Scrambled

Chapter 15; Christmas

After we found out the winners, our family's decided to go to Olive Garden to celebrate. I rode with Aaron and his siblings, along with my pup, who fell asleep on me when I got my medals. I refused to leave him in his cage and the store owners said we couldn't take him inside so we ended up sitting outside in their make shift sun room or whatever, but it still had heat so it was fine.

When dinner was finished I hugged Aaron's family one last time and thanked them for supporting me. Then I handed my sleeping puppy to Dakota and walked over to Aaron. He was leaning against his car looking up at the sky. I wrapped my arms around his waist and rested my chin on his shoulder.

"Aaron, you've made this day really special. Thank you." I told him. He relaxed in my arms and tilted his head so it was leaning against mine.

"You're really special. So it was my pleasure." He replied simply and I chose then to say the three words that changed our relationship.

"I love you, Aaron." I whispered to him. He spun around and looked down at me astonished. Aaron's hazel eyes were gleaming, I think with excitement. He was so cute. I know it was a bold decision to tell him I loved him but I think it was the right thing to do. I'd never said that to any of my boyfriends prior but then again Aaron is different than all of them. He was special, the only one I'd truly loved.

"Noah Evangeline Williams... I love you too."

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I was lying in my bed with Everest and Kila. Persia at first didn't like him but they began to have a healthy fear for each other. They would stay in differ rooms than the other and when I was holding either of them the other would run away. So for now Persia would hang around Dakota and sleep with her, which I didn't mind because Everest was always around me. Competition was five days ago. Which meant Christmas was in two days.

I'd already gotten everybody's present. Well except Aaron's. I couldn't think of anything. And it was driving me insane. Literally he bought me a puppy, I can't get him anything but perfect.

So that's where Kila fit into this. What else could a girl do then call her best friend for help.

"So what kind of stuff does he like?" Kila asked me. She was scrolling on Pinterest, her number one go to for ideas.

"I don't know. Guys stuff, I guess. It just, it has to be special..." I said sounding hopeless, because I was.

"Wow, that helps." Kila said sarcastically. I grunted and kept end petting my puppy.

"Kila, I'm freaking out, I only have two days until I give him this present and I have nothing!" I told her frustrated.

"Okay, Noah calm down, we'll make it perfect. But I need to know what he likes." She tried calming me down. I let out a breath.

"His favorite color is blue. He loves lacrosse, Duke is his favorite college team. Uhh, he's a sucker for personal, sentimental things."I said to Kila. She jumped up on the bed which startled me and woke Everest. He started whimpering until I petted him and calmed down.

"I've got it." Kila exclaimed clapping her hands together.

"Well what is it?!" I asked getting excited too.

"Pass me your phone." I fished in my sweatpants for my phone and gave it to Kila. When she found what she was looking for after a couple minutes she turned my phone so I could see. I smiled wide and nodded my head.

I had tons of pictures of Aaron on my cell phone so what Kila came up with was a scrap book. I'd print off all of my pictures and fashion them in this Tumblr looking phot album with love notes under each picture. Hopefully he'd  liked it.