Annette opened the gift and her eyes lit up, a smile moving onto her features, she bit down on her bottom lip as she touched it softly. It was true that she used to have a music box but she hadn’t lost it, her ex boyfriend had smashed it in a fit of rage, it had been her mothers. “It’s perfect” she admitted, she turned the music on and listened to it, she couldn’t be happier, it was such a sentimental gift and it meant so much to her and the fact that he remebered showed a lot too.

This wasn't the first Christmas she spent with Gideon but it was only the second and she woke up this morning so excited because he would get to open his gifts. Annette never expected gifts, she just loved buying things for others and seeing the look on their face. After she and Gideon had showered and had some breakfast, she pulled him over to the couch so that he could open his presents “after you open these presents, I have a special present for you upstairs” she admitted with a playful wink and smile.

After Annette had gone to get food and spend some time with Rosalie, she ended up coming home and Gideon wasn’t there. She had been trying to call and text him and he hadn’t replied and now he wasn’t home. She was worried, she tried calling one more time before she got out of her clothes and into the shower. She had changed into some sweats and a white crop top and she had moved her black cardigan around her, her hair was slightly up and slightly down, the more the hours pass the more worried she became. She had rushed home thinking he was home so they could spend some time together but that didn’t seem to be the first thought on his mind. She took a breath when she heard the door open, she looked over and then back at the tv. She didn’t know whether to be relieved that he was home or mad that he hadn’t even given her the courtesy of a phone call.

Annette felt like she was back in Seattle with Gideon because of the fact that he was here and they had strangely picked up where they left out even though they had been away from each other for a long while but despite everything they had bee through, they had the same arguments but also they had the same amazing moments that she had loved. However, in this moment she was angry, she had been at the grind with Gideon and some random man she didn’t know had looked at her and Gideon became upset, they had gotten to her place twenty minutes ago and were still fighting “I don’t even know him, Gideon, what does it matter if he was looking at me!?”