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ivylane happy holidays from me to you
jennaortega gorgeous girlie ↳ivylane thanks bae
lilahyoung cute boots ↳lilahyoung can i borrow them when you get back? ↳ivylane for sure ↳ivylane as long as you don't steal them ↳aidenjackson she's going to steal them ↳lilahyoung shut up aiden
user hoe hoe hoe ↳user why do the stockings say C, T, J? ↳user is she spending the holidays with tom's family? ↳user it would make sense because his mother's name is Charlotte and his stepfather's name is Jakob ↳user wow. meeting the parents so soon
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On Christmas Eve, we woke up, and I noticed that the house wasn't that decorated, so as I was helping Charlotte make breakfast, I asked, "Why isn't your house decorate for the holidays? Tom told me that you like to go all out."
"We do, but this year we put it off because we wanted to wait for you."
My heart melted. "You didn't have to. We know that you guys have your own traditions, Gabi and I would never want to intrude on any of them."
"You guys are family now," she said, giving me a side hug. "We want to include you in our traditions."
"Thank you, Charlotte. That really means a lot," I said. We finished breakfast just in time before everyone came down. We all enjoyed a joyful meal and planned out the rest of our day, deciding to divide and conquer since we didn't have much time. Tom and I would handle the downstairs areas, and Gabi, Charlotte, and Jakob would handle the upstairs portion of the house, with us all coming together to do the tree around dinner time.
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Four hours later, Tom and I were almost done with the downstairs portion of the house, and from the updates that Charlotte was giving us, they were close to finishing as well.
"We did pretty darn good if I say so my self," I said, leaning back into Tom.
He gave me a kiss on the forehead and looked at our work, "I'd say so, too."
"Should we ask Gabi and your parents if they're ready to start doing the tree?" I questioned.
"Yeah, let's do it." Before we could move to head upstairs, we saw Gabi, Jakob, and, Charlotte coming down the banister.
"Hey! You guys ready to decorate the tree?" Gabi asked.
"Yup! I think we're all set," I nodded.
"Not quite," Charlotte went into the hallway closet as Gabi and I exchange a confused glance. She pulled a box with two stockings.
"But Tom and I already put up all of the stockings," I said, pointing to each one. "See, C, T, J."
"Yeah, but you missed two more," she said, revealing the 'G' and 'I' stockings. "You two are part of the family now."
Gabi and I raced into her arms, giving her a hug. "Thank you," I whispered.
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I know that some people don't consider step-parents as their actual parents, but considering that within this story Tom's father has been dead about 13 years, I placed Jakob and Charlotte's relationship at about 10 years ago, so Tom is comfortable calling Jakob a parent but not "Dad". Also, thank you so much for 8k reads and almost 200 votes. Sorry for going awol on you guys. I probably won't do an actual Christmas chapter though, so we can get to the Paris scenes.
