Thanks soooo much to digigirl02, Dramione x3, Penny, fallinrain, ScRuPuLoUs, IckleHanz, and xxxPrincessJololaxxx for your lovely reviews! Virtual candy canes and sugar plums to all of you!! ;) This one was a pretty long one, and looked a lot longer in Word than it does here! Oh well! Enjoy!!

DISCLAIMER: I can't think up anything original.

"So, you're the Real Santa?"

Cassidy Evans was a very smart girl. Even at four years old, she was very bright, and had a mind of her own. And when a boy in her preschool class told her that Santa wasn't real, she told him exactly what she thought of him, and then proceeded to dump sand from the sandbox over his head. When her mother picked her up after the class was over, after apologizing to her teacher, Cassidy got right down to business.

"Mommy, is Santa Claus real?" Kelsi Evans paused, just for a second, before telling her daughter,

"Of course he is sweetie. Don't listen to what Derrick said. He doesn't know what he's talking about." However, the whole ride home, Kelsi was worrying about what her daughter said. How could kids already be doubting? They were only four years old for crying out loud! She could tell that her daughter was really considering that what her classmate had told her was true. She and Ryan would have to do something to reinstall the young girl's faith in the holiday.

Later that night, when Cassidy was tucked into bed, Kelsi told Ryan what had happened at the preschool. Then he told her about the time that his and Sharpay's father had dressed up like Santa, and they had set up a video camera, and "caught" Santa. Kelsi agreed that this was a good idea, and the next morning they told Cassidy that they were going to catch Santa on videotape.

CHRISTMAS EVE

Cassidy had set out the cookies, milk, carrots, and her barely legible list for Santa, and she had made sure that the video camera was on, and was now tucked into bed. At about 11, Ryan went and changed into the costume that they had borrowed from the community center that happened to have one. Kelsi made sure to stay out of sight from the camera, and watched as Ryan hammed it up for the camera.

He ate a bunch of the cookies, and drank the milk, rubbing his pillow-stuffed stomach the entire time. Then he opened the front door, and tossed the carrots onto the roof, yelling in a disguised voice, "Enjoy boys!"

Then he grabbed his bag of presents, and after reading the letter that Cassidy had left, in clear view of the camera, started pulling out presents, and placing them under the tree. He then stomped back towards where the fireplace was, conveniently located behind the camera. He and Kelsi waited a few minutes, before turning the camera off. Kelsi came up behind him, as he pulled the scratchy beard off.

"So, you're the real Santa?" she whispered into his ear.

"Have you been good this year," he whispered back, waggling his white, bushy eyebrows at her. She giggled, and then pulled the camera out from her back, and snapped a picture of him, half Santasized, half normal.

"Hey!" he exclaimed, temporarily blinded by the bright light.

"Sorry, but I promised your sister a picture!" Kelsi giggled, before taking off upstairs, but Ryan, burdened down by the heavy costume couldn't follow her until he took it off, and packed it away, and hid it. He then ran up the stairs, and found his wife lying on the bed, smiling innocently back up at him.

"It's already on its way over the internet," she teased.

THE NEXT MORNING

Ryan and Kelsi were awakened to the sounds of Cassidy shouting and squealing with delight. Then she was running into their room, jumping on their bed and shouting.

"He came Santa came and he left presents and he ate my cookies and drank the milk and gave the carrots to the reindeer who include Rudolph and he read my letter because it moved and the cameras off so he probably turned it off and that means he was here and there are muddy footprints on the floor and tracks in the snow outside and if he is on the video I'm gonna take it to school and show Derrick because he's a big dummy get up get up get up!!!!!"

The two slowly got out of bed, Cassidy pulling on them the whole way. She dragged them downstairs, where Ryan put the tape into the player, and they watched as "Santa" put the presents out, and then left. Cassidy was jumping up and down with happiness, that she could prove her peer wrong. Then they proceeded to watch Cassidy tear into her presents. The Christmas had turned out good after all.

Sorry, lame ending!! I didn't know how to end it! R&R Please!!!