Eric was out in the stables again, doing feeding and cleaning the horses, with Tessa sitting down in a corner with a magazine in her hand. “So you mean you won’t help me?” “Nope”, Tessa replied as she flipped over to the next page in the magazine. Since Eric got back the previous day, she had made sure she did not see him. She did not want him guessing that what he did had hurt her. This morning, she had woken up and decided to check out the stable since she did the work the previous day, only for her to meet him already there. She had stumbled across a Christmas magazine and sat down in a corner, going through it and buying the idea of decorating the Carson’s house for Christmas with she page she flips open. “It’s almost Christmas and I am looking for great ways to decorate a Christ

