My Brother's Best Friend

Chapter 58

Hunter above

The end of this chapter is lowkey sad. I had tears writing it.

It was Christmas day and all around my house it smelt of burnt cookies and chicken. Dad was resting while Jax, Hunter and I took care of the food, but it wasn't going as well as we had planned.

"Emma, take out the cookies!" Jax yelps.

"You were supposed to be watching them!" I yell back feeling stressed.

"Hunter check on the chicken make sure it's not burning and take the cookies out!" I cried out.

He rushed over to the oven, taking out the cookies and trying to blow the smoke away.

"We should probably start ordering food." Hunter says, looking down at the cookies.

"How's the chicken?" Jax asks.

"Uh, look for yourself."

I peer my head over as I'm cutting the tomatoes for the salad and gasp as I see the chicken covered in black spots.

"That's it, we're eating salad for dinner." I sigh.

"I'm definitely not eating that. I'll order the pizza." Hunter says.

"Jax, put the other batch of cookies in the oven and let's pray they don't burn." I tell him.

"What about the chicken?" Hunter asks.

"Uhm," I analyze it. "Throw it out?"

"We can't just throw it out." Jax says.

"Then you eat it." Hunter says.

Sighing, Jax grabs aluminum foil from the cupboard and wraps the chicken in it. He shoves it back into the oven and closes it, making sure it's off.

"I'll take it home later. I'm sure my mom is going to eat it if I tell her I made it." Jax laughs.

"Don't torture her." I joke.

After our cooking disaster, we ordered two pies of pizza and my dad, Hunter and I all dived in, devouring it.

"Anyone want cookies?" Jax came in with a tray of cookies. "It's the only batch that didn't come out bad."

"Mhm, sure I'll have one." My dad reaches for one.

He takes a bite from it and I could practically hear his teeth breaking as he chews on it. "What the hell?" He scrunches his nose.

"What? Is it bad?" Jax picked up a cookie. He bit into it, chewing on it and he makes a face of disgust. "Okay, so maybe not the best batch."

We all sat around talking and sharing stories of the past when Jax got up from his seat and walked towards the kitchen.

Excusing myself, I followed after him. "Jax," he turns around, smiling. "Hey, you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm more than okay." He brings me to his chest, wrapping his arms around me. He leans down, bringing his lips to mine and teases me before finally giving in.

"I love you." He mutters under his breath.

Pulling away, I look into his eyes and grin. He moves back and reaches into his jacket, pulling out a box.

With my eyes wide, I look at Jax and back at the box.

"I got this for you a while ago I was just waiting for the perfect time to give it to you. Now seems like the best time." He tells me.