The Heart Of Everything

20. Honey, you literally bought a gift for yourself

"Sam, Sam, Sam!" I rush up looking around with my heart in my chest. Then I meet Bella's blue eyes and I breathe out relieved as I see her smile. She scared the s**t out of me.

"Come on!" Bella says impatiently as she drags my arm. I turn to look at a smiling Kimmie. She sits up and kiss my cheek. Then I move out of the bed and Bella runs with my hand in hers, I haven't even changed clothes yet. I walk into the living room with the little girl, only to hear her parents in the kitchen and see granny sitting on the couch with a cup of coffee. She looks really bad, I sit down next to her with a smile.

"Karma is a b***h right?" I tell her grinning.

"You got that right." She answers and takes a sip of her cup. Then she leans back in the couch, closing her eyes. Bella is sitting next to the tree as Kimmie comes in the door, in my warmest sweater. It's cute the way she looks. She smiles as we met eyes and she moves to sit down on my lap. I wrap my arms around her as I rest my forehead on her back and close my eyes, too little sleep. It's early, but poor Bella who has waited weeks for this moment.

"Here you go." I look up to meet Kate's eyes and she is holding a cup in her hand.

"Thank you." I tell her as I take the coffee. I really need it right now.

After a little while, I am completely awake and Bella has gone through all of her gifts. She has this huge happy smile on her face. It's nice to watch her. Kimmie and I have moved down to Bella, to help her. She struggles sometimes to open them up, and it frustrates her. Kimmie moves to sit between my legs and rest her head on my shoulder.

"Hi." I whisper to her as she leans back to kiss my cheek. I don't think it is just Bella that has a big smile on her face.

"So, what did you get for me?" She asks and I raise my eyebrow.

"What makes you think I did?" I tell her and her smile disappears with annoyance.

"I'm not good enough to be a present?" I ask teasing and she rolls her eyes.

"You are more than enough, Sam." She tells me and kiss my cheek again. Then I hear Molly clear her throat and I clench my teeth. Can't I have a little moment with my girl?

"No, I got you something, honey." I smile at her as I kiss her temple.

"But, I don't want to give it to you here." I whisper into her ear and she nods as she stands up from me. Kimmie helps me up and we walk back up to our room hand in hand.

"Wait," Kimmie says as she looks through her bag.

"I want to give you my first." She says and looks at me with a huge grin as hands a soft gift over. Kimmie looks at me with a huge grin right now, which makes me suspicious.

"Okay..." I say unsure as I start packing up.

"Seriously?" I say as I hold the two white pants in front of her and she nods grinning.

"Honey, you literally bought a gift for yourself." I tell rolling my eyes, but with a little smile, it's kind of funny though.

"Well, I have a second gift for you." Kimmie says with the cute smile on her face now. She then hands me another soft, but a little harder present and I open up.

"Oh, my god." I say as I find a white and black leather jacket. It matches the bike completely.

"I know you do not like so many fancy things, so got you something that I know you would like." She says as I try it on. It fits perfectly and the colors are just awesome. I smile at my beautiful girl.

"It's amazing," I tell her as I wrap my arms around her and kiss her forehead.

"You are amazing." I say and she chuckles.

"You want your present?" I ask and she leans back, nodding and she almost jumps like a little kid. I roll my eyes off her and go to my bag to take it out. It's not something big, but as people say it is the thought that counts, and seriously this is an old thought. As I said, I have two gifts for her and this is the first one. Kimmie looks at me thinking as I hand it over.

"Do you remember when we were like eight," I tell as she starts opening it.

"That I broke you're..."

"Rubik's cube." She finishes as she takes it out and studies it.

"I was so angry with you, I loved that thing so much and then you just took it and broke it, like nothing." She says completely lost in it as she moves it around.

"You have no idea how guilty I felt about that, and I still remember how sad you were." I tell her almost ashamed of what I did to her then. We were just kids, but I was awful to her. She cried so bad that I swear my heart got up in my throat and not long after I swallowed it. I wanted to make up for it, but I never got the chance. Not until now.

"I didn't even get a new one." She says and then wraps her arms around me.

"I'm sorry that I broke it." I tell and swallow hard.

"No, it's okay. At least you gave me a new one." She says and I smile at her words.

"Yeah, it took me almost ten years." I tell her chuckling. Kimmie leans back and kisses me lightly.

"Thank you anyway, now I have something to do on the way home." She grin and I raise my eyebrow.

"You can do me." I tell teasing, earn me a slap on the shoulder.

"I'm kidding, honey." I say and kiss her on the top of her head.

"I have another one for you." I tell Kimmie as I move to my bag and take out the other one. She takes it as I hand it over to her, it is not that big either, but I think she will like it, since I don't. Kimmie looks at it with widened eyes, and then her eyes drift to me.

"But... but... you don't like when I call you Sammie bear." She says and I roll my eyes in annoyance of the name. The gift I gave her was a teddy bear and on its shirt, it stands 'I love you, honey.' Since it is the thing, I say and mean the most.

"I know, but you love it, and I love you." I tell her with all my heart. She laid her arms around me tight, making me almost stop breathing.

"I love you so much, Sammie bear." I wince at the name, dammit. I am so going to regret this.

"Well, at least Griffin gets a friend." I shrug joking and it makes Kimmie snort.

"She will love it." Kimmie mumbles on my shoulder. She? I thought Griffin was a boy. I shake that out of my head.

"Oh," I say as a thought hit me and move from Kimmie. Then I reach for my old leather jacket.

"You can have this since you gave me a new one." I tell and her eyes lighting up with a huge smile.

"You know I love your clothes." She says and grabs it to take it on. It looks a little too big, but god she is beautiful. I put my hands on her ass and pick her up, it makes her laugh.

"Hi." She says and kisses my forehead.

"Hi, honey." I tell her softly before leaning into her lips with mine and I kiss her gently. Kimmie starts to mess up my hair and that is her sign of wanting more, so I move back from her or things could get a lot messier. She looks at me grumpily.

"I know, honey." I say and then lean in to kiss her on the nose. It makes her smile with her eyes closed.

"I can't wait to get home, so I can have all of you for myself." Kimmie says almost pouting.

"I can't wait to get away from your grumpy ass aunt." I tell her chuckling and Kimmie rolls her eyes.

"Yeah, she has really been an ass to you." Kimmie says irritated, but it makes me smile because in a way Molly has felt like a test for my limits. She couldn't break it, but almost. I was so close to hitting Kimmie's aunt. That cannot be normal. Not like this family is even close to the word. A drunken granny, a grumpy aunt, and an uncle that falls asleep in the bathtub. It's not normal and this is the reason I like normal because it means boring and I do not like things boring. I hope this is not the last time I will ever see them again.