~December 25~
Something licking my face woke me up. I opened my eyes and Koda was licking peanut butter off my face. Jared was giggling in the background. I pushed Koda away and scanned the room for Jared. He stood by the door, now bent over due to laughing. I got up and went to my bathroom to clean my face off.
Jared wasn't in my room when I came back out, neither was the dog. I sighed and went downstairs. The end of the stairs reached the kitchen, which was decorated for Christmas. The whole house was covered in Christmas decorations. I scratched at my head as I walked to the living room.
Jared sat on the floor next to the white Christmas tree covered in gold ornaments. Many wrapped up presents sat under the tree. Last night I put out my presents to give to Jared, there wasn't as many of these last night. I think Jared went a little overboard.
"Good morning!" He sang happily. He looked over to the presents next to him. "I may have gotten a bit much. Um, shall we start?" Jared asked, setting hid hand on a present.
I nodded, but then I went to the kitchen for a garbage bag. May have just been my family, and the tiny living room, the wrapping paper gets everywhere. And it's not fun to clean after. I came back to the living room, Jared was pouting on the floor.
"Oh, thought you left me."
I shook my head and crawled next to Jared. He grabbed a present, shook it a little, and then tore the paper off. He opened the plastic box inside, he unwrapped a little notebook with star constellations on the covers.
"Aw, thank you. " He scanned over the wrapped boxes until he picked one and handed it to me.
My stupid self struggled to get the wrapping off of the rectangular box. I squealed when I read the box. It was a zen garden, but it was in a coffin shape and it had red sand.
"You like it?" Jared slowly asked.
I nodded very quickly and attacked him in a hug. He set me in his lap, facing him sideways, while he picked up another box. By the shape of the wrapping its probably one of the two stuffed animals. Surprisingly, he slowly ripped the wrapping paper off. A small round frog was under the wrapping. I knew he was very fond of the one I have.
"Hey, it's the one you have. Thank you." Jared bit his lip and looked over at the pile of presents. "Let's eat breakfast and then we can open more, sound good?"
I nodded, even though I didn't want to. I'd rather just keep opening the presents, like I used to with my other "family".
"Oh, hey, we're going to Jensen's at 3:30."
And it was already twelve. I sighed and followed Jared to the kitchen, I'd much rather spend the whole day with Jared. But I dint want to cause any problems. Jared also said Tom, Shep and Odette will be here tomorrow. So that means the house is going to be cleaned, again.
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After devouring three pancakes Jared went right back to opening presents. I just went back to my spot on his lap. Wrapping paper was scattered around the floor so I moved to put it in the trash bag.
"Hey, no." I turned to look at Jared, did I do something wrong? "C'mon, open your presents."
I crawled back over to the tree and picked up an rectangular box. The box underneath the paper was white, a necklace box. I quickly pulled the tape off and a black Moljnir symbol necklace laid on the foam in the box. I squealed and Jared helped to clip the necklace on me.
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When we got to Jensen's we left the presents in Jared's truck. Jensen immediately answered the door when Jared knocked. As usual they greeted each other first, then briefly greeted me before moving out of the doorway to let us in. Again, as usual Jensen's kids attacked Jared in hugs, and I went to the kitchen to sit on the counter.
Danneel was in the kitchen, making food in the oven. I hoped onto the counter, silently watching Danneel cook. She started to cut a block of cheese with a butcher knife. She turned around and gasped.
"Oh, I didn't see you there." Her face lit up a little and she set the knife down. She moved to the fridge and took two things out. A large bowl of chocolate and a package of strawberries. She dipped a strawberry into the chocolate and handed it to me. "Taste it, Is the chocolate good?"
I don't really like strawberries but I still ate some. Nodding my head at the sweet, smooth chocolate. She put the dark chocolate away and brought out a white chocolate. I dipped a strawberry in, and again, the chocolate was perfect.
"Thank you, I just needed a second opinion."
She put the things away and went back to cutting the cheese. Jensen walked in, grabbing water from the fridge and stood next to me.
"Hey Sam? Can you get the other blocks of cheese?"
I opened the fridge again and grabbed two more blocks from the bottom shelf. She thanked me when I opened them and have one to her. I held the last block until she asked for it. She then asked me to put the slices onto a glass plate, and to put it into the fridge. Danneel then asked me to open the bag of potatoes, and to skin them the best I can.
