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The Best Day Before Christmas Essay

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For many people Christmas is the best day of the year, for Jack Smith it is just another day of the year. Unlike most of his colleagues at work, he did not attend the Christmas parties, which in his opinion was, ‘The biggest form of arse kissing,’ Jack Smith would be lying if he said that he never enjoyed seeing a candy cane, experiencing his first kiss with his wife under a mistletoe, or hearing Jingle Bells play on the radio when he was a kid, but now his forty year old man, he had kissed his wife many times without a mistletoe, the candy cane wasn’t so sweet anymore because one day he’ll get his own, and working as a doorman he hears enough bells. But these aren’t the true reasons as to why he no longer enjoys decorating the house with …show more content…

Their names were – if I remember correctly – Ernie the oldest, and Ben, and both were always hyperactive, and were possibly capable of tiring all the children in the play area and not feel tired themselves. Taking out his phone he looked at the time, 02:20 p.m., he decided to call his wife – who should have been finished an hour ago – he waited for a minute before she answered. “Hi honey, I just wanna know when you’re coming.” There must have been something wrong with the signal cause all he heard when she spoke was, “Hello...He will come... 02:23...” that was all he heard before the line cut off, followed by static. He wondered who Susan said was coming, his first thought it was probably the delivery guy, but since he couldn’t recall that they ordered anything online, he decided it was not the delivery guy. Whoever it was, was going to have to wait outside his house for awhile before Jack arrives. As Jack was standing up from his table he noticed a little girl wearing a sky-blue skirt, and carrying a teddy bear, she was walking next to a woman , who Jack assumed was the mother, she was busy on her phone. The little girl was still holding her teddy bear, when a stream of shot out from the back of her neck, in a matter of seconds the teddy bear went from an inanimate object, to a life, and

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