I and Sierra got into Cam's apartment, "Yum." I remark as the delicious smell fills my nosetrils, my eyes search for the attractive smell around the place makes me found out that it's the aroma of the dish that Gina is preparing.

I drop the presents under the christmas tree that we all build hand in hand, "Where's Cam?" I ask, interrupting Sierra and Gina's chat as I'm trying to take off the boots that has been killing my feet for hours and hang my coat into the rack next to the door.

"He's in the room, probably sleeping or something." Gina response.

I head in the room, and lay next to Cameron who's sleeping. I examine his admiring feautures, and give a touch of my finger agaisnt his full and voluptuous lips as it's slightly parted.

He opens his eyes abruptly, I don't know what should I feel for waking him up accidentally and all of my feelings turns into a panic all of a sudden for I don't know what mood he will be in after doing something accidentally that I know would pissed him off.

He pulls his eyebrows together and ask, "What are you doing?"

"I'm sorry, just get back to sleep." I push his hair back once more, and plant a kiss onto his forehead.

I stand up from the bed about to ask Gina if she needs help or something until Cameron holds my wrist and pleads, "Stay, please."

He recloses his eyes right after I lay in bed next to him again, the doorbell rings making me stop from my actions. A panic and nervous feeling bursts into my chest, I clear off the image of my parents being in this place with Cam and I at the same time, trying to calm myself down.

I carefully walk out of the room trying not to pull Cameron away from his sleep. A breath of relief breaks free my soul, when a tall and white guy shows up.

Sierra turns into me with a grin, and says, "Dad this is Amy, Cam's girlfriend. And Amy this is my dad, Mark."

When I found out that I'm facing Cam's father, I immediately hold out my hands for him to shake. "It's a pleasure to meet you sir."

Giggles starts flying in the room, "You can just call me Mark." Mark tells me with a sincere tap on my shoulder. "Where's Cameron?" Mark asks as his eyes search for his son in the room.

"His at the room, I can call him if you want to." I volunteer.

"Yes, please." Mark smiles.

I saunter towards the room, I don't want to do this but his dad is looking for him. I gently shake Cameron and once he opens his eyes, I say, "Babe, your dad's here."

He groans, "Tell him I'm taking a nap."

Cam turns his back on me making me sigh in disappointment, "Cam you could just show up to your dad, and go back to sleep."

"Let me sleep. For fuck's sake, Amy." He snaps. I knew this mood of him would occupy him after waking him up. I always knew.

"Cameron. Just get up and show up to your dad just for a minute!" I hiss, trying not to let the respectable people to hear mine and cameron's small argument.

"Fuck, fine." He replies and get up off the bed, then soon ambulates to the living room where his family are.

Gina and Mark pulls a pleased look right after they saw Cameron coming out of the room, "Now that Cameron's here let's eat for supper and then we can open the gifts." Gina squeals in excitement.

Everyone sits on their respective seats, and before we touch the surely delicious foods infront of us Gina leads the prayer.

"Lord thank you for this day, and for everything you've done for us. Please, bless our foods that will be shared by everyone in in this table. Amen." Gina sighs in happiness.

"Amen." We all response in sync.

Before I get to serve myself with the foods that Gina cooked, I grab Cam's plate and put a few slices of ham and pasta.

"Thanks babe." Cam smiles right after I handed him his plate. I'm very pleased that his inappropriate mood for this moment has gone and faded away.

I smile in response and serve myself with pasta, and a few slices of ham as well. I swirl the fork to collect the strands of pastas before putting it in my mouth.

I have never seen and taste a pasta like this, it's seriously the best pasta I've ever tasted. "This is so good." I compliment.

"It's actually the family's favorite, that's why mom makes it occasionally." Sierra laughs.

"True." Mark agrees.

"I would love to learn how to do this." I say before taking an another swirl of pasta in ny mouth.

"Oh it's so easy, honey. I'll taught you later." Gina winks, and Cam joins the table chat, "Mom, you've given me a lot of lessons how to make this pasta, but I always failed at it." Cam manage to say between every munch.

Everyone laughs, and it sounds very attractive. This is the moment that really needs to treasure, having a family like them is truly a privilege.

"Aren't you supposed to be with your family? This christmas?" Mark starts, "I'm not kicking you out, I'm just wondering."

