(Skipped Henry's Jelly because Bella wouldn't have had a huge part in it; Bella's Christmas outfit)

Arabella's POV

It's Christmas Day and it would usually be the most amazing time of year, but my father got arrested last night because he wasn't wearing a hair net when he was serving food to people at his annual Christmas buffet. I've told my dad that he should wear a hairnet, but he never listens and look where he ended up. Swellview has some of the dumbest laws ever, like you can't take pictures of a rabbit with a permit or you can't wear more than one hat simultaneously. Apparently, not wearing a hairnet when serving food is a law and my dad broke it.

I'm upset, but I can't show it to anyone besides Henry, Charlotte, Schwoz, Gooch, and anyone else who knows I'm Captain Man's daughter. Henry allowed me to spend Christmas with his family because of the situation, but I made up the excuse to his family that I have a bunch of family over at my house and needed some time away from them.

I really wanted to bail my father out, he did nothing wrong. He's a superhero hero for goodness sake.

I walked into the Hart House with my presents. "Hola, Hart family and Charlotte!"

"Hi, Bella!" They all greet and I see Henry, Charlotte, Piper, and Mrs. Hart.

"Hey, Airy." Henry greeted and I smiled at them.

"Yo. I have presents for you all." I tell them and place the presents down on the coffee table.

"Thanks, Bella." Charlotte said hugged me.

"Of course. And you better like them, I spent hours trying to find these gifts for you." I remark.

"Anything from you is a gift." Henry mentioned and my cheeks heated up.

"Are you sure you're okay that your dad is in jail and not here with you?" Charlotte asked, lowering her voice.

"I mean, I can't say I'm not down about it, but at least I have you guys, right?" I asked him and they smiled.

"Always have us." Charlotte said and I grinned at her. "Help us decorate the tree."

"Okay." I smile and the three of us went over to the tree.

"Why are there two gold balls together?" I asked and Henry groaned.

"See, you have to have gold ball, red ball, gold ball, red ball." Charlotte said.

"Must you take her side." Henry said with narrowed eyebrows.

"Yes, because it looks wrong." I remarked and Henry flicked my cheek.

"Hey..."

I heard jingling from upstairs and I turned to see Mr. Hart descending from the stairs with hand bells.

"Well, guys, I had to look for two hours, but look what daddy found in the attic." Mr. Hart announces, and Piper, Henry, and Mrs. Hart all complained about the hand bells he found.

"Ah, no!"

"Honey, please no!"

"Stop that! My parents paid lots of money for these hand bells and the least we can do is play them as a family once a year on Christmas." Mr. Hart objected.

"Mom." Henry said.

"Honey, I know you like the hand bells, but the rest of us don't-"

Mr. Hart shook the hand bells in her face, shutting her up.

"Look, dad, we played the bells last year, can't we skip one year and not-"

Once again, he shook the bells and Piper stopped talking.

"Hey, you have to listen to what we're all saying, if we don't want to play bells you can't just-" Henry gave up mid sentence as Mr. Hart shook the bells in his face.

The door flew open and Jasper marched in. "Okay, I am really mad!"

"Dude, I told you, the Santa Claus at the mall isn't going to let a kid your size sit on his lap." Henry told Jasper.

"I know, I've accepted that." Jasper said and I scoffed

"Then what are you mad about now?" I asked him and Mrs. Hart and Piper moved away.

"Has no one hear heard that Captain Man is in jail?" Jasper questioned and I cleared my throat.

"Yeah, we heard." Henry nonchalantly said.

"Well, do you guys know why Captain Man is in jail?" Jasper asked us.

"Don't remind me..." I muttered and Charlotte rubbed my back.

"Yeah, it's because of some stupid hairnet law." Henry replied.

"Yeah? Well, you wanna hear some other stupid laws we have here in Swellview?" Jasper asked us. "Look at these."

Jasper headed the three of us a book along with Piper.

"What are these books?" Mrs. Hart asked as we flipped through them.

"It's the Swellview Book of Laws and Ordinances." Jasper informed.

"I want to play the handbells!" Mr. Hart protested.

"Later!"

"Later...it's always later." Mr. Hart commented.

As I was looking through the book, I found some of the most ridiculous laws ever. I've looked through this before and it's so stupid, it's funny.

"Take a look at this: Page 34, "It is illegal to take a photo of a rabbit without a permit." Jasper read and I flipped to that page. "How stupid it that?"

Ding!

Mr. Hart rang a bell in agreement.

"Okay, everyone! Now read the laws I've highlighted in your books." Jasper instructed and all of us look at the highlighted laws in the books.

"If you cut a cactus you could be sentenced to 25 years in prison." I read and I was shocked. That is ridiculous.

Ding!"

We all looked at Mr. Hart before Henry read one.

