I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Tara's Point of View-
I woke up at the normal time knowing I had to leave work early in order to get Xavier and get us both ready to go to Alex's Christmas party. I went home after picking Xavier up and let him in.
"Xavier, can you go grab a new outfit to wear?" I asked as I shut the door behind me locking it instead of dealing with the garage door.
"Why?" Xavier asked.
"You have to go take a bath."
"Why?" Xavier asked.
"We are going to a party with Alex and we need to be clean." I said as Xavier went back to his room as I was doing small rituals as I went back to my room finding an outfit that was casual but yet something that was a little more professional than casual. I grabbed a pair of black slacks and a red blouse, I wanted to look somewhat nice but yet I can clarify it as casual I hoped. I went out seeing Xavier in bathroom trying to turn the bath water on himself but struggling. "Xavier, I got it." I said as I went into the bathroom turning it on for him as he stood up beginning to undress as I looked at the outfit he had chose, a pair of jeans and his grey shirt with three different dinosaurs on it, what else could I expect from him and I didn't bother to change it. I turned the water off when it got full enough for him and helped him into the bathtub let him take his bath without any of his toys because we didn't have much time to joke around. I helped Xavier out drying him off and getting dressed. "I'm going to go shower, do NOT answer the door if anyone comes to it and if you need anything, my door is open." I said as Xavier nodded as he went out to the living room hearing him already playing with toys that we keep in the living room as I went into my room showering and getting dressed into the outfit I had set out before I begun doing my make-up and other things trying to make myself presentable for the party and Alex tonight when I heard the doorbell seeing that my hair was still wrapped up in the towel and I was yet to be ready fully.
"Mommy! Someone is at the door!" Xavier said running into my room.
"I heard it, let's go see who it is." I said pulling the towel off my head letting my hair fall down onto my shoulders, I followed my son out to the door looking through the peep hole seeing Alex on the other side holding flowers and a dinosaur toy, I rolled my eyes as I opened the door.
"Alex!" Xavier said excitedly as Alex squatted down picking him up with one hand.
"Hey buddy, I got you this…hope you don't already have it." Alex said as he handed Xavier the dinosaur toy he had.
"What do you say Xavier?" I asked.
"Thank you Alex." Xavier said smiling as he hugged the big dinosaur as Alex set him down, Xavier slid past me running into the house to sit on the ground in front of the couches playing with his new toy.
"And these are for you…didn't I tell you that it wasn't upscale?" Alex asked as he handed me the beautiful flowers, I smelt them smiling.
"This isn't upscale, it's business casual and coming from the person that is wearing black slacks and a nice shirt." I said as he followed me into my house, he shut the door behind him and I went into the kitchen putting the flowers into a vase and set it on the table.
"You ready to go?" Alex asked.
"Almost, let me just do Xavier and my hair." I said.
"I can do Xavier's hair, you go do yours…" Alex said.
"His comb is in the top drawer on the left side of the sink counters in the bathroom." I said as he grabbed me by the waist pulling me into his embrace giving me a slight kiss.
"Why do I have a weird feeling I just smudged your lipstick?" Alex asked smirking seeing slight red marks on his lips.
"Because you did…" I said wiping at his mouth trying to get it off trying not to laugh as he let me go to my room brushing my hair and came back out seeing Alex sitting on the toilet cover in the bathroom with Xavier standing between his legs in front of him, I saw Alex gelling Xavier's hair up into a faux hawk as best as he could. "What are you doing to my kid's hair?" I asked chuckling.
"He wanted it like mine." Alex said.
"Yes mommy, I want my hair spiky like his." Xavier said playing with his hands smiling as Alex finished his hair, I rolled my eyes as I had to take a picture of it sending it to my mom.
"I draw the line at dying my sons hair." I said.
"What's dying?" Xavier asked.
"Making it a different color." Alex explained as he stood up leaning over the sink washing the gel off his hands putting both the gel and comb away as Xavier walked out to stand in front of me, "We are taking my car this time." Alex said smirking as he stepped in front of me resting his one hand on my waist.
