The week flew by so fast that it was Christmas Eve today. I woke up to the smell of fresh pancakes and sizzling bacon. After 5 minutes of tossing and turning, I got up and did my morning routine. I walked downstairs and saw Hunter cooking eggs, bacon, and pancakes. It smelled so good, I couldn't wait to dig in.
"Hi baby, how did you sleep?" "I hope you're hungry, because I made pancakes!", he said enthusiastically. "I slept fine actually, and I'm starving, I could eat for two." I picked up one of Hunter's pieces of bacon and sat it on my full plate. "You have plenty of food on your plate!" I laughed so hard because it was true, my plate was full. "So I was thinking Winter, we should go shopping for Christmas decor today, I don't know if you've noticed but we don't have any decorations up." "Omg you're right, I guess we've been caught up in our own little world."
"When I was a kid, I use to love sneaking downstairs after bedtime, just to sit in front of the Christmas tree." "I thought I was so sneaky but the whole time my mom knew." "I fell asleep one day in front of the tree, and I woke up to my mom putting a blanket on me, giving me soft kisses." "Luckily we had carpet and I wasn't on a cold floor."
"Wow Hunter, she sounds amazing", I said wishing I had that same relationship with my parents. "Yeah she's a great mother and I love her so much." "I'll take you to meet her one day." "I would love that", I said.
We went to so many stores, grabbing a lot of Christmas decorations. We got a beautiful wreath, a tall Christmas tree, indoor and outdoor lights, table and counter decor too. We got so many things that our hands were so full. We both decided that we were gonna go shopping for each other for presents but we have to be alone. So I ended up taking a taxi to stores for Hunter presents.
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I was sitting in a store called CANALI waiting to see if they had a different size for the jacket I found for him. I think he would look so handsome in it, well he looks hot in anything he wears. A tall man approached me and said they have the size I was looking for. I was so happy, I yelled out thank you at least 3 times. He chuckled a bit and asked who was I buying the jacket for because it doesn't look like I could fit it. I was curious why he was asking that, but I told him my boyfriend. He responded "oh...he's a lucky man then because you're beautiful." "I'm assuming asking for your number is out of the question." Yeah you think?? I just said I had a boyfriend! That's what I really wanted to say but I'll take it easy on him. "Yes" I responded with a fake smile.
I rushed out the door after the weird encounter, still thinking about the other things I plan on getting him. Hunter ended up calling and checking on me to see if i was ok by myself. I told him about the awkward encounter from earlier and boy he wasn't too happy.
"Taxi !", I yelled. "Hi can you take me to the jewelry shop on 928 S Western Avenue?" "You got it", he said. When I walked in the shop, I had no idea what I was looking for. Would he want a watch or a chain? I was stuck between the two, so I went with my best guess. I looked for a watch that would best match Hunter's style. After looking at 20 different options, I finally found the perfect one. Wow, the silver outline and the black detailing on the Rolex looks great. I definitely think this would suit him. I ended up buying the watch, and going to more stores. After shopping I took a cab back home.
Hunter car was already here, and I was ready to take these shoes off. Maybe I should've put more thought into wearing boots with heels knowing I was going to be walking around for hours. I walked in, quickly dropping the bags and taking my boots off. I was rubbing the back of my ankle, making painful noises. Hunter walked downstairs excited to see me from being gone all day.
"Omg baby I told you not to wear those heels, come here let me rub them for you." I looked down by my feet and saw all the bags from today. I'm so stupid! , he probably knows what he got now. I grabbed the bags and ran to the guest room, while Hunter looked at me with a weird expression. I went to the guest room to wrap the presents because no one uses it. After 30 minutes of wrapping presents I carried them downstairs. I walked in on Hunter putting up the tree, he was smiling and humming a Christmas song. I love how he's so happy about the tradition.
"Oh babe you're back", he said. "Yeah I'm sorry for running away earlier, I didn't want you to see the presents I had for you." "I figured that was the reason", he chuckled. He grabbed me by my waist and held me so close. "I missed you beautiful", he whispered. It was Christmas music playing in the background on Hunter's vinyl record. He spent me around slowly and we swayed to the music.
"Someone's in the Christmas spirit", I smiled. "You know I love Christmas, all thanks to my parents." "What about you, how do you feel about Christmas?" When he asked me that, I wanted to lie and say my parents made me love Christmas too. But I hated Christmas, my parents always threw big classy parties. I'm very grateful for everything they provided me but I never got any toys as a kid. My presents will be new expensive dresses and socks with ribbons on it. I always asked for a doll but my mother always said, women don't play with dolls. But I wasn't a woman, I was a kid.
"I didn't like Christmas until a few days ago when I saw how happy you was Hunter." "I have my reasons for not liking Christmas at first but now I'm looking forward to it with you." "You make Christmas feel special, so thank you for changing my mind."
"Oh I'm sorry Winter, I was stupid to ask you that." "No it's ok, I'm glad you asked, I love sharing things with you." "Well, you're going to have the best Christmas ever, and I'm glad me being enthusiastic about it like a kid, changed your mind", he chuckled.
We ate dinner and had the best tasting wine ever. We talked about should we open one present today but we both decided to wait until tomorrow morning. For Christmas Eve, Hunter lit up the fireplace while I made hot chocolate with tiny marshmallows inside. For the rest of the night we binged watch Vampire Diaries and fell asleep on each other, keeping us both warm.
