Chapter 63

Matt sighed as he glanced down at Angela whose eye’s his met. Matt smiled at her, letting go of her hand as he walked to the closet and bringing out several big fluffy blankets and a couple of pillows that he had also hid earlier and tossed them across the room onto the floor in front of the fireplace. Angela who caught one of the pillows smiled as Matt closed the door and looked across the room at her.

Matt cleared his throat as he walked back to the couch as he grabbed the biggest of the blankets and Angela took the other end helping him lay it out. After the blanket was flat and neat on the floor Matt took the pillows and tossed them up against the back of the couch. Angela who had knelt on the edge of the blanket giggled as Matt went to turn around and feel backwards over a few blankets landing with a loud thud. Luckily Matt had laned on the other blankets so his fall didn’t hurt that much. Matt who was still lying on the floor where he had landed, looked over at Angela who was watching him laughing histerically. Matt sighed as he watched her smiling and began to laugh himself.

"Matt are you okay?" Angela asked when she could finally speak over her laughter. Matt simply stared at her. "Ohh Matt I’m so very sorry.... but that was soo histerical!" Angela said laughing again.

Matt sighed, "Yeah I’m fine." Matt said as Angela reached for a pillow and crawled over to Matt’s side.

Matt stared at her, " So are you happy your here?" Matt asked softly rolling onto his side and supporting his head with his hand looking up into her happy expression as the fire cast shadows and danced across her beautiful face.

Angela smiled shaking her head, "I can’t think of any where else I’d rather be... then right here... with you......" Angela whispered as Matt reached with his free hand and took hers. They sat in silence for a few moments, when suddenly the phone rang. Matt and Angela stared at each other trying to figure out who could possibly be calling now at this time of night, it was almost midnight already, and it would be Christmas officaially in about a half an hour.

Finally the phone stopped rining, so they both assumed someone from upstaires had gotten it. Angela sighed as she pushed her bangs away from her eye’s and looked at Matt. Angela was just about to say somthing when they both looked towards the doorway of the stairs and saw a shadow making there way down.

"Angela." The familiar voice called. "The phone’s for you, I think its your aunt or something." Jay said sleepily appearing in the doorway. He smiled down at them and tossed Angela the phone. She caught it and smiled at him.

"Thanks Jay, night. Merry Christmas, sleep well, congradulations again." Angela said smiling as Jay shook his head and waved a hand sleepily into the air, yawned and disappeared as he thudded loudly up the stairs and back to sleep.

Matt glanced at Angela and she raised her eyebrows and smiled at him shrugging as she got up and sat down against the pillows in front of the couch. Matt laid where he was and watched her push a strand of hair behind her ear, and put the phone up to it clearing her throat, then she said hello. Matt watched her smile as she heard the familiar voice of her aunt.

"Hey, Aunt Jenny, how’s everything there? Merry Christmas!" Angela said happy to hear a familiar cheerful voice.

"Everything’s fine here, how are you sweety? Merry Christmas! I wasn’t sure if I called the right number, I didn’t think anyone was going to pick up at this hour. I’m sorry for calling so late. We just got home from Colleens party," Colleen was Angela’s second cousin, who was very close to her aunt, Angela listened as she watched Matt who yawned and stared back at her. "I got your message sweety, I hope I didn’t wake anyone up..."

"Not completely, I was up." Angela said softly, "How’s Colleen and Joe anyways? I haven’t seen either of them in along time." Angela asked as she motioned for Matt. Matt sat up stretching and crawled over next to Angela and put his arm around her. Angela rested her head against him, and listened to her aunt talk about Colleen and her husband Joe.

After about 5 minutes, Angela held her hand over the phone and looked up at Matt who glanced at her. "Call my name okay, I’m gonna get off and I’ll call her tomorrow, okay?" Angela asked staring at Matt, who leaned over and kissed her cheek softly and shook his head.

Almost 5 minutes later Angela finally managed to hang up with her talkative aunt. Angela sighed as she tossed the phone behind her onto the couch and snuggled against Matt. Matt reached for a blanket and Angela giggled softly as Matt wrapped it around them and hugged her gently. Angela rested her head against his shoulder and then looked up at him.

Matt reached up and touched her cheek, "Can you believe Jay and Trish? Married I just can’t picture it." Matt asked smiling at her.

Angela smiled, "I thought it was wonderful! Its very sweet. I think loves supposed to be that way..." Angela whispered sighing. Matt watched her for a moment, knowing he was going to forever remember that sentence. She was right tho, love was supposed to be that way. Then she got up and went to the tree and grabbed a box and came back sitting next to Matt. Matt stared at her confused.

Angela handed Matt the box and smiled cheerfully. "Merry Christmas!" She said watching him.

Matt stared at her and chuckled, "You didn’t have to get me anything...." Matt whispered touching her cheek.

Angela shrugged, "I wanted to... I got it with Lita when we went to do Christmas shopping in town yesterday, it took forever to find it just right, I went all over looking for it, I hope you like it." Angela said softly as she leaned over and kissed Matt’s cheek.

Matt smiled at her as he set the box down next to him and got up going to the tree himself and taking her present back as he sat down, he glanced at the clock and saw there was only about fifteen minutes until 12. Until it was officially Christmas. Matt smiled as he handed her the box and she stared at it, surprised.

