There was much more going on in the chances of love and hate. Even though Sonny was upset about not being able to go home for the holidays, she was appreciative for Chad taking her home with him. His family seemed nice and his home was amazing. To believe he grew up in a house like this was amazing, because it was just too gorgeous and surreal. Her room was comfortable as the smell downstairs of warm baked pie and bread made its way upstairs. She laid in her bed starring out the white window that was covered with light snowflakes. She was bundled beneath her warm blankets and was afraid to move, knowing she would have to take her clothes off and take a shower. It was just too cold to allow herself to move and venture into reality. She looked at her phone which she had been on for about an hour with her mom. Wisconsin was closer to Connecticut then Los Angeles was, and the chance of a clear up was horrible. She sighed at how much she was missing her own family but she realized that it was Christmas and Chad was bringing her into his family for the holidays. She couldn't be rude and stay in her room all day moping.

Forcing herself out of her bed, her feet touched the cold wooden floors and it sent a chill up her spine as she made it across the room to the bathroom that was outside. She grabbed a few clothes out of her luggage and took it with her since she didn't want to run across the hall in just a towel dripping wet, when Chad was on the same floor. Just the two of them alone sharing the same floor was nerve-racking. He had the third floor all to himself, she was surprised he hadn't turned the guestroom into some kind of mans playroom.

Taking a shower and putting her up in a cute fix, she walked down stairs in light blue jeans, and white warm sweater.

"Good morning Sonny." Chads mom said as she put food on the table for breakfast.

"Good morning." Sonny said shyly as she sat down in one of the empty chairs.

Chad came in the backdoor, from outside with his arms full of logs. He looked amazing, as he wore a long sleeve white shirt and dark blue flannel over it. Pulling off his heavy green coat that had fresh snow on it, he hung it on the rack that was in the laundry room.

"Morning beautiful." He said to sonny as he grabbed a piece of crispy bacon off the plate and ate it. Sonny blushed from his nickname, since it was always them fighting never being nice to one another. It was strange. She couldn't say much, so she just smiled at him.

"Dig in." his mom said as she sat down at the end of table. Chad grabbed two glasses out the cabinet and handed me one as he sat down next to me.

"Uh- Mom?" Chad asked after filled his glass with some juice, "Sonny is use to decorating back home, so I figured we could do it this year."

"That's sounds like a great idea." she smiled as she sat down at the end of the table near Sonny.

"No, Chad-" Sonny interrupted with a gracious smile, "Really, you don't have to do that for me." she said looking at his mom.

"Nonsense." she smiled at her as everyone started to eat, "I use to decorate all the time but my men have lost their spirit." she tilted her head and looked at Chad, then back to her husband who was across from him.

Sonny caught the guilty look on Chads face, along with his dad.

"I thought we were getting to old for decorating." his dad stated with a full mouth as he enjoyed her delicious cooking.

"You're just getting lazy." she said ending the conversation.

Sonny wondered around the house, until she came to the living room which was still missing a tree. She smiled as she noticed all the pictures of Chad that his mom had on the wall. Their was also a young girls and boy in the pictures who shared Chads eyes. They were just as beautiful, but Chad topped them. Their small, young smiles as they wore Santa hats and posed around a beautiful tree that had taken place in this same very room.

There was a picture of Chad in a hockey outfit, on the ice outside. He looked about thirteen as he stood holding his hockey stick, with his jersey hanging out of his black pants. Sonny caught herself smiling at how amazing he was. He played Hockey and that was so interesting for her, since she always thought it was a dangerous sport. She use to ice skate all the time, and it made her sad as she stared at the picture. She missed the frozen lake that was only a few miles away from her house back in Wisconsin. She use to skate all the time and it was something that she had always enjoyed. It was one of the few things she had to help clear her mind when her parents always fought. Escaping into the cold air for her time on the ice was one of her biggest memories. She touched it gently with the tips of her fingers as she remembered her childhood and how close she was to Chad without ever realizing it.

"Hey, you ready?" The voice from behind her caused her to turn around in an instant. Her eyes focused on Chad as he sat a brown box down that had all types of lights in it.

"There's more." he said looking at the box, as he touched the back of his neck.

"Let's get started then." she said walking away from the picture that had caught her attention.

"What were you looking at?" he asked with interest as she walked towards him.

"Oh nothing." shaking her head as she shrugged it off, "You're missing your tree."

"Yeah." Chad looked behind her curiously, realizing there was something that she wasn't telling him, "We'll get it later." he assured her in a quiet voice.

"Sounds good." she smiled, putting her hands on her waist, "So- where are the other boxes."

"In the garage." he turned around to lead her with many questions running throughout his mind but ignored them as he had to many things to focus on. One being why she seemed so transfixed on his pictures and how the gleam in her eye was from sadness not excitement. He understood that he wasn't her family, no one here was but she should have been a little enthused since he got her the chance to decorate.

They stood outside bundled in their winter coats as Chad set up the ladder. Sonny untangled the lights as she stood in front of the house. Dropping them when she was done she looked at Chad who was getting ready to climb up the ladder.

"Are you sure you can do that?"

"Sonny," he rolled his eyes, "What do you take me for? I am a man ya know." he stated firmly as he kept on climbing the steps, while holding one end of the light string in his hand. He had the stapler in his back pocket as he stood face to face with the ledge of the roof.

"This should be easy." he groaned as he leaned forward and started stapling the lights to the ledge.

"Be careful." he heard Sonny say in a high voice as she stood below him, with her hands underneath her cold chin.

"Sonny, if you say something one more time concerning my by well being, I'm going to let myself fall on you." he snared as he stretched himself over to staple more of the lights up.

"I'm sorry." she said in an hostile voice.

"Don't you take that tone with me." he snapped as his feet touched the ground in front of her.

"You don't like being looked after?" she asked crossing her arms with an amused smile on her face.

"No, I don't." he gave her a look of security.

"Fine." she agreed in a dull manner.

"Fine." he said as he moved the ladder.

"Do you need any help?"

"Yeah, hold the lights."

"I am."

"Good,"

"Jerk." she muffled under her breath.

"I heard that." he cringed.

A few hours past before they had all the lights up on the house. The cold blue sky was breathtaking as there wasn't one cloud in site. She looked up as she watched the silent heavens just float over head. Sonny remembered how much she use to love sitting on her roof outside her bedroom window and watch the snow clouds move in. Her attention was distracted as she heard Chad's voice and loud noise that had come from the ladder.

"Chad!" she screamed as she raced towards him, as his body fell onto the damp cold ground. He lad on his back as Sonny kneeled beside him.

"Are you okay?" she asked in a worried voice, and putting her hands on the back of his head as he tried to sit up.

"I'm fine." he groaned as he sat up. Feeling the touch of her hands cradling the back of his head made him look at her with wonder and curiosity. She seemed stunned as she took her hand from him and looked away.

"Okay, well if you're really okay then I'm going inside. I'm cold and hungry."

"Yeah, go ahead." he shook his head. Pushing himself off the ground as he stood up.

"Are you sure?" she asked. She went inside when he walked away from her. He was clearly hurting but he didn't want her to know that.

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I hope you liked this... Haha I'm posting in summer to get ahead. Hopefully by fall I'll be further into the story where I can end it sometime around New Years of next year! Love you all and thank you so much for the support with this story even though I haven't been writing. You're all wonderful. I will give shoutouts to all who leave me a review for this chapter.

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