“Baby, grab me that present on the table.”
Jessica looked in the corner where Zayn pointed and saw on the stand the huge wide and flat box that had the most obnoxious red and green wrapping paper on it set with a monster of a green platinum ribbon at the top, and picked it up and shuffled over to him as he hung up another globe ornament on the tree, and then turned to her, smiling quickly before he grabbed the rest of her gifts and placed them all under the base to accompany the twenty others under it.
He crossed his arms over his chest and scanned up and down the tree, and Jess watched him with a quiet smirk on her face as he spoke, “We’re almost done. Now we need just need one more thing.”
Jessica scanned the entire living room, and they had everything, they had the tree, they had holly, they had the fireplace running, they had decorations everywhere…they even had little automated Santa and Martha Clause robots battery operated and moving around in place. They seemed to have everything. What could they have missed? Jessica was stuck trying to figure it out.
“What are we missing,” She finally asked.
He suddenly turned and grinned to her, and the glow of Christmas Eve was in his eyes again. “Music,” he smiled.
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(Christmas before the Break-Up)
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“Ok,” she laughed, “Ok that’s way too much chocolate! It’s gonna overflow!”
“You chose to get the super large one! I told you it was too big!” Zayn laughed, when they both scrambled to try and keep the boiling chocolate from overflowing out of the pot on the stove.
“Get a cup and scoop it out!” She squealed, then shrieked then and laughed as it began boiling over increasingly just as they feared, and Zayn ran over to the dish rack and grabbed a cup, running back over to scoop a ton of the melting chocolate from the pot, and with his clumsiness he spilled some over, splashing to the boiling top and getting a coat on his hands.
“Damnit! Ow!” Malik barked, dropping the cup down on the counter and she yowled herself when she got the scalding chocolate on her hands, but only cackled even harder at him as they both scrambled and worked to turn the stove down still.
“Are you ok?” She asked me, still giggling and still so entertained.
“Yeah, I’m fine,” he mumbled, pulling the pot back away from the hot top, watching the bubbles easing down and receding. Finally they had things under control, but too little too late. The chocolate everywhere only proved that. It was Jessie’s idea to go out to the supermarket and buy a jumbo sized Santa Clause chocolate bar, so that she could make homemade hot chocolate with Zayn from scratch, and he eagerly agreed to be her little helper, thinking that together they’d have it under control. Yeah…about that.
“So much for not making a mess….” She giggled still, and so badly. She was really tickled by this. By the time the pot that was moved away had cooled and the bubbles had flattened down, they had a good amount of chocolate coating on their fingertips and palms, already beginning to form a hard shell on them.
“Let me see,” she grinned at him, her eyes gleaming, and he held his hands up slowly to her, showing the chocolate that had solidified on his hands, making him a dessert of a new kind. She pursed her lips together trying not to break out laughing at him, and Zayn shook his head and she looked up lifted her chin and smiling wide while Zayn involuntarily smirked myself.
“I always knew you were sweet,” she cooed up at him, and the way that she said it had him wanting to be a little naughty this Christmas Eve. He squinted at her and bit his lip, raising his finger up and holding it to her mouth, and after she raised a quick eyebrow in her seductive way, she gave me a sexy smirk of her own and opened her mouth right before he slid his fingertip in, watching her close lips around him and close her eyes, indulging in the best way.
