I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Tara's Point of View-
I woke up when I heard my door open slowly, I broke from Alex's grip looking over my bed seeing Xavier walking through the door.
"Merry Christmas!" Xavier exclaimed excitedly.
"Merry Christmas, Alex wake up." I said shaking Alex to wake him up.
"Why is Alex in your bed?" Xavier asked curiously.
"He had no where else to sleep." I said.
"I get lonely and I'm afraid of the dark, your mom was protecting me." Alex said as we climbed out of the bed.
"Go wake up Grandma." I said as Xavier ran to wake up my mom as I went out of the room as Alex came out pulling his shirt from last night on.
"What are you doing?" Alex asked now scratching the back of his head and leant against the island.
"Making a pot of coffee then going to heat up some cinnamon rolls for breakfast." I said smirking as I looked back at him from the coffee pot.
"Home made or store bought?"
"Bought, why?"
"Just curious." Alex said shrugging.
"Morning mom, Merry Christmas." I said as my mom was dragged in by my son.
"Merry Christmas Tara, Alex." Mom said.
"May I open my stocking?" Xavier asked excitedly as I nodded, Alex went over pulling the stocking off the hook over the fireplace for him and Alex sat on the couch pulling Xavier onto his lap as Xavier pulled out the gift that was wrapped watching from the kitchen. I watched as Alex helped Xavier when needed to pull the paper off exposing the dinosaur influenced gift before digging through rest of his stocking seeing the candy and tiny toys like a top or jacks. Xavier ran over to where mom and I were showing us the gift 'Santa' had put in his stocking as Alex hung the candy filled stocking back up before we sat down eating breakfast and we took turns showering and getting dressed. I refilled Alex, moms and my cup with coffee before I sat down on the couch beside Alex, he wrapped his arm around me pulling me to his embrace, I brought my legs up as I leant into his embrace watching my son who sat on the ground pulling out gift after gift opening the ones that were for him, of course myself and my mom were snapping pictures of the process. "This one says Alex." Xavier said as he stood up walking over setting it on Alex's lap and then sat in front of us on the ground watching Alex open the present to expose the leather jacket I had gotten him.
"Thanks Tara, how'd you know I needed a new one?" Alex asked.
"It seemed kind of old." I said smirking.
"May I give him my present?" Xavier asked excitedly.
"Yeah, hand him your present." I said as I got up grabbing gifts for my mom for her to open as well trying not to spill my coffee. I sat aside watching my mom open her gift along with Alex opening his last gift, Xavier was playing with his new toys and mom's face lit up when she saw the necklace I had given her.
"Thanks Tara." My mom said.
"Here, let me help you mom." Alex said as he handed me his coffee cup to hold as he got up going to help her latch the necklace around her neck before he even started opening the wrapping paper of his present.
"Thanks Alex." My mom said as Alex smiled.
"It's pretty." Xavier said smiling.
"Thanks Xavier." My mom said as Alex sat back down setting his gift from Xavier back on his lap and he grabbed his coffee cup back from me.
"Open yours Alex!" Xavier said excitedly.
"I will…" Alex said as he begun pulling the wrapping paper off the present to see the paper belt that Xavier had drawn.
"What's this?" Alex asked looking at it with a shocked and confused expression.
"A title belt, you were upset that you lost and didn't get the belt so I made you one." Xavier explained.
"Aw thanks buddy, I love it…come give me a hug." Alex said as he leant forward wrapping his arms around my son for a hug. I opened the gift in my hand seeing a small jewelry box that resembled that of a ring box, I opened it to see my mom's wedding ring inside the tiny jewelry box.
"Mom, what's with this?" I asked with a shocked and confused look not knowing what to think about it.
"What is it?" Alex asked leaning over to look at the ring.
"Tara, I'm getting older and the ring has ran in our family for generations, I want you to have it." My mom said as I pulled the ring out looking at it closely, I have always loved this ring ever since I was a little girl.
"That is a nice ring…" Alex said as he grabbed it to look at it closely then handed it back to me.
"May we watch Rudolph?" Xavier asked, I thought that would be okay assuming since all the gifts were given out.
"Not yet…" Alex said.
"Not yet? Why?" I asked confused.
"There are more presents." Alex said kissing at my cheek.
"Huh?" I asked looking at Alex who smiled as he stood up.
"I have more presents in my car, stay here." Alex said as he went out to the car and came back with at least five more presents for Xavier then handed my mom a present than one for me.
"Alex, you didn't have to do this." I said shocked and felt kind of bad that he spent this much money on all of us.
"It's no big deal, I wanted to." He said as he leant over giving me a kiss as I watched Xavier open the first present and his face lit up.
"What is it?" I asked as my son pulled out a Motor-City Machine Gun shirt then pulled out a pair of pants that was splitting image of Alex's wrestling pants. "You did not give my son replica attire to yours." I said in an unbelievable tone looking to Alex.