"If you insist." I said smirking not wanting to fight with him as we followed Xavier out to the living room grabbing jackets for Xavier and I before we followed Alex out of the house locking it behind me moving the car seat over to Alex's car buckling it in properly before putting Xavier in it buckling him in and I climbed into the passenger seat buckling up letting Alex drive his car over to Universal and park in the Impact parking lot area seeing a lot more than normal amount of cars there. We climbed out helping Xavier out of the car holding onto his hand, Alex grabbed my other hand leading us into the studio and Xavier was amused with everything there.
"Is the ring here?" Xavier asked looking up at Alex.
"I'll show you that after the party." Alex said smiling which got Xavier excited for after the party to come, Alex pushed the door to catering open seeing almost all the TNA stars already in there and seeing Dixie across the room talking with Jeff who I knew as Alex's boss and hoped that I didn't run into her to bring up what we discussed the other day.
"Who are all these people?" Xavier asked.
"These are my co-workers and other wrestlers." Alex said.
"Is Santa going to be here?" Xavier asked.
"He is coming by later tonight for the little boys and girls." Alex said as Chris rolled up to us, Xavier was excited climbing onto Chris's lap talking his ear off and Chris didn't mind. "Come on Xavier, I got other people you have to go meet." Alex said as Xavier climbed off Chris's lap where Alex grabbed my son's hand walking us around introducing us to his co-workers even though I have met majority of them on the cruise when we got to James and Robert, they were both there with their wives and James brought his daughter that was a year or so older than my kid, she and my son hit it off and they ran off chasing each other around.
"Shall I be worried?" I asked beginning to worry about my son running around the studio.
"Nah, my daughter is pretty smart and knows her way around here like it was our house and she won't let him get lost." James said.
"Not only of that, worried at the fact she is related to you." I said smirking.
"Hey, you never know." James said smirking and I gave him a dirty look as he took a swig of his beer as Alex wrapped his arm around my waist as we had an in-depth conversation with them that took up the whole party pretty much before Alex excused us from the conversation leading us over to Dixie and Jeff which I was dreading all night.
"Hey Dixie, you know Tara right?" Alex asked as I stuck my hand out shaking her hand again.
"Of course I remember Tara, did you think about what I told you?" Dixie asked.
"I haven't really thought about it yet…" I said as Alex gave me a confused look.
"Well, you better give it a good thinking and it's always open." Dixie said before someone else stole her attention.
"What did she say?"
"It's nothing…" I said.
"It's something if she brought it up." Alex said.
"I'll tell you later." I said smiling hoping that he would take that and he did, he nodded as he walked me up to Jeff when Dixie grabbed the microphone and announced that it was time to place Christmas Musical Chairs.
"Come on let's play." Alex said.
"Nah, I remember playing on the cruise, I'm fine with sitting out on this one…" I said as Xavier ran up.
"May I play?" Xavier asked excitedly.
"Yeah, come on buddy." Alex said as he grabbed my son's hand going to the middle of the room as they arranged chairs in the middle of the group of players. I stood aside pouring myself a cup of punch casually sipping it as I watched the grown men, women and kids go around the chairs when the music ended and Alex was left standing there looking down at my son who was giggling in the seat. "Bud, get up!" Alex said.
"No Alex, then I will lose." He said giggling again, Alex picked him up and sat down resting my son on his lap.
"Alex, your out." Dixie said.
"No I'm not, I'm sitting aren't I? And Xavier is sitting, we are both in this game until the end." Alex fought.
"Alex, just get out of this dang game." James said as he stood up pushing his seat aside, Alex stood up setting Xavier down to let him to continue playing, Alex walked over wrapping his arm around my waist watching my son skip, run or walk around the chairs slowly more kids than adults were getting out.
"Your son is good at this game." Alex whispered into my ear as he kissed at my neck.
"I wish he would use this talent for good use, he is never the type of kid that sits still." I said smirking as Xavier was then the last kid left in the game then started beating out all the wrestlers like Robert and James. It got down to Xavier and one of the biggest wrestlers that TNA had, which is Crimson, and my son was giggling and he turned around facing the big man.
