3 days later
( Luke's POV )
Spending time with Maddie leading up to Christmas is awesome. Before I've staying at her house I wasn't really into the Christmas spirit but she's completely transformed me into a mild Christmas freak! Like I've almost only been staying at her house for about a week and I swear I know every. single. lyric. To every single Christmas carol ever written and composed, it's crazy! I'm not complaining though because I can now join in with her while she's singing them at the top of her lungs. Speaking of learning the Christmas freak way today Maddie is gonna teach me *drum roll* how to perfectly wrap a present and hoe to bake the perfect Christmas cookies. Now this lesson I'm extra excited about. But now that I think of it that's not the only thing I'm super excited about. Today is also the day we are booking our flight to Sydney. I know Maddie has been to Sydney before and she's met my family and stuff but this time it feels different, like its her first time coming to Sydney.
It's around mid day and Maddie's sitting on the couch, scrolling through flight deals on her laptop. I walk over and sit next to her, placing an arm around her shoulder.
"Did you find anything?" I ask while looking at the wide screen.
"I found one which is a pretty reasonable deal" she says while reopening a tab.
I take the laptop off the table and scroll down the page, reading through it as I go. She was right, it is a pretty good deal. I place the laptop back down and go into her bedroom where my bag of sh*t was left from when we picked it up last night. I scramble through the clothes until I find my wallet, walking back out to where she was seated on the couch.
"What are you doing? You can't pay for that? At least let me pay for my ticket." She says and I flash her a teethy grin.
"I want you to spend time with my family, I pay for your flight there." I say and she shrugs her shoulders and looks away.
I click the checkout button and pay for the tickets. It's all set. We're going to spend Christmas in Sydney with the rest of the Hemmings clan. No going back.
"And now that that is all sorted" she says quickly pecking my cheek. "We can wrap the presents"
We are literally going to need a second suitcase just for all of the gifts we're taking.
We both grab the bags that we placed under the tree a few days ago and put them into the middle of the floor as well as the tape and the gift wrap. I had taken Maddie's gift out of the bag so she can't find it in there at all. I got her a portable Bluetooth speaker which she's wanted forever and a cook book since she adores cooking.
"Ok, so first we put the biggest ite-"
"I know that bit Mad, it's just the actual wrapping." I say cutting her instruction off.
"Ok then, place the things on top of the paper" she says, placing her own items in order.
Once I had done that I teared off the paper I needed and waited for her instructions.
She explained it so perfectly the gift actually looked presentably wrapped. I tied a bow and stuck it on top off the gift which made it look even better. We continued the same process until all the presents were wrapped and placed in the suitcase. Once we zipped up the suitcase and placed it on the side of the room, I slouched my back, walked over to the couch and just collapsed.
"C'mon, it wasn't that hard was it?" Maddie said as she walks over and placed her hand on my back.
I groaned and just laid there for another minute before springing back to life.
"I HAVE THE PERFECT IDEA!" I say jumping to my feet.
"What, what is it?" Maddie asks slightly startled.
I walk over the kitchen and get the flour, butter, eggs and everything else that you need to make cookies. As I'm prepping all of the ingredients Maddie says
" Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"I think I am" I say searching up a recipe on my phone.
"Is the idea chocolate chip christmas cookies?" She asks walking behind me and hugging me.
"Definitely" I say turning around and picking her up and placing her on the counter.
( Maddie's POV )
He knows one of my favourite things to cook is chocolate chip cookies and when you cut them into little shapes with the christmas cookie cutters and dusting them off with icing sugar is even better. We are trying to read this recipe that Luke got off some random cooking website and I'm trying to follow it and mix all of the ingredients together but it's a little hard when Luke is drawing little pictures on my face with the flour which does get a little annoying after about the first 30 seconds so I decide I'm gonna slap him in the face... with my hand filled with flour.
This sounds so cliché but it's about to literally happen right here in my kitchen. Perfect. It's gonna be so messy afterwards but I'm ready to make the commitment to cleaning. I grab my handful of flour and lean closer to him without him noticing what was in my hand. He literally thought I was leaning in to kiss him but at the last second I pulled back a bit and shoved my flour covered hand into his face.
"OH MY GOD! Oh, we're gonna play this game now are we?" He said.
He grabbed a handful of flour of his own and shoved that in my face. It was kinda an on going game. Then the eggs came in then the sugar and even some milk got rubbed in his hair. We just ended up on the floor laughing on top of each other, a big pile of mess.
After a while still covered in the actual ingredients for what we were supposed to be cooking we got those christmas shaped chocolate chip cookies into the oven.
"Oh my god you're a mess" I say to him laughing a little while he looks down at his hands.
"It's your fault, you started it" he says while I walk out of the room and to the bathroom and he follows my lead.
"Shower?" He says and i slightly smirk.
"That's what I was planning to do now bye" I say as I start shutting the door.
"No no," He says pushing the door back open. " Together"
"Yeah sure but we've gotta be quick" I say looking down at the watch that was on my wrist, covered in flour. "20 minutes."
"Ok ok, we're loosing time so in we get" Luke says pushing me through the door.
15 minutes later
I walk out of the bathroom laughing like I never had before. I swear, first food items and then soap and shampoo. Our partnership just isn't original at all. I run to the kitchen and look at the timer on the stove. 3 more minutes. I collapse onto the coach closing my eyes and almost falling asleep. I hear Luke's foot steps getting louder as he walks towards me.
"You ok?" He asks, kissing my forehead.
"Yeah I'm fine why" I said and then minute I did the timer went off and Luke got up and got the cookies out of the oven.
"I'm gonna let them sit," He says while walking back over to me. "You sure you're ok, you look kinda down."
"No I'm fine emotional wise, tired though" I say standing up to hug him.
We stand there in each others arms for about a minute before walking over to the kitchen and we finish the cookies off.
Once doing that and putting them on one of my iconic christmas plates we each take one to try.
"Holy f*ck these are good" I say looking at Luke with wide eyes.
He just gives me a bit of a mouth full mumble. This has actually been one of the best days of my life... literally.
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hey guys, i hope you're enjoying the book. this one is definitely in my favourites. i just wanted to say sorry if there are any weird words or spelling mistakes throughout the book. i write really early in the morning / late at night and I'm normally half asleep but it's always when the light bulb lights up. love you guys :)
