CONTAINS SSR SPOLERS!
Ben's logbook IT'S NOT A DIARY.
December 13th
I have NO idea what to do, Zoe arranged a secret Santa thing for all of us, and she gave me Erica. ERICA! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO PULL THAT OFF?! There are three minor problems with this and a plethora of larger ones. So I need a plan. Fast.
Then I had an idea, it was a TERRIBLE idea, but an idea nonetheless. I could call Trixie and ask her for help. But there was no guarantee that her phone wasn't bugged. So basically, I was about to embark on the most dangerous mission known to man without help. So I did what any semi good spy would do, I made a plan.
Step 1 make a list of possible gifts.
Step 2 pick one gift.
Step 3 get Trixie to distract Erica.
Step 4 put Erica's gift in her room.
Step 5 CLEAN THE WHOLE STUPID ROOM.
Step 6 make it out alive.
And do all of this without Erica knowing. I need a simpler plan. But I will worry about that later. First I need to come up with a list of gifts.
December 20th
I need money, I wonder if Mike still has his banjo?
5 minutes later
Nope *sigh*
December 21st
Can't get a loan, won't do chips homework, and can't seal a moon rock for Jawa.
Later
I could... never mind.
*sigh* This is harder that I thought.
Maybe I could write a sappy letter about our time in the Washington... but then she would know.
Later
I KNOW! I'll blow her room up! Then I don't have to worry about getting in.
Even later
I am SOOOOO screwed.
Ya know what. I can just tell her that I would give her a cool knife if I had 20 more dollars. But that would probably get me slapped.
I need 20 dollars for a knife, it snows on the 23rd and I have a shovel. Problem solved.
The 23rd
It didn't snow.
The 24th
Now it snows. And I need 30 more dollars for same day delivery. I better be fast. (And hope Amazon is doing that same day delivery.)
2 Hours Later
Sooo I have the money. But Amazon isn't doing same day delivery. CRAAAAP!
After hours of tireless searching I have found that there are no knife stores in D.C. There's knife sharpening stores, but no knife stores. So, yeah.
WAIT A SECOND!
I could order the knife and have it shipped to her room! It would arrive late. But it would get there. Now I just need to pick a knife to get her. Man I'm bad at this.
December 25 Christmas
I wrote Erica a letter that I plan to slip under the door. It says that my gift should get there soon. Now I wait.
3 hours later.
A letter was in my bed when I walked in, it said thank you.
There was a package under the letter too. I assume they were from the same person but I can't be 100% sure. In the box was a small tin soldier. It had another letter with it. The letter said:
Dear Ben.
I don't know why I picked a tin soldier it just seemed like the right thing to give you.
A friend.
I smiled, I thought the tin soldier seemed like the right thing too.
