"Ahhh, yes, fuck! Give it to me right there; don't stop!"

Just another typical Wednesday at the Inna de Poona island resort, amiright?

"Whatever you say, Miss Belrose…"

Lailani Kealoha sighed as she continued kneading her elbow into the small of her boss's back, the voluptuous woman continuing to let out throaty moan after throaty moan as the young Polynesian woman tried to work the knot from Brooke's back to the best of her skills. Honestly, this was far from the worst Lailani had seen during her time as a masseuse (there was one with a goth girl where things got steamy for both parties involved…), and also far from the worst thing from her boss that she'd experienced.

That infamous night she opened the door to Room 128, man…

Anyway, she eventually finished the massage and let Brooke get up, putting her things away as the middle-aged businesswoman replaced her bra and buttoned up her 3 figure blouse.

"My god, your hands are magic, Ladonna!"

"It's Lailani, Ma'am."

"Close enough. You're lucky I snapped you up and secured you in my grasp before someone else did.~"

Lailani suddenly felt like she needed an adult, and she was 23!

"…if you say so, Miss Belrose."

"Anyway, that's all for today; I have an important conference call with my name on it, so just do…I don't know, have an instant coffee or something. That's what the common masses do, right?"

"Something like that…"

"Perfect! Just be sure to keep those hands healthy in case I need them again. Toodles!~" With a wink and a smile that definitely held ulterior motives Brooke left the parlor, finally leaving the young masseuse to her own devices.

For real, that woman needed to get herself a boyfriend.

Since Brooke had all but reserved the rest of her shift for her own massage, Lailani basically had nothing but free time left for the rest of the day. And as such, she might as well do "or something" with the rest of her time.

After all, why should her boss be the only one who got to enjoy herself?

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

The "Titty Twister", while evoking a certain image, was actually a fairly classy establishment, more akin to a modern interpretation of a burlesque hall than a nudie bar. Oh, there were still girls in various states of half/no dress milling about or going through their routines, but since it was the middle of the afternoon that was all that was going on. And while Lailani knew what a naked body looked like, seeing one in motion was a different story entirely.

She was just glad the shows wouldn't start for another hour or so, so she was able to get an apple daiquiri and find a booth where she could just relax and unwind.

That wasn't to say that she didn't have company with her, however…

"You're right, Las Planetas need to get fuckin' laid," Nora remarked as she nursed a beer, "When was the last time she took some poor cabron up to her lair again?"

"Beats me; I don't really pay attention to that stuff," Lailani admitted.

"Well it'd better be soon, cuz she's starting to get insufferable."

"Tay-cho isn't that bad!" the slightly chubby girl with a spray tan who sat next to Lailani protested. "She's just motou, motou busy all the time, so she can't meet new people that often…"

"Spoken like a true Yes Man." Nora took another swig from her bottle.

"Well, why don't she just come down here?" Candace suggested. The only proper article of clothing she wore (by the absolute barest definition) was a pair of G-string panties, and while her breasts were technically covered, there was still a lot of flesh showing, and the tassels were more than a little distracting.

Like if you stuck streamers onto a pair of basketballs…

"Prob'ly cuz she's got a hotel to run, Candy." The Latina put a hand on the stripper's shoulder. "Not like she's doing blow the whole time she's in her office."

"Tay-cho doesn't do drugs in her offices!" "Suki" protested, to which Nora just shrugged.

"Hey, you brought up drugs, not me."

"Could we not talk about drugs?" Lailani pleaded, "It's…it's not really something we should be talking about so openly, is it?"

"Why? …you lookin' to buy, Chica?~"

Lailani immediately threw her hands over her ears and started humming Earth, Wind, And Fire's "Let's Groove" to herself.

"Hey, don't bully the poor thing!" Candace chastised, giving her Latina roommate a light shove.

"Sorry, it's just too easy with her!"

While the hardened Yankee was getting chewed out by the female Hentai MC, Suki's pager suddenly buzzed.

Yes, a pager. I don't know why, take it up with Brooke.

Anyway, she fished the archaic device from her purse and read the pixelated text that scrolled over the display.

"Um…soomee-masen? Tay-cho-sama wants everyone to meet her in the lobby."

"Wait, really?" Nora suddenly looked apprehensive. "Cuz I don't know what those guests were doing in their free time, but I only found that watch after they left."

"You told me you bought it online!" an aghast Candace gasped.

