go back to Isaac!

	This chapter might be a little longer than usual so be happy if it
is. With out further delay here is the Holiday chapters of Life's
Expectations!


	Chatper 28 – Here's To Us


	Gage's POV – Christmas Eve

	Finally!!! The surgery happened and now I can hear out of my right
ear. Downside: I cannot, under any circumstance, get any water into my
ear. So I'm stuck having my mom come into the bathroom while I'm having a
bath to bathe me like I'm six. Loads of fun.

	Besides that I got to take a week off of school to recover. I had
bandages around my head and the part over my ear was fun. When I woke up
the morning after my surgery the blood had gone all the way through the
bandage and my mom had a minor freak out. I was having fun watching her
though.

	So after that adventure school resumed for like a week and then
Christmas Break happened. So its now X-man eve and of course Sam and Peter
are over. Sometimes Matt and Tanis come over but this year they went away
to their cousin's for Christmas. Sam is here though and that's all that
matters.

	I don't know about your parents but mine and Sam's let us open one
gift on Christmas eve. It's 4:30 right now, we haven't even had dinner but
I can't wait to open my present for tonight! I have to wait though, so here
I am in my room dealing with Peter. "Dude how are you so good at this game?
I suck!"

	Peter and Nick were playing Borderlands. Peter failing at it. "I've
played through it a few times now, so I know what I'm doing."

	Peter grunted, Sam giggled, "Something your bad at, oh no, it's the
end of the world!"

	Peter gave Sam a nasty look and went back to playing the game. See
Peter doesn't know that me and Sam are dating and we would love to keep it
this way. Now there is one problem with that... we are snuggle bugs and we
can't really do that in front of him. So to distract us we are competing in
pokemon. I'm playing Diamond, he's playing Pearl, it's a real nail biter.

	"Seriously how the fuck are you on fire?" Peter moaned. As you can
tell he's playing Lilith. Peter is playing Mordicai

	"I'm a siren, 'nough said."

	"Sirens are mermaid like people not on fire bitches."

	"Well in this game's logic it is. Get over it and grab a sniper."

	"Snipers suck! I want to be up close and personal."

	I look over with a shit grin. "Ya should of chosen yourself then."
Peter gave me a questioning look. "Brick."

	"Fuck you, I'm not that dumb!"

	"But he punches stuff all the time."

	Peter got up, "You know what fuck you guys. I'm gonna go do
something else!" and he left the room in a fit. Peter hates hanging with us
and we hate hanging with him so its for the best. Since now I can cuddle
Sammy!

	I pulled Sam to me after a few minutes, "You just wanted to
snuggle."

	"Maybe." I said with a cheeky smile. Sam just smacks me and
snuggles up.

	Dinner was called a little while after. We all went down and sat
down. Both us the Bells and Sam's family the Littles. I gotta say it was a
little awkward sitting in front of Sam's dad since he still doesn't know
about us.

	See Sam's mom is super short, barely making 5 feet. His dad though
was 5 foot ten. Second tallest at the table, matching my sister but beaten
by my dad by one inch! So to say he's intimidating is an understatement.

	Sam's dad is rarely around too. He comes into town every so often
when he's not working out at what ever camp he works at. His dad does some
kind of construction type job. He living in a camp for three weeks and then
comes home for a week.

	Enough about his dad though. All that's left for you to know is
that he started the dinner conversation. "So Clair how has Grade twelve
been?"

	"Overall a little more work than I thought it would be. I'm still
getting the highest marks in my grade though."

	"What about you Nick? How has grade eight been?" I could see in
Sam's face that they hadn't had any kind of lengthy conversation on how his
year was going.

	"Good, I've made lots of new friends. I found out I kinda enjoy the
woodwork course," Ya... more than one kind of wood too, "Next semester I
have to go into cooking. I'm not looking forward to it."

	Nick quickly put a big bite of food into this mouth. My mom spoke
up, "What about you two?" looking to us, "How has your school year been?"

