Bulletproof Love (Jaime Preciado)

Chapter 13

Jaime's POV

December 20, 2012

Ashley fell asleep once Frozen began, she must have been really tired.

"hey Bella." I whisper to her. She turns around and walks up to me.

"yes Mr. Jaime?" she says with her cute little innocent face. Gosh she is so freaking cute. I hope when Ashley and I have kids they will be as cute as her. What am I saying? Of course they will be cute. As long as they look like Ashley, because Ashley and Bella look so similar it's weird.

"want to surprise Ashley?" I ask and she nods.

"how we do dat?" she asks.

"want to put up the Christmas tree for her? She seems really tired and stressed out, and we could put it up so she doesn't have to do it."

"yeah! Let's do that!" she squeals and I shush her.

"shh, you don't want to wake her and spoil the surprise." I smile.

"okay. Shhh." she says and puts her finger to her mouth and shushes us. She is the cutest I swear.

"I will help too." I look up and see Brady standing there with a long sleeve shirt and pajama pants on.

"okay, we could use all the help we could get." I say and they both nod. I slowly move out from under Ashley so I don't wake her up. I get out, and I lay her down and put a blanket over her. I walk into the living room with the kids and open the box with the fake tree in it.

"lets do dis!" Bella cheers and Brady and I laugh.

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<a few hours later>

Ashley's POV

I wake up from my nap without Jaime's protective arms around me. I look around and hear Christmas songs being sung from the main room. I stand up and stretch then walk to the main room and almost break down into tears.

"you guys didn't have to do this." I say and smile really big. They put up all the Christmas decorations I was going to do later. Even the tree was up!

"we wanted to. You have been super sad and stressed out, so we felt like giving you a break." Jaime said and walked over to me. I jumped on him and hugged him super tight.

"thank you so much Jaime."

"your welcome beautiful." I smile and climb off him and hug Brady and Bella.

"thank you all so much." I smile at all of them.

"we saved this for you." Brady says as he walks over to a box and pulls out the angel mom and dad always had me put up.

I cover my mouth with my hands and burst into tears. I get pulled into the center of a group hug and just cry.

"I can't believe we have this, I thought it broke last year because it fell off the very top of the tree?" I ask when we pull away.

"it did fall and break but Brady fixed it with some paint and super glue." Jaime says and I look at Brady with glossy eyes. I walk up to him and squeeze him as hard as I can.

"thank you so much Brady." he wraps his arms around me and leans his head ontop of mine.

"anything for my big sister." I laugh because he really looks like he could be my older brother, considering how much taller he is than me and he is muscular and I am a scrawny little girl.

"well, what are we waiting for? Lets put it up!" Jaime cheers and Brady lets me go and puts me on top of his shoulders. I squeal then Jaime puts his hands behind me just so I don't fall, then I reach up to the top of the tree and set the angel on the top. Brady steps away from the tree and Jaime helps me down and we all sit down on the couch and admire the beauty of the Christmas tree all lighten up.

"how does it look Belle?" I ask her.

"I like it! Its pwetty!" I laugh and cuddle into Jaime's side more.

"oh shit!" I look over and look at Brady who now looks like he is going to have a heart attack.

"don't say that, and what?" I ask him.

"Football! I have missed practice for a week! What do I do?!" he said standing up and now pacing the living room.

"Brady calm down, I'm sure if I talk to him he will understand." I say.

"no, you don't understand! He is the strictest coach ever! He will kick me off the team!"

"if he does, we can say something to the principle and get him fired." I say.

"go get dressed for practice and I will take you. Jaime do you mind staying with Bella? I will be back before her bed time so I won't be gone forever." Brady nods and goes to get dressed and Jaime stands up.

"that's fine. I love this little cutie pie, I will watch her, and take your time, you don't need to rush." I smile and stand up next to him. I grab his shirt and pull him into a big deep kiss. I feel him smile and I smile too. We stay like that until I hear Brady come out of his room.

"ready?" I ask him and he nods.

"okay." I go up on my tippy toes and give Jaime a quick kiss then I bend down to Bella's height.

"be good, and no candy or junk food before bed." she nods and I smile and stand up.

"be back in a bit. Be good for Mr. Jaime, Belle." they nod and we walk out to the car and Drive to Claremont high school."