All I Want For Christmas Novel – The words detonated inside my skull. Colton made a bet to date me and take my vir-ginity? “Obsessive Ollie will believe anything I say.” My boyfriend Colton boasted. Obsessive? I’d loved him since I was fifteen, planned our forever in this quiet pathway between our houses, baked him every birthday cupcake.
Then a girl’s smug voice sliced the dark: “Colton and I have been in a real relationship for the past two years. And I’m pregnant, Colton and I are having a baby together” My knees hit the basement carpet, every “I love you,” every plan for our future—all a lie for a cruel bet. Now, the boy, the love of my life, wants to keep me as his secret while flaunting her. My perfect life is a carefully constructed joke, and I’m the punchline.
“Ollie baby, can you take these trays of cupcakes around to your auntie Leanne’s house for me, please?” “Cupcakes? I thought auntie Leanne was on a diet, so that she could fit into that red dress for new years?” I ask in confusion. “She is, sweetheart, these are for a lady at her work who is doing one of those baby reveals for her daughter” My mom says and I chuckle. “It’s a gender reveal, mom, not a baby reveal…I think it’s safe to say that we know for sure that her baby is in fact a baby unless she’s been having an affair with an animal or an alien” I say and my mom chuckles.
“Yeah, I guess you’re right, honey” You guess? of course I’m right, mom. I thought to myself with a smile as I shook my head. I then grabbed hold of the three trays of delicious looking cupcakes from the kitchen island and head out of the back door so that I can get to the McKenzie’s residence faster. My parents have lived next door to their best friends Bruno and Leanne McKenzie ever since they graduated from college together over thirty years ago.
The four of them are so close that when they purchased their houses together, my dad and uncle Bruno created this pathway between the two houses connecting them so that we can easily go into one another’s homes whenever we want to without any issues. I know this may sound weird and kind of strange and crazy because what if they decided to sell their properties in the future, well, that’s not a problem because neither couple have got any plans to move from their homes because they wanna remain in the home where they raised all of their kids and they wanna raise their grandchildren here as well.
This pathway has also been really handy for my twin brother Tyler and me because the both of us are extremely with our auntie and uncle’s youngest son Colton. I’ve been in a relationship with him for the past three years ever since we were fifteen years old and Colton and Tyler have been best friends ever since we can remember, so living next door to each other has been really good for all three of us and has helped us to form a really tight bond with one another. Anyway, I walked through the pathway and headed inside of my boyfriend’s home where I was met with nothing but silence which is weird considering this place is never quiet and is always buzzing with people and noise.
I’m over here all of the time either hanging out with Colton and our friends or sleeping over here and it’s always a nightmare to get any peace and quiet here. The funny thing is that the only people who live here are my auntie and uncle and their kids who are all adults, there aren’t any younger children living here and the only animal they’ve got is my handsome man’s English Bulldog Lizzie who Colton named after the late Queen of England but Lizzie is too freaking lazy to make any kinds of noises.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Lizzie and she’s a really lovely dog but if someone was to ever break in here and try to rob the place then the McKenzie’s would be f****d with Lizzie guarding this place. “Hello, is anyone home?…uncle Bruno, auntie Leanne” “Oh, hi there honey, what are you doing here?” Auntie Leanne asks me as she enters the kitchen with a huge smile on her face.