~ The Christmas Party ~

John jumped up as a snowball landed in his face. He quickly wiped off the wet, cold snow from his face before staring at Sinbad in shock. Was he serious?
He smirked a little looking at him. If this was how he wanted it to be.
He picked up a snowball of his own and threw it straight towards Sinbad, a little bit harder than he should've, but he wasn't going to go easy on him.

Eric's eyes opened, totaly. His heart missed a beat, a big.
Outside. He was outside.
He fell his heart beat, faster, his skin shiver under the little wind. He was outside and he couldn't believe his luck.
A tear felt and he smiled.

she avoided to laugh, watching them play snowballs, just to not disturb them: yeah, they really had to be engaged... probably John had had sex with her because he had fighted with his boyfriend! That was a possibility... But she didn't want to break their moment, slowly she walked a bit away and hide herself behind a tree: she wasn't really hidden, it was still possible see her if somebody wanted to see her, but it wasn't that evident that she was there.

Sinbad laughed as the snowball hit John. He gestured for him to join in.
As soon as the snowball had hit his shoulder, Sinbad quickly bent down to make another snowball and threw it at John.

John quickly jumped to his side, having the snowball miss by an inch. He smirked teasingly.
"Can't you do better than that?" he laughed and launched another snowball, which hit Sinbad right in the chest. Luckily, he hadn't thrown this snowball as hard as the first one.

They continued like that for a while. Throwing snowball after snowball. Some hitting right on, some missing. Sinbad hadn't had so much for in a long while. He had spend a lot of time sleeping lately so it felt great to finally get some exercise.

ooc: lol omg! snowball fight between Sinbad and John! I LOVE IT!! xD

Shang did a short bow and shook Pocahontas's hand. It's nice to meet to, Kenai, Pocahontas." He went to Snow and took her hand. He leaned in and whispered, "I'm going to go over by the tree. Try to mingle with some others." He laughed at Charlotte as she began stuttering, "and I'll probably take miss stuttering with me. You'll be okay?"

He waited for Snow's sweet response, kissed her, and then maneuvered Charlotte over by the tree. "Didn't think you would be so shy miss glamorous," He joked as he stared at a red envelope with his name on it. He took a deep breath and pulled it off the tree. Why red?

Pocahontas smiled at Charlotte, "It's great to see you again, too. Merry Christmas." She said, hugging her. She then looked at Kenai, smiling, before looking back at Shang and Charlotte. Though she lifted an eyebrow when he kissed Snow, and walked off with Charlotte..

What the?

She shrugged it off, looking back at Kenai.

A while into the snowball fight John started forgetting where he was and who with. All he focused on was having fun for a change, and it wasn't long before he laughed out loud as he dodged snowballs and threw ball after ball in Sinbad's direction. He couldn't remember the last time he had a snowball fight, if he had ever had one, and the feeling of just being free and having fun was amazing.
Sinbad threw yet another snowball, and in an attempt at dodging it, John slipped on some ice and fell into the snow-covered ground. He wasn't hurt, he had landed on soft snow, and he was still laughing. Though he knew this might make him loose the snowball fight if he didn't get up fast, and he was laughing too hard to get up right now.

Charlotte laughed while blushing. She really was shy to people she didn't know. Specially when they were in a group like that.
"It feels like I havn't seen you in months!" she said eventually, overly happy about being with Shang again. Time really did pass slowly in a place like this.

He watched the man kiss Snow, and then walk of with another girl. That was odd to him, but he wasn't sure if he should react to it. He looked back at Pocahontas, and kissed her sweetly to her lips. "Should we go eat now?"

Oh, those two were so cute together... Jul couldn't help but me amused and softened by the scene. It was probably a bad idea stay, at least it was kinda unpolite spy them hidden under a tree, but she was afraid that, if she had moved, she would have been noticed and so she would have interrupted them. Even if she was still wondering about what to do, she remained where she was, looking at them

Pocahontas blushed, kissing him back. She nodded to him, "We will be back Cindy, Snow.." She said, smiling as she walked off with Kenai to get some food. But, before she saw her name on a green envelope. She took it, looking at it, "I wonder what green means." Pocahontas said, before looking at Kenai, "Do you see your name on any envelope?"

Lilo slowly woke up. Sher heard the happy voices around her and curled herself into a ball, pressing her hands on her ears. She didn't want to hear them... It hurt.

Finally she sighed and opened her eyes slowly. They were empty. The shimmer in her eyes was dead. She sat on the place where she awoke and watched the others. Lilo wrapped her arms around her knees.

There was no happy Christmas feeling inside her.

When Sinbad saw John slipping it was an opportunity he wouldn't miss. He quickly ran over to John. He was an easy offer when he was laying on the ground. As he got over there he started covering John with the snow surrounding him.

He saw the envelopes and picked up the one with his name on it. "A yellow card? Wonder what that means?" He said leading her to the food, filling his plate up. He smiled at Pocahontas. "It's so nice to have some good food for a change."

