Bah Humbug!

[A/N: This is a reader insert story based off the book "A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens. Enjoy~]


It was snowing.

That's what you saw when you woke up. Snow gently falling from the sky, as it twirled in the cold breeze landing safety onto the ground. Starring out of the window, you began to frown at the soft, white blanket that lay below your house. It's looked so joyful and pure that it made you angry.

Oh, how much you loathed the snow!

It reminded you of your past, which is something you hated to discuss about. Especially when people at your school would ask you about it even though it was none of their businesses. You would just yell at them and storm away.

Your weren't every fond of the other kids at your school, nor were they fond of you. They were either scared out of there wits or talking about you behind your back.

You could care less to be honest, just like how you could care less about other peoples lives or feels. you hated everything just like how you hated life. it was such a dull. You would think that having everything that you could ever want and yet you still didn't.

Ever since your aunt died a few years ago from a rare illness, you began to take on her responsibilities. you took over her business, her wealth, her mansion, and not to mention her personality.

Your aunt was a rude selfish person. She was cold and distant to everyone, that is except for you. She loved you and took you in after your family died an an automobile accident when you were 5. Even though she loved you, she was very stern and raised you with an iron fist. And to be honest you were kind of scared of her.

Even one that one special day of the year, she was strict. Christmas was something that you always looked forward to. But sadly your aunt didn't let you celebrate Christmas. She thought that it was a waist of time and that you could spent that time in your studies.

After she died when you were 14 you took over her business since there was no one else in the family who could take care of it. You were the only one left in your family. You had an uncle on your father's side of the family but your aunt didn't trust him for he was greedy. Not many people took you seriously due to the fact that you were so young. But over time you showed them that you meant business and would not hesitate to fire them.

As time went on, your hatred grew as well as your hatred for Christmas. Every year you would look at the children and their mothers and fathers as their laughter filled the air. You didn't have anybody to spend it with...So what is the point in even celebrating. They're just wasting their time and money.

What a pathetic holiday.

And now you were the age of 17. A cold, rude, selfish brat that no one within miles wanted to be around. Even though you were currently running a business on your own you still made sure to get your education and went to school.

A soft knocked occurred at your door snapping you out of your thoughts.

"Yes, come on in." You said. Opening the doors, you maid walks in and bows before starting to set out your school uniform. You grimace, wondering why the hell you had to go to school the day before Christmas! You would actually rather celebrate the holiday than to go to school.

Getting dressed into your uniform you go down stairs where your other maids were happily singing Christmas tunes and talking about their day off tomorrow. You furrowed your eyebrows angrily. 'Did they really think that they would get a day off,' you thought smirking, obviously amused that they would think of such a thing. How amusing.

"So how are you going to spent your Christmas, Lili?" One of your maids asked another as they cleaned.

Lili smiled, "I'm going to spend it with my family of course. After such a long time, I finally get to see my mother and father again. But I am mostly excited to see my big brother too!" You scoffed as you listened into the conversation closer.

"How is he doing, last time I remember he was very ill. Am I correct?" Lili nodded, a sad smile on her face.

"Yes, but luckily he has gotten better at least."

The maid smiled and nodded, "That's wonderful to hear."

"That's why I can't wait for tomorrow to see him again as well as the others. I'm so excited!"

You chuckled startling them both. They looked up at you, their eyes showed how scared they were not to mention how much you had scared them for listening into their conversation.

"Is that what you two think huh? Lili, hurry up and change out of that hideous maid outfit and change into your school uniform already, I don't want you to make us late again! And as for you." You turned your gaze towards the other maid, " I want you to gather everyone, I have something tell them. Of course, both of you included as well."

They looked at each other nervously and quickly walked away in different directions.

As soon as all of your maids, butlers, chefs, and so on came and Lily was finally in her uniform, you paced around on the large steps and glared at everyone making them very nervous about what's to come.

Finally stopping, you frowned.

"So, apparently I have heard that you plan on seeing your families is that correct. After all it is Christmas tomorrow and you all expect to have the day off I believe." Some nodded their heads slowly, while the other already knew where this was heading.

"I have decided...That you all will NOT be having a Christmas this year. So I advise you to all call your families and cancel whatever plans you had." After you had finished everyone looked at you either confused, angrily, or sad as they all began to yell at you as to why. You just simply ignored them and made you way down the stairs.

You glanced back at Lili who just stood there shocked.

