Hannah's Christmas Part 3

Victor was in the living room, reading one of Anita's books. He did bring his comics when he moved in with Anita, but he didn't buy new ones in the two months he lived with her, because he wanted to help Anita with paying the bills. And – of course – it wasn't just him and Anita, but Hannah was there as well. They also had to safe their money for their wedding and beside all of that, he barely had the time to buy a comic. Working, taking care of Hannah and all the other things a member of a little family had to do.

"Daddy, Daddy, look!" suddenly sounded and Victor looked up. He saw Hannah standing there and he smiled. He stood up from the couch and he kneeled down next to her.

"I am flattered that you know me, Princess." he said and Hannah smiled.

"Daddy, it's me!" said Hannah and Victor gave her a big smile back.

"Now I see it's you." he said and he gave Hannah a big hug. "You look beautiful, just like a princess." he whispered in her ear.

"Thank you, Daddy." Hannah gave him a kiss on his check and she walked to the couch. "Daddy?" she said with a sugar-sweet voice.

"Hannah." Victor walked to the kitchen. He knew she was going to ask when Granny would come. She was asking that the whole morning. He figured that she just couldn't wait to get her presents.

"When does Granny come?" Hannah looked to the kitchen. "Daddy?" she said when Victor didn't give a respond.

"Soon enough." Victor walked back into the living room with a mug in his hands. On that mug was a picture of a sweet little kitten and it had Hannah's name on it. It was her favourite mug and she drank almost everything out of it. "For the princess." he said as he gave the mug with hot cocoa to Hannah.

"Thank you, Daddy." she said and she started to drink it, just when the doorbell started to ring.

"You just stay here and drink your chocolate." said Victor and he walked out of the living room. He opened the front door and he smiled when he saw Mildred standing there.

"Merry Christmas, Victor." said Mildred and she gave him a kiss on his check.

"Merry Christmas, Mum." said Victor and he looked to his mother's car. "Shall I take the gifts out of the car?" he asked. "You can make yourself a cup of chocolate if you want."

"Thank you, Victor" said Mildred and she walked into the living room, while Victor got the presents out of the car.
Mildred smiled when she saw Hannah sitting there. This was actually the first year that she could go to Anita and Hannah during Christmas. Normally she spent time with Victor during the holidays, but now she was able to visit her 'granddaughter' without too much troubles and questions from Victor.

Hannah looked up and she saw Mildred standing there. "Granny!" she said and she places her cup on the table and then she ran to Mildred.

Mildred kneeled down, so she could give Hannah a hug. "Merry Christmas, sweetie." she said and she started to smile. "You look really beautiful like this, sweetie."

Hannah smiled. "Thank you." she whispered and Mildred stood up.

"I am going to get some hot chocolate. Do you want some too?"

"Daddy already made me some." said Hannah. "But, Granny, I need to say something."

Mildred looked to the little girl. She had never heard Hannah so serious before. "What is it, Hannah?"

"Well," Hannah started. She didn't know where to start, but she had to tell it to her Granny. "When I was in bed, I couldn't sleep, so I walked to the stairs, because I wanted something to drink."

"Mummy and Daddy weren't mad at you, right?" Mildred couldn't see why Hannah would tell her something like that."

"Mummy didn't see me and Daddy wasn't there." Hannah looked away from Mildred. "Mummy was kissing Sata Clause." she suddenly said.

That was something Mildred would never expect. Slowly, she started to realise what it exactly meant. She knew Anita wouldn't cheat on Victor, so it had to be Victor in a Santa Clause costume. "Sweetie, did you see Santa's hair colour?" she asked.

Hannah looked to Mildred. "It…" she started to think. "It was brown, just like Daddy."

"Shall I tell you a secret?" she whispered and Hannah nodded. "Your Mommy wasn't kissing Santa, it was your Daddy. The real Santa forgot that this was your house, remember?"

"But why did Daddy look like Santa?"

"I don't know, Hannah." said Mildred and she gave Hannah a little smile. "But, remember, it is our secret."

Hannah nodded and Victor walked into the room with a large pile of presents. "Is this all for me?"

Victor laughed. "I guess so. But you'll wait with opening even one present until Mommy is here." he said. He knew that Hannah was too curious to wait, but she had to wait until Anita would be in the living room as well.

Hannah sighed. Now she had to wait even longer before she could open a present. "Yes, Daddy." she said and she looked to a large present. It looked like it was moving. Hannah walked to it. She knew that she promised Victor she wouldn't open any presents, But he was getting more gifts and Granny was in the kitchen, so Hannah figured that she could just take a little peek. Taking a peek was completely different than opening a present. She was just about to take a peek until…

"Hannah Knight!"

Hannah turned around and she saw her mother standing there. "But Mommy!" she started and she looked to her mother.

Anita was wearing a dark purple dress and her hair was in a side bun, just for the occasion. "I thought that Daddy said something about not opening a present?" Anita knew that Victor would tell Hannah that she couldn't open any presents before everyone was in that living room.

"I didn't open it." said Hannah. "And Granny is here."

"But still." Anita gave Hannah a little smile. "Come on, let's see where Daddy and Granny are."

"I'm here." Mildred walked up to Anita and she gave her a hug. "Merry Christmas, Anita."

Anita smile. "Merry Christmas to you too, Mildred." she said after the hug.

"Can I open the present now?" Hannah asked. She just couldn't wait to open that moving present.

"When Daddy comes back with the rest of the gifts." said Anita and Hannah sighed. "Or you want to wait with opening the presents after we finished dinner."

"But I want to open them now." said Hannah and she looked to her mother with her puppy dog eyes.

"You know that doesn't work for me." Anita laughed and she kneeled down next to Hannah. "And I think Daddy will be here soon."

"So, the little princess didn't want to wait?" suddenly sounded and Victor walked to Hannah with the rest of the gifts.

"Can I open the presents now?" asked Hannah and Victor started to laugh when he saw those sweet, big, purple eyes of her. Sometimes, he just couldn't resist those sweet eyes. He figured he would be resistant to those eyes soon.

"Well, everybody is here now." he said and he looked to Anita.

"Just a few presents." said Anita. "You have to save some presents for after the dinner."

"Okay!" said Hannah and she walked to the present, which started to move even more than before. She opened the lit and gave a squeal. "Mommy, look!" It's a cat!" she held up a little young brown-white kitten.

Anita smiled. Just the day before Christmas, she and Victor went to the pound to look for a cat. And after some time, they found this little kitten. It was abandoned and it looked so sweet and helpless that Victor and Anita decided to take it home with them. The little kitten stayed at Mildred's place for just one night and now it would be a part of the family. Anita was already glad that Victor didn't mind to have a cat around. She was afraid that Victor still hated cats after the 'mister Cuddles mission', but Victor assured her he didn't mind it.

"So, what are you going to call him?" Mildred looked to her 'Granddaughter'. She figured that Hannah really love that cat for the rest of his life, that cat would get the love of the world and a wonderful, spoiled life too.

"Erm…" Hannah thought for a moment. "I'll call it Leo!"

Mildred looked to Victor and Anita, this was a rather unexpected answer. She figured that Hannah would call it Fluffy or something like that.

"Leo is a lion in a cartoon she loves to watch." Anita explained to Mildred and then she looked to Hannah. "You know you'll have to take care of him, sweetie."

"I know, Mommy." said Hannah and she started to pet Leo, completely forgetting the rest of the gifts, for the time being.