Christmas.

It was a new holiday for the green haired half elf, but the more she heard about it, the more it sounded wonderful to her. A time of celebration, friends, family...

...and hanging shiny things everywhere.

Lydia grinned widely at the ball in her hands as she held it up in the light. It was gold, covered in glitter that made it shine just about every color as light reflected from it's surface. Her head tilted one way, then the other as she studied it.. at least a full five minutes. But no, she had to focus... so finally she set the ball back into the box she pulled it from to join with the other shiny, sparkly, multicolored balls within. Box was carefully pushed aside as she moved onto another box to rummage through. It didn't hold her interest nearly as long as the first had, since this box had less than shiny things to hang up. Some brown creature with a red nose... little white fluffy men with carrot noses... and... she blinked a bit as she pulled another figure from the box. A little stout man donned in red and white, with a curly white beard and curly white hair to match. She lifted her brows as she studied it, briefly though, before returning it into the box, making sure to hide it at the bottom.

Now, the task at hand...

Second box was pushed aside before she scampered to her feet and cast her gaze to the tree. That's right, a Christmas Tree! Tall, full, lush, enchanted evergreen of Rhydin, guaranteed not to die! Her task? Lights! Bundles of cords and multi colored bulbs were scooped off the floor as she approached the tree. It seemed easy enough... and some of this technology stuff wasn't so bad. Erin had explained about lights, electricity, plug-ins... and while the technical aspect of it all was lost upon her, her mind could at least comprehend the basics.

"I guess I.. should.. plug this in first."

Lydia stepped away from the tree and towards the plug-in closeby. Brows furrowed faintly as she pulled and tugged at the cords, trying to untangle them and find that plug.. aha! There it was! She smirked to herself as she kneeled down, sticking the thing in the socket.. or at least trying to.

"That's odd..."

It wasn't going in. Push, shove, wiggle... a series of blinks. Oh! Right, it was upside down. Plug was flipped over upon realiziation of this fact and easily slid into the outlet. Lights on that cord in her arms twinkled and illuminated brightly. Impressed with the pretty display, Lydia 'ooh'ed a bit as her gaze locked on the lights, not paying much mind to her surroundings as she shuffled back to the tree. Now she just needed to do more untangling...

Cords were unraveled, pulled, tugged, unrolled and... she furrowed her brows, gaze dropping down to her feet. Both of which were now wrapped together in a corded mess. How did that happen? She shuffled, twisted, hopped, squirmed, lifted cords over her head, twisted again and...

..somehow managed to wrap herself up in the lights, rather than the tree.

She grumbled a bit as she tried to move down the hall and towards the parlor. Erin was in there hanging things up, so she'd just get her help. Seemed simple enough.. of course, with all those cords tangled around her, she couldn't very well move so well.. a hop hop hop was initiated, which only sent her toppling over. Right into the tree.

Thus, the green haired elf managed to decorate the tree with lights and herself. Limbs and cords were wrapped about and tangled within the tree too.. there was no escape. Lydia squinted a bit and spit out a mouthful of evergreen so that she could shout down the hall.

"Erin!"

Now to wait.

A heavy sigh escaped Lydia's lips as she gazed down the hall. Not like she could do much else really... maybe try to wriggle a little more? No, no that's not helping.. in fact it only caused her to sink into the tree even further. If she were feeling more paranoid she would swear this enchanted evergreen was trying to eat her...

She canted her head somewhat when she heard footsteps, gaze drifting towards Erin, though partially obstructed by blurs of green here and there. From the tree, from her hair.. she's not entirely sure.

Brows lift at the question. 'Should I pull you out?' Really now... "No Erin, I thought this would make the tree look great." Lydia couldn't help the sarcasm, really. One arm managed to pull out of a tangle of branches and was extended towards her sister. "I don't know how I got.." A pause, then she sighed. "..just.. get me out?"

They were quite sharp! It's why she wanted out of there, all those twigs poking and prodding her all over, those sharp lights doing the same. Being tugged, she... didn't move. She was quite stuck. "What do you mean 'special girl'?" Lydia eyed Erin suspiciously as she asked the question, then, taking note that Erin was trying to pull down the lights, she did the same thing. Pull, unravel, turn, twist, pull... She squirmed a little, not quite as stuck as before, since she was loose... gods, it was like trying to extract a tooth with no pliers!

Green brows lifted high at Erin's exclamation and laughter. "Erin, this isn't funny!" Though if one were to look hard enough, they could certainly see the corners of her lips twitching upwards. "Really, I have no idea why these things keep-"

With one final tug from Erin she squeaked and squawked as she was suddenly pulled loose from the tree. Arms flailed as she struggled to maintain her balance, but a twig of evergreen poked her right in the eye which didn't do much to help balance. "Ow!"

