Board Thread:Ships/@comment-3058106-20141231035956

Brooke looked at the large roll of ribbon she had on the table. She had bought it to decorate the presents, but she had grown lazy with using it. It took far too much effort to have to deal with the ribbon anyway. Plus, it was just a hassle when she could easily use bows that had already been made up to just stick on the gift. Sighing, she got up from her seat and went over to the Christmas tree that Paige and Jaime had set up. As she was looking at it, the slam of a door startled her and she almost felt herself jump out of her bones. She turned around, glaring at the culprit who slammed the door shut. Wes was standing there, holding bags of groceries and his eyes wide open.

"I didn't realize that... I thought... I had to kick it...," his voice trailed off at the glare Brooke was giving him. "Sorry," he mustered his apology between all of his rambling.

Brooke shook her head and turned back to the tree, which looked like it was slightly tilting towards the left. She bent her head in that direction, narrowing her eyes at the tree. "Does the tree look -" She paused midsentence as the tree fell over and a scream came from her mouth. She wasn't certain why she was screaming, but it just happened from the surprise of the tree. "This is all your fault!" she yelled, turning back around to him. ."This is why we don't slam the door!"

"I'm sorry," Wes said, putting the grocery bags on the countertop and going over to the tree. He grabbed the top of it to put it back to standing normally, but he pulled the top part of the fake tree off from the bottom half. "Oh great," he grumbled. Brooke went over and grabbed the lower half of the tree and helped stand it up normally again. Wes hooked the tree back in place, hoping for it to stay still now. They both glanced down at all of the ornaments on the floor, many of which were broken.

"Great," Brooke said. "Just great."

"We can fix it," Wes told her, immediately walking to where he kept the broom. Quickly, the two cleaned up the mess and started trying to put the surviving ornaments back on the tree. They soon realized that some of the hooks had broken off, but the ornament itself was fine.

"We can probably just use that ribbon," Brooke stated, motioning her head towards the ribbon. Wes nodded and came over. They quickly started fixing the tree up and trying to make it look nice again. After all of their hardwork, Brooke sighed and leaned against Wes who then put his arm around her shoulders. "It looks like shit," she told him. She turned her head towards the left though, and laughed. "If you look at it sideways, it looks nice though." Wes laughed and leaned his head sideways too, agreeing with her. 