"You look good baby."
I glared at Colton. It was obviously a lie. It's been a week since I had my surgery. I was stupid enough to believe I would ever look the way I did before. I had black stitches across my left cheek. The skin inside the circle of stitches was a pale pink while my face was tan. I looked like a monster. The horror didn't stop there. Most of my skin was new and baby pink.
I angrily threw the mirror across the floor.
"I want to go home now."
I empathized the word now so Colton would know I wanted to leave immediately.
"I'll let them know."
I had only been here a week, but it felt like forever when you're trapped in a small room all day. I complained about it to Colton and he made the nurse grab a wheelchair so I could get out some, but the Christmas decorations only depressed me more. As a child I loved Christmas. I would wake up early, my family would come over and we would open presents before watching holiday movies. Everything changed as I grew up. It was now a sad reminder that I didn't have family and Christmas became just another day.
"Let's get you ready to go." Colton said interrupting my depressing thoughts.
Colton stripped off my hospital gown and helped me change into normal clothes. I wouldn't be able to even dress myself for awhile since I had to be careful not to irritate my new skin.
When we arrived home I groaned loudly. There were Christmas decorations everywhere. A huge tree was standing in the foyer. I couldn't even see the top of it.
"Happy to be home?"
"No. I hate Christmas."
I walked over to the window staring at the snow falling to the ground. I loved snow. I wanted to go play in it, but Colton would probably tackle me before I could even get to the door. No more cold weather for me.
"Next week will be here before you know it." He grinned.
I raised my eyebrows confused. Next week? I had no idea what day it even was. My calendar seemed pretty empty.
"Christmas!"
He knew I hated Christmas, but he was still excited.
"Yay!"
"Time to start celebrating now. Your gift is upstairs."
"You didn't have to get me anything."
"I got you a lot of things so thank you for pretending to be happy."
I would have to get Grace to run out and get Colton's present. Anytime anything happened to me Colton wouldn't let me out of his sight for weeks.
I picked up the large box that was tipped over on the ground. Opening it I discovered it was empty.
"Is this a joke?" I laughed.
"No. Shit!" He yelled as he started looking around.
I laughed as he checked the bathroom and crawled under the bed.
"Here it is. Close your eyes."
I closed my eyes and stretched out my hand. I wasn't sure what to expect. A bracelet maybe?
I nearly jumped as something heavy and furry was dropped into my hands. I felt something wet dripping down my legs.
"A puppy!"
I looked down at the soft furry bundle now sitting on my lap. She was a small German Shepherd puppy.
"I'm naming her Mia."
"Mia peed on you."
"I know, but I don't care."
I ruffled her soft fur before bringing her up to my face. She smelled like puppy and I loved the scent of it as weird as that was.
"I love her. And you." I said kissing Colton.
After a few minutes of playing with her my jeans became stiff and I reluctantly handed her to Colton before going to change.
I knew Colton didn't even like animals especially big ones, and Mia was going to get pretty big fast, so this was a big deal for him.
"Good morning sunshine! Guess what day it is?"
I groaned ducking back under the covers and pulling Colton's arm over myself.
After a few moments I peeked at the door seeing Allen standing there. After hearing that Allen was gay he didn't bother me so much. Ice cream in bed and complaining about our boyfriends became a regular thing.
"Wake up!" He yelled jumping on top of us.
"Get the fuck out!" Colton yelled.
I laughed as Allen left the room mouthing "someone's grouchy."
I walked into our closet and picked out the presents I had hidden from Colton. He was like a child. If he saw them he would open them right away. I carried the light boxes throwing them on top of Colton as Mia scurried away.
The first present were some diamond cuff links I saw at the mall a long time ago. The second was a duffle bag since Allen said Colton lost his at the hospital, and the third Grace helped me with. It was a tie. Boring but I didn't know what else to get with such short notice.
When Colton opened the third box he grinned wickedly. I didn't know a tie could excite someone so much.
"Glad you like it." I said casually.
"I love them." He pulled a smaller box out except it wasn't a tie. It was pictures of me laying half naked and occasionally fully naked on my bed. I was sleeping in all of them. I was going to kill Grace.
I blushed putting the pictures back in the box.
"Best present ever baby." He grabbed me pulling me onto his lap.
"Are you ready for yours?"
"Yes." I stuck my lips out pouting.
"That's later tonight."
"But..."
"There's two and they're the best."He said winking at me.
So far I had gotten a puppy, an Audi suv and convertible, lots of diamond jewelry, clothes, a boat, and a vacation home. I wasn't sure what could beat those things.
I followed Colton downstairs where all of the guys were sitting in the living room still in their pajamas. I knew a few of them had girlfriends, but I didn't see them anywhere.
"Family only." Ace answered my unasked question.
I used to be slightly scared of the guys, but I realized they aren't so bad. Ace knew how badly I wanted to play in the snow so while Colton was in the shower he snuck me outside and everyone had a snowball fight. When Colton came looking for me he even joined in.
Someone grouped all of the presents into piles and I sat down in front of mine beside Colton.
"Cash you shouldn't have! I'm so excited." Allen screamed running over to hug me.
Each of the guys had a ten thousand dollar limit on gifts so I kind of went all out. Allen wanted plastic surgery for whatever reason so I got him a voucher for it. I thought he already looked good, but I wanted to get them all something they really wanted.
"Open the one from me." He dug through the pile picking out a small box.
I opened it pulling out a gold hotel card key.
"For when you want to get away from Colton."
I laughed as Colton smacked him upside the head.
"Looks like we're going to Vegas." I grinned at him.
The day went by pretty quickly. After we opened presents we binge watched horror movies and ate lunch. After that some of the guys left to go visit their family or girlfriends, and the rest were playing outside. Most of them wanted to try out their new guns. That was at the top of everyone's wish list.
"Ready for your present?"
"Yes."
I gasped.