Bahlam Feeki

Chapter 43

" Are you kidding me you've never seen the Grinch!" I gasp loudly while rolling the sugar cookies into balls to be placed on the cookie sheet.

He chuckled, "No, I'm being serious. I've never watched the movie I'm pretty sure my family hasn't seen it either." I shake my head and dust my hands off on the apron

"Nope, not on my watch. Gather everyone up who is available we are watching it tonight." It was the eve of Christmas Eve and while they don't celebrate they didn't mind participating in the festivities. Especially when I mentioned food was involved.

Well not everyone joined in and that's fine. I wasn't even suspecting them to at all but his two brothers, dad, and stepmom? I don't even know if that's what you would call her but they kinda ignored my existence.

"So what are we doing with all these cookies?" he asked as he placed a tray in the oven to bake.

"Well, the batch you put in are for here and the extra four are meant for an orphanage." He leans against the table and crossed his arms

"Orphanage?"

" Yeah, normally I and the girls would get together and bake and one year we made way too much

And since I don't talk to my neighbors Anna suggested we bag everything up and give them to the kids. We even had enough to give to the people at the shelters So it just became a reoccurring tradition."

I look over after noticing he didn't say anything but no wonder he didn't. This man was looking at me with hearty eyes. I let out a small chuckle and he approached me from behind.

"What did I do to deserve such a loving, caring, and considerate girlfriend huh?" He wrapped his hands around my waist and placed a small peck on my cheek.

" Hmmm?" I turn around now facing him. I positioned my pointer finger on my cheek and raised an eyebrow like I was thinking

" Maybe this fate you speak of is actually being nice to use." I peck him on the lips quickly and turn back around to my cookie-making.

"You might be onto something." I feel his face nuzzle into the side of my neck and he lets out a groan.

" I should have taken more time off."

" As much as I enjoy spending time with you, you still have duties to attend to." He tucked my curly hair behind my ear seeing as how once again it escaped my hair clip.

"My duties are to attend to my wonderful girlfriend." He kissed the side of my neck and I turned around secretly having cookie dough on my finger.

He puckered his lips and I placed some on his lips. I laugh as his eyes spring open and he raised his eyebrow coming to a realization of what I did.

I noticed his hand dips into the bowl and I began to back up already knowing what was going to happen.

"Mmm don't think you can escape this one habibti COME HERE!" I scream and run out of the kitchen hoping he doesn't catch me. He runs after me swearing in Arabic but sooner or later I get tackled like a damn bitch. I didn't know this was football.

It didn't hurt, though, we ended up in some area of the palace that was heavily padded as if it was met for lounging in.

Before I could even take in my environment he smears the cookie dough on my lips. He laughed thinking he was getting even with me but he was wrong.

I grabbed his face and happily placed a big wet one on him.

" Is this how my life will be after she moves in?" We both tensed up after realizing we weren't alone and he quickly composed himself while helping me up