The Only Exception

Book 2 Part 1

I put my head on his shoulder and Noah tilted my head up and kissed my lips and I weave my fingers into his silky hair and bring his face closer to mine. His hands slink down my torso and I release one of my hands and trace his facial features. His arms wrap around me and squeezes me. I embrace him as well, and my head rests on his chest.

I let go and go to our room and slip my jeans and sweater off and grab a tank top and booty shorts. He walks in and shuts the door. I finish slipping my tank top on and plop down on the edge of the bed. He takes off his shirt and reveals his muscular torso and grabs a pair of sleeping pants.

“I’ll be back, I’m going to take a shower.” He leans over and lightly kisses my forehead and leaves the room.

I sigh and decide on picking up my dirty clothes from today and put them over by the washer. I bring my jeans and sweater to the washer and sort the darks and whites while he is taking a shower. I walk back to our bedroom and grab my laptop and finish typing my paper on psychology. It seems like five minutes when he comes back clean and says, “Are you into the paper?” I jump when he says that and reply,

“No, I just have to finish it and email it to the teacher by Tuesday.” I save it and close the lid and set it aside. I slide under covers and scoot over to him and he wraps his arms around me. I fall asleep right away and wake up to a note next to me saying,

Celeste, I went to the store to get the rest of the ingredients for the party on Thursday. I’ll be back as soon as possible. Love, Noah

I get out of bed and make it as I wonder what I should do for the time being. I grab a pair of jeans and tight-fitting, dark green, V-neck tee. I walk to the bathroom and run the water to take a shower. I look down, and I got the monthly gift. Oh joy, another Christmas. When I get ready to get out, I hear the front door open and I turn the water off and dry off as fast I can. I open my box of tampons and use one. I dress for the day and comb my hair and put it up in a ponytail.

I walk out of the bathroom and say, “Noah did you eat already? I was going to make some breakfast.” I walk into the kitchen and take down a pan and set it on the stove.

“No, I haven’t eaten yet. I bought a Christmas present for you so don’t come out. I have to wrap it. Call me when breakfast is ready!” Noah walked off with a large bag in his hand and shuts the door to our room.

I grab some eggs and bacon and fry them up. I make some toast and make some hash browns and call Noah out for breakfast.

“Yum, smells delicious in here. I bought enough presents for you so I can give one to you everyday until I give you the rest on Christmas. Here’s today present.” I look at the little wrapped gift and he says, “Go on, open it. It won’t bite.” A smirk spreads across his face and I open it slowly and slide the wrapping off to reveal a little velvet box. I open the box and find that today’s gift to me was a silver necklace with a square diamond. Noah lifts it out of the box and puts it on me. I can feel it hanging right near my throat.

“Noah, it’s beautiful.” I have tears developing because I didn’t expect this at all. He wipes the tears away and says,

“Hey, it’s Christmastime, expect the unexpected. Now, let’s have some food and let’s go out.”

We eat our breakfast and we got ready to go out, I didn’t exactly know where we were going, but I didn’t care. As long as we were together, we could do anything. We got into his Mercedes and he surprised me with going to get our family photos taken before the wedding. We have been talking about these for a while and we need some pictures of us for the invitations. We get to the studio and they photographer told us to pick the poses and the backgrounds we thought were the best. We chose the white background and we just wanted to random poses.

We took various pictures and reviewed the ones we thought were best. The best ones were when Noah picked me up in his arms and we are laughing and when I was piggybacking him. We eventually chose the one with me in his arms and we’re laughing. We got copies of the pictures and we left the studio satisfied.

The next place he took me to was to a musical that we have been wanting go to for a while. It was excellent and Noah was being a total gentleman, as usual.

He took us home and we were too tired to cook, so we ordered in. As we were eating, Noah was cracking jokes and was making me laugh so hard that I was snorting like a little pig, which he was laughing at because I’m one of the very few people he knows that snort like me.

“Oh, Celeste, you make me laugh so much, and that’s another reason why I love you so much.” Noah said, bringing me closer in his arms and I laid my head back on his shoulder and I closed my eyes.

I fell asleep on him and he took me to our room and covered me up under the comforter and he cleaned up our dinner mess. I woke up the next morning to the phone ringing. I scrambled to reach for the phone and I answered with, “Hello?”

“Celeste? It’s your mother. I just wanted to invite Noah and you over for dinner tonight, if you don’t have any plans.”

“Well, I’m pretty sure that we don’t have any plans today. When should we come?” I wiped my eyes and waited for a response.

“Well, dinner is being served at six, so I want you guys over by at least four, so you guys can tell your siblings about the engagement. And no, I haven’t told them, I wanted you and Noah to tell them.”

“Uh, okay, we’ll be there by three. We’ll call when we are about to leave. Love you. Bye.” I hung up the phone and rolled back over and Noah was awake.

“So what did your mother want?” Noah said as he rolled onto his elbow.

“She wants us over for dinner today, but we need to be there by at least four. She didn’t tell the rest of the family about us being engaged.” I said as I played with his hair.

“Oh. That’s fine. Well then, let’s get up and get ready for your house. Shall we?” He asked as he offered his hand to help me sit up. I get up and grab a pair of faded grey skinny jeans and a dark red long sleeve shirt. I go to the bathroom and take a shower. I hurry and brush my teeth in the shower. I blow dry my hair and straighten it until it is straight as a pin. I get dressed and put on a little makeup. I slip on a pair of high heel boots so I can practice walking in heels for a whole night.