APOLOGY- hey ff.net did not deliver all the reviews to me, so when I answered the reviews the first time and posted the chapter everyones reviews were not included, but they are now!
Authors Note- Hey everyone, well its so close to Christmas and I finally started my Christmas shopping, not that that has anythingt o do with the story, but I'm sure it put all your minds at ease lol, any ways I will post this chapter now, making two chapters for today and one tomorrow (an excellent chapter tomorrow you will all love, trust me, its a must read.I can't give anymore away) I won't be able to post on the 25th and I just found out tomorrow could be a late update cuz I have to peel potatoes (like a whole freakin bag of htem) then bake cookies and other fun christmas stuff and then shop and they celebrate! LOL thanks for reading I'll get off my boring life and onto Abby and Carters ever changing life ENJOY :D!
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He loves me? Why am I suddenly so shocked to know this, I mean he's never outright said it at least not just about me, he would say things like 'I love you and Bryce more then anything', so I knew he did have some sort of love feelings for me, but to he was so upfront, I don't think anyone has ever been this upfront with me. I place my head against his chest and plays with my hair, leaning forward to kiss my forehead. I don't say it back. I love him, I know I do more then anything, I have never in my life felt this way towards a man. I will tell him on my own time, when I think its right. I look up at Carter, he looks to be in deep thought and he is not talking about it. "What's up?" I smile at him, and he just leans down to kiss me. Sometimes I wish he would be a little more open, but what can I say, I can't even tell my own boyfriend I love him so who am I too judge? "Would you like to go to bed?" He starts to sit up.
"Yeah," I answer. He pulls me up, and wraps his arms around my waist. I look up and him and slowly our lips meet, he takes my hand and walks me into the bedroom, lying down in bed, I put my head on his chest. He pulls the covers up around us, I rub his chest, he feels so warm. My hand goes up and under his shirt, I feel a kiss on the top of my head and this all I need to go into a nice deep slumber.
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"CHRISTMAS!" I pry my eyes open to see Bryce, with his arms open and a big smile spread across his face. Carter slowly looks down at me then up at Bryce, I bet he is not use to getting up this early on Christmas. "Come on guys!" He pulls the blanket off of us, immediately I start to shiver. Carter sits straight up in bed and wipes his eyes, "so can we do this?" Bryce says sitting down next to Carter and looking at him.
"Yeah." He mumbles.
"Bryce its 6:30, I thought we had a seven o'clock rule."
"Mom come on out of bed, rules don't apply this year." He sighs scratching his 'bed head' I look up at him and begin to get out of bed. "Okay, let us have some coffee first okay?"
"Okay." He shrugs leaving. Carter stands up, walking up behind me he wraps his arms around my waist. "Merry Christmas baby." He whispers, kissing me on the cheek. I rub his arm and he continues to sleepily kiss me on my neck. "Hm, we gotta get out there." I yawn. "Yeah, lets go get some coffee." He says a little more upbeat.
After two cups of coffee each and the traditional donuts Bryce and I have every year, we sit down preparing to open gifts, "Me first." Bryce exclaims jumping down in front of the tree. "To Bryce, Love Santa." He reads off the tag. "Dude, a guy loves me." He kids.
"Open the present kid." Carter says sipping his coffee and wrapping his free arms around me pulling me onto his lap. I laugh as Bryce rips open the train paper and sees the Ozzy Osborne CD. "Awesome! This rocks!" He jumps up and walks over to the CD player popping it in. "I love this CD!" Bryce says taking his place beside the tree and singing along to the music. "You do realize your ten year old son is obsessed with Ozzy Osborne." Carter cracks.
"I know, I'm pretty sure that makes me a horrible parent." I deadpan. He rubs my arm as Bryce tosses me a present, the card read 'To Abby, Love Santa.'
"The old man loves you too mom." Bryce scratches his head and smiles. I open the gift and look at Carter who is insisting he had nothing to do with it. I open the present, "Two cruise tickets!" I turn around looking at John, "A cruise?" I say smiling.
