The Girl With A Hidden Friend

Light Snow Drift

^^^ what blue looks like but with different colored eyes 

December 15 4:00 pm Weather: light Snow drift

It was winter here in Wetburgh England, everybody had already been in school for a few months now. Everywhere I went I could hear people screaming out to their friends, people planning great events for their families. Christmas was coming it's way eventually. I highly doubt my family and me would get much of anything. We were a middle class people, not much money but enough to get a few presents for everyone. It was more hard for us because of the fact that I had ten brothers, three sisters and just my dad working for all of us. Lucky half of my brothers were gone working. Still even with some of my siblings working it was still a lot of work keeping us in the middle class range. Everybody was always thankful if they got as least two presents each every Christmas. It had been a lot more easy with my mother here. Yet since she had gone, there was no one else to run to but Dad. In which knowing my dad wasn't always the kindest human on the planet. If he were human at all sometimes. This year thought, I didn't care if I got any presents at all, it seemed every sense I meet Lu. My time was not so much circled around the books in my personal shelves within my room upon the second floor of the barn house, but more circled around when and where Lu would come. He was a true friend, we would spend hours awake at night giggling about things in our day. Such as when the mailman Mr. Jon had gotten chased by miss Peters our rich as hell next door neighbor's dog and bitten in the rear or when the time Lexi the girl who apparently thought she ran the school where I was studying at got in trouble by her mom and had to spend an entire weekend washing the floors in her five story house instead of going to the final cheerleader game at our rival school. There was no other time that I would be more happy then the time I spent in Lu. Even though he was a ghost and it wasn't like I could brag about him or show him off to my siblings or the jerks at school. It didn't bother with how I thought about him. Today thought I didn't have much time to spend with Lu, which deeply put me into a moody behavior. My dear aunt Salt and everyone else in our large family were coming over from Canada to spend their winter here at our small yet wide landscaped orchid. To me, Christmas was annoying, what made it annoying was half of my cousins were either immature, brats, selfish or too uptight for the word fun. If only I thought with a whimper in my head, had Lu been part of my family maybe most of the holidays wouldn't seem to drag out.

"Hey sweetheart can you go see if the Christmas roast is done in the oven," My father yelled from upstairs.

"Sure papa," I responded loud enough so he could hear me through the walls.

I knew he would be putting on his best outfit, not like it would impress any of our guests coming over. Yet again like every year papa would force all my brothers into their suits to look nice and me into my red velvet black Christmas dress that would nearly always trip me while I walked. To me all this looking nice was unnecessary it's not like Aunt Sally who was uptight or any of our cousins, or other family members ever entered our house looking nice. In fact I remember Uncle chuck wearing his farmer's boots dragging mud throughout the house. The mud had been enough for me to want to beat him on the head with his shovel he brought as well, since I would have to be the one cleaning it after they all left or went to bed. I scurried to the kitchen putting my angry thoughts aside and walking past the living room where my brothers sat all fancy like which was rare watching tv. I ignored another thought coming up, it would only bother my already pissed off mood. Right as I entered the kitchen, with its wooden oak floor and farm house white paint walls. Another thought came to my mind, Christmas might not all bad this year. I had survived the previous years, I'm sure I can make it through this one. Plus it would be easier to pass by this one, more than the others. After all right after all all my family left, it would just be me, my brothers, my papa and more importantly my Lu. My Lu, I thought, his name ringing through my ears sounded like a piece of candy for the time being. Putting on my oven mitts I circled around the island in the middle of the kitchen space and bent down to get the oven door open to check on the Christmas pot ,meat.