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Lights
Gabe gets competitive with Christmas lights.
Tags: Gabe Wilson, Gabe x Adelaide, Wholesome, Christmas
When Adelaide walked into the room, Gabe scrambled to hide all the candy wrappers on the bed.
"Gabe, when are you gonna put up the Christmas lights? I've reminded you for a week."
"It's gonna snow.'
"That's why I wanted you to start earlier! I want them up, Gabe! I'd like to keep them on for the rest of December, not just Christmas."
"I'll get to it," Gabe assured, but Adelaide had heard that too many times since Thanksgiving.
"Josh already started, and I talked to Dahlia. He should be finished tomorrow."
Gabe hadn't looked outside. It was a lazy day, but now he was walking outside to see what the neighbors had done.
"Aish-" It was a lot. He'd managed to line the lowest parts of their house in white lights. It was simple. It was elegant. There were white light candles in every window... and here was the Wilson house in darkness.
To add insult to injury, the kids also noticed and confronted him at breakfast. Umbrae wanted lights and was very vocal about it not feeling like Christmas without it. She wanted inflatable snowmen. Jason wanted the house to look "magical." They both called dad "lazy" at the same time, and Adelaide only gave him a look.
"If you'd have listened to your wife.. you'd have beat the snow," she muttered. "I still expect those lights up.
"In the ice cold? OH," he yelled, feeling frostbite already. "It's a blizzard! I'm from Tobago! I need the heat. This is madness!" He was fighting for his life at the table.
It was time to get out there and light up the house. He went through the boxes of outside Christmas decorations and tested each string of lights to see what needed to be replaced. He drove to Walmart after work and came home with a dab and lights galore.
His family would swoon and call him the King of Christmas by the time he was done.
"You think you've got lights," he talked to himself as he fought to get his up before the blizzard came in heavy. Snow had begun to fall, and it was already too cold. He refused to admit, though, that he should've started when Ade told him.
He lined the lower level of the house with multicolored lights. He could feel the snowy weather in his bones. And then it really started coming down. Snow and wind. He climbed down the ladder and retreated indoors while the snow dropped, covering everything outside on a blanket of white that the kids adored.
They made snowmen and snow angels.
It was a white December. Adelaide pushed Gabe out the next afternoon in his winter coat to finish the job, and he did what he could make himself do, considering he hated the cold.
He took constant hot cocoa breaks inside.
"Oh no, Gabe, you wanted to wait for the snow. Get out there," Ade took his mug setting it down and pointing him out. It was getting dark early, which made Gabe feel like he was off the hook, but he wasn't.
He went back out and sighed with his hands on his hips as he looked at the snow covered house. He had to get back up on that ladder in the snow to finish the lights.
Unfortunately, snow was slippery...
He got them up there eventually.
When he turned the lights on, it was all worth it. The kids and Ade came out to gaze upon them. After all his hard work, he was thanked with hugs from his kids and a kiss from his beautiful wife.
Then Josh had to add white reindeer in his yard.
Gabe took Umbrae and Jason to help him pick out inflatables. With their help, he set up a snowman, a nutcracker, and a santa. They high-fived and Umbrae started a snowball fight with a wad of snow in her dad's face.
The next day, Josh had a reef on the door and a ribbon on his mailbox.
Gabe put a reef on his door and tacked a Santa hat on his mailbox.
Josh added a sleigh with a plastic Santa.
Gabe pulled out his ladder and put lights higher on his house.
Josh did the same, Gabe watched him do it and almost injure himself.
Dahlia called Adelaide. Josh was going crazy over their decorations, but he'd never tell them that. Instead, he'd keep trying to one-up Gabe. Adelaide shook her head. Gabe was the same. She was already happy with his work on the house, but he was getting swept up in competition.
They had to put a stop to it. So they did what any wife would do, and they each stripped their husband of his credit cards. The houses were done.
"We're going over to the neighbors' for dinner, I don't wanna hear any backtalk," Adelaide told her family two weeks before Christmas. They were to dress nicely and act like they had sense and manners.
Dahlia and Josh greeted them at the door. Adelaide's kids went to find their daughters in the kitchen and Gabe stepped outside with Josh to look at each other's houses and compare them to the weaker ones in the neighborhood.
"Wow," Adelaide looked around at their room and tree decor. "This is beautiful."
"Thank you, the photos from your Facebook were beautiful. I did draw a little inspiration."
"See, look at that. We can appreciate each other's decor without getting competitive," Adelaide smirked.
"Well, we are smarter than men," Dahlia showed Adelaide around.
"Mhm.. Oh! I have these bulbs."
"No," Dahlia chuckled. "You have the copper colored. These are rose gold.. rose gold," she whispered.
Adelaide didn’t like that. What she heard was 'mine is better'.
"Oh look at these stockings, they're so cute! Reminds me of what I had three years ago," Ade tapped them.
"Those are from Pier One. They came out this year."
"Hm," Ade showed her a picture from three years ago watching Dahlia's face drop. "Funny isn't it."
They went forward with dinner, but throughout, there was a competition between Ade and Dahlia.
It made the kids uncomfortable, but the husbands only looked knowingly at each other. Part two of the competition would be on if they didn't take the credit cards back from their wives. Things were getting out of hand.
When dinner was over and the Wilsons were leaving. Everyone congregated outside in the smow watching the other neighbor's house. While they were eating, he'd come out with a projector that shined a gingerbread house pattern on their home and another that displayed dancing snowflakes. They had a musical display that would play the Carol of the Bells.
Gabe and Josh looked at each other, then at Adelaide and Dahlia...
It was ON.
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