Board Thread:Ships/@comment-3058106-20141209032338

Juliette sat on the couch in Adrian's small apartment. She was sorting through plastic bags filled with random, cheap Christmas decorations she had bought that day. Adrian was still at work, so she was taking over his apartment and decorating it. Back in November, she had tried decorating for Christmas, but Adrian told her that Halloween just finished and he was not in the mood for, as he said, "stupid tacky crap all over my stuff." Juliette had sighed, deciding that since it was his place, she would listen for once and not decorate everywhere. However, as soon as it was December 1, she went out and bought a bunch of the tackiest decorations she could find just for Adrian to come home to a great surprise - one that he would probably hate.

After sorting through the Dollar Tree bags, Juliette shoved the bags to the side of the couch and looked at the mess of decorations she had. She also had bought a cheap, fake Christmas tree to put in the living room, but now that she looked around, she couldn't figure out exactly where to put it. There was definitely no room for it anywhere. Shrugging her shoulders, she decided it was time to move furniture around anyway. Using all of her strength, she pushed the couch to the corner of the room out of her way and then moved the television set up. Once everything was out of her way, she started trying to figure out how to set up the tree. The instructions inside of the box made little to no sense to her, but somehow she managed to get the tree set up after a couple of agonizing hours.

About ten minutes before Adrian usually arrived at the apartment after work, Juliette had set up the tree, decorated it, and put up little random tacky decorations all throughout the apartment. There was a little snowman that when you pressed a button on it, it started singing 'Let It Snow.' She kept pressing the button randomly, laughing when it started dancing and singing. There was also a Santa that danced to Jingle Bell Rock, shaking its butt around a lot, making her laugh some more.

Finally, she was down to the hideous stockings she had bought to hang up and put little gifts in on Christmas morning. Usually they were meant to hang above a fireplace, but since there was no such thing here, Juliette hung up a picture of a fireplace on the wall and then put the stockings above it. She wanted to make sure it looked as tacky as possible.

The door opened after a click as Adrian unlocked it. He came in, mumbling something about stupid people when he looked up, seeing the sights in his apartment. He dropped his keys and phone as he looked around, his mouth starting to slightly hang open. Juliette tried not to laugh at his expression, covering her mouth with her hand. Adrian turned to look over at her, his mouth still agape.

"It looks like Christmas threw up in here," he said.

Juliette laughed and nodded her head. "Good," she said. "I think that was the plan."

"And what is with those stockings?" he asked, glancing over towards them. "And that amazing fireplace?"

Juliette laughed and went over to him, wrapping her arms around his waist in a hug. "I thought you'd love it," she said, still laughing a little bit and a huge grin on her face. 