	"Well the most significant thing that happened to me was I got my
eardrum popped by Adam Bruce."

	So Sam's dad asked how that happened and I told him. The entire
time I felt bad for Sam. I mean his dad is striking more of a conversation
with me than he is with his own son. When I finished I looked over at Sam,
"Me and Sam will have something to do with the senior theater class' Sound
of Music."

	"Oh really?" His dad seamed really intrigued.

	"Gage will be Friedrich in the play and I'm going to be backstage."

	"So Gage is an Actor now and Sam is working the stage. I'm proud of
you boys. What will you be doing backstage?"

	Sam smiled and began his rant, "Well I'm mostly there as stage left
manager but I will also be helping moving the sets around. I'm also
responsible for helping Gage and the others through a costume change. It's
not that much of a job, mostly just cleaning up after the actors and
stuff."

	I could tell that mom and dad noticed Sam brighten up when he
started talking. Even Mrs. Little noticed, Mr. Little and Peter though
different stories. Peter had a face that showed he was jealous of the
attention that Sam was getting. His dad was oblivious to everything.

	Dinner was over a short while after that. We all sat down in the
living room with a hot cocoa and just had family time. At 7, it was time!
Time to open the one present we are allowed to open on Christmas eve!

	"Youngest first!" Peter screamed knowing dam well it was oldest
first.

	My Dad just looked at him. "You know very well it's oldest first."

	"But Clair is 17!"

	Unimpressed my dad continued, "And we allow this tradition until
your 18. Now wait your turn or you wont open a gift."

	"Your not my father!"

	It was time now for Sam's mom to step in, "But it is his home,
Peter. So I suggest you respect Mr. Bells and listen to him. That or I'll
have to return all your presents."

	Peter let out a huff, "At least I'll get the ones from Santa. You
can't reach him in time he's already flying around!" Ya he still believes
in Santa Clause...

	His mom just lets out a sigh, "He has a cell Peter." Peter shut up
and sat down after that comment.

	So Clair chose her present. Now before I tell you what she got I
will explain the family rules of this event. First rule: The oldest goes
first. You will wait your turn and be respectful of the person who is
unwrapping. Second: You cannot choose your biggest gift under the
tree. This present is deemed by the parents. Third: You may wish to save it
for Christmas day.

	So with that I think Clair chose the smallest gift under the tree
with her name on it. And showed it to Mom and Dad. They nodded approval and
she opened it up. It was a necklace that was once our grandmother's before
passing away. I could tell that Clair loved it. "Mom you don't have too."
She has tears swelling in her eyes.

	Mom wasn't any better. She was shaking her head, "My mother made it
very clear. That the necklace would be yours on the Christmas you had
turned 17. I will respect your Grandmother's wish."

	Lets say this, Our grandmother got married with this necklace on,
not once but twice. It was something she only ever wore on special
occasions and it was something we could never touch. So I gotta say that's
a pretty good gift.

	Now something I hate to admit, but Sam is older than me. Its only
like 68 days or something but it bugs me sometimes. I like being the older
on in relationships, leave me alone. Anyways though it's now Sam's turn to
open something. So he opened one of his smaller, but not smallest sized
gifts. Now don't get too excited, it's only a one terabyte hard drive.

	So now it's my turn! So as soon as Sam sat down I shot up. I give
my respect until he sits down, then I disregard all of it. Okay most of
it. So I grabbed the gift I've been eying since it got put out two weeks
ago. I grabbed it and showed it to my parents with an intense look in my
eyes. "Yes Gage you can open it now."

	So to say I tore it open would be generous. I knew what is was from
the beginning but I had to have it that day. It just tore me apart knowing
it's right there. Apparently one of my Dad's friends found a Theater store
where he lives and it has a whole bunch of techie things. So they got him
to pick me up a "Master level" Techie set.

	So it has a set of gloves for focusing lights. A flash light that
shines blue. A black shirt and pants. And to top it all off it had a set of
walkie talkies in it to top it off. To say I wasn't happy would be a
lie. It came in the mail... I retrieved it... its hard not to know.

