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How did he know?
I turned as well and crossed my arms. It would be pretty once I was done. I was going to suspend cascades of lights from the eaves. Drapes of lights were going to go from the clubhouse to the trees and more would be wound through the steel bars enclosing the entertainment area. Inside the area lights were going to crisscross the rafters. The prospects had set up a tree in one corner that still had to be decorated. We had another on the open air patio that would be decorated as well. It was huge and I had Father Christmas’s chair set up next to it. I had found it in the far storage room and Devon had painted it gold and tacked on red velvet fabric over the seat and back. It was covered in a heavy black plastic sheet to keep it dry and to keep it as a surprise.
“Weeell, I told him I wanted to decorate and he said I could do the common room and the back.” I shrugged. “That’s what I’m doing.”
Both men started laughing and shook their heads.
“Okay, what do you want us to do?” Spider asked. “We don’t have anything else to do so we might as well get into trouble with you.”
“Why haven’t you done the gazebo yet?” Dizzy asked.
“River called dibs so I can’t touch it.” I grumped. “She said something about draping it with fabric.”
Dizzy looked at it then nodded. “I’ll ask her if we can put some lights on it but in such a way that she can still drape it in whatever fabric she wants.” He said and immediately walked back inside the clubhouse.
“He’s looking good.” I said and Spider smiled.
“He does, he’s happy in Cape Town, and he’s doing well.”
“I’m glad, he’s a good guy, and he deserves to be happy.”
We both turned and looked around the back of the clubhouse.
“It looks so different now that it’s been rebuilt.” Spider said softly.
“That’s one of the reasons I’m doing this. I want us to make new memories. I don’t want us to constantly remember the bad things. As a club we need some good times right now.” I said as softly.
Spider nodded and grabbed a box of lights. “Let’s get started making new memories.”
So we did.
We decorated the hell out of the back garden.
It took more than just one day to get it all done.
We made sure there was nothing on the ground for people to trip over or step on.
And all the cords ended up at one switch.
One switch that turned all the lights on.
Of course we had tested it but the honour of turning on the Christmas lights would go to Hawk.
I could hardly wait to hand it over to him.
River and her team had gone crazy inside the clubhouse.
The common room had been draped and wrapped in lights, tinsel, baubles and bells hung from the ceiling and across the top of the bar. A huge Christmas tree stood in one corner. It was decorated in red, gold and white. It was stunning and more than one of us stood and gaped at in in open mouthed wonder.
Apparently the tree was all Snow’s doing. She had come over with Alien in tow to help out with the decorating. Her baby girl had been born three months ago to everyone’s stunned surprise. Surprise because she had been told she was having a boy and as such prepared for one. There had been a wild scramble to fix the baby’s room and the old ladies had rushed out to buy clothes suitable for a girl. She looked happy and relaxed and my brother-from-another-mother couldn’t keep his eyes off her, or his hands off the baby girl strapped in a carrier to his chest. They looked like a little family.
I caught the hot and sneaky looks Snow threw him and crossed my fingers hoping for a good outcome.
They needed each other and her baby girl needed a good man to be her daddy.
Alien was that man.
I would keep my fingers crossed for them.
