You All Along

Chapter 42

SONGS FOR THIS CHAPTER

Story Of My Life (One Direction)

Never Too Late (Secondhand Serenade)

No Control (One Direction)

Girl Almighty (One Direction)

Fall for You (Secondhand Serenade) {I swear to God, no joke}

Night Changes (One Direction)

Layla’s P.O.V

“There we go,” he said putting on the last ornament on the Christmas tree and taking a few steps back. I was wrapped in one of Adam’s penguin sweaters and cloud pants. The Christmas tree was set up at the corner of our room. Behind the Christmas tree was the word ‘ADAYLA’ in huge polystyrene letters that were now painted glittery purple and gold. Our Christmas tree had purple, gold and silver ornaments hanging around in different sizes. Along with it were pictures of Adam and I that we randomly picked of Instagram. We wrapped the tree in Christmas lights and it shone brightly when we dimmed the lights. We took numerous pictures of the tree and of each other with the tree. This is going to be the best Christmas ever! And there is only 6 days left.

“Hey, I have a great idea. Okay get ready and we can go shopping. You shop for gifts for whoever you want to give to, and I’ll do for mine. And we can meet up and we can buy some Christmas food, deal?” Adam suddenly said and pulled on a Christmas tree sweater and waited for me to react. I nodded hastily before scurrying to my closet. I put on a pair of light blue jeans, a deep red long sleeve sweater that had a picture of a smurf on it and brown combat boots. I tied my hair into a ponytail and came back out to pack my purse with 2500 European Dollars. “Ready?” he asked, looking up from his phone and standing up.”Yup!” I said, popping the ‘p’. He smiled at me, before dragging me out the door.

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“Okay, so I will meet you right here, in three hours? Okay?”        He said, locking his phone and letting go of my hand. He turned to face me and I nodded, readjusting my shoulder bag for the fourth time since we entered the shopping mall. He quickly pecked my cheek before saying, “I have no idea what I’m going to buy, so I have no clue where I’ll be, and if we need more than three hours, we can just text each other okay? And if we run into each other while we are on own, we should not acknowledge each other and try our best to hide the presents. Stay safe, Layla. Call me if anything. Even if you need extra money,” and I rolled my eyes playfully. I shoved his shoulder and he winked at me before running off to the nearest store. I smiled to myself, and turned away, walking in the other direction.

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I had shopped for 90 minutes now, and I have only found like four gifts. I bought Gina, a dress that reached up to the knees, with stripes and laces decorating it. I bought Dave a leather wallet, because he was complaining that his was beginning to tear at the corners. I hope no one else got him any wallet because I spent 50 dollars on a leather wallet for him. I bought Bianca, my junior who is super sweet to me, a customized shoulder bag that had the background of autumn leaves and her name, studded in tinny silver beads. I bought Crystal, one of my classmates, a dark jean jacket with tiny gold pyramid near the shoulders. I haven’t bought Mrs. Fran, the canteen lady, anything and I still haven’t decided what to buy for Adam. I had like 1800 dollars left and I just bought myself some coffee. I hadn’t run into Adam once in the mall, so I have no clue where he has been. I walked towards the nearest clothing store to find something for Mrs. Fran. I looked through the skirts and blouses that hung on the appropriate hangers and saw one that would fit her perfectly. It was a knee length gray circle skirt that had beautiful little white flowers embossed on it. I found a pair of identical flower earrings and decided on buying that for Mrs. Fran. I realized that I hadn’t bought anything for Akshay, Irene, my mom, Mrs. Chance and my father’s second family. I didn’t bother thinking about buying anything for Jeff and Elsa because right now, I have important people to shop for. I bought Akshay a short sleeved red and blue button down shirt and a brand new belt and for Irene, I bought her crimson flare dress with white beads forming an ombre pattern from the bottom to the top. I bought my mom a handbag, because she really has to stop using those old shoulder bags. I bought Autumn, a tiny dress that I thought would be perfect for her. It had a black felt kind of top with a beaded white flower on the left and the bottom of the dress was a light pink silk and covered with a white net like material. I bought dale, a pair of dark jeans which I thought would fit him. I bought Megan, a plain black top, with beads near the neckline. Lastly I bought a pair of wedges for Mrs. Chance and sat back down with 600 dollars left to buy something for Adam.

After a good 10 minutes of thinking, I came up with a decision. I walked to the store I was searching for and got a fairly large box, to keep all his gifts inside. I got him a black throw pillow that had picture of a penguin on it (He loves throw pillows and penguins so what’s the problem?) and a whole box of dark chocolate. I also bought him a plain formal light orange kind of shirt and lastly I bought a ‘Fossil’ black silk watch and carefully arranged it all in the box, before asking the salesgirl to wrap it for me. Once everything was done, I snuck out to his car, because the keys was with me and kept everything in the trunk before going back inside to meet Adam, because the curfew was now over. I saw him sitting on a nearby bench sipping from a Starbucks cup, and I sat down beside him. There were large bags beside him but I didn’t acknowledge them. “Where are your gifts?” he asked. I smirked before answering, “I already packed it in the trunk, so you won’t be able to see,” and he chuckled and said “Sneaky,” and we walked to the grocery supermarket in the shopping mall.

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Christmas Morning

Adam’s P.O.V

“LAYYLAAA WAKE UPP IT IS CHRISTMAAAAAASSSS!!!” I sang jumping on her and shaking her like a little kid. “Adam, it is not Christmas yet, I need my beauty sleep,” she groaned and went back to sleep. “You’re already beautiful, Layla. IT IS SNOWING IT IS CHRISTMASSSS!!!” I cheered and realized I did look like a grown up kid. I was in a Christmas onesie with facial hair. What is wrong with me? “Adam, it’s been snowing for a month already,” and she stayed silent for a while and her eyes slowly widened. Guess who finally realized today was Christmas. She jumped of the bed, and ran to me “IT IS CHRISTMASSSSS! I FEEEL CHRISTMASSSYYYY!!” she sand and I simply smiled at her and gave her a shoulder hug. We had mailed our gifts that we bought for Akshay, Irene and whoever wasn’t in the same country as us. Gina, Dave and Bianca decided to celebrate Christmas with us because they didn’t have much to celebrate back home. Layla and I snapped some pictures in our onesies and the Christmas tree.

We went down to the cafeteria for breakfast and meet our friends. We left the room with only Mrs. Fran’s gift and a Santa hat on our heads. We gave our gifts to Mrs. Fran and received the gifts she bought for all of us. She refused to be paid for the food we bought because it was Christmas. Even breakfast was festive today. Red and white waffles, with strawberry sauce and whipping cream, chicken sausages and huge glass of hot chocolate with marshmallows.

“So what time should we come to your room?” Gina asked Layla. She looked at me and I answered, “Um, you can fetch your stuff and head straight to our room after breakfast,” and Gina nodded. Dave was busy picking at his waffles while we carried on with our succulent free breakfast. “Layla, we should head to the office to see if we have gotten any mail. We haven’t checked in a long time, you know?” and she nodded, focusing on her Santa-inspired waffles. I took a picture of her looking straight at her plate, and she turned to look at me and the camera shutter and scowled. I just chuckled and continued eating before dragging Layla to the office to get our mails.  

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