I felt lips on my bare back and I groaned. "Nessaaaa leave me alone."

She smacked my back. "Nope get up, I'm bored."

I nodded. "Okay...Five more...Hours."

"Y/nnnn."

I chuckled and turned my head looking at her before frowning. "Why are you wearing clothes?"

She shrugged. "I've been up for two hours."

"Your point?"

She rolled her eyes and bounced on the bed. "Get up, go get in the shower."

I yawned and sat up. "I feel like your trying to kick me out."

She stood. "I would never."

I pulled on my shorts and shirt before standing and stretching. "I didn't get a chance to ask you, how was the photoshoot with um...What's his name again?"

Vanessa smacked her lips. "Alfred, and it was okay I guess. I was actually super bored throughout the whole day."

I walked into her bathroom and hummed as I grabbed my extra toothbrush. "Sureeee."

She leaned against the doorway and raised a brow. "Sureeee?"

I glanced at her and started to brush my teeth. "Wow, your cheating already?"

"How'd you figure that out?"

"That big ass hickey on your neck."

She gasped and covered it. "Dammit you caught me, this girl named Y/n did it last night."

I shook my head and wiped away a fake tear as I rinsed out my mouth. "I fucking knew it." She chuckled as I walked up to her and pecked her lips. "So Christmas is in three days."

She hummed.

"What do you want?"

Vanessa shrugged as we walked back into her room. "Nothing specific really."

Well I know that means she wants something specific she just doesn't wanna ask.

"Well, just think of something."

She sat on the bed and looked up at me. "What I want isn't something that any- well you could give me."

I pouted. "Bitch I got money."

She laughed as I sat next to her. "Cool well, when you get your Ph.D. and become a doctor come talk to me."

I raised a brow.

She sighed. "The only gift I want is for Summer's heart to get better."

"Pretty good gift," I bit my lip. "Is she getting worse? You seemed so nonchalant before."

Vanessa looked down. "Um, she's having a big surgery in about a month, depending on how her heart acts it might be sooner but it could also be later. About a week ago she started taking these pills that, in my opinion, makes her heart worse. Without the pills her heart either beats too fast or too slow, she could pass out, get dizzy...I'm just ready for her to get better."

I nodded and grabbed her hand. "I am too...She'll be home for Christmas right?"

Vanessa nodded.

"Welllll, I think I can give you a good gift."

She looked at me and raised a brow. "Yeah?"

I nodded. "What does Summer want that I can actually give her?"

Vanessa hummed and then she gasped. "I have the perfect gift but, we need to start planning now."

"Well get your ass up so we can go."

-

I threw a grape up and caught it in my mouth.

"Y/n again!" Travis yelled as he kneeled next to Dog.

Jasmine shook her head. "You're not a dog Tr-"

"Shhh," I grabbed another grape. "Shhhhhhhh-"

"Stop shushing me hooooo- person that sleeps around a lot."

I chuckled glancing at the crib our babies were sleeping in as Quincy rolled his eyes. "Why don't you curse in front of the kids? They can't understand."

"Hey, Quincy can I tell you something?" I looked at him.

He shook his head. "I don't wanna-"

"How about you let us raise our kids in the environment we wanna raise them in?"

Jasmine smacked my thigh and nodded. "Period. Talk ya talk."

Quincy smacked his lips. "Whatever, you and your baby momma can get y'all ASSES beat."

I threw a grape at his forehead. "Shut up."

"Y/nnnnn."

I nodded looking at Travis as I grabbed another grape. Tossing it towards him Dog quickly jumped up and basically body-slammed Travis as he caught the grape.

Quincy and I laughed as Travis whined and rubbed his arm.

Jasmine smacked the back of my head and walked over to Travis. "It's not funny," she looked down at Travis. "You should've stopped, you okay?"

I smiled softly as I watched her. "Your mommy instincts kicking in."

She glanced up at me. "And yours not."

I smirked and raised a brow. "Ohhh feisty."

A faint smiled appeared on her lips as she looked back down at Travis' arm.

I bit my lip and unintentionally looked over at Quincy who raised a brow.

"The Titanic sounds good huh? I love the part where that ship sails."

Shady bitch.

I shrugged. "Yeah but, it sunk."

Quincy hummed. "Not according to Shane Dawson who says the Titanic wasn't the actual Titanic and was replaced with another boat."