"Don't look at me, ask Santa." He feigns innocence. "A romantic dinner, on a private, one night cruise." Aw. I can't believe he did this. Just the two of us. I kiss him slowly, yet passionately. "I understand you guys want to boff each other, but that's what the cruise is for." Bryce jokes. Carter wraps his arm tighter around my waist then picks up a pillow and tosses it at Bryce's head, hitting him right in the face, Bryce counters and throws it back. "Okay boys." I laugh, pulling away. Bryce searches under the tree and finds a present for Carter, "One for you pops." Bryce says tossing it at Carter. Carter looks at me, the card reads 'To Carter, Love Santa' he tears the gift open and finds a jacket. "Hey, hey." He says smiling. "You remembered." He beams. When Carter and I went Christmas shopping for Bryce, he saw this black leather jacket that he liked, so I snuck back down there later and picked it up for him. "No Carter, Santa remembered." Bryce scolds.
"Right, right." He corrects himself, kissing me quickly, not wanting another pillow in the head. "This is for you mom, and you Carter." Bryce says standing up and handing us gifts that he got for us. We both look at each other not expecting this. Carter opens his first, "A condom?" He laughs, I roll my eyes, Bryce laughs. "Wait there is more..." Carter continues to open the gift and finds a wooden picture frame that reads 'The Best Dad Ever' and in it there is a picture of Bryce and Carter at the hockey game. Both clad in hockey wear and smiling widely. Carter looks like he is about to cry. "We made it in class." Bryce explains beaming. I feel like I could cry too. Carter envelopes Bryce in a hug, its really quite sweet. "Mom open yours," He says, now he is the one sitting on Carter's lap. "Okay." I have a Christmas bag, and pull out the first piece of tissue paper, A picture frame too. I pull it out of the bag and can't help but smile, it says 'Mommy's Little Guy' and in it is a picture of Bryce on his first date, I could cry. Hell I am crying. "There is more mom." He prompts me. I reach in and pull out, his baby shoes, accept they are bronzed. "Aw, Bryce baby come here." I grab him and we hug. "You're such a sweet heart you know that right?" Bryce laughs at me and smiles. "Yeah, yeah I know that."
Well after about a zillion gifts, we finally have some peace. "I love bacon." Carter says taking a bite out of his bacon. "This was great." I smile. We are sitting in front of the Christmas tree, the lights are on, and Bryce is in his bedroom testing out the new X BOX games Carter and I bought him. I cradle my cup of coffee, Carter reaches for my hand and intertwines our fingers, bringing my hand to his mouth and kissing it. "Hey, thanks for having me over." He says.
"Are you kidding it wouldn't be Christmas with out you." I smile. He looks at me, and leans in for a kiss. "I have something for you." He whispers, our faces just inches apart. "Other then the cruise?" I raise my eye brow.
"Yeah." he smiles and walks over to the tree grabbing a huge box from the back of the tree and bringing it over to me. "Here you go..." He sits down eagerly. I slowly unwrap the big gift and look at him curiously, "John-" I say before opening it.
"Abby, just open it." I pull out a second box, a tiny bit smaller then the shoe box I recently unwrapped. I tear off the paper and find another box. "Did you get bored and just start wrapping boxes." I ask laughing.
"Haha, wouldn't you like to know." I unwrap the next box, then the next, nothing being in any of them but another box. The second last box is discarded to the pill of boxes and now there is a small velvet box. I am very nervous now. My heart is beating out of control, I have no clue what it could be. What if its a ring? Does he want to get married? Do I want to get married? Why am I making such a big deal out of this, it might not even be a ring, or it could be a ring but not an engagement ring. Just an 'I love you' ring. That would be okay with me. It could even be a necklace. He notices the scepticism in my eyes and reaches for my hand. "Abby-" He starts, I look at him. "Don't worry just open it baby." I nod and swallow hard. I open the box and there sits a... Key? What the hell? Is this like the key to his heart or something. He smiles widely, "You were expecting a ring weren't you?" He laughs.
