Selena's POV
Christmas eve. A day for last minute wrapping presents, last minute buying presents, and general last minute Christmas-y crap. It was Seven PM and my mom, dad, Demi and I were all sat at the table enjoying our annual pre-Christmas meal, which as usual, a barbeque chicken pizza.
"Demi, you've finished all of your Christmas shopping, I take it?" My dad asked after finishing his mouthful of pizza. Demi looked up at him and nodded, swallowing the drink that was in her mouth.
"Yeah I've finished, I just need to do some last minute wrapping. I'm probably going to go and do it after this if you don't all have something planned." She said politely to my dad with a smile.
"We usually sit and watch The Polar Express after our pizza but you don't have to. You can just join us after or something if you want." My mom told her as she pushed her plate away slightly, signalling she was done.
"I can help you with your wrapping if you'd like." I offered with a wink. Demi and I had been getting extremely touchy-feely as of the last week. Literally every moment we were alone Demi would attack me with her lips, hug me tight or just do something along those lines.
"Ha, no you can't, you watch the film with your parents and I'll come down to you when I'm done, it won't take me too long anyway." Demi told me with a light squeeze of my hand which she was holding under the table.
"Okay then babe. Come down as soon as you're finished." I instructed with a grin.
An hour later, I was sitting on one couch under my duvet, whilst my parents were on the other couch, with my dad's arm around my mom's shoulders and a sleeping bag covering the pair of them. The film was playing and it had gotten to the part where the spooky puppets and abandoned toys were scaring the kid.
The living-room door opened slightly and Demi slipped in quietly. I patted the couch next to me and Demi sat there quietly. My mom and dad both smiled at Demi before redirecting their attention to the TV.
Demi patted her lap and I shifted so that I was lying across the couch with my head in her lap. Her fingers started running through my hair lovingly and I became tired at the motion of her hands. She quickly placed a kiss on my forehead and started to watch the film.
"I love this part." Demi mumbled to me quietly as I was half-asleep. It was the part where they're singing at the back of the train. Come to think of it, they would have froze doing that. It was snowing and they were on a train in nothing but pyjamas. They probably would have got pneumonia or something.
The film finished around nine. My mom got up and turned it off, switching to regular TV and flicking through the channels. She landed on The Wizard of Oz, which was five minutes into it. It was a traditional Christmas movie so no-one complained when it was put on. I knew Demi loved the film, she'd mentioned it to me before when she was reading the book with some of her seventh graders.
It was eleven thirty when the film finished and I was absolutely shattered. I was struggling to keep my eyes open and my head span every time I moved. I yawned loudly and Demi looked down at me with a grin.
"You're tried babe. Do you want to go up to bed?" She asked me as she twirled a strand of my hair around her fingers. I nodded with another yawn and got up slowly, not wanting to get head-rush or anything.
"Night mom. Night dad. I love you." I said as I walked over to the both of them and kissed their cheeks.
"Night honey, we'll be up in a bit." My dad said, pressing the off button on the TV.
Demi and I left the room and walked up the stairs. Demi was walking behind me with her arms wrapped around my waist and her head resting on my shoulder.
"Baby, you should have said you were tired, we could have come up earlier. You're falling asleep." Demi said as we got to the upstairs landing. I shrugged slightly and pushed my bedroom door open.
"I was comfy where I was, and I quite like The Wizard of Oz. Anyway, I can never sleep on Christmas, so if I get that tired on the couch I should hopefully go to sleep pretty easily." I explained before opening my closet and kicking the pile of presents out of the way before Demi could see them.
I grabbed my Christmas pyjamas; a red set with Christmas trees and Rudolph on them dotted around randomly. After putting them on quickly and buttoning them up, I went to brush my teeth and jumped into bed. Demi got into bed a few minutes later and pulled the covers over both of us.
I moved so that I was cuddled into her side and she wrapped her arm around me. I kissed her neck softly and nuzzled my head in between her neck and shoulder.
"You're really beautiful, you know that?" She asked me in a voice barely above a whisper. She moved my hair from my face and hooked it behind my ear before kissing my cheek delicately.
