Chapter 14
It was the 23rd December and Connie was sitting in her living room with Elliot. "I really appreciate you coming over, I really should try and come up more." Elliot smiled as he sat opposite his old friend. "It's not the same without you upstairs, but I see that things have got your attention downstairs…" He gazed off towards the kitchen where Jacob was standing cooking.
"How's Grace doing?" Connie nodded "She's fine, loving it over in America from what I can tell… She's coming back for New Years for a few nights. I'll make sure to bring her over and see you." Elliot smiled as Jacob walked back into the room and sat on the sofa beside Connie. He laid his arm across the top of the sofa as she leant back into his side and held onto his hand that was resting by her shoulder.
After Elliot had left Connie looked about the room. She looked at the Christmas tree in the corner of the room with twinkling lights throughout it. There were decorations about the room which Jacob had done one afternoon before she got home from her shift at the ED. There were now a few presents sitting under the tree which she had only just noticed. "Jacob, did you put these down here?"
He walked back through to the room and smiled as she looked down at them and then back to him. "Maybe." She rolled her eyes standing back up and walked past him towards the kitchen. Jacob carried on with what he was doing before sitting down on the sofa and turning the TV on.
Connie had been called into work for a few hours and so left Jacob roaming about the house. Although there was no secret about them being together a lot of the time she didn't openly speak about just how much time they spent together.
Jacob had waited for Connie to leave before he started doing things around the house. He had lit some candles and put them about the living room before leaving the room again. Upstairs he checked his phone before grabbing Connie's computer and heading downstairs.
He spent the afternoon looking for various things including a few songs he had remembered Connie mentioning to him. After finding what he was looking for he sat down with a drink thinking about how this would be the first Christmas he'd spent with anyone since he was a child with his parents.
By the time Connie was finished it was later than she had hoped. She walked through her front door as it turned 6 o'clock and noticed how quiet the house was except for the music that played. Connie walked into the living room to the lights down low and candles around the room.
Jacob wasn't around as she came inside. She put her bag down behind the sofa and took her scarf and coat off before laying them on the back of the sofa. Jacob walked down stairs humming along to the song before realising she was standing opposite him. "Hey you-" "Hey you yourself… What's all this?"
"I thought you deserved a night like this…" Connie smiled as he hugged her before placing a gentle kiss to her lips. He moved away and went into the kitchen while Connie looked around the room again. She finally sat down as he walked back through with two glasses and a bottle.
Connie watched as he perched on the edge of the couch passing Connie a glass. "Champagne, are we celebrating?" He poured some into her glass before smiling across at her. "It's Christmas and I wanted to treat you." She smiled as she watched him fill another glass for himself. Connie pushed her shoes off before swinging her legs up onto the sofa beside her. Jacob faced her and moved his glass closer to her. "To a peaceful and happy Christmas together…" Connie smiled "To us." She tapped her glass against his before having a drink.
"I didn't have you down as a champagne and candles kind of guy-" "What did you have me down as?" Connie smiled quietly looking across at him. "Oh I see, the kind of guy who doesn't stick about-" "But here you are." Jacob put his glass on the table as Connie drank the last of hers before doing the same. "This song, did you put this on intentionally?" Jacob smiled across at her as the slow song played.
When you shoot across the sky like a broken arrow,
It's so hard to keep yourself on the straight and narrow.
When you shoot across the sky like a broken arrow,
It's all of course, yeah when you hit the ground
It's hard to get to heaven when you're born hell bound.
"The Script? Didn't think you'd listen to something this-" "I thought by now you'd have stopped thinking seeing as it's not got you too far with me up to now." Connie imitated laughing before looking back at him. "Well one of us needs to think-" "Are you saying I don't?"
Jacob leant closer to her on the sofa reaching for her waist and beginning to tickle her. Connie began to laugh as she moved around in an attempt to stop Jacob. She only stopped moving upon hearing another song start.
I'll be there when you're sleeping and every hour you're awake
I wanna hear your secrets, wanna share your worries
Jacob remained seated next to Connie before she looked at him. "How did you know-" "I remember you spoke about it when you told me about your parents." Connie sat on the sofa with a small smile visible before she felt tears beginning to build up in her eyes.
I wanna know you that good, like no one knows you
Gonna reach way down deep in your mind
Wanna get to know you-
Wanna get to know you
Wanna get to know you that good
Gonna know you right through
Jacob stood up and held out a hand to Connie before pulling her up off the couch. "What are you doing?" He spun her around smiling as she laughed shaking her head. Jacob dropped a hand to rest against her side while holding her hand with the other.
You know I want to
So badly it hurts all the time
I wanna get to know you
Connie danced around with Jacob until the song finished and they were left standing together as another song started. "Thank you for this, I don't think anyone's ever treated me like this-" "Well then they were idiots." Jacob bent down and kissed her before lowering his arms and wrapping them around her waist.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Connie looked up at him smiling. "That you're a sad hopeless romantic that likes to think the strong façade covers it up? Then yeah we're on the same wave length." Jacob shook his head before scooping Connie up and heading upstairs with her as she laughed which was becoming a common sound in her house now with Jacob around.