"John- What is this?" I laugh. He takes the box and pulls out the part that the key was resting on and reveals a piece of paper. I curiously pick it up and start to read it aloud. "This is the key to your own CONDO!" I shriek. He laughs and nod. I jump his pretty much and we hug. "Oh my god, John I can't take this," I say sitting up.
"What why not?" He says in all seriousness now.
"Well- because its so- extravagant."
"Abby, you and Bryce are not safe here and its a nice little two bedroom place, two bedroom and still in your price range. Its paid for, for a year. I love you, I would do anything to keep you and Bryce safe. Just say you'll take it." I look up at him my eyes glistening with tears. "Carter, I don't know what to say."
"Say yes." He smiles.
"Yes." I wipe the tears from my eyes. "Thanks, I-" I swallow hard never feeling more in love then this moment. "I-" He pulls me into a hug and kisses the top of my head. "I know." He smiles.
***REVIEW RESPONSES***
smilez4eva- Hey........... nope no sex for Abby and Carter, they still haven't done that, so don't worry you weren't asleep... haha, yeah Chapter 44, was for today (the 23rd) it was put up at like 1 in the morning hahaha! i'm going to update again neways! You know what? I have completely lost track of how far along we are lemme go check..................WOW! I don't know lol, I'll put it in my authors note for tomorrows chapter, I am numbering all the chapters now and there are A LOT! LOL, look for the answer tomorrow!
smilez4eva- Hey, it was Carter saying that to his dad, sorry to get your hopes up :(. Lol, Well Bryce and John are pretty much father and son, at least thats how we treat them, we have included a few barriers though, because they are not father and son and Carter has just come into Bryce's life so he has to learn to-, wait a second I am getting into future chapters here. Anyways thanks for reading and reviewing :)
AbbyLockhart2- LOL I know, its like Crazy how far we have come, how many roller coaster rides we have taken these people on. You reviewed your part but u didn't say what you like or dislike about it :( and you didn't say what an AMAZING author you are... tsk tsk! hahahahahaha MERRY CHRISTMAS!
hyperpiper91- Thanks, I am soooooooo glad you like it so much, your reviews are good, short, sweet and to the point, I like it! Thanks for reviewing all those times :)! Happy holidays or as all those signs say hollydaze!!! HAHA haev a good one!
honeybear1- hahaha I know, Carter and Abby are having difficulty in the sex department! Thanks we like tension and we like excitement, so its nice if they can go hand in hand. Merry Christmas to you too :D!!!
Vicki- Thanks, we are glad you like the chapters, merry Christmas to you too!
ER-Carby-Luva- that was a good job wasn't it? Sylvia did an amazing job on that chapter, its awesome writing with her, she keeps me in line with my psychotic thoughts haha she's amazing, she is what keeps this story going :)! Thanks I'm glad you like the story so much!
Nat- hey, I don't know, I could pick that up again, its not a bad idea since i have the next few weeks off. I liked writing those journals, accept I ran out of ideas thats why I stopped :(, if you hvae any feel frree to tell me :D lol! I'm glad uyou like that story so much!
BluzBaby- DOn't cry! Don't worry it all turns out good at the moment.
kiehl - I'm glad you're excited- hehe rings rock, haha... but............ in this case
CamilaC- Yup we write it together, we don't really have much a problem with that, at least we haven't yet. Its more like one of us writes and we post it to each other over msn and the other gives comments on what they think so far, or if the other asks; they will tell what they think should happen next... make sense? lol its late. no problem with the question, we like questions! if you haev any more feel free and ask!
Amanda- thanks!!! A ring? hmmmmmmmm
Kaitlin - thanks:) thank you for the review!
Carbyfan- don't worry we will have no children sex things, thats not our thing, i think she was just kidding! read the next chapter and you will not be disappointed hehe! Thanks for reviewing
***PREVIEW***
I don't know what it is. The warm radiance from the fire playing on her gentle olive skin, or the way her hair slightly falls down onto her shoulders. I have never loved anyone more. I start to kiss her neck, gently at first. But at that first taste of her, I can't let go. She's like a drug, a powerful drug I can never give up. I can tell she feels it too. I'm scared. I"m so scared. Tonight might be the night. We have no reason not to. So many reasons to.