"Thank you. You're just perfect." I told her sincerely.
"No-one's perfect baby, everyone has their flaws." She said with a small smile that I could just about see from where my head was. I moved so that I had my head on the pillow and she shifted so that we were lying cuddled together facing each other, with about an inch gap between us.
"True, but in my eyes you're perfect. To others you may not be, but I honestly wouldn't change a thing about you." I told her quietly. My eyes were closing and I was struggling to keep them open, but talking to my baby was far more important that sleep.
"Well thank you, that is really lovely of you. I hope you know that I think exactly the same about you." She said with a grin. I nodded and was about to reply when there was a quiet tap at the door before it opened slightly.
"Are you ladies decent?" My mom's voice came as a whisper. I giggled quietly and turned over so that I was facing the door.
"Yeah, come on in." I called out to them. I caught a glimpse of my alarm clock and saw that it was ten to midnight. Butterflies rose in my stomach as I realised that it was ten minutes until Christmas day.
"Just coming to say goodnight as always. Don't come down stairs now, because we obviously need to put your presents out. Your dad's bringing you drinks up now so you'll have no reasons to come down." My mom said with a small grin. She sat on my bed next to me and kissed my forehead.
"Goodnight my lovely. I'll see you in to morning. Goodnight Demi." She said, directing a smile at Demi.
"Night Mandy. See you in the morning." She said with a smile. My mom left the room and as soon as the door was shut fully, my dad opened it carrying two glasses of Ribena.
"Here you go girls. Sleep well. I love you, Sel. Goodnight Demi." He said as he put the two glasses on my nightstand.
"G'night daddy, I love you too." Walking away, he smiled at the both of us and left, before quickly popping his head round the door and grinning at me.
"Selena?" He asked. I looked up at him, gesturing for him to carry on by humming quietly. "Same as every Christmas, please, no waking us up before Seven AM." He said. I rolled my eyes and nodded in agreement. He smiled and left the room without another word. I turned to face Demi again and she burst out laughing.
"You're a kid on Christmas, aren't you?" She asked with a knowing smile. I blushed slightly and nodded.
"Oh dear god. Do not wake me up too early in the morning. I may have to kick your ass if you do." She said jokingly. I giggled tiredly and yawned, I desperately needed sleep, my eyes were blurring at everything and it was becoming physically painful for me to keep my eyelids open.
"I'm making no promises." I said with another tired giggle, topped by yet another yawn.
"Goodnight baby girl… and Merry Christmas." She said with a genuinely happy smile. I could tell she was just as tired as I was.
"Merry Christmas, my darling." I mumbled to her as I realised that it was midnight. I fell asleep soon after, cuddled closely to my beautiful girl.
06:34 my clock read when I woke up. The first thing I did was look straight at the alarm clock to see if I was allowed to get up. My heart sank slightly when I realised that I couldn't. To keep myself occupied, I decided to wake Demi up.
I climbed out of bed quickly, surprisingly not tired in the slightest, and crept to the foot of the bed, level with Demi.
"Incoming Girlfriend!" I announced, loud enough for Demi to hear but quiet enough to keep my parents asleep. The second I'd whisper-yelled it, I jumped on top of Demi, who was sleeping peacefully.
"Shit! Selena, what the hell are you doing?" She asked me sleepily, pushing me off her. I rolled onto my side of the bed and moved so that I was straddling her waist.
"It's Christmas! Get up, get up, get up, get up!" I told her excitedly. She rubbed her eyes before smiling at me and pulling me down slowly for a good morning kiss.
"So it is; Merry Christmas babe. Do you by any chance want one of your presents now whilst you're confined to your room?" She asked with a small laugh. I nodded excitedly as Demi reached under her pillow and pulled out a small box wrapped in shiny red paper. She handed it to me and I raised my eyebrow at her quizzically.
"Do you have all my presents under your pillow?" I asked her.
