Sarah opened the door to the loft an hour past her curfew, trying to be as quiet as possible. Jordan had agreed to drive her home, and he had been quiet most of the way.
Once she got inside she sighed, tiptoeing down the hallway to her room, but heard someone cough. She froze, slowly turning around.
"Hey." Anotoni said, holding Cara on his hip.
"Hi, what's up?" Sarah asked, trying to act like nothing was wrong.
"What's up? Oh nothing except for the fact that you're out late, where were you?"
"Getting Christmas presents?" Sarah said, her answer sounding more like a question.
"Yeah I'm totally believing that." Antoni said, rolling his eyes, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"I just wanted to spend Christmas Eve with my boyfriend." She replied.
"Until this late? We were supposed to spend tonight as a family, Sarah."
Tan walked out of his room, rubbing his eyes. "Ant, love, what're you doing up at this hour-oh! Hi, Sarah, where were you?" He asked, looking at everyone near him.
"I was with Jordan, now can I please go to bed? I'm sorry, alright?" Sarah said, starting to feel anxious as she spoke. "I'm sorry."
Tan wrapped his arms around her. "It's okay, darling, I promise it's okay, just we were really worried."
"Tan! I'm trying to parent right now!" Antoni exclaimed.
After hearing his voice become louder, Karamo and Jonathan got up, both in bathrobes. Karamo was trying to put his glasses on, blinking a few times so he could see clearly, whereas Jvn was fixing his hair, which was in curlers. "Okay, what's going on?" The older man asked, looking around.
"I came home late and I guess I'm in trouble." Sarah said quietly, looking down at the floor. "Do you want my phone?"
"No, but you can't go to Jordan's for a week." Antoni said.
"But-"
"No buts."
Karamo nodded. "That's fair, also Jordan is weird and-"
"Not on Christmas, not about my boyfriend." Sarah said, shaking her head.
"Papa! When will Santa be hewre?" Cara asked, pulling on Antoni's hair.
"When you and your sister go to sleep." Antoni replied. "Now Mommy is gonna take you to bed, and you'll go straight to sleep okay?"
"But Mommy said we don't do stwait."
Karamo and Sarah both laughed a little, Jonathan rolling his eyes. "Kid doesn't know sarcasm." He muttered, taking the little girl into her room. Karamo and Tan both muttered their goodnights, then went back to their own rooms, leaving Antoni and Sarah.
"I'm sorry, Ant, I didn't mean to stay that long, just Jordan-" She began, but was soon cut off.
"Sarah, angel, even if Jordan wants to do something you can still say no. Spencer and Mitch have had that multiple times, and they've been okay." Antoni said softly, so he wouldn't wake up the others. "A relationship is between two people, not one dictator and a follower."
Sarah nodded slowly, smiling a bit. "Do you need any help with Santa stuff? I could make it up to you since I wasn't here earlier."
Antoni smiled back, nodding. "Yeah that would be awesome, there's candy on the top shelves of the cabinets."
Sarah grinned, walking into the kitchen, climbing on top of the counter so she could reach the place Antoni had talked about. She stood on her tiptoes so she could still reach, not loving the fact that she was short.
"Sarah, you okay over there?" Antoni called over his shoulder.
"Yep, just mad about being short."
"You aren't that short."
"Compared to everyone here, and also this house was made for tall people, and I'm not tall." Sarah replied, grabbing the candy from the top shelf, looking down at the floor, trying to figure out the best way to get down.
"Do you need help, honey?" Antoni asked, walking over to her, holding his arms out. She nodded, wrapping her arms around him for a second so she could jump down.
"Thanks, Ant." She said, spotting a bag of Skittles. "These are for me?"
"This is why I didn't really want you to help, but yeah."
Sarah grinned, opening the bag, taking a handful of the candy, tossing it into her mouth.
"You can't just wait for tomorrow?"
"It's Skittles, what did you expect?" Sarah said. "I can't help myself!"
"You're about to turn sixteen, and you're acting like Cara." Antoni said, smiling. Sarah frowned, eating more Skittles.