"She says it's mandatory," Suki continued, heedless of the byplay across the table, "we should probably hurry before she decides to yell at us…" She shuddered briefly. "Moh-toh cow-way…"

"Ooh! Can I come too?"

Candy's sweater puppies (sans the sweater) went wild as she bounced in her seat.

"Um…hai? She said 'everyone'."

"Might wanna put on a t-shirt before you do, yo," the Latina cautioned.

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

"I'm sure you're wondering why I called all of you here today," Brooke spoke, standing in the threshold of the Love Lei Hotel with all the staff (and one of the girls from the strip club) assembled before her, received a din or murmurs in response. "Well, all of you can rest assured that none of you and getting fired today."

Wait, what?

"I felt that I should inform you all personally that two weeks from now, the Love Lei Hotel will be hosting the first annual Christmas in July celebration, so I want to see this place looking like the fucking North Pole by the end of the week; I've already ordered the materials and other decorations, and they should be here by tomorrow."

The murmurs picked up again, many people sounding confused or belligerent about the announcement. Which was to be somewhat expected, after all, there was a bit of a time crunch to this event, but what were the gonna do, not get their paychecks this month? This was going to happen one way or another, whether they liked it or not.

A solitary hand shot up from the crowd: the stripper who had somehow found herself in this group. "…yes?"

"How can it be Christmas in July if it's supposed to be in December?"

Oh. Oh, she was one of those people…

"Because it doesn't actually snow here," Brooke informed her. Come to think of it…she was really easy on the eyes… "…how would you like to be the mascot for this event?"

"OK! …hey, Nora, what's a mascot supposed to do?"

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

True to her word the Christmas decorations were delivered the following day, and anyone who didn't work in the kitchens or any one of the other attractions on Inna de Poona were instantly out to work getting the, set up in the lobby.

"Fuckin' hell, I ain't seen this much green since I last visited my Abuela's…!" Nora marveled. Say what you want about her boss, the woman went all out when it came to decorating for the holidays.

"I like it!" declared a now themed-up Candace. She'd traded in her typical attire (which wasn't all that much, to be honest) for a red bikini hemmed with white fur and a pink Santa hat- Mrs. Belrose's insistence- and was basically floating around as everyone else unpacked boxes and positioned ladders. "It reminds me of when I used to spend Christmas at my Memaw's!"

Nora opened a box containing wreaths and started unpacking it. "Oh, she got too many decorations too?"

"Pfft, there's no such thing as 'too many decorations'; it just wouldn't be Christmas otherwise!"

Unless you spent a non-zero number of those Christmases behind bars, that is…

She didn't miss the turkey and pistols carved out of wood one bit.

"What kinda stuff did your Abuela do?" she asked.

"You know, typical stuff: made a bunch of food, put some records on that everyone sang along with, made sure everyone prayed next to the statue of the Virgin Mary…"

"Oh…well I guess that's nice…we always just prayed to Jesus in my house."

Bless her beautiful, simple, uncomplicated heart.

"Koh-nee-chee-wah!" Suki's rather shrill voice announced suddenly, the weeaboo trotting up to the two other women. "Isn't all this Christmas stuff just super soo-goh-ai?"

"That's…certainly one way to describe it."

"What're you doin' here, Suki?" Candace asked, "Did Miss Belrose let you have a break?"

"Oh, Tay-cho-sama asked Suki-chan to see how the decorations were coming!" "Suki-chan" explained. "She needs to do some important paperwork right now, so I get to be in charge until she's done!" The [fake] gyaru girl bounced in place, "This is motou genkee, I never get to be in charge; I'm gonna do the most soo-goh-ai job possible!"

"Just don't get a swelled head about it, chica," the Hispanic woman cautioned, "you know what they say about absolute power, right?"

"…that it's absolutely powerful?"

"…"

There was technically nothing incorrect about Candace's statement.

"…anyway…you wanna give me a hand with this next box? It's a little big, so-"

"OK!~" As easily as if it were made of styrofoam, Candace reached into a box containing one of the several Christmas trees that were meant to be set up in the lobby and yanked it upright, effortlessly holding it off the ground. "Where do you want me to put it?" she asked.

"I think that one's supposed to go by the reception desk; we'll worry about fine-tuning the placement later, so just set it down anywhere."

"You got it, roommate!"

Nora glanced over at the slightly pudgy "boss", who was just staring at Candace as the stripper skipped over to the reception desk, not impeded even a little by the large, fake evergreen; her overly mascaraed eyes were as wide as dinner plates, and her mouth looked like it would fall completely off if it hung any lower. She was also pointing limply in Candace's direction.

