Chapter 10- Waiting for You

Author's Note- Hi everybody! I was going to try and write this yesterday but I didn't have time, sorry. Thanks to everyone who reviewed last chapter, you guys are so nice! After this chapter there will be one more and then an epilogue. Here's the chapter! ;)

Will wandered into Emma's room, it was eight-thirty and he just woke up. He smiled; Emma was still sleeping, meaning that she hadn't received a call from Carl yet. Will loved the fact that he could be the first voice Emma heard in the morning. He scratched his head, wondering if he should wake her up or let her sleep. Emma always woke him up so Will guessed it would be okay to do the same. "Emma…" Will whispered, placing a hand on her shoulder. "Emma…it's me."

Emma rolled over, not opening her eyes yet. "Carl?" she mumbled. Will moved his hand off of her shoulder as though he just burned himself. Carl? He couldn't believe it, how had she mistaken him for Carl? Will turned around and started walking towards the door. What was I thinking? Nothing's ever going to change for us. I told her I loved her, gave her a necklace, and wrote her a love letter. I've basically poured my heart out to Emma multiple times. But nothing's changing, nothing, he thought, sadly. Emma sat up as Will turned the doorknob to leave. "Will!" Emma exclaimed.

He turned around. "Oh, hi."

"I-I, good morning," Emma stammered, smiling.

"Yeah, it's a real great morning," Will grimaced. Emma sensed the sadness in his voice as soon as he spoke.

"What's wrong?" Emma asked, immediately concerned.

Will shuffled his feet. "Nothing."

"Did Carl come back?" Emma questioned, hopping out of her bed, quickly.

"Uh, no. Were you expecting him? Because you called me Carl," Will admitted.

"Oh…oh! I'm so sorry, I'm really sorry. I-uh, I, just thinking about Carl…or not really thinking about him, no. I just," Emma sighed, sadly.

"What? Is there something wrong with Carl? Is it me? Did I do something wrong?" Will panicked, rushing to Emma's side.

"No, no, you didn't do anything wrong. You, you did everything right…that was the problem," Emma explained. Will tilted his head, confused. "Sorry, I'm confusing you, I know. That's what I've been doing all vacation, confusing you."

"No, I, uh, it's fine," Will assured her, still really confused.

"Carl and I…we broke up," Emma announced.

"When?" Will asked, astonished.

"Two nights ago, when I went to see him at the hotel, that's what I was doing…dumping him. I told him that, it, uh, wasn't going to work out. I-I think he wasn't mad, really. A little hurt, but not mad. He probably won't have any trouble finding another girlfriend, one that's not insane," Emma said, faking a laugh at the end. She looked up at Will and felt her brown eyes well up.

Will sat beside her and rubbed his hand soothingly on her back. "You're not insane, Emma, and Carl will never be able to find another you, that's for sure. I know I couldn't. Emma…you're perfect, beautiful, and everything a guy could ever want," Will confessed, hoping that could make her feel better.

"That's, that's not true, Will," Emma sniffed. "You're just saying that to make me feel better."

"Yeah, it is true. Everything that I have ever said to you or…wrote is true to me. You're perfect Emma, and so, so beautiful," Will admitted. She still hadn't said anything about the letter so he was unsure if she had even found it. Emma looked at him, thoughtfully.

Instead of saying anything, Emma just rested her head onto Will's shoulder. Will wrapped his strong arms around her and rested his head on top of hers. In this moment, no words were needed; everything they wanted to say to each other had just been said in actions. After all, actions speak louder than words. After almost twenty minutes of just staying in each other's arms, Emma spoke. "Thank you, Will. Thanks for everything," she whispered.

"I'm just doing what I wanted to…being there for you. Remember? That's what I wanted for Christmas and I just got it," Will smiled. Emma smiled up at him.

"I'm glad you did, you must've been a good boy this year," Emma laughed.

"I guess," Will replied, a cute lopsided smile spreading across his face.

"You know what they say," Emma started. "The best things come to those that wait."

"I hope that's true." Because I've been waiting for you, all this time. You would definitely be better than anything I'd ever gotten for Christmas…the ultimate gift, Will thought. Emma's door swung open and on the other side was Xavier.

