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"It Has Always Been You" Chapter 39 - The Holidays (Nifty/Gay/Highschool)
Thanksgiving Holidays
The Hayden's and The Cornelly's were celebrating Thanksgiving at the beguiling snowy resort. The fathers had made reservation at the "Games Creek Restaurant". The restaurant itself had that character and atmosphere an old rustic cottage feeling that was full of, happiness and joy, with the picturesque environs, of the resort and they liked it so much.
With so much that was happening to them all, Nick did not; miss his mother, Emily, at all. Whom he had on the table was enough for him. It made him the happiest man on earth. He took a slow glance to everyone at the table and he knew what he was thankful for this year.
For the Thanksgiving's dinner, the menu outspread that they were having was amazing and delicious. There're roast turkey with corn bread stuffing and cranberry sauce on the side, honey, baked ham with mashed potatoes and bacon green bean casseroles. For dessert, they are having lava, dark chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream and washed it down with red and white wine. It was a true, lavished set table. But before, they started to eat, each one of them needed to say what they are thankful for the year.
Cornelly:
"This year, I am expressing gratitude and relief that I can preserve the memory of this blessed day with all of you and not all alone as it used to. I am beholden to The Lord Jesus Christ that my one and only, prepossessing son, Nick, has grown up being a man that I am proud off and for him to find a good companionship in Mikael. Lastly, I am grateful that I had made a friend with a wonderful guy, Hayden and may our friendship grow with days to come." Cornelly sleekly wink at Hayden and make him blush.
Hayden:
"I am thankful, that I am still alive and able to exultation this blessed moment, here with my beautiful and wonderful son, Mikael and together with his best friend Nick. With you in my life Mikael, I always feel like an adventure, and got me captivated by what is going on with your life. Whatever had happened, let bygone be bygone and for all of us to look forward into the future. This year is kind of special for me, as I do not have to be alone anymore, with having you as a good friend of mine Cornelly and yes, I believe that our friendship will last longer than we expected." Hayden wink and smiled at Cornelly and it made him to blush deep red.
Nick's:
"I am thankful that I have Mikael in my life. That is it." Nick gave out, a half-suppressed laugh while looking at everyone with a frown on their forehead. "And of course I am that I had my father who has loved me unconditionally and for you Mr. Hayden, I felt indebted to you, for being in my father's life and making him happy." Nick finished off his sentences with a broad smile on his face.
Mikael's:
"I am thankful that my father had tolerated my over the top behavior's all this while, without even complaining and I love you so much, father. I am thankful that Nick had finally realized that I am here for him. As for you Mr. Cornelly, I am thankful that you've never stopped Nick from being my friend, even after I had put him through so much." Mikael sniffled a bit. Nick saw the tears on Mikael face and had scooted closer to comfort, by pulling Mikael closer and nearer to him. "And I love every single one of you." Mikael continued while sobbing on Nick's shoulder.
They had remained at the beautiful snowy resort, protracted a few days more, after the Thanksgiving, for an extended shopping spree. And they were backing home in time, for the coming Christmas's holidays.
Christmas Holidays.
It was the 20th of November, when they've returned back home. It was a month before, the Christmas holidays and they have lots of preparation time with all the gift shopping and house decorations. The Hayden's, had ceremoniously, invited the Cornelly's to celebrate Christmas with them at their house.
Both the fathers had been hard-pressed with a last minute job at the hospital. Hayden was, summoned, to do an urgent operation, scheduled at the hospital. He needed to effectuate a surgery, on a young patient who's, in the state of, undergoing pain from, appendicitis. He was personally sort after, by patience whom needing his expertise as his credentials was, well, documented throughout the hospital. It would be an easy surgery and, nonetheless, for Hayden, he would treat it as important as it should be.
As, for Cornelly, he's preparing for the closure of his law firm, for the holidays so that the staff would be with families. As a company tradition, ever since the day, the firm had opened, for business, they will have a small party, at a local restaurant, with, food and drinks. It was then; he handed out, Christmas presents and monetary gifts to all the staff as a gratitude for their loyalty and hard work.