"You catchin' flies now, girl?"

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

"Yeah, Candace is pretty strong," Lailani confirmed. She reached down for another bauble from Suki, hanging it a few inches away from the last one. "She's able to pick me up all the time during our dancing lessons."

"Soo-goh-ee…!" Suki marveled. The Weeaboo was holding a box of ornaments that were meant to go on the "receptionist tree", as that one had been dubbed. "Hey, Lailani-chan? What's Christmas like in Japan?"

Lailani sighed. She'd explained multiple times that, while she was technically of Asian descent, she wasn't Japanese, but it always seemed to fall on deaf ears. "Well, I don't really know how people usually celebrate in the city; my family live in a pretty rural area-"

"So, Hoh-kay-doh?"

The Polynesian girl just kept talking; it was easier to just say her piece and let the Caucasian girl have her fantasies. "We would usually just visit my grandparents and eat dinner there." She deliberately left out the part where all her relatives pestered her to bet a boyfriend and get married and have lots of children.

"That sounds just like Suki's kah-zoh-koo!" Suki exclaimed, nearly flinging the decorations out of her hand. "They liked to talk about politics the whole time, so I just talked with my online nay-kuh-mah until it was time to open presents."

"What kinda food did y'all eat?" Candace asked. She set another box of decorations down next to the two girls.

"Boring guy-jin stuff: turkey, ham, broccoli & cheese, buttery rolls…not a single bowl of ramen in sight!"

A tear glistened in the corner of the stripper's eye. "But…that's what you're supposed to eat for Christmas…"

"I-it depends on where you live!" Lailani quickly interjected. "Last year there was this woman from Germany that was staying here around Christmas time, and she let me have something called 'stollen' bread. Apparently, that's something they do around the holidays in Germany."

Candace's expression shifted from devastated to confused and slightly aghast. "…they steal bread in Germany?"

"I mean…not really?" The woman had only given her the cliff notes at the time. "My point is that people eat different holiday foods around the world."

"Well, as long as they aren't stealing it, then it's perfectly fine by me. Oh, are you almost done with the ornaments?"

"Hai hai!" Suki cheered.

"Almost," Lailani replied, "we just have a few more to get through."

"Good, then you're almost ready to it the star on top!"

"Um…remind me why we couldn't just put the star on before the rest? I don't want to knock anything off when we do."

"Cuz it just wouldn't be Christmas if you put the star on first, sweetie,~" she explained with a smile on her face. "Just like Garfield!"

…ok then.

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

Candace stretched the way the nice Hindi lady on the phone screen said to, her body now bent in half at the waist. She knew some of the other girls at the club did yoga to stay in shape, but until now she'd never actually tried it.

"This is so cool; I can feel my aura gettin' cleaner already!"

"Wait, really?" Lailani asked next to her, currently in the same position.

"I guess so…it's like a…kind of tingly feeling in my stomach, you know?"

There was a faint gurgling sound a moment later.

"…I think you're just hungry." She stood back up and paused Miss Lapran's video. "Why don't we go get some lunch? I'm actually feeling a little hungry myself."

"OK!"

It didn't take long before the gals had their munchies and were sitting it in front of the juice bar.

Just like the rest of the resort, it was decked out in tinsel and evergreen garlands, and holiday tunes were pumping through the speakers.

"Oooh, I like this one!~" Candace said, swaying in time with Burl Ives' "Holly Jolly Christmas". "I listened to it all the time when I was a kid."

The Polynesian girl took a sip from her peach smoothie. "I don't think I've ever heard it before…," she mused. It certainly wasn't as peppy as what she usually listened to, but the tune was catchy, and the string bits gave it a warm, inviting feeling.

"Never?" Blink blink.

"Nope."

"…didn't you ever watch Rudolf at Christmas time?" Lailani shook her head. "Frosty? Charlie Brown? White Christmas?"

"No. I mean, I know what the stories are about, but I haven't actually seen any of them."

Oh my lord, that poor girl…!

"Well, we need to fix that right away!" She abruptly stood up- her own watermelon smoothie forgotten- and took hold of the short girl's wrist. "Come on, we need to go see Nora!"

"W-w-wait a second!" While not deliberately trying to harm Lailani, physics dictated that she'd probably still feel a little sore with how emphatically Candace was leading her through the resort. "What about our food?"

Her question went ignored.

