demons have a long life.

"Father, why did you let Bella stay there, I thought you were against it," asked Evelyn as she still could not wrap her mind at the turn of events.

"Weren't you the one, who wanted to do that?" asked Saint Nicholas back instead of replying.

"But I was foolish to think things would work. Didn't you see how Alex could have died there?" she asked remembering the moment a human had sucked the blood of a demon.

Saint Nicholas expressions hardened as he was reminded of what just happened in there.

"Nothing would ha[pen, you don't need to worry," he assured her as his voice was sounding too confident related to the matter.

"How are you so sure father?" she could not help but ask.

"Because she had realised now, not to take things so lightly." 

"But"

"Shhh, I still had given them a spell to contact me. They just need to press the button and we would know three is trouble." he shut her up before she could ask more questions.

Evelyn was far away then being satisfied with his explanation. But she knew when to let go. So she nodded her head as they walked further.

"Oh my, what had you done with the sleigh?" asked Saint Nicholas, looking at the red Ferrari car.

Evelyn giggled as she moved forward and touched the car. Closing her eyes, she chanted the spell and the car turned back into the sleigh.

"Now let's go, we had a lot of work to do, and there are only a few hours left." he scolded her lightly as they both settled at the sleigh.

With that, they flew in the sky and disappeared.

*****

As they closed the door, Mike sighed

"Man this would be the first Christmas, I will be single." he started pouting.

Anna and Alex laughed at his pout as Alex patted his shoulder, "that's what happens when you change girls every week. You know I wanted to ask, why did you break up with Lily but did not get the time."

"Oh right, Lily, when and why did I break up with her?" he asked back, scratching his head. 

As the magic started disappearing, he finally remembered he already had a girlfriend.

"Huh! You don't know?" asked Alex bewildered as Anna laughed hard.

"Oh brother Mike, you are too much." she replied shaking her head, "just try to give me a fix sister in law alright." she joked as she laughed again.

"Wait let me call Lily and confirm first," he stated as he took out his phone and went in a corner.

"Never learn from him both of you," spoke Alex looking at both girls. Anna nodded laughing while Bella just tilted her head looking at Alex and then at Mike as she asked, "learn what?"

Anna started laughing harder, as Alex's ears started turning red.

"Nothing, you won't be learning anything anyway." he harrumphed as he walked in and settled on the sofa.

His face was looking tired. He rubbed his forehead closing his eyes as Anna took the plates to take them back into the kitchen and Bella copied her like an obedient puppy.

"Hey, you know Lily is still my girlfriend, she was waiting for my call all the time. She said she even called me a few times.

Strange I just forgot about her, and she just came into my mind when you took her name." he started scratching his forehead as he sat beside Alex.

Alex just shook his head and decided to stay silent. What could he say, that you forgot about her because you found another beautiful girl having an interest in you?

Anna and Bella came out and wiped the table as they saw both of them sitting there silently.

"So what's the plan for Christmas," asked Anna as they cleaned the hall.

"We need to sleep and rest for the night first," spoke Alex cutting the ever so enthused Anna.

She pouted but looking at the tiered faces of everyone she nodded her head.

So, let's do that.

"Both of you go to sleep at my house with my mother, and Alex and I would sleep here for now. We will think about the future later," said Mike stretching his body.

Bella and Anna nodded as they also walked out of the house.

When they entered aunt Sharon was making a coffee.

"Hey, how was your party?" she asked with a smile.

Anna smiled and replied before Bella could say anything, "it was perfect aunt Sharon. We had a lot of fun."

As she shook her head, looking in Bella's direction, who just tilted her head and blinked her eyes.

Anna laughed at what she was thinking. Bella would not even say a word if a question was not specified to her.

"Then why are you here dear?" asked aunt Sharron coming towards them.

"Ah we are tired aunt Sharon, we had a lot of fun last night. So we came here to sleep, brother Mike and Alex are sleeping there."

"Good, go ahead. You will need a lot of energy tonight too." she spoke as she waved her hand, "go and take some rest. This oldie will take rest here by watching some tv." she said as she started the tv.

Both nodded as Anna held Bella's hand and took her to the room. She was not at least a bit sleepy as an evil plan was budding in her mind.

And she needs secrecy to execute it. A mischievous crooked smile took place on her lips as she dragged Bella into the room.

They both settled in the bed as Anna looked at Bella and asked, "so Bella, are you going to stay here with us forever?"

Bella tilted her head towards Anna, as she blinked her eyes and nodded, "as long as you are alive."

Huh! Anna was taken aback by the vocabulary she had used, furrowing her brows she asked, "shouldn't the line be, as long as I am alive?"

Bella shook her head as she said, "I am not the one to be dead, but you will."

If the words had been said by anyone else, Anna would have thought that the person was cursing them. But she knew Bella had a different train of thoughts so she decided to be patient and ask more before coming to a conclusion.

"Why would you not die, Bella?" she asked in a curious voice.

Bella tilted her head as she hesitated

"Come on, you can tell me, it will be our little secret." Anna encouraged looking at her hesitating face.

Bela looked around as she nodded, "demons can not die naturally, they live a very long life."