	When I sat down Nick got up. Grabbed a gift, I don't know medium
sized and was told it was his "Biggest gift" so he grabbed another one. It
ended up being Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Gamecube. Shut up
we never got it when it first came out.

	Peter ended up unwrapping some hunting gear or some dumb thing. I
don't like Peter leave me alone.

	So Christmas day went as normal. We unwrapped everything we had and
spent all day playing with them. My big gift ended up being my grandpa's
old watch. It's super expensive. Sam got a Macbook Pro for part Xmas, part
birthday. Lets just say there was a lot of conditions to it. Nick, he got
some huge lego thing. He liked it that's all that mattered.

	Christmas was good this year all in all.


	Isaac's POV – Christmas Day

	Christmas usually sucks in my house. Mom and Dad always get into
fights about money. Jenni is only ever in the house for Christmas Eve and
Day. To top it all off the youth center closes for Eve, Day and boxing
day. At least it opens longer for the days that it is opened though.

	Today is Christmas day though so it's closed. We've opened all of
our gifts. I basically got cloths and a cheep cell phone. It's a cell phone
none-the-less though so I can't complain. Mom and Dad had gotten it set up
and everything.

	So right now Mom and Dad are making Dinner. A "medium" sized turkey
and other stuff. I'm sitting here figuring out my new phone. Jennifer is
using the computer that WE got. So I'm stuck figuring out my phone while
She's chatting away.

	It was about 3 o'clock when I thought I had figured everything
out. I still couldn't write stuff down very fast but I guess I'll get
better with practice. Now if only my sister would get off the computer so I
can get people's numbers.

	So meekly I walked into our room and started to think up how I
could ask. I could just ask. She'll probably yell at me and not even know
what I said though. If I bring mom and dad into this already she'll just
hate me... Is there no way around her wrath?

	So I guess while I was thinking she realized I was there and
started to yell at me anyways, "What the hell do you think your doing!?"

	"Nothing, I swear!"

	She got up and walked right up to me making me back up, "You were
reading my conversations weren't you!?"

	I shook my head violently, "No I wasn't, I swear!"

	She stormed out of the room. I heard her practically yell at our
parents I was snooping in on her. Next thing I know I'm getting called out
to the living room. I slowly make my way out. No doubt that will be
grounded for something I didn't do again.

	"Isaac..." My father started, "Were you snooping in on your
sister's conversations?"

	I once again shook my head, "I was about to ask to use the computer
for a few minutes. I was gonna message my friends my cell number."

	"He's lying. He was standing there looking at the screen. He didn't
say a word!"

	I just looked at my mom and dad. They didn't show any sign of being
on my side. This happens almost every time that Jennifer says something to
get me in trouble when they don't know what exactly happened. They think
she's an angel and I'm a demon.

	So what do I do? I scream out, "You always take her side when she
tell you things. Never mine!" So I marched into my room and put on my
jacket and boot and walked out. My sister had this huge grin on her face as
I stormed out of my house.

	I walked as fast as I could away. I found my way to the entrance of
the youth center. I knew it wasn't gonna open anytime soon but it gave me
somewhere to think by myself.

	I think I was there for half an hour or something when I heard
someone say, "Isaac what are you doing here?" I looked up to see Anthony
and Lucas with Anthony's dog Flare, "Shouldn't you be at home with your
family?"

	"I was... Then my sister decided to be a bitch." My eyes never left
Flare.

	Lucas noticed, "Anthony go run Flare I'll talk to Isaac." He nodded
and ran off with Flare leading the way. "So what happened?"

	I explained everything to him. He sat there and listened the entire
time. When I finished I felt a lot better about the whole thing. "Thanks
for listening to me rant about my life."

	"Oh it's okay. I know where you come from. I have a little sister
and She's a bitch and a half sometimes too." I didn't know that Lucas had a
little sister. "She's only my stepsister. She is in your grade though, Rita
Good."

