The Dulcets are a collection of villages and hamlets comprising of Dulcet-on-Willow, Dulcet St Mary, Dulcet Green, and Dulcet-on-Brooke, to name but a few, and of course Dulcet Meadow which was where Liam Harris was making preparations for Christmas.
It was Christmas Eve and apart from the delivery of
Christmas gifts and cards to friends and family, he spent most of it alone
listening to Christmas music, watching schmaltzy movies on TV, and thinking
about Ava and their future.
While he was enjoying his own company Ava spent the
day helping her mum with the preparations for the big day, but she spent the
evening with him, arriving about seven o’clock.
It was their first Christmas together and because Liam
had put the presents underneath the tree that afternoon, almost the moment she
arrived she was like an annoying child.
“Can I open a present?” she asked all evening what
seemed like every ten minutes.
“Just one, please, please, please”
Ava was getting on his nerves to tell the truth, she
kept picking up the presents, shaking them, squeezing them, and even listening
to them.
Eventually she managed to wear him down and he
relented and as he headed upstairs to the loo Liam said.
“We can open one present”“
“Goody” she squealed.
“Just one each before we leave for midnight mass” he
called and when he returned downstairs, he was expecting to find her waiting
impatiently to open a present.
But instead, he found her lying beside the tree with
wrapping paper loosely draped about her clearly naked body and she said.
“You go first”.
Once Liam had un-wrapped his present and thoroughly
enjoyed the contents, they were very nearly late for midnight mass.
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