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A Christmas Morning Surprise by Valorie818

I was staring out the window feeling really depressed. It was Christmas Eve and there still wasn't any snow on the ground. The little bit of snow we got melted away so fast that we didn't even get to really enjoy it. It always snowed here in Illinois, but for some reason this year the snow seemed to be punishing me for something.

Suddenly I felt a pair of arms wrap around me and I jumped a little; I was so wrapped up in my thoughts I didn't even hear Sonny come up behind me, "Why do you keep torturing yourself like this Will?"

I shrugged my shoulders, "I was just hoping that maybe the snow had a change of heart and decided to bless us with its presence."

Sonny laughed behind me, "Are you still going on about how the snow is punishing you? You are being ridiculous because the snow can't think like that."

Turning around in his arms I pleaded for him to understand, "Of course it can think like that, why else have we not gotten snow at all this year."

"Maybe we are just having one of those random weather patterns that people from Iowa always talk about," he joked.

I couldn't stop myself from laughing but it didn't last long, "But Sonny we paid for all the winter stuff that we would need for Ari to play in the snow and it was a waste of money now. She is going to grow so much in this next year that she won't even be able to fit in it, and I wanted to take lots of pictures of her in the snow."

He sighed, "We can still do this next year."

"But this is her first Christmas and since there aren't a lot of firsts in her life, I don't want to miss a single one." I turned back around in frustration; he just wasn't seeing how important this was to me.

"I do know how important this is to you."

"I said that last part out loud didn't I?" I looked over my shoulder at him.

Sonny smiled warmly at me, "Yes you did, but like I said, I do know how important it is for you but there is nothing you can do about it."

I sighed, "Yeah I know I can't, it still just sucks." I grabbed the curtains and pulled them shut, "We are closing all the curtains in the apartment until after Christmas is over. I don't want to be depressed tomorrow morning at the lack of snow outside."

We worked together to close all the curtains before we settled down on the couch to watch a movie. I had just gotten settled when I suddenly jolted up and turned towards Sonny, "Oh my gosh, I was so wrapped up in my depression that I didn't ask how it went with you putting Ari down for the night."

Sonny smiled as he pulled me back into his arms, "It went well, she fell asleep almost instantly. I think we wore her out what with all the traditions we are trying to start for our family."

I grinned guiltily, "It wasn't that much."

He gave me that look, the look that says 'are you kidding me'. I cringed under that look; "Will, you made us stay in the store until we got all the junk food to last us until after Christmas. Then we had to go to the movie store to rent a bunch of movies that I am sure we won't finish before they are due back."

"Well we haven't come up with traditions of our own yet, and I wanted to do that. Next year we are going to be more organized and I promise that in the future, we are going to look back on all these years feeling happy that we had this." I nodded my head, agreeing with myself. That was an awesome explanation if you ask me.

Sonny laughed, "I guess you are right, I just wish that I could have come up with something."

I smiled at him, "Don't worry I know you will find something even if it takes you a little longer." I settled back in and focused back on the movie.

We were half way through the movie and of course they showed a ton of scenes with snow. I couldn't help the words that came out, "Why can't it be snowing here?"

Sonny sighed behind me, "Will not this again?"

"I am sorry Sonny but there was another tradition I wanted to do but I can't do it now." I snuggled further into Sonny's chest trying to draw out the love from him because I needed it right now.

Sonny didn't reply and I was about ready to ask him what was wrong when he started to stand up, "I need to go the bathroom real quick."

I sat up so he could get up more easily, "Okay well I will keep your spot warm until you come back."

"Okay."

When Sonny was out of sight I got comfortable in his spot and continued to watch the movie.

Sometime later Sonny finally came out of the bathroom, "What did you do, fall into the toilet?"

"Ha ha you are so funny." But he still laughed anyway.

"Yeah I am hilarious. That is why you love me so much." I moved over so he could sit down.

He sat down and looked at me, "Yes that is one of many reasons why I love you so much." He brought his hand up the back of my neck and pulled me forward for a kiss. I moved my lips with his and when his tongue sought entrance, I gave it to him.

Sonny groaned into my mouth and tightened his grip in my hair, pulling me back, "Let's take this to the bedroom."

I grinned, "How about you carry me to the bedroom."

"Okay!" He said excitedly. We stood up and I thought he was going to carry me like a baby or the way a husband carries his wife over the threshold, but he didn't. He gripped each of my thighs and lifted me up, so I had no choice but to wrap my legs around his waist and grip his shoulders.

I laughed, "Well this wasn't what I was expecting but it works out better." I grinded my erection against Sonny's, which pulled out a deep moan. Sonny didn't even say anything; he just hurried his pace until he reached the bedroom where he turned my very depressing night into a magical one.

The next day I slowly came into consciousness, the muscles in my body groaned after the amazing night I shared with Sonny. I laughed lightly at the fact that Sonny was such an aggressive man during sex, and I was not complaining one bit. My arm stretched out next to me, seeking the warmth of my truly amazing partner, but I couldn't find him. I opened my eyes and looked over only to discover that he wasn't there. His side of the bed wasn't even warm anymore, so that must mean he has been up for awhile.

I got up very slowly and sat on the side of the bed trying to fully wake up. I picked up my phone and saw the date which said it was Christmas. Excitement filled me up, and I got up extremely fast so that I could get ready to make a bunch of memories for Ari's first Christmas. After I was fully dressed I looked out the window into the back yard and saw that it still hadn't snowed. I know that I said I wasn't going to look outside today, but I couldn't help it. I sighed deeply before I stepped out of our bedroom and went over to Ari's, noting that Sonny wasn't in the living room or kitchen. When I entered she wasn't even asleep, she was just sitting in her crib calmly playing with one of the few toys we keep in there.

