~Minty~
I yawned and rubbed my eyes with my small hands. I sat up in my bed seeing Peanuts, Maya and Edgar waking up and yawning like I did. Then I remembered what today was. CHRISTMAS!
"It's Christmas guys!" I cheered throwing my arms up in the air. Next thing I knew so here it is merry Christmas started playing and my Dad came in singing along. I started laughing and pointed a finger at my hilarious Dad who was wearing a Santa hat, a Christmas jumper with a snowman smoking a cigarette as well as a big pocket on the front and Christmas tree shaped sunglasses while holding up a camera. He said he was making a Christmas video and I wanted to help which I knew would be fun.
"Good morning Minty! Merry Christmas!" He cheered and I cheered too. Peanuts jumped off my bed disturbed when I scrambled out of bed excited. Dad turned down the song that was playing on his phone as my feet hit the floor.
"It's Christmas Dad! It's Christmas Dad! Our first family Christmas! Where's Mom I wanna give her the present we got!" I was so excited I spoke really really quickly. I didn't have much money, some allowance from America that Mom and Dad converted into the UK's currency, but I was able to buy Mom a gift with help from Dad. I did the same with Mom for Dad too and I was excited to give them their presents.
"Yep, it's gonna be great. Your Mom is still sleeping, so, do you wanna come get her up with me?" Dad asked and I nodded grinning. Dad grinned to then stepped out of the way so I could run out my room, down the hall and into my parents room. Mom was just getting up putting her grey dressing gown on. She smiled when she saw me but I was pouting a little.
"Hey Mintypie, it's Christmas morning you excited?" she asked walking towards me.
"Dad said I could wake you up." I said hearing Dad's footsteps behind me.
"Aww, that's mean of him. Well we'll not let your dad eat any of the chocolate we got." Mom said then laughed wickedly me joining in when Dad gasped.
"That is not nice at all! I want some Christmas chocolate!" Dad protested pointing he camera from me to Mom.
"You might be able to get some if you serve the Christmas dinner." Mom smiled playfully at Dad who nodded then stepped towards Mom.
"Can I have a kiss under the mistletoe first please?" He asked sneaking a bit of mistletoe out of the pocket on his jumper and held it above their heads while he puckered his lips and shut his eyes tightly. I frowned and shook my head at my Dad's cliché move on Mom then stole the camera from him and pointed it at them so it would record Mom giving Dad a kiss on the cheek and Dad then returning it but making it longer.
"AWWWW!" I exclaimed at the cuteness of them hoping Billy would do something cute like this when we talked on Skype later today.
"Merry Christmas Marzia." Dad whispered lovingly.
"Merry Christmas," Mom said back then took one of Dad's hands. "Now come on! Let's all open our presents!" She cheered and lead Dad down the hall to the top of the stairs. I pointed the camera up at the following them with the dogs appearing from out of my room tails all wagging.
"Hey guys!" I said in a happy voice pointing the camera at them. We went down the stairs and right into the living room.
The tree was up and lit up on the corner of the room and look fantastic with its silver tinsel and red and silver decorations and star on the very top. There were presents wrapped up in colourful paper and were different sizes all around the bottom of the tree.
"I'm going to make some toast." Dad said taking the camera from me so I could sit down in front of the presents and find the ones I got for my Mom and Dad.
"I got them before we went out shopping that time and went to the scan. I got the cards too before, I'm wanted to be organised since I've never got Christmas presents or cards for parents before." I told Mom putting the two presents separate from the rest.
"Aww, did you ever get anything for Nora with your brothers and sisters in the orphanage?" She asked me sitting on the couch, Maya lay down on the ground at Mom's feet.
"We would put our money together to buy the best present for Nora even if we only had a couple of dollars and we would all sign a card too." I told them while Edgar and Peanuts sniffed the presents. The smell of toast started to creep into the room signally Dad had got the toast on and was in the process of making it.
"That's sweet, which one is mine?" She asked and I pointed to the present that was clearly some kind of piece of clothing but I still hoped my Mom liked it.
"It was kinda hard to wrap up..." I admitted making her laugh as I handed the present that had what most people would think is way too much for that one present, but Mom didn't care she said thank you and smiled so happy at it.
