A Christmas Tale

Prologue- A Christmas Calamity

Paige was just too excited to think. Every single Christmas for their vacation she and her sister, Riley, would join the children's choir at Psalty's. Psalty was a singing songbook. They had been doing this ever since Paige was 5 and Riley was 8. Since they were out of their house, they knew how to handle pretty much everything. They both grew up with Psalty. Now Paige was 9 and Riley was 12. Three years from now Riley had to stop the children's choir and join the youth choir. But since they did this every single year, but why was Paige excited now? Well, this year, Paige will be in a different room. She used to be in the 'Younger Kids' room, but now she was finally going to the 'Older Kids' room with her sister.

The blonde-haired girls walked in a large room filled with Christmas decorations. There was a large garland of wreaths all around the walls. In the middle stood a huge Christmas tree. Paige knew this place very well, so she walked into her room without keeping her eyes away from the Christmas decorations. Riley reluctantly pulled her hand away.

"You're not going there anymore this year." She explained.

"Oh, yeah, that's right!" Paige giggled. Riley lead the way to the 'Older Kids' room. It wasn't exactly that much of a difference, only the rooms they'd be staying in, but Paige was still excited. She was excited about everything related to Christmas.

Paige and Riley stepped into the room that was just as equally decorated. All around there were kids chatting. Paige followed Riley to a nice little corner in the 'Girls' section and set her bags down.

"Here's where we'll be sleeping." Riley said, placing her white sleeping bag on the floor. Paige followed her sister and set down her bright blue sleeping bag and pillows. Paige picked up a small sheep stuffed animal with a blue bow and set it on her sleeping bag. She stared at Riley's, who had an identical sheep with a green bow. They had the sheep since they were 2 years old.

"So what do you want to do?" Riley asked, sitting down on her sleeping bag.

Paige sat down on hers.

"I don't know, I'm really looking forward to practice." She said. Riley smiled.

"Sure, we can just wait here." Riley said.

Paige and Riley picked a good seat at the third row.

"This is the part where Psalty comes!" Paige said excitedly, giving Riley a good shake. And sure enough, a songbook came onto the stage and waved.

"So hello everyone! I hope you're having a wonderful day!" He said. The kids cheered.

"To those of you who don't know, I'm Psalty the talking songbook, and we're here to perform for the church." More cheers.

"First of all, we need rules. The first one is not to wander off your rooms unless you need to go to the bathroom. But other than that, you are not supposed to wander around."

"Next rule, never bully or tease other kids here. We haven't gotten any incidents of this here at The Light House Mission, and we aren't willing to start. Everybody in this room is equal, and we should all focus on praising God. Miss Ellie, come over here, please."

A woman with a nice brown ponytail came up on the stage.

"It's Miss Ellie!" Paige exclaimed, as the kids cheered. Miss Ellie was Psalty's 22-year-old assistant.

"Miss Ellie is my assistant, and you can tell her if you feel that something is wrong." Psalty explained. Miss Ellie gave the kids a big smile.

"And chef Emerald here is your new chef." Psalty said. A chef came on the stage. He was wearing a nice white suit, and clearly new to Psalty's staff.