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“Now Josh, now,” I gasp.

He lowers a hand between us and rubs my clit. Within seconds, I scream out his name and I’m soaring through an amazing orgasm. He calls out my name a moment later.

We stay where we are, trying to catch our breath. “I’ve never done anything like that before,” I say, still breathless. “Then again, there are a lot of things I haven’t done.”

Josh grins. “I think I’m going to like helping you with that list.”

Chapter Thirty-Three

Sam

“Thereisasnowmanbuilding contest and an ice sculpting contest. We can skate on the rink and go on a sleigh ride—”

Amelia cuts her off before she could finish. “Sleigh ride? I’ve never been on a sleigh ride.” Amelia gets up on her knees and leans forward on the table towards Vicki. “Can we, Momma?” She looks at me, her hands pressed together, pleading. “Pleeease.”

“We’ll see.” I laugh at her puppy dog eyes and protruding lower lip.

Sunset Creek is known for their festivals. We have one every couple of months and every major holiday comes with a festival. People come from all over the place to take part. The park is always full of vendors, from locals, to the shops around town and some neighbouring towns.

It’s been so long since I have been able to come to one of our festivals. I think I’m as excited as Amelia.

The bell on the door goes off and we all look to see Josh, the kids and his parents enter. Josh winks at me, and I grin like a silly schoolgirl. We haven’t told the kids yet we’re dating. If it is in fact what we are doing.

We haven’t discussed it officially. I feel like we are. Every morning when Josh comes in for his start of the day coffee, he comes around the counter to kiss me hello. He wouldn’t do that if we weren’t dating, right? I don’t want to come right out and ask. We’re not in highschool anymore. Do you actually have to ask… Are we dating? Are we exclusive? Are you my boyfriend? Don’t you just assume at this point? I guess you can’t assume you are exclusive without that conversation. Maybe I can find a quiet time today to ask him. Great, now I’m nervous.

We walk out of the diner right into the crowds of people patiently awaiting the start of the parade and the arrival of Santa. Amelia was sad when we told her she couldn’t be a part of the Miller Diner float this year. We want her to enjoy her first festival and watch the parade like the other kids. When we told her she can watch it with Emily and Jake, she was all happy again. Next year, we can join Vicki, Becca, Jenna and some of the staff on the float.

Josh motions for the kids to stand in front of us and he wraps his arm around my waist, pulling me close. He dips his head and places a soft, quick kiss on my temple, taking me by surprise. The kids are in front of us and his parents are standing right beside him. I look up and see his mom flick her head towards the street, a big smile on her face.

The kids are excited as we watch all the floats pass by; they scream and squeal and point to people they know and when the elves dance around tossing candy into the crowds; they go berserk.

We help them collect some of the candy and I place them in my purse for later. They are way too hyper to have any right now. Once we’ve collected all the surrounding candy, Josh pulls me close again, as if I’ve been gone too long.

Santa makes his arrival, and the crowd goes wild. The kids scream at the tops of their lungs and Josh looks at me and smiles. I smile back, wondering if this could be the start of many Winter Festivals in our future. If you would have asked me a couple months ago if I saw myself falling for someone and dreaming of a future here in Sunset Creek, I would have called them crazy.

We competed against each other, along with a couple of other teams in the snowman competition, which had to be teams of three. My team had me, Jenna, Amelia. Josh’s team had him, Emily, and Jake.

We won by the way and the Prescott family, being the good sports they are, couldn’t let it go.

The competition had ended in an all out snowball fight. Crowds grew to watch, and some locals joined in on the fight. In the end, we didn’t know who was fighting who, but the laughter that filled the air made it all worth it.

After that, we headed to the hot chocolate truck. It’s run by twins Britney and Bridget Bradshaw. They had gone to the same high school with us but were a few years younger. They have the best hot chocolate around and in the summer their truck sells cold drinks.

It was a pretty genius idea, and they were doing very well for themselves. Vicki had recently asked the twins if they wanted to partner up with the diner and sell quick food items like hotdogs, burgers, fries, etc. They are discussing it and will let Vicki know in the next couple of weeks.

We take our hot chocolates; candy cane hot chocolate with whipped cream and chocolate shaving for me, maple hot chocolate for Josh and regular hot chocolate with whipped cream for the kids. We pile into the big red sleigh for a ride around town; the kids sit on one side and Josh and I on the other. He has his hand on my lap under the blanket the whole time.

I can’t wait for when we can tell the kids about us and not have to be careful around them. I can’t help but wonder why he’s still so hesitant about telling them. It’s not like his other family members don’t know. His parents may not have been told, but I can tell they know and his brothers… they all found out on our first date.

After the sleigh ride, we take the kids to see Santa for pictures. We take some of them all together and a few of them alone. The kids talk us into taking a picture of the five of us. That would be an amazing Christmas card if we were at that point.

Which we were not, of course, but it didn’t help me from dreaming.

Now we’re waiting for the tree lighting to start. Josh again has the kids in front of us and wraps his arms around my waist.

“Welcome,” Mayor Lockwood says. She waits until the applause dies down, then continues, “Welcome to the annual Sunset Creek Tree lighting and winter festival. I hope you all had time to enjoy some of the fun and games we have here this year and, of course, there will be time to enjoy them all throughout the week. Make sure you stop by the different vendors. Who knows? You may find the one special gift you weren’t looking for. Now let’s light up this tree and mark the official opening of the Sunset Creek Winter Festival. Five, Four…”

The crowd joins in. “Three, Two. One.” Mayor Lockwood presses the button and the crowd cheers. The girls and Jake clap and scream enthusiastically as the tree comes to life.

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