Christmas Story

Christmas Story

 A snowy Christmas 

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Bianca  walked swiftly out her door toward the woods. She stopped cold in her tracks when the freezing air hit her. She lightly bit her lip, adjusted her hat and then  headed off into the woods. She walked quietly along the snow covered path. With only the blowing of the wind and the crunch of the snow beneath her feet, she headed toward the small log cabin. She walked up to the blue door, which she had painted with her mom last year, and fumbled in her pocket for keys. She went entered  the cabin heading straight for the rusty colored closet door. She grabbed a saw from off the shelf. She checked to make sure it would be sharp enough to cut a tree down then gave herself a slight nod of affirmation before heading outside. Back into the snow. She say sauntered off to the back of the cabin to grab her sleigh. After she went back inside to grab hand warmers she joined the snowy path again and headed off deeper in to the wood.

Even though it wasn’t snowing, the white flakes fell off the trees onto Bianca. It was already starring to get dark outside even though it was only five o’clock. The amount of daylight in Vermont was normally short in the winter. As Bianca wandered deeper into the forest she started looking for the perfectChristmas tree. She wanted to find the perfect tree for her mom, but was also trying to hurry, so she could beat her mom home and surprise her with the tree. Her mom always worried about her even though Bianca was 14, and quite capable of taking care of herself. She was shook out of her thoughts by a loud screech overhead. She quickly jerked her head upward to see the snowy owl flying over her head. She smiled at the owl, even though she was actually still startled from her scare. Just as soon as she stopped she headed off back on the trail. She soon came to a clearing with tons of pine trees. Bianca walked around checking all the trees. After a a couple minutes she came upon a small pine tree. She nodded her head as she declared  ” This one.” She was sweating and panting by the time she finished chopping down the tree and dragging the tree onto the sleigh. Bianca wiped her brow and looked up at the snow falling down as she started pulling the tree back to her house. She was baffled when she spotted a snowy owl perched in an old pine tree staring down at her. She gave the owl an confused smile as she shook her head and focused on pulling the tree.

As she broke the line of trees and saw her house in the distance she broke out in a jog. She didn’t know how long she had been gone but she knew her mom would be coming home soon. If her mom wasn’t already home now.She gave a sigh of relief as she saw that her mom’s car was still gone. She still had time. When she reached her house she took a minute to catch her breath then swiftly headed inside to grab the tree stand. After she spent forever trying to drag the tree inside her house she went downstairs to grab their ornaments. She almost dropped the box of ornaments when she heard a loud gasp come from upstairs. She hurried upstairs to find her mom in awe, staring at the tree. Bianca smiled a giant braces filled smile as her mom turned around and embraced her in a hug.” B, did do all this.” her mom asked. “yeah,but it’s no big deal. I just wanted us to have a Christmas tree.” Bianca replied. ” Shall we fetch the ornaments to put on the tree?” Bianca’s mom playfully asked. “Of course!” Bianca concurred.

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