"Will, I need to talk to you," the young boy said. "It's an emergency." Xavier glanced at Will who was still holding Emma, and smiled. "It's a boy thing, maybe you want to go," Xavier suggested.

Emma laughed, getting up. "I'll let you two talk," she said, walking out.

"I have good news and bad news," Xavier stated, sitting on the bed next to Will.

Will smiled. "Let's hear the good news first," he suggested.

"Okay," Xavier smiled. "I heard the mommies and daddies talking and guess what? Emma broke up with the tooth doctor!" he exclaimed.

"So I heard. Emma just told me," Will laughed.

"You guys were hugging…is she with you, now?" Xavier asked.

"Um, no. But, maybe someday in the future, she just broke up with Carl, I don't want to force her in a relationship," Will explained.

"I know that Emma will love you soon. It's one of the things that was on Julie and I's Christmas list," Xavier said.

"Wait, what?" Will questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"When Julie and I were in the car on the way to deliver our letter to Santa, we were making the final changes on our letter. I said that we should wish for you and Emma to get back together and Julie thought that that was a great idea. Then, I found a red crayon under a seat and wrote it on the paper. Santa always gets everybody what they want so it's probably just a late delivery," Xavier smiled, proud of himself.

Will laughed. "You did that for me?"

"Yeah," Xavier said. "I thought it would help."

"Thanks, it means a lot," Will replied, astonished that they would do that for him. "Was there any bad news?"

"Oh yeah," Xavier frowned. "Uh, there is."

"Well, what is it?" Will asked, offering a hopeful smile. I don't know if there is any bad news…Emma broke up with Carl. That's just about the best thing I could want out of this trip, Will thought.

"I thought I could ask you because the same thing was going on with you, sort of," Xavier started. Will looked up, confused. "You see, there's this girl who I, uh, like-like but she likes someone else," he admitted.

"Really?" Will asked, smiling. "Who's this girl? And I'm pretty sure you're the coolest six-year-old I know, so she's making a mistake."

"Her name is Hazel and the guy she likes is Blake," Xavier said. "Hazel lives across the street from us and she's in my class. We both like Spiderman and share Goldfish at snack time but I heard that she liked Blake from my friend, Ethan. Then, this morning I saw her playing in the snow with Blake," Xavier sighed, crushed.

Will smiled. "I would say that the best thing you can do is wait. Just wait it out, that's what I'm doing. If this Hazel's really something special than she's worth it, trust me. I mean, come on, Goldfish and Spiderman? You're practically soul mates," Will laughed.

"Thanks Will, you're the best," Xavier exclaimed, giving the man a hug.

"Glad I could help," Will replied, as the two walked out of the room.

After lunch, Will and Emma were heading upstairs to find the new Mario game that Will claimed she had to play. "Will, it's a video game, how amazing can it be?" Emma laughed.

"Pretty amazing," Will replied, smiling. "Are you just afraid that Xavier and I are going to crush you and Julie?" he teased.

"No," Emma laughed. "Just what's so special about this game?"

"Besides World 2's awesome mushroom level? It's the game we played on our first date," Will recalled.

Emma smiled. "I remember now…we tried so hard to beat Bowser at the end. You tried to jump on him but missed because you hit your leg on the coffee table! And I fell on the floor laughing…that was really fun," Emma laughed.

"Yeah," Will agreed, as they reached the hallway. "Come on, Em, I think it's in the playroom," Will started, turning to his left.

Emma looked up and her eyes turned wide with realization. She reached out and grabbed the end of his sleeve. Will turned around, smiling. "What?" he asked.

Emma just looked up at the ceiling and Will's eyes followed. There was mistletoe hanging in the hall, one that hadn't been there yesterday. Someone must've put it up today. "Mistletoe," Emma whispered.

Aaaah! Cliffhanger! The next chapter will be the last of this 'story' but then there will be an epilogue for chapter 12. Sorry for the late update, I'm sick :P. So what did you think? Good or bad? Horrible or interesting? Sorry that this chapter was kind of shorter than the others, I didn't have a lot of time. Please, please review! I love hearing from you guys and I know that people are reading this. Hope you liked it! R&R and I'll update sooner. ;)