"I don't care, I wanna eat candy, it's almost Christmas so I can get away with it."
"Fair point. Now you gotta go to bed."
"Why? You said I could help."
"Cause I forgot we got stuff for you, and you can't see it. So go to sleep." Antoni said. "Now shoo, I love you."
"I love you too, g'night." Sarah said, taking her candy with her, flopping onto her bed, falling asleep in under a second.

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"HAPPY CHRISTMAS!" Tan exclaimed, running around the loft.
"It's Merry Christmas." Mitchell said sleepily, rubbing his eyes, smudging his mascara. "Shit, I forgot to take my makeup off..."
"It's fine, you look great." Bobby said, carrying a very excited and squirming Cara into the living room.
"Is Cwismas!" She exclaimed loudly, running to Jonathan. "Mommy!!! Is Cwismas!"
"Yeah it is! You seem very excited!" He said, picking her up. She giggled, climbing on his shoulders, pulling on his hair.
"Pweasents!" She exclaimed.
"Owww that was in my ear."
Sarah rolled her eyes, smiling. "First breakfast, Ant and I spent an hour and a half on this, so get over here." Everyone nodded, sitting down at the table, all looking sleepy still. Most were wearing their glasses, Sarah and Mitchell both having their smudged makeup, not feeling like cleaning it off even though they would have to take pictures.
"It's our first Christmas together as a family!" Karamo said, smiling widely. "This is by far gonna be the best Christmas ever."
"What about our first Christmas together?" Tan said, making a circle motion with his finger to gesture to the rest of the Fab 5.
Karamo nodded. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, that too, but this year we're parents!"
Sarah, Mitchell, and Cara all grinned at each other, then at the adults sitting next to them. "This is gonna be awesome!" Mitchell said, glancing over at Bobby. "Um, is it okay if I FaceTime Spencer? Not right now, but maybe later?"
"Of course! But no phones until this afternoon, we're spending time as a family." Bobby replied, drinking his coffee, yawning. "Ugh its so early."
"It's only...seven thirty." Antoni said, checking the clock on the wall.
"Why did we all get up that early?" Mitchell asked.
"Cause of this one." Jonathan replied, pointing to Cara who giggled in response.
"C'mon, dudes, it's her first real Christmas, of course she's gonna be stoked!" Sarah exclaimed, ruffling her younger sister's hair.
Tan and Karamo both frowned, but didn't say anything, whereas Bobby, Jonathan, and Antoni looked concerned.
"Were ya'll okay during Christmas in years past?" Antoni asked, looking at the three kids.
"Do we have to talk about this?" Mitchell said quietly, looking at the floor.
"Yeah we were fine, but this is way better than what we ever had." Sarah said, gesturing to the loft and its Christmas decorations. "And we definitely didn't have presents."
"Well you definitely do now!" Jonathan said. "But I'm really sorry you had to deal with that shit, honeys, but this year we're gonna have the best Christmas ever."
"Hell yeah! I mean heck!" Sarah said, glancing over at Cara, who seemed oblivious to what her sister had just said.
"It'a fine, Jonny just said the S word, so it's fine." Tan said, smiling a little. "Alright, who wants to go open presents since we're done with this?"
Cara practically screamed as she climbed out of her chair, running to the couch, Jonathan, Tan, Mitchell, and Bobby following.

"Who's that from?" Antoni called from the sink where he, Karamo, and Sarah were doing the dishes.
"Um...fwom Daddy!" Cara exclaimed.
"How big is it?" Sarah asked, jumping up a little, seeing her sister hold up a fairly large box. "Ooh that looks cool!"
Cara quickly opened her present, gasping excitedly. "Yay! Tank you!"
"What is it?" Karamo asked.
"I don know!"
Tan laughed a little, pulling Cara onto his lap. "It's a book, sweetie."
"Oh das cool. What do I do wif it?"
"You read it."
"Guys, she doesn't know how to read." Mitchell said, chewing his bottom lip.
"Oh shhh." Antoni was saying before Sarah clamped her hand over his mouth, stopping him from swearing.