"Same here..." Shang said absent-mindedly as he examined the envelope with a sense of dread. "Hmm John didn't look like he was a native to China. Why do you think he would use a Chinese New Year tradition on Christmas?" He looked to Charlotte and saw her also pick up a red envelope.

He couldn't possibly make him stop or fight him off, but he knew what else he could do.
As Sinbad reached his arms out to cover him with more snow, John quickly grabbed his wrist and pulled him into the snow with him, before holding him down, giving Sinbad a taste of his own medicine.

Pocahontas shrugged, before smiling as she filled her plate up, eating the food. She made a face that showed she was happy, "It's nice to eat something other then bread for a chance." She said, laughing softly. Pocahontas smiled at him sweetly.

He smiled widely at her. "I know right." He smiled as he ate. He took a glance at all the people there. "So you know all these people?" He said looking around the garden.

"What do you mean?" she asked as Shang mentioned chinese traditions. She didn't see what that had to do with any of this.
She picked up her red envelope and opened it. There was a red card inside.
"What do you think it means...?" she asked scared. With John you never knew, and you could never feel safe when something like this happened. Specially not when it was red, the color mostly associated with danger...

Sinbad shouted out in surprise as John grabbed his wrist and pulled him towards him. Sinbad and John rolled around on the ground. Their clothes got slightly wet as they were both battling for dominance. Sinbad started breathing heavier in between his laughs. The air surrounding them was cold, but they were both heated up in the moment.

Pocahontas looked around, "Some of them.." She said, looking around to see if Jasmine or Thrax was here. She hadn't seen them, which kind of made her relieved. Pocahontas smiled, "I'm glad to see the snow again."

Lilo sighed and stood up. She walked slowly around, seeing a lot of people she shared a room with. Everyone seemed so happy. She felt alone...
Her view felt on the giant Christmas tree. Well, for her he was giant. Lilo slowly walked towards him and surrounded him. A card with her name fell in her view. She bit her lip and took it in her hands. Without opening it she walked again around, humming quietly.

Jul kept looking at them, with a tender smile on her lips: oh, they were so cute together! "Are they going to ahve sex?" asked to herself "Wouldn't it be uncomfortable in the snow?" she neither tought to stop watching at them, nor that maybe it would have been better leave now, she didn't want to disturb or interrupt them, but nothing more. After all, shame and privacy wasn't exactly two well known words for a stripper, expecially if the stripper were Jul...

Jasmine woke up. (OOC:Nehe ignore the whole santa john thing takes to long to write.)
She noticed the snow. Her eyes widen She had never really seen so much snow. She stood up Looking at the snow. She was happy to finally see some and be in the fresh air. She looked arround noticing one big christmas tree. Seeing Lilo beneath it she walked towards the girl. She sank down to her knees. ''Hey Lilo.'' Smiling brightly as she laid one hand on the girls back. ''How are you?''

John had Sinbad pinned to the ground, sitting on top of him so he couldn't move.
"Don't you remember Sinbad?" he smirked down at him.
"I'm always in contr-" he was cut off as he looked up and noticed Juliet hiding behind the trees.
How long had she been there? Why was she there at all? And why on earth was she hiding?
The only reaction he had was surprise and shock, as he stared at her with a blank expression.

Lilo gasped. She turned around and started to smile softly. "JASMINE!", she shouted happily, throwing herself in her arms. "I missed you!", she started to sob quietly.

She held Lilo in her arms. ''I missed you too..'' She noticed the girls crying. Looking at her conserned. ''What's wrong dear? Why are you crying?'' She pulled out of the hug. Looking in the girls eyes she wiped away some tears of Lio's face. Smiling softly. ''You don't want to cry when there is a party?''

Sinbad struggled beneath John. He noticed that John suddenly got something else to concentrate on. Sinbad turned his head as much as he possibly could in that position to see what had caught John's attention. He caught a glimse of a person standing not too far away.
He managed to push John of him, it was not so hard when he wasn't paying attention, and quickly stood up. He brushed some snow of his clothes.

"I don't need a party.", she smiled sadly as Jasmine wiped away her tears. She gently touched her cheek. "I really missed you. I felt so lonely..."

She looked at the giant Christmas tree. "Merry Christmas, huh?"

When John saw her, looking at her with a blank expression she felt a little bit guilty, but not embarassed, not at all, and she felt even more guilty when Sinbad, looking at her, decided to throw away John: had she ruined their fun? "Ah, sorry, i didn't want to disturb you!" she said with a gulty smile "just... i was there, you seemed so nice, and i didn't know how to go without interrupt you. Well, sorry, better if i go now, uh? Sorry, continue to have fun!" she didn't mentioned clearly that she thought that they were a couple, but from her words was kinda clear that they thought they were really... intimates... gesturing, she moved like she wanted to leave.

It took John a little by surprise when he was thrown into the snow, but he only kept looking at Juliet with his blank expression. He blushed a little bit when he realized what they had done must have looked like to her, and stood up quickly.
"That's ok," he said and cleared his throat.
"I, I was just about to go anyway," he said and brushed some snow off of himself before starting to walk back to the christmas tree and the others.

