Setting: Christmas day
Brax woke up before Charlie on Christmas Day. He decided to go and make her an early morning Christmas breakfast.
Returning to their room, Brax gently woke Charlie up. Pecking her lightly on the lips, Charlie woke up and looked at Brax. "Morning! Merry Christmas sexy." Brax spoke.
"Merry Christmas. I love you" Charlie responded.
"I've got you breakfast! Do you want to sit up?"
"You made me breakfast? Aren't you sweet!" She sat up slowly and looked at the stable table. "You made me a Croissant? Yay!" Charlie said kissing Brax's cheek.
"Just for you!" Brax smiled.
"I want you to have half with me." Charlie replied ripping it down the middle and handing half to Brax. He took it reluctantly and they ate together.
"I have something for you! Let me get it." Brax said once they had finished eating.
"Really, I love pressies." Charlie replied as Brax came back into the room.
Charlie unwrapped it and opened to find a gold necklace. It was in the shape of a heart. The sticker read: 9 carrot gold pendant.
Charlie put her hand over her mouth as she stared at it.
"Brax, this is the best present ever. Can you help me put it on?" she asked. Brax took it out of the box and put it on.
"I love it so much, thank you!" Charlie whispered kissing him as passionately as possible.
"I have something for you too!" Charlie replied when they eventually had to pull away to breathe. Charlie ran down the stairs quickly, grabbing the presents she had wrapped then went back into their bedroom.
"Here you go!" Charlie said as she handed him two presents. Brax opened the biggest one first. It was a picture of him, Charlie and the captain of the Geelong team when they went to the game.
"This was my favourite photo! You look beautiful." Brax said admiring the photo. It was about 30cm X 30cm. "I was thinking we could hang it on the wall in our office."
"Yeah definitely! Heath will be so jealous when he see's we met the captain. I told him I met the players, he didn't believe me!" Brax replied.
"Make sure you rub it in... Okay, open the other one."
Brax opened the second one and saw a brand new watch! Brax laughed before saying: "I was seriously going to go a get a new one next week!"
While putting it one, Brax noticed Charlie had engraved his name on it. "Well at least Casey won't steal it now- he took my last one!"
"Thank you, I love them!" Brax smiled warmly at Charlie.
"Shall we get dressed and head over to Bee and Heaths? Darcy will be waiting for us, Heath said she has to wait until Ruby, Casey, April and us get there before she can open any of her presents.
"Yeah I guess we should." They both got up and got dressed. Charlie wore a long maxi dress that was red. "You look gorgeous! That dress is very christmas-e!"
"You seem to like everything I wear Brax!"
"Only because everything you wear looks amazing on you!"
They headed over to Heath and Bianca's where they knocked on the door. Darcy answered quickly, she had been waiting for them to arrive.
"Auntie Charlie and Uncle Brax are here!" Darcy yelled as they made there way inside.
"Hello hello there lovely people! Merry Christmas!" Bianca enthused as she greeted them both. "I love your necklace! I'm guessing it was a Christmas present?"
"How did you know that Bianca? How can you remember everything Charlie wears?" Brax asked laughing, but confused.
"Brax, we are girls, I have a radar for new stuff. And I'll be getting all the info about it from Charlie later!" Bianca replied.
"Oh I trust you will!" Charlie laughed.
"Can I open my presents now?" Darcy asked Bianca.
"Yep, we are coming to the tree now. Just wait though, I want some photos!"
Everyone packed into the lounge room. Ruby, Casey and April sat on the floor next to each other, Bianca sat on the lounge next to Charlie and Brax who were cuddled up to each other. Heath was playing Santa handing out all the presents to Darcy one by one.
Darcy teared and ripped all her presents, wanting to know what she was getting. Charlie and Brax brought her some presents too. She seemed to be the most excited about theirs. They got her a set of roller blades, an art canvas and paint, plus some Harry Potter posters to hang in her room.
"Thankyou Auntie Charlie and Uncle Brax. They are the coolest presents ever!" Darcy said giving Charlie and Brax each a hug.
"I'm glad you like them sweetie!" Charlie replied.
Once all the presents were unwrapped, April, Ruby, Casey started playing Twister with Darcy. Heath and Brax started setting up her new trampoline in the backyard. Charlie and Bianca sat on the deck in the shade happily chatting.
"So tell me about this beautiful necklace of yours!" Bianca started...
"Brax got it for me. I opened it this morning and put it one me. It's so beautiful!
"It is indeed! You guys seem to be so in love. I never see you unhappy!"
"I am. Brax is amazing. I'm so glad he's in my life, he's changed it for the better." Charlie gushed.
"I'm so happy for you! Bianca replied.
"Thanks. Your the same with Heath. Your life seems to be in perfect order at the moment.."
"I can't wait for this little one to be born!" Bianca said rubbing her tummy. "I'm in a good place at the moment."
"Your glowing too!" Charlie laughed.
Once the trampoline was up, everyone sat down and shared a small lunch together. Afterwards, Heath, Brax and Bianca stayed outside talking, while Ruby, April and Casey kept playing Twister. Charlie walked into the lounge room. She didn't see Darcy there.
"Ruby, where's Darcy?" she asked.
"She just gone to put some her stuff in her room."
"Oh okay. Well I'll go and help her!" Charlie replied walking past them into her room.
Charlie walked into the room and saw Darcy on her bed crying.
"Gorgeous girl, what's wrong?" Charlie asked as she pulled Darcy in for a close hug, passing her a tissue from the box under her bed. She was concerned as to why she was crying on Christmas Day.
"Nothing."
"There is so. Sweetie you can tell me anything. I won't tell anyone else if you don't want me too."
Darcy, wiped her tears away from her face the looked at Charlie and told her:
"I just miss Mummy a lot."
"Darc, I know you do. This Christmas must be really hard for you. I think your mum would want you to be happy though, wouldn't she?
"I guess."
"I know how much she loved you. You were the most important thing in the world to her."
"I know, I just wish she was here." Darcy said giving Charlie a big hug.
"It gets easier. Just remember everyone is here for you. And anytime you want to come hang out with me, go shopping, use my pool or anything all you have to do is ask, especially once Bianca has her baby."
"Thankyou Auntie Charlie. Your best auntie ever!" Darcy replied giving her a big hug.
"Let me help you finish putting your new stuff away!" Charlie said helping Darcy up.
5 minutes later, Bianca came in. "Hey! Charlie you've being ages getting another drink!"
"I came to see Darcy. I'm just helping her put the rest of her new things away."
"Darc. I think your Dad is going to take you to see your grandparents for the afternoon. Would you like that?
"Yeah." Darcy said giving Charlie and Bianca a big smile.
"I'm going to take April and visit Irene for a few hours. Would you like to come?"
"Ahh no, I think Brax and I will head home. Say Merry Christmas to Irene for me though." Charlie answered.
Bianca nodded. Charlie gave Darcy another hug, as she headed outside. Everyone was bringing plates inside. Charlie helped stack everything into the dishwasher. Her and Brax headed off, back home.
They spent the afternoon together enjoying each others company. Brax cooked a small roast for dinner.
"Shall we watch a movie?" Brax asked after they'd eaten dinner.
"We could, but I have another idea!" Charlie whispered as she wrapped her arms around Brax's neck and pulled him in closing, kissing him.
Brax responded immediately, by picking Charlie up, and carrying her to there room, not breaking there kiss once.