Although Hayden and Cornelly were busy with, their own jobs and tidings, they would still find the time and be together doing the Christmas shopping, buying gifts for both of their sons and for each other. As this is the first ever Christmas, celebrating together, they were, delightfully ecstatic. A first for them, after a long time of being alone, they had someone to share it with.
It was one week to Christmas, and the father's had gone to a neighbouring town, for an after work dinner. They were far, from the prying eyes of their neighbourhood. It was in a classy Italian restaurant, that served fine dining Italian food and it was a beautiful decorative setting, they were adjacently sitting, from one another, while having their meals in a blissful silence. Ever since they came back from the ski resort, they had become closer than ever. The love that they shared with each other was rather obvious for other people to observe.
After, they had finished with their meals, the table was, cleared, and the dessert and teas were, served to them. They were sipping the hot chamomile tea while nibbling on a cake that they decided to share. Cornelly spoke to Hayden, breaking off the peaceful silence, of them both.
"Babe, are you happy with what we are right now?" Cornelly scrutinizes, on Hayden face, for a reaction, as he spoke to Hayden in a soft listening tone voice. But what he saw was Hayden gingerly smiling back at him. A captivating smile and it made him want to jump to Hayden and kissed his sweet tender lips. The name calling was how, the way of them, addressing each other when they were alone together. And it was so sweet and romantic.
"Yes, I am babe. It is more than anything that I could have ever imagined." Hayden replied with calm and collected voice. In his mind, he tried to deduce for what Cornelly was thinking. It did make him to worry for his man.
"But I am not at all babe." Cornelly was denoting a deep inarticulate sound conveying unhappiness. He looked at Hayden with a sad expression on his face. Hayden felt anxious and troubled, on any potential problems and he would try, to ease by, alleviating Cornelly feelings of distress to his abilities. Somehow he knew what was playing on Cornelly's mind and he himself felt unsettling with the situation they were both into. But he tried and avoid as much as he can from showing it to Cornelly.
"Why? Aren't you happy being with me? Have you finally been coming to your senses and decided that we are not worth at all?" Hayden pretended to feel agitated and sent Cornelly an enquiring glance and a perplexing look with deep frown lines on his forehead. He pressed his voice an octave higher than usual to make him sound disbelieved to hear what Cornelly had expressed to him.
"No babe, please do not get me wrong. You are the best that is happening in my life. You've changed me and make me believe that I worth to be loved by you. Please do not be angry at me. I love you so much." Cornelly took a deep breath and continued, "Its Emily. I am not feeling for her anymore as much as I am feeling for you babe. I do not want what we have ended because of her interfering." Cornelly had faced palmed himself. He muffled his words, talking in his hand, to say, "I want this to last forever."
Hayden felt worried for his man. He scooted his chair closer to Cornelly and tried to calm him down. And he used his one hand to rub on Cornell's back while the other hand had grabbed hold of Cornelly's hand and intertwined their fingers under the cover of the table cloth and gave it a squeezed of assurance.
He knew that it's impossible to show any public display of affection, especially, in a posh restaurant like this. They were still in a state of exploring the possibilities of being a gay, or the least a bi-sexual man. Indeed, they were falling in love to one another. But, to outed themselves in public was still into consideration.
"Babe, please, I would not force you, to do drastic things. I will always be here for you no matter what is going to happen. I have nothing to lose as I have only Mikael to care for. But I do not want to lose you too." Hayden lets go Cornelly's hand, and reached for his chin to lift it up and to look at his face. "Babe, if this is too much for you, maybe we should just..." Hayden was unable to complete his words, when Cornelly stopped him from continuing.
"No babe. Do not you dare to propound it at all. I love with what we are right now and I love you so much." Hayden showed shyness, embarrassment, by becoming red in the face in hearing to what Cornelly's was saying. "You had made me become fully aware of as a fact how much I am in love with you and it gives me the benevolence and ebullience of happy self that I had missed for a very long time." Cornelly's eyes were teary while he's looking at Hayden.