"No, but after you said about being like a kid on Christmas I had a feeling I'd need to keep you occupied before you were allowed to go wake your parents up. After you fell asleep I got that one ready for you. Go ahead, open it." She said with a huge grin.
I pulled open the paper carefully to reveal a small purple box. I opened the box and gasped when I saw the necklace inside. It was gold with 'DL4SG' hanging from it in italic, curly writing. It was really beautiful and it brought a tear to my eye.
"Demi, this is the most beautiful necklace ever. It must have cost you a fortune, how on earth…?" I asked her. I knew that a few weeks prior Demi had given my mom the credit card she'd been given by my dad because she 'felt cheeky' using it.
"Well since your parents refuse to let me pay rent or allow me to make any kind of contribution in any way toward food, electric, etc. I have all my pay check for whatever I want. Teachers get paid a lot more than you'd think at that school." She explained as I took the necklace out of the box carefully and admired it.
"I'll wear it every day. It's beautiful. Just like you." I said with a small, very grateful smile. Demi took it from my hands gently and signalled for me to turn around.
She bunched all of my hair up in her hands and moved it all over my left shoulder before hooking the necklace around my neck.
"Do you want one of your presents now then babe?" I asked her with an over-excited grin.
"Go on then gorgeous, there's only five more minutes till we're allowed to get up. Wow, allowed to get up. I feel like a kid again!" Demi exclaimed with an eye-roll. I shook my head and went over to my closet where Demi's presents were in the two black bags. I pulled one from the top. From the way it felt I knew it was the anklet I brought her.
"Here you go, Dem." I said with a grin. Demi opened the present quickly and excitedly, before opening the box to reveal the gold anklet with diamonds on it. The shock on Demi's face was absolutely priceless, I swear, she looked like she was about to cry. Like, happy tears, obviously.
"Oh, Selena…" She trailed off, probably unable to form words.
"You like it?" I asked her, curious whether she actually liked it or not. "You don't have to say yes if you hate it." I told her.
"It's gorgeous. I absolutely love it." She said with a genuine look of love on her face as she gazed at the anklet that between you and me, had taken me weeks to find and had to be shipped from Italy, altogether costing me $1500.
"I'm glad." I whispered before kissing her lips softly. She smiled into the kiss and connected her hands around my neck, leaving the anklet tickling my neck. I rested my hands on her hips and moved so that I was just completely lying on top of her.
We kept kissing, quickly and heatedly, before Demi moved her lips down to start kissing at my neck until she found my pulse point, which she bit down on before soothing it with her tongue.
"Come on my Sexy Lexy, shall we go and wake your parents up? I know you're dying to and it's ten past seven." She mumbled to me after finishing her attack on my neck.
"Sexy Lexy? I like that. Come on baby, let's go." I said with a grin, pulling her up from the bed. I grabbed my parents bag of presents and opened the bedroom door. I ran out excitedly but was abruptly pulled back by Demi's hand on my wrist.
"What? Come on Demi, let's go!" I whined like a kid. Christmas was the one day a year when I was allowed to act like a five year old.
"Look up." She whispered. I looked at her quizzically before looking up at the doorway to see what she was looking at. There was mistletoe hanging in my doorway. My parents must have put it up during the night as some sort of joke. I chuckle quietly and moved closer to Demi so that our bodies were pressed together. I moved my hands onto her hips and she pushed my hair from my face.
I grinned at her and kissed her softly, and passionately. It was my first kiss under the mistletoe, it was special to me.
"You're a wonderful kissed baby." She said quietly. Our foreheads were pressed together and I was getting completely lost in her eyes. As tacky as that sounds, it was true.
"Thank you. You're like… indescribable. I've had nice kisses before, but yours are just… there's something different about them. I think it's just because it's you." I explained with a love-struck grin.
Love.
Love-struck.
Holy shit, I think I'm in love with her.
Everything about her. The way she walks, the way she talks, the way she looks in the morning when she first wakes up, how she looks at me when she's teaching me with that look in her eyes. Literally everything about her just made me grin, and being apart from her was painful. I was pretty sure I was in love with her.