Chapter 25

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Sorry for the late update! I'm going to be more free as off Friday so I'm hoping you won't have to wait as long again :)

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"Good lord," I scowled as I looked around the shelves, and the objects there; I generally love Christmas, but this little shopping trip is reminding me why I shouldn't idealize it as much.

"Stop complaining," Liam mumbled from behind me, checking out some Christmas-themed vase; which I wouldn't use even during the holidays. "We should have done this, like, three weeks ago. Mum kept telling me they had every kind of product you'd want to give someone."

"Well why didn't you just go with her, then?" I frowned and crossed my arms over my chest, "The crowd here is creepy."

I looked around the store just to confirm my thoughts; and I did - it was packed. The amount of people that could fit in actually stunned me. The amount of people that would buy something they found there, stunned me even more.

"I was lazy," Liam interrupted my thoughts as I leaned against a shelf, "Why'd I want to go shopping with my mum, anyway?"

I breathed out a laugh at his somewhat reasonable excuse, and turned my head to look at him. He was putting extra effort into finding Christmas gifts for everyone, since finding something that anyone would be happy about was quite a challenge.

"Well, this is what you get for being lazy and deciding to buy gifts three days before Christmas," I said, slowly and loudly so every word would sink into his brain, and caused hum to sigh; bingo.

"Now you sound like her, this morning," He said through another sigh and walked past me toward another shelf. I was actually a little surprised by how much he cared about presents; I guess he never seemed like someone that would put this much effort into making someone else happy.

"Didn't you say we just came here to buy the Christmas lights?" I asked as I looked around again, but since all I could see were people, I leaned off of the shelf and stood close to Liam. "And, half an hour later..."

I trailed off, but he just gave me a weird look. "Here we are."

He pressed his lips in a line, continuing to move the objects around. I wanted to help him - mostly so we'd get out of the blasted store as soon as possible - but I had no idea what his family, or friends liked. So I could just stand and watch him.

Not that I minded, though.

"I told you you could just wait in the car," Liam mumbled as he pushed his way further down the shop, and I snorted as I followed him. Not that he could hear me, or anything.

"Yeah, right. How'd you explain having a frozen dead body in your car to the police, then?" I teased as I shoved my hands in the pockets of my coat, my lips forming a small smirk.

"Point taken." I smiled wider as he said the two words loudly, stopping every now and then to look at something or check it out, at most. I was wondering if it'd go to the point where we'd start looking at stuff we've already seen before.

"Did you get me anything?" I asked nonchalantly, though I was genuinely interested in his answer to that. I mean, of course I was.

I noticed him shrug as he casually observed the objects on his right, "I've got something prepared."

Well, that answer made me smile a lot more than it should have. "Did you get me anything?" He repeated my question, and looked over his shoulder at me, his eyebrows raised.

I didn't exactly buy him anything, but I also had something prepared. "Let's say I did," I grinned and stood on my tiptoes for a second, looking like a complete child as he watched me, trying to fight a smile even though he was more than obviously failing at it.

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