“Whoa, did you feel that?” Isaiah asked. He quickly looked up from his phone, and his body wiggled, like when you get an unexpected chill. The look of shock and fear on his face was one I’d seen before. It was the same look as last year, when we first landed in the foreign-snow near the town beneath Grandpa’s Christmas tree. You see, Isaiah is my fifteen-year-old cousin, and the accidental leader of last year’s Christmas brigade. And the one who helped us find our way home.
“That was freaky,” I replied, eyes open wide. “It was like an earthquake, except the house didn’t move.” I grabbed my chest, trying to figure out how only our bodies shook; and how the air could ripple, like in movies when there’s some sort of time warp.
“Here we go, again, Hailey,” Isaiah continued. “I bet this is how last year’s Christmas nightmare started; we just didn’t know it at the time. We’re a year older now. We should know better.”
“You’re just being paranoid,” I said. Even though I thought Isaiah might be right, I didn’t let on. Perhaps this was how last year’s Christmas escapade got started. After all, we were in this room when it started. But it was decided that last year happened when all of us cousins were arguing about the presents under the tree, and then accidently hit our heads together—at the same time no less. “On second thought,” I whispered, having a new revelation, while blankly staring at the carpet. “Being a cute, almost grown-up fifth-grader is much better than being a lowly fourth-grader. So maybe we should know better?”
I shrugged and looked back at Isaiah. “But let’s keep an eye out anyways, just in case. If we’re going back to the Christmas town then I want to be prepared.”
Trembling, Isaiah gave a forced, nervous laugh. “You don’t have to convince me,” he whispered, as he stared back at his vibrating phone.
“Yep, just in case,” I whispered, over-and-over, while I tried to focus my attention back on the TV, and of the remake of the movie, Miracle on 34th Street. But I couldn’t. I kept looking around, trying to see if there were any changes to our existence—just in case.
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