Annie’s POV

It was 7am, and the living room was still dark. Vic was lightly snoring beside me, his arms wrapped tightly around my waist. I was curled up into his side, however I was so uncomfortable.

The room was freezing, and the sofa bed was creaky and old. I couldn’t turn over for fear of waking up the entire apartment. Why Vic and I had ended up on the sofa bed was beyond me.

I tried to turn as quietly as I could but still it creaked so I just turned to my side quickly, to just get it over with.

“Are you always awake this early on Christmas?” I heard a light chuckle from beside me. I turned back around as quickly and quietly as I could to face my husband.

“Yeah,” I mumbled into his chest, “it’s just too god damn exciting.”

And it was true, if I wasn’t hung over from the night before, I was always up at the crack of dawn on Christmas Day. Last year, when me and Vic had spent our first Christmas together, the night before I’d gotten smashed out of my mind, so I had slept in, under the Christmas tree, until 4pm. So much for a romantic first Christmas together.

Vic just chuckled and pulled me closer, kissing the top of my head. I grinned into him, glad I was not the only one awake now.

We lay like that for what felt like an eternity, eyes closed, just content in each other’s arms; Vic running his hand up and down my side, pressing kisses to my head.

Suddenly we were shaken awake from our trance as we felt a huge weight jump on top of us. I squealed as I was crushed under the weight of Mike Fuentes and Vic laughed as Sophie jumped onto his side of the bed. Jaime, Jess, Tony and Steph all came stumbling out into the room, rubbing their eyes, still half asleep.

I attempted to push Mike off of me, but instead he and Sophie just started bouncing.

“Sttooopppp,” I groaned at them. Vic just laughed beside me as he definitely had the lighter end of the stick. I can tell you now that Mike is heavier than he looks.

“But Annie,” Sophie began, “IT’S CHHRRRIIISSSTTTMMAASSSS!!”

At that point Vic jumped up and they all began singing Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade, while jumping about on the bed. Jaime joined them, and soon I couldn’t resist it anymore and jumped as well. We carried on like that until we felt the sofa bed begin to give beneath our weight, at which point everyone but me and Vic jumped off it. We were all laughing hysterically, and it made me so happy.

This was what Christmas was meant to be, and being here right now made me happier than I’d ever been.

Vic clambered off the bed, pulling me with him into his chest and kissing me sweetly.

“Happy Christmas Annie,” he mumbled against my lips. I smiled into the kiss and he eventually pulled away, pulling me over to the tree where everyone’s presents lay waiting.

In that moment I felt my stomach turn and I just gave Vic the look before he dropped my hand and I ran into the bathroom. I reached the toilet just in time to empty my guts out.

I sat on the floor, cross legged as I waited for the next wave of nausea to hit. Vic joined me within about 30 seconds, and pulled me into his side. I buried my face into his chest, and he just pushed the hair out of my face and kissed my forehead.

About 2 minutes after the first lot, I felt my stomach turn again, and turned to throw up down the toilet, Vic holding my hair back. I’m pretty sure I was not the most attractive sight out there in that moment, but I appreciated his gesture all the same.

After we had been sitting there for about 10 minutes, I decided that I’d be OK, and sent Vic out to go grab my toothbrush.

After he’d left, Sophie slid into the bathroom and sat down on the counter. She looked at me sceptically, one eyebrow raised.

“What was that?” she questioned.

“I’m hungover,” I replied quickly.

“I’ve known you for 7 years Annie; you don’t throw up when you’re hungover. You lie in bed until late afternoon and feel sorry for yourself. You don’t throw up.” She repeated.

“Well there’s a first time for everything,” I mumbled.

“Well it’s bloody hard for you to be hungover, as you didn’t have any alcohol last night. You didn’t touch the glass of wine I poured you.”

Shit. She’d got me good this time.

“Just go wait outside and I’ll tell you what’s going on,” I looked at her, “please?”

She just shrugged and left the room, seemingly pissed.

Vic returned with my brush and a clean change of clothes. I brushed my teeth and got changed, while he sat waiting for me. I turned to face him, and he pulled me into his body. Vic always had a way of relaxing me when I was stressed; usually it was just with simple gestures like a hug.

“We’re gonna have to tell them babe,” I spoke up, “Sophie’s onto us.”

“I know,” he replied with a sigh, “we were gonna tell them eventually anyway.”

He leant down to kiss me, and once again I was reminded of how much I loved the man stood in front of me.

We stayed like that for a couple of minutes, just kissing, before there was a knock on the door, and Sophie shouted in telling us to “hurry the fuck up.”

“Ready?” he asked me.

“Ready.” I replied firmly.

We walked out into the lounge, only to be met by 6 very confused faces.

“Ummmm,” I began.

Great start Annie, great start.

“Are you pregnant?” Sophie demanded.

Bingo.

I just looked at the floor sheepishly, knowing she was staring at me. Silence passed around the room for
about 5 seconds, before Vic muttered a “yeah”.

A huge squeal then erupted from Sophie, and she ran at me. I laughed as she wrapped her arms tight around my neck, pulling me into her chest.

“I’m gonna be an aunt!” she squeaked.

Vic just laughed as Mike, Jaime and Tony all walked over to congratulate him and Steph and Jess walked over to me, making my hug between me and Sophie into a big group one.

Steph then pulled back and looked at me all serious, “How far along are you?”

“8 weeks,” I replied with a grin.

“Wait...didn’t you drink last night?” Jess asked looking at me sceptically.

“No, Sophie poured me a glass, but I just emptied it down the sink when I thought no-one was looking.” Clearly Sophie had noticed though.

“How long have you known?” Sophie demanded.

“4 weeks...”

“And you didn’t tell me?! We’re supposed to be best friends!”

“I know, but you do realise you shouldn’t tell anyone until after 3 months, right? Me and Vic wanted to keep it a surprise for today.” I smiled at my husband. Both of us had wanted to tell both Sophie and Mike, but we agreed it would be best to keep it to ourselves for a little while longer. Plus it was nice to have a secret between me and Vic without having Sophie or Mike getting in on it.

“Soph? Are you mad?” I asked her, quietly panicking.

“You know I can’t stay mad at you, especially now you’re pregnant! Gah I’m so excited!”

I just laughed at my best friend’s excitement, as Vic wrapped his arm around my waist.

It was a nice start to Christmas day.

Notes

Sooo..Christmas surprises! Annie and Vic are expecting a baby! yayayayay :D

I realised this chapter has a lot of Vic and Annie lovin' which is nice, but there's not been all that much Sophie/Mike lovin', so hopefully next chapter :)

Hope you all enjoy this chapter! :D

This could be the last update for a few days, as tomorrow I go back to school (boo.) but hopefully, I will update within the next two days :)

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Thanks again :)

Title Credit - 'Merry Xmas Everybody' by Slade