Soon they were standing outside one of the rooms on the second floor of the hotel, the pink-haired stripper knocking relentlessly on the door.

"Nora, are you in there? It's an emergency! Nora!"

"Really, you don't have to go through all this trouble-"

"Of course I do; you're missing a vital part of your childhood, and we have to fix that!" The knocking continued for a solid minute- Lailani just standing to the side, unsure of what to say- before the door was yanked open, a rather disheveled-looking Nora standing in the threshold.

"Yo, what the fuck, Candace? I was in the middle of something; where's the fuckin' fire?"

"Lailani hasn't seen Rudolf yet!" she exclaimed, the petite masseuse giving a sheepish wave behind her.

Blink, blink. "…and?"

"Nora, this is serious! She hasn't seen any Christmas movies before!"

"Well, I wouldn't say that…," Lailani said, "I seen a bunch of those Lifetime holiday films!"

"...she hasn't seen any of the important Christmas movies!" Candace amended. "You gotta help us!" She flashed the hardened Latina a pair of puppy dog eyes, quivering her bottom lip. "I know you got a bunch of videotapes under your bed…!"

"…Candace, that's my porn collection."

Lailani squeaked, her face turning a faint shade of red.

"I mean the other tapes! You know, the one your Abuela sent you?"

Realization flashed across Nora's face. "Oh, those! But…you know you can find all of them on the internet as well, right?"

"Nuh-uh! You gotta watch them on a tv, with your family. Cuz that's what you do at Christmas."

"…you have some pretty specific thoughts on what you're supposed to do for Christmas," Lailani pointed out.

"Well, my Mama always told me 'Candace, don't you ever forget how to celebrate Christmas, or else you'll make the Baby Jesus sad'."

Neither of the other women quite knew how to respond to that.

While the awkward silence was going on there was the sound of shuffling coming from further inside the room, a familiar head of bleached blonde hair and a fake-looking tan, her somewhat full figure wrapped in a towel.

"Yankee-chan, who is it? I didn't finish that Portuguese Breakfast that you were- Oh, hi-hi Hentai-chan, hi-hi Lailani-chan! What are you two doing here?"

"We're gonna give Lailani the experience of a lifetime!" the slightly ditzy stripping announced, exuberantly, which actually prompted Lailani to step forward.

"Christmas movies!" she quickly explained, "Candace wanted to show me some Christmas movies, and apparently Nora has some. …um, what're you doing here?"

"Housekeeping," Nora easily supplied. "Why don't you two come out of the hall while I dig those movies out? And you-" She shoved Suki back into the bathroom. "-put some clothes on, ai? I have guests now."

"And a roommate!" Candace pointed out.

"Yeah, that too."

Once everyone was settled in (not to mention properly clothed) and the movies were retrieved, Candace picked one of the "good ones", being Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer ("Nah-nee you mean you don't have 'Itsudate my Santa'!?") and put it on, Nora going to heat up some microwave popcorn for the girls to munch on while they watched.

They all ended up having such a good time that by the time Candace was "satisfied" with Lailani's "education" it was already late at night.

"Geez, where'd all the time fuckin' go?" Nora wondered.

"I guess we must have lost track…," Lailani mused. "Good thing today was an off day for the massage parlor."

"And the club!" added Candace.

"And Tay-cho-sama," Suki piped up. "She just told me to have fun today, which is weird, because she's usually all 'Sarah, go do this! Sarah, go do that! I don't pay you to lollygag all day, Miss Stevens, go and draw my bath!'. She doesn't even smile all that much…"

"You sounded just like her!" Candace cheered, clapping. Lailani and Nora were staring wide-eyed at the imitation ganguro girl.

"It's actually kind of scary how close you imitated Mrs. Belrose's voice…," Lailani remarked.

Suki beamed. "It must be because of all the Japanese I know!"

Yeah, no fucking chance, both non-Caucasian women thought in unison.

Before either of them could actually point that out, Suki's phone rang; a very fast-paced J-pop song suddenly filled the small room.

"Chot-o matty, guys, I need to take this." She hit the call answer button and put the phone to her ear. "Mah-shee mah-shee? Oh, Mrs. Belrose!" Suki's weeaboo mannerisms instantly dropped when she realized who was calling. "I'm with some friends right now, I'm not sure how- …I'm also off the clock right now, ma'am. Yeah…yeah, that's a fair point. …you need a what?!" Her heavily mascara'd eyes suddenly went wide. "Boss, what are you-? …she hung up on me…" She put her phone away, looking both shellshocked and perplexed.

