Star-Crossed

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE.

SKY

The next morning I woke up to being alone in the bed. I heard the shower on and realized it was him taking a shower.

I hadn't even realized we had fallen asleep. I was still in my clothes from the day before, and all I remember last was cuddling in bed with Alexander and listening to his words to make me feel protected again. He had to repeat at least a hundred times that he loved me and that he would never do something like that again for me to actually believe it.

I got up and knocked on the shower door.

"Yeah?" His deep voice said.

I opened the door and walked inside. He popped his head out of the shower curtain and smiled down at me while looking at the top of my head.

"What?"

"Your hair." He laughed, and I turned to look at the mirror.

Embarrassed, I closed the shower curtain and began to put water in my hair before I joined Alexander in the shower. We showered together for what seemed like an hour, talking about the most stupid things. Alexander asked me to be his girlfriend in that shower, and I happily said yes.

We got out and got dressed in festive outfits. I wore a Christmas onesie and I forced Alexander to wear another ugly Christmas sweater.

We met with Caroline and Layla downstairs, who were making waffles together in the kitchen while listening to Christmas songs.

"Good morning!" Caroline sang and danced while mixing the waffle mixture.

"Morning." I laughed and sat on one of the chairs around the kitchen island.

Alexander stood behind me while I spoke with Caroline and Layla, playing with my curls and kissing my cheeks without shame. I grew embarrassed, because I thought it was rude to do in front of Caroline but she didn't seem to mind at all.

"I take it you too made up?" She grinned like a child.

"Yeah." Alexander said behind me.

I got up and helped Caroline bring different things from the fridge to add to our two waffles each. Layla took Caroline's good mood and Christmas as an excuse to fill her waffles with the most sugary and unhealthy things, I put some strawberries and Nutella on mine, and Alexander being the athlete he is, put bananas and peanut butter on his and made himself a protein shake.

We then went to open gifts. Layla got a huge dollhouse from Caroline and a huge unicorn teddy from Alexander. I got her a few hair accessories and a painting set as she had been painting a lot from what Alexander told me. Caroline got a new iPad from Alexander, tickets to go see her favourite play from Layla with Alexander's help and I got her a really nice crock pot. For Alexander, I gave him my gift first which was a wallet with his name engraved in it. He was super happy with it and made sure to show it to me. It was then my turn to open my gifts. Caroline gave me a brand new Victoria secret perfume and a cute bracelet and Layla got me a bath set from the Body Shop. I was super appreciative and held in my tears.

"Where's your gift, Alexander?" Caroline said, a smile playing on her lips.

"He gave me mine last night." I touched my snowflake necklace.

"I have another one. . ." Alexander said and walked upstairs. I grew curious and waited for him to come back down, growing impatient.

He came down with a tiny black fur ball in his hands, and it took me a second to realize it was a puppy.

"You did not." I opened my arms out for the dog and held the warm cutie close to me, my tears betraying me.

"My aunt's dog gave birth two weeks ago. I know this won't replace your dog that passed away but. . ." He said.