“Merry Christmas T”

“Merry Christmas baby.”

Then she reached under her pillow and brought out a small wrapped box and handed it to me.

“I know you wanted to wait until Christmas for presents but I couldn’t wait any longer and it after midnight so it is Christmas now.”

I opened the box and found a beautiful gold necklace, I lifted it from the box and examined it closer, it was then that I noticed that on the back of the heart pendant was ‘B&T forever’ etched into it.  I admit that I started crying, it was so beautiful and I love it so much and I love the woman who gave it to me.

Thankfully she let me go back to sleep and we woke up nine hours later.  Bette was still asleep so I got up and made her breakfast in bed.  I brought the tray into our bedroom and placed it on the floor next to the bed then got back on the bed to slowly wake Bette up.  As she was waking up she was so cute, stretching and yawning then opening her eyes to look sleepily at me.

“Merry Christmas again baby.”

“Merry Christmas T.”

“I made breakfast in bed for you, so just sit there and get comfortable.”

“Wow, T this is quite the spread.  French toast, pancakes, bacon and orange juice.  I can’t eat all of this.  You have to help me eat this.”

“If you insist.”

So we ate in our bed the breakfast that I had made and it was wonderful.

After we finished breakfast we moved out to the Christmas tree and began opening presents.  Bette gave me wonderful presents, among the things that she got me were these amazing clothes that I would never buy for myself and I loved everything else that she got me.

I got Bette a necklace, great minds think alike, it had a solitary diamond on it and she had tears in her eyes when she opened the box.  I got her a new leather briefcase and a gift certificate to the store that she buys all of her designer suits at.

We had an amazing day, one that I will never forget and I have never been so happy.