As I approached the crib Ari looked up at me; she smiled and squealed at me in her excitement, "You must be just as excited as I am about Christmas." She giggled in response and started to wave her arms, asking to be picked up, "How can I say no to that?"

I picked her up and cuddled her close to my chest, "Let's go find daddy Sonny. I am sure he is around here somewhere."

We walked out of the bedroom, and I saw Sonny sitting in the middle of the couch, almost like he was waiting there for me, "Took you long enough." His tone of voice made him sound serious, but the look on his face told you he was just joking.

"Where were you? I didn't see you out here when I went into Ari's room." I sat down on the couch, snuggling into his side.

Sonny wrapped his arm around me and pulled me closer, "I was just finishing up one of your presents."

"Really, what is it?"

He wagged is finger at me, "Ah, ah, ah… you will wait until you open it like it's supposed to be done.

I pouted, "Fine but can we hurry up. I want to see what it is."

Sonny brought his finger up to my pouting lip and pushed it back in, "Okay, I will be Santa this year and as a tradition we can start, how about we let the youngest one open their gifts first?"

I nodded my head, "I like that idea."

Sonny went over to the tree and separated the boxes by names, Ari's of course was the biggest pile of all three of them.

We made our way through all of Ari's presents; now she was the owner of a bunch of brand new toys and she probably wouldn't play with them all. When that was over we started in on mine,, since I was younger than Sonny. I got everything on my list, and I mean everything on my list, which shocked me because most of my stuff was expensive.

I grabbed the last present, wondering what extra thing Sonny got me, when suddenly it wasn't in my hand anymore. "You need to wait for this one until I am done with mine."

"But why, I thought we were going from youngest to oldest?" I tried grabbing the gift but Sonny held it out of my reach.

"You will see why later." He set the gift out of my reach and started to go through his gifts. I wasn't able to get everything for him like he did for me, but I was at least able to get him some good gifts.

I was so wrapped up in the excitement of seeing Sonny's face as he opened his gifts that I completely forgot about my other gift. It wasn't until Sonny was done with his last one that he grabbed my last one and handed it to me, "I really hope you like this gift."

I took it and eagerly opened it; inside was a folded piece of paper. I pulled it out and the paper read, 'GO OUTSIDE.'

Frowning, I looked up at Sonny, "What do you mean by this, Sonny? I told you I didn't want to look outside and get depressed by the fact that there is no snow."

"I know that but can you just trust me Will. Just go open the front door and see your present."

I huffed out a breath before I handed Ari to Sonny and stood up. Heading to the door I took in a deep breath to embrace myself for the sadness to take over but when I opened the door I stood there frozen in shock.

It was snowing; there was actual snow outside! My first thought was that maybe it snowed since I looked out the window this morning after I woke up, but upon further investigation I saw that the snow was only on our front lawn. A warm arm wrapped around my waist and a breath on my ear, "Do you like your present?"

"How… what… how… how did you do this?" I stared wide eyed at the snow covering our lawn.

A soft chuckle in my ear, "Last night when we were talking about traditions and that fact that it wasn't snowing gave me an idea. So when I went to the bathroom I called your mom and dad telling them your dilemma and they agreed to help me out. They took it upon themselves to buy a snowmaking machine and early this morning I woke up and helped them set it up. It has been making snow for the past 4 hours."

A tear slipped out, "Where are my parents at, I want to thank them?"

"We are right here honey." Said a voice from behind me.

I spun around and saw my parents plus my two grandma's; they were leaving mine and Sonny's room, "Were you in there the whole time?"

My mom smiled at me and hugged me tightly, "Yes we were, we wanted to be here too."

I sniffed, "You guys didn't have to spend your Christmas eve and morning trying to fulfill my stupid obsession with snow on Christmas day."

Sami pulled back and wiped the tears off my face, "Of course we did. We also wanted to make memories of Ari's first Christmas too."

"Thank you guys for doing this." I hugged everyone tightly before I rushed into Ari's room getting all her snow gear. Me and Sonny worked together to get all of her gear on and by the time we were done she looked like Ralphie's little brother Randy from the movie 'A Christmas Story.' I laughed at the image she made but I wasn't going to remove any of it because I didn't want her to get sick.

The rest of the day was so magical because all seven of us made snow angels and snowmen. We had snowball fights and did pretty much everything that you could do in the snow.

Now it was night time and Ari was sleeping in her crib, deeply asleep because she was worn out from all the fun and excitement of the day. I was standing by her crib watching her sleep when Sonny stepped up next to me and wound his arm around my waist. He lifted up the camera, "Well the SD card is completely maxed out."

I was shocked, "We had room for like 200 more pictures on that thing. Did we really take that many pictures?"

Sonny smiled, "Yeah we did and tomorrow we can go through them and get rid of the ones we don't really need and keep the rest."

I looked at Sonny with so much love in my eyes, "Thank you so much for that awesome gift. I don't know how to ever pay you back."

"You don't have to worry about paying me back, this is what partners do for each other. Anyway I think I just came up with a Christmas tradition."

I quirked an eyebrow, "So we would still use the snowmaking machine even if there is already snow outside?"

He nodded his head, "Yes, we can just add more so that we can have a lot more fun."

I laughed, "Okay, we will mark that down as another tradition."

He smiled so big and leaned in to kiss me tenderly on my lips.

After a couple of seconds I pulled back a few inches, "Thank you for making this one of the best Christmas's so far." I leaned back in for another kiss, looking forward to future Christmas's because this one was going to be one that I would never forget.

The End