Chapter 4: The Aftermath

It was 11 o'clock am and Lexa had gone to see her grandparents for Christmas and Jesse had gone to see his mother with a few presents from everybody. The only people in Sanctuary were Brennan, Shalimar and Adam. Brennan was in the kitchen eating breakfast. He had slept in again. Shalimar was in the game room playing pool with herself and Adam was in his room getting ready.

Adam walked into the game room to see Shalimar playing pool. "I'm going to see my brother for Christmas, tell Brennan k" he said walking out of the door. Shalimar just nodded trying to concentrate.

"Hey" Brennan said trying not to sneak up on Shalimar. But it was too late, Shalimar took a shot the ball flew and hit the mirror and flew back at Brennan. Shalimar caught the ball inches away from hitting Brennan's face.

"Jesus Brennan, you know if I didn't like you very much you would probably be on the floor right now" she said a little irritated.

"Sorry, I was just wondering where everybody went?" he asked with his arms up in the air.

"Ugh, Lexa went to see her grandparents, Jesse went to see his mother and Adam went to see his brother" she said falling onto the couch.

"Oh, so its just us then" he asked trying not to make her more irritated.

"Duh" she said in an obvious voice.

Shalimar got up and walked to her room while Brennan went to his room. Brennan was reading one of his poetry books when there was a knock at his door. When Brennan opened up the door all he found was a present on the floor. He opened up the card and all it said was "Merry Christmas, Love Always: Shalimar. He ripped the wrapping paper off the present and opened the box and found a rare poetry book. The book hasn't even been in stores because there is only one copy in the world, and it was illegal to photocopy the story. Brennan just laughed and asked himself how Shal got the book.

Shalimar heard a knock on her door, when she opened it she was surprised to see Brennan standing there with the book she gave him in his hand. Shalimar smiled as Brennan hugged her tight.

"How did you get this book?" he asked when they broke apart from the hug.

"My brother is the author and I asked him, I got it a few months ago and I read it for myself" she said as she kept on smiling.

"Well then come on so I can give you my present" he said anxiously.

Shalimar followed Brennan into his room as he handed her the present he had bought her. Shalimar opened up the card to read "Merry Christmas, Love Brennan." She took off the wrapping paper and opened the box only to find another box. It was a red velvet box as she opened it she saw a diamond necklace that Brennan had bought, borrowing some money from Adam of course.

"Awe, Brennan it's beautiful, I love it" she said with tears coming out of her eyes.

"Good because I looked everywhere for it" he said sarcastically.

Shalimar turned around and kissed him on the cheek.

When she turned around she went to her room and put the necklace on. Shalimar found Brennan in the dojo trying not to get hit by the holograms.

"How you like it?" Brennan asked with a big smile on his face when he saw her wearing the necklace.

"I love it, just as much as I love you" she paused trying to believe she just said that.

"What did you just say?" Brennan asked with a confused look on his face.

"Nothing" she said trying to cover up what had just come out of her mouth.

"Did you just say you loved me?" Brennan asked trying to figure out what was going through her mind.

"No... Yes... No... Yes" she said trying to find the right words to say this big secret she has been trying to keep from him.

She walked up to Brennan and said, "It's true, I do love you but after what I saw two days ago I'd say that you don't feel the same way" she said with her head down.

As she started to walk away Brennan grabbed her arm. Shal turned around amazed at what he just did. It took a few minutes before Shal and Brennan embraced into a passionate and heated kiss. Brennan slammed Shalimar against the wall and started to kiss her even more passionately.