141 A Toast

To break the tension she felt permeating the room, Keeley turned to her dad. "Can you take a picture of me next to the tree?"

"Sure. Do you want to break out the spare tree topper and wear it as a hat?"

"Ooh, that would be great! Be right back!" Keeley zipped off to find it and fled the room. It was in a box with extra Christmas stuff in Kaleb's old room and wasn't terribly hard to find.

Standing next to the tree, she posed before placing it on her head and standing very still so it wouldn't fall off. Her dad snapped the picture and proclaimed that she made a fine Christmas tree before handing her phone back to her.

She took the star off her head. "We should probably get changed into our pajamas now. Aaron, you can just wait out here."

Keeley headed to her room and pulled on the reindeer onesie. When she came out, her dad was wearing his but Aaron was nowhere to be seen. Was he in the bathroom?