Four Months

A cold blew through the treees making the leave making the leaves fall to the ground.

Feeling the cold prompted another memory to serface.

Ji Yeon stopped digging in the sandbox and crawled over to her stroller. She reached up and grabbed her Minnie Mouse blanket, wrapping it around her.

Dil sat down beside her with a sippy cup of hot chocolate.

"What was your first Halloween like?' He asked after taking a sip of his warm drink.

"What's Halloween?" JI Yeon asked.

"It's where we dress up and get candy from strangers." Dil explained.

"We don't do that where I come from." Ji Yeon told him.

Dil looked shocked."Well now that you live here you can come with me this time and see for yourself how much fun Halloween is."

"I do remember another special time though." Ji Yeon said looking up at the gray sky."At least I think it was special cuz my whole family was all together and everybody was happy."

"What was it like?" Dil asked.

Ji Yeon began to think back to what her life had been like when she had first felt the cold.

"It was cold like today, but worser. I never felt cold like this before. Luckily I was covered with a nice warm blankie when we went outside to the car.

"Was there snow?" Dil interrupted?

"What's snow?" Ji Yeon asked. She had never seen or heard of it before.

Once again Dil looked shocked until He remembered just how much younger Ji Yeon was then him.

"Snow is fluffy cold white stuff that you get to play with when it gets cold outside, but it usually only happens around Christmas time." Dil explained."Maybe you'll see some soon."

"Ok." Ji Yeon commented then continued with her story.

"We got in the car but unlike everyday when my mommy had work and I would stay with my grandparents, only this day we went somewhere else. Somewhere that I didn't like very much because I had to get shots."

"But don't you get a shot lots of times cuz of your kidney problems?" Dil asked.

"Yeah, but that doesn't hurt as much as the other shots." Ji Yeon told him.

"Anyways." Ji Yeon continued."After the shots my mommy tooked me to a store. I think we went shopping for Min Jun because we got a lot of Paw Patrol toys."

"Did you get any new toys?" Dil asked.

"I think so, but I don't remember to much." Ji Yeon told him.

"I think I falled asleep because when I waked up we was at home. By this time I was really hungry. Instead of my bottle I got some stuff that looked like what wasin my bottle, but it wasn't the same.

"I continued to be fed this new food along with my bottles everyday. It was new to me, but I liked how it felt in my mouth.

"One day me and my mommy came home to find Min Jun and my daddy putting stuff on a tree. I was confused as to why there was a tree inside."

"Oh."Dil cried."It's a Christmas tree. You'll see after we celebrate Halloween."

"Ok, but I don't think I like Christmas because when my daddy picked me up so I could get a closer look red sticky stuff started coming out of my nose.

"Later on that night we went to where the planes live and that's when I metted my cousin and auntie for the first time."

"We got back in the car and drove to a place that had lots of lights everywhere. I liked the lights a lot. There was also big animals there in a playpen. Some of them had things on there heads and some of them didn't smell to good."

"Sounds like Christmas Land." Dil said.

"What's that?" Ji Yeon asked.

"It's a place my daddy designed. We go there at Christmas time and they have lots of lights and animals and a train." Dil explained.

"I don't remember a train, but I do remember lights and animals. I only sawed the lights up close cuz I was stucked to my mommy, which I was ok witth."

"After the lights we went to a food place where everybody but me got yummy smelling food. I got a bottle and went to sleep."

"Sometime later we all woke up early in the morning. The tree that made stuff come out of my nose was gone and in its place was a lot of brightly wrapped stuff."

"Min Jun gotted a lot more stuff then me, but I didn't care because by this time I was starting to not feel to good. I remember two things that I gotted though."

"Was it a alien or ghost slime?" Dil asked.

"No." JI Yeon laughed."It was my water mat with fishies inside and a panda mommy and baby that you taked a part and the baby made noise when you shook it."

"It sounds like you had a good first Christmas." Dil said.

"Yeah. I guess I did." Ji Yeon agreed as she was picked up and placed in the stroller to go home.

A/N I had this idea for a Christmas story, but it just didn't work out so here it is in this story instead.