- joes pov -
The three of us are sitting on our living room floor wrapping presents for the children hospital. It's something Taylor does every year since Lillys first Christmas as they spent that in the hospital with pneumonia. It made her see that so many children spend Christmas in the hospital every year, and all children hospitals try to collect presents for all the kids for Christmas Day. Thats why we have spent the last 2 weeks wrapping presents for the hospitals. We had Patrick, Selena, Nate and tom here to help us wrap, but now the last day it's just the three of us. Lilly isn't that much of a help, but she does put a sticker on every single present that says merry Christmas.
We attach a ribbon around every present with a note that says what's inside so the hospital can figure out which kid to give it too. All in all, I think we are at around 1k presents together for all the children's hospitals around here.
Our company does a similar thing where they give presents to an organization that gives presents to kids where the parents aren't able to afford Christmas presents for whatever reason. It's been something the Fitzgerald company has done for a few years, and we decided to continue the tradition after the merger. The interns and assistants have had the joy of wrapping the presents that came from our company.
«Do you want to build a showman, come on let's go and play» Lilly sings at the top of her lungs as she dances around us between putting stickers on presents. «I never see you anymore, come out the door, it's like you've gone away» I add in my terrible singing voice making her laugh.
She comes over and cup my face in her small hands «We used to be best buddies, And now we're not, I wish you would tell me why! Do you wanna build a snowman? It doesn't have to be a snowman...» she says and adds the silly voice at the end.
This kid is full of rainbows and sunshine with a constant heightened energy. It's like the batteries never run out of her, she is always wiggling or on the move. How she manages to sit still in class is a mystery to me. But we haven't heard anything from the school about her not paying attention or getting up from her seat, so she must be doing as she is told there.
«Joey. you're a silly Billy» she says and let me continue to wrap presents. when I look over at Taylor, she is watching us with a big smile on her face. she has told how much it means to her that I get along with Lilly because Lilly has never had a male figure in her life. It's not that I try to be her dad for real, I don't think I'm ready to be anyone's dad, but being a stepdad isn't that bad after all. When I first heard that the woman, I was marrying had a child I wanted to run away because I'm not fit to be around a child. But Lilly proved me wrong, I can handle children and they are a lot of fun after all.
She sits down next to Taylor and giggles «I held hands with Jackson at school yesterday. He said he likes me» she says, and Taylors eyes widen. She is really protective over Lilly and her first crush isn't something she wants to hear about, I'm sure of that. But they are six years old, it's really not a big deal. «Did you? Did you get a good feeling in your tummy?» I ask her, trying to give Taylor a moment to calm down.
«Yes and he did a kissy kiss on my cheek before his mommy picked him up from school» she adds giggling.
«You are a little young for kissing don't you think sweetie?» Taylor says scrunching her nose. Lilly bursts out laughing and lay back on the floor «mommy. I'm a big girl» she says between laughter like it's the most obvious thing ever.
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-taylors pov -
«Mommy its Christmas!» Lilly screams as she comes running into my room on Christmas morning. I groan and rub my tired eyes. Joe and I didn't go to bed until late last night because we were getting the presents under the tree and making sure everything was perfect for today. «Merry Christmas Lilliana. How about you go and wake Joe too»
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Arranged love - jaylor AU
Fanfiction** it doesn't have to be read as a jaylor story. you could read it like its just an arranged marriage story if you're not a fan ** Two families and companies merging with an arranged marriage of their oldest children. Taylor is a single mom worki...
