two doors down

holiday celebrations

y/n pov
christmas came quicker than i thought and soon enough we were sat around the christmas tree at 5 in the morning.

"y/n, this one's for you!" mattie says handing my present.

"i get presents?" i questioned looking to lizzie she nodded excited but i could tell she was sort of sad on the inside.
"lizzie stop" i couldn't even finish unwrapping it.

"you needed an upgrade" she shrugged and i actually started bawling. i felt so bad she spent so much money on me. like a brand new phone are you kidding me.

like yes my one stayed charged for like 20 minutes max and it's cracked but it works. i got up and hugged lizzie. she hugged me back tighter.
"you deserved it honey" she reassured me but i genuinely feel so so guilty.

more presents got passed around and i got another one? i shook my head at lizzie but she nodded with a smile it was 2 new jumpers. knowing that was all i lived in i appreciated them greatly.

she even bought mattie his own ipad. she justified it saying he needed it for school but still. this is way to much money.

after all the presents were opened i cleaned up all the rubbish. colin had done most of it but still. monica and her family was coming for christmas lunch so there was a lot of preparing to start.

i offered all my help but was shoed out of the kitchen. and so i sat at the kitchen table setting up my new phone.

i was very careful with it and very scared to damage it one bit.
soon enough monica and her family had arrived and they walked in with some more gifts.

"this one's for christmas, and this one's for your birthday" monica said greeting me in a big hug. "i will try to make it on the day but we are going away"

"you didn't have to get me anything" i told her "my birthday isn't even for a few days"

"birthday? whos birthday?" rose asked us as she came over to greet her girlfriend.

"oh mine-"
"what when" that was lizzie and all of a sudden everyone was paying attention to us and i got very embarrassed.

"you didn't tell them your birthday?" monica said with a knowing glare.

"it's on the 28th, so i've never really celebrated it cause everyone's always on christmas holidays still so there's no point. i'm just getting older?"

"birthdays are celebrations of life, it's celebrating you and only you and everything you've accomplished" now scarlett was the one talking. i didn't know people were so offended by me not celebrating my own birthday.

"we can do something if it bothers you all?" i laughed it off awkwardly. i mean i dont have enough good friends for a party. and i havent had birthday cake in years, not too keen on eating one either.

after passing over that topic we all hung around talking until lunch was ready.

everyone piled around the dining table. we had a kids table while the adults sat at the actual table.

the 3 families all huddled together the middle of the table was piled with food for us to grab from. i had my water bottle and went to sit down as the others followed.

"you're not hungry?" monica more stated than asked. i shook my head. but after accidentally making eye contact with lizzie when looking at the food at the table. very quickly i had a plate of mac and cheese, roast veggies and a smaller portion of meat.

i sighed pushing the food around on my plate. i really didn't feel like it.

a few days later
her birthday

i wake up in shock as mattie starts jumping on me. "happy birthday happy birthday happy birthday"  i smiled and thanked him getting up to see everyone already in the kitchen.

even more presents on the table.

i don't think i could ever get used to this.

a/n
um so basically thought i posted this ages ago and kinda need to get it out of the way so im posting this while its only like under 700 so i can continue the story after

cause i want to write this book but cause of this chapter i never knew what to add