Pain and Love

Christmas

Hardin:

Next day, Monday

We get woken up in the morning by Tessa's alarm going off at her usual time but as always too early for me to get up.

"Tess turn that off" I groan out as it still continues to ring.

Tess lets out a small chuckle at my morning annoyance towards her alarm. She turns off the alarm and then turns around to face me.

"Morning my grumpy boy" she says to me with a smile on her face and then leans to give me a kiss on the forehead.

"Please just stay in bed for a little longer" I beg her

"Fine but only a little while"

"Fine by me" I say and wrap my hand around her waist as she comes and cuddles up closer to my body.

We stayed like that for around 15 minutes before Tessa then climbed out of bed to get ready for uni but I see her legs are not fully stable. Can't blame her since we did go a few rounds last night.

"Are you doing okay?" I ask her with a grin.

"Yes I'm fine" she says but unconvincingly.

"Really cause you look a little shaky on your feet love" I tease.

"No I'm totally fine" she is really bad at trying to be convincing. But I just nod and let her be.

Tess is doing her usual and meeting Landon and Molly for coffee but I decided not to today so stay in bed longer. As I'm in bed I see Tess running around the bedroom getting changed then doing her make-up and hair. Then when she was finally ready she came over to me in bed and sat beside me as she put her shoes on.

"Right, make sure you get to uni on time today" she says to me. "Yes okay mother" I joke.

Tess gets up from the bed but I stop her by gently grabbing her wrist which stops her and she sits back down.

"What?" she groans

"I wanted a kiss" I pout

Tessa rolls her eyes and then leans down to connect our lips and share a gentle morning kiss. Tessa then stands up but yet again I see her legs shaking like jelly.

"Are you sure your legs are okay?" I tease again.

But Tess stares at me and practically gives me a death stare. "No my legs aren't okay, hope you're proud of yourself" she says to me in a grumpy tone.

"Oh I am" I tell her and smirk but then she gives me a slap on my head. Tessa then lets out a chuckle before leaving the room.

"See you later baby" she shouts back to me. "See you love" I shout back to her.

Then around an hour and half later I get out of bed and get myself ready. I hopped into the shower, had a shave and then got changed. Afterwards I go into the kitchen to start making coffee and get some cereal.

I sit down at the kitchen island with my cereal but then my phone starts ringing. When I pull it out my back pocket I then see it's my mum calling.

"Hi mum" I say as I answer the call.

"Hello Hardin" she replies.

"Isn't it early in London, why are you up?" I ask her.

"I had to be up for work"

"Ah okay, anyways why did you call?" I ask.

"Well I was just wondering about christmas this year"

"What do you mean by wondering?" I am confused.