Authors Note- Hey everyone, well its so close to Christmas and I finally started my Christmas shopping, not that that has anythingt o do with the story, but I'm sure it put all your minds at ease lol, any ways I will post this chapter now, making two chapters for today and one tomorrow (an excellent chapter tomorrow you will all love, trust me, its a must read.I can't give anymore away) I won't be able to post on the 25th and I just found out tomorrow could be a late update cuz I have to peel potatoes (like a whole freakin bag of htem) then bake cookies and other fun christmas stuff and then shop and they celebrate! LOL thanks for reading I'll get off my boring life and onto Abby and Carters ever changing life ENJOY :D!
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He loves me? Why am I suddenly so shocked to know this, I mean he's never outright said it at least not just about me, he would say things like 'I love you and Bryce more then anything', so I knew he did have some sort of love feelings for me, but to he was so upfront, I don't think anyone has ever been this upfront with me. I place my head against his chest and plays with my hair, leaning forward to kiss my forehead. I don't say it back. I love him, I know I do more then anything, I have never in my life felt this way towards a man. I will tell him on my own time, when I think its right. I look up at Carter, he looks to be in deep thought and he is not talking about it. "What's up?" I smile at him, and he just leans down to kiss me. Sometimes I wish he would be a little more open, but what can I say, I can't even tell my own boyfriend I love him so who am I too judge? "Would you like to go to bed?" He starts to sit up.
"Yeah," I answer. He pulls me up, and wraps his arms around my waist. I look up and him and slowly our lips meet, he takes my hand and walks me into the bedroom, lying down in bed, I put my head on his chest. He pulls the covers up around us, I rub his chest, he feels so warm. My hand goes up and under his shirt, I feel a kiss on the top of my head and this all I need to go into a nice deep slumber.
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"CHRISTMAS!" I pry my eyes open to see Bryce, with his arms open and a big smile spread across his face. Carter slowly looks down at me then up at Bryce, I bet he is not use to getting up this early on Christmas. "Come on guys!" He pulls the blanket off of us, immediately I start to shiver. Carter sits straight up in bed and wipes his eyes, "so can we do this?" Bryce says sitting down next to Carter and looking at him.
"Yeah." He mumbles.
"Bryce its 6:30, I thought we had a seven o'clock rule."
"Mom come on out of bed, rules don't apply this year." He sighs scratching his 'bed head' I look up at him and begin to get out of bed. "Okay, let us have some coffee first okay?"
"Okay." He shrugs leaving. Carter stands up, walking up behind me he wraps his arms around my waist. "Merry Christmas baby." He whispers, kissing me on the cheek. I rub his arm and he continues to sleepily kiss me on my neck. "Hm, we gotta get out there." I yawn. "Yeah, lets go get some coffee." He says a little more upbeat.
After two cups of coffee each and the traditional donuts Bryce and I have every year, we sit down preparing to open gifts, "Me first." Bryce exclaims jumping down in front of the tree. "To Bryce, Love Santa." He reads off the tag. "Dude, a guy loves me." He kids.
"Open the present kid." Carter says sipping his coffee and wrapping his free arms around me pulling me onto his lap. I laugh as Bryce rips open the train paper and sees the Ozzy Osborne CD. "Awesome! This rocks!" He jumps up and walks over to the CD player popping it in. "I love this CD!" Bryce says taking his place beside the tree and singing along to the music. "You do realize your ten year old son is obsessed with Ozzy Osborne." Carter cracks.
"I know, I'm pretty sure that makes me a horrible parent." I deadpan. He rubs my arm as Bryce tosses me a present, the card read 'To Abby, Love Santa.'
"The old man loves you too mom." Bryce scratches his head and smiles. I open the gift and look at Carter who is insisting he had nothing to do with it. I open the present, "Two cruise tickets!" I turn around looking at John, "A cruise?" I say smiling.
