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Eric sat before everyone and began his tale, "Ok, well my tale is a little more humorous than Franks, even though I couldn't help but laugh as I tried to picture Frank as a six year old". This statement caused laughter to erupt from the group; well most of the group. Frank just stared at him like he was about to hit him and then he started to laugh as well. Ryan didn't laugh, but if Horatio was correct, he did see a smirk on the young man's face.
Eric waited until the laughter had stopped and then proceeded with his story, "Ok, this is a story that goes back when I was a young lad of 12. It was a particular warm December and it was making everyone kind of grumpy. My sister Marisol and I really wanted to give our mother something she wanted since she was one of those in a bad mood. So for weeks we tried to find out what she wanted but didn't have any luck. She always said that seeing our happy smiling faces on Christmas day was enough. But we kept trying to find out and she kept saying the same thing, but about a week before Christmas she changed her tune and said she wished it would snow for Christmas. You see we never got snow where we lived, but she remembered it from her childhood".
"Well this gave us an idea; we were going to make it snow for Christmas. Only we didn't know how. We asked every adult we knew how to make snow and they would just laugh at us and say that we couldn't make snow. Well we were not about to let that stop us. We thought about everything that was white and fluffy like snow and decided that we would fill the back yard with it, so when mom woke up she would look out the window and see snow; or at least what looked like snow".
"Marisol and I proceeded to collect as many white cotton balls, bags of shaved coconut and cans of shaving cream that we could get our hands on. It wasn't easy but we asked everyone we knew and before too long we had quite a bit. On Christmas Eve we snuck out to the back yard; which luckily wasn't very big, and started putting down the coconut. Then we put the cotton balls down and lastly the shaving cream. We didn't have enough, but we thought it looks impressive. We went to bed expecting it to still look like that in the morning".
"When morning came we had forgotten one little thing, and that was our dog. Since our back yard was fenced in we just let Spike us the doggy door when he wanted to go out. We didn't think about this so that morning instead of our mother waking up to a window that overlooked a snow filled backyard, she woke up to Spike sitting on her rather expensive quilt covered in shaving cream, cotton balls and coconut".
Eric paused for a moment as laughter once again erupted from the group. Even Ryan couldn't hide the laughter this time. When the sounds died down Eric continued, "From the looks of him he must have been rolling around in it. It was such a mess and it took all morning to clean it up that we had forgotten it was Christmas day. It was way past noon by the time we realized it. Marisol and I were expecting our mom to cancel Christmas and punish us for the rest of our lives, but instead she laughed about it and thought it would be one of her most memorable Christmas's".
"For many years after that day our mother gave each of us our very own can of shaving cream covered in cotton balls and a bag of coconut. She told us she never wanted to forget that Christmas. Now that I am older I found myself agreeing with her".
When Eric was done with his story, Calleigh spoke up. "Oh Eric, that was a cute story. I could almost picture you and Marisol doing that".
"Yeah, that was a good memory. I still have a picture somewhere of spike. So how about you Calleigh, you have any good stories to share?"
"As a matter of fact I do".
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Author's Note: sorry this is a short chapter, but I will have another chapter posted later one that will be much longer. I hope you liked Eric's story. And for all of you who can't wait for Ryan's story it's coming soon.