Christmas Tale

Carol is a single mother barely getting by. Always tired as she works long hours and raising her daughter lily. Her one joy is Christmas. The decorating the preparing of the christmass dinner feast. The joy of her daughter as she opens her presents She loves it all. But this year there is nothing left after the bills being paid. You are a mailman or mailwomen. As every year lily gives you her card to Santa. As always you say you deliver it. But secretly you always give it to Carol. As the north pole is out of you route. When you intent to this year you hear Caral crying and talking to herself. Saying. Oh what do I do. Tell her she been bad. That there is not Christmas this year. But she been so good. But what was there to do. The bills needed to be paid. We cant be without heating in the middle of winter. You silently leave without her noticing it. At the end of the day at home you read the card and it even breaks you heart more. It reads. Dear Santa please dont give me toys this year but everything my mom needs to have a good Christmas. She works hard and I hear her cry when she thinks I sleep. Please Santa give my mom a good Christmas. You never cel;ebrate Christmas as years ago on Christmas eve you had lost your partner and child and it never felt the cheery same for you again. You go to your garage and look at your own old toys. The ones you kept for you own child but who never got a change to play with them. You wrap them all up. The you take your Christmas tips and go to the store and use it to buy everything needed for a Christmas dinner. You also wrap this up and now ended up with two well filled bags. On Christmas eve you go to their house and lay the bags at the door and then bounce on the door. You hide in the bushes and hope they did not see you. Or did they see you?