"Oh I did…he is just missing the leather jacket and the boots." Alex said proudly.
"Only the boots…I got him a matching leather jacket to yours…" I said correcting him.
"You did?" Alex asked letting out a chuckle and I nodded.
"May I put it on mommy?" Xavier asked excitedly.
"Open rest of your gifts then you can put it on." I said as Xavier opened the other gifts and it was the 3-D dinosaur set he had asked 'Santa' for.
"How'd you know I wanted this? I only told Santa." Xavier asked looking up at Alex.
"You see what happened was, Santa had such a big load of toys already to deliver for all the boys and girls around the world, I ran into him yesterday as I was packing up to come over here and he asked me to bring these over to give to you. I promised him that I would." Alex explained.
"You know Santa?" Xavier asked excitedly.
"He's on my speed dial." Alex said smirking.
"Now can I go put them on?" Xavier asked.
"Yeah, don't forget the jacket." I said as he ran out of the room.
"Shall I go help him?" Alex asked.
"If he needs help, he'll come back…I realized he needs to be more independent and thanks to you I have tried to do so." I said.
"Mom, will you help me?" Xavier asked coming back into the room.
"I'll help you." My mom said putting her wrapped and unwrapped gifts aside as she went with my son leaving Alex and I alone.
"Sorry your gift wasn't much." I said looking down at my lap, the wrapped gift was in my hands, he wrapped his arms around me pulling me tighter to his embrace.
"I love it, the thought is the only thing that counts…you going to open yours?" Alex asked as he pressed his lips to the top of my head.
"I'm scared to." I said not knowing what was underneath the wrapping paper.
"It's not that bad, I promise." Alex said as I let out a deep breath before opening the paper that exposed a picture frame that had a picture of him and I from the cruise and resting on top of the picture was the bracelet that I pointed out at the store. "I know you said you can't wear a lot of jewelry at work but I knew how much you liked it…read the inscriptions." Alex said as I picked it up to see the three hearts that were attached to the bracelet. "You can get more hearts if you want." Alex stated as I read the first one saying 'I love you Mommy!- Xavier' I then tried to hold back tears of happiness as I went to the second one reading one from my mom, then the third one was 'Now you officially own my heart. I love you. –Alex'
"Alex this is…this is…god dang you Alex and making me cry." I said lightly smacking him as I wiped tears from my eyes.
"Please say those are tears of joy." Alex said.
"Yes, this is way too much…I can't." I said not even wanting to comprehend what the heart he had wrote on my bracelet said, he rolled his eyes as he gabbed the bracelet and my wrist putting it on for me. "I am having a love hate relationship with you right now." I said looking from my wrist he was hooking the bracelet on up to him making slight eye contact.
"Hoping it is more love than hate." He said smirking as he sat back and I leant over giving him a kiss.
"What do you think?" I asked smiling as we were mere inches apart and he pressed his lips against mine for another kiss.
"I am thinking you love me." Alex said smirking when my mom and Xavier came out wearing the shirt, the pants and the jacket.
"Oh my God, look what you did to my kid." I said covering my mouth, it was adorable none the less but I couldn't believe Alex did it.
"Looking awesome buddy, come on let me help you finish it…" Alex said leading him out of the room.
"Did you open Alex's gift?" My mom asked sitting in the chair she had pulled up earlier.
"Yeah, he got me the picture frame with our picture in it and then he gave us this bracelet." I said jiggling my wrist to show off the bracelet.
"Let me see that, he didn't tell me what it looked like." My mom said as I got up going over to her putting my hand on top of hers so she could look at the bracelet closer reading the hearts that were on it. "That is really cute…" My mom said smiling.
"It is…" I said smiling as well as Alex came back in with his ring attire, he didn't have a shirt on because he said he didn't have a spare one with him, but he had his boots, his hair was in the messy faux hawk and the black paint under his eye, in front of him walked my son in the get up he had, he was now wearing black shoes, Alex had put my sons hair into a faux hawk and put a mark under his eye as well. "Oh my God…I must get a picture of this." I said chuckling as I grabbed my phone taking a picture of it after Alex posed my son to point at a certain point on his palm.
"Mommy, I'm a wrestler like Alex." Xavier said smiling.
"That you are…" I said as Alex sat down next to me wrapping his arm around my shoulders.
"Mom, you haven't opened your gift." Alex said.
"Grandma, open your gift!" Xavier said as my mom obliged. We watched my mom open the gift from Alex, she opened it seeing a photo book that had pictures already in it of Alex and I from the cruise.
"Conceited much?" I asked.
"I figured she could start keeping pictures in it of her family." Alex said looking at me.
"Your not family." I joked.
"Yet…" Alex said smirking as he leant over pressing his lips to mine.
"Thank you Alex, I love it." My mom said as she flipped through the first few pages that were already made.