Advent Calendar Day 11

 

I'm so happy to have our witty and talented friend Haldis back in the Advent Calendar this year! 

Haldis wrote, "Your question about which Christmas songs for which character on yesterday's advent post got my little brain whirling away singing at me, and it wouldn't shut up..."

Guess what earworm of a song got her thinking? 😂

Enjoy this delicious little peek into the lives of Kit Holmes and his better half... 

All I Want for Christmas

Ifinished the final sentence of the latest chapter, saved the document, and satback with satisfaction. It took some doing, but I finally figured out how toget poor Miss Butterwith and Mr. Pinkerton out of the corner I had backed theminto.

            It felt good to be writing again.Well, mentally and emotionally anyway. Physically, not so much, as my backthreatened to spasm. Maybe I could talk J.X. into giving me a message. Thoughtruth be told, he never needed much convincing,

            Over the soft sound of Christmasmusic, I could hear the clatter of dishes, so I figured J.X. was in the kitchen.I left my office and was wandering down the hall when the volume of the musicwent up. Considerably. That song was playing. You know the one.

Thesmell of sugar cookies hit me before I came around the corner, but that wasfrom the scented candle burning merrily on the table, not from any baking.

 J.X. was in the kitchen making a peanut buttersandwich, bopping and swaying as he sang along. He resorted to humming as hesucked some peanut butter off his thumb.

            “mmm mmm mmm underneath the Christmastree. There is just one thing I need…”

            J.X. could move, no doubt about it.And he had a rather nice singing voice. I leaned against the wall and justenjoyed the show. There may even have been little hearts in my eyes.

            And then J.X. looked up and saw me.He gave me one of his mischievous grins that never failed to make my knees goweak. He never paused in his singing as he danced over to me holding out hishand. I took it and he spun me around once before pulling me in close.

            I could feel his warm breath as hewhispered in my ear, “’All I want for Christmas is you’.”

            Well damn, I thought, as Mariah hitthe high notes, I might just have a new favorite song.