Soon enough, Christmas passed and winter break was coming to an end. Carly, still, had no idea what she was going to get Noelle for Christmas. 

Carly sat in her room, the skateboard Noelle got her in her arms, tracing the purple fire with her finger. Her finger grazed over the smooth skateboard and she fell back onto her bed. 

"You could get her a collage, those are popular," Rowan said, sitting on Carly's desk chair. 

"We never take pictures together, plus that sounds cliche," Carly was being indecisive. She wanted to get the perfect present, after all, that's what Noelle had given Carly. She knew that Noelle wasn't going to settle for anything ordinary so she had to do something special and unique to them. 

Rowan groaned in frustration, leaning back in her chair, ready to give up. "You're never going to be able to give her the gift if you're going to be so indecisive y'know," Rowan had been in Carly's room for at least 1 hour now. 

"Well this is hard okay, I need to get her the perfect gift, her gift is one of the best gifts I've ever gotten and I need to repay the favor," Carly put her skateboard on the ground. "Plus, I have no skills or talents so this is going to be hard."

"Wow, thanks," Rowan said sarcastically. "It's not like I buy you 20 presents every year."

Carly got off her bed and started pacing her room. "You know what I mean..." She said, walking along the side of her bed. 

"What if you baked her something? You're good at cooking..." Rowan picked at her nails, expecting another violent no or an excuse as to why she couldn't do that. 

"That's perfect! Then I can do the bracelet idea too that you mentioned earlier! This is perfect, now let's think... What should I bake?" Carly was pacing her room even faster now. Racking her brain trying to think of ideas. 

Rowan was shocked that such a small idea was THE idea that Carly ended up going with. "So can I leave now?" Rowan asked, getting up from the seat. 

"Yeah, you can. Thanks for the help," Carly glanced at Rowan for a quick second and bit the inside of her lip. Maybe she could do a cake? A cupcake? What kind of bracelet should she buy? She ignored Rowan as she left the room and shut the door behind her. Smiling at Carly on her way out. 

"I've got it!" Rowan said over the phone. She was in her car on her way to Noelle's house. 

"Christmas already passed," Noelle said back, in a slightly sarcastic tone.

Carly stopped at a red light and put her arm out to keep the cake from falling out of the passenger seat. "Well I couldn't think of anything! Besides, now you get an even better present than what I originally planned to get you..." Carly said this, even though she never had an original plan. 

Noelle sighed, "I assume you're on your way, correct?" 

"Yep, I'll be there in 5, kay?" 

"kay," And Noelle hung up the phone as the light turned green and Carly continued on the road. Once she made it to the house, she got out and walked to the other side of her car, getting the cake plus a present she wrapped as the main gift. 

Carly started walking up the steps to Noelle's doorstep, she decided to wear something a little nicer than she usually would. She wore a black turtleneck with light wash jeans. And a pair of black doc martens of course, for the winter. She was wearing one of her sister's old brown trench coats. Her sister planned the outfit, it felt pretty nice and gave Carly a little bit of confidence since it extenuated her figure a bit. 

Before Carly even had a chance to knock on the door, Noelle had already opened it and was standing at the entrance in a tank top and sweats. 

"Is that a cake?" Noelle asked, pointing to the box that Carly had been holding. 

"Yeah but I-" Before Carly had a chance to finish, Noelle had already grabbed the cake and the present on top of it. 

"Come inside," Noelle said, turning around and walking into her kitchen. Carly kicked the snow off her boots and slipped them off, putting them next to the rest of the shoes. 

Carly and Noelle walked over to the kitchen counter, Noelle had already opened the box and grabbed a knife to cut into it. "Are your parents home?" Carly asked, taking a seat on one of the bar stools. 

"What kind of question is that? They're never home, if they were, I wouldn't have let you inside so easily," Noelle said, eating a strawberry off the top of the cake. The cake was chocolate, Noelle's favorite, and had strawberry's around the bottom and top. There were patterns engraved on the sides of the cake and the top had a message in cursive. 

Merry Christmas <3
-Carly

Carly just sat and nodded, she watched as Noelle admired the cake and then proceeded to cut into it. She waited for Noelle to take a bite, "Do you like it?" Carly asked as Noelle dug her fork into her slice to get another bite. 

