tinsel talk // Emmy and Carmen
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While Carmen wouldnāt say that Christmas was her favorite time of year, she was a big fan of the aesthetic. The opportunity to put up strange glowing lights and eat cookies shaped like snow persons never failed to cheer her up. Not that she had actually made the snowman cookies (this was good news), but baking was not nearly as fulfilling as simply having the cookies. Was it a little early in the year to start decorating? According to Hallmark, probably not.Ā
This seemed as a good a day as any to deck the halls with Emmy of their apartment. Between the cozy socks and yes, the puffy vest, sheĀ was in good spirits. Carmen still didnāt exactly understand tinsel as a popular product (and made a mental note to research this), but she was currently wrapped in several colors of the stuff while trying to figure out why the lights in one area werenāt working at all.
Scrunching up her nose, she turned toward Emmy, and gesticulated as wildly as her position permitted. āI swear, I thought I hooked up all of the light strands just like last year, but itās not working at all. Can you try your hand at this before I start messing with individual bulbs?ā Somewhat hampered in her movements by all of the tinsel (but not enough to be stopped), Carmen tried to foist the directions on her friend. Maybe if she was successful in handing off this light task, she could dig into those cookies. And maybe figure out how to move again. Or try to put on some ironically old-fashioned Christmas music. These were the kind of priorities that she was effective in trying to manage because the stakes really were so low.Ā āUnless you have advice. Iāll accept that too.ā
Decorating the apartment was a tradition Emmy had really only bothered with once she and Carmen moved in together. When she was on her own, she would - at most - maybe get one of those three foot trees for $5 at Walmart and call it a day. She wasnāt exactly a big holiday spirit kinda gal, but Carmen was enthusiastic, and it was hard to deny Carmen whatever she wanted. Emmy had a soft spot for her unlike any other - while, yes, Chace was her best friend, Carmen was kind of like her soulmate. There was no doubt in her mind that the two could live together with their significant others until they were 90, with Felix hissing at Carmen at every turn if she looked at him weird.Ā
āI told you, lights arenāt supposed to last from year to year,ā she replied with an easy grin from her spot on the floor - the tree was real, which made it more difficult - she had suggested they buy a pre-lit tree, but apparently that wasnāt festive enough. And now Carmen looked like the abominable snowman on crack - Emmy was trying very hard not to laugh, though she knew if Carmen fell it was inevitable.Ā
"My advice is we pay one of the guys to come and light this fucker for us,ā she shrugged, though she had finally gotten the tree to stay in itās stand. It was just like adding insult to injury. The tree was murdered and then stabbed to stand straight in a small apartment.Ā āOr, unraveling you and spreading it out so we can see exactly where the light is that fucks up the whole strand. Or just pretending that itās supposed to be like that. Honestly, Iām okay with any option.āĀ