He glanced at her, and smiled. "Yeah it is." He glanced at the clean pristine snow behind him and smirked. He put his plate on the table and fell backwards to the ground. Laughing as he made a asnow angel. He carefully got up and admired his handywork.

Sinbad felt embarrassed. It had just been an innocent snowball fight but from the girl's words it was clear what it had seemed like. How had it ended up like that?
As he saw John walkin the direction of the christmas party, Sinbad decided to walked in the opposite diretion. Towards Meg's grave. He didn't feel like going with John after what had happened.

"Well nothing bad but," Shang thought for a moment before answering.
"In China, it's a sort of tradition for friends and relatives to give each other red envelopes containing lucky money as a gift for the Chinese New Year."
He opened the envelope wondering what it could contained and was even more confused to find a blank, red card. So much for a lucky gift... What does this mean?

Jasmine looked at the girl smiling softly at her. She had missed the little girl. It felt like she was ripped away from her little family. She had to keep some tears inside as the girl touched her cheek. She laid her hand on Lilo's.

''You don't have to feel lonley anymore Lilo. I'm here. And even if you don't want a party we are just going to have fun. How about that?'' She smiled at the little girl. Kissing the girls forehead. ''Merry christmas.''

She stood up. Holding out her hand. ''Want to see what food we have?'' Smiling softly at Lilo.

Still smiling at them, without even noticing that they were really imbarassed while she absolutely wasn't, Jul walked again toward the party and toward the tables: she was hugry again! Should she eat something sweet or something salty? Maybe she could start with something salty this time, she really wanted to take another slice of pizza, amybe other two, and also some chips! Oh, she had missed chips, they were so delicious...

John walked up to the christmas tree and looked around. He noticed Pocahontas was alone with Kenai, and saw an opportunity for a fun distraction. What the hell had he been thinking about with Sinbad?
He walked straight up to Pocahontas, came up behind her and laid his hands on her waist, right in front of Kenai.
"You're in for a treat," he said adressing Kenai and laughed.
"This one is a wild one," he added and winked before kissing Pocahontas' cheek.
Kenai's expression was priceless, and as he walked away from them he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Pocahontas laughed, looking at Kenai. She then froze, feeling someone's hands on her waist. Her eyes widened when she heard John's voice.

What the hell is he doing?

Her eyes widened more at what he said, and him kissing her cheek. She blushed only a little. She watched him walk off, before looking down.

How can you act like you didn't slap me across the face..

She looked at Kenai.

Lilo nodded slowly. She didn't ate something the last days. "I would love to go there."

She took Jasmine's hand. It felt soft and warm. Lilo smiled. She made a step closer and lifted her head, looking in Jasmine's eyes with her own big brown eyes. Waiting for Jasmine to take her with her.

She looked at both their cards.
"It kind of scares me... but we have matching cards," she laughed, trying to think of the positive.
"So I guess it can't be all bad," she smiled as she laid her head down on his shoulder.
She sat close to him to stay warm. The clothes were already warming her, but it felt nice to be so warm and cosy.
As she laid her head down, the hair covering her cheek fell back, revealing her bruise, and from this angle it was impossible not to notice it. However, she had forgotten about it for now. She was just happy to be with Shang.

He laughed with Pocahontas when the strange man walked to her and kissed her. His eyes darted from Pocahontas to the man, confusion written on his face. "What was that about? An old boyfriend?" He fianlly asked Poca.

She smiled softly at the girl and took her to the table with food. She lifted Lilo Holding her in her arms. ''What do you like?'' She asked stroking one hair out of Lilo's face. ''We have enough my dear.''

Pocahontas looked away, "Can't really call him a boyfriend.."

More like a fucking player..

Snow White watched Shang walk off with Charlotte and bit her lip as a wave of jealousy washed over her, she tried not to show it though and finished eating her food. She felt like she had just been hit and she quietly avoided Cindy's searching gaze, "I'm going to take a look around." She mumbled to Cindy before she threw her plate away and ran off away from Shang and Charlotte.

He looked at Pocahontas, tilting his head a bit. "Then what? I know of Thrax, how many other guys do you have hidden from me?"

Pocahontas's eyes widened, looking down, "Thrax and I were never a thing. He decided to pick someone else when he loved me. So, we were never a thing. And that man did nothing but hurt me. I never had someone Kenai..Only crushes.." She said, feeling herself hurt now. She walked off suddenly, not wanting to deal with it.

Lilo looked around and finally her eyes get some of the old shine back. "Chocolate pudding!", she screamed in happiness.

She moved in Jasmine's arms. "I want to have some!"

"Yeah." Shang said as he stuffed the envelope in his coat pocket and turned to look for Snow but caught another surprise. Some blonde man giving Pocahontas a kiss on the cheek AND in front of Kenai.

Wow, he's pretty bold. Shang thought as he got up but then he noticed the Charlotte's bruise. "Charlotte? What happened? Who hurt you?!"