Secret Santa Rucas

04 The snow globe

Riley finds out that some people have been taking advantage of the secret santa system When Yogi approaches her tree days before their winter break begins and ask if she wouldn't mind using her final gift for Darby who he not supposed to know about to help make his gift idea for his girlfriend happen

Apparently several people are doing this for their friends and significant others to be able to pull off gifts that they would otherwise be unable to do It turns out that Farkle is a somewhat corrupt keeper of information According to yogi for the low price of a candy cane and an explanation of what you want to do and why Farkle will tell you who you need to approach

She's not sure how to feel about this On the one hand the identities of the secret santa are still totally concealed from each recipient and the idea of these meaningful grand gestures is well within the spirit of what they were hoping to achieve when they came up with the idea in the first place On the other hand it feels a bit like cheating when part of the goal is for people to get closer to each other by coming up with these special gifts on their own

She tells Farkle this then when she lectures him on his bribability

She tells him this after she agrees to help Yogi his idea is adorable and romantic and it's pretty impossible to say no to when he and Darby are still the sweetest couple in the school and deserve every happiness

Even after she promises herself to figure out an extra little girl for Darby to make up for taking the objectively easier way out for her last present the vague corruption of the secret santa project is still weighing on her mind by the end of the day So Riley is a little distracted when she meets up with her friends after her last class

Maya-Your locker is singing

Maya informs as she approaches

Sure enough just over the noise of the other students Riley can hear a delicate metallic melody coming from inside her locker She flings the door open and finds a snow globe showing a trio of ballerinas in white dancing in a snow coated pine forest With the music still playing and the flakes still falling she knows it can't have been in her locker for very long She turns to Maya

Riley-Did you see who put this in here

Maya- Couldn't tell you

Maya shrugs

Riley narrow her eyes

Riley- Because you didn't see or because it was my secret santa

Now she smiles when she repeats herself

Maya- Couldn't tell you

Farkle- Isn't there usually a card or a tag

Farkle ask

Riley looks all around her locker even lifting up the snow globe to check on the bottom but finds nothing It's not the end of the world She knows it must be from her secret Santa although she has been enjoying their little notes and is a little sad not to get one this time

Riley- No note

She sighs

Too bad There might have been a hint about what song it plays

It's a pretty little tune and she would love to hear it played by real instruments But she has never heard it before and has no idea what it might be

Do you think shazam works on snow gloves

Zay- You don't need it

Zay says

It's a part of the waltz of the snowflakes From the Nutcracker The girls in my ballet class love it

Waltz of the snowflakes That's one mystery solved Riley thanks Zay and is about to ask if some one wants to study at the bakery over got chocolate when Lucas ask

Lucas- What's this

And crouches to pick something up As he straightens he produces a postcard

Your secret Santa must have dropped it by accident when they were setting up the snow glove

Yeah

Maya nods emphatically

Lucky it didn't get kicked down the hall or trampled

Riley takes the postcard and looks at the picture on the front It's a photo of her that she recognizes from Maya Instagram It was taken last Christmas when she spinning around trying to catch snowflakes in her mouth Someone has used several effects to make it look more like a painting then a photograph Wueb she flips it over She finds the now familiar handwriting

Because you dance through life even when everyone else is walking your secret Santa

Riley forgets everything she was worried about