After an hour later, they helped each other clean up the dining room neatly. The men and women took turns cleaning up. Once the woman's are finished with washing the dishes, they went upstairs to change into their matching Christmas pajamas. The men wipe the tables and sweep the floors cleanly. Then they went upstairs to change into their matching Christmas pajamas.

Once everyone was done changing into their Christmas pajamas, they came downstairs waiting in the living room. They gathered around the living room, pulled names out of a hat to who gets to open up their presents first. Everyone was so happy in getting presents from each other and thankful for everything. Ivy opened everyone's presents that they gave to her but she didn't open the guys present because she wanted to wait until bed time.

So after they opened the presents, they all went upstairs to put away the presents and came back downstairs for a Christmas movie session.

Since everyone was already downstairs comfy in their pajamas, Ivy and Charlie were upstairs in their room putting away the presents in their suitcases. She sat on the bed and looked at the wrapped box from Charlie. She didn't know what to do because he was standing there in the room. Charlie looked over at Ivy and told her.............

Charlie (*says to Ivy while she was daydreaming) : you can open it up now.

Ivy snaps out of her daydream thoughts and tells him........

Ivy (*asks as snapping out of her thoughts) : huh ????
Charlie : you've been looking at it for the past 2 minutes.
Ivy (*asks) : looking at what ?
Charlie : the present i gave you.
Ivy (*asks) : is it okay for me to open it in front of you ?
Charlie : i just said you can. its okay Ivy.

Charlie and Ivy smiled at each other as they were sitting next to each other on the bed. Ivy then opened up the present. There was a beautiful twinkle box underneath the wrapper. She lifted up the lid of the twinkling box and saw a bracelet with different charms on it. It was from Tiffany & Co., one of the original charm bracelets there. The bracelet was silver with baby blue in the middle of the charm bracelet. The charms were a postcard with a Tiffany & Co. logo on it, a circle charm with a flower in a flower form in the middle, a street sign that read out LA right in the middle, and an old fashion suitcase charm. Ivy kept on looking at it because it was so beautiful and sparkly and she didn't know what to do or say to Charlie.

Charlie (*looks at Ivy & asks) : do you love it ?
Ivy (*says as looking at him) : you must have spent so much on this.
Charlie : i wanted to give you something special for Christmas.
Ivy : you didn't have to do this Charlie. you being here is enough.
Charlie : i wanted to. i passed by Tiffany & Co. the other day.
Charlie : i knew that you love wearing charm bracelets that have a meaning.
Charlie : so i bought you a pair. i picked out each and every charm on the bracelet.
Ivy (*asks) : but why ?
Charlie : because you mean a lot to me now that we have known each other.
Ivy : you don't know how much that sentence means to me now that you said it. (*smiles)
Charlie : the postcard charm just means the brand which is Tiffany & Co.
Charlie : the flower clock means no matter where you are in life, you wont waste time.
Charlie : the street sign of LA charm means you were born in LA and raised there.
Charlie : and lastly, the suitcase means you love to travel from here and there.
Ivy : there's one spot missing for a charm.
Charlie : i wanted to leave that space empty for another charm.
Charlie : when i'm ready to placed that last charm, i'll give it to you Ivy.
Ivy (*asks) : can you help me put it on ?
Charlie (*smiles & says) : sure.

Charlie helped Ivy put on the bracelet on her right arm. She hugged him tightly and said thank you to him. Then they went downstairs to watch a movie with everyone. They got comfy, ate Christmas cookies and desserts, and spent the whole night watching the movie. They had the time of their lives that Christmas holiday.

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