Detective Dick Gumshoe was never one for being lucky.
Trying to deliver extremely important evidence to a trial?
Gumshoe arrived halfway through it or, one time, got in a car accident that injured him slightly.
Try to earn a raise?
Gumshoe always said the wrong thing and got a horrible pay cut.
Try to get a girlfriend?
Gumshoe accidentally upset her when she was the defendant in a murder trial and he had to testify; after all, it was his job, and it wasn't like he had a choice.
Try to spend the month of December without feeling a pang of jealousy?
That was something Gumshoe was frankly unable to do.
Usually, the detective would go shopping at the local supermarket , and see families with shopping trolleys overflowing with food picking out what dessert to have after their Christmas dinner. Gumshoe would walk past them, seemingly oblivious to their joy, and picked out a couple of boxes of instant noodles to eat for the next week. As he passed Christmas carollers on the street being watched intently by a few adult couples- kissing each other briefly before turning back to the singers, hands held tightly together- Gumshoe was always disappointed that they had all the good things at Christmas; great food, loved ones, and happiness. Gumshoe couldn't help but feel downhearted when he heard the bells ring at night to symbolise Christmas morning, knowing that it was going to end up like every other day in December.
But this year, it was different. This year, he had Maggey by his side, a woman that Gumshoe had fallen in love with since they had met on the force when she was still a rookie. Maggey was going to spend Christmas with him- that wonderful, beautiful, hilarious Maggey- and, as Gumshoe thought of all the things they were going to do, he didn't feel jealous at all.
In fact, he felt content and wonderful, more so than ever before.
And so, as Detective Dick Gumshoe tucked into his beef-flavoured instant noodles on the night of the 2nd of December, he reminded himself just how lucky he really was as he looked up from his plate and into Maggey's kind blue eyes.