	"She's your sister!? She's a bitch! She's in my English and she
always corrects grammar, even the teacher's!"

	"Rita is a grammar Nazi." We both had a chuckle. "Listen though, I
think if you were to talk to your parents one on one you would win. Now if
your sister is a bitch enough to not let that happen. Sorry I tried."

	"It's okay." Suddenly Flare was running right at us. My eyes went
wide but before I could even move Flare was licking my face and practically
over me. So I as any other person with a fear of dogs started to scream and
flail myself.

	Lucas got flare off of me and I back away into a corner looking at
the dog in fear. "I'm so sorry Isaac! Flare just bolted and she wouldn't
listen." Anthony put the leash on her and tied her up to a post. "She
didn't hurt you did she?"

	"No..." I got up and started walking home. My eyes not leaving the
dog's. "Lucas you finish Flare's run I'll walk Isaac home."

	So Anthony escorted me home and everything got sorted out. Now I
was grounded for leaving like that but other than that nothing happened. In
fact Jennifer was grounded from the computer cause they believed me.

	Even though I think I almost died from my encounter with Flare,
Christmas was overall... really good.


	Shane's POV – Christmas Eve

	This will mark my first Christmas ever with a boyfriend! So I
managed to convince Scott and Paula to have it at Zach's house. So in total
there will be Zach and his Aunt, Noah, Scott, Paula, Larrissa, Connor and
myself all at Zach's place for Christmas dinner!!! I'm excited!

	But that's not till tomorrow, today we have family time! So Noah is
back from college and Larrissa is back from university. Connor's girlfriend
went to visit her parents for Christmas so he' hanging out with us. So
tonight for Christmas Eve its just a normal night, for the most part.

	So I was sitting in my room when Larrissa walked in, "How is little
Shane one this fine X-mas Eve?"

	"I'm not little." I huffed

	She laughed, "Ahh but you are the smallest here." She's barely
taller than me and loves mentioning it. "It's okay though, it just makes
you more loveable."

	"What does Miss University want with the lowly grade 9?"
Okay... probably should have asked that nicer. I ended up on the floor with
a thud. When I went to glare at her she already had her eyes closed and her
tongue out.

	Noah from his room just shouted, "Shane stop picking on the big
kids!"

	"Stay out of my business Noah!" I got up onto my bed again and gave
her a little push back. "So what's up?"

	"So I heard you got yourself a boyfriend."

	Seriously this is coming up now? "Ya since September."

	"Hey every time I've been in town its been, 'oh hey see ya later
going to hang out with my boyfriend!' and you leave..." She mimicked my
voice in the middle part of that.

	So I laid down on my stomach to day dream about Zach, "Zachy is
amazing! He's very smart and super into brand names. He's got a closet
filled with more cloths that you!"

	"Girly-boy got it."

	"He's not girly... He doesn't even have a 'gay accent' as you call
them."

	"I don't know what else to call it. Its and accent to me. Anyways I
guess I'll meet him tomorrow anyways." She gave me a pat on the head and
started to leave, "Just watch out for yourself okay Shane?"

	"Stop mothering me and maybe I will. I'm very rebellious, you
know." That gave her a good laugh before she left the room.

	I hope Christmas with Zach doesn't turn into a bad idea. I just
hope everyone gets along and nothing goes wrong. Holidays are meant for
happy memories.

	Chapter end


	So here is the 1st of three holiday chapters. The next ones will
come as soon as I'm done them. Remember after these chapters the speed of
the story will increase. But before that, there will be some other stuff.

	So next chapter will complete Zach and Shane's Christmas. As well
as Kale's and Lucas and Anthony's. I might do a little thing for Tanis
again... Do you want me too? Email me and tell me yes or no... or just send
me a question/comment/concern to kuragari129@hotmail.com. Or send a message
to the facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/LifesExpectations.

	I hope you enjoyed that chapter and I will get the next one out
Asap!

	Thanks for reading!