After cleaning up and making sure no one would suspect what she had been swallowing that morning, Holly headed downstairs. Her mother immediately herded her into the kitchen where she helped get breakfast together. As Holly finished setting the table and bringing out the food, she heard her brother and her father discussing how to put the lights on the tree. If a few minutes they all assembled for breakfast.
After a few minutes of passing the food around and getting drinks for everyone Holly's mother said, "You know, with you kids getting older we're not going to be able to have family meals like this much longer. I'm just happy you kids chose to stay at home a bit more this year. Why just last year I hardly saw either of you the entire Christmas Break, but this year you've been home most every night."
"And you're not fighting like you always did," Holly's dad added.
Ricky nodded and said, "You know, now that Holly and I have gotten older, I think we have a better appreciation for family. A
much
better appreciation," he repeated, winking at Holly.
It was a bit bittersweet for Holly as she pondered the next few days, after that Ricky would head back to school for his final semester. When he graduated who knows where he might go and with whom he might go with. She knew he'd get married, probably have kids and live a normal life, it's what she wanted for him, but still she felt a pang of jealousy. The thought of his beautiful cock touching another woman, his cum splashing on someone else's body, his finger touching another woman's clit...
"Holly? Have you heard a word I said?"
"Oh I'm sorry mom, I was daydreaming."
"Come on Holly, get with me here. This is the plan: you and I will clean up the dishes while your dad starts on the lights and Ricky brings in the Christmas Ornaments. By the time we finish in here they should be ready for us to start putting on decorations. Do we have any tinsel."
"Oh mom, no tinsel this year, it's such a mess to clean up," Holly said.
"No tinsel?"
Dad and Ricky shook their heads, "No."
"Okay, no tinsel, but what's a Christmas without tinsel."
"Kind of like a Christmas without snow?" Ricky replied.
"There was a time it snowed in the valley here, on Christmas Day too," Holly's father said.
"Yeah, yeah and we both were too young to remember," Ricky said.
They finished up decorating the tree and storing the empty boxes early that afternoon. Mom decided they all should go to the movies and refused to take no for an answer, so they loaded up in the car hand headed to the movies. Of course once they got there they couldn't decide which one to see. They had a choice of five different movies and each chose a different one, so they compromised and all four went into the one none of them chose. So much for democracy, they ended up seeing one none of them wanted to see.
On the way home they picked up some pizza for dinner and spent the rest of the evening eating and laughing over the ridiculous movie they saw. To make up for all that, they put on "White Christmas" which kept them up until nearly midnight. By the time they headed upstairs Holly was exhausted, so she quickly took a shower and climbed into bed.