(Christmas Eve)

I wake up, take a shower, and immediately start cooking food.  I might as well get everything that can be done early, done.  It will save time later.  Sarah gets up later and helps me bake cookies, we finally get them all done when the guys arrive.

"So, where are we sleeping?  Do you have enough room for all of us?"  Nick asks throwing down his bag.

"I'll work something out."  I say to him.  AJ walks in and gives me a kiss on the cheek.

"I got your present, you're going to love it."  He says.

"Oh really?!?  What is it?"  I ask with a smile.

"Nice try love, but it isn't going to work."  AJ says.  I lean up against him and kiss him on the lips.

He says, "It isn't going to work, you'll just have to wait until morning."

I frown and say, "Aw, nuts."  Brian walks in with a big bag over his shoulder.

"What's that?"  Sarah and I ask.

"It's the presents for everyone."  Brian says putting the bag down next to the tree.  Sarah and I look at each other and smile.

"So our presents are in there?"  We asks.  Brian shakes his head yes.  Sarah and I run for the bag, but Howie and Kevin stop us.

AJ smiles and says to me, "Babe, that wouldn't help you anyway.  You present from me isn't in there."

I look confused and say, "Then were is it?"

"Like I'm going to tell you, I know you, you'll get hold of it somehow."  He says smiling.  I walk down the hall and try to figure out how we are going to work all of this out.  I decide that Sarah and I will sleep on the couch and the guys and split up between the two rooms.  But the guys don't like the idea of stealing our beds.
As it gets later and later, the excitement fills up inside me, Christmas is my favorite holiday.  Sarah and I are in the kitchen putting things away.  I go to check on the guy and I find them in a lot of different places.
I walk into the living room and see Howie sleeping on the loveseat, and AJ's asleep on the couch.  I walk down the hall; Nick is in Sarah's bedroom, asleep on the bed along with Brian.  Kevin's in my room getting ready to nod off.  I wake everyone up and tell them to go get dressed for bed(since they are still in their clothes).  After a while I notice that they haven't came out to say goodnight.  So Sarah and I walk back to my room, I open the door and see them all piled on my bed watching TV.

"What's going on here?"  Sarah asks.

"We're not tired anymore."  Howie and Kevin say.

"WHAT?!?"  Sarah and I exclaim.

"Well, I guess our little naps got all of the tired out of us."  Nick says.

"You guys can be so odd sometimes."  Sarah says as we walk out of the room.  Sarah and I walk into the living room to talk.

She says, "You know, this is so weird, it's like we're dreaming all of this."

I smile and say, "Yeah I know.  I never imagined that we could have it this good.  We have great jobs, a great apartment, great boyfriends, and great friends."

Sarah gets stands up and says, "Well, I'm going to go to bed."

"OK.  I'm going to stay here for a little while."  I say.

"Why?"  Sarah asks.

"Oh, I just want to think about some things."  I say.

Sarah walks back to her bedroom and goes to bed.  I lay on the couch and stare at the tree.  I think to myself 'this is the best Christmas I've ever had.  Nothing can go wrong.'  Then I slowly drift to sleep.
Later on in the night, Nick gets up to go to the bathroom; waking Howie up.  Howie gets up and walks into the living room to look at the tree, then he sees me sleeping on the couch.  Howie walks over to the couch and sits down next to me.

Howie softly whispers, "Lil sis, you've made this the best Christmas ever."    Then he picks me up and carries me into Sarah's room.  He lays me down on the bed next to her.  Then he gets up and walks out.

I wake up to Sarah's arm slapping me in the face.

"What the...?"  I say as I move her arm.  Then I realize it's Christmas morning and I jump out of bed.  Apparently Sarah realizes it too, because she gets up quickly.  We run across the hall and push the door open.  The guys are asleep on my bed.  Sarah and I look at each other, smile, and then run for the bed.  Sarah and I jump on the top of the guys.

"Come on you guys, it's Christmas morning.  It's a tradition to get up early."  Sarah yells out.