And before Lisa could even get him into trouble for swearing he had picked Sal up and was hugging the life outta him.
"Oh my god Sally thank you!" He said once he had put the boy down and it was then Sal noticed tears in Larry's eyes.
"No problem dude." Sal replied.
No one could see it but Sal was smiling so much his cheeks hurt. This was exactly the reaction he'd hoped for, but better. It was then that Larry handed over his present to Sal.
"It's not as good as what you got me but here." He said.
It was 2 Sanity Falls t-shirts. One red one, one black one. They looked great. There was also a pair of earrings. Circles with 'SF' in the middle.
"I love them. Thanks Larry." Sal said with a smile.
"There's one more." Said Lisa handing him a rectangular present. "It's from both of us."
Sal ripped off the paper.
It was a photo frame. And inside it was a photo of Sal, Larry and Lisa. Sal remembered the day it was taken. It had probably been the best day of his life.
And suddenly he was crying. Tears dropped into the photo from under his mask.
"You alright Sal?" Larry asked.
"I-I love it." Sally said before letting out a sob.
He really did love these people. More than anything else in this world.
Both Larry and Lisa wrapped their arms around Sal so it was now a group hug. Lisa had tears in her eyes and Larry was almost crying too. Sally clutched onto them for dear life. If anything were to happen to these people, well.... he wouldn't know what he'd do.
The rest of the day was amazing, after exchanging presents with Todd and Chug they went outside for a snowball fight. Well, more like a snowball war with the aggression that Larry put into it. After the fight Sally made the excuse that he'd forgotten something at his apartment and made his way into the elevator clutching his gifts. He got to his door and opened it to find his dad sitting on the couch, as usual. But there were no beer bottles except one half-empty one in his hand. He was so focused on what he was watching that he didn't even notice Sally until he closed the door. Sally then noticed that he was watching an old video of his wedding day, Sal's mom stood looking into the camera, smiling. She looked beautiful. He walked past his dad and into his room where he lay the t-shirts and posters on his bed and placed the photo frame on his bedside table. He walked back out of his room to see his dad holding a photo of his mom.
"Did Larry like his presents?" He asked. His tone was calm which meant he wasn't drunk or hungover. That was a change.
"Yeah, he loved them."
"I still cannot believe that I let you take the money for those tickets out of your savings for that skin graft."
"I'd rather be happy than look good." Sally said.
Henry seemed to stop for a moment before looking up at his son. He walked over and gave him a hug.
"You're a good kid Sal."
Sally hugged him back.
"Do you want to come down for dinner? Lisa won't mind, in fact she'll be glad to see you."
"Nah it's alright. I'll be fine up here, I'm not really doing the best anyways. You go have fun Sal."
Sally hugged his dad one last time before he left the apartment and got in the elevator again.
To put it simply, the Christmas dinner Lisa prepared was probably one of the best things Sal had ever ate. He stayed at their apartment way past midnight to the point where it was now a Christmas sleepover. Sally went back to his apartment to grab his pjs and to find his dad asleep. 'He'll be fine' he thought.
It was 4am and the 2 boys were still watching movies on the TV in Larry's room. They were wrapped around each other under a blanket. Eventually they went to bed. Sal fell asleep first and for a while Larry just lay there and looked at him. He kissed Sal's forehead.
"Merry Christmas Sally Face."
And then he closed his eyes.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! I hope you all have a great day coz you all deserve it. I also hope you liked this slightly longer and festive chapter :)
There will definitely be a New Years chapter which you can also look forward to.
Also...... I've started writing another Sallarry story. In this book Sally is selectively mute and Larry is basically his voice. I'm really happy with the first chapter but I don't think I should publish it while this book is still ongoing. I would like to publish it when I finish this book but tbh idk when that'll be coz I have no idea where the story is going lol.
So merry christmas. I'll see you in the next chapter. :)
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Also here's some really bad art I did. Larry looks a lot better lol - even tho his mole is on the wrong side :'(