"Your going down!" Xavier said.
"What little boy?" Crimson said smiling.
"Xavier, be nice." I said.
"What, let him egg him on…" Alex said shrugging.
"You are a bad influence, you know that." I said looking over to him as Xavier then started running around the chair when the music was playing, Alex, James and Robert stepped closer to the game that was being played when the music stopped, the three men grabbed Crimson pushing him away from the chair holding him back.
"Sit down Xavier!" Alex exclaimed as Xavier ran as fast as he could jumping into the seat giggling as the three men held the big man back.
"No fair!" Crimson said.
"It is fair, he's only a boy." James said as the three men let him go after he seemed a little more calm and went over to my son who was still sitting in the chair happily that he had just won waiting to see what the prize, if there was any prize, was. Crimson picked my son up by his shirt, Xavier was giggling the whole time rather than being scared of the big man when he was raised to be face to face with the red haired man.
"Good game boy." Crimson said.
"Thanks!" Xavier said smiling as Crimson set him back down on the chair extending his hand shaking the tiny hand of my son.
"The winner is this little boy, what is your name son?" Dixie asked squatting down to the seat.
"Xavier Jackson Blaine." He answered.
"Congrats Xavier, you won this gift certificate to Target." Dixie said handing my son the gift certificate.
"That's what he needs, he will end up buying more toys." I said getting Alex to chuckle as he wrapped his arms around me when Xavier ran up to me showing me the gift certificate, I slid it into my purse and Alex kissed my cheek noticing the table of presents to the side. "What's that?" I asked.
"It's the white elephant game we will play later, our gifts are already on there." Alex said.
"I didn't buy any." I said.
"I bought them for you." Alex said smirking when we were told it was table to eat, Alex and I walked through the tables of food with Xavier between us making his plate and went to the table with Chris.
"Come here bud, congrats…" Chris said pulling Xavier onto his lap.
"Thanks…what do you want for Christmas?" Xavier asked as he started to eat the cookie I had put on his plate for dessert rather than the other food.
"I want my boo-boo to be healed." He said.
"When will it be healed fully?" I asked taking a bite of my food.
"I should be getting the cast off after the New Year then I am going to start rehab on it." Chris said.
"What's rehab?" Xavier asked.
"That depends, in his case it is to work with his boo-boo to get strength and get it back up to par." Alex answered.
"Why?" Xavier asked.
"Because since I haven't been using it for almost a year, it has gotten weak so I have to get it strong again." Chris said.
"Strong like this?" Xavier asked as he begun to try to flex the muscles Alex said he had getting all us adults laughing.
"Very strong like that buddy." Chris said as we sat there discussing things when we were each handed a small cup of Egg Nog.
"What's this?" Xavier asked grabbing it and looked at the white contents inside.
"Egg Nog, have you ever had it?" Chris asked.
"No…" Xavier said.
"Who wants to bet on if he will like it?" James asked as he joined the table again after going to grab another beer.
"How much money?" I asked.
"Forget money, if he likes it we all have to take a vodka shot and it he doesn't we all have to down this." James said as I looked at my Egg Nog unsure if I wanted to take this bet.
"Your on." I said as we all agreed to those terms when we talked Xavier into taking a drink.
"Ew, this is nasty." He said making a grossed out face.
"Egg Nog it is." Robert said as we all just downed the Egg Nog, I was trying so hard not to vomit it back up but swallowed it then grabbed the bottle of water that Alex had, I had ended up drinking rest of it.
"What the heck?" Alex asked.
"Sorry, I had to get that taste out of my mouth." I said making a gross face much like Xavier's.
"I'll go get us each another one." Alex said.
"Thanks." I said smirking.
"No problem sweetie." Alex said leant over giving me a kiss tasting the Egg Nog on his lips.
"Ew, you have Egg Nog on your lips…" I said wiping at my mouth to get that taste off my lips as Alex smirked before watching him head over to the cooler filled with drinks.