EllRay Jakes Rocks The Holidays! (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
18 A NOT-SO-PERFECT CHRISTMAS “Hey, buddy,” Dad says, poking his head into my room at ten-thirty p.m. on Christmas Eve. “Too excited to sleep? I can hear the wheels turning in here.” This means he can supposedly hear me thinking. Of course he can’t, but it’s true that my brain is buzzing. Today has been packed so full that I am numb. And it’s true, I cannot fall asleep. It rained all day, but that didn’t slow us down much—though Alfie worried aloud about Santa’s reindeer slipping tonight on our wet tile roof. Dad didn’t calm her down any when he joked that Santa might sue us if he fell. “Don’t say that, Dad,” she said. “He might be wistening.” Which is Alfie-speak for listening. “I guess I’m excited about Christmas,” I tell my dad. “But I also feel kind of—” “Sad? Nervous?” Dad says, trying out a couple of sentence endings for me. I nod my head the best that I can on my pillow. It’s hard to explain my mixed-up feelings. But my dad seems to understand.
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