"Ice cream on a cone may only be licked. It is illegal to bite ice cream on a cone." Henry read and Mr. Hart rang the bell again.

Ding!

"Charlotte."

"It is against the law to wear more than one hat at the same time." She read and all of us were confused.

Seriously?

Ding!

"Piper."

"Dads who play handbells must be destroyed." Piper said and I snickered at her.

"It doesn't say that." Jasper objected and flipped through his book.

"Well, it should." Mrs. Hart agreed.

"Agreed." Henry said and Mr. Hart rang the bell multiple times.

Oi vey.

"Well, I say it's wrong that Captain Man is in jail." Jasper protested. "And to make my point, I'm going down to City Hall and I'm going to break some more of these dumb laws."

"Question." Charlotte objected.

"Yeah?"

"Why?"

"Yeah." Henry and I added.

"Because they wouldn't dare put a kid in jail on Christmas." Jasper reasoned. "And then they'll have to let Captain Man out, too. Now, I'm going down there and nobody is going to stop me."

All of us stood still, not moving an Jasper looked at the three of us.

"There's the door." I pointed and Jasper walked out of the house. I sighed and tossed my book down on the couch.

"Now can we play the handbells?" Mr. Hart asked.

"Airy, Charlotte, we better make sure Jasper's okay." Henry said and the three of us quickly make our way to the door.

"Of course!"

"Yeah, let's hurry!"

The three of us rush out of the house and follow Jasper to the City Hall.

——

Jasper was way ahead of us, but we saw him buy a rabbit, some hats, and an ice cream cone. If Jasper does get arrested, then this town has some serious issues. I mean, why are these laws?

Henry, Charlotte, and I rushed into the main room and saw Jasper with the City Council.

"Go get them, Jasper!"

"You got this!"

"Woah!" I cheer.

"My name's Jasper Dunlop and I'm wearing two hats!" Jasper declares and shows them his second hat he had on under the sombrero. "I'm gonna eat this ice cream cone thusly." Jasper took a large bite out of the ice cream cone and set it down. "And now without a permit, I'm going to take photos of this rabbit." He opened the cage and snapped multiple photos of the rabbit.

"Ooh, yeah, you're an animal! Show me this ears!"

The Vice Mayor approached us. "Do you know what's wrong with him?"

"Yeah, we're all mad Captain Man got arrested for breaking some stupid law about hairnets!" I protested.

"So, he's protesting by breaking more stupid laws." Charlotte added.

"Oh." The Vice Mayor said and motioned to the boy. The two police officers that were in here grabbed Jasper and handcuffed.

"What are you doing?!" Jasper asked.

"Your under arrest." The first officer said and this shocked Charlotte, Henry, and I.

"But I'm just a child!"

The second officer removed Jasper's hats.

"It doesn't matter."

"But I was only doing this to show how wrong it was to arrest Captain Man." Jasper objected.

"Well, now you're going to be in jail with Captain Man." The first officer tells him.

"But I didn't even- I am?" Jasper asked when he realized what was happening.

"Come on!" The officers push Jasper forward and out of the room.

"I'm going to hang out with Captain Man!" Jasper laughed and I sighed.

"Poor Ray." Henry said.

"What do you mean?" I asked him.

"It's bad enough he's spending Christmas Eve in jail, now Jasper's going to be in there bugging him all day and night." Henry explained.

"Oh, yeah." Charlotte and I say.

"My poor dad." I sigh.

"Well, might as well keep him company." Henry declared and removed his blazer.

"What do you mean?" I asked him with confusion.

"Hold this." He handed one of the ladies his blazer and shook out his body. He grabbed the hats and put them on.

Oh no

"Look at me! I'm a criminal! I'm wearing two hats simultaneously!" Henry ignored our protests to stop and continued. "Look what I'm going to do to this ice cream cone!" He took a bite out of it and right then the Vice Mayor returned with the officers. "You, bunny! Smile! Oh oh! Mm!"

"Alright! You three are under arrest!"

"Ah jeez!" I say as my arm was grabbed.

"Ah, no..." Henry sighed as his arm was grabbed.

"Wait! Why are we under arrest?" Charlotte asked.

"Because you watched him wear double hats and bite that ice cream cone and you two did nothing!" The officer reasoned.

"Aw!" We both groaned and we got taken away.

——

We arrived at the prison and Jasper was with us. I can't say I'd never thought I would be spending Christmas in jail. It was bound to happen at some point. Jasper was excited to see my dad and I bet my dad isn't excited.

We got lead over to the cell where my dad was and they opened the door.

Jasper ran in and beamed at my dad, who rolled his eyes.

"Captain Man!"

"What have I done? What makes you hate me?" My dad asked, looking up at the sky.

