"IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAAAAASSSS!!"
I have heard this song soooo many times this last month. I loved my baby girl but I was about to lose it!
"Gloria!" I snapped then stopped myself realizing it wasn't cool to kill her happy Christmas vibe.
"What do you want to do over Christmas break baby?" I asked changing the subject hoping to stop the Christmas songs for even just a bit.
"Everything!!" She said giggling. "I wanna make cookies, and watch movies and go see lights and decorate!! Ooh daddy we need to put up our tree!!" She said getting excited again.
I smiled at my baby girl. Being determined to make this her best Christmas yet. This was the last week of classes then we had off all the rest of December and the first week of January off. I'd been buying and hiding her gifts for awhile now. Classes had gotten busy and intense though as the semester closed in so I hadn't had a lot of time for Ria and I to do stuff together.
"Okay baby we can do all of that. I have one more idea."
"What is it daddy?!" She asked.
"How about we take a trip out of town?"
"YES!! A road trip!!" She said getting super excited.
"Okay okay calm down baby. You don't even know where I want to take you," I said pulling her onto my lap for a cuddle and a kiss.
"Where daddy?"
"I have some friends in Chicago who want to throw a New Year's party and thought it would be fun to take you to meet them."
She stopped squirming and got quiet.
"Baby girl whats wrong?"
"Are they like us?" She asked quietly.
"Yes love. They are also into our life style. My friend Phoenix and his wife Alania have a little named Clara and I think you two would be really good friends. They are going to invite a few others over too and there should be plenty of littles to play with. It will be fun. Don't worry."
"Okay daddy that sounds like fun! Can we go get our tree and decorations now?" She asked tuning around to look at me.
"Ahh theres my little girl and her one track mind of Christmas," I said giving her a chuckle and a grin.
She gave me puppy dog eyes and stuck out her lip.
I laughed at her cuteness.
"Yes baby go get dressed and we can go,"
"YAY!!!" she took off screaming to her room to get dressed.
I went and threw on clothes as well.
"Im ready daddy!" She said.
I turned around and laughed at her shirt.
"That is an appropriate shirt for you," I said. It was a long sleeve grey with red and black black sleeved arms and the writing was red that said "Dear Santa I've Been Good" then in small black letters on the side it said "ISH."
"Where did you get it from?" I said not recognizing it.
"Aunt Leah got it for me the other day when she took Eloise and I shopping. She said it was appropriate. She actually got Eloise, Avery, and I all the same one but in different colors. Since Gwyn and Ashton are always goody two shoes unless we drag them into it she got them ones that said dear santa I can explain."
"Oh your Aunt Leah definitely got appropriate shirts," I said smiling.
"Are you ready to go daddy?!" She said.
"Yes lets go!"
****Ria's Point of View****
"Daddy can we go cut down a real tree?!" I asked from the back seat. "And play Christmas music!" I added.
"Well first off lets change that demand into a please..." he said
"Peeeaaaassseee daddy?" I said
He hit the playlist on the Sirius radio.
"Now second. We do not have room in our little dorm and there are no Christmas tree farms here. I'm sorry. So a fake tree it is."
"Well a big one!!" I wanted a huge tree like on the movies I watched.
"We will do what we can princess," daddy said.
I listened to the music.
Daddy parked the car and I jumped out in excitment.
"Hey!" Daddy said rushing up to catch my arm.
"We don't jump out of the car! You know to wait for me!" Daddy said gripping my hand tight.
"Sowwy daddy" I said pulling him fast to the mall.
"Hey stop," daddy said before I could pull the door open. "I know you're excited but you need to calm down a bit. You need to stay here with me and not run off. No fits."
I nodded and daddy finally let us enter.
"What color tree should we get baby?"Â Â I asked her as we entered the store.
"Green of course!! With lots of lights and sparkles and decorations!!"
"One thing at a time baby" daddy said pulling me in.
I ran and looked around staying close to daddy and finally found a tree that almost looked real.
"Daddy this one?" I said showing him.
"Perfect baby it will look great," he said putting the box in the cart.
We took off to the decorations aisle. I felt myself slipping into my little space.
We had been walking around for quite awhile.
"Daddy this one!! These are cute!!" I said throwing stuff into the cart.
"Ria slow down! You can't just keep throwing stuff into the cart!" Daddy said grabbing me and stopping me from putting stuff into the cart. He took out some of what I put in cart too.
"But I want them!!" I said stomping my feet.
"Enough!" Daddy said stopping me.
"Nooo!! Put them back!" I yelled.
Daddy smacked my butt hard.
"I said enough! This isn't how we act! We can put it all back if you're going to be bratty," daddy said.
"Noooo." I whined softly.
"Then shape up," he said.
I nodded my head and daddy and I went back to looking for decorations.
"Okay I think we finally have enough decorations," daddy said. "Now would you like to go look at gifts for your friends?"
"YEAH!!" I said excited.
"Anymore fits though and we leave. Now we need to pay and put these in the car."
We left the store and headed to the car.
"DADDY PUPPIES!!" I said running over to look at the dogs.
"Gloria!" Daddy said catching up to me as a puppy licked my hand. "What did I say about running off?!"
"Daddy look how cute they are!!" I squealed as I let one lick my face.
"Gloria you cannot run off from me like that just because you see something you want." Daddy said.
"Its just so cute though!" I pleaded.
Daddy let out a sigh and bent down to pet it and nodded his head.
"Can we get one?!" I asked when I saw him smile at it.
They were little Huskies and I desperately wanted one.
"Ria," he said sighing. "No. It's too much work and we don't have a big enough place for one." He said.
Tears welled up in my eyes and I knew he was right but I wanted one so bad I didn't care. I would get one.
"But daddy!! They're so cute. And he need a good home!!" I was very lost in little space.
"Ria I said no." He said getting up. "Now come on we need to go." He said grabbing my hand.
"Noooo!" I said moving closer to the puppy and resisting his pull.
"Gloria get up now!" He said.
"NO! I WANT A PUPPY!!" I screamed slapping his hand away.
Daddy's eyes changed and he narrowed them in on me.
Without saying anything daddy grabbed me and pulled me close to his face.
"Gloria. I know this is hard. They are cute but we do not act this way. You are lucky I do not pull your pants down now and spank you red for acting like this. Now let's go. Say goodbye to the puppies.
"Noooo I want one!!" I yelled smacking daddy again.
"That's it."
Daddy grabbed me holding me up as I thrashed and kicked trying to get down.
We got to the car and daddy strapped me into my seat. I kicked and thrashed.
Daddy ignored me and put the stuff away.
I unbuckled and went to get back out of the car. I was going to sneak past daddy and go back to the puppies.
"Get your ass back in that seat before I beat it raw," daddy said. I saw the anger in his eyes and sat back down.
"I want a puppy!" I whined.
"No more talking. Sit down. Buckle up."
"But..." I started.
"No. No more. Your ass is already dead when we get home." He said getting into his seat.