BXBX NOVEL Chapter 64 - 63
THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEW:
"Is this really mine?" Daniel said with sparkling eyes as he looked at the couple who was smiling at him. He looks like a big kid who is so happy for receiving something he really wanted.
"I told you, it is," Justin said and giggled. "I\'m totally rooting for you guys. I like you a lot already, Tristan," Daniel said as he put his thumbs up while beaming widely.
"Oh my! This smells so good," Marina said as she sniffed off the perfume that she sprayed on her wrist. "Do you like it, M... Mom?" Tristan said as his face turned a bit red, still not accustomed to calling Marina \'Mom\'.
"Why, of course! I\'m finally adding another great perfume to my collection," she giggled.
Rafael cleared his throat as he looked at the bottle of wine that he is holding. "This is some finely aged wine, huh?" He said, trying to stop himself from smiling.
Just by the look of his face, his is love for wine is truly undeniable.
"Tristan, here..." Marina said as she handed a box wrapped with newspapers. Tristan took the box from Marina\'s hands and stared at it for a while. Upon noticing that Tristan was quite intrigued with the newspaper, Marina\'s eyebrows rose. "Oh, about the wrapper... we used some old newspapers so we could reuse them somehow," she explained and smiled.
\'Ah right. I remember Justin being an eco-friendly person when I first met him,\' Tristan thought, reminiscing the past.
"Oh, this is perfectly fine! I like it, actually. I like how your family cares for the environment," Tristan smiled.
He unwrapped the box and before opening it, Marina spoke again. "It\'s not much, but the three of us really thought hard about what to give you and came up with that. We didn\'t really know what you wanted so we got that," she said as she smiled at Tristan.
He proceeded to open the box and saw a leather wallet inside. "Thank you," Tristan smiled. "I put a little something inside," Marina whispered and giggled.
\'It must money.... right?\' Tristan thought as he took the wallet from the box. He opened it and as soon as he saw what was inside it, he immediately felt his face burn, slowly turning bright red. His hands were shaking and the corners of his lips were twitching, trying to stop himself from smiling.
"How much is it?" Justin whispered to him. Startled, Tristan closed the wallet and put it inside his pocket right away. "Oh... A-About 10 dollars?" Tristan said as he beamed. Justin laughed. "My gift for you should have been 10 dollars since it seems like it made you that happy," he said.
"Just a sec. I\'ll go get my gift for you," Justin said and went back to his room where he put Tristan\'s gift.
Tristan fished the wallet from his pocket and opened it again to see what was inside more clearly.
The alpha lied about it being 10 dollars. The \'little something\' that Marina put inside were actually printed pictures of Justin. There were about 10 pictures inside, showing him how Justin looked like when he was still a baby, a child, a teenager, and even a recent picture of him.
"Thank you so much!" Tristan beamed at Marina with sparkling eyes. "You\'re more than welcome. Just don\'t show those to him. He\'d feel embarrassed and might take them from you," Marina said and cackled.
"Why don\'t you go after him and spend some time a lone for a bit? I\'ll make sure to keep my husband occupied so he\'d leave you two alone," Marina said as she smiled. "That would be great. Thanks, Mom!" Tristan said and left for Justin\'s room.
Marina felt her heart flutter when she realized that Tristan didn\'t feel shy when he called her \'Mom\' just now.
\'Now this really feels like I\'ve gotten myself another son,\' she thought as she smiled.
Tristan walked to Justin\'s room and when he got there, Justin was already on his way out. "Oh, why are you here?" He said as he closed to door. "Just because," Tristan shrugged as he smiled. Justin looked around to see if nobody else was there and held Tristan\'s wrist. "Come in," he said as he dragged him inside his room.
Tristan sat on Justin\'s bed while Justin stood in front of him with his hands behind his back.
"This is my gift for you," Justin said as he handed a box to Tristan. "I\'m sorry I didn\'t give you anything for our first month..." He said as he rubbed his nape, feeling embarrassed. Tristan took the box and put it beside him. He then held Justin\'s hands and said, "Look, darling... It doesn\'t matter to me whether you give me gifts or not, though it would make me happy if you do." He chuckled. "But... even if you don\'t, I\'m already happy enough to have you by my side. I don\'t have anything else to ask for. You... Just you..." He said as he gave Justin a gentle smile while softly rubbing his fingers on Justin\'s hands.
Justin felt his heart flutter as he listened to Tristan. His fingers that were touching his hands softly made his palms a bit sweaty as his heart raced.
"You\'re the best gift I\'ve ever gotten in my entire life, darling," Tristan said and placed soft kisses on Justin\'s hands.
Justin felt his face heat up. He couldn\'t look at Tristan, so he turned his face away to avoid his gaze.
He removed his hands from Tristan\'s and said, "J-Just open your gift," while stuttering. Tristan smiled knowing that Justin feels shy about what he said.
His words were from the bottom of his heart. Justin is really that precious to him. So precious that he thinks he doesn\'t need anything else or anyone else but him.
But deep inside his heart... he felt a bit hurt knowing that the day will come when he won\'t even be able to see the omega he loves the most, let alone feel his warmth as he holds him in his arms.
"Okay," he smiled at Justin. He took the box beside him and opened it. He took the thing that was inside it and he couldn\'t help but laugh when he saw what it was.
"A scarf?" He said as he laughed.
It was a plain, thick, gray scarf that has Tristan\'s initials embroidered messily at the end of the scarf. He could smell Justin\'s pheromones on it, making him realize that Justin must have embroidered the initials for him.
"Why are you laughing?" Justin pouted. "A-Ahh... hahaha..." Tristan covered his mouth with his hand to stop himself from laughing. "I just love it so much that I\'m overjoyed," he said and chuckled. He removed his hand from his mouth and smiled widely at Justin. "Can you put this on for me?" He said as he extended his arm, handing the scarf to Justin.
Justin nodded as he smiled and took the scarf from his boyfriend\'s hand. He stepped closer to him and wrapped the scarf around his neck.
"I can smell your scent from this. It makes me feel like you\'re hugging my neck," Tristan smiled as he stared at Justin who was fixing the scarf and wrapping it around his neck properly.
"I really love it. I love it so much," Tristan said as Justin stepped back, already finished fixing the scarf.
"Thank you..." Justin shyly smiled as he avoided Tristan\'s sparkling eyes.
"Darling, this is my gift for you," Tristan said and put his hand in his pocket. Justin waited for him to take something out from it.
He took his hand out from his pocket and showed Justin his index finger and thumb that were against each other, forming a heart.
"My heart," Tristan beamed as he winked at his boyfriend. Justin laughed at him because he didn\'t expect something like that at all. When Tristan saw Justin laughing, he couldn\'t help but smile even wider. He chuckled and said, "Just kidding. I didn\'t bring my gift here because it was too big."
"What is it?" Justin asked. Tristan put his index finger against his lips and said, "It\'s a secret." Justin rolled his eyes. "Just tell me that you forgot to bring it with you," he said and chuckled. "No, really! It\'s just too big to fit inside the car," Tristan said defensively.
"Oh really?" Justin kept teasing him even until they went out of his room.
When they got out of their room, they saw Justin\'s parents hugging each other while dancing in the beat of the Christmas song. The two looked so happily in love and the sight made Justin and Tristan smile.
\'I wonder... I wonder if we\'d be able to create a family like this where our children would witness our love, too...\' Tristan thought to himself.
Despite the slight bitterness Tristan felt in his heart for having a negative thought again, he forced himself to smile and brushed the thought off.
Tristan, together with Justin and his family, spent the holidays happily with smiles on their faces.