Henry, Charlotte, and I got shoved in, but Charlotte and I stopped.

"Hey, now! You're going to put us girls in the same cell with a bunch of guys?" I asked the officer.

"This is ridiculous!"

"Look! It's Christmas! The women's prison is full." The officer reasoned.

"So, this cell's all we got!" The other officer exclaimed and they shut the door, locking.

"I don't believe this." Charlotte said with disbelief.

"Well, we've explained it as best we can!" First officer snapped.

"So, you better just suspend your disbelief." Second officer added.

"I'll suspend your whole existence!" I threatened and the officer hit the cell.

"Don't talk to me that way!"

I rolled my eyes and they walked away.

Henry came up to us and Charlotte and I began to berate him for putting us in here. We got cut off when my dad came up to us and he immediately hugged me.

"Daddy.." I smiled when Jasper and the other guy were looking away.

"Hey, babygirl." He kissed my head and pulled the three of us away.

"Okay, so what's the plan?" My dad asked and we just looked at him.

"What do you mean?" Henry asked him.

"The plan, what's the plan?" My dad repeated with his smile fading.

"The plan for what?" Charlotte asked him.

"The plan to get me out of here." My dad explained.

"Oh!" We say in realization.

"Okay, I see." I nodded. "We don't have one."

My dad gave us a look of disbelief. "You don't have a plan?"

"No. I mean, I just figured you wouldn't want to be locked up alone with Jasper, so I got arrested to keep you company." Henry explained and my dad sighed, leaning his head back

"I'm your daughter, so I joined unwillingly." I grinned sheepishly.

"I'm just a victim of circumstance." Charlotte admitted and my dad walked passed us.

"Great, so I get to spend Christmas in a jail cell." My dad said with disappointment.

"At least we're here with you." I added and lowered my voice. "And you have your daughter with you."

"But I can't act like you're my daughter, Cookie."

"I know..." I sigh.

"I'm sure our parents will try to get us out-"

"It's okay! It's not your fault! You didn't choose to be this way." Jasper comforted the crying criminal and we stared at them, strangely.

——

Our numbers are growing. Mrs. Hart joined us and my dad's mood sky rocketed when she joined us. It's weird, Mr. Hart is no where to be found, maybe he got throw into a different cell.

Henry and I were both sitting against the wall, while everyone else was sitting on the benches.

My dad slid over to Mrs. Hart's side. "I figured I sit here."

"Okay." Mrs. Hart said and she glared at Henry. "I can't believe you're in jail."

"You're in jail."

"What kind of mother would I be if I let my child sit in jail without his mother." Mrs. Hart reasoned.

"You know, I think you look way to young to be anyone's mother." My dad told Mrs. Hart and I sighed, leaning my head on Henry's shoulder.

"Oh, stop." She blushed.

"Yeah, stop!" Henry and I both bitterly repeated and my dad moved away.

"I can't believe I'm a girl spending Christmas in a man's jail." Charlotte mentioned.

"You think I'm having a blast?" I asked Charlotte, lifting my head off Henry's shoulder. "And I don't see any tissues available!" I gesture to the sign that said 'Tissues Available."

My dad stood up. "Look, the important thing is it's Christmas and we're all together."

"We're not all together." Henry denied.

"Yeah, I'm worried about your father." Mrs. Hart said with worry.

"If they arrested him with you, how come they didn't put him in here with you?" I asked her.

"Because apparently pulling a police officer's pants down is a class one misdemeanor." Mrs. Hart explained.

"Uh-oh." Jasper gasped and we looked at him.

"What?"

"That probably means they locked him up with the extra dangerous criminals." Jasper explained and this worried us all, except my dad who was smiling.

——

"This does not feel like Christmas." Henry sighed.

"Nope."

"Not at all."

"Not even close."

"Nah."

"It's the opposite of Christmas."

I looked down and Henry rubbed my thigh.

"Airy."

"Hmm."

"I-"

Before Henry cloud finish, we started to hear noises and it sounded very familiar. Almost like bells.

"Am I imagining something?" Henry asked, hearing the sounds. "Or is that..."

"Jingle bells."

"In jail?" Jasper asked and Henry and I stood up together.

"But where could it be coming from?" Mrs. Hart asked.

Suddenly, I felt the need to sing.

"Jingle bells... jingle bells..." I sang, sadly and Henry and my dad joined. "Jingle all the way." Charlotte joined in. "Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one horse opened sleigh!" Jasper stood up. "Hey!"

Eventually, all of us began to see and Henry and I hugged each other, smiling as we sung along.

We paused when we got to the end and started over.

"Dashing through the snow, in a one horse open sleigh, over the fields we go, laughing all the way! Haha!" We all laughed and continued to sing happily with each other.

Merry Christmas everyone!