~CHAPTER 59~

*•*•*•You are helpless.•*•*•*

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I had only woken up twenty minutes ago when chase opened the door to the room and squats next to my bed. I turned off my phone and placed it back on my nightstand. I look up at him and he smiles knowing I still need a while to finish waking up... also some coffee.

"Merry Christmas." He smiles and I smirk.

"Merry Christmas you filthy animal." I say and confusion etches his face.

"What?"

"Home Alone, dude."

"Home a what?"

"You've never seen Home Alone?"

"No I haven't."

"That's one of the most iconic Christmas movie of all times, right next to Love Actually."

"What are these movies?" He asks and I gasp.

"Oh you and I are going to sit in the living room and we are going to watch Christmas movies thill we get that grinch out of you."

"What's a grinch?"

"What's a grinch?" I ask shocked. "Oh dear lord you are helpless." I say and roll over so that he would hop back in bed with me for a while. He looks at me and stood to his full highs smiling.

"Sorry I can't." He says and I frown. "Sebastian sent me up here looking at me with groggy eyes. He told me that I had to carry your ass downstairs do that we could open presents."

I grab my phone again and see the time seeing that it's only eight thirty a.m.

"It's eight thirty." I sat up and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. "The littles won't be up for a while."

"I'm just here to follow instructions." He smiles at me and I nod lid firing my arms yawning. He places one arm under my knees and the other under my back. I feel like I weight a ton since I got this cast on my leg. Broken legs are a bitch.

"I must be very heavy right about now." I say and he looks down at me.

"What?"

"This cast its weighting me down."

"No it's not."

"Just a little." I say and he chuckles. Once we reach the downstairs I point for Chase to take me to Sebastian and lower me a little. When he does I swing and hit Seb upside the head.

"The littles won't be up for at least three more hours what is wrong with you." I say and he looks back at me shaking his head rubbing the spot where I had hit him previously.

"Ah there's that very merry Christmas felling I was waiting to get from you."

"Why the fuck did you make him drag me down here?" I ask as Chase sits down and sets me on his lap where I get comfortable.

"There are presents!" He says and I shake my head. "Plus Marcus woke me up." He says and I ignore him.

"Is there coffee?" I ask ignoring the last comment. Chase leans over me to the living room table and hands me a coffee cup. I kiss his cheek and grab the cup taking a long sip.

"That's better."  I say then look at Sebastian and say. "Now I ask again. Why was a carried out of bed if the little won't be up for at least three more hours."

"Why do you guys open the presents without the little kids?" Cole asks and May nods along wanting to know too.

"Tradition... when we were little dad would keep us up at the night before Christmas Just so we would sleep in. When we woke, dad, mom, Marcus and Shawn were already awake and waiting for us to wake up. They would tell us that same didn't bring them anything and that they would be better next year so that they could get presents. When we were old enough to understand that Santa didn't exist, they told us the truth behind what they'd been doing, so after Marcus and Shawn adopted their second child, we did it to them." I explain and he nods.

Chase's phone rings in his pocket and he looks at it seeing who is calling. He showed me the screen indicating that Charlotte was calling him. I nod getting off of his lap. He answers his phone walking away and I smile, knowing that his sister called him because it's their birthday.

"Thank you Char... You too... Merry Christmas... I love you... I'll call all of you later, okay?" I heard him talking in the hall and look over my shoulder when I hear him walking towards us.

"How's Charlotte?"

"She's good. Happy it's Christmas."

"That's good." I smile and he nods lifting me so that I was sat on his lap again and kisses me.

"Where were we?" Chase asks and I speak.

"We open presents without the littles."

"That's mean." He retorts and I shake my head.

"I love my nieces and nephews with my whole heart. They are just the cutes little angles. But! I'm not a morning person and I know a lot of people in this room who aren't either. They get excited because it's Christmas and do you really want to deal with hyper and excited kids in the morning when you haven't had a cup of coffee?" Chase stays silent and I take that as my answer

"Exactly... besides, dad did it with Sebastian, Caleb and me. Right Seb?" I turn to look at Sebastian and he's falling asleep on May's shoulder. What the fuck!

I extend my non injured leg and stick my toe into his ear wiggling it around a little. He jumps up frightens and looks at me.

"What is wrong with you?"

"What is wrong with you? If I have to awake and alert so do you."

"I didn't sleep much last night and I only asked Chase to wake you up because Caleb asked me to." he says laying his head back on May's shoulder.

"First of all eww..." I was about to say something else but May quickly interrupted

"It wasn't like that." She exclaims and Seb shakes his head. "We were wrapping Christmas presents."

"Second of all... what the fuck dude?" I look at Caleb and he shrugs innocently

"I wanted to open some presents." Right after he says this Mark, Shawn and mom walk out of the kitchen each with a cup of coffee of their own. Mom walks over to me and kisses my head making me smile and lean into her touch.

"So same as always?" Mom asks and Sebastian, Caleb and I nod.

"What's same as always?" Chase whispers in my ear and I look at him.

"Youngest gets first gift."

"Maddie... for you. This is from-"

"Nope. Not me. Get one for Chase it's his birthday today." I say taking a sip from my coffee and setting it down on the table next to me before I smile at him. "Happy birthday, I don't have to go to jail anymore!" I extend my arms in the air as a sign of victory and he chuckles kissing my cheek.

"Thank you princess."

"Make sure mine is the last one." I tell Mark and Chase narrows his eyes at me. "It's a really good present, I want you to be wowed."

"Fine." He let up and I smiled.

"Chase for you from... Lucas." Mark hands Chase two presents and when he opens them I see one is a camera and the other is a camera bag.

"I saw your old one was broken so I thought I would get you a new one."

"Man you shouldn't have, this is too much. Thank you Lucas." Chase says and Lucas nods.