"Come Lili, we'll be late if we don't hurry up!" You told her. She slowly nodded and made her way over to you as you both walked to the car. As you both got in, neither of you talked for half of the ride there before Lily spoke up.

"M-Mistress?" She said quietly.

"What is it?" You asked, a bit annoyed.

She started to fidget with her finger nervously, "Why..?"

You glanced at her, with a confused expression.

"Why what?"

"U-uh..w-well.."

"Spit it out already!" You said angrily getting impatient. She flinched before continuing.

"Why did you do what you did back there, you know, keep us from seeing our families and make us cancel our Christmas?" She asked, scared of what you might say to her.

"Because I can." You said straight to the point in a matter-of-fact tone. Her eyes widened at your words.

"So, what your trying to say is..that you're keeping us away from our families and wasting our Christmas is because...you say so..?" She said trying to process your words.

You looked at her, "Yes, obviously! What are you an idiot or something?"

Something snapped inside of Lily, causing a frown to form on her face. Something you haven't seen in a long time. At least since you were both young children.

"How selfish..." You scowled at her, your anger beginning to rise once again.

"Excuse me didn't you say something? I didn't quite catch that." You said.

She just shook her head, and said no. You knew that she was lying and demanded her to tell you what she had said.

"I said..that your very selfish."

"I'm selfish..?"

She nodded and looked at you angrily.

"That's exactly what I said!" She said, her voice getting louder.

"Well excuse me, but I think that you should watch what you say to me!" You yelled. She got closer to your face, obviously really pissed.

"Or what? You'll fire me? Why should I care! All you do is boss us around to death, make fun of us, treat us like garbage..! And not to mention keep us away from our loved ones one the most important day of the year!" She looked you dead in the eyes as she glared, her face getting red with anger.

"And why should I care about you and your families!?" You shot back.

"And why should we care about you? Why should we waist out time working on a special day just for you? Or at all for that matter! I bet the only reason you are keeping us here is because you are so alone and angry that you have no one else to take the anger out on! Why, just because you have no family left you should treat us the way you feel about us! You feel so pathetic and lonely, that's probably why you don't have any friends, no in fact it IS the reason why! So why don't you take your attitude and that stick and shove it further up your ass!"

SLAP!

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Snapping out of her daze, Lili looks at you as she puts a hand to the mark you left on her cheek. You looked down at the ground, tears threatening to fall from your eyes and Lili knew that she had crossed the line. Your once best friend from when you were children... hated you as well... Well you already figured that she did a long time ago...but...

"..O-oh my god..(Y/n)..I..I'm so sorry I shouldn't have-" You cut her off before she could finish.

"...Get out..."

"What?"

"..I said..GET OUT NOW! And you know what, you and the others came go have your day off on Christmas because I don't want to see any of you for the rest of the day!" After you yelled at her, you ordered the drive to stop and you immediately kicked her out on to the curve.

"Have fun walking the rest of the way.." You say as the car drives off, leaving her behind. You had to admit in your mind that you felt bad and wanted to o back and get but what she said...It may have been true but it still hurt a lot. And you just knew that school was going to be just as bad.

You sat in the middle of class bored out of your mind. They wasn't even a lecture today and everyone was basically just either chatting away or exchanging gifts. And since you didn't have ONE friend all you did was sit and listen to other peoples conversation and go onto the internet on your phone, that is until you felt a tap on your shoulder.

"What do you want, can't you see that I don't-" Once you realized who it was you instantly blushed. It was Arthur Kirkland, you crush and other childhood friend. He smiled down at you sheepishly. You were honestly wondering what the hell, he wanted considering you both hadn't spoken to one another in a few years.

"U-uh sorry to bother but..I was wondering if I could sit next to you..If you would like that is." You were stunned! Arthur wanted to sit next to you!? You nodded and signaled for him to sit next to you, earning glares from all the girls in the classroom which you happily returned, making them nervous and turn away.

"It's been a while, hasn't it?" He asked. You nodded as you raised an eyebrow curiously.

"Um, no offence Arthur but..Why are you talking to me?" He just shrugged and smiled.

"Well why not, you seemed a bit lonely over here so I thought that I would come over and chat. We haven't talked in a while so I thought that maybe we could..I don't know..be friends again." And at this you could have sworn you saw that tiniest blush dust his cheeks but you decided to shrug it off.

But you were honestly shocked to find that he would want to be friends again, not to mention with someone like you! But you had to admit, that you had a major crush on him when you were both children, in fact you still do. Of course you would never admit it though.

