9 Days To Go

See this entry for an explanation of this madness.

Billy scampered across the apartment, clumsily falling from room to room, hurriedly swinging through each doorframe.

Finally he found it. In the back of Dom's wardrobe was the second present he'd found for himself, a perfect cube of blue striped store gift-wrapping, and Billy smirked to himself.

He deposited the present he'd already located, originally hailing from the top shelf of the cupboard next to the sink, behind the chips and dips, somewhere lost beneath an unopened packet of tricolore fettuccini. Picking up his new find, he marched back to the kitchen to provide the pasta with its new companion.