Christmas Shopping.
The usual exited buzz around the Christmas holidays and shopping was in full force in the last day before Christmas, everyone who's been too busy to buy presents now rushing in an urgent attempt to buy a last minute present and not embarrass themselves with empty hands. The mall was looking like an anthill decorated with coloured paper and blinking lights, amongst which the ants were running around mindless. The shops were bright lit displaying all the best and shiny stocks they had in their shiny and colourful boxes and wrappings. The children's choirs were singing their Carols in the mall.
Donna Noble used to love all that Christmas shopping, coming down the mall with Neris and the girls. They would do the running around the shops and the coffees, and later go back home with more shop backs than they can carry or more purchases that they really needed. But this Christmas was different for Donna without she even knew why. She was doing her Christmas shopping but she was doing it alone this time. Looking around the mall and all the stuff she could by for her mother and gramps, Donna couldn't shake the feeling that something was missing. She couldn't help but think about that she should have someone else to by a present to.
Passing through one of the shops her eyes stopped on a pair of maroon coloured All Stars converses. It was surprising for her that she they got her attention, she had never been interested in this converses before, but for some reason this pair took her attention. For a moment she had the maddest idea that they would go better with a blue pinstripe suit. Donna shook her head, but the idea wouldn't leave her head. That made the decision for her and she entered the shop to buy them. Her spaceman's converses must have been worn off after all that running. She was going to give them to….What was she thinking? Donna held the pair of recently purchased converses and stood there staring at them. Who was she going to give them to? She decided that she was just feeling funny because she was doing the shopping alone and went back to the counter to give the shoes back.
On the Christmas Eve when she hands out the presents to her gamps and mum there is one unlabelled left. She fingered it turning around in her hands.
"Who's that one for then, luv?" Wilf asked Donna concerned watching her gaze going slightly unfocused and turning the packet around in her hands.
"What?" Donna asked, shaking herself looking down to her hands and the pack. "I don't know."