"Don't worry Sam, I'll pay you." Danneel said when she was checking the turkey.
"Why not me?" Jensen playfully whined.
"Because Sam is the only person that helped me today, and they're a guest."
"Okay, Sam you can stop. I'll take over."
I held up the potato peeler and gave Jensen a death stare.
"Or not." Jensen walked away after that.
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The dinner was nice. Like on Thanksgiving I didn't touch the turkey, but I ate everything else. The Mashed potatoes, dinner rolls with a lot of butter, nobody really touched the cheese so I ate most of it. I was eating my 5th dinner roll on the couch as I waited for people to get the other presents ready. After opening presents we'll be eating dessert and watching a movie.
Jared called me to help him so I shoved the rest of the bread in my mouth and followed him outside. I can carry all of the presents I'm giving out in two trips. Jared, again, went overload and went out four times.
Once everyone was siting down now the grown ups were talking. I wasn't paying attention to them. The conversation didn't seem interesting anyway. Jensen's and Danneel's kids were quietly talking amongst themselves, and picking at the wrapping paper of their presents.
"Oh, I'm sorry guys, you can open your presents, if you want of course." Jensen apologized.
The kids attacked their presents, including Jared of course. I was observing everyone instead of opening presents. I cought Jensen staring at me, he then nodded to my small stack of presents.
"Cars!" Zeppelin shouted. "Who gave me cars!?"
I gulped, I don't think he likes them. I shoved my feelings down and raised my hand.
"Thank you! I have so many now!" He happily screeched.
I smiled and opened a present from Danneel. A huge spiral sketchbook, alongwith water color pencils. A presents from Jensen, mechanical pencils and another sketchbook. An unmarked present, erasers and a mini sketchbook. The last two were coloring books, and you guessed it, a sketchbook.
I laughed at my stack of sketchbooks. But thank the Gods for the hand held erasers, my old one is almost out. Jensen rushed out of the room, but he then came back with a large paper bag and gave it to me.
"I forgot something, sorry. And uh, nice sketchbooks."
I glared at him but then I went the the bag. It was full of necklaces and rings.
"Those are chewable necklaces and rings. Me and Jared decided that those could help you not chew on your fingers."
'Thank you!'
Jensen acwardly nodded and sat back down on the couch. I smirked at Jared, he pulled his phone out. My middle brother always wraps his presents weird. Either the paper is wrinkled, the paper is torn or doesn't fit right, or it's wrapped in duct tape and zip ties.
I pulled the "present" out of my pocket. It was a necklace box, wrapped in layers of duct tape and a whole pack of zip ties. On the top was wrapping paper, many layers of it, too.
I bit my lip to stop myself from smiling while I gave it to Jensen.
"Oh, thanks bud."
He peeled off the first of the five layers of wrapping paper. He glanced at me, a small scowl mixed with it. He sighed and ripped the second layer off.
"Okay, what are you up to?" He said sternly.
All I did was shrug. Jensen shook his head and pulled the last layer off. He slowly looked up at me, he was pissed.
"Sam, what the hell." Everyone in the room broke out into laughter, except for Jensen. "I can cut it off, anyways."
Poor, poor man. There is no spot to cut the zip ties. I don't even think there is a spot he can cut through. Even if he gets through the zip ties I duct taped the lid to the bottom.
Throughout the movie he tried to get through the zip ties. He got through some, he struggled with the ones in the middle.
When the movie ended Jared began to record Jensen again.
"Sam-" Jensen whined.
I rolled my eyes and took the box. He game me his pocket knife and a stabed a hole in one if the ends. I gave him his knife back and put my fingers through the hole. I pulled apart the box, makeing most of the zip ties come flying off. I searched for the necklace and ring inside and gave it to him. He looked at ne with puppy eyes.
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Back at home I now lay in my bed, with many new stuffed animals and blankets. It was nearly one in the morning. And here I am, whide awake. I don't usually get nightmares but when I do they get bad. Or just plain put weird. Like that one time I wad eaten by Tuscan Sam. But then the actually scary ones, just like that one when I saw myself get eaten by zombies and saw myself cut open, all the way, straight down the middle.
I tossed and turned for thirty more minutes before I got up. I went across the hall into Jared's room, I crawled into his warm bed. He laid on his back so I put my head on his chest. He groaned and turned his back to me. I sadly sighed, even someone sleeping turns me away.