They were woken at 6:30 Christmas morning to a squealing child in the living room, followed by excited footsteps racing towards the bedroom. The blonde haired 3 year old shook her dad by the arm, practically yelling "Daddy! Daddy! Santa came! Come look!" before she ran back down the hallway and towards the Christmas tree.
"You ready for Christmas? You know if we don't get up she'll just come back in 5 minutes" Puck said, as he leaned over and gave Finn a kiss on the cheek.
"Mm, what time is it? I had a special gift planned out for you, but I didn't think you'd be up for a while." Finn replied sleepily, fighting back a yawn.
Puck looked at the clock. "6:30. I guess she's really excited. I've never had her for Christmas before. I didn't expect her to be up so early." It took him a minute to register Finn's words, but his face perked up a bit when he did. "Special gift, huh? What kind of special gift?" He knew he didn't ask for anything, so he was curious as to what it could be.
"Well, I don't know if I should tell you now. What if I decided to do it later, once we take Beth back to Quinn and Shelby?" he said slyly.
They had graduated high school last year. This was the second year they'd spent as a couple. It was junior year when they'd finally admitted their feelings towards each other. Luckily, coming out was easier than either of them had expected. The Glee club had been incredibly supportive once the initial shock wore off. Once graduation came around, they decided to get a place together. Finn had decided to continue on at a community college so that he could stay with Puck, and Puck had decided that since school was over he wanted to be a bigger part of his daughter's life. Quinn, who had also wanted to be more active in her life, was perfectly okay with it. She knew that while Shelby could provide a good home for her that she still deserved to have her birth parents present in her life. Shelby understood completely, having regretted not doing the same with Rachel when she'd given her up as a baby and was more than happy to give them visitation whenever they wanted it. They did decide, however, it was best to share the holidays. She'd be with one of them for the first half of the days and the other for the latter.
"Oh, if you're going to make me wait all day it better be damn good!" Puck said, finally climbing out of bed to throw on some pajama bottoms and meet Beth in the living room to see what "Santa" had brought her. "Get dressed babe, and meet us in the living room" he said before leaving the bedroom.
Finn rolled out of bed and threw on some clothes, heading towards the kitchen to make everyone breakfast. Since he wasn't much of a cook, he just took some milk out of the fridge, some cereal out of the cabinet and poured three glasses of orange juice before finally joining them at the brightly decorated tree. Watching Beth open her presents and seeing Puck so genuinely interested brought a smile to Finn's face. He'd not imagined a life like this during senior year, but he'd grown fond of Beth and knew it made Puck happy, and whatever made the man he loved happy was all that mattered to him.
The gift opening didn't take quite as long as they'd expected. Beth was impatiently reaching for presents before Puck could hand them to her, ripping off the paper as quickly as she could to see what was inside. There were even a few gifts Finn and Puck had gotten each other, despite the two agreeing not to get each other anything this year. Finn had gotten Puck a few DVD's he'd wanted and Puck had gotten Finn a few new shirts. They had both split the cost of a new Wii a few weeks prior, so aside from a few games there wasn't much need for presents. They even played Mario Kart with Beth, always making sure to let her win. She always made up these adorable happy dances whenever she came in first, and the boys loved it too much to let her lose.
After all the presents had been unwrapped and Beth had given them both as many hugs as she could before falling asleep on the couch watching one of her new movies, Puck called Quinn to see if she was ready to come pick up her daughter for a second wind at Christmas. She said she'd be there by 5:00 to get her, and asked how it went this morning.
"Oh, it went fine. She was up really early and tore through the presents pretty quickly. She's asleep now, but by the time you get here she'll probably be all excited again. Call us when you're on the way. Merry Christmas, Quinn." Puck said before he hung up the phone.
Things between Quinn and Puck, and even Quinn and Finn, were fine by this point. They'd gone through a lot when everyone first found out. She'd had the hardest time coming to terms with the idea of Finn and Puck being a couple. She had, after all, dated the both of them. And Beth was Puck's daughter. A part of her had always thought she'd be the one in Finn's life. Once she saw how happy they were together, however, she came around.
"So, what's the plan?" Finn asked, trying to figure out when he'd be able to give Puck his special present. It was going to require some schedule flexing at this point, but he was determined. It was only going to work for as long as the tree was up, and as much as Puck knew Finn loved Christmas and the smell of the tree, Finn also knew that Puck was probably going to take it down by tomorrow night.
"Well, we can play some Mario while Beth's asleep. Quinn won't be here to get her until 5:00." Puck replied, eyeing the Wii.
"Hey, Puck. Why don't you call Quinn and see if you can take her over there? I'll stay here and clean up. She'd like to have an extra half hour with her dad, I think." Finn suggested, trying to be casual.
"Sure, okay. You won't mind?" Puck agreed. He did really want to spend those few extra minutes with her. It'd probably be a few weeks before he got to see her again.
"Nope, not at all. Maybe I'll even cook us dinner. You know, call in Chinese or something." Finn said, and they both laughed.
A few minutes into the game, they'd both fallen asleep. Christmas for them was, in the past, quiet and uneventful. There was no little girl, not many presents, just a tree with a bit of decoration. Puck had never been able to convince Finn they didn't need one.
It was Beth who, once again, was waking the two up. Finn opened his eyes and looked at the clock. It was 10 minutes to 5:00. He knew Quinn would probably be upset if Puck was late bringing Beth home, so he quickly got his boyfriend up and rushed him out the door. After all, he needed time to get the apartment clean and prepare his present before Puck got back home.
Once Finn had the place to himself, he threw away all the torn up wrapping paper and dug through the closet to find the gift bows. They only had blue ones left, so he took one out and checked the clock. 6:00. Puck should be back any minute, Finn thought, and stripped down. Once undressed, he positioned himself underneath the tree, the blue bow strategically placed so that nothing was showing. He chuckled to himself about what he thought Puck's reaction to his "present" would be.
Five minutes later, Puck walked in.
"Finn, I'm back. Did you call in the Chinese yet? I'm starving!" He shouted as he set the keys down on the table and grabbing a soda from the fridge.
"I'm in here! I didn't order it yet. I was waiting for you to…" Puck walked in before Finn could finish his sentence. He nearly spit all of the soda onto the couch when he saw Finn, naked, wearing nothing but a bow, lying under the tree.
"What…what the hell is this!" Puck exclaimed, a silly smile on his face.
"It's your special gift. For Christmas you get me!" Finn said, almost laughing at the amused and slightly confused look on Puck's face.
Puck made his way over to Finn and leaned down. "You are so weird. Adorable, sexy even, but weird!" He said, and gave Finn a kiss.
"Wanna take this to the bedroom?" Finn asked, anxiously waiting for Puck to "unwrap" him.
"Why would I do that? You're supposed to unwrap presents under the tree, right? If you're my present you aren't going anywhere!" Puck replied as he unwrapped his boyfriend.