"What's wrong, Suki?" Candace asked.

"Yeah," Lailani added, "you look kinda scared right now."

Nora furrowed her brow. "What'd Las Planetas say to you?"

Suki looked up at her friends. "…she just asked me to get her a gun so she could shoot herself."

"WHAT?"

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

By the time the quartet reached the penthouse suite, they'd all lost 2 Lbs each. Fortunately, Suki had a key to the room ("In case Tay-Cho-sama needs me to get something for her.") and promptly unlocked the door, allowing them to enter.

Lailani and Candace both gasped in shock once they entered. Neither of them had been in a room as fancy as this one before, so the aight of such blatant flaunting of wealth overwhelmed them for a moment.

Their awe didn't last long, however, as laying on the four-poster, canopy bed made of mahogany was a mess of expensive chiffon and mussed up hair was Brooke Belrose, her face buried in a pillow and a half-empty bottle of Domaine de la Romanee-Conti Grand Cru 2002 hanging off the bed, open, in her right hand.

And she was drunkenly slurring the lyrics of "I'll be home for Christmas" into the fine satin pillowcase.

"Tay-cho-sama!" Suki cried, rushing over to Brooke's side, "Are you alright? What happened?"

Candace followed right behind the weeaboo and pried the mature woman for the pillow, stating "Upsie-daisy now." Now that her face was visible the girls could see that all the mascara and product was smeared and running, and her eyes were red and puffy.

"Yo, say this might get me fired…but you look like shit, Boss Lady."

She received a smack on her shoulder for the remark from Lailani, though the natively tropical girl didn't (and couldn't) refute the statement. "…is something wrong, Mrs. Belrose? It's ok if you tell us."

The rich woman then clumsily threw her arms over Lailani's shoulder and brought their faces close together.

"It'sh fugging awful, Loraine!" A huge sniffle. "Mai kidsh hate me, an- an- an- …they do'n love me anymooooooooooooore!"

Lailani struggled not to gag at her boss's booze breath (which probably still cost more than her salary, if she had to guess).

"Nah-nee?!" Suki gasped in an exaggerated fashion, "How could anyone not like you?"

"You'd be surprised," Nora remarked under her breath.

"I do'n wanna live anymoooooooore…!"

"Aw, there there.~" Candace moved in to take Lailani's place as the smaller girl began a coughing fit. She sat next to Brooke on the bed and gently laid the woman's head on her lap. "It'll be OK, right? I'm sure your kids don't really hate you."

"No, they doooo!" The drunk woman reached for the nightstand where her phone was lying face down, Candace nudging it closer to her boss's grasp. After a moment fumbling to unlock the device (Lailani had now recovered from the assault of booze breath she endured), Brooke showed the screen to the gathered Hunies: there were several different colored blurbs of text on display in the messenger app. "Lookit!"

Apparently, Brooke's husband and kids had been planning to visit the resort in a few days since they wouldn't be able to actually make it around Christmas time, only for other obligations to pop up that prevented the trip from happening.

"Damn, that sucks."

"I mean…that's pretty unfortunate, but it's not the worst thing that could happen, right?" Lailani posited. She doubted any of them were a good substitute for the Suicide Hotline, but better an effort made than none, right?

"Oh, Lidia-"

"It's Lailani, ma'am."

"I do'n fuggin' care! And yous jus' do'n undershtand…I luv my li'l babbies, I jus' wanna be a gud mother…I'ma gud mother…right?" Sniffle.

No one quite knew how to respond to the question.

"I mean…I don't think we've ever seen you around kids, ma'am."

"Yup-yup! This is an adults-only resort," Suki pointed out, "the only chibi people here are the kids of some of the staff."

This just set another round of sniffles in motion.

"Miss Belrose, I'd appreciate it if you didn't get snot on my legs," Candace gently pleaded.

Lailani knelt down in front of Candace so she could speak to Brooke face to (slightly puffy) face. "Ok, so I think it's pretty clear that you miss your family, right?"

Brooke nodded.

"Well…" She took a moment to make sure what she wanted to say would make sense to her drunk boss curling up on Candace's lap. "Maybe you can look at it this way: to everyone here…you're kind of like a mom."

"Nah-nee?"

"The fuck you say, puta?!"

