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"Believe it or not, I've never been up here long enough to play in the snow. I've always been on a mission...and because everyone is so phobic of the cold, winter Topside tours are very infrequent – basically, they don't even happen." Her gloved hands cupped the glittering snow like so many diamonds – delicately.
He looked slightly taken aback. "But wouldn't your weather park-"
She cut him off. "Of course it would – but it's nothing like the real thing. You're lucky, you know."
"But you have all your technology, your unpolluted city," he argued. "How am I lucky?
"You get to live here!" she shouted in agitation. "What you take for granted is what I dream about every night. Sleigh bells, snow, glistening trees...a White Christmas...you have no idea what you have, do you?"
Holly sighed, with an odd note in her voice. "Be glad for your white Christmas, Mudboy...you own what I would give everything to have for a day. You don't have an excuse not to enjoy snow." She suddenly grinned, and the glint of impish evil in her eyes was terrifying.
"No excuse at all..."
(Insert a short pause here, then the wham of a snowball impacting with a face breaks the silence.)
Haha...yeah. This isn't 100 words, I know...but it's hard sometimes. And sometimes drabbles need to be so much more than 100 words. As the title says, this was - at least partially - based off of the song "White Christmas". Thanks to Bing Crosby for that classic.
Merry Christmas!
~SLS
