-Chapter -5 - Past and present -

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FLASHBACK:

December 25, 2019:

Like no other Christmas season, Gabriel wasn't in the mood for Christmas, and he planned to spend it alone, designing for a new collection he's presently working on, while having multiple things bother him on his mind. Adrien and Nathalie, on the other hand, continued to celebrate the special occasion. Nathalie asked the cooks to put food on the table for Christmas. She and Adrien decided to spruce up the mansion for the holiday, some how they managed to get Gabriel to agree with the idea of putting up a Christmas tree by the stairs and a couple of other festive decorations throughout the mansion, such as Christmas stockings.... garlands.... a few lights and even a reindeer by the gates outside. Nathalie even bought Adrien a gift she thought he would appreciate, and she even thought about Gabriel.

Nathalie and Adrien were almost with decorating the Christmas tree, they added the lights, ornaments, a bow at the top, and a few gifts that were neatly wrapped in the bottom, but there was something else that needed to be done. Adrien reached in his left back pocket and took out a small rose gold box that had an ornament with a picture of his mother, Emilie on it. He carefully placed it on the tree, Nathalie walked behind him and placed her left hand in his left shoulder,

12:06am:

"The tree is all done, Adrien, how do you like it?"

Adrien turned around and looked at her, "It looks amazing, Nathalie! Thank you so much for helping me!" He hugged her tight.

Nathalie smiled down at Adrien and returned his hug, "of course Adrien..." she said then kissed the top of his head.

When they pulled away from the hug, Adrien began to smell something good coming from the dinning room, he kept sniffing, "Wait- do you smell that Nathalie? It's coming from the dinning room!"

She smiled widely before answering, "Yes of course! That's the roasted turkey, my dear." she answer, Adrien ran to the door and when he entered the room, he found all kinds of food layed out in the table. There were lobsters, oysters, French-styled glazed Christmas ham that was beautifully garnished, the roasted turkey filled with chestnuts, appetizers, camembert cheese, and desserts that came from the Dupain-Cheng bakery like; croissants, macarons, cakes, cookies, as well as ginger bread cookies, plus a house, and a baguette.

"So much food..." he whispers as Nathalie entered the room, "Nathalie this is so much food! Can we eat yet?" Adrien sounded really excited and it made Nathalie extremely happy, "Yes of course! The time is 12:06 am already, Christmas eve, you can eat now if you would like, my dear."

"Were eating good!" the young boy was about to take a seat when he remembered about his father, "Nathalie, should we go call... f-father?" he felt hesitant with asking because chances are he would turn down the offer.

"I can go try and get him..." Nathalie replied in a hush tone, afraid that Gabriel would say no and upset Adrien, but just as she was about to opened the door, it swung opened and knocked her on the head, Nathalie was about to fall backwards in the floor, but Gabriel scooped her in his arms immediately.

Nathalie felt her cheeks burn as she watched a Gabriel's eyes lower to her lips, ~"shit."~ Nathalie thought to herself. She was in Gabriel's arms and he was looking at her lips, a few more seconds later Gabriel's eyes looked intently into hers, he felt that Nathalie was holding her breath, Gabriel stood her up and asked,

"Are you alright, Nathalie?" concerned on his tone,

"I-I'm- yeah, everything is fine, sir." she no longer held her breath and continued to look at Gabriel, his eyes were still stuck on her

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