𝕊𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕥 ℝ𝕙𝕪𝕞𝕖𝕤, 𝕊𝕞𝕠𝕠𝕥𝕙 ℝ𝕙𝕪𝕥𝕙𝕞𝕤 - Aryia X OC

ℝ𝕙𝕪𝕞𝕖 𝟛𝟚 - 𝔸𝕣𝕪𝕚𝕒 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕄𝕒𝕘𝕚𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕟

Happy Thursday y'all!

I'm continuing to post some more filler, but it's relevant and leads up to the next important part of the book which you'll get to see in the next couple of weeks :3

Filler chapter for the last part of this week but now we're into the final third of the book, I hope you guys enjoy :)

Summary: Aryia takes Evra out for a romantic dinner but it doesn't quite go as planned

Chapter song: Crazy In Love (Remix) - Beyoncé

WARNINGS: Language, Sexual Implications

-

I felt a little guilty in the coming weeks. It had nothing to do with the conversations we had with Colby following the whole kiss incident, but rather to do with my family.

I promised Ava that I would see her soon and return to Fresno for Christmas, however when the holiday came around, Aryia had ended up surprising me with another visit to his parents' house. So instead of taking a six hour drive up to central California together, we had taken a 45 minute drive to Orange County to spend Christmas with my in-laws – as I had now decided to name Aryia's parents and siblings. A bonus of attending Orange County for Christmas was that we could bring Rémy with us – since my mom had an allergy to cat hair and had developed somewhat of a cat-phobia – while leaving Ronnie in LA as it was Austin's turn to take care of him.

We had a lot of fun with Aryia's family. We'd watched a Christmas movie and attended a cute little Christmas festival which held events like ice skating at night – which Aryia and I did together; I must have fallen over at least a dozen times but had enjoyed spending the time laughing and conversing with him as we skated around the ring. We had also done more inner tubing, flashing back to earlier in the year when we went to Big Bear and had done the same activity in the snow, only in OC the slides were smaller than the ones a few miles north. Aryia's mom and sister had also taken me to a holiday market where I had bought him a cute snow globe with polar bears inside which he thought was adorable; though it also went pretty well with the christmas jumper he had worn later that evening – even if the jumper itself was implying something rude.

Aryia woke me up on Christmas morning by peeking through the crack of the door to his sister's bedroom which the two of us had shared during the trip as a chance to get to know each other better and for her to teach me a little Farsi – which I was actually getting the hang of pretty well. He looked like a child peeking into his parent's room on Christmas morning from the way I could see his eye through the gap between the door frame, though it was incredibly cute – especially when he started doing a dance and getting hyped up about spending the rest of the holiday with me and his family as his brothers were also coming over later that day for dinner.

We opened our Christmas presents later on in the day. I bought Aryia's mom some flowers when we arrived, but had also given her a throw blanket and a lavender pampering set. Aryia and I had bought his dad a multitool pen and a leather pocket notebook for work and a cologne set, and had given his siblings similar cologne and perfume sets as well.

As for me and Aryia; I bought him and Attack on Titan coffee mug that he'd been wanting for a while and a leather bracelet with "Always" engraved on the silver band which he had really loved and a green Attack on Titan scouts blanket which we had used later for cuddles on his parents' sofa while we shared a coffee and hot cocoa. Aryia's gift for me had been a set of my favorite scented candles – rose, vanilla and lavender – with a bear hot water bottle, fluffy socks to match the ones he had bought for himself and had given me my final Christmas present that night when the two of us were home alone that evening. I almost slapped him when I unwrapped it after his parents left but my mood had changed quickly after we started sleeping together again that night.