username trans ` name praline ` prompt (below)
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dear santa,
hello again, how're you and all the reindeer? i put extra glitter and sprinkles in my reindeer food this year, i hope the reindeer like it! and i put lots of sugar and frosting on the cookies, and got chocolate milk this time instead, because i like chocolate milk more than regular milk, and i realized no one ever gives santa different milk flavors to try! there's so many kinds of milk and kinds of cookies, but we only ever give you one kind to try... i thought that was kinda sad, so i made some special cookies too, i hope they're okay... i worked very hard on them, and got my mom to help me!
oh right! and what do you think of my handwriting? i've been practicing really hard all this year... i decided to even use my special glitter gel pens to write this, i hope it looks pretty still and doesn't smudge before you can read it. it's very important that my letter doesn't get ruined before it gets to the north pole! that would be sad... i would be really sad if you didn't get to see the stuff i've left for everyone with my letter.
i'm sure everyone's excited to know what i got for them, but first, i have to make my wish! or, write what i want for christmas... if that's okay? it's just very important this year...
you see, i want to touch a shooting star... i always hear so much about them, and sometimes i'm even lucky enough to see them right outside my window! it's so pretty... but, i still feel sad, when i see them sometimes... i want to be their friends and give them hugs! it must be very lobely, being a shooting star, because only one of them ever shows up at once... i don't want them to feel lonely anymore, so i want to go to them! or them come here, to earth... so that i can hug them, and we can be friends! and then neither of us have to be lonely anymore... it makes me so sad that they have to be lonely, and they're so far away, that i can't do anything... if i were just a little closer, or they were closer, i could help! i could befriend them so they don't get lonely...
that's kinda impossible though, huh... that's what everyone keeps telling me, when i said what i wanted... but i don't need any toys this year, or drawing stuff and coloring books, or stuffed animals, or blankets, or clothes... i just want the stars to not feel so lonely, santa... when they fly past my windiw, the trails they leave feel like tears, and it makes me sad to see that they're so sad... isn't there anything i can do, anything at all? even if you can't grant my wish... isn't there something i can do to make the stars feel less lonely?
well, i won't bother about that anymore... your gifts should be right under here! i hope you enjoy them, and have a good time relaxing after the holidays have come and gone... and thank you, if you can help me with my wish. ♡
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praline looks out the window, sheer curtains gently billowing from the wind. a light breeze is carried through the room, smelling of cinnamon and apple pie, vanilla and pumpkin spice, candles that smell of sugar cookie and the wax they're made of, the smfresh scent of pine from the tree being put up downstairs...
it's all very pleasant and serene, she thinks, as she glances at the stars above. so far away they are, and yet, they feel so close... so familiar, so friendly... she longs for the day she'll be able to help them, but for now, she is content, merely talking to them and keeping them company from earth.
praline starts to hum for the stars, as the music from her radio goes quiet for the rest of the night, and she glances at the stars again through her window, watching them twinkle back at her with her own sparkle in her eyes. as she finishes, she settles into bed, and holds her teddy close, before turning off her lamp, and giving the stars one last look.
"goodnight, stars... im sorry i cant be there today, but soon! christmas is very soon, and i already sent my letter... some day soon, you wont be so lonely anymore, i promise!" she says, before yawning... her eyes start to close, and she mumbles another sleepy goodnight to the stars.
as she drifts off into a peaceful slumber... all the stars in the sky start to twinkle, wishing her goodnight back.
( 250 words )