I hummed. "Yeah but, it's a conspiracy theory."

He hummed. "Is it?"

"What are you two talking about?" Jasmine frowned as she stood up.

"Nothing." Quincy and I said simultaneously.

"They're talking about how your relati-"

"Hey, Travis? Shut up." Quincy rolled his eyes.

"Whatever." Travis sat next to Jasmine and watched tv.

"Y'all ready for Christmas?" Quincy asked.

I nodded as Jasmine grimaced. "Shit, I forgot to tell you guys. I'll be breaking the tradition this year because Rain wants to take me somewhere."

I frowned as my head snapped towards her. "Fuck that, you have to spend the whole day with us in pajamas while we eat and watch movies."

Jasmine sighed. "He's been planning something for about a month now-"

"And we've been doing the same thing for five years, some boy not about to change that," Quincy scoffed and then looked at me. "Who does she think she is?"

"I know right," I looked over at Jasmine. "Even I'm giving Vanessa and Summer their gift on Christmas Eve because I respect our tradition."

Jasmine sighed. "So what do I do? Tell him I can't see him on Christmas."

"Nobody said that- shit you can bring him, I'm bringing Vanessa. You just have to be with me- um us all Christmas."

She raised a brow catching my slip up. "Okay."

I nodded slowly. "Okay?"

"Yeah, I'll just invite him over here so that we can spend the whole day together."

I smiled and nodded. "Good."

Quincy cleared his throat. "Ummm, you mean all of us right?"

Jasmine slowly took her eyes from me to look at Quincy. "Duh."

Quincy nodded. "Just making sure," he stood. "Y/n let's talk yeah?"

I groaned as Travis laughed. "You're in trouble."

"Shut up punk." I stood and followed Quincy out of the living room and into his room. "What's up?"

He crossed his arms looking at me. "Okay look, Vanessa is your girlfriend now and as much as I want you with Jasmine, you two gotta stop the flirting."

Flirting? What?

"Dude, what?"

"Don't fuck- Y/n seriously."

I smacked my lips and sighed as I sat down. "I know dude I just...your right."

Quincy sat next to me. "I've cheated and I've been cheated on. I'll tell you now that neither of them are fun so," he shrugged. "Chill."

I shook my head. "I would never cheat," I chuckled. "And even if I wanted to cheat with Jasmine she would kill me."

Quincy chuckled and nodded. "Man she would kill you and straight-up tell your kids how you died when they get older."

We both laughed and I looked down at my hands. "I love Vanessa."

"...but?"

I looked at him. "But nothing, I love her."

He nodded. "Good."

I huffed and stood back up. "I'm going back downstairs."

"Y/nnnn-"

"Shut up, I just don't wanna be cooped up with your gay ass."

He smacked his lips as I walked out of the room and headed back towards the living room.

I don't know if I'd exactly call that "flirting" but I definitely have since I started dating Vanessa...Isn't flirting cheating?

Dammit, have I cheated on her?

I flopped down onto the couch as my heart sank.

"You okay?" Travis asked causing Jasmine to quickly look at me.

I gulped and nodded as Jasmine frowned.

"You look sick."

I put on a fake smile and rolled my eyes. "Wow, thanks."

She squinted and glanced at Travis before raising a brow at me.

I raised a brow and looked away causing her to smack her lips. "So Trav, I have the best Christmas present for you."

He gasped. "The Nintendo Switch?!"

"Nope."

He hummed. "A girlfriend?"

"Awww," Jasmine ruffled his hair. "That hurt."

I chuckled and shook my head. "Even God couldn't get you a girlfriend."

He rolled his eyes. "Well, what is it? Does Jasmine know?"

"Of course she does-"

"Travis question, you ever got a Christmas present?" Jasmine looked down at him.

He nodded. "Of course, you bought me presents."

She nodded. "Right, so you understand that you can't know what your gift is right?"

Travis sighed. "Yeahhhh, fine," he stood. "I'm going to take a nap."

He stood and walked out of the living room after kissing his niece and nephew.

I slowly looked at Jasmine who was already watching me.

Quickly looking away I prayed Quincy came downstairs before she ask-

"What's wrong?"

I groaned. "I think I cheated on Nessa."

Jasmine punched my arm and I jumped. "What?!"

I winced and rubbed my arm. "Freaking bit-"

"Why would you cheat idiot?!"