I look at Cameron with a sorrow hiding in my eyes and I start squeezing his hand for I am lost in the moment as panic and anxiety collides and hits me. I have nothing against Mark though, I know his being completely honest.

Cameron squeezes my hand in response and he simply answers, "Her parents are unfortunately in a vacation and she can't come."

A big thank you has been added once again to the list. Breaking the truth and replacing it with some words is just really a hard thing for me to do, I feel like my whole body swell so bad whenever I do it. Nevertheless, I feel so bad that I am making Cameron do it for me, It's still a sin in the eyes of god, but I don't want Cam's parents to worry and have pity on me.

"I'm sorry. We can be your family whenever they are away." Mark winks dissolving all the sorrows inside me.

"Thank you." I smile.

...

Sierra takes a glance of the clock hanging across the room and squeals with an exciting clap, "Let's open the gifts before the clock strikes midnight!"

Luckily, Sierra and I got to have our last christmas shopping despite of all the crowd in the mall. If I didn't had a little shopping spree, maybe or surely it would, be awkward not having to give someone while someone has something for me.

I was about to head off the kitchen with Sierra, Cam and Mark until I realized that Gina is going to left alone putting all the dishes inti the dishwasher, and she surely needs a hand.

I grab a few plates, but Gina stops me, "Go, open gifts with them I can handle this." She smiles.

"No, It's fine." I disagree with all the respects she deserve. It would be really unfair for her if we're opening gifts while she's clearing the mess in the dining room.

"You're such a good daughter. Your parents are lucky having a child like you." She says, and it strikes me as if her words are thunder. I hope my parents looks up at me like Gina does. For my parents thinks everything I do is never enough.

"Mom! Amy!" Cam calls out.

"Be there in a few, love. We're just clearing off the table." I say minus the yelling. A set of counter tops and a set of dining table are the only things that are between us, and shouting is not necessary.

"That name you call my son is really sweet." Gina whispers as she place the last plate into the dishwasher.

I smile at Gina in response before heading into the living room where my designated family are. "Finally!" Sierra excitedly yells.

Everyone sits in circle near the Christmas Tree, and I reminisce all the moments when we are putting the tree together. It's just a complete euphoric moment. It's kind of shying that I'm just an eighteen years old girl who only has her little savings to buy presents for everyone, for the christmas tree is surrounded by expensive stuffs, I can tell it by the paper bags around it. The fact that I have no gifts for Mark for he just abruptly came into here increases the shyness building up inside me.

"Oh, A cartier." Sierra seductively pronounce.

Sierra grabs the black red bag that has the name cartier printed on it, and soon read the card. "Oh it's for you Amanda, and it's from Camcam."

When my name escapes off of Sierra's mouth I got really surprise, that stuff inside the bag is truly a money sucker stuff. Sierra hands me the paper bag, and I very carefully grab the box out of the paper bag.

I open the box, and it reveals a white gold love necklace with diamonds. My eyes starts to tear up, after realizing that I just got the necklace I've been dreaming of. I look at Cameron and jump on him, hugging him tightly as I whisper, "Thank you babe."

The room is again filled with laughter which makes me pull away from Cameron. Cam laughs of my actions before putting my hair aside and put the extremely ravishing necklace on me, "Aw, it's so beautiful on you." Gina compliments and I mouth her, "Thank you."

"It makes you look much more beautiful." Mark compliments, and afterwards Sierra compliments me as well with, "You are the bomb." Sierra holds out three of her fingers, making an okay sign.

"Sorry guys, but Amanda is off limits." Cam jokes which makes the room to be filled with laughter for the thousandth time.

Cam grabs the Michael Kors paper bag which is something that I bought for him, It's a watch. All of the presents that I bought are seriously from Michael Kors, because it's the only boutique store I know that will suit my budget.

"It's for me," Cam furrowed her eyebrows towards me, "I've warned you about this." He whispers and grabs the box out of the white paper bag.

I know he ruled that I am should not buy anything for him, but I think it's unfair and I hate being unfair to him nor everyone, It makes me feel like a terrible person.

I just hope that this isn't going to be the root of our misunderstanding, I don't see anything wrong about it at all. It's just giving back all of the things that he have done for me, like moving out of Cobi's so I could have a place to stay. All the sacrifices he had made for me deserves something in return even though I know that I can never be able to catch up to the amount of sacrifices he had made.