"We did not envisage all of this to transpire as we were drawn to each other by providence and destiny. We fall in love with each other notwithstanding all the consequences that might happen." Cornelly continued as he turned his body so he could face Hayden and got to see his handsome face. "I adore you, baby and I want the world to know, principally both of our sons as they have rightfully earned it." Tears began to trickle down Cornelly's face. Hayden smiled and quickly, wiped it away, with his thumb.
"Babe, as appreciably as we want them to perceive, but we can't, as it is not the right time. We have to be forbearing. Nick and Mikael still have their things to fathom with their own situation and they need us to be there for them." Hayden again, intertwined his fingers with Cornelly under the table cloth. "Nick had just come to accept the fact that he loves Mikael more than Amy and he himself is in the same predicament as you are with Emily." Hayden enclasped to Cornelly's hand. "To what Mikael had told me, Nick is having difficulties to come up with a reason to break up with Amy. Please do not over stress yourself as you make my worries."
"I am sorry baby. It is not my aspiration to make you undergo great mental anguish through worrying about all of this. You are pre-eminent that has ever betide in my life and I do not want to be deprived of or cease to have to retain you ever. Please promise me that you will wait for me and to keep on loving me for whom I am." Cornelly was pleading with Hayden with a misty eye.
"I covenant." They stole a kiss on the lips when they knew nobody was watching them. Together they leave the restaurant, with a heavy heart as they had to part their ways back home and promised to meet at the Hayden house on Christmas day.
Christmas Day
Mikael woke up and looked at the clock on his bedside table. It showed six o'clock in the morning. He hastily, got up from his bed to shower. Out of the shower, he wiped himself dry and went to his closet to find clothes to wear. He's, decided to wear a red flannel shirt and short with a white fur at the leg opening and a black belt at the waist. To complete the look, he has worn a Santa's hat that complemented his Christmas outfit. Immediately, he went into the hallways and pounded at his father's bedroom door.
"It's Christmas father. Please wake up, already." Mikael seal at the top of his voice from his father closed bedroom door. Hayden, ability to hear the excited vociferate from Mikael, he went to open his bedroom door with a planted smile on his face. He looked classy wearing a ruby robe with white trimmings. "Yes son, it is Christmas." He felt jubilant at Mikael's delirium.
Together, they made their way downstairs, racing each other to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. For the day breakfast, they cooked sausage patties, scramble eggs, bacon and English muffin. There're also, a jug of orange juice and a pot of hot coffee. As they would be nearing to finish setting up the breakfast table, the main doorbell rang. "I'll get it." Mikael clamoured and rushed to the front door and opened it.
"Boy, you are hyper excited." Nick commented when he saw Mikael at the door, grinning. He had his hands full of presents and his father, behind him.
"Father, they are here. Can we open present now?" Mikael holler from the main door. Mikael was enthusiastic in opening the presents. For this Christmas, he would be getting presents from Nick and Cornelly, compared from getting present from his lone father. It's definitely; better than the last couple of years. He did appreciate the gifts from his father, but to get presents from Nick and Cornelly would make this Christmas merrier.
"You have to eat breakfast first son." Hayden chuckled. He turned to look at Cornelly and they hug each other. They're squeezing each other as a gesture of their love for one another. They graced each other, cheeks, with their lips and stole a kiss when they parted. Discreetly, they tried avoiding from the boys seeing it.
Together, they went and sat at the breakfast table to enjoy the food that Hayden and Mikael had prepared while chatting and bantering with each other. It took a while for everybody to finish eating. Together in unison, they cleared and cleaned the table and retreated to the living room where the Christmas tree that was beautifully decorated by Mikael stand.
All the presents were under the Christmas tree. Mikael went to turn on the lighting of the tree. Immediately, illuminates the whole living room with brilliant colour that came from the twinkling light. Everyone seated themselves near the tree as Mikael went to pick up the first present nearer to him. Looked at the name and pass it to the recipient, Nick.
Nick immediately, opened the present that Mikael had passed him and tore the wrapping paper to pieces. It was a gift from Mikael and he was, blown away, with the Vans Rowley XLT shoes. He had been eyeing at it for a long time. "How did you know? I've wanted this for so long time." Nick asked.
