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Chapter 3:

Ellington's POV

I awoke around 8:30 to the smell of bacon and waffles drifting through my room. They smell so good… I slowly dragged myself out of bed and stumbled down the stairs, trying to get most of the sleep out of my eyes.

I walked into the kitchen where I see Rydel, still in my clothes, stacking her famous waffles on a big plate. She has a can of whipped cream out and a bowl of strawberries sliced up next to it. On the counter there was two plates and two tall glasses of milk.

She turned around and saw me.

"Merry Christmas Eve El!" She said happily as she set the waffles down on the island.

"You too Rydes!" I said as I went up to hug her. While she hugged me back I grabbed the whipped cream can from behind her.

As I let go I gave her a whipped cream mustache.

"Ellington Lee!" She yelled at me while she laughed.

"Yes," I asked innocently.

"Come here," I hesitantly took a step back, in which she took two steps forward, cornering me.

She took the whipped cream from my hand, which just so happened to cause a spark to run up my arm. Gently she took my face with one hand and put a mustache on me.

"There!" Rydel exclaimed happily as she ate her own mustache. I laughed with her and ate my own.

"Are you hungry?" She asked sweetly. Right on que my stomach growled. I felt my face turn a light shade of pink, seriously Ratliff, pull yourself together, you do not blush.

"Maybe," She laughed and led me over to the island.

Together we devoured her amazing waffles, barley saying anything at all.

When we were done, I helped her clear the table and clean the dishes and put all the stuff in the dishwasher.

"Mmmm, that was amazing Rydes. Thanks."

"No problem," She laughed. "Umm… you got a little something…" she trailed off shyly and looked up at me.

"Where?" I reached for my face, but she stopped me.

"Right there," she licked her thumb and gently dabbed a glob of syrup off the corner of my mouth, causing me to go scarlet for the second time in 20 minutes.

"Thanks…" Rydes smiled up at me.

"You're Welcome Ellington." She smiled at me and I think my heart skipped a beat, just saying.

"What do you wanna do today?" She asked.

"Well… We never really put up our Christmas tree… So, do you wanna umm… ya know… put it up?"

"Sure!" I went downstairs to get all of the things and got our tree.

Once we figured out how the tree went up, which was about two hours and a thousand giggles late, we started to decorate.

First putting on the lights, colorful ones of course. Next we put on all the decorations. And finally the star.

I looked behind me to see Rydel trying to reach up to the top, which was about 3 feet above her.

"Let me help you." I kneeled down on my knees and she climbed up on my shoulders, I stood up and she reached and placed the star on top.

"Perfect," She said while looking down at me with a dazzling smile planted on her face.

I set her down and smiled.

It was almost one now, it had taken us a little bit longer than usual to put up the tree…

For the next few hours, we told jokes and stories, laughed and even drew some Christmas pictures, which we put up on the fridge.

"Hey! Why don't we make Christmas cookies?" I pleaded.

"Okay, let's go to the store."

"Wanna change?"

"No, but you might wanna put a shirt on," She laughed at me.

"Fine, don't wanna kill anyone with my sexiness I guess…" I heard Rydel burst out laughing as I ran upstairs.

We got in my car and drove to the local market, getting all of the things for the cookies.

We were waiting in line when a little girl, no older than 6, came up to us.

"Hello, I'm Ryleigh," she stated.

"Why hello Ryleigh, can we help you with something?" Rydel asked.

"Are you Rydel Lynch?"

"I sure am,"

"And is that Ellington?" she questioned while pointing at me.

"Nice to meet you," I leaned down to her eye level. She giggled.

"You guys are funny, can I have a picture?"

"Sure," her mom came over and snapped a picture.

"Come on Ryleigh, we have to go."

"But mama, Can't I stay with Rydel?"

"We could take her with us ma'am. We are making Christmas cookies. She will be back by seven." I suddenly cut in.

"Well," her mom thought about it. "I guess that will be okay." Ryleigh started jumping up and down thanking me, while Rydel and her mom, Alicia, exchanged numbers and addresses.

After her mom left and we checked out, we all walked back to my car.

"Thank you Ellie!" Ryleigh said, it was so sweet that I couldn't tell her to not call me that.

"You're welcome miss sunshine." I shut her door and put the groceries in the trunk, and got into the driver's seat.

"Thank you Ellie," Rydel mimicked, laughing.

"Ha Ha Rydes, very funny."

"Are you guys dating?" Ryleigh piped up from the back.

"Umm… no sweetie, we are not."

"Oh, okay," She looked out the window singing Christmas carols the rest of the way back.

I brought in the groceries and Rydel started mixing everything.

The cookies were finally done and ready to frost. We made dozens.

Afterwards I put in Rudolph for me and Ryleigh to watch, while Rydel went upstairs to take a shower.

"Do you like Rydel?" Ryleigh questioned me. For a six-year-old she is very knowledgeable.

"Umm…" I couldn't lie to her. "Yes, I actually think that I maybe in love with her…" I trailed off and began spilling my guts to a little girl I barely knew.

"Do you think she's pretty?"

"Beautiful."

"Oh, okay!" She smiled. "Don't worry Ellie, I won't tell anyone." She snuggled up to me then and watched the rest of the movie.

When Rydel came down from the shower, I noticed she still had on my clothes. She laughed when she seen Ryleigh snuggled up to me.

"You'd make a great daddy Ellington." Rydel stated. I smiled up at her and pulled her down next to us, hiding my slight blush.

"What about you? You'd be an awesome mother…" She laughed while I thought to myself, not to mention girlfriend… or wife…

"Well… It's already 6:30, we should probably take Ry back to her mom."

"Yeah, let's get going." We stood up, me caring Ryleigh and Rydel grabbing her things and cookies, and walked out to the car. Ryleigh, who was still asleep, didn't make a sound as we drove to her house. Once we got to her house, I shut the car off and went to get Ry. Rydel opened the house door for me.

"Hello Mrs. Ravencraft," Rydel greeted Ryleigh's mom. "Ry was a perfect angel, here are her things, and some cookies. She umm… fell asleep too, Ell has her…" As if on que I walked in with Ry.

"Merry Christmas Ellington," Her mom greeted me.

"Thanks Mrs. Ravencraft, you too. Umm… where to you want me to put Ry?"

"Oh, her room is down the hall, first door on the left, thank-you sweetie." I nodded and took the sleeping princess to her room. I stepped into a pink wonderland. There were Barbie's all over the floor, not to mention a few R5 posters… A pink tutu was on the side of her bed. I laid her down carefully and Tucked her in, kissing her forehead and whispering a 'Merry Christmas' to her. I heard a camera click and looked up to see Rydel holding her phone.

"Sorry," she whispered. "It was just too cute!" She then made her way to Ryleigh's side. She laughed at the tutu and Kissed her cheek. I took this advantage to take a picture of Rydel. She glared over at me and I shrugged, walking over to lean against the door frame.

"Merry Christmas Ryleigh." Rydel whispered to her and started to get up. Ryleigh stirred.

"Delly?" her sweet voice floated across the room.

"Yes sugar?"

"Thank you, and Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas Ryleigh, and your welcome, call us if you ever want to see us again, and we will set something up okay?"

"Okay…" suddenly she started to whisper so I couldn't hear what she said. "And Ellie loves you Delly, her also said your beautiful. Love you Delly."

Rydel's POV

After Ry said that, she fell asleep. I blushed immensely and hugged her goodnight.

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