"Can I open it now?" She asked.
"Of course Mom who else would? Edgar?" I joked both of us laughing. She opened it to reveal the soft white scarf that had small blue and black spots splatted like paint on paper near the bottom edges of it. Mom lifted it out of the paper feeling the material with her fingertips.
"What did she get you?" Dad asking walking into the room one had holding the camera the other holding a plate of toast.
"A beautiful scarf." Mom said still admiring it then held it up showing it to the camera.
"Wow," Dad said then put the plate of toast down on the arm of the chair. I grabbed my Dad's present and stood up as quickly as I could, nearly falling over as I did then held it out with both my hands to him.
"Happy Christmas Dad." I said while he handed Mom the camera.
"Thanks, oh god I wonder what it is!" He said excited as he knelt down in front of me to my level gently taking the present from me. Dad's present was easier to wrap since it was square shaped so it didn't have too much tape on it. He chuckled though reading what the packaging had on it in big cartoon like words.
"Beard maintaining kit huh?" He looked up at me smiling and I nodded.
"Your beard is growing, so I thought it would be a good idea." I shrugged and he chuckled again.
"It was, there's some cream to keep it shiny and healthy, clippers to keep it trimmed nice and neat, a comb to keep it in place and, haha, a book on different styles for your beard and how to do them." He got the book out of the packaging that was holding it all together.
"I looked it up on the Internet and found out there was a Viking style one!" I gushed and my Dad threw his head back laughing and Mom laughed too.
"We'll have to get him to do that style one day." Mom said both me and Dad looking at him and I nodded agreeing with her. They both opened their cards too, which were both big and had adorable Christmassy bears on them doing Christmas activities like eating Christmas pudding or building a snow man or pulling Christmas crackers. They both thanked me for them and we had a group hug with Dad picking me up so I was the same height as them when they both stood up.
"Open your presents now Mintypie." Mom encouraged and I grinned even more so excited while my Dad put me down, I've never been more excited in my life! The first one was a big one that had a new Wii U and some games including Mario Kart.
Dad and I had to play that as a competition later on and we were both determined to win. They also got me a YouTube t-shirt which I really loved and changed into when we got dressed to eat our Christmas dinner and finished filming for Christmas, and got me a pink toy unicorn that had a fedora on.
"Hey! This is like that t-shirt I have!" I exclaimed holding the toy in front of me.
"Yeah, we found it in a shop that sold a lot of strange stuff and this toy was one of them." Dad told me.
"It's a friend for toy Peanuts!" Mom cheered and I cheered too.
"Thank you so much Mom and Dad." I said hugging the toy tightly then got up to hug Dad who was still resting on his knees. He nearly fell over when I did but he just laughed more and hugged me back.
"No problem kiddo." He said back then I quickly pulled away to give Mom a not-as-aggressive hug which she gave back rubbing my head with one of her hands.
"Okay, you guys finish your toast, get dressed and I'll serve up the Christmas dinner." Dad told me and Mom and we did so hearing Dad singing along to Christmas songs he was playing on his phone downstairs. I put my red YouTube shirt on they got me like I planned with some blue jeans and my green laced up high top boots. Green and red are both traditional Christmas colours so that was cool I suppose. Mom looked more Christmassy with a pretty red silk blouse on that had ties on the front and long sleeves that were made of lace, she also put on a flowing black skirt that had to be loose because of her baby bump. The skirt had a little snowman on the bottom that was looking happy, and she had black pumps on too. Her makeup was really pretty and perfect with red lipstick and nice eye eye makeup.
"Mom will you do my hair please?" I asked handing her my hairbrush and a hair tie. She nodded quickly brushing my ginger hair into place then tied it back into a pony tail. I thanked her and returned my brush to my room then ran back out of my room and down the stairs.
"Minty be careful you don't fall!" Mom called following me slowly down the stairs. I didn't say anything back to Mom and ran into the kitchen to see Dad serving up the vegetables he cooked for our Christmas dinner.
"Did you Mom just say something to you?" He asked me looking at me sideways.
"Yeah." I shrugged.
"Do you know what it was?" He asked me getting the oven gloves on.