"Merry Christmas, I hope you like it, but don’t open it yet, I wanna open mine and then talk to you for a few minutes first okay?!" Matt said staring at her surprised and excited smile. She looked thrilled, apparently she hadn’t expected Matt to get her anything after all. He hadn’t expected her to get him anything, so they were both surprised. Angela shook her head and giggled as Matt took his present and ripped throught the paper, rolling it into a ball and tossing it across the room. Matt looked down at this shoe box and glanced at Angela confused.

"Shoes?" Matt asked raising an eyebrow as Angela laughed.

"No silly! Open it hurry, I wanna see if you like it!" Angela said giggling as she sat up more and watched Matt.

Matt sighed as he lifted the cover from the box and stared down inside to find a little white box, smaller then his hand sitting inside tissue paper. Matt glanced at her as she smiled, then he picked the tiny box up and set the shoe box aside. Matt took a breath as he lifted the tiny cover and pushed more tissue paper aside to find a silver ring with a small Hardy Boyz symbol in the center. Matt stared at it a moment and sighed as he picked it up and looked at it. Angela touched his arm after a moment to get his attention. Finally Matt looked up at her and she reached into her pocket and handed him a card. Matt grinned as he slide the ring on his ring finger and opened the card. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Matt,

I wish you the Merriest Christmas ever! Your so great and I love hanging out with you! I hope we have a great time, and I hope we spend much of it together. I hope you like your present, I figured you had enough Hardyz necklaces, but I hope you don’t have a ring. I pray you like it! I’m glad I’m here with you! Merry Christmas! I want to say more, but I don’t know how to, so just have a great Christmas! 2001’

Matt sighed as he closed the card setting it next to him as he turned to look at Angela. Her soft smiled and her sparkling eyes made Matt’s heart melt. She was incredible indeed.

"Well? Do you like it?" Angela asked anxiously watching Matt softly.

Matt stared at her and smiled. "I love it, its awesome, thank you!" Matt whispered as he touched her cheek.

"Your welcome," She said pausing, "I’m so glad you like it." Angela said taking Matt’s hand and touching the ring. "I’m glad it fits too!" Angela said as Matt chuckled.

"Jeff would like it too, I sure." Matt said softly looking down at the ring on his finger, smiling.

Angela smiled, "I think Lita’s gonna buy him one too!" Angela whispered as they both laughed softly.

"So what do you want to talk to me about so I can open my gift?!" Angela asked picking up the small silver box and looking anxiously at Matt.

Matt cleared his throat and took a deep breath. "Okay well, your gift is sorta speciale....I saw it and I immediately knew it belonged to you...." Matt paused as Angela grinned at him.

"Well okay I had this whole... speech prepared but, I can’t say it.... It’d take to long, because there’s so much to say." Matt whispered touching Angela’s cheek.

Angela smiled at him. Matt rubbed her cheek softly with his finger tips as he sighed trying to calm down so he could talk. He was suddenly nervious at what she might say. What if she said no!

Matt shook his head a little and looked at her. "I do tho have some things that have to be said..... so I’m just gonna come right out and say them, and Angie please don’t say anything until I’m done ok?" Matt asked sitting up a bit more.

Angela smiled and gently shook her head watching him. Matt swallowed and looked towards the fire and let his words spill out at last, "I think your awesome Angela, your so beautiful, your fun, your sweet, I’m... well I’m crazy about you... this is so hard to say... You walked into my hotel room a few weeks ago when we first meet, and the second I saw you I was crazy about you.... you were gorgeous! I mean when we first kissed, it felt so right, and even now, when I kiss you that’s all I want to do, I wish time could stop so that’s all I’d have to do..."

Matt paused and took a breath, "I trust you Angela, I feel like I’ve known you my whole life. Angie it feels so good to have someone to hold again. I love the way holding you in my arms feels, it’s so right to me, it’s incredible! I’ve been on cloud nine since you came into my life! I think I’d go crazy without you! Even the last two days without you has been like complete hell to me! But ohh when I saw you upstairs earlier, I was so delighted to have you there with me completely alone, I feel like there’s things between us that I haven’t felt with anyone else. Things that I want there to always be...... Angela there’s nothing about you that I don’t like. I like watching the way your hair falls around you, I like, no I love your lips, an ohh to kiss them, and your amazingly sweet smile and your big sparkling glittering eye’s, God only knows how they drive me crazy...." Matt paused chuckling as he glanced at Angela who was staring at him as a silent tear rolled down her cheek.

Angela listened to Matt intently, to hear the things he was saying, she honsetly pinched herself to make sure she was awake, or that she wasn’t dreaming! Angela’s heart felt like it was on fire. Matt felt the same way for her as she did for him, and Angela was exstatic that finally she felt trust in someone, finally she felt that deep down someone real loved her. She finally at long last felt her life was fair, maybe her fairy-tale dream might come true after all, besides all of her other dreams had come true, anything’s possible after all! Matt was so sweet, he was everything!!!!

Matt sighed, "And I think knowing that you can kick my ass is probably what drives me more into you! I feel like I have to protect you, to keep you warm..... but I know you can take care of yourself. I just wonder if maybe you’d let someone help a little sometimes, allow someone to protect you, to care for you, to hold you, and be with you..." Matt paused, clearing his throat.

"Now don’t say anything, open your present...." Matt whispered staring at her. The truth was finally out and Matt felt good and free, she knew at last how he felt.

Angela took a deep breath wiping a tear from her cheek, then she slowly ripped the silver paper off to reveal the small velvet black box. Angela swallowed and looked up at Matt. He smiled with an anxious excited smile and watched as she slowly opened the small box to reveal what was inside..... Angela’s eye’s went wide and her mouth opened with surprise and delight as a few more tear fell down her cheeks........

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