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Holidays Are Important
Holidays Are Important
Summary
It was early in the morning when Jolyne woke up, walked to the kitchen, and saw F.F.
surrounded by a thousand water bottles.
“What the hell?”
“Happy World Water Day,” said F.F. tossing a bottle at Jolyne.
“What?” Jolyne asked again because it was way too early in the morning for this.
or
The story of how the Stone Ocean Gang celebrated random holidays.
Notes
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March 22
It was early in the morning when Jolyne woke up, walked to the kitchen, and saw F.F.
surrounded by a thousand water bottles.
“What?” Jolyne asked again because it was way too early in the morning for this.
“Well holidays are for important things, then it occurred to me what’s more important than
water, it must have a holiday, so I looked it up and it’s today.”
“That’s great, did you use the group credit card for this?”
“Two hundred dollars.” This would have been less painful had Ermes not ranted about the
importance of saving money two nights ago. “There’s more water in the garage.”
“Hell yeah!”
April 6
After World Water Day Jolyne assumed that would be the end of any spontaneous holiday.
Especially, given the lecture they received from Ermes. Maybe running around the house
spraying water at each other was a bad idea. But, Emporio had fun and that means Jolyne was
doing her job as a parent. Or at least that was her mental justification right now.
She was not expecting to walk into the living room where Anasui was building a giant tomato
plant sculpture out of metal. Meanwhile, F.F. and Emporio were sitting on the couch eating a
carton of tomatoes.
“F.F. suggested that I make a tomato plant sculpture, of course, I told them it was a dumb idea
but we can sell it.”
“Bullshit, it’s going to sit in our backyard,” said F.F.
Jolyne smiled, Anasui liked to deny having feelings for F.F. but still went out of his way to
make them happy.
April 11
This time Jolyne was fully on board for random holiday shenanigans. Not to say she wasn’t
on board previously but this time she actually knew what was up. Of course, she knew she
was doing something stupidly impulsive but she also knew F.F. and Anasui would back her
up. If Jolyne had to categorize her partners, she would put F.F. Anasui and herself as beings
of impulse, Weather as sleepy consideration, and Ermes as someone who actually thought
things through.
Point being, there was a really cute fluffy gray kitten. And today is National Pet Day.
Jolyne walked in to see her family chilling in the living room watching Weather play the
piano. She didn’t know Weather could play the piano. She honestly thought he only slept in
them.
Ermes immediately walked towards her and took the kitten out of her hands. “Who’s this
little sweetheart?”
“Are you sure this is a good idea, cats don’t like water,” said F.F.
“For once I agree with F.F.,” Anasui didn’t want to compete with a cat for Jolyne’s attention.
“Cat’s not liking water is a stereotype some cats really like water, Maine Coons, Turkish
Vans, and Norwegian Forest Cats just to name a few examples,” said Emporio.
“Gloria?”
“That’s her name,” said Ermes, “Seriously those, buying a cat is pretty impulsive.”
“Right you see,” Jolyne took a deep breath, “Happy National Pet Day”
May 10
The last person Jolyne expected to celebrate random holidays was Ermes. She just didn’t
seem the type. But since Gloria was here Ermes was more supportive of her partners’ chaos.
If Jolyne had known this earlier, she would have gotten her a cat a long time ago.
The family was at the dining room eating breakfast Ermes made surprising them.
“Of course, it is a national holiday after all,” Ermes smiled way too maliciously for Jolyne’s
liking.
“But why stop the fun there, let’s make it National Clean Your House Day.”
“It’s also National Shrimp Day,” said Emporio, “Can we have shrimp for dinner?”
“Yes.”
“I shall clean the kitchen,” said Weather already gathering everyone’s plates despite some
people still eating.
Jolyne walked into a house filled with pictures of snails. Objectively better than dealing with
real snails. She knew it was a holiday, the real question was who looked it up. She saw
Weather playing a quiet toon on the piano, with a fake snail on his hat.
Weather shrugged.
“I ordered it.”
Anasui entered the living room, “Hey Weather, I finished decorating the front yard.”
Jolyne stood up and ran to the front yard. There were three, huge, snail statues and one
mushroom statue. One snail was on the roof. She looked to see a banner over the garage
saying, ‘Happy Snail Day.’
Jolyne nodded without a doubt Weather was Ermes’s favorite partner, purely because he told
her what he was going to do.
“Hey Jolyne, I got you this,” Anasui handed her a French flag.
“Thanks?”
“Since snails are part of French cuisine, I figure it would be appropriate to burn that flag
today.”
“Sweet, let’s wait till Emporio and Ermes come home.” Truthfully she wanted to burn it right
there but she was trying something called, Self-Control.
Once everyone was home the family burned a French flag making Jolyne’s British ancestor
very proud. They ate dinner, watched a short snail documentary, and ate cake.
“Anasui, about the snails we can’t have them year-round,” said Ermes.
“We are going to celebrate these holidays next year, right?” asked Emporio.
“No.”
“I see no reason why we can’t celebrate every year,” said Weather, “Will make National Pet
Day, a spoil Gloria day. We already have burning the French flag as a Snail Day Tradition.
Ermes will naturally make us celebrate Clean Your Room Day, and F.F. will naturally
celebrate World Water Day. We’ll figure out the traditions as we go on.”
“I guess we can celebrate this every year,” said Ermes assuming it would be a onetime thing.
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