43. The Air of Christmas

December 15.

Jay decided to just walk to school since it is early.

Carla came home earlier since their vacation starts earlier than high schools.

Carla told Jay to invite Natalie and Mark, as well as his friends to join them after their school's Christmas party. This surprised Jay. Since when did her sister invited others on a family occasion?

Upon arriving at school, Jay informed Bren and the others. All of them happily agreed.

"Jay, should I invite some of the club members?" Charlene asked him.

Thinking of it, Jay decided not to. Not that he doesn't want, but he is not that close with them. And besides, what would Randy say when he saw lots of girls with him?

Jay turned down Charlene's request.

The program started when the Principal gave a long meaningful speech to the whole school. This is probably the only interesting speech the principal gave them, since no one felt bored hearing him.

"After all of this is over, let's head out all tonight and enjoy ourselves guys", Tyson spoke to his three friends, whom are all rich kids.

"Of course Tyson."

"Let's try to get drunk, I haven't experienced the feeling of it."

"Yeah right."

The surrounding students, upon hearing them, also made plans after the school party was over. The school's Christmas party will end at one pm, giving the students and teachers lots of free time to do what they want.

When the principal's speech ended, all students returned to their classrooms.

While inside, Bren, even Jay, are starting at everyone of their female classmates.

Something's different about them today.

Today, everyone dressed nicely, the boys did their best to look handsome, with the exception of Jay, who still loved to have his hood. Even more to the girls, who all look pretty in their own ways.

Majority of the females tied their hair upwards in a nice fashion, showing everyone their pretty faces with some even have light make-ups.

Even Jay can't help but appreciate the girls.

'I didn't think that all these ladies are actually beauties', Jay secretly thought. If Bren were to know what he is thinking, he might faint on the spot. Even Jay wondered why he is thinking of such things.

The classes had their own parlor games. Midday arrived and the Aquarius class had their meal, rice, friend chickens, and a Graham cake for the dessert.

Everyone was satisfied. Everyone also received their gifts. All students helped in cleaning and prepared to ho home.

When Jay and his group are just outside their classroom, Crystal approached Jay and handed him a present. Jay's friends are surprised.

"Me-Merry Christmas Jay, please accept my gift for you", Crystal, although nervous, still smiled while speaking.

Jay was surprised, but truly and actually do not know why she will give him a present. If Tyson were to see-, oh right, Tyson confessed to Crystal a couple of months ago, but she rejected him. Tyson gave up.

Jay had no choice but to accept the present and smile.

"Th-....thank you Crystal, although I don't know why you will give someone like me a present, I appreciate it", Jay removed his hood when he accepted gift and showed a genuine smile to Crystal. "Merry Christmas too, Crystal.

Bren felt like slapping his friend. How could Jay say he doesn't know why she gave him a present? It's obvious, she likes him.

Finally seeing the whole of Jay's charming and handsome face, added to his good-looking smile, Crystal was on cloud nine. Jay is facing towards her, and his back towards his friends, so only Crystal enjoyed the mesmerizing feeling of it. The four friends of Crystal, who are peeking on what is going on, can't help but be shocked at Jay's smiling face.

So charming! So handsome!

"Oh right. Crystal, do you have some time this remaining afternoon? I want to invite you and join us. My sister told me to invite some friends and have a short party home", Jay at least wanted to repay the favor.

Crystal will only head home after this, so she said yes. "Really? Okay, I'll join you."

Crystal waved towards her friends and joined the group as they all went to Jay's house. On the way, Jay can't help but think back to what happened. He is not a complete idiot, and knows that Crystal has a thing for him. The others sure realized this, not just him. Only, he doesn't know what to to. He will just wait and see what happens. Right now, the only thing he can do is be a good friend to her.

Jay, Bren, Mark, Natalie, Charlene, and Crystal arrived at their destination. All of them appreciated the peaceful environment. There are only few houses around, and the place was not that close to the highway, and there are also plenty of trees around.

Jay led the group inside the house and Carla is the first to greet them. Bren and Mark can't help but be secretly stunned at Carla's beauty.

"Oh my, so you are all Jay's friends. Please to meet you, I am Carla Elra. I want to thank you for being friends with my uncaring and pitiful brother", Carla went into a friendly and playful mode.

The others also take turns in introducing themselves. After a while, Randy and Xander entered the room.

"Oh, Mr. Randy, Mr. Xander", the trio greeted them. The two man also bowed towards all of them and greeted them a merry Christmas.

'That Xander sure got bored in that dark and lonely manor', Jay can't help but think of such idea.

All of them helped in cooking some delicious foods. The atmosphere is a happy one. It is lively. After a few hours, they sang some songs and ate the foods. Carla immediately became friends with Jay's group. They are all happy.

It was 5 pm in the afternoon when all left to go home after bidding goodbyes with each other. Only Xander was left. He talked some things with Randy, Carla, and Jay about some important matters. He even gave a set of beautifully designed knives, four in total, as a gift to Jay.

"I bought it in the Black House a week ago." Xander explained it simply. Jay thanked him.

He thanked the three of them and left as well, planning to go to the Black House since there is a major auction event that will happen.

Only the three are left in the house and after chatting with each other for a bit, Carla and Jay cleaned what needed to be cleaned and washed the used plates and other utensils.