Save My Sparkle (Completed)

21. Cookie

My heart was beating so fast when I looked up to Nicolas before I got in my car and he in his. Currently we are at a mall outlet place with so many small stores and I hope I can find something.

A huge part of me wants to see his house and just spend that alone time with him. Thing is the way he makes me feel and my heart has long since been more than falling for him, I really want to give myself to him. I don't know if he feels the same and I mean good grief we just shared kisses the other day and it was my first.

In a way I question myself about moving to fast or falling to fast but it is like my heart, body, and mind just knows Nicolas is the one.

"Where to first?" Nicolas pulls me from my thoughts.

"I am not even sure." I giggle lightly.

"Okay then we can walk until it starts coming to you on where to start or start finding things for everyone." He smiles and I nod.

My heart beats faster and my hand instantly warms in his as he holds me close to him. We simply walk and look around and the first few stores are a flop since there was not a single thing I found in them for gifts and neither had Nicolas since he mentioned possibly finding some himself.

There is no doubt in my mind that I will give myself to this handsome man and I feel lucky that at our age of thirty someone hadn't snatched him up.

Finally something catches my eye and I can't help but think of Chrissy. I stop walking and Nicolas stops with as he waits.

It is a beautiful crystal dog figure that I think she would enjoy. Chrissy has always collected crystal figures and I must say they are beautiful in the light.

This store is a jackpot because I find Dad a new wallet as well and a small purse for Chrissy that she can have clipped around her waist and it not dig into her side to keep things with her on her side and not in the backpack on the back of her wheelchair. Now Mom is tricky and I know she was not happy in the least about this but I did find a flower purse bag that she used to love and every year Chrissy and I would search far and wide to find her a new one so I hope this is a gift she will like.

Nicolas even has a few things in his hands that he had found.

We walk over and pay for the items and then he holds our bags while we continue walking about in different stores. I find so many small trickets on the way and I know that Chrissy is already ordering her gifts online which makes me laugh when seeing that text so that I knew not to peek at any packages that come in.

"How about some dessert?" Nicolas speaks up as we finish in the last store on this part of the mall outlet.

"Sounds lovely." I smile and he leads me over to a store I never been in or well dessert shop.

It smells so incredible as there is nothing but sweets in the air with hints of citrus, chocolates, and a little nutty scent. My eyes pop open at the line of different cookies and I pick out a couple different ones along with Nicolas. He orders us a warm coffee to go with them and I hum lightly when taking a bite of my first cookie.

"What?" I ask when Nicolas chuckles at me while he chews his cookie.

"Nothing." He smiles.

"What?" I ask again and I couldn't help but laugh lightly.

"Just admiring how beautiful you are even when it seems like your having an orgasm with a cookie."

I can't help but fully laugh this time. "It is not called a foodgasm for nothing."

Nicolas keeps insisting on carrying the bags from the shopping. It is the most fun I have had in the longest and I know that with him it is making all of this even the more.

"I really don't know how to thank you." I speak up while we walk to the cars.

"What do you mean?" He looks to me in confusion.

"Well I really think it is thanks to you that things are changing for the better around my house. Today was fun and for once Chrissy and I had our Dad back he was laughing and just happy. We hadn't been like that in a long time and sure Mom is still acting off it seemed at one point right before we left she was coming back to the Mom I used to have."

"I still don't see how I done much of anything. It seems you guys were on that path by yourselves." He smiles over to me gently.

I shrug because I am not going to argue with him but I know how I see things. He has helped more than he even knows.

"We have one stop left to make once we get these put in the cars." Nicolas looks at me and I tilt my head. "Wrapping paper and name tags at the very least."

"Oh! That is needed and an important part I forgot about." I smile while he laughs.

We get the gifts put in his car since it is going to his house then walk over to a small shop. There is so many different paper options I am overwhelmed with the pretties. After picking out two different small rolls that will wrap all of mine and hopefullly Chrissy's we check out.

"So follow me to my place and I will show you where I will hide your items."

"And show me how to wrap them nicely." I tease.

"Now about that may take a miracle. I am not the best but can get by with the basic boxes."

"That is why we have lots of tape and maybe it will be hilarious seeing how several of these come out." I laugh and he joins in.

"Or we can call Eve over. She got the wrapping skills for sure." He laughs.

"We just might have to hire her for a couple." I smile.

The small drive is nice as we make it up to his house. It is not overly large but seems beautiful from the outside. He opens my door and I step out of my car then follow him up to the front door as he unlocks it with all the bags in his hands.