Christmas had been... interesting. For a lack of a better word.
Bella had just made her Christmas eve flight, much to the joy of her parents – I missed her though. Tony would have a field-day if he found out but I missed her. The look on Bella's face when she had been able to leave work in time to get her plane was on of the best things I had ever seen she had been so ecstatic and hadn't sat still the whole way there. Palmer and I had debated throwing her out of the car she had been that fidgety.
Bella had been apart of our team for around 6 months now, we had been dating for 2. Well... we will have been by the time she comes back from Forks. We decide to do Secret Santa as a team this year and Bella and I agreed not to get gift for each other. She was coming back the day after Boxing Day and we were getting together as a team for dinner at Gibbs' and were exchanging gifts then. I was spending Christmas Day with my sister at my place, no Christmas dinner though as we both couldn't be bothered to cook it. Or rather I couldn't be bothered to cook it and Sarah can't cook.
As it reached 11 o'clock and Sarah and I had been arguing about what sauce to have with our pasta (the extent of Sarah's cooking skills) when I got a text from Bella, 'Look in the fridge' Which was quickly followed by another saying ' 30 minutes. Enjoy! ;)'
Leaving Sarah halfway through a 'Carbonara is best' rant I moved and to open the freezer to see a Chicken, potatoes and vegetables in the fridge, smiling I shook my head and pulled them out and put them on the bench. Sarah had stopped ranting and walked over to see the food.
"Did you do this?" she asked shocked. God knows I was.
"No, B- my girlfriend did." I replied, not wanting to give Sarah Bella's name encase she came to work looking for me any time soon.
"Girlfriend? Why isn't she here then if she cooked us lunch?" Sarah asked, narrowing her eyes at me.
"She flew home to be with her parents for Christmas." I said narrowing my eyes back. We stayed squinted eyes at each other for a little bit before we both started laughing.
And it wasn't till later I was on my way to Gibbs' 2 days later that I realised, I had no idea how she got into my flat to put the food in my fridge.
I think this is my shortest chapter yet but I wanted to put this out there, ages after I said 1 week. Basically I hinted that Bella was talking in past tense last chapter when she said 'And looking back I can see that Tim knew what I was up to all along' So not only did I try to write this in past tense but I did it as McGee. It is very short and has no point to it but I just couldn't figure out how to write Christmas in Forks/La Push there was to many elements that I really didn't want to write and mess up. The next chapter will have flashbacks to that Christmas though. And it will be longer. Promise.