Christmas Was Not Supposed to Be Merry

There was a couple browsing down a road, trying to find a decent place to stay for a few nights. only a few nights. Like most other couples, they were also in love. Apparently love did not make them happy at that time. They were so confused and tired that they hardly talked to each other. Even a bright star on the sky could not put a simple smile on their faces.

People called the guy joseph, an ordinary guy from a small village. He was in love with a woman who was sitting on their stupid camel. They said her name was mary. The funny thing was, they were never sure whose baby she was having now in her womb (well, not until the baby grew up and they finally knew that he was a super boy from nazarethville).

Months ago during his lunch break, Joseph met a man who suddenly told him that his lover was pregnant. and he was like “What the fuck ? I haven’t touched her. How dare you told me such thing !” But the man was snappily disappeared. Perhaps he was afraid that he would beat him up. At first thought he was having a seizure, but it can’t be. He was a descendant of a great king. No one in his family tree had the disease. Then he realized he just experienced a twilight zone (well not yet jose, you haven’t seen anything yet).

Without he knew it, the same guy also came toward mary when she was cooking some food for him. First she thought that he was a thief, but HELL NO ! A thief would never be that handsome. He was even more handsome than his boyfriend Joseph. While she was trying to give him her best smile, here was what he said “Peace upon you, now you are blessed by the most high among other women. You will conceive in your womb a baby, and you shall name him Jesus”. And she replied “Wait a minute, I never sleep with anyone ! How could i have a baby ?” And he said “Two thousand years later from now it would be possible (sperm bank, hello !), but now God is working a miraculous way.” She was so shocked that she didn’t feel that her mouth was wide open afterwards. She kept on thinking hard of what just happened. She then decided to stay at home than had a date tonight with him that would make her unable to avoid talking about it. “let him know that i have met a handsome guy and then he told me i would have a baby ? i’m not that crazy. he would have thought that i had slept with him and then decided to break up with him.”

Life goes on. So did what happened next to the poor couple. The villagers saw her stomach getting bigger every week. It must not be of malnutrition since they saw her kept on throwing up. Joseph was so dumb even though he kept on telling her that he loved her, he did not prepare things ahead. He has had nine months to get both of them ready. He could have married her or at least take her away somewhere before they busted his ass. Hasn’t he heard ‘runaway bride’ ? hmm, i bet he hasn’t.

And that night, they were tired of the rejections of the inns’ owners who refused to let them stay for a night. Some of them said it was fully booked, some others just didn’t give a shit for what had happened to them. But they were just like us, right ? who would give a shit for a pregnant woman walking around the town at a very late night with a not-so-handsome guy ? Nobody would ever want to get involved with one’s problem.

And there they were. Trying hard to calm the baby who was laid in a manger. In spite of the rejections, weariness of being chased by a lunatic king, an unplanned pregnancy, and learning how to deliver a baby for the first time, his blind love for her led them to a reviled place.

And that night, christmas was not supposed to be merry.