I shoved her face causing her to fall back onto the couch. Slapping her thigh she jumped and winced as she sat up.

"First of all shut up, my kids are sleeping." She grimaced looking at the crib before glaring at me again. "Second, I said THINK and third, can I explain?"

She rolled her eyes. "Go ahead."

I bit my lip. "We still flirt Jazzy," I looked down. "Isn't that technically cheating?"

Jasmine burst into laughter and I looked at her frowning. "No that's not cheating," she shook her head. "Granted it's not right but, it's not cheating. Us women like to say it's cheating because we don't want our partner flirting with someone else but, by definition it isn't. Flirting is however a different subject I won't get into but," she nodded. "Yeah we still shouldn't be flirting."

"Exactly," I rolled my eyes. "Finally you agree with me."

She smacked her lips and looked down chuckling. "Okay next topic, remember you came to me because you needed help with Vanessa?"

I nodded.

She looked back up. "Well, I want my best friend to help me out with something."

"Ughhh what now."

She hit my arm and sighed. "I'm scared of umm Rain..."

I frowned and sat up slightly. "Like...Physically?"

I'll cut a bitch.

"No dummy, you didn't let me finish."

"Well, who the hell ends a sentence like-"

"Shut up," she rolled her eyes. "I'm scared of Rain asking me to be his girlfriend."

"There was no need to word it like that," I mumbled before raising a brow. "Wait why? You don't like him?"

"No I do but...One of the main reasons I don't want to be with you is because I'm afraid you'll break my heart and well..."

"He already has."

She nodded. "Yeah and, we've definitely been getting closer, like back to when we first started to date close. I'm just not sure if I want to be his girlfriend right now- And if he does ask me and I say no then what?"

I shrugged. "Then you say no," I chuckled. "You know I'm not the right person to come to with relationship problems but, maybe if you talk to him and make sure your both on the same page you won't have to worry about him randomly asking you."

"Yeah well, what do I say? Hey, I just wanna make sure you're not planning on asking me to be your girlfriend anytime soon, oh why? Because you broke my heart once and I'm not a hundred percent sure I want to be with you again even though I definitely have feelings for you."

Oh?

I looked down.

Of course, she has feelings for him...I'm glad she finally has someone to move on with. Maybe we'll eventually reach the end of this long-ass "story" then.

"Say exactly that," I shrugged looking back up at her. "Don't hold anything back trust me, it doesn't help anyone."

"You would know huh?"

I scoffed. "Bitch you would know."

She chuckled. "Yeah yeah."

-

"Y/n I don't fucking trust you." Summer grumbled as she held my hands that covered her eyes.

"Stop being a baby I got you- oh shit."

Summer tripped over a rock and I quickly caught her.

She huffed and stopped walking. "Vanessa come and-"

"I got thisssss."

Summer shook her head and we continued up to the front door.

It was Christmas Eve and it was time to give Summer her Christmas gift.

What's that you might ask?

I pushed the doorbell and Summer hummed.

"Are we at a celebrity house?

I scoffed. "A literal celebrity is holding you right now, I'm offended."

"Eh."

Vanessa chuckled next to me and I rolled my eyes.

The door finally opened and I dropped my hands from Summer's face.

She chuckled slightly. "Mom, dad? Didn't I just leave you two?"

She pulled them into a hug as we all walked into the house.

Her mom nodded. "Yes you did but, have you looked around yet?"

Summer looked up and around at the inside of the house. "Ohhh our old home..." she turned to look at me. "I'm not really understanding..."

I rolled my eyes and leaned towards Vanessa. "Oh my God, your friend is an idiot."

Vanessa nodded and Summer rolled her eyes before glancing at her parents. "What's going on?"

"Baby," her dad placed his hand on her shoulder. "We're home."

"Home..." She looked around again and then her eyes widened as she looked at Vanessa and I. "Home?" Her eyes teared up and she gasped turning back to her parents. "S-Seriously?"

They nodded and chuckled as Summer pulled them into another hug.

I smiled as I tossed my arm over Vanessa's shoulder who was wiping away a tear.

Two presents down, four to go.

-

"So," Summer started as she sat across from me next to Vanessa. "Want to know why my parents weren't here in the first place?"

I nodded eagerly.

