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I woke up Christmas morning to Charlie yelling that breakfast was very. I smiled slightly, knowing that what he meant was, Melinda from the diner had dropped off some food from the diner.
"I'll be down in a minute!" I yelled back stretching as I got up. I looked over at the clock, 9:42 it read. I knew Charlie would head off to work after we ate and exchanged gifts, the chief of police doesn't really get days off. I threw on my blue robe and headed for the door catching a glimpse of myself in my mirror. I was happy to see that I didn't have my usual dark circles around my eyes from tossing and turning all night. I had to admit that I actually felt refreshed this morning. My nightmares had slowly been drifting away and I seemed to be getting a little bit better sleep each night.
"Bells, lets go! Foods getting cold!" Charlie bellowed. I ran downstairs and joined Charlie in the kitchen. We ate our breakfast, which consisted of pancakes, eggs, bacon, home fries, toast, coffee, and juice and then we headed into the living room to exchange gifts. I gave Charlie my usual homemade book of extra chore vouchers, a couple of new flannel shirts, and a new watch, since the one he owned had a fraying wrist band. He loved the gifts just as much as I loved mine. He gave me a couple of gift certificates to some of my favorite stores, and a new ipod. I thanked him as he stood up, and headed over to the door to retrieve his jacket, and head out.
"You have a good time at the Cullens Bells. I'll see you tomorrow, okay." I watched as he walked out to his cruiser, started it up, and took off down the road, waving as he went. I was about to shut the door when I saw Alice's yellow porsche pull into the driveway. I watched her jump out of the car and felt myself smile as I took in her outfit.
"Merry Christmas," she shrieked as she ran up and grabbed me in a hug. I had to giggle at her enthusiasm and took a step back to really see what she was wearing.. The little pixie was all decked out in an elf costume. The dark green dress had white fur around the collar and hem of it and here was a shiny black belt around her waist. She was also wearing green and white striped knee highs, black boots, and topped it all off with a green elf hat.
"Merry Christmas Alice! Come on in." We stepped back inside and after I shut the door I was dragged up the stairs towards my room. Oh joy, Bella Barbie time, I thought. We entered my room and Alice headed towards my closet.
"You go take a shower while I go through all this." She said gesturing to my closet. I grabbed a few things, and headed to the bathroom, listening to her mumble something about too many jeans, not enough heels, and needing to go shopping. I shook my head and got into the shower. Thirty minutes later we were getting into Alice's car and speeding off towards her house. I had to admit I was happy with her choice for me today, black skinny jeans, green half-sleeve scoop-neck tee, and green and white hoodie. She also let me wear my converses which made me extremely happy, I swear it was a Christmas miracle. We pulled up to the house and I have to admit it looked even more beautiful covered in Christmas decorations, they really did go all out. We got out of the car and grabbed my overnight bag and bag of gifts and headed inside. When we entered the house I was hit with the aroma of Esme's cooking, my stomach grumbling at the wonderful smells.
"Come on," Alice said motioning for me to follow her. We went into the family room where a gigantic, decorated tree stood, presents piled underneath it. She took my bag of gifts and stuck it with the rest and then grabbed my hand again and brought me into the kitchen to see Esme. "We're back mom." Esme tuned and came over to hug me.
"Welcome dear." She said smiling, "Alice take Bella's bag up to your room. Bella, Emmett. Edward, Jasper, and Rose are all downstairs waiting for the two of you. Would you mind taking these down?" I looked at the platter of fresh, homemade gingerbread cookies, and felt my stomach grumble again. I nodded and took the platter just as Alice came back into the room. She nodded her head towards the basement door,
"Come on Bella. The others are waiting for us." I followed her to the door and down the stairs. When I reached the landing I stared in shock. The entire basement was decorated in lights, garland, fake snow, and other decorations. There was Christmas music playing and it looked like Rudolph was playing on the big screen t.v.
"Cookies! Score!" I was startled by Emmett's booming voice as he came over a took the platter from me. "Hey Bella. Merry Christmas." He said smiling down at me. I felt myself blush as I looked down quickly hoping he wouldn't notice it.
"Merry Christmas Emmett. Love what you did with place." He chuckled.
"This is all my little pixies doing. You know she loves to do everything to the extreme."
"I wouldn't have her any other way. Otherwise she wouldn't be our Alice." Jasper said, taking a cookie in one hand and Alice in the other. We all exchanged our Merry Christmases and settled down, playing pool and chit chatting until we were called up to open gifts. Alice was in charge of handing out the gifts, which I was surprised to find out the family had opened their gifts this morning and these were all for us. We each took a turn opening our gifts. I received a shopping spree from Alice, which of course she insisted she be there to help me, a new pair of Converse Chuck Taylors and a couple of reversible Buffalo Checker Hoodies from Rose and Edward, a leather bound notebook and gift certificate to the same book store I got his gift, from Jasper and Carlisle and Esme surprised us all with a trip for all of us, to Hawaii during winter break in which Alice started freaking out about how us girls were going to have to do some serious shopping before we went. It was Emmett's gift though that I truly loved. He got me a charm bracelet that was a very close match to my necklace but instead of having just one charm on it, it had five. The five charms each had the first name initial of the friend it represented. The shoe had an "A" on it, the car an "R", the music note an "E", baseball bat a "J" and the football had an "E". I could feel myself starting to tear up as I stared at the beautiful piece of jewelry.
"Here. Let me help you with that." Emmett said taking the bracelet out of the box and latching it around my wrist. As I looked up to see him smiling down at me, I couldn't help but notice a warm feeling flow through my body. Then to the shock of everyone, even me I did something I had never done before. I wrapped my arms around his neck and hugged him tightly and for the first time in months contact with a guy felt right.