Tethered ? Awsten Knight

Part 45

"No," I bit down on my lip and shook my head. "I know we talked about picking them out for each other, but I think they should match."

"I like this one," He said and slipped his hand on my lower back after letting go of the cart, then reached out for a red knit stocking. "What if we took a hot glue gun and like...glitter or something and put our names on it."

"That sounds messy."

"Glitter puff paint?"

"Or...we could just do ones with our initials on them."

"But when we have kids, if we have two red stocking's with A's on them..." I stared at him now with my arms across my chest. "You're right though. The initials would be less messy...what?"

"We can do whatever you want." A small sigh escaped my lips as I smiled.

"What about what you want?" He asked and tugged me against him.

"It doesn't matter to me at the end of the day. A little mess is fine. We'll clean it up."

"Let's do the initials." Awsten nodded once.

"Awsten!"

"Tatum!" He said back playfully, then kissed my forehead. "I can do a green one though and you can do red."

"That works." I watched him grab a red T off of a hook, then dig for a green A.

"I'm getting really hungry." He mumbled, putting the stockings in the cart. "Can we order some Benny's?"

"Sure, do you want your usual?"

"Yes, please...then we can put on a Christmas movie or something. I'll put the tree together."

"Do you want to pick it up or have it delivered?"

"Delivered. Please. As much as I'm not tired I don't know if I can take one more stop."

"Okay." I nodded quickly and wrapped my hand back around his arm. "Do we need anything else while we're here?"

"Hmmm, tree skirt."

"This is why I'm with you." I teased and kissed his cheek.

We picked out a tree skirt, I ordered our food, then we went to check out.

"Put it away." I told him as he was reaching back for his wallet.

"Tatum-"

"Don't 'Tatum' me." I said playful and used Apple Pay on my phone instead while playfully pushing his arm. "This was all my idea."

"Okay and it's our tree that's going to last us for years. I'm Venmoing you for half."

For years.

"I'll send it back."

"Send it back and see what happens." He pulled me into him and kissed my temple, pulling the loaded cart now away. "Come on. Let's go home"

Home. My home.

So we loaded up Awsten's car, made a couple of trips to in and out of my apartment with our luggage and everything we had just picked up, then Awsten immediately opened the box with the tree on it.

I watched him for a second, watching him flip through the little paper manual and run his hand over his face.

It was crazy to me that we were here now. I went from swearing up and down that I'd never date another musician again, to being put in the same room as Awsten, him asking me out after we talked for hours outside, to now being in my living room setting up our first Christmas tree.