This Love

Chapter 11

It was a few days till Christmas and I was packing to go to the airport to fly to Sweden to spend Christmas with Xander and his family. I had gotten permission from my new job to be off until after New Years. I hadn't told Xander yet and was excited to surprise him. He also didn't know I was coming this early. When I landed in Sweden I got a cab and went to the house the family was staying in. His mother met me outside and hugged me so hard I almost fainted.

"Come in my dear! Xander will be so excited to see you! How was your flight?" She asked me pulling me inside

"It was good. Thank you. Where is Xander?" I asked smiling

"He is in his room sleeping. You can go see him if you want." She smiled taking my suitcases from me.

I smiled and went upstairs to Xanders room. I walked in very quietly and sat down on the bed next to him. I kissed him softly.

"Hmmm...?" He muttered in his sleep.

"Xander...its time to get up..." I whispered smiling.

"Five more minutes..." He rolled over facing me.

"Are you telling me that you don't want to spend time with your fiancé?" I grinned trying to sound sad

"She isnt here yet..." HE opened his eyes quickly, "Audrey?!" He sat up quick. "You're here! You're here early!" He hugged me. "Oh, look at you. You look beautiful. Im so happy to see you!" He smiled.

I laughed, "Im happy to see you too Xander. I missed you." I smiled. " Well, are you just going to sit there or are you going to kiss me?" I laughed.

"Oh, I am going to kiss you." He smiled. He wrapped his arms around me and kissed me.

That evening we were all sitting around the fire, I was sitting on the floor next to Xander when one of his cousins ran over to me.

"Miss Audrey?" the adorable little blue eyed girl said. "Do you love my cousin Ander?" She smiled

"Yes I do Katie. I love him very much. I love him so much I am going to marry him soon." I smiled

Later we decide to go walk around outside. It had just started to snow so it was a little colder than it had been.

"Audrey, you know I love you right?" Xander said holding my hand

"Well, I would hope so. Otherwise you would have to tell your mother." I laughed. I looked at him and the face he was making didn't look like he was being funny. "Xander, what is it? Whats wrong? It was just a joke." I said squeezing his hand.

"I...I just wanted to make sure you knew. Because...I..." He trailed off.

"Xander, you're scaring me. What's wrong?!"

He wasn't facing m. Then he turned around and threw a snowball at me and grinned. "Because I was gonna start a war with you!" HE yelled and then thousands of snowballs came flying at me. He had gotten all his little cousins in on the joke. I laughed and started to throw back as many as I could.

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Later I was sitting on my bed reading my book with my back facing the door. I never heard the door open. I certianly didn't expect what was about to happen either.

I was reading and the next thing I felt someone was running their hands up and down my back.

"Are you okay Audrey?" The voice said.

"Im better now." I smiled. As I turned around I was very happy to see Xander smiling back at me.

"Hey Beautiful." He smiled. "Where did you go after the snowball fight? I was looking for you."

I laid back and put my head on his leg, "I came back and changed and started to read." I smiled up at him and yawned

He kissed my head and stroked my hair as I fell asleep.