Vellichor

Part 33

The next week and a half went by really quickly. Me and Sapphire decided to sleep at each other's houses almost every night except for a couple times when I felt like I was being too clingy and needed to give Sapphire space.

She insisted it was fine, but I expressed to her that I felt like I was suffocating our relationship, and that's why I felt like we needed to have a little bit of distance. She didn't agree, but cooperated with me anyways.

Today was our last day of work before we were off until the first week of January, next year. There was only two days till Christmas. And I was strangely excited for Sapphire to come to my mothers Christmas party. I had gotten Sapphire a necklace with a small moon pendant in the middle. It was simple, but I knew she'd like it. She had a particular interest in the moon, sun, and stars.

It was in the middle of the day when Sapphire came up to me as I was counting our tips for the week and separating them in three envelopes.

She said "Hey, these next two days me and Gaspard have a lot of work to do. So I'll see you at your Mothers party now. When does it start?" I smiled and said "It starts at six pm." She smiled back at me and said "Okay, I'll be on time. I'm gonna go help Jamal with organizing the cookie jars." I dipped in to give her a kiss on her cheek before she left.
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"Valentinnnnnnne! is the Charcuterie Board in the middle of the table?!"

"Yessss Mom! This is the third time I've told you. Everything's ready and set. Why are you freaking out?"

Currently my mom had been driving me, Nate and Penelope crazy for the past six hours. Making sure everything was perfect for her Christmas party.

"Okay thank god. Because the guests could arrive any time now. How do I look?"

My mom had changed her outfit three times today, already. Now she was wearing a pair of tights with a long sleeved green shirt. My siblings rolled their eyes and I went up to my mom and hugged her and said "Mom everything's all good, you look great. And the first guest will most likely be Sapph so stop being nuts."

At that moment the bell rang. Nate went to go answer the door. There she was, the most beautiful girl I'd have ever seen.

Sapphire came with a bouquet of flowers and a few little bags with I guess what were presents.

She walked up to my mom and gave my mother the flowers and a hug to which my mom said "Omg thank you so much. This is just what I was missing for decoration tonight."

Then Sapph proceeded to give a little bag to Nate. Then Penelope, then my mom, then finally me. She looked at everyone and said "Just little gifts." I grabbed her hand and started walking, to my room. I yelled out "Call us when the party starttttssss."

Once I shut the door of my room, I don't know what got into me. I lightly threw the bag on my bed and I grabbed Sapphire by the hips and pulled her into me and started kissing her, then I had her up against one of my walls and was kissing her neck, then I went back to her lips again.

In between kisses she giggled and said "Hey....don't you want to open.....your gift before we have sex?"

I pulled away from her to look at her face and gave her a mock shocked expression and put my hands on her waist under her long sleeved black shirt and said "Sex? I wasn't even thinking about sex. Omg is that all you think about? Is that all you want from me?"

She kissed me again:"Open your present." I rolled my eyes and said "Okay." I went and sat on my bed. And underneath the gift tissue paper was a medium sized velvet box. I opened it up and it revealed a beautiful watch. I took it out and put it on. I looked up at Sapphire with a smile and said "I fucking love it." Sapphire said "It'll suit you. But look at the back." I looked at the back and the little words engraved in the back were. "All time, is always ours. Your worshiper forever, Sapphire Taccarelli."

I got up and hugged Sapphire and walked her to my bed until we were both laying together. She laughed once she had her leg over my leg and her arm over my stomach and her head on my chest.

I felt so at peace I didn't even have the words to fully articulate how content I felt "Hey I have a question. What were our first names ever? Like what was yours and what was mine?"

She held me a little more tighter then before and sighed happily and said "Mine was the same as now, but in Italian, Zaffiro, and yours was Ciro. Your mom said you were literally the sun of her life, and everyone's life you touched and so she named you Ciro meaning Sun."

I smiled and said "From now on, I'm gonna call you Zaffiro." She looked up at me with warmth and said "Then I'm calling you Ciro." I said "Okay never mind." I quickly climbed on top of her, in between her legs and we got busy.