"Don't look at me, ask Santa." He feigns innocence. "A romantic dinner, on a private, one night cruise." Aw. I can't believe he did this. Just the two of us. I kiss him slowly, yet passionately. "I understand you guys want to boff each other, but that's what the cruise is for." Bryce jokes. Carter wraps his arm tighter around my waist then picks up a pillow and tosses it at Bryce's head, hitting him right in the face, Bryce counters and throws it back. "Okay boys." I laugh, pulling away. Bryce searches under the tree and finds a present for Carter, "One for you pops." Bryce says tossing it at Carter. Carter looks at me, the card reads 'To Carter, Love Santa' he tears the gift open and finds a jacket. "Hey, hey." He says smiling. "You remembered." He beams. When Carter and I went Christmas shopping for Bryce, he saw this black leather jacket that he liked, so I snuck back down there later and picked it up for him. "No Carter, Santa remembered." Bryce scolds.
"Right, right." He corrects himself, kissing me quickly, not wanting another pillow in the head. "This is for you mom, and you Carter." Bryce says standing up and handing us gifts that he got for us. We both look at each other not expecting this. Carter opens his first, "A condom?" He laughs, I roll my eyes, Bryce laughs. "Wait there is more..." Carter continues to open the gift and finds a wooden picture frame that reads 'The Best Dad Ever' and in it there is a picture of Bryce and Carter at the hockey game. Both clad in hockey wear and smiling widely. Carter looks like he is about to cry. "We made it in class." Bryce explains beaming. I feel like I could cry too. Carter envelopes Bryce in a hug, its really quite sweet. "Mom open yours," He says, now he is the one sitting on Carter's lap. "Okay." I have a Christmas bag, and pull out the first piece of tissue paper, A picture frame too. I pull it out of the bag and can't help but smile, it says 'Mommy's Little Guy' and in it is a picture of Bryce on his first date, I could cry. Hell I am crying. "There is more mom." He prompts me. I reach in and pull out, his baby shoes, accept they are bronzed. "Aw, Bryce baby come here." I grab him and we hug. "You're such a sweet heart you know that right?" Bryce laughs at me and smiles. "Yeah, yeah I know that."
Well after about a zillion gifts, we finally have some peace. "I love bacon." Carter says taking a bite out of his bacon. "This was great." I smile. We are sitting in front of the Christmas tree, the lights are on, and Bryce is in his bedroom testing out the new X BOX games Carter and I bought him. I cradle my cup of coffee, Carter reaches for my hand and intertwines our fingers, bringing my hand to his mouth and kissing it. "Hey, thanks for having me over." He says.
"Are you kidding it wouldn't be Christmas with out you." I smile. He looks at me, and leans in for a kiss. "I have something for you." He whispers, our faces just inches apart. "Other then the cruise?" I raise my eye brow.
"Yeah." he smiles and walks over to the tree grabbing a huge box from the back of the tree and bringing it over to me. "Here you go..." He sits down eagerly. I slowly unwrap the big gift and look at him curiously, "John-" I say before opening it.
"Abby, just open it." I pull out a second box, a tiny bit smaller then the shoe box I recently unwrapped. I tear off the paper and find another box. "Did you get bored and just start wrapping boxes." I ask laughing.
"Haha, wouldn't you like to know." I unwrap the next box, then the next, nothing being in any of them but another box. The second last box is discarded to the pill of boxes and now there is a small velvet box. I am very nervous now. My heart is beating out of control, I have no clue what it could be. What if its a ring? Does he want to get married? Do I want to get married? Why am I making such a big deal out of this, it might not even be a ring, or it could be a ring but not an engagement ring. Just an 'I love you' ring. That would be okay with me. It could even be a necklace. He notices the scepticism in my eyes and reaches for my hand. "Abby-" He starts, I look at him. "Don't worry just open it baby." I nod and swallow hard. I open the box and there sits a... Key? What the hell? Is this like the key to his heart or something. He smiles widely, "You were expecting a ring weren't you?" He laughs.
"John- What is this?" I laugh. He takes the box and pulls out the part that the key was resting on and reveals a piece of paper. I curiously pick it up and start to read it aloud. "This is the key to your own CONDO!" I shriek. He laughs and nod. I jump his pretty much and we hug. "Oh my god, John I can't take this," I say sitting up.