Vanessa chuckled as Summer started. "Well, when I was six my parents weren't the richest. With my heart disease, they had to spend soooo much money and eventually they went broke. My parents decided to get a bunch of loans which put them in even more debt. They were threatened with jail time and a lot more so...They had to leave the country."

Ohhh.

"Um they couldn't bring me with because the best treatment I could get is here so, I stayed with Vanessa and her parents. My parents eventually paid everything back but they couldn't get back here because my dad went to prison before and this country is very petty."

"What'd he go to prison for?"

"Assault, he was in a bar and someone was fighting someone else and that person tripped and knocked my mom over but didn't apologize so my dad got mad and they got into a fight. Since my dad threw the first punch, and the guy he hit was loaded, my dad went to prison for eight months."

"And they wouldn't let him back in because of that?"

She nodded. "Also because he was born and raised for a portion of his life in Mexico since his parents traveled a lot. They decided to just stay and raise him there so he technically isn't a legal citizen. And I know this might not seem that sad and big but, it really is fucking huge. My condition actually got worse after they left due to the amount of stress I was in so again, thank you."

I shook my head. "Hey, don't worry about it," I hummed. "Wait, how did I help? Vanessa, what did you make me sign?"

She chuckled. "You should've read it but, I got him a visa and had his conviction pardoned by a judge, who just so happens to have two daughters who love you. I had you sign a paper stating you agreed that his charge should be pardon but then I had you sign those two pieces of paper to give to his daughters."

I chuckled. "Well good job Vanessa. Also thanks for stealing my thunder, Summer was supposed to think I did all of this."

"Oops well, you asked."

I rolled my eyes. "Whatever, anyways I have a million other things to do sooooo, I'll see you at midnight right? Summer now that I think about it you can stay here with your parents if you want."

She nodded. "I'll let you know."

"Good, well see you later then."

Vanessa leaned over and pecked my lips before I stood and headed towards the door.

Okay, now on to the next.

-

I pouted and crossed my arms. "You didn't get me a gift Jazzy?"

Jasmine hummed. "Possibly not."

I stood up and walked towards her. "I guess I shouldn't give you this then." I held a box out towards her. She stopped fixing her makeup and turned to me. She reached out for the box but I quickly pulled it away. "Nope, you didn't get me anything."

"Fuck off." She took the box from my hand and I chuckled as she opened it. She looked up at me with wide eyes before looking back into the box. "No fucking way."

She pulled out the ring pop wrapper and shook her head. "This isn't it."

I raised a brow and pulled back the wrapper that was ripped perfectly down the side. "Isn't it."

She gasped as she looked down at the wrapper we both signed, back when everything wasn't so confusing.

She ran her thumb over the ink and chuckled as I reached forward pulling out a piece of old paper. "I even have the note."

"Both?" She raised a brow.

I chuckled. "Yes Jazzy both, I'll definitely read your note eventually."

She groaned. "Just don't talk shit when you read it."

"Same for you." I nodded down at the piece of paper.

She shook her head and sat everything down after pulling me into a hug. "Thank you Y/n, this is definitely the best gift ever."

I nodded. "Don't boost my ego."

She chuckled and nodded. "Your right let me stop."

I leaned against her desk and raised a brow. "So where is Rain taking you?"

"No idea."

I hummed. "Has he seen you without your make up yet?"

"Ummm yeah? When we were back in-"

"Has he seen you without it on since he's been back?"

She shrugged. "No, I don't think so."

I nodded. "He's definitely taking you swimming, your catfishing ass."

She laughed loudly. "Shut the fuck up, at least I'm cute under my make up bitch. You just ugly period."

"Wooooww that's what we doing?"

"That's what we doing."

-

"Go put your stuff on." Travis nodded and ran upstairs as I turned to Quincy and glared. "I'm guessing you and Jasmine are sharing my gift?"

He smirked and hummed. "I just put my name on it, your gift was all Jasmine."

I bit my lip. "S-Should that concern me?"

"Well, I lied. I actually did help some."

I shook my head. "Once again, should that concern me?"

"No bitch."

I chuckled and pulled a box out of my pocket before handing it to Quincy. "Merry Christmas."

He grabbed the box and slowly opened it. "Dammit Y/n, you always one up yourself."

I chuckled as he walked over and pulled me into a hug. "Of course I do."

He pulled away and looked down at the ring. "How'd you get my grandmas ring?"