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Chapter eighty-two: "Presents"

Fast forward to a few weeks later, Christmas will start in 2 days

My present for Benj is already finished Cloud was impressed at what I could do with my weird idea but it worked so all turned out well

"Are the presents in the trunk?" I asked Cloud while packing my clothes in my dorm room with Cheryl who was busy packing her clothes

Cloud nodded "Yeah but the problem is that because there are too many presents, I have to stuff some of them in the backseat"
With Cloud's car that is big, you would expect that all the presents would fit in the trunk

"That'll be fine" I hurriedly finish packing my things and then closed the luggage

I glanced at Cheryl who was wrapping a box that was filled with chocolates and treats. She said that in her country it's called a 'Balik Bayan' box

She then continued to explain that it is something like transportation of gifts from any country to the Philippines so they could reach their relatives

Once she shipped this box, it would take a few weeks to reach her relatives in the Philippines. Cheryl has her main family here in Canada so the box is just a gift to her extended family

It was not only one box, but they're also were 5 of them and we're extremely high and heavy

Cloud, Paul, and I, helped Cheryl bring the boxes downstairs to put them in Paul's car

"Babe, are you sure you're not going back to the Philippines? These things are so heavy" Paul groaned as he carried a box with all his might

Cheryl could only give her boyfriend a sheepish grin "The one you are carrying has a new vacuum in it, Cloud's holding the one with the brand new rice cooker with chips and chocolates"

I gently set the box down "And what are the things that I carried then?"
I thought I was the one carrying the chocolates which is why I was extra carefull

She chuckled "Girl, you're carrying clothes, new clothes to be exact for my cousins and other elders in the family"

Gosh darn, I was careful for nothing

No wonder I felt like mine wasn't that heavy, to begin with, other than the boys who were complaining about how heavy the boxes were

Cloud managed to put the box in the car and joked "You might as well ship them a new house while you're at it"

Cheryl rolled her eyes at him "If you love your family, you too would go to great lengths to give them a great experience of getting nice gifts for Christmas" before getting another box in the dorm to bring down

"Well not to brag but I too have gifts," Cloud said loudly at Cheryl who was already entering back into the building

Chris came to help and before we knew it, we were now at the airport with Chris and his boyfriend going to New Brunswick to visit Chris' family for Christmas. Cheryl and Paul would head to British Columbia to visit Cheryl's family

Both Paul and Cheryl agreed that right after visiting her family, they would both go to England to visit Paul's family
Looks like their Christmas break would be very busy

"See you guys after New Year" I waved goodbye to them

Chris patted my back before holding hands with Jonathan "See you later Pen"

We all parted ways to reach our different airline routes. Cloud led me to his family's private jet with all the gifts were handled by the baggage handler to loaded into the jet

"I thought your Dad would use the jet this time" I looked at him confused

Mason, Oliver, and Liam entered the jet and overheard my question

"Dad is in the manor, he stayed there right after the wedding and planned to stay until Christmas. My God it felt like winter entered the manor when he came" Oliver said with annoyance and shivered at the thought

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"Is that drool? I think that's drool dude"

I heard Oliver talking as I opened my eyes to see that I leaned my head on Cloud's shoulder when I fell asleep

Cloud chuckled and pulled out wipes and handed them to me "You talk as if you don't drool when you sleep, you almost wet the entire pillow from how much drool you made when you were 10 Oliver" he patted my head and gave a small look to his little brother

Mason snorted "The maids were so disgusted by how much drool he made that they threw it in the washing machine"

Oliver's face was now red from embarrassment "Hey! I don't think I drool THAT much"

"Ask Mom when we get home" Cloud responded

I, on the other hand, felt embarrassed that I drool in front of my boyfriend and his brothers

Liam ruffled Oliver's hair to lighten his mood a little "Drooling is normal, once you have a baby then let's see you complain"
He's got a point, babies do drool a lot

While the brothers were busy chatting, I looked out the window to find we were near the landing at the airport. Once we landed, three cars rolled up to the front of the stairs by the jet

One of the people that exited the car first to greet us was my Aunt Laborè whose hair got longer, the bob hair was now shoulder length. She opened her arms wide when she saw me coming down the stairs carefully since I was still in a half-asleep state

She gave me a tight hug "Nice seeing you again Penelope dear"

Her eyes landed on the brothers "You four also"

The bodyguards started stuffing both of the cars with gifts and luggage

"Oh dear, seems like I brought only a few cars. Hold on" Aunt Laborè proceeded to start a phone call for a request to bring another. After her call, she looked up at us "Thankfully there is a car near the airport and will be here in a few minutes"

We stood there waiting for the car and Aunt Laborè decided to start a conversation "So how are your studies? Did you eat well while you were away?"

I nodded "I am keeping up with the lessons and I'm fine-" "Wrong!"

Cloud cut me off with his arms crossed while gazing t a far distance "She got sick"

"Cloud I got sick a few weeks ago"

"But you said that you were fine, that's lying"
Cloud just loved correcting me whenever I try to assure my family that I'm doing well

Mason looked around "Oh right, why on earth didn't the twins join us on the jet ride?"

Nikki and Nick said that they came here to visit Danny because Nick needed her story to finish up the rom-com movie so it can be produced

Cloud only answered him with one word "Reasons". Then shrugged at him

The car finally arrived and all of us hopped in so we can get a proper rest once we reach our home. We stopped first at my home and Cloud accompanied me to the entrance with the gifts that the bodyguards are holding

Aunt Laborè knocked on the door and the person who answered was Dad

"Kiddo!" Dad hugged me with excitement

"ARE THOSE PRESENTS?!" I can hear Adeline yelling from the living room near the window as she saw the bodyguards enter my home to put the presents under the Christmas tree that my family set up near the corner of the living room

I yawned and entered the house and Cloud tried to enter but Dad stopped him "Uh uh, not in my daughter's bedroom"

Cloud grinned and nodded "Got it sir, see you later Angel" he kissed my cheeks before going back to hop into the car


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