"What why not?" He says in all seriousness now.
"Well- because its so- extravagant."
"Abby, you and Bryce are not safe here and its a nice little two bedroom place, two bedroom and still in your price range. Its paid for, for a year. I love you, I would do anything to keep you and Bryce safe. Just say you'll take it." I look up at him my eyes glistening with tears. "Carter, I don't know what to say."
"Say yes." He smiles.
"Yes." I wipe the tears from my eyes. "Thanks, I-" I swallow hard never feeling more in love then this moment. "I-" He pulls me into a hug and kisses the top of my head. "I know." He smiles.
***REVIEW RESPONSES***
smilez4eva- Hey........... nope no sex for Abby and Carter, they still haven't done that, so don't worry you weren't asleep... haha, yeah Chapter 44, was for today (the 23rd) it was put up at like 1 in the morning hahaha! i'm going to update again neways! You know what? I have completely lost track of how far along we are lemme go check..................WOW! I don't know lol, I'll put it in my authors note for tomorrows chapter, I am numbering all the chapters now and there are A LOT! LOL, look for the answer tomorrow!
smilez4eva- Hey, it was Carter saying that to his dad, sorry to get your hopes up :(. Lol, Well Bryce and John are pretty much father and son, at least thats how we treat them, we have included a few barriers though, because they are not father and son and Carter has just come into Bryce's life so he has to learn to-, wait a second I am getting into future chapters here. Anyways thanks for reading and reviewing :)
AbbyLockhart2- LOL I know, its like Crazy how far we have come, how many roller coaster rides we have taken these people on. You reviewed your part but u didn't say what you like or dislike about it :( and you didn't say what an AMAZING author you are... tsk tsk! hahahahahaha MERRY CHRISTMAS!
hyperpiper91- Thanks, I am soooooooo glad you like it so much, your reviews are good, short, sweet and to the point, I like it! Thanks for reviewing all those times :)! Happy holidays or as all those signs say hollydaze!!! HAHA haev a good one!
honeybear1- hahaha I know, Carter and Abby are having difficulty in the sex department! Thanks we like tension and we like excitement, so its nice if they can go hand in hand. Merry Christmas to you too :D!!!
Vicki- Thanks, we are glad you like the chapters, merry Christmas to you too!
ER-Carby-Luva- that was a good job wasn't it? Sylvia did an amazing job on that chapter, its awesome writing with her, she keeps me in line with my psychotic thoughts haha she's amazing, she is what keeps this story going :)! Thanks I'm glad you like the story so much!
Nat- hey, I don't know, I could pick that up again, its not a bad idea since i have the next few weeks off. I liked writing those journals, accept I ran out of ideas thats why I stopped :(, if you hvae any feel frree to tell me :D lol! I'm glad uyou like that story so much!
BluzBaby- DOn't cry! Don't worry it all turns out good at the moment.
kiehl - I'm glad you're excited- hehe rings rock, haha... but............ in this case
CamilaC- Yup we write it together, we don't really have much a problem with that, at least we haven't yet. Its more like one of us writes and we post it to each other over msn and the other gives comments on what they think so far, or if the other asks; they will tell what they think should happen next... make sense? lol its late. no problem with the question, we like questions! if you haev any more feel free and ask!
Amanda- thanks!!! A ring? hmmmmmmmm
Kaitlin - thanks:) thank you for the review!
Carbyfan- don't worry we will have no children sex things, thats not our thing, i think she was just kidding! read the next chapter and you will not be disappointed hehe! Thanks for reviewing
***PREVIEW***
I don't know what it is. The warm radiance from the fire playing on her gentle olive skin, or the way her hair slightly falls down onto her shoulders. I have never loved anyone more. I start to kiss her neck, gently at first. But at that first taste of her, I can't let go. She's like a drug, a powerful drug I can never give up. I can tell she feels it too. I'm scared. I"m so scared. Tonight might be the night. We have no reason not to. So many reasons to.