Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
“Excellent, once again Santa gave you what you wanted.” she smiled at him and hugged him as he grinned up at her.
“Well, we wanted a puppy,” Vincent stated. “But this is also good.”
“A puppy?” Calvin asked and looked at her.
“No,” she shook her head at him. “They can’t have a puppy, unless they’re willing to pick up its poop,” she stated.
He nodded with a smile. “Fair enough,” was all he said as he watched the two boys go back to unwrapping their gifts.
She tapped him on the shoulder a few minutes later, “They won’t open a gift from you unless you give it to them yourself. I told them they had to wait on that, because it is your first gift to them.”
He smiled at her and nodded “thank you,” and then he got up, and called the boys over to the big boxes and hunkered down to them. “Now boys, I didn’t exactly know what to get you, because we’ve only just met, but I tried my best to get you something I thought you might like.” he told them.
“We’ll love it, whatever it is.” Vincent smiled up at him.
She had her phone in her hand and snapped a few pictures of him and the boys talking and then of them opening the gift he got them. They were yelling about it being the best present ever the moment they wrapping paper was off, and were on him a second later hugging him, and she watched as Calvin hugged them back, a more than happy smile on his face, because they liked the gift he’d gotten them. She managed to capture that moment for hi
“Mum always says no, we’ll crash and get injured.” Callum grinned up at him. “We love it.”
“Oh, that I didn’t know.” His eyes moved to hers.
“It’s fine,” she stated, but she had avoided it. They were too boisterous sometimes, and she did worry about that very thing, why they only had regular kick scooters.
“Dad, you’ll put them together and charge them up?” Vincent asked him.
“Of course I will.” Calvin nodded, and she smiled when the boys let him help open the boxes, and they hovered as he, she thought, insisted on reading the instructions really slowly, and it saw them tugging at him and pointed out that they just needed the handlebars to be put in and then be plugged in. He was tormenting them, the way she’d seen him do with his niece and nephew all those years ago. It was really nice to see.
Calvin
He couldn’t help but smile as the boys unwrapped their gifts. They were very animated, and then to hand his own gifts to them and be jumped on in their excitement, he’d gone from being hunkered down to falling on his backside, and the entire room had laughed. He’d loved that moment, it was the perfect Christmas moment and his heart was filled with joy.
Though hearing Marilyn wouldn’t let them have an electric scooter made him look right at her with concern that he’d done something she wouldn’t like. She just waved it off and stated it was fine. Didn’t seem bothered by it at all. He’d have to ask her about it later but right this minute they were on him about getting them charged so they could ride them about.
He’d already read up on what had to be assembled, and how to do it, even watched a video of it. Quick and simple, only the handle bars needed attaching, and a quick check that everything was tight and ready to go, but he took his time in reading the instructions while the boys were pulling at him, pointing out the handle bars. “You just got to put them on,” he was told.
“I’d best read the instructions, boys, I’ve never put a scooter together before,” he told them, and saw them turn and look at their mother, who shook head at them, then they were gone over to their grandpa. “Grandpa, you know how right?” they asked him.
“Nope, they didn’t have them back in the day when your dad was a kid, or not that he would have used it, into computers even at your age.”
Calvin chuckled softly as he stood up. Everyone was helping him torment the twins. “I got it,” he finally told them, and then he pretended to go to put the handle bars on backwards. “Hmm, that doesn’t look right.” he scratched his head.
“It’s backwards.” They told him, and he chuckled as they tried to fix it themselves.
“I’m teasing you.” he laughed down at them, and saw their eyes go wide as everyone in the room burst out laughing. It was a quick assembly. It only took all of three minutes, and then they were plugged in and charging.
“You’re mean, dad,” Callum stated.
“You should have seen the look on both your faces.” He chuckled, “Priceless.” Then he ruffled both their hair and hunkered back down and pulled them into him, to whisper in their ears. “I bought you something to give to your mother as a gift. Those two red boxes with white ribbon are for her, from you,” he pointed them out.
No one had been expecting Marilyn t? be here, and she was the only one that hadn’t opened a Christmas gift all morning. Yet she’d made sure that the boys had given gifts to not only himself but their grandparents as well. He’d not even known what to get her. That’s why he’d taken so long doing the shopping yesterday.
What was he to buy her? That would be a nice gift from the boys to her, something that she would also accept. When they’d been married it was easy. He’d bought high-end jewellery for her for all occasions where gifts were needed. Watches, bracelets, necklaces and earrings. She’d been his wife and he could buy her whatever he wanted to. She’d accepted all the gifts from him, they were all upstairs in the walk-in still.
But here and now was a little bit different. She wasn’t likely to accept anything directly from him, but she couldn’t refuse a gift from the twins, and he watched them smile right up at him. They liked the idea of being able to give her something, and he wondered if she’d even gotten a gift for Christmas over the past seven years. saw her eyes
They ran over and got the presents; he’d even labelled them to mum from Cal or Vin, so they could give her a gift from each one of them. They ran over to her and held them out, “Merry Christmas, mum.” He move to him. She knew there wasn’t anything under that tree for her, from them because she’d obviously not bought anything for herself from them.
He said nothing, just sat himself back down, he’d had to really tone down how much he would normally spend on her and went for something simple but elegant, he’d thought. He watched her open the first one. and in it was a Tanzanite tennis bracelet. It had been Vincents gift for her, and in the other from Callum, was a matting set of Tanzanite earrings.
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