This Love, This Hate (DM x TP) COMPLETE

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Ten Years Later

Danny

"BABE! WAKE UP! IT'S CHRISTMAS!" I scream tackling my sleeping hubby.
"Uhhhh noooo..." Aron mumbles trying to roll over and get more sleep.
"Scar! Come help wake up your step dad!" I call out and hear a groan as my teenage daughter shuffles in, rubbing at her eyes.
"Aron wake up please Dad is gonna keep freaking until you get up." She whines, messing with the plug in her earlobe with impatience.
"Ugh fuck fine."

Aron gets up and stomps out of the room with a grumpy expression on his face. Damn I married the Grinch! Scar follows him and I walk out behind her. We go downstairs to our elaborately decorated tree. Scar goes into the kitchen to get the hot cocoa I had made for this morning. There was a knock at the door.

"Reese! Just come on in!" I holler at the door. 

Theresa, my ex-wife and mother of my two children, yes two, walks in with our other child in tow. You see, Scar wanted a sibling so Aron and I decided to use Reese as our surrogate, we artificially implanted my sperm with her egg, eventually giving Scar a fully biological sibling: our son Roman, who is now ten. Damn the years have gone by so fast! Reese and Roman happily come over to me and give me a big hug. I hear Aron start laughing hysterically, looking over at him in confusion he lifts his finger the slightest bit, pointing above myself and Reese. A motherfucking mistletoe! Reese giggles and kisses my cheek before going over and sitting next to Aron. Scar walks in with the tray covered with five mugs of hot cocoa for everybody. Once they're passed around, she joins her younger brother next to the christmas tree which had so many presents under it, it was ridiculous. 

"Okay Roman, here's your first present!" I say, handing him the first box I saw with his name on it.
"Scar, here's yours." Reese says, handing her the small beautifully wrapped present that she brought in with her.

They both rip into them and both of them start squealing in delight. I look to see what Scar got and I laugh, Reese got her a matching pair of black marble plugs encrusted in her favorite gemstone which happened to be rainbow topaz. Roman screeches in excitement, holding up his professional art kit with such pride in his eyes that I started smiling even bigger than before.

We continue passing them presents until there was only a few left under the tree, which were from the kids to the adults.

Scar brings Aron his present from her, and he smiles shyly at her. He gently unwraps it, careful not to rip the paper, like he does every year. When he gets the box open he gasps and looks up at her in amazement mixed with disbelief.

"Where did you get this?" He demands and she laughs, brushing off his harsh tone.
"Uncle Jorel had it up in his attic, he gave it to me. I thought it would be a nice gift." She explains and I frown, looking over Aron's shoulder into the box.
"Is that what I think it is?" I ask and he just nods in disbelief.
"Honey what is it?" Reese demands.
"Its the original demo of Swan Songs that Dad auditioned with to join the band, it's from the very first day that Dad met Aron." Scar explains and Aron pulls her into a tight bear hug.
"Thank you Scar it's perfect." He whispers, smiling his million dollar grin.

Roman brings Aron his gift next, and though it didn't have the shock value that Scar's did, it was also beautiful and thoughtful. Roman had used his sculpting skills from the special private art school we sent him to, to sculpt a mask. It was half my American Tragedy mask and half of Aron's Swan Songs mask, a perfect gift.

I open up my two gifts from our children and smile, Scar gave me the original demo of my song to her, God Knows I Love You, Kid from when I was in Lorene Drive. At this point I didn't even ask her where she got it. Roman gave me this really cool lion figurine he sculpted in school. 

I look over at Reese, who was opening Scar's gift and smile at her. She returns the smile as she pulls out tag necklace which when she held it up to the light you could see it had cut out the words Mama Bear with two bear cub cutouts next to it. I'm assuming Roman already gave his mother her present before they came over, as I noticed she was wearing a new set of earrings which must have been planned to go with Scar's gift because they were gold bear studs.

Aron and I decided to give each other our gifts last night. I was wearing my new Latin cross necklace made out of bullets. Aron was wearing his new disco ball earrings - yes bitch I did get my man some disco ball earrings, don't like it fight me.

We give Reese her gift from us, which ironically was a Build-A-Bear teddy bear with a voice box in it with us rapping the Reese's Puffs commercial from way back in the day. She laughs so hard at it that hot cocoa came out of her nose! She goes to clean herself up after handing Aron her gift to us.

I watch as he carefully unwraps it and opens the box. He peaks inside and gasps, blushing furiously as he passes it over to me. I open it up a little bit and gasp as well. CONDOMS?! AND A ROOM KEY?! OH MY GOD. I'M GOING TO KILL HER.