"YES, this is really fucking good, holy shit..." Noelle was being rather vulgar but Carly didn't mind. As long as she liked it, she was okay. "So what's in the wrapping?" Noelle asked, taking yet another bite of her slice. 

"I'll show you when you're finished," Carly said, pulling the present closer to herself. Noelle shoveled down her last couple of bites and put her plate down. 

"Done," She said, swallowing her last bite. Carly went around the counter and grabbed her arm, leading her to the living room. 

They both stood in front of each other and Carly finally handed the present over to Noelle who was more than eager to open it. "Open it."

Noelle took off the white wrapping paper and looked at what she was holding. It was a ring box, but when she opened it, there were two rings. "What are these?" Noelle asked, dropping the wrapping paper carelessly.

Carly took the box and took one of the rings out and held Noelle's left hand out. "A promise ring, I'm not sure what exactly they mean but something along the lines of taking our relationship to the next level. Whatever that may be..." Carly said, sliding the ring onto Noelle's middle finger. To make it less suspicious if anyone asked.

Carly held the box out to Noelle who took Carly's hand and slid the ring on her middle finger on her left hand. "Hmm..." Noelle lifted up her hand and admire the ring, twisting her hand to see the shine of the ring. It was simple, it had a little knot in the middle of it and it was silver. It was pretty thin but it felt really nice and fit really well. "It's pretty, I like how we're matching."

Noelle smiled at Carly who was already getting shy. "Well good, because they were expensive.." Carly said, hiding her face. Noelle put the ring box down on the coffee table and rested her arms on Carly's shoulders. 

"Aww, is Carly getting all shy on me already? I haven't even kissed her yet," Carly spun her head back to Noelle and immediately clashed their lips together. Noelle was surprised but she kissed back, resting one of her hands on Carly's face. Carly rested her hands on Noelle's waist, pulling her closer. This time, Carly was the one who started using tongue. Noelle let out a slight groan to that and Carly smiled against Noelle's lips, backing her into the couch and letting her fall on her back. 

Noelle layed back and Carly hovered over her, her knee between Noelle's thighs and her foot rested on the ground. She had one hand on Noelle's waist and the other near her head. Carly started to slip her hand under Noelle's tank top and it touched against her bare skin, hitching Noelle's breath. Carly stood straight up and Noelle took her turtle neck off for her, revealing Noelle's first and last name in cursive on the left side of Carly's shoulders. Noelle grabbed Carly's waist and flipped them over so that Noelle was on top. Noelle started kissing Carly's cheek, and then her neck,  and then her shoulder, where her own name was written. Carly glanced over at Noelle's wrist and then looked back at Noelle who was currently giving Carly a soon to be, hickey. 

"Wait," Carly grabbed Noelle's face and held it in her hands away from her shoulder, "Are we seriously about to do this?" Carly asked as Noelle wiped her lip and put her arm next to Carly's waist. 

"If you wan't to," Noelle said, sitting on Carly's stomach. 

"I do, only if you want to..." Carly mumbled the last part and Noelle immediately went back to kissing Carly's shoulder. 

"Well, I want to," Noelle whispered into Carly's ear, sending shivers up and down Carly. 

It took Carly a bit to gain back her composure and when she did she grabbed Noelle's waist and turned them over so that Carly was the top. "I'm topping."

Noelle frowned and now grabbed Carly's waist and spun them back around. "No, I am!"

"No..." Carly repeated the same action, this time pinning Noelle harder against the couch, "I am!"

The argument continued and they fought over who was topping who. They ended up settling it and just topped each other... They ended up having to go to Noelle's bedroom to not risk getting caught and it went from their. It was definitely the next step in their relationship and they probably both knew that. But the question looming in their heads...

What was the next step?

Authors note <3

Hehe finally they did the do. If you wanted it more in detail then sorry, I'm not really a person who writes smutty stuff so this will have to do. But non-the-less, I still love this chapter. What did y'all think?

Also, tomorrow's Christmas and it's 1:32 am, haha oh well. I'm probably going to go to sleep now so night. REMEMBER TO DRINK WATER AND EAT!!

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