All credit of this idea goes to Georgie, thanks babe!
Nick let out a yawn and turned his head as he awoke from a night's sleep; Carla was curled up next to him dressed in warm pyjamas; her head lay on his chest as she slept peacefully her chest rising slowly. Her hair was slightly falling over her face as she slept, Nick smiled at her before gently tucking the lose strands of her behind her ear. Carla moved slightly as he did this but soon settled back down again.
As she began to stir Nick ran his hands lightly through her hair. "Hey," Nick whispered as Carla opened her eyes. She lifted her head slightly so she could look at him properly. The couple gave each other a small smile before Carla laid her head back on Nick's chest.
"What time is it?" she asked in her morning voice which Nick found adorable.
"Not sure," Nick said as he planted a kiss on the top of her head, "What do you want to do today?" Nick asked breaking the comfortable silence. Carla moved herself so she was now lying on her side looking at Nick.
"Aren't you at work?" Carla replied as she ran her hand through Nick's short hair.
"No, I booked the day off. Thought we could do something nice," Nick said making Carla smile at is kindness.
"It'll be busy today though," Carla said.
"Yeah but how many Saturdays do we get together?" Nick said kissing Carla gently, "we could do something festive if you wanted."
"I'd rather just stay like this all day," Carla said quietly cuddling further into Nick.
"Come on," Nick said laughing, "let's do something fun and festive."
"Who are you, Santa's elf?" Carla joked, "What could we do though?"
"How about breakfast, then we could bake something," Nick suggested his eyes focused on how naturally beautiful Carla was. Her face had a glow to it without the make-up and her green eyes complimented her perfectly.
"Bake?" Carla said which made Nick chuckle slightly.
"Yeah like mince pies, that'd be fun," He suggested still smiling.
"That's for like kids," Carla said before moving closer to Nick allowing him to wrap both his arms around her.
"Oh right so you don't wanna spend the day with me? I'll just go to work then," Nick joked earning him a playful slap from Carla.
"Ok, how about we search up the recipe and if it's easy we make them," Carla said looking up at Nick who was smiling at her.
"Sounds good to me," Nick said dropping a kiss on Carla's forehead.
"Just another half an hour though," Carla said cuddling into Nick's side.
Nick and Carla walked down the street hand in hand towards Dev's. It was fairly quiet for a Saturday; a few people were walking in and out of the pub and children's laughs could be heard through the blowing of the December wind.
"Morning," Mary chirped as they entered the small shop, "I know what you're thinking!"
"Do you really?" Carla said unenthusiastically.
"Why am I working here?" Mary said with a gushing smile.
Carla went to make a sarcastic comment but was stopped by Nick, "Why are you here then Mary?"
"Well the twins are in the community nativity; oh they're going to be just wonderful!" Mary exclaimed with a beaming smile and her hands clasped together.
"I'm sure they'll be great, both of them," Nick said before grabbing a basket and beginning to get things off the list.
"If she actually knew what I was thinking she would've shut up ages ago," Carla whispered as her and Nick walked around the shop.
"She's not that bad," Nick laughed quietly as he picked up the butter.
Carla raised her eyebrows at his comment; "Darling she's still talking as if she'd listening" Carla whispered referring to Mary who was still chatting about the twins' costume and lines.
"Just smile and nod," Nick said laughing slightly at Carla's annoyance towards the situation.
"Ooo, some Christmas baking, how lovely!" Mary said as Nick placed the basket on the counter.
"Yeah, we thought we'd try our hand at mince pies," Nick told her.
"They had the most marvellous mince pies at the school nativity," Mary gushed causing Carla to sigh loudly.
Nick squeezed her hand and raised his eyebrows at her, "Was the nativity good?"
"It was splendid!" Mary exclaimed whilst scanning the last of the items, "Were either of you in a nativity at school?"
"I think I was a star once," Nick laughed, "and then I was the back of a donkey."
"Well every part counts! How about you Carla?" May asked whilst accepting the money from Nick.
"No Mary, I wasn't," Carla said taking the carrier bags into her hands.
"Why on Earth not?" Mary exclaimed, clearly shocked by Carla's admission.
"You see Mary, school was never my forte."
"But everyone at school has a part in the nativity!"
"Yeah, you have to go to school to get a part," Carla said bluntly before leaving the shop.
"Have a lovely Christmas," Nick said with a smile trying to make up for Carla's lack of festivity before he too left the shop.
Nick had spread the ingredients out on the worktop and was rummaging in the cupboards for cooking utensils.
"Right so how do we actually do this?" Carla asked scanning her eyes over the ingredients whilst she tied her hair back.
"Well from reading this," Nick said holding up their printed out recipe; "We have to make the pastry and then make the mince-meat."
"I'll do the mince-meat, it sounds less messy, I only got my nails done the other day," Carla said making Nick laugh.
"Okay well you need the fruit, oh wait hang on," Nick said studying the recipe closer, "You have to leave it to set for two weeks."
"Well Christmas will be over in two weeks, can't you just buy it?" Carla asked.
"Um yeah, yeah you can buy it," Nick confirmed.
"Okay, I'll go and get some and then you start with the rest," Carla said grabbing her bag off the side.
"I got it!" Carla beamed as she came back into the flat. She smiled when she saw Nick busy mixing things together in the kitchen. His face was so concentrated on the task in hand and he hadn't even looked up since Carla had arrived back. Carla placed her belongings on the edge of the sofa before walking up behind him and jumping on his back.
"Shit!" Nick said as he just about managed to catch the bowl.
"Hi," Carla said innocently with a smile, "How's it going?"
"Yeah, yeah great till I almost dropped it," Nick joked before flicking some of the flour that had ended up on his hand onto Carla.
"Watch it Tilsley," Carla said as she started throwing the excess flour and dough on the worktop at him.
"Oh is that how this is working?" Nick laughed as he picked up the almost empty flour bag.
"Nick, don't you dare!" Carla warned before backing away from him. He smiled and followed her, "Nick don't even. If you drop that you're cleaning it up."
"Will I now?" Nick smiled as he continued to get closer to Carla.
"You wouldn't," Carla said smirking knowing Nick didn't have the nerve to dirty her outfit.
"I would though," He said as he took one more step closer and kissed Carla gently. Naturally she relaxed at his touch and found her arms wrapped around him. They broke the kiss and smiled at each other before Nick emptied the bag of flour onto Carla's head.
"Nick!" She shouted as the flour fell all around her, the bag may have been almost empty but it still made a lot of mess.
"Carla don't come near me," Nick laughed as Carla began to walk up to him.
"Do you not want a cuddle?" Carla teased as the couple were now centimetres away.
"No, not when y-" Carla jumped forwards to hug Nick, the flour now covering both of them and their laughter filling the room.
"Carla they're ready!" Nick shouted as he placed two pies onto a plate. Carla walked out of the bedroom with her hair now freshly washed and her body tightly wrapped in her warm dressing gown.
"They smell good," Carla commented as she sat on the bar stool next to Nick.
He smiled at her and passed her a pie, "On three…one…two…three," Both of them took a bite of their pie and smiled at each other.
"Yes Nicholas," Carla said triumphantly.
"Pretty good hey," Nick smiled.
"All because of my mince-meat," Carla joked making them both laugh, "Thank you for such a good day," Carla said in a more serious tone.
"You're more than welcome sweetheart."
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