When I woke up in the morning, I felt too warm. Suddenly there were two cold arms wrapped around me. I turned myself in Carlisle's gentle hold. I wrapped an arm around Carlisle before pulling myself up to kiss his chin. I slowly snuggled my way into his chest, getting more comfortable with his arms around me.
"Good morning my love." Carlisle said sweetly.
"Good morning handsome." I said happily into his chest. I was so happy that I smiled into his chest.
"Did you sleep good love? I noticed you saying my name a few times. I hope it was all good dreams." Carlisle said teasingly.
"Of course I slept well. I did have some good dreams of you last night. You were the sweetest man and the perfect gentleman." I said as I straddled Carlisle.
Carlisle sat up and readjusted me onto his lap. We sat there talking a few minutes before we both wrapped ourselves in robes. We went downstairs with everyone else. I remembered it was Christmas day. I was so blissfully unaware of it until we walked out of the bedroom to see the Christmas decorations.
Today everything was completely decked out with Christmas decorations. I looked at how divine everything looked. I must say Alice did a wonderful job just by going from a vision. We continued to walk downstairs into the living room. Carlisle's kids had come back and were smiling. Especially Emmett, who liked to tease everyone about things they did. I quickly grabbed onto Carlisle's arm and pulled us close together as we stood there smiling at the kids.
"Merry Christmas love!" Carlisle said to me.
"Merry Christmas everyone!" I said excitedly.
Alice pulled us all in to where the tree was set up in the living room. I sat down on the arm of the chair that Carlisle was in. Alice brought over a big pile of presents for me. I felt bad that I had more than the others. I also felt bad that I didn't do anything to extravagant for Carlisle and his family. I told them to open their gifts from me first.
I watched Alice and Jasper open their gifts, which included a 100 dollar gift card to a store at the mall I remember Alice said she liked and a new pair of cowboy boots and a belt buckle for Jasper with his initials on it. Next was Emmett and Rosalie to open their gifts. For Emmett, I got him a paint ball gun to use. Rosalie I got a beautiful white lace sun dress with pearls to match. Edward and Bella went then with their gifts. I found some blank CD's for Edward so he could record his music for everyone on it or just put music he liked on them. Bella's gift was an older copy of Wuthering Heights.
Finally it came to Carlisle to open his gift. I watched gleefully as he opened his gift next to me. I had made Carlisle a photo album of different pictures of us since we've been together. There was something else with it. When Carlisle looked into the box, he found a new lab coat and some new supplies for his at home doctor's office. Carlisle looked up to me as if he were about to cry. I knew it wasn't possible, but if he could he definitely would have.
"Thank you from all of us dear. We all truly love our gifts! Especially me." Carlisle said sweetly.
"I tried to make the gifts somewhat personal depending on the person. I was really hoping that everyone would like what they had gotten." I said blushing a little bit.
Everyone came over to hug and thank me for their wonderful gifts. We all went on about our morning opening the gifts that we had left. It was fun to watch everyone get all excited over the things we got. It seemed like everyone was really enjoying the day and had so much fun. I looked at the variety of clothes, lingerie, makeup and more that everyone gave me. I went around hugging and thanking everyone for the items they gave me.
I went back over to Carlisle and sat down on the arm rest of the chair again. He quickly pulled me down onto his lap as he gave me a quick peck on the cheek. I hugged him as I lovingly played with his smooth golden hair. The others gathered their things and took it to their own rooms. I sat their talking with Carlisle about the gifts I had gotten and enjoyed every single one of them. I never thought I could have such a wonderful Christmas. I thought about how I loved Carlisle and his family and thought about how considerate they all were.
"I'm happy you enjoyed your things love. I know everyone was nervous about your gifts that they gave you." Carlisle said.
"Well I absolutely loved all them. Especially this photo album that Alice happened to put together for us." I said grabbing the photo album from my pile of things.
I flipped it open to the first page and looked at the pictures with Carlisle while I sat in his lap. We sat there for roughly about an hour before Alice came in and started pulling me towards the kitchen. I wasn't sure what she was doing this for, but I noticed myself getting a little hungry. I smelled some wonderful things coming from the kitchen.
As we made it to the kitchen, I stopped in the doorway to see all the food in the kitchen. Had the kids really prepared all this just for me? I started crying a little bit. Carlisle came in and started hugging me from behind. He turned me towards him and saw the tears running down my face. He looked concerned that I was crying at the good act that his children did.
"Why are you crying my love? Do you not like what the kids did for you?" Carlisle asked, wiping the tears from my eyes.
"No I can't believe that your kids would go to such lengths to make my day with you so special. Ever since I came here, I have been nothing but happy since I've been here with you. All of you have spoiled me and I really do appreciate it. But it also makes me feel as if I will never be able to repay you." I said not only to Carlisle, but his family too.