"No..." I said quieter. He looked at me frowning like he was disappointed almost.
"Minty that's rude sweetheart, you need to go find out what she said." Dad told me off. I looked down feeling guilty since all Mom was doing was looking out for me like Mom would do.
"Okay Dad..." I muttered back. I felt a hand on my head ruffling my hair a little then looked up to see Mom behind me.
"Your Dad is right sweetie." She told me.
"I know, sorry Mom." I said hugging her best I could clinging to her leg almost. Mom rubbed my shoulders a little before kind of hugging me back.
"It's okay, now come on Felix! We need to eat!" Mom encouraged clapping her hands.
"Okay I will! If you both set the table." Dad told us. Mom and I both said okay then set the table. We had Christmas crackers and a nice Christmas table cloth and Mom even put Christmas songs on a speaker. Dad eventually started bring plates of food in getting me to bring plates we would eat of and glasses for drinks. The last thing he brought in was the chicken that looked absolutely delicious! Dad put food on my plate for me with me telling him how much I wanted of each thing he had. There were potatoes, broccoli, carrots, leaks, cauliflower, Yorkshire puddings and of course the chicken. We pulled our Christmas crackers and put on the colour paper hats, that were almost ripping, but they were nice. Mom got a pack of playing cards in her cracker, I got a small slinky and Dad got a weird plastic fish that was suppose to be able to tell what mood you were in by the way it moved when you held it in your hand. The jokes we got in the crackers were all bad, but still made us all laugh.
After dinner Dad got the camera again and a guitar he got from who knows where. I set up the camera in the living room sitting in between my parents all still with our hats on after I pressed record.
"Hey bros, merry Christmas!" Dad began ready to play the guitar. Mom and I waved saying merry Christmas together.
"We have a Kjellberg family Christmas carol written by Minty to sing." Dad added as Mom put a little toy xylophone on her knee and picked up
the stick to play it with. I brought this idea up while we were eating and I had to be honest and say we were kind of improvising here.
"One, two, three," Dad counted us in and began to strum on the guitar strings with Mom playing a steady one beat note on the xylophone. The carol I 'wrote' was a version of twelve days of Christmas, and I sung it from twelve like this.
"On the twelfth day of Christmas,
Peanuts sent to me,
Twelve free hugs,
Eleven selfies with puga and Edgar,
Ten glasses of Apple juice,
Nine gaming videos,
Eight walking dead t-shirts,
Seven pairs of my mom's heels,
Six pairs of my dad's headphones,
FIVE, PICTURES OF BILLY!
Four Pokemon onesies,
Three unicorns in fedoras,
Two epic bro fists,
And a red little dicky bow tie!" I sung the last line at the top of my lungs and Dad strummed hard doing a solo.
"MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM THE KJELLBERGS! HOPE YOU ENJOYED!" Mom cheered holding the xylophone stick in the air like a rockstar.
"LIKE IT! SHARE IT! SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNELS!" I cheered doing a thumbs up then pointed down like I was pointing to the share button and subscribe button.
"WE'LL SEE YOU SOON! BRO FIST!" Dad ended the video with us all doing bro fists towards the camera. It ended being the best Christmas I ever had.
Hey superheroes ITS CHRISTMAS AND I UPDATE! YAAAAAAAAAAY!
So so sorry that it had been awhile, over a month actually ahaha...I'm so bad. BUT NOW I HAVE! AND THIS STORY HAS OVER 145,000 READS! Thank you so very much for that! And I hope this Christmas you are happy and smile, it doesn't matter what you got or who you are with just smile! Be happy! Do something that makes you smile because smiles equals happiness and happiness equals positivity and positivity can equal a better world! Even if it is something small do it if it make you smile!
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Have a very merry Christmas and even if you don't celebrate Christmas have a happy day! (If you are ahead, happy Boxing Day or happy whatever the day of the week you are reading this on of it is not Christmas).
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And quick question, what is your favourite Christmas song? Mine is Christmas Lights by Coldplay, Coldplay have really grown on me this year and me and my friends have decided we want to see them live one day. But anyways, Merry Christmas and a happy new year! PEACE!