New neighbor - Chris Evans

5 - Christmas time

*Chris pov*

It is finally the 24th of December, that means only one thing in the Evans household...decorate the Christmas tree!
But before doing that Grace and I need to go get Mia form her house so she can help us.
"Hello you two!" She says answering the door
"Cwistmas tree!" Grace tells her before grabbing her hand and getting her out of the house making us both laugh
"Okay...someone is excited" she says looking at me
"You think?"
The plan is decorating the tree while eating some snack and drink hot cocoa.
Once back in our house Grace immediately goes to show Mia all our decorations
"These are lovely!"
"Look!" Grace says showing her a Christmas ball with a picture of me and her on it
"Awww...how cute!"
"This was a photo my mom took on her first Christmas Day"
"It's adorable!"
"Yeah, should we get to work girls?"
"Yeah!" They both scream
Our tree is average and we have plenty of decorations to put on it, luckily for Mia last night I already managed to put the lights on, passing two hours trying to detangle them...

"It's turning out pretty good right?"
"I'd say so" I tell Mia handing her another ball while looking at Grace as she plays with the remaining decorations
"Are you having fun over there baby?"
"Yes!"
"Come over here"
"What daddy?" She says looking up at me
I pick her up and give her the big gold star to put on top of the tree
"Do you think you can reach it this year?"
"Yes"
"Ok" I lift her up securely above my had
"Go girl!" Mia exclaims
"Almost there baby!"
She stretches her little arm a bit more and finally places the star on top of it
"Yay!" She says
"You did it" I say getting her lower and hugging her close to my body, she snuggles on my chest, resting her head on my shoulder
"I tired dada" she whispers
"Let's get you to bed then princess"
"Bye bye sweetie, see you in the morning" Mia tells her kissing her cheek
Grace waves her goodbye as she sucks her thumb.
I go upstairs give her a little relaxing bath and once she's all dry, put her in Christmas pj and lay her down
"Night night my sweet baby" I whisper to her and kiss her face a few times
Her eye are closed already and I stare at her for a few moments before going back downstairs.

"Glass of wine? Or milk and cookies?" I ask, but get no answer from the other room
"Mia?" I say walking in the living room and see her laying on my couch sleeping "I guess not..."
I grab the brown blanket that is over the couch and put her on Mia's body, gently tucking her in
"Mhm"
"Sshh...go back to sleep, I'll see you in the morning" I say softly removing the strands of hair in front of her face
"Night" she mumbles
I walk once again upstairs, take a shower and lay in bed, sleep soon taking over me.

*Mia pov*

I wake up...not in my house...
I recall last night events, me helping Chris and Grace decorating their Christmas tree and when he went upstairs putting grace down for bed I fell asleep on his couch.
I fold the blanket that Chris must have put on me for the night and walk into the kitchen, finding him making coffee
"Morning sleepy head" he says turning to me "here you go"
"Thank you"
"Merry Christmas Mia" he says giving me a little hug careful not to make me spill the coffee he just handed to me
"Merry Christmas Chris" I say hugging him back "where's your little girl?"
"Still sleeping, it's only 8 after all"
I smile at him and then ask him if he has ingredients to make pancakes, he says he does and gets them for me
"This is my Christmas breakfast, I like to give the pancake the shape of Santa, do you have whipped cream?"
"Here"
He watches me as I cook them, then once they are a bit cooler I put cut strawberries on top and circle them with whipped cream, creating Santa's hat and then make a smile with blueberries and eyes with chocolate chip and add the beard
"This look awesome and delicious" he says as his stomach grumbles
"Hungry?"
"Definitely, but I should go wake up Grace first, so we can have breakfast together"
"I'll wait you here"

Five minutes later he's back downstairs with his daughter and the three of us eat breakfast, after that I go back to my house to get dressed and meet them in their driveway an hour later.