random lucaya love stories!

christmas morning

maya and lucas were sound asleep in their king size bed until they're seven year old daughter, hope, came barging in and jumping up and down on their bed.

"mommy! daddy! wake up! it's christmas!" she shouts shaking them awake.

"we're up babygirl, we're up." maya says lowly as she rubs the sleep out of her eyes.

"i wanna open presents!" she shouts.

"not yet honey. we always eat pancakes ever christmas before opening gifts. that's how it's always been." lucas says sitting up and grabbing his daughter before placing her on his lap.

"y'all are such slow eaters though." she frowns.

"y'all? you have our seven year old daughter saying y'all, huckleberry?" maya asks in disbelief.

"mommy you say y'all all the time when daddy's not around." hope says looking at her mother.

"don't expose me like that missy!" she says before taking her daughter into her hands and tickling her til her face is red.

"come on my little shortstacks. let's go get some breakfast." lucas says picking hope up and putting her on his hip.

"hey! i'm allowed to be short, i'm only seven!" hope says.

"what's your mother's excuse then?" her father says making maya slap him upside the head.

"i hope santa brought you coal." maya says before walking ahead of them and getting things set up for breakfast. all three of them share a laugh before hope sits down in front of the tv and starts to watch her morning cartoons. lucas starts to make the pancake mix and start making the pancakes while maya organizes all the gifts and makes sure that they're all there. she had spent so much time and money making sure that hope's christmas was good enough. every single year maya worried that hope wouldn't like anything that she and lucas got for her. maya didn't have the best childhood growing up and for these last seven years she's tried to do everything she can to make hope happy. she counts all the gifts and makes sure that there's a good amount.

"okay! two stacks of pancakes for my two shortstacks of pancakes!" lucas says setting the plates down on the table. maya sees her daughter run to the table and she feels her heart warm with delight. she loves that little girl more than anything. she would do whatever it takes to me her be as smiley as she always is. maya walks to the table and sits down next
to her daughter before devouring her pancakes.

"mommy! can we open presents now?" hope asks as maya wipes syrup off of her face.

"your dadda isn't finished yet." maya responds.

"ugh dad! you're such a slow eater! come on! chop chop!" she says clapping her small hands.

"you definitely are your mother's daughter." lucas says with a glare while maya throws her head back in laughter. as soon as lucas puts his last piece of pancake in his mouth, hope is off running towards the tree and waiting impatiently for her slow parents to come.

"okay, go ahead and open your gifts babygirl." maya says putting her sweaty palms on her pants. lucas can see her worry and nervousness from a mile away so he slides his large hand into her small one and whispers in her ear,

"you did good penelope. she'll love everything." he says kissing the side of her forehead. maya closes her eyes with a soft sigh until she hears her daughter squealing. she had just opened the new art set that she begged for all month long.

"oh thank you mommy! this is what i wanted the most!" she says getting up and crushing her small mother with a warm hug.

"i'm glad you like it honey." she says kissing her daughter's bright blonde hair.

"like it? i love it!" she says kissing her mom's cheek. lucas smiles and shakes his head to himself as his daughter pulls away from her mother and continues to unwrap the rest of her stuff.

hope gets everything she asks for and more and she's the happiest child ever. maya has never seen her smile that hard on christmas and she's hit with relief.

"think she likes everything?" maya asks fiddling with her necklace and biting on her bottom lip once her daughter leaves and starts to play with everything.

"baby, she loves everything! i've never seen her look this happy on christmas, like ever. she's so so happy and it's all thanks to you." lucas says taking his small wife into his arms.

"i just like giving her the best christmas. she deserves it." maya says against his chest sighing once again. lucas nods and kisses her head softly and just holds her there by the tree.

"i have something for you." he says softly.

"babe, you didn't have to get me anything. you've already given me the best gift." maya says referring to her daughter.

"you say that every year and you know i'm always gonna get you something. and i know that you got me something too." he says.

"you know me too well." she says blushing. lucas pulls out a black rectangular velvet box which makes maya nervous. he hands her he box and slowly opens it as maya gasps. "it's, it's beautiful." she says in shock. lucas pulls the diamond bracelet out of the box and puts it on her slim wrist. it has a little m, l, and an h on it.

"there's still more space just in case we decide to give hope a sibling." lucas says smiling.

"thank you huckleberry. i love it and you so so much." maya says before softly kissing lucas on the lips. "mine isn't as expensive as yours but it did come from the heart." maya says.

"that's all i could ever ask for." he says with a grin. maya pulls out a painting that she happened to paint last week. she hands it to lucas and waits to see his reaction. he flips the painting over and his cute eyebrows furrow in confusion.

"i don't get it. there's four pairs of shoes here but there's only three of us." he says.

"put two and two together ranger rick." maya chuckles.

"no way."

"got it now?"

"there's no way."

"oh but there is a way."

"you're, you're pregnant?" he asks stuttering.

"we are giving hope a little sibling." i say raising my pajama shirt up and putting my small hand on my small belly.

"oh my god! maya! you're pregnant!" lucas shouts picking me up and spinning me around.

"no baby. we're pregnant!" i say leaning down to kiss him.

maya would say today was a pretty great day. hope had enjoyed her christmas once again making maya happy as a clam, lucas and maya exchanged beautiful gifts, and maya finally told lucas she was pregnant in a painting that she gave him as a gift.

"merry christmas beautiful." lucas says leaning down and kissing her on the lips.

"merry christmas bubba." i say before giving him another kiss. all of a sudden, hope hops out of nowhere and scares us all.

"happy holidays!" she says in her cute voice. maya and lucas pick her up and smother her with kisses. they couldn't have asked for a better christmas morning.

merry christmas hoes!! it's less than an hour till the 26th here but it's still christmas somewhere! this one shot was very last minute and that's why it's going up so late, sorry! hope u had the best holiday!!

love, c ♥️