"You did tell me countless time whenever we went to the mall." Mikael responded. Nick started feeling emotional. He stands up and makes his way to Mikael and hugged him. "Thank you so much baby." Nick whisper in Mikael's ear. "Anything for you babe" Mikael replied. They were blushing and both of their fathers did notice it and were smiling looking at them.
When Hayden passed a gift for Cornelly from Nick, Mikael told him to stop. "There should be an almost identical box for you too father. We want you both to open it together at the same time. These gifts are for the both of our favorites fathers from your two charming and good looking sons." They all were laughing from Mikael banter.
Hayden found the other identical gift and sat down and started ripping the wrapper. He waited until Cornelly had his wrapper off and they opened their gift together. They were in awe when they saw the matching "TAG HEUER CARRERA CALIBRE 16" gentleman watch. It was manly beautiful and they both hugs the boys simultaneously. Thanking them for the special and beautiful gift. The boys had taken some money from their savings to purchase the expensive watches. Definitely, worth the money spent after seeing the appreciative and happy look from their fathers.
Mikael next opened the gift from Nick. It was a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. "I knew you were whining about your current iPhone, so I thought that you would like a new phone, but it is not an iPhone." Mikael instantly stand up and lunged himself at Nick. He was holding Nick as streaked with tears cascading down his face. Nonchalantly, he gave Nick a kiss on the cheeks without realizing that the father's was looking at them.
It was time for the fathers to hand over a present each to Mikael and Nick. "As both of you will be going to college soon, we hope both of you will love it and we thought we make sure that the other had one as well." they said. Other than the weight, the box looked like it could be a shirt. The box felt like it weighted ten pounds.
Immediately, they ripped the wrapping paper off and when they lifted the lid of the box, they became speechless and disbelieved. The fathers had given them an "Apple Mac Book Pro with Retina" display. They started crying and run over to their fathers and kissed them on their cheeks, one after the other. Hayden and Cornelly weren't surprised with the way the boys had reacted and felt relieved that the boys loved the present that they had given to them.
Two presents left, still remained under the Christmas tree. "Well, I guess the two present are for the both of you for each other." Mikael took it and handing over the presents to the fathers. Individually, Hayden and Cornelly took the present that had their name written on it and seated, on each other side. Hayden was the first to rip off the wrapping paper as he wanted to know, what did his man got for him.
Hayden opened the gift from Cornelly. He began tearing when he saw it was a complete set of the original New York Yankees baseball team uniform. It had his name embroidered on the back of the shirt. A Mizuno Global Elite Baseball 12"Glove, a "White, Silver and Gold DE Marini 2016 CF8 BBCOR Baseball Bat" and a fully autographs, baseball with the New York Yankees players and its coaches were in the gift box too. There were also two seasons passed tickets, that Cornelly had bought for the two of them to watch the games together. Cornelly had known that Hayden was the biggest fan of the Yankees and he had used his contact to get the perfect gift for his man.
Cornelly felt delighted, that Hayden loved the gift from him and he went to open his gift from Hayden. It was a beautiful briefcase by "Swaine Alderney Lombard" that suits his persona and lifestyle. He knew it was expensive for a briefcase like this and he was most appreciative with Hayden. At one of the pocket, inside the briefcase, there was a four thousand gift vouchers from "Dolce and Gabbana Boutique". It was for Cornelly to purchase a custom made suit for himself.
It was a beautiful Christmas celebration that both families had. Mikael rekindles the fire in the fireplace. Immediately, it warmed the living room from the cold of the snowy day. He went to cuddle with Nick on the long sofa, while watching a Christmas movie "It's A Wonderful Life", playing on the television. Cornelly and Hayden retreated to the kitchen and began to prepare for dinner together. They had taken this moment and be closer with each other. Stealing kisses with one another when their sons weren't looking at them. These have been the best Christmas ever. In their hearts, they knew there would be another celebration, which they're going to share throughout in their life together.
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