The Christmas Present

Sharni lowered her eyes to the box and untying the white ribbon she opened the lid. Her eyes widened as she looked at its contents. Nestled in the soft white interior was a circular silver charm with a fine silver chain threaded through it. Sharni remembered it from their search for his niece’s present. She had secretly admired it and had suggested it as an option for the required gift but he’d gone with something else. “It’s beautiful” she said looking up at him. “How did you know I liked it?”

He smiled. “Your face lit up when you looked at it. I wanted to buy it for you right then. That’s why I didn’t pick it. I didn’t think you’d have accepted it though.”

“No” she said removing the necklace from the box and fastening it around her neck “I wouldn’t have then. Thank you.”

“My pleasure” he said and leaning towards her he kissed her.

While they kissed Sharni considered just how lucky she’d been that year. She loved the necklace but the best gift she’d received that Christmas was Mitch. And as he rolled her beneath him she hoped that he would be making her Christmas’s and every day in between, memorable for the rest of her life.

The End