The masseuse sent both ladies a "Shut up, idiots, I'm trying to do a thing here!" glare before focusing back on the inebriated resort manager. "Yeah! I mean, you make sure we're all gainfully employed, we have access to healthy food…and we even have fun things to do sometimes, like decorating for Christmas!"

A fresh round of tears began welling up in Brooke's eyes. "…really?"

"Oh, absolutely! You're the glue that keeps this place together! Um…" She was quickly running out of platitudes. "…s-so I guess you can think of us as your family as well? Kind of?" She tried to motion for the others to follow her lead without being too apparent to the drunk woman.

"Um…hi!" Suki chimed in. "You're just like an oh-kay-san to this place,"

"Eh, I guess it's not an unapt comparison…," Nora shrugged, conceding the point.

"My mom's hair smells like Lavender too!" Candace added.

Well, two out of three isn't bad…

"See? You've got a family right here." She brushed a stray lock of hair from Brooke's glasses. "I know it's not the same as having your actual kids here, but there's no need to be lonely. Besides, it's…sort of Christmas right now; we should be celebrating the things we do have, not the things we don't." She glanced at the other three women for confirmation. "…right?"

"Close enough." Nora then pried the bottle from her inebriated employer's fairly loose grasp. "So how about you just dream of dancing sugarplums or something until tomorrow, huh?"

"Uh-huh! And you can forget all about wanting to ki-mmmmmm!"

Thankfully Suki and Lailani's reflexes were fast enough to keep Candace from accidentally undoing all their hard work.

"Why don't we let Mrs. Belrose get some rest like Nora suggested?" Lailani prompted, "I'm sure she'd appreciate the privacy."

"Good call, Lailani-chan!" Suki immediately began drawing the covers back.

"Aw…I kinda like this," Candace pouted as the others helped Brooke into the bed. "Normally people have to pay extra for me to be their 'mommy'…"

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

The next day things returned to normal, though Suki informed her friend that Brooke Belrose was taking a brief sabbatical to "get the damn world to stop shaking my head apart".

However, the day after…

"Yeah, I got one too," Nora said, holding up an identical envelope to the one Lailani had shown her, "I dunno what the fuck gives either."

"Wah-tah-shee got one too," Suki said, adding hers to the collection. "It was on my pillow when I woke up."

"Do you think it was the tooth fairy?" Candace wondered. She was holding her envelope up to the ceiling, trying to use the overhead lights to peer inside.

"No," Nora responded immediately, "I'd be almost as loaded as Las Planetas by now if that bastardo was real."

"It has a monogram on the front," Lailani pointed out. "…'BB'?"

"Well, only one way to find out!" Shrugging, Candace proceeded to rip the envelope open and dump the contents out on the breakfast table. The others followed suit, albeit with more finesse than the somewhat spacy stripper. Inside each was a little plastic card and a folded piece of paper with gold filigree along the border.

"…is that a gift card?" Suki asked.

"I think so." Lailani examined hers. "…it's for $25 credit at the hotel gift shop."

"Ooo, What's the letter say?"

Nora took it upon herself to read hers aloud. "'Dear [insert name here], it feels demise of me not to give you a little something for Christmas even if it's technically not for another 6 months. Please enjoy this token of my appreciation for your services at Inna de Poona. Regards, BB.' …For such a rich bitch, she's kinda cheap, huh?"

"I mean…at least she bothered to get us something."

"Tay-cho-sama is really thoughtful like that.~"

"Well, I know what I'm gonna do with my gift," Candace explained, "There's this little stuffed doll there that looks just like my friend Sprinkles, and it's super cute, and now I can get it!"

"But…don't you already make a bunch of money from, um…performing?" Lailani hesitantly wondered.

"That's work money," the adult entertainer explained, "this is spending money."

…ok then.

Thus life goes on at that Love Lei Resort. Inna de Poona returned to its normal a few days later after the event ran its course, and Brooke didn't pull anything nearly as concerningly dramatic as she had.

Candace got her plushee and proceeded to rub it in "Sprinkles'" face whenever she remembered that she bought it.

Suki put on Itsudate My Santa nightly for the rest of the time the Christmas in July event went on. She also received many complaints to deliver to Brooke about having to take down the myriad decorations.

Lailani did some research into actual Christmas practices and made sure to attend at least one of Suki's viewing's of Itsudate My Santa so the Weeaboo wouldn't keep pestering her about it.

Nora eventually sold the remainder of the bottle of Romanee-Conti (for MUCH less than it was actually worth) and sent half of the money to her cousin Kyanna for Philip's college fund.

fin.