Nine Years Ago on Christmas Eve
Calix
I loved Christmas. Alex and Felix liked it too but I was crazy about it. Mom and I both were actually. We would decorate the house together. Felix liked helping with the lights and Alex liked going around straightening ‘crookedly hung’ decorations. This would be our first Christmas with the new girl. Chasity. She had come to live with us all of a sudden. It was weird. She came out of nowhere. She just showed up on our doorstep one day out of the blue. Her parents dropped her off. Our parents said she was not to be our playmate, she was to work off her parents debts. Her parents had been bad people according to my parents but that did not mean Chasity was bad.
I liked her. She was cute. She had pretty hair. I was peeking in on her. She was in her tin
