Chapter 17

I sat up.

"Merry Christmas, Zachy!"

"Zachy? Really Gallagher Girl?"

"What! JC calls you that." I said with big puppy dog eyes.

"Oh all right, but only you and JC can call me that." I pulled Zach to me and hugged him.

"You're the best, Zachy!"

"I know, it comes with the great looks!" I slapped him on the chest.

"Don't get a big head!"

"Why, it'd be easier to kiss!"

"You're impossible!"

"You know you like it!"

"No, I don't!"

"Then why'd I hear you saying my name while you were sleeping?" I blushed beet red. Zach noticed and smirked.

"Don't worry, I dream about you too, if you get what I'm trying to say." He winked and walked out the door. Why'd Zach just say that? Guys usually don't tell their girlfriend things like that. Zach was one weird guy.

"Merry Christmas!" I said cheerfully.

"Merry Christmas Cammie!" JC exclaimed.

"Oh, Merry Christmas, sweetheart!" Sarah said. I looked at my mom. I mouthed sorry to her, making her smile and pull me into a hug.

"Merry Christmas Cammie!" She said into my hair.

"Sup guys!" Zach said, entering the kitchen. We all stared at him.

"What?"

"You said 'sup guys', really, Zachy?" I asked. He smiled widely.

"Merry Christmas!" He finally said. Mom put one hand around me, and put another hand around Zach. Zach and I looked at her questioningly.

"What? You're my daughter, and Zach's going to be my son in law, so I might get used to it, because-"

"Mom."

"- Zach's your first everything-"

"Mom!"

"- and your fathers always joked that you two would be together-"

"MOM!"

"What!"

"Stop talking, please!"

"Oh, all right." She said putting her hands up in the air and walking to the kitchen.

"Don't worry, you were my first everything too!" Zach said to me as we sat down.

"Let's open presents!" JC exclaimed excitedly. We all went to the tree, and started to hand out the presents. Sarah had given me a makeup kit, JC gave me a bracelet, and my mom got me a phone cover. Everyone had left the room, thinking everyone had opened all the presents, but Zach and I still had to give each other's presents. Zach and I sat by each other on the couch. I wordlessly handed my present to Zach. He looked at me and smiled. He pulled off the paper, and found the album with the pictures of his parents and our childhood. His mouth opened wide, and he pulled me into a really tight hug. He murmured thank you into m hair. He pulled apart and looked at me.

"You're the best thing that happened in my life." He whispered.

"Zach you're the-," I was interrupted because he pulled me close to him, and kissed me really hard and passionately. We could have gone forever, staying in our own world, but Zach pulled away and took out two boxes.

"It's probably nothing compared to your gift, but-"

"Zach, just being with you is enough gifts to last my lifetime." He smiled and handed me the first box. I took it and opened it. I gasped at what was inside. There was a necklace, with a "Z" and a "C" intertwined together. The "Z" was studded with blue (the shade of my eye color) hearts, and the "C" was studded with green (the color of Zach's eyes) hearts. Then the colors merged, where the "Z" and "C" merged to make beautiful turquoise hearts. I traced the "Z" and "C" with my fingers. I turned the necklace over, and saw something engraved on the back.

I'm Forever Yours, Faithfully

-Zachary Jared Goode

"Zach!" I whisper/gasped. Zach didn't say anything, but put the necklace on me. I touched it and wondered how he could have afforded to get this.

"I've been saving money for as long as I can remember, for my special someone. And you're defiantly that someone." He said as if reading my mind. I was about to kiss him, but he put another box in my hand. I looked at him, and he smiled at me. As I was opening it, he started to talk.

"I know we've only just started to go out, but I felt that I had to give this to you." I opened the box to reveal an old yet beautiful ring on a sliver chain.

"Zach it's-"

"Not a wedding ring, so don't worry. It was my great grandmother's, from my dad's side. She passed it to my grandfather, who gave it to my grandmother, who then gave it to my father, who gave it to my mother, and I got it when she died." He took out a ring on a chain out from underneath his shirt.

"This is the matching pair." The two rings looked almost identical, beside the fact that mine looked more for a girl. He turned both rings to the side, and they shook and stuck together.

"There's a really strong magnet in it. It vibrates when it gets close to the matching pair, then it get stuck. If you press the heart on both of the rings, it will become unstuck." I stared at the beautiful ring. Zach looked at me, nervous.

"If you don't want it I-" I cut him off by kissing it.

"I-" kiss "-love-" kiss "-it" kiss. I pulled him closer to me.

"But, I've got to say, it's not the thing I love the most," I kissed him.

"Because I love you more," I said against his lips.

"I love you too, Gallagher Girl," Zach said holding me tight.

"I love you."

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A Runner At Heart

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