Today is the last day that whole group is going to be in Los Angeles. It’s always hard because we want to go home to our families, but we all have to go our separate ways.
“Y/n!” voices cheer as I walk in David’s front door.
“Merry Christmas!” I cheer right back as I walk in. I set down an armful of presents off under the tree. We’ve carried on this tradition every since David got this house, we all show up. Even if we don’t all celebrate, there’s something about being together to celebrate a holiday and pick things out for each other.
“We’re having dinner, then presents after.” Natalie explains.
“Y/n!” David grins, “Merry Christmas.” He walks out of his room and pulls me in for a hug.
“Merry Christmas, Dave.” I hug back.
“Wow, when I tried to get a hug earlier, you literally pushed me away.” Zane yells from the living room.
“That’s because you’re Zane.” David teases.
“How can I help?” I got there a little early so I can help set things up. Carly, Scott, Kristen, Erin, TJ, Heath, and Mariah are all here too. They’re all just sitting on the couch enjoying themselves. Jason, Natalie, and David are all in the kitchen.
“Could you set the table?” Natalie asks as she moves food into other dishes.
“Absolutely!” I grin. I take the tablecloth off of the island and lay it out over the tables for us to all sit at. I decorate the table and move some things around so everything is perfect. One by one, more people show up until now everyone is here and all of the food is almost ready. David is running around filming a montage and asking people questions.
“Y/n, could you grab the plates?” Jason asks, he carries the large roasting pan which either contains turkey or ham over to the center of the table.
“Yeah, where are they?” I get up from my spot on the couch.
“They’re in the spare bedroom closet with all the other storage.” Natalie explains, my eyes go wide for a second, “No, I can just do it-”
She starts to set down what she had been previously been doing.
“No no, I can do it.” I reassure.
I make my way to the extra bedroom and open the closet to be met with a stack of clear totes. They’re all filled with a mixture of things David can’t get rid off, stuff he actually needs, and PR packages.
“I was sent to help.” Jeff laughs announcing himself as he walks in.
“Yeah, I just might need it.”
He helps me take a few out before we find the right one. We put everything back the way it was, only Jeff is carrying a heavy stack of nicer plates now.
“Success?” Erin asks from the couch. Jeff and I stop to show off the plates with a grin.
“Oh my god!” Zane screams out interrupting me.
“What?” I ask, question is burst of excitement.
“Mistletoe!” He points to the spot above our heads. I look up to see that he’s right. I don’t remember that being there in the past, it must be a new decoration that was added today.
I turn to look at Jeff and he’s biting back a smile, his cheeks tinted in pink.
“What? Are you nervous or something?” I tease.
“I didn’t- I mean- I” He stutters while trying to come up with anything to say.
“Stop panicking. It’s only a mistletoe kiss.” I stand up on my toes and press my lips to his in a quick kiss. The group screams in shock that I actually did that. It’s not a big deal, it’s not like people in our group haven’t kissed for bits or other randomness.
He stands there for a few seconds, just a shy smile on his face. I take the plates out of his hands and walk back over to the table and start placing them around. I can feel David watching me as I do it.
“You okay, Dave?” I ask, looking up to finally meet his eyes.
“No, I’m good!” He smiles tight lipped.
“Alright, I think we’re ready!” Jason cheers.
The rest of the group scrambles over to take a seat and grab something to drink. I take a seat somewhat towards the end of the table near David. I sit on David’s right with Natalie to my right.
“I just want to thank all of you for being a part of my life. It’s cheesy, I know, but I really am glad to be hanging out with so many people who are half my age!” Jason holds up his glass, “But honestly, this holiday really is amazing to spend with you guys. I love wasting money on gifts you don’t care about.”
We all laugh throughout Jason’s toast. After he sits back down to David expecting him to say something too.
We all hesitate for a second, but dig in regardless. I guess David never really has been a sentimental guy anyway. We all dive into conversation, David being unusually quiet.
“Hey are you okay?” I ask, placing a gentle hand on his knee.
“Mhm.” He nods as he continues to shovel in more food.
“Dave.” I lean down to try and force eye contact again, “What’s going on?”
“Nothing.” he finally picks up his head and smiles at me. Maybe if we were still newly friends I would believe that it was a genuine smile. Instead of continuing to badger him for the rest of the meal, I focus on the group conversation again.
“Present time!” Erin cheers.
We all take our plates and clear them before sitting in the living room. We all pass our presents around to whoever they belong to.
“No cars this year, right?” I tease, taking a seat next to David.
“No cars this year.” David agrees, finally smiling. He throws an arm around the back of the couch around me. I don’t know what was wrong before, but he seems to be happy now.
One by one we all get to open our presents. Taylor gets to open the designer wallet I got her, which she completely flipped out over. Jason gets the massage gun I got him. Mariah for the mini filming get that she can use for youtube or to help record her dancing for Tik Tok. There were countless other presents too.
“Wait, what is this?” Jeff asks, digging to the bottom of the bag.
“It’s a toy for Nerf.” I explain with a laugh. I picked out other things for him, but that was a random add on that I thought was funny.
He holds it up for everyone to see.
“Thank you.” He gets up from his spot on the other side of the room to give me a hug. I lean forward and mutter an ‘of course’.
I lean back and the attention moves onto Zane who was next for opening. David lets out a loud sigh and pulls back his arm. I try to ignore the mood swings he’s going through. Finally it’s made its way to me.
“My turn!” I sing with a laugh.
