Once Upon A Christmas

"I Wish"

December 24th, 1997
The air of Christmas Eve was filled with snow that always touched your nose every 2 seconds. It was so cold, so cold you wanted to stay inside with the heat and drink hot coco and be near a fireplace. Well, that's what the
Katz family did. They would go in the living room, put on The Santa Clause, and eat popcorn with M&Ms if you enjoyed salt and sugar together, of course. The Christmas tree would be lit up in the living room with all of the decorations from elementary school. While mom and dad watch the movie mostly. Daniel, their youngest child at age 11, was making a Christmas list last minute to make sure  His main item that he really wanted was one of the remote controlled race car tracks by Hotwheels. Alice, their oldest daughter, was in her room, reading Harry Potter. Her friends always were trying to convince her to read it, so she decided to read it. She wasn't really invested in it but knew the beginning of books were always the boring part of books. She then heard her mom and dad yell her name from downstairs. She looked around for a bookmark but since all her bookmarks went to the box car children books, she then realized it didn't matter if she held the place where she read this so she just left it on her desk and went downstairs. When she came down, she saw her brother kicking his legs in excitement as her mom and dad were looking under the tree, grabbing presents to pick. She knew it was time for an 'early Christmas present' time, so she sat down.

"Alright, Daniel, open yours first!"

Her mom whipped out her camera and recorded Daniel opening his presents and saw he got a Spiderman Acton figure.

"Cool! Thanks, mom!"

Daniel smiled as he struggled to open the box to get out his Spiderman figure. He was obsessed with Spiderman and even had a Spiderman backpack once. Who knows where that obsession started. Probably from Uncle Ted. Uncle Ted was more obsessed with Elvis than Spiderman, but he did own a movie from 1977 and put it on one time. Darn it, Uncle Ted... Daniel was playing with his Spiderman Acton figure and was having a blast. Dad took a sip of his coffee, some of it getting on his brown, spikey,mustache

"Dear, I think we should have saved that Acton figure for Christmas day."

"Oh wait until Christmas day, it will be way worse,"

Mom spoke quietly with dad having a gulp sound and feeling.

"Wait... where's my gift?"

Alice was questioning as she looked at her brother, playing with his figureine of Iorn man and spider man

"Oh, we thought you were too big to have presents! You already are 19, you could just hang out with your friends!"

That made alice upset so she went back to her room and put her Harry Potter book back on the shelf, but it didn't really fit with her other books, but it was a new book, so of course it didn't. She then looked outside and knew it was pretty dark out. She then looked downstairs and saw her parents and brother were wide awake and didn't seem tired at all. Alice rolled her eyes and closed her bedroom door, and grabbed her favorite book... a fantasy romance book and started reading. She sat and was snuggly buggly under the blanket. While reading, she was fantasizing about how she wished she could meet a prince and live with him. But this was the 90s, not the 1800s. She kept reading but was dozing off. The faint sound of Christmas music from the church was heard from outside and laughter from downstairs. Alice looked at a star from her window and sighed

"I wish... I wish I had met a prince and lived with him this Christmas... or new year... then he could spoil me and give me all the gifts i wish for and won't have the excuse of me being too old..."

Alice then turned off her lamp and yawned as she saw her night light, and the moon was the only source of light in the room, besides the light under the door. Snowflakes were on her window and frosted the glass too. She then closed her eyes and finally took a deep sleep...

when waking up, she looked around to see she wasn't at all in her room but in the snow. She was in a heavy dress that was covering her whole body. Where was she? And how did she get here?