This is a song based story. I will not post the lyrics in the story but please go listen to it.
His Favorite Christmas Story by Capital Lights
Andros walked into the ballroom dressed in his uniform and looked around. Glancing around to see the other soldiers that had come with him had all paired off with the native girls. The others had a much easier time and they also felt they could storm through and use the girls on each planet that they stopped on. Andros wasn't like that he preferred to spend the time of these parties' alone. This time someone had dragged him in and so now he was standing in a ball room filled with celebrating Earth Dwellers.
They had come to negotiate treaties earlier that week. Just in time for what the Earthers called Christmas and tonight was the Christmas party. Tomorrow they would travel to another part of the planet and work on unifying the world under one rule.
A girl smiled across the room from him. She wore a brilliant yellow dress that seemed out of place from what he had been told were Christmas colors. Her lipstick was a deep attractive red but what caught him the most was her liquid brown eyes. Figuring that he had to dance with someone he walked towards her. However before he could get to her she was escorted by another person across the dance floor.
Throughout the evening he saw her many times and he was sure that she saw him because he often found her looking in his direction. Every time that he got the courage to ask her to dance she was whisked away by one of her friends. After a few hours of the party he just stood there and watched her as she flitted around the ballroom. Never once though did she ever make her way over to him although he was certain that she would have been intercepted before she even got half way to him.
Finally at a quarter to eleven with only fifteen minutes left at the party he managed to make up the courage to walk across the ballroom and ask her for a dance. Smiling she took his hand and danced the last minutes of the ball away in his arms. Everything felt perfect as he swung the beautiful girl in yellow across the floor. Her smile illuminated everything he saw and he knew that these few moments with her would be burned in his memory forever.
As they parted she kissed him lightly on the cheek. "Will I see you tomorrow?"
"Perhaps, before I leave." Andros nodded curtly as he stepped away as the clock struck eleven. All the Kerovian peace soldiers were required to be back upstairs to their rooms no later than five past eleven so he couldn't even walk her to her car.
It wasn't until he got to his room that he realized he had never exchanged names with the beautiful maiden in the yellow dress with the red lipstick. As others walked past he asked them if they had caught her name but they all shook their heads, the girls they had been with had been too special for them to notice the girl that had caught his attention.
The next morning as he left the hotel with the other soldiers he looked around for his mystery girl however she seemed to be nowhere in the crowd. He actually managed to hold up the procession as they walked to their ship.
"Andros I know you think that girl is something special but every time we go to a dance there is that special someone that will catch your eye." Zhane said shaking his head as they boarded the ship, "there will be other pretty girls in yellow dresses. Just wait and see, this time next year you will have forgotten all about this girl."
Christmas love story
Andros walked into a little mission diner on Triforia and looked around. There was a young woman wearing an unusual assortment of green and red along with what appeared to be pink antlers mounted on the top of her head. Her earrings jingled like bells. She was an unusual sight in this part of the galaxy so when she came to his table he just had to ask her about it.
"You are a relief worker from earth aren't you?"
She replied with a smile as she sat across from him, "yes how did you know? Not many people guess."
"I was on Earth for Christmas about five years ago. The ball that was thrown on Christmas evening was amazing. I have never seen any place so happy and peaceful all at the same time even amidst war and strife." Andros replied, "Christmas has become my favorite holiday just because of how all bad feelings can be set aside."
"Christmas is very special, tell me can you spare me a story? It is not often that many people know the meaning of Christmas Cheer around these parts." The girl asked, "I am Cassie by the way.
"My name is Andros, If you have a few moments I will surely share a story." Andros nodded and began to speak, "I was in Angel Grove five years ago and I saw a pretty girl with red lip stick that matched her pretty dress. She lit up the room but I could never get the courage to ask her to dance until a quarter to eleven. We danced across the room and shared something very special that has kept me from forgetting her but we never traded names."
"Angel Grove, five years ago? I was there and I think I remember you. You stood shyly by the side of the room many girls thought you were cute."
"Did you see a girl in a yellow dress? Do you know her name?" Andros asked almost leaning across the table eager to find out if this girl knew anything.
"I can't recall a girl who wore a yellow dress. I was more into watching all the cute soldiers." Cassie said sorrowfully," I am sorry I can't help you"
"It is alright thank you anyway."
Christmas Love story
Andros went through the years traveling and unlike Zhane had told him he never forgot his pretty girl with red lipstick that matched her pretty dress. He told her story everywhere and soon everyone knew his tale and they knew that he would always visit with a beautiful story.
He made several trips to Earth however every time he found a lead no one seemed to recall a pretty girl in a yellow dress at his particular Christmas ball. He also never once laid eyes on liquid chocolate eyes that melted his entire heart into putty.
As he reached his fiftieth year he retired as was expected from a person in his line of work however unlike the other soldiers he had no heir to name which was most unfortunate however things like that happened. Zhane never let him forget how he could have just forgotten his yellow dressed darling.
He answered the nagging by moving to a quiet village where he began to celebrate Christmas and it became a part of the tradition for all the children to come to his place for hot chocolate and a story on Christmas Eve. Then all the kids in attendance would wake the next morning to find a small sock of gifts on their front door the next morning.
The story always went "I was in Angel Grove on Earth and I saw a pretty girl with red lip stick that matched her pretty dress. She lit up the room but I could never get the courage to ask her to dance until a quarter to eleven. We danced across the room and shared something very special that has kept me from forgetting her but we never traded names."
All the children loved the tale and as he watched them grow they became happier children because of the Christmas spirit that he left in them. As they all grew and married they would come back and tell him of how they found their special person and would tell tales that made him smile. But slowly but surely all the children stopped coming by
Christmas Love story
Andros lay in a bed in the medical center in the central city of KO-35. He was dying but for some reason they had insisted that he be moved to the larger center in the capital city. Breathing was getting very hard for him and he was on oxygen to make it easier. As he lay in his bed a young nurse showed an older woman into the room who was identified as a visiting nurse from Earth.
One look at the woman with the gray hair and the badge that identified her as being from earth, He forced out a few words that were hard for him to say, "It is Christmas, could you share some Christmas Cheer?"
She sat and held his hand, "I was at a Christmas ball and I saw this traveling peace soldier from KO-35 who caught my eye. It was a quarter to eleven when he asked me to dance but it was the most special dance that I ever did have. I wish I had caught his name that day."
The story made his breathing hitch and he knew his time was coming near but he only saw a pretty young woman barely out of her teen years wearing a pretty yellow dress with red lip stick. Suddenly as he watched her he felt a brief but gratefully taken second wind, "I have looked everywhere for you, I never stopped telling about you. Tell me before I die what is your name? I am Andros."
"I know you are Andros, I came looking for you. My best friend Cassie met you five years after and told me all about you. I chased you for some time however I was always one stop behind your group. It was only just now that I got permission to come to KO-35." She leaned in and kissed him on his cheek softly