I receive cute clothes from Carly and Erin. Zane, Heath, and Matt all joined in to buy me a new lens for my camera. Jeff got me a pair of the shoes I had been complaining about wanting for a while and a coupon to visit Nerf anytime I want. Natalie and I unintentionally got each other the same exact bag from Gucci for each other because we loved it so much. We knew the other would too, since we have similar taste.
“Last one.” Carly hands me the last on from my stack on the floor.
“David?” I ask reading the tag on the top of the smaller box. I smile looking over at him. He has a red face and he’s chewing his bottom lip.
“Actually Y/n can I talk to you?” David interrupts, his hand suddenly stops me from tearing through the paper.
The room falls in to a dead silence.
“Yeah.” David stands up, “Sure, Dave.”
I follow where he leads into his room, he shuts the door behind him softly. My heart is racing over what this could be about.
“Hey Dave, what’s going on?” I ask as I take a seat on his bed.
He slowly walks over and stops in front of me. I look up and wait for an answer as he takes a deep breath before pacing again.
“I need to tell you something.”
“You can tell me anything, what’s going on? You’re making me nervous! Please sit.”
Finally he takes a seat on the bed, I turn to actually face him.
“I just wanted to do this in private because I had this whole plan with and I couldn’t go through with it with all of our friends out there. And Jeff.”
David pulls out the gift from him that I had started to open from behind his back.
“Here, you can open it now.”
I hesitantly open it. It’s filled with random knickknacks from what I can best tell.
“What is all of this?” I smile looking back up at him.
“This,” He grabs the top item on the box, “is the wristband I was wearing the night we first met in that club. I took it off after dropping you off and filming with you, and I knew it was worth saving I knew you were going to be a big part of my life.”
I look up and his eyes are starting to water, I don’t dare say anything because I know that I’m not far behind him if he keeps this up.
“This is the receipt from the first time you made me run out and buy you chocolate from the gas station by my apartment. It was the first time we ever had a sleepover.”
He lets out a laugh, “That was in the shitty Dom apartment, I’m lucky you didn’t run then.” We both chuckle, I wipe away a stray tear drifting down my cheek.
“This is a piece of drywall from when you tried to convince me that you could in fact do a handstand and ended up putting a hole in my wall.”
We both laugh at the memory. He reaches in again to grab another object.
“This is the polaroid you gave me when you first got that camera. I barely opened my door and a flash went off. Now I can get you back though with my disposable cameras.”
“This is gross, but it’s a tissue that you gave me when Liza and I broke up. You stayed up with me for hours to listen to my cry basically and just make sure I wasn’t alone.”
He shakes his head looking down at it. I don’t know where exactly he’s going with this trip down memory lane, but it’s making my heart jerk.
“This is a movie ticket from the first time you stole my clothes. I couldn’t believe how good you looked wearing my sweatshirt. You claimed that movie theaters are always cold.”
“Whatever.” He rolls his eyes with a smile.
“This is the plane ticket from the first time I took you home to Chicago. You had no idea, but that whole trip was planned so you could meet my family.”
I nudge his shoulder lightly with mine, a steady stream of tears our drifting down both of our faces at this point.
He reaches in once again, there are few things left now.
“This is a dried up rose petal from when I tried to go over to your apartment to tell you that I loved you, but I chickened out.”
“This rose petal is almost two years old. I have been in love with you for two years, and I know that I always will. I just needed you to know. I couldn’t go another year without telling you. You’re my best friend, I want to tell you everything. I just love you so much, and I would love it if you’re comfortable staying in my life as a friend. I know you and Jeff are-”
“Jeff and I?” I interrupt.
“The kiss!” He says rolling his eyes.
“It was just mistletoe!” It’s my turn to roll my eyes now, “I would’ve kissed Natalie under it. It didn’t mean anything, it was only friendly.”
“Oh.” He bites his bottom lip.
“Wow, you were so jealous!” I grin.
“I wasn’t that jealous.” He shrugs, trying to act nonchalant.
“You totally were, and that’s okay.”
“It is?” He looks up, wiping his last trail of tears from a few minutes ago.
“It is, because I’m in love with you too, David.”
“Oh thankgod, I don’t think I’ve ever been so nervous.” He pulls me in for a hug.
“You did a really good job, Dave. Very sweet. Very sentimental.” I grin.
“I knew it would pay off keeping all of this crap for so long!” He throws the stuff back on the bed.
“Hey! It’s not crap.” I pick it all back up and put it back in the box.
“No, I know.” He presses a kiss to edge of my jaw.
“You missed.” I look up, his face being closer to mine now than it’s maybe ever been.
“What?” His voice is barely a whisper, he gulps loudly.
I smirk and tilt my head forward to our lips can meet after years of waiting. It’s like all this time was building up because it feels like a release of endorphins and excitement. I can feel his lips smiling against mine.
“Worth the wait?” I ask, I stand up so we can head back out to our friends who I’m sure are wondering what’s going on.
“Definitely worth the wait.”
“What’s going on? Are you guys okay?” Jason asks, hearing the door open and noticing us walk out. Everyone turns to look at us. We’re just standing outside of David’s room, eyes red and puffy. We both have smiles on our faces, but I’m sure it’s a confusing look. I’m sure they’ve just spent the last ten minutes talking about us.
I take a look at David and smile, we both walk in a little closer to the living room to see everyone.
“We’re great actually.” I grin, taking David’s hand in mine.
“Really great.” David agrees with a squeeze of my hand.
“Hey look guys, Mistletoe!”
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