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Chapter 2 – Galinda
Only five years old and still very small, Galinda had big blue eyes and curly blonde hair that was most often worn in pigtails, tied up with ribbons. Her nose was upturned and her mouth was pretty and pink with a little dent in her upper lip. Her daddy always told her she was as cute as a button, but she was still too young to realize what that meant. After all, she had never thought the buttons on her winter coat were very cute.
Galinda Upland was a very impatient child. All who knew her were aware of this. She would fidget in her seat, twirl her hair and bite her tiny fingernails if you ever made her wait for something, especially something she wanted. Like today. Anxiously, she stood outside the great ballroom. Every year there was an enormous tree much higher then her momsie in the ballroom.
Galinda had to wait outside until her parents called her in. Then, the same happened every year. First she would have to say a little prayer and then she would get to open her presents.
Ever since she was little, she had always gotten tons of presents. Everything her heart desired, she got. And because of this, under the tree there were stacks of presents for just for her.
Finally, after what felt like an eternity, the door opened from the inside and her mother called her in.
"Presents!" Galinda exclaimed, knowing full well that she wouldn't get them now.
"First say your prayer young lady," her father admonished.
"When Lurlinemas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish and loves we used to know," she said, reciting the words she knew by heart.
Her parents, especially her father, wanted her to remember and cherish the true meaning of Lurlinemas, but they knew by spoiling their only child they would never achieve such goal.
But they would still buy whatever presents their child desired to make her happy. After all, what was really wrong with spoiling her?
Nothing. Especially when they saw the cute, dimpled smile on Galinda's face, they knew that they would buy her as many presents as she desired the next year and every time in between Lurlinemas.
Galinda started counting her presents as she usually did.
"There are only 35 presents. Momsie you promised me another one if I was a good girl the whole year. I have been my bestest and I deserve two more presents," Galinda pouted.
"Yes you did," her mother said, knowing full well that the next year the same thing would happen again, but she would buy her princess all the presents she wanted. Galinda deserved only the best.