"How about later I read it to you? And we can teach you, you're learning this stuff in school right?" Karamo said.
"Mhm! I know a few wowrds. But you can still wead to me!" Cara exclaimed, moving to curl up with Karamo instead.
"Okay, who wants to go next?" Karamo asked.
"Me?" Mitchell asked, running his hand through his hair.
"Go for it." Antoni replied, sitting down on the couch, Sarah plopping down next to him.
Mitchell nodded, getting off of the couch to grab a present, sitting cross-legged on the floor. "So this is from Dad and Sarah-ah shit I meant Bobby."
Bobby grinned. "It's okay, Mitch, don't worry about it."
Mitchell smiled back, finding a black box inside his gift, after a few seconds of trying to get the plastic hook off, he was able to open it. "Hold up, did you both get me makeup?"
"Yep!" Sarah said. "You can stop stealing mine now!"
"Holy cow, this is awesome. Thank you so much, guys!" Mitchell exclaimed, instantly running into the bathroom to try out what he had gotten. "Also I can still see all of you, so one of you can unwrap your stuff!"
"Ant, you go." Sarah said, letting go of his arm so he could get his own present.
"This thing is huge." Antoni said, pointing to the large box in front of him.
"Yep, but you'll like it." Bobby said.
Antoni nodded, opening his present, grinning. "New kitchen stuff! Thanks, guys!"
"No problem-o." Sarah said. "Bobby, your turn!"
"Alright, which one is mine-woah! Watch it with the knives, Antoni!" Bobby exclaimed, moving to the other side of the tree to get away from the sharp objects his friend was holding.
"Sorry, Bobby." Antoni said, sitting back down on the couch.
"Nah it's all good, also I got gift cards! Let's gooooo!"
"You opened that envelope really fast." Mitchell called.
Karamo and Sarah had a quick 'no you go first' talk, and Karamo ended up going, and had gotten new books.
Tan went after, getting a coat and some boots, and Jonathan got a dress and coat also.
"Alright, looks like it's my turn!" Sarah said, reaching to grab her gift, when Spencer rushed over.
"Boom! Makeup is done!" He exclaimed, shutting his eyes to show off his golden eyeshadow, winged eyeliner, and mascara job.
"You look amazing!" Sarah said, grabbing her phone to take a picture. "You have got to do that to me."
"Sure thing! Now open what you got."
Sarah nodded, opening the small box, looking inside. "It's a necklace, with a guitar pick on it. Thanks!"
"Theres stuff on the pick." Antoni said.
"Hold up, is that Taylor Swift's autograph!?" Sarah exclaimed, jumping up. "Yo that's so crazy!"
"Spoiler alert, at some point when she gets done with tour we're most likely all gonna hang out with her!" Jonathan said in a sing-song voice.
Mitchell and Sarah's jaws dropped. "What!? You have got to be joking!"
"Nope!"
The two siblings both screamed. "THANKYOU!!!!!"
"You're welcome, you two, Merry Christmas!" Antoni said, hugging each of the kids.

There was a knock at the door, and Sarah got it this time, yelping in surprise. "Spencer! Hi, Merry Christmas!" She exclaimed, hugging her friend.
"Hi, Sarah! Merry Christmas, how are you?" Spencer said
"I'm great! Wanna come in?" Sarah asked, opening the door more.
"Sure, but I gotta go soon, I'm in the middle of a parent switch and-babe!" Spencer said, running over to Mitchell, hugging him tightly.
Mitchell laughed, wrapping his arms around his boyfriend's neck. "Merry Christmas, Spence! I didn't expect you to drop by."
"Again, parent switch off, going to my dad's...your makeup is amazing, jeez, baby." Spencer said, smiling, then kissed Mitchell softly.
"Aw." Everyone said, making the two of them back away from each other.
"This isn't a dang romcom, ya'll, so chill out." Mitchell laughed, turning back to his boyfriend. "For the record, this is the best Christmas in the world. I love you, Spence, and I love all of you!"
"We love you too!" Karamo called from across the room.

(So yeah this sucked, but I wanted to get a Christmas chapter out! Also I didn't proofread)