AN: Happy holidays to everyone! I hope you enjoy this chapter and I'm so happy to have you reading this! If you don't want to (it takes place as them as adults) the next chapter will be up next week as scheduled :) This chapter will be from Callie's POV
NSFW topics hinted at (at the end).
The sound of Alex's neighbor using a leafblower wakes me up. I groan quietly, tugging Harper's warm body close to me, knowing she's been awake this whole time already.
"Good morning," I whisper into her neck because of our positioning. She turns around so she's facing me and smiles.
"Good morning. Rough wake?" I grumbled a response and shoved my face into her neck, feeling her chuckle. I sighed, kissing her neck once, once she started running her hands through my hair.
"How did you sleep?" I ask, more to her neck than anything and surprised she heard me.
"Alright, you?" I nodded and she kept combing. "Do you want to cut your hair while we're here?" We were both whispering at this point.
"God, no. It'll be freezing when we get back to England, I'll need the hair." My hair was now to my midback. Harper chuckled again.
"You do know scarves exist, correct?" I pulled back so I could frown at her.
"I don't get it. How do you not get itchy every time you wear one?"
She half shrugged. "I guess I got used to them early on. Unlike someone." She smiled and kissed my nose before I hid against her neck again.
"Do we have to get up?"
"I thought you said Alex would drag you out of the house as you are if not?" After she mentioned Alex, we heard her calling up to us to hurry up. I quickly jumped out of bed before she could drag me out of it, let alone outside.
"Remind me why we even came?"
"You're the one that said you were missing everyone." Harper came up behind me and hugged me. I tilted my head back against her shoulder, shouting at Alex to shut up.
"And now I remember why I shouldn't." Harper poked my cheek then went to her suitcase for her clothes, me following.
***
We walked into Alex's kitchen just in time to see Alex slide her soulmate, Christopher, a 5 dollar bill.
"Wait, did you guys bet on whether you'd have to drag me out of bed?!" Harper giggled behind me as I went to smack Alex out of her chair.
"Hello, Christopher."
"Hello, Harper." They shook hands and Alex and I shared a weirded-out face.
"Anyway!" I clapped my hands together, grinning. "Where's my present?"
"What present?" Alex asked, seemingly genuinely confused. "You didn't come just to say hi to your best friend forever?"
"Yes, because I love you that much." I started moving throughout the kitchen, checking cupboards and cabinets to see if she hid it somewhere. Before I could open one near the sink, though, she pressed against it.
"Stop!" She groaned, sinking to the floor. "I'll tell you! Just stop looking all over my kitchen!" I grinned and jumped onto the counter. Alex sighed, standing up. Christopher stepped forward and handed me some tickets. I frowned, reading them.
"Ice skating?"
"Yes!" Harper grinned beside me until I gave her a look. "What? Ice skating is fun."
I shrugged. "I've never been." Harper gasped.
"What!" She looked at Alex. "Is this for a public rink?" Alex grinned.
"Technically. We rented it out for a couple of hours! So we'll all be skating!"
"I'm going to fall so much." I sighed. Harper chuckled.
"Babe, you can walk in 5-inch stilettos. I'm sure you'll be fine."
***
Alex and I stood shakily against the edge while Chris and Harper had fun skating.
"Why did you think this was a good idea?"
"Chris talked me into it!" Chris came over. "Hey, baby! I'm having so much fun, how about you?" He grinned then pulled Alex away from the edge against her protests. Once Alex was gone with Chris, Harper came over to me.
"Want some help?" She held out a hand.
"Yes, please." I gripped her hand tightly.
"You can't pretend you're just walking, you have to slide your feet outward, pick them up, bring them inward, and repeat." I gaped at her and she sighed. "Have you ever roller skated?"
"Not that I remember." I realized we were a good couple of feet away from the edge and started to get shakey again.
"Oh. I haven't, but I guess it's the same thing. I say just have fun with it. They rented out the whole rink, so it's just us, no one else will see if you mess up."
"Except the employees and if they have security cameras anyone who looks at them." Harper stared at me. "What?" I blinked at her before she shoved me off my feet. "Ow, Harper!"
She was grinning. "If you wanna get me back you have to skate over." She glid over to the other side and I saw Alex laughing so hard Chris had to keep her up until he did the same thing and I laughed at her.
"Not funny!" She shouted across the rink.
"Is too!" I shouted back with a grin while I tried to stand up.
***
"My butt hurts so much," I whined, Harper and Chris laughing at me. Alex ran into my side, putting her arm over my shoulder.
"So, babe, what's my present?" I shoved Alex as Harper looked away.
"It's in our suitcases."
***
Harper came into the family room, holding two wrapped presents, one that fit in her palm and one that was a little bigger. "Surprise!"
"Ooh, I better get the bigger one." Alex elbowed Chris and he pushed her back.
Harper gave Alex the bigger one and Chris the smaller one, her ripping into it mercilessly and him carefully unwrapping it. Alex gasped when she saw it and jumped to give Harper and I a tight hug.
"I love it, thank you!" It was a pair of new headphones, she was complaining hers were wearing out.
"Of course!" Chris got top-rated earplugs. "And I know from experience that she sounds awful, so Chris your gift is to silence her." Chris, Harper, and I laughed but Alex was offended.
"Hey! I do not sound that bad!"
"Says the one hearing the singer and not herself!" I shoved her and we started play fighting.
***
"I don't remember," I said after I shut our door and started taking my shirt off for bed. "When do we leave again?"
"Tomorrow afternoon." I finished taking off my shirt to see Harper holding another wrapped present in front of me.
"What? I thought we said no gifts."
"I know, but..." She tugged her ear, starting to blush. "It seemed like something you'd love."
We sat on the bed, Harper picking at her eyelashes as I opened it.
"Oh?" I lifted an eyebrow at her. "Am I to wear this or you?" Harper blushed more as I held up a velvet bra with intricate designs and straps.
"We're the same size, so we both could."
"But?" I grinned.
Harper hid her face behind her hair. "The plan was me..." I tackled her against the bed.
"Fuck, I love you."
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