But...How could you be friends with him, the main reason you both stop being friends was because you said something to him that you shouldn't have. He is such a kind and sweet person, he deserves someone who is the same way. As for you, you were a cruel, cold, person who liked to be alone. You most definitely didn't want to hurt his feeling again..And to be honest, even though it hurts a lot, you actually like to be a loner more than to be with others who could bring you down or someone you could hurt. It's just easier that way.

It's like what your aunt had told you when you were younger and was living with her at the time before she died a couple of years ago. She had always said, 'Having friends is just going to get in the way of what is important! The same thing goes for love. My dear (Y/n) I what you to keep that in mind,if you want to have a promising future.'

"O-oh and um..(Y/n)?" You look up at him and this time he was visibly blushing. His face was a bright crimson and he looked away nervously.

"I-I was wonder..If you would like to..You know come over to my house and have a Christmas dinner with me and my family. It must be lonely not to have anyone to spend time with so..What do you say?"

You just stared at him wondering what you should do, your face red and your heart beating fast. You kept repeating your aunts words in your head. All of these mixed feeling made you so confused. Slamming your fists onto the table, you quickly stood up and looked at him angrily with your blush still visible.

"I say..No I don't, i'm fine just the way I am and can't waist my time on someone like you, I am far to busy tomorrow and don't have time! And as for the friendship, I decline! Why should I waist my time and breath on someone so pathetic as you!" You quickly cover your mouth, really wishing those words didn't come out. You looked around the class room to see people looking at you as if you were crazy. You could hear some of the whispers, they were saying how rude you were, or how stupid you must have been for declining Arthur.

You covered your face with your hands and ran out of the room right as the finally bell had rung, signaling the day to be over. Arthur stood from the desk and tried to catch you be for you had left the room but he was to late.

Rushing to the car, you got in and sped away glancing out of the window and catching a glimpse of Arthur before you disappeared.

'Why did you do that you idiot! The first time in a long time Arthur finally talks to you again and you yell in his face and tell him that he is pathetic and..Oh god I'm such an idiot!' you where mentally slapping at yourself at what you had told Arthur. All he did was be nice to you and invite you over to his house and you insult him in front of everyone again!

A few minutes ago you asked you driver to pull over so you could get out and walk the rest of the way back. You thought that maybe this would be good to calm your nerves...But you were wrong.

You where in the middle of the city, where every shop had up Christmas decorations. The music in the stores blasted out, as people who walked by sang along.

You had a frown on your face as you walked, growling at passer by people. As people saw you coming they would immediately move out of the way as they looked frightened as if you would hurt them.

Looking up ahead you saw a group of people Christmas Caroling, which made you very angry. Just before passing them, you stopped at glared at them, causing them all to fall silent and slowly back away.

Once you left and were out of sight they began to sing again. You walked around a bit more before looking up at the sky and noticing that it was starting to get dark. Sighing to your self you start off on your LONG walk home.

Lucky the walk home doesn't seem so bad at the moment, you still had your phone and was currently listening to music. Glancing at the clock on your phone it read, '8:00' 'God have I really been out that long!'

Walking up to the large gate that protected your house, well should I say mansion, you scurry up to the steps and take out your keys. Your fingers were very numb from the clod and were having a hard time trying to find the right key due to the darkness. Just when you managed to find the key, you accidentally dropped them on the ground.

You started swearing at the keys loudly and bend down to get them. you fumbled everywhere trying to find them, when you get a strange feeling. Ignoring the feeling you finally find your keys and stand back up in victory. But right as you put the key in the hole...

You could have swore you heard someone behind you.

A cold, chilly, and mysterious feeling crawled onto you, as if someone was trying to grab you. You shivered, terrified and cold stiff. You turned around and tighten your fist, getting ready to punch whoever it was. But it turns out..

No one was there...

loosening your fist to look around confused. You could have swore you thought someone was behind you, you even saw hands out of the corner of your eyes! You sigh, thinking that it was all in your head, you have been paranoid all day and probably just tired. Yeah that must be it. You sigh yet again and turned around.

And came face-to-face with a women.

She was pale and transparent, her mouth was slightly open showing that most of her teeth where missing. Her hair was disheveled and her eyes where pure white. No irises, no pupils, just plain white.

