Who: Jake & Open to all (Except Avery :D) Where: Avery's house When: Thursday late afternoon
Jake unloaded the last of the four boxes he'd scrounged up and brought them into the house. The tree was already set up in the corner. He'd spent the last day or so bartering, owing favors, begging and whatever he needed to do to secure decorations and a tree for Avery. One of the ladies at the diner provided little fingers sandwiches when he mentioned he was going to gather people to help and someone else made cookies and brownies. Most people seemed willing to give when he mentioned Avery's story. Granted he didn't go into a ton of detail, but mentioning foster child coupled with Riken transfer got attention, adding that she'd never really had a Christmas before much less one in the last five years they were more than willing to help out without him owing anything.
Jake had timed things perfectly and even asked for a delay in her training session to make it run long so he'd have time. He figured he'd start by taking a look to figure out exactly what he had. There was one box full of lights, tons of lights. Another had various green garlands and red Christmas flowers. The third was full of basic ornaments, bobbles and the like but it also had a simple star for the top. The last box had some pillows embroidered with Christmas images. He grabbed those out and found some table runners as well and put them all out first. He checked the time vaguely wondering if he could still secure a Santa hat and as if on cue the first of his helpers showed up.
[[OOC Note: Feel free to start your own threads in this one. There will be finger sandwiches and Christmas treats provided as well as various (non-alcoholic) beverages. There is a tree to decorate as well as a variety of other lights and garland to decorate the entire living room.]]