With that, the green haired elf went catapaulting towards her sister.

And this was the scene he walked in on.

He?d been up on the roof hanging the lights outside and checking to see what was in the chimney. Erin insisted that there was something stuck up there?.it was empty. He was nearly done with the lights when he?d heard the crashboom come from the inside. He paused, listening intently for anything more but only heard silence. So Bastian continued with his work, hanging the rest of the lights. But then, he heard Erin yelling. Oi.

He scurried down that ladder as fast as he could, raced across the lawn and burst through the front door, expecting to find the worst sort of situation?something involving blood or death or something equally as terrible. Ok, so he was a bit paranoid over Erin now, but could anyone blame him considering all that has happened?

Blue eyes watched the girls struggle for just a moment before he burst into a deep, rolling laughter. ?Need some help?? And with that, he was moving towards them, reaching a hand out to lightly grasp Lydia?s arm and help her out of the tangled mess. Once Lydia was on her feet, Bastian reached for Erin, ?accidentally? grabbin? her butt as he scooped her out of the?well, whatever it was that she had gotten herself into.

After he had both girls on their feet, he took a step back and looked at the bare tree, the string of lights that were strewn about?and still wrapped around Lydia?s ankle. ?I thought we were supposed to be putting the lights on the tree?.?

Erin kept screaming and wiggling as she was being forced further into the prickle that was the the icicles. She started whimpering between screeches. The laughter coming down the hall just made her yell louder. Help was on the way!

When Bastian lifted Lydia she kicked and pulled at the box, trying to get out herself. Once his hands reached for her she was relieved. That is until he grabbed her already tender bum. "Eek! Stop!" A swat to his arm and she tried to scamper away.

Of course Erin quickly tripped herself up on the lights that were trailing from Lydia. Ever see a short girl pretend to be superman? It's pretty amusing.... and there she went. Oomph, onto the floor. Arms were out above her head, legs splayed behind her. It didn't look like she was *her* perse... just, irritated. Head lifted just long enough to speak, "Since when did decorating become dangerous?" Then she let her head fall against the floor, defeated.

Lights and bundles of cords were finally loosened enough so that they slid from around her ankle and dropped to the floor with a light thunk. Pale eyes shifted to Erin as she heard her fall over. "Since I became involved with it I guess..." A ghost of a smile that faded quickly at Sebastian's remark, which of course, she was about to respond to.. until nature took it's course and he ended up falling on his back.

She laughed of course.

"Guess that makes you one of us then..." Muttered before she took a step forward to help the two up. Hesitation though... Lydia knew if she came too close, she'd just be sucked back into it, they'd pull her down, more tripping would ensue, and the cycle would never end. So on second thought... "Ah.. I should probably get back to hanging up these lights." She picked them up off the floor, still a mess, but not as much so as before. "The tree is looking a little plain without anything on it..." Approaching the tree using a path that carried her away from Erin and Sebastian, she rather unceremoniously threw the lights atop the tree, leaving a cluster of blinking lights at the top, and the occasional light draped about the middle and bottom of the evergreen.

"There!" She beamed at her 'handiwork', turning towards Erin and Sebastian to see if they had gotten up yet. "Isn't it pretty?"

It really really wasn't. But it was her first tree! The half-elf deserved a moment to be proud of herself.. right?

Of course he would just pull her down on top of him! Gently, though. It was more of a... 'c'mere' sort of tug.

The boy grinned as his woman was now inches from his face, and not caring that Lydia was like, right there, he planted a big ole' smoocheroo to Erin's lips. His free hand pet her cheek idly while he did so and then ran through her hair once as they came up for air.

He smirked and got both himself and Erin in a standing position (somehow without falling, if you can believe it) and finally released his hold on her. "Alright, alright! I'll quit bein' a problem so you ladies can finish the decorations in here."

He turned and headed back for the front door, muttering something or another and rubbing his backside. Hmm...must've hurt when he fell!

Lydia picked up Erin's tone as joking and frowned faintly. Did she do it wrong? About to ask that very question she turned to her sister and Sebastian, pale eyes rolling at the sight, though perhaps one corner of her lips twitched upwards, just slightly. It's not as if she wasn't guilty of a little public display of affection every now and then. A friendly nod was offered to Sebastian as he departed, then attention turned to her sister.

She frowned a little when Erin took the lights off the tree. All that trouble to get them up there and she just took them down like that? Taking the offered end, she listened to Erin, watched her actions, then yes, proceeded to follow, wrapping the lights round and round the tree.. a little 'hmph' or two offered in the process.