You were so scared that you back away to far and fell down the steps and landed on the frozen ground. You moaned in pain and carefully crawled back up the steps to see if she was there. But she wasn't. She was gone.

You slowly picked yourself up and walked over to the door, freaking out. Getting that odd feeling again, you quickly opened the room and ran inside making sure to lock the door. Running up the large grand staircase, you run into your room and slam it shut locking it. Turning on the lights, your eyes darted around the room making sure whatever that..thing..was wasn't there. Thank god!

Slowly trudging over to your closet, you get changed into your (f/c) nightgown. Deciding not to wake anyone up, you go down the stairs and make yourself some tea to help with you stress. Walking back up the stairs and going into your room, you set your cup down and start a fire in your fireplace. Grabbing a book, you sit in a chair in front of the fireplace and starting reading occasionally taking sips of your tea.

After turning a few pages from your book you suddenly felt the temperature drop rapidly. Grabbing a blanket from your bed and sitting closely from the fire, it went out.

Standing up you walked over to the window. Inspecting the window you find that it's closed shut.

"Strange.." You say. Turning on a near by lamp you picked up your book continued to read in a bundle of blankets. Before you could continue your electricity goes out causing the room to go pitch black, he only light source that illuminated the room came from the moon.

Before you even got the chance to react, you heard heavy footsteps in the hallway. They were very slow but every step that was made make a shiver run down your spin. You heard the rustling and clatter of what sounded very much like chains. And by the amount of noise they were making must mean that there were a lot.

Right as the footsteps stopped at your door everything went silent.

No chains.

No footsteps.

Nothing.

You thought that who ever it was, was gone.

Right as you were about to sigh in relief, the doorknob started to turn.

It creaked as it turned.

Slowly it turned.

And stopped.

You started at the door, waiting to see who would come through it. You swore to your self that if it was one of the maids pulling a trick on you that you would make sure to rain hell on them.

You tried to stand up, until a large object came right through the door just missing your head. You screamed and covered your eyes at dozens of others flew into your room missing you at every throw. Attached to those large block, as what seems to be blocks of concrete, were the chains that you had heard earlier. They were white and see through.

Moving your hands from your face slowly you saw what appeared to be a young woman around her 20's. She was the same woman who you saw earlier, but this time her eyes looked like anyone else with irises and pupils. She looked just like a normal person, minus the fact that she was floating a few feet off the ground and was, well, a ghost.

Her chains were clutched to her covering most of her arms and legs while a large one was locked on her waist. She looked around the room before her eyes landed on you.

Slowly floating down at eye level, she look closely at you before smiling gently.

"Oh my, how you've have grown since I last saw you." She said, and echo mimicking her words. Wait a minute. As you take a closer look your eyes widen at the realization who it is.

"A-a-aunt...Aunt N-Natalia?" You said shuddering. She nodded looking a bit serious.

"W-what are you doing here..M-might i ask." you asked. She glanced at you before sitting down in a chair across from you. 'Wait but I thought ghosts can't do that since...Oh whatever!' You though. She looked at you carefully with a stern expression. her hair floating all around her as she bagan to speak.

"I am here on business." She said.

"...Business?" You said confused. She just simply nodded.

"For what?" She looked down at the ground for a while silently before meeting your gaze again.

"For you." You looked at her confused. What business would she have with you?

"What business would you have with me?" You asked simply.

"I'm here to warn you."

"About what?" She looked at bit irritated at all of these questions so you decided that it was best to stop.

"I am here to warn about what's coming tonight." You just WISH that she would just tell you already and stop with these short answers already! She quickly shot up from her seat and flew start it your face just inches from hers. The room started to get cold again and the atmosphere got heavy making it hard to breath for you.

"I am here to warn about what is to come for you tonight so that you will not have to end up like me! Tonight you will be visited by three spirits. They will help you if you wish but if you refuse then there is no help for you." Her voice was hollow and dark. Shivers ran down your body as you tried to breath. "I am sorry for what i have made you become, I just hope that one day you will be a better person and not became someone like me." And just like that a ear-splitting high pitched screech echoed throughout the covered your ears at the noise, just as your aunt's spirit flew out of the window, her chains following closely behind her and the screaming dying down.

You stood there dumbfounded for what seemed like an eternity. You slowly take a seat in you chair with the same stunned expression. You heard your mahogany wall clock struck 10 o'clock. You got over to your bed and climbed in. Thinking that this was all a dream and that you would soon wake up, you shut your eyes and drifted off to sleep.