Adventskalender 2017: Türchen 19
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120_minutenTitel: I told you
Challenges:
1. Sich nach Urlaub in der Südsee sehnen
2. "Ich habe keine Zeit für Weihnachten, geh und sei woanders besinnlich!"
3. Glühweinschwips
Fandom: The Tribe
Charaktere: Lex, Amber, Bray
Sprache: Englisch
Wörter: ~400
Kommentar: Diesmal etwas kürzer und ich hab leider ein bisschen an den Challenges vorbeigeschrieben (aber sie haben mich inspiriert!), aber hier, habt snarky Lex??
“It doesn’t fit, I told you it doesn’t fit!”
I told you
“Stupidest idea ever”, Lex mumbled as they tried to maneuver the Christmas tree through the stair well.
“Can you lift a little higher back there?” Amber called over.
“I’m already lifting as high as I can! It doesn’t fit, I told you it doesn’t fit!”
“It’ll fit! Let’s try turning it a bit, I think it’s slimmer on this side.”
Lex groaned in frustration as he complied. “Should have chosen a smaller tree.”
“But this one was perfect!”
“Great, so we’ll just leave it in the stair well then?”
“I can see Lex is getting into the Christmas spirit”, Bray said to Amber, suddenly appearing in the doorway.
“Yeah, totally”, she said. “You gonna help us or are you just gonna stand there and make snarky comments?”
“I don’t think you have any more need for snarky comments.” He grabbed a hold the trunk of the tree as well. “Did you try turning it the other way?”
“Only twice!” Lex angry voice came from behind the green.
Amber sighed. “Yes, we did. But I mean, this was a mall, and don’t all malls have Christmas trees in December? They must have gotten one in here somehow.”
“Yeah, probably with a crane and at least ten more men”, Lex said.
“We could always cut it shorter”, Bray mused.
“But it’s perfect this way!”
“Yeah, perfect and stuck in a stair well!”
“We could try to get in the other way”, Bray suggested.
“The roof? I hate to tell you, but we don’t have a crane.”
“No, the manhole on the back.”
“Mhm”, Amber said thoughtfully.
Lex let the top of the tree fall to the ground. “I hate all of you.”
In the end, the tree made it through, although neither of them would have been able to tell how exactly. Once the tree had been decorated with the few christmas ornaments they had managed to dig up (though some of them looked suspiciously un-christmas-y to Amber), as well as a long string of fairy lights Bray had found under the roof, Amber turned to Lex who had been sulking in a corner refusing to lift even one finger and said: “See? I told you it is perfect.”
Lex huffed. “Next year”, he looked at her firmly, “we’re getting a smaller tree or you gotta find another idiot to drag it in here.”
She pulled a face. “Fine.” She lifted the bottle in her hand. “Spiced wine? It expired last May, but it’s got alcohol in in it, so…”
He held out his mug. “Hell, yes.”
Challenges:
1. Sich nach Urlaub in der Südsee sehnen
2. "Ich habe keine Zeit für Weihnachten, geh und sei woanders besinnlich!"
3. Glühweinschwips
Fandom: The Tribe
Charaktere: Lex, Amber, Bray
Sprache: Englisch
Wörter: ~400
Kommentar: Diesmal etwas kürzer und ich hab leider ein bisschen an den Challenges vorbeigeschrieben (aber sie haben mich inspiriert!), aber hier, habt snarky Lex??
“It doesn’t fit, I told you it doesn’t fit!”
I told you
“Stupidest idea ever”, Lex mumbled as they tried to maneuver the Christmas tree through the stair well.
“Can you lift a little higher back there?” Amber called over.
“I’m already lifting as high as I can! It doesn’t fit, I told you it doesn’t fit!”
“It’ll fit! Let’s try turning it a bit, I think it’s slimmer on this side.”
Lex groaned in frustration as he complied. “Should have chosen a smaller tree.”
“But this one was perfect!”
“Great, so we’ll just leave it in the stair well then?”
“I can see Lex is getting into the Christmas spirit”, Bray said to Amber, suddenly appearing in the doorway.
“Yeah, totally”, she said. “You gonna help us or are you just gonna stand there and make snarky comments?”
“I don’t think you have any more need for snarky comments.” He grabbed a hold the trunk of the tree as well. “Did you try turning it the other way?”
“Only twice!” Lex angry voice came from behind the green.
Amber sighed. “Yes, we did. But I mean, this was a mall, and don’t all malls have Christmas trees in December? They must have gotten one in here somehow.”
“Yeah, probably with a crane and at least ten more men”, Lex said.
“We could always cut it shorter”, Bray mused.
“But it’s perfect this way!”
“Yeah, perfect and stuck in a stair well!”
“We could try to get in the other way”, Bray suggested.
“The roof? I hate to tell you, but we don’t have a crane.”
“No, the manhole on the back.”
“Mhm”, Amber said thoughtfully.
Lex let the top of the tree fall to the ground. “I hate all of you.”
In the end, the tree made it through, although neither of them would have been able to tell how exactly. Once the tree had been decorated with the few christmas ornaments they had managed to dig up (though some of them looked suspiciously un-christmas-y to Amber), as well as a long string of fairy lights Bray had found under the roof, Amber turned to Lex who had been sulking in a corner refusing to lift even one finger and said: “See? I told you it is perfect.”
Lex huffed. “Next year”, he looked at her firmly, “we’re getting a smaller tree or you gotta find another idiot to drag it in here.”
She pulled a face. “Fine.” She lifted the bottle in her hand. “Spiced wine? It expired last May, but it’s got alcohol in in it, so…”
He held out his mug. “Hell, yes.”
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Date: 2017-12-19 10:44 pm (UTC)Ich kann sie praktisch vor mir sehen. Und ein Weibnachtsbaum im Treppenhaus hätte doch auch was...
Ach ich weiß gar nicht, was ich sagen soll, es ist mit seiner unpraktischen, dummen, nervtötenden (aber perfekten!) Idee so wunderbar weihnachtig... Awww. <3
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Date: 2017-12-20 03:43 pm (UTC)Ich glaub ich hab deine Beiträge noch gar nicht gelesen, aah, mea culpa...
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Date: 2017-12-22 07:56 am (UTC)Ich kenne zwar die Charaktere nicht, aber das macht gar nicht, ich hab' die ganze Zeit beim Lesen grinsen müssen. Sehr schön!
... und breche jetzt auf, um das erste mal im Leben selbst einen Weihnachtsbaum zu kaufen. Hoffentlich geht es und nicht genauso ;)
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Date: 2017-12-22 05:22 pm (UTC)