12| christmas

I walk downstairs and everyone is already sitting at the table. I find a seat and sit down. I am sitting beside Kiera. The food smells so good. Everyone is making small talk while my mom brings over all of the food and puts it on the table.

I put tons of food on my plate. Yes, I eat a lot. My mom calls me a pig. My mom has made turkey, cheesy potatoes (my favourite), corn, and chicken wings.

Once dinner is finished, we have dessert.

"You didn't" I say with disbelief as my Aunt Audrey brings over a tray of her cherry cheesecake. My mouth waters just looking at it. "Cherry cheesecake is my favourite!" I scream.

"I know it is, that's why I made it!"

Aunt Audrey cuts me a very big piece, because she knows I'll eat it. I basically stuff myself full, and when I'm finished, I feel like I'm going to explode.

"Are you full yet, Allie?" My mom laughs.

"Yes. Very. Thank you everyone for the lovely meal."

I hear another chorus of 'thank you's and 'you're welcome's around the table.

"So, shall we start opening presents, kids?" My mom asks.

"Yes!" all of the kids scream.

-

We have finished opening our gifts, and all of the kids are in bed. It took tons of persuading, but the thing that got them the most was "If you don't go to bed now, Santa won't come tonight!" and they went to bed immediately.

The rest of us (all of the adults plus Maddy, Kiera, Mya, and I) are watching Miracle On 34th Street.

I suddenly hear my phone buzz and I look, and see that it's Shawn. I get up from the couch, and start walking towards my room, so I can take the call.

"Allie, where are you going?" My dad asks.

"Um, Shawn is calling. I will be right back out."

"Okay, that's fine, just come back."

"I will."

I walk into my room as I click the green 'talk' button on my phone. I put it up to my ear and say "Hey babe, what's up?"

"I just wanted to hear your voice"

"Oh. Well you heard it." I giggle. "It's almost 11" I sigh.

"So what's up?" he asks.

"I was watching a movie with my family, and as much as I would love to talk right now, I told them I would only be a minute."I say sadly.

"That's okay, baby. Goodnight, I'll see you tomorrow, okay?"

"Goodnight, Mendes. Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas." he says, and hangs up. I walk back over and we watch the rest of the movie.

-

"Santa came!" I hear a voice scream. Someone is shaking my shoulder. "Allie, wake up! Santa came!"

"Hmm" I mumble as I slowly open my eyes.

I see Lily standing beside my bed. "Allie come on!"

"Okay" I mumble.

We walk over to the living room, where I see all of the presents out in front of the fireplace, and all of the kids are sitting and waiting. The parents must still be sleeping.

"Mommy said that we can open our presents once you come out, Allie!" Aidan says.

"Okay go ahead!"

-

We have all opened our presents. I got a MacBook Air! This will be perfect for the tour, so that I can do my online courses. Also, since I have the iPhone 6, I have heard there are a lot of cool features when you have a MacBook.

The rest of the kids are already busy playing with their new toys, so I decide to start setting up my new computer, and fail miserably when I have no idea what to do.

-

It is now 12:00, and we already had breakfast. The moms made chocolate chip pancakes and cinnamon buns.

Shawn will be here in about an hour, so I decide to finally get dressed. I go upstairs to my room.

I go into the bathroom, and decide to have a shower. I get undressed and hop in. When I turn on the shower, the hot water feels nice. I have a really long shower, and then I put on my house coat, wrap a towel around my hair and go back to my room.

After awhile of contemplating, I have decided to throw on my purple sweater and black leggings. I add my black scarf. Then I do my makeup, putting more foundation on my bruise, and some mascara.

I told my mom last night, after the movie, what had happened. She suggested this cream, and it seems to be helping, but it is still noticeable.

Lastly, I decide to dry my hair and straighten it. After I finish, I leave it down.

By the time I finish my routine, it is about 10 minutes to one.

As if right on cue, I hear my phone buzz, saying that I have a text. I look down and it's from Shawn.

From: mendes ;)

on my way, baby girl :))

To: mendes ;)

okayyy

I walk back downstairs to let everyone know that Shawn is on his way. We talk for a couple of minutes, when I hear the doorbell ring. Everyone looks at me.

"I'll get it," I say, blushing.

I open the door to reveal a smiling tall brown eyed boy.

"Hey, baby girl." He says.

"Hey, babe." I laugh, and pull him in for a hug.

"I'll take your coat," I offer, as he takes it off and I put it in the closet.

We walk over to the main room, where everyone else is.

"It's Shawn Mendes!" Ellie screams.

"He's mine." I laugh. Shawn looks at me and laughs as well.

The whole thing goes smoother than I thought, to be honest I was kind of nervous for everyone to meet him, but all went well.

My cousins all asked for autographs and took pictures with him, as was expected. He learned all of their names and everyone was super excited to meet him, even the adults.

After he met with everyone, we go up to my room. He has never been up here before, in fact, he has only been to my house the one time when he dropped me home after the party.

"Wow, I love your room" he says, as we walk in.

My walls are painted baby blue, and my bed is right in the middle, against the back wall. I have a few shelves on my wall with books, since I'm a bookworm, and a pink bean bag chair on the floor. On the other wall is a body-length mirror (perfect for mirror selfies!), and my desk.

My room is pretty tumblr if you ask me.

"Thanks." I smile. I really hope he doesn't go into my walk in closet, because it is basically a shrine of him from before I met him, when I was obsessed. I have forgotten to clean that up.

"You have a MacBook?" he asks curiously. "I didn't know that."

"Yeah, I got it from Santa." I smile.

He smirks. "I can't believe my girlfriend still believes in Santa."

"I don't. We just play along for the younger kids." I laugh. "Do you know anything about MacBooks?"

"Yeah, I have one, why?"

"Can you, um, help me? I have no idea how to set it up. I tried this morning and gave up." I giggle.

"I'd love to! Pass it over here."

a/n sorry filler, i know it was sort of boring. :(

in the media is a collage of the pics I used as inspiration for her room

her room is goals tbh, like I wish that was my room

I don't have much to say today, and I have homework, so byeeee!

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