...

The whole time having the opening-gifts session, Cam seems a little bit disappointed and furious. It feels like something is swirling around his head, something that makes him think deeply. The possible reason is the fact that I got him a present, and it's honestly getting in my nerves. We're surely going to end the night brawling.

Nevertheless, I am very pleased by the presents that I got. All of the items that I've been dreaming about came in reality in just a worthful hour and all of it breaks my contentment point. A set of designer underwear and clothes was given by Sierra, a pair of Yeezy that match Cam's from Mark, and a designer purse from Gina.

The presents I got for them surprisingly made them happy, I never thought that they would be contented with all the gifts that I got for them despite of not, having present for Mark. Shyness towards Mark consumes me, I feel so terrible. The true piece information that he got me something increases the things that I should be shy of.

After the gift-opening session everyone kiss each other goodnights and make their ways towards their room. Right after I entered the room I immediately walk to the bathroom to take a bathe and relax myself before heading into an arguement with Cam.

I turn on the faucet and wait for the tub to be filled with steaming water while I strip myself, put my hair in a bun and wrap a towel around me.

Soon enough, the tub got finally filled by the water and I put the bath bomb into it, revealing a beautiful bright colors that blends into the water so nicely. Afterwards I hang the towel back to where it is, and slowly soak myself into the tub. The steaming hot water relaxes and soothes my muscles right after it has consumed the steaming water. I then close my eyes and starts to clear off my mind to be fully relaxed.

I open my eyes when I realized that I've been soaked by the water for a long time already, and my body feels soggy. I turn hop out of the tub and turn on the drainer to drain all of the nasty used water. Subsequently, I walk towards the shower, then turn it on to get rid of all the excess colored water and soap on my body.

I grab the towel after washing myself into the shower and wrap it around my body. My feet then brings me to the room where Cam and I are staying, I just don't know why he bought an apartment with an extra room, but it's good that it exists so whenever wants to visit us they can have a place to stay.

I walk into our shared closet but only Cam's clothes are in there because my clothes are just not yet organized due of a lack of my time. I grab Cam's sweater and sweatpants, that makes me look like a sack of rice because I'm short and tiny comparable to Cam's muscular and tall frame.

After putting myself into Cam's clothes, I walk and lay into our bed where Cameron is deeply sleeping. I push the fact that my phone will get blown up by my parents' text and missed call to the very corner of my mind and grab my phone from the drawer of the bedside table and turn the phone on.

Hundreds of texts and missed call from all of the people that's related to me flashes through my phonescreen after it has finished booting up. A few texts from my relatives and friends greeting me a Merry Christmas and some of it are from my mom that's full of mad and disappointment messages while my dad's messages are so sincere, and understanding which makes my unexpected tears to roll down my cheeks.

A message from my dad really hits me, "Goodmorning my Princess. I hope you're having a very wonderful christmas. I miss my girl, pumpkin, sugarcake and my netflix and pizza buddy despite of my lack of presence while you were here by my side. Be good always Amanda, I trust Cameron being with you even though I've only met her for just a couple of minutes and if you need a place to stay our home will always welcome you with pure love that you deserve. I just hope, wish and want you to go home, baby. I'm sorry for how your mother reacted and treated Cameron, she just got really carried away but I know all of it would fade, just give her time to adjust. She just really cares for you and protecting you over bad guys even though we know that Cameron is so far from being one of the bad guys in this planet. Soon she would accept Cameron, I'm sure. I trust you Amanda, and I love you. I miss you."

I give myself a time to catch my breath, because I was sobbing and controlling my cry while I was reading my father's thoughtful message. I miss him, I miss my parents. I want them to give them a call, but I know that it would just complicate things much more, A message from me to my father will do.

"Good Evening Dad. I'm really sorry for everything that I've done. I love you guys so much and please tell mom that. Always take good care always and dad you have no idea how much I want to go home, but I don't think it's the right time yet. I'm sorry dad. I miss you and love you always." I can't hold my loud sobs any longer, with that I press the send button and turn my phone off. I breathe in and out to calm myself down and tried my best to go to sleep, to give myself a peace for the next couple of hours.

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