"Jerome, JEROME" Mara had stood outside his door for five minutes now knocking and calling his name.
Finally he opened the door.
"What is it Jaffray?" Jerome asked he was quite annoyed it was like the closer it got to Christmas the angrier he got.
"I got you something" Mara said warmly as she held out the box and card.
"What's the occasion?" he chuckled.
"Well its Christmas Eve and I wanted to see your face when you opened it since I'm not going to be here on Christmas" Mara said sweetly.
Jerome opened the card and laughed at the contents he smiled and unwrapped the present. He opened the box and took out the snow globe.
"A snow globe" He looked at it and smiled "Thank you Mara I was just saying to Alfie that I don't have enough snow globes" Jerome chuckled and hugged Mara.
"So do you like it?" Mara asked.
"I love it" He answered.
"Do you love Christmas?" Mara asked hoping he'd say yes.
"Oh yeah I love Christmas" Jerome said sarcastically.
"Oh come on admit you love Christmas" Mara said becoming annoyed.
"I love this snow globe I'll admit that" Jerome laughed at Mara's reaction.
"You know the guy at the shop where I bought that said it's filled with Christmas magic and if you shake it, look into it and make a wish it will come true"
"And you believe that" Jerome said as he raised an eyebrow.
"Yes I do" Mara said.
"Okay then" Jerome shook the snow globe and looked into it doubtfully but when he saw the words Make a Christmas Wish appear out of nowhere his doubt disappeared "I wish that it was Christmas everyday" Jerome said truly believing in it for Mara, Mara smiled at him.
"Why are you smiling?"Jerome said and the snow globe started glowing but no one noticed.
"I think it would be great for everyday to be Christmas but…"
"But what?" Jerome asked.
"But I think it would get boring after a while, because the reason I love Christmas so much is because it only comes once a year" Mara said
"Thank you for the magical snow globe I'll treasure it for always" Jerome said as he went to go back in his room.
"Yeah I need to finish packing, my mum and dad will be here any second" Mara said as she turned and went up stairs.
When Jerome went back in his room he saw Alfie doing some last-minute packing.
"What's that Jerome?" Alfie asked looking up from his suitcase.
"A magic snow globe, Mara gave me it" Jerome said as he sat down on his bed "Aren't you done packing yet?"
"Almost I'm finding it hard to fit all my clothes and stuff in my suitcase and all my family presents" Alfie said as he sat on his suitcase and tried to close it.
Jerome lay on his bed looking up to the ceiling he shook the snow globe and looked into it he then whispered.
"I wish I wasn't going to be alone this Christmas"
"What? Did you say something Jerome?"
"No" Jerome said as he put the snow globe in his draw he didn't notice it glowing again "I'm tired its way too early I need some rest" Jerome said as he went to bed.
Alfie decided not to say anything so he took his suitcase out of the room and put it with others.
But what Alfie and the others didn't know was that none of them were leaving Anubis house this Christmas.
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