For this blame the robin that was on the fence next door.

Disclaimer: I don't own beyblade.

Ok, Ian had to admit that this time around, it was his fault. He couldn't really blame Bryan 'coz the older teen had been asleep. Tala wasn't to blame either. The red head had been on the brink of exploding since he found out that Kai couldn't get to Russia because of the weather and might not even be here before New Years Eve. Imagine not having your boyfriend around for Christmas.

At the moment Ian was sitting outside on the steps waiting for Spencer to arrive. Spencer was with his girlfriend and had promised to visit them sometime during the Christmas day. Ian needed to warn him of the impending doom waiting inside for anybody that dared to enter.

Sighing, Ian thought over what had happened. He had been the one to start the chain of events with his little prank. He wasn't stupid enough to prank Tala so he went for Bryan (like always really). He woke up as early as possible and collected some snow. Sneaking into Bryan's room he moulded the snow into a ball and threw it at his sleeping team mate. As soon as the snow left his hand he ran for it. Bryan woke up and yelled the house down while chasing him. All the noise had woke up Tala who had then proceeded to explode. Therefore resulting in two extremely angry people arguing. Ian wasn't even sure how but the argument had moved onto Tala's sulking 'coz of Kai. He left when Tala started to throw things.

The crashes had stopped about ten minutes ago but Ian didn't notice. He was in a world of his own filled with guilt. So far he had been staring at one part of the fence that surrounded the small garden. He was so distracted that he didn't hear the door open behind him or someone step onto the top step just behind him. The person bent over Ian and smirked as they noticed at how out of it he was. Quietly gathering snow from around them they made a large snowball.

Meanwhile, oblivious to the silent fiend behind him Ian slowly came out of his guilt ridden daydream and blinked. On the fence was a little robin perched singing its heart out. Its big red chest heaving in and out as it breathed and sang. Ian couldn't help but think of the scene as something that came off a Christmas card. Smiling slightly Ian tilted his head to the side and watched the little bird.

Above his head a large snowball was dropped.

Screaming as the cold slid down his neck Ian furiously tried to get the icy chunks off of him. He gave another yell as he was picked up off the freezing steps by someone.

"Fuck, you're freezing.", came a comment right next to his head

"Well, you just dropped a bloody great big ball of snow on to me!", Ian retorted furiously.

"What goes around comes around Ian." Bryan replied as he carried Ian back inside to the warm. "Besides, you haven't touched your presents yet, what's the matter with you?"

As the door was closed the robin on the fence flew away and joined one of its friends in a tree.

"Humans are idiotic creatures." it sang "Some twit he was, just sitting there while I tried to warn him about the snow ball."

"Still, it was rather funny how he just sat there smiling." Chirped the other one.

Both birds giggled and flew away to get some Christmas dinner from the batty old woman down the street.

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Merry Christmas

And if you don't celebrate Christmas, Happy Holidays.

xx