"Merry Christmas Chase."

"Maddie next ones yours." Mark says as a heads up and hands me a heavy gift. "It's from Lizzie."

"This is heavy." I say and set it on my lap. I rip open the paper and see the word Memories written across the cover. I open it and smile. There are so many pictures, and tickets and wrist bands.

"Oh my god Liz. This is awesome!"

"It's all the mementos I've taken since September." She says and I look up at her. She was currently sitting next to Lucas who has an arm around her waist as she leans on his chest.

"I want to see!" May stands up and soon fallow all the teens leaving the adults to sort through the gifts and organize them in piles so that the gift giving process could be faster. Under the tree were our gifts that were put the last night. But the kiddos' gifts were all in the garage. Later on we would take them out and wake the kids up.

"Oh my god are you falling off of a chair?" Caleb asks and I nod.

"Were you drunk or something?" Sebastian asks and that causes mom, Mark and Shawn to give me the 'mom' stare.

"Don't give me those looks." I say and continue. "It was Halloween and... all of you have gotten your fair share of drunken nights."

"Besides Chase made sure I got home mostly okay without being caught by the dorm supervised, which in my opinion is better than being completely okay and caught by the dorm supervisor."

"Totally is." May says and they all nod in agreement.

"Mostly okay?" Mom asks and I nod.

"I told you about this. I was kind of in the hospital on Halloween."

"Kind of? How did you tell the story?" Chase asks and I shift my head from side to side.

"With almost all of the information." I say and he looks at mom.

"What did she tell you?" Chase asks mom and she says

"That she was in the hospital and that I shouldn't worry." She says and Chase looks at me.

"Really? You didn't tell her the full story?"

"I didn't want to worry her." I shrug and mom looks at me curiously.

"What didn't you tell me?"

"That... well- I might have gotten in a fist fight with some random dude that was at the party and had to get some stitches... no biggie."

"That is not a 'no biggie' that's a biggie." She says and I shake my head.

"I was fine and like I said... if that hadn't happened I would've most probably been caught by the dorm supervisor."

"I need you to tell me these things Maddie."

"I know mom. And if it happens again I will. I promise. Let's just pray it doesn't happen again." I say and smile with all my teeth.

"Fine." She says and continues. "But only cause it's Christmas I'll let it slide."

After that the whole gift opening thing was a breeze. It went by in a flash and everybody was very happy with what they got. There were only a few gifts left, mostly mine and Chase's, we wanted to watch everybody open up their presents. Maybe that could be our tradition.

"Okay Chase... this one is from Maddie." Mark hands him a medium sized box and I smile at him wiggling my eyebrows.

"If I open this will snakes come out and eat my face?" He asks and I nod excitedly. "Here goes nothing." he opened the wrapping paper then pulled open the box. He dropped his head laughing. "This is too good to be true."

He pulls out the full collection of 'The Powerpuff Girls' smiling at me and I smile right back.

"You said you loved them... I don't judge guilty pleasures, unless it's watching the bachelorette or some cringy shit like that." I say and he laughs.

"I would never."

"Good."

"Thank you princess." He says and kisses my forehead. I smile at nod as a 'you're welcome.'

"Maddie the next one is yours... it's from Nat." Mark says and hands it to me.

Now was when I realized that Marcus never called Nat, mom. And I understand why. I mean Natasha entered my life when I was seven, I was still a little kid, he wasn't. He was twenty-two. To him, mom was Maddie -our biological mom- he was fifteen when he lost her. He had to go through the excitement of getting a new sister and the grief of losing a mother all in one day. It must've been as hard for him as it was for my dad. I'm happy that they had each other.

Mark had handed me and envelope. I look at mom and she smiles nodding. I look down at it and open it. Speaking of. I pull out some papers and see that they're adoption papers.

"Seriously?" I asked tears in my eyes and looked up and mom. She nods some tears of her own had built up in her eyes. "Yo- you want to adopt me?" I ask and that causes silence to overtake the living room all eyes on us now.

"Yeah." She says her voice cracking. "But only if you want to. If you don't i get it. And if you need time yo think I get that too."

"Do you have a pen?" I asked and she looked around.

"Shit I could've swore I had one earlier." She says and I chuckle tears falling out of my eyes. Everybody laughs at that and I look at Marcus as she looks for a pen.

'Are you okay?' I mouthed and he nodded. 'I'm happy for you.' He says and I nod. Mon soon comes back with a pen and I grab it from her shaky hand and sign the papers. I place them on the table and stand up hugging her.

"I love you so much sweetheart."

"I love you too mom."

"I'm your mom now." She says pulling away and tucking my hair behind my ears and wiping away my tears as I chuckle. "That is so surreal and crazy."

"You've always been my mom." I say and she smiles at me before kissing my head.

The rest of the day was a blur. So much happiness in the air made the day go by fast. A little after we opened up our presents I took Chase upstairs -more like he carried me up the stairs- and I gave him his birthday present. Telling him that this one was his real present the other was just a silly gift. He told me that I didn't have to and I told him that he was being ridiculous and he should take both. He was really happy with both and kissed me telling me how much he loved me. And like I said after that the rest of the day was s blur of happiness and hugs.

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AUTHOR'S NOTE

Hello peoples!! Yes I know I said peoples and not people (it wasn't a mistake) I just like gramatical errors sometimes. Only two more chapters to go until Rooming With Chase is officially finished. How do y'all feel about this chapter. I like it. Also it might raise some confusion, but yes her biological mother's name is Maddison just like hers. She had mentioned it before in chapter 21. How are you guys? I feel like I haven't asked that in a while and I want to know. How are y'all? Let me know in the comments.

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I will hope to see you all Friday. Of even tomorrow... who knows. Byeee.