I found myself in a dark room but I seemed to be normal because my hands didn't look different any more, a ray of light grabs my attention where I saw Angel, I tried to call out her name but not a single sound came out my mouth, before I could try to speak again Angel was being pulled away from the light has she cried out in pain, I tried to help her but I couldn't reach her because of some kind of invisible wall that stopped me, I banged and banged against it, it was no use. I couldn't see her again, she was gone, but unfortunately before I could tell the difference between reality and whatever saw happening here, I felt someone grabbing my neck from behind, I struggled trying to breathe but just about the time i was about to give out my last breath I....
"(Heavy breathing) oh, it was just a dream"
" What was just a dream?"
I slowly turned my head sideways to look at Elmore who sat down on his bed looking at me with his eyes full with the words I'm curious.
"Oh it's nothing, you don't need to know"
" But we do, come on tell us"
" Okay I'm sorry, what? Did you just say we followed by a us? "
Then I heard a thick bold voice saying.
"(The bed) yes, that's what he said, now come on tell us"
Before I could try to figure out what was going on, it was followed by a thin light voice.
"(The lamp)yes please tell us"
"The..the...the..the...they.ey.. can talk?"
And I was given a response from Elmore, despite the fact that I was asking rhetorically.
"Of course, everything can talk around here, well at least everything except the walls, the floor, the Building's themselves, shoes, socks, all other clothes except our PJs, water and a few of most of the foods we eat. Yeah that's pretty much everything that does not talk"
I was both confused and for some reason scared, before i could make any attempted to do anything I heard another voice but this time it was closer to me"
" (My PJs) so come on, are you going to tell us or what? "
I shouted at the top of my voice as I quickly took of the shirt.
The next morning I woke up with my eyes still open from throughout the night and my heart still pounding from realizing the type of world I was in ,I was in the world they show on TV which I always wished to be in but only as a kid because anything was possible. I then decided to get up, I slowly turned off the bed hoping not to make a sound, but unfortunately immediately my foot landed the floors there was a chorus in the room.
"(Elmore and every other God knows what that talks in the room) GOOD MORNING LOGAN!"
I slowly got back on the bed to close my eyes hoping to open them and call all this a dream"
" Come on Logan, we've got an entire day ahead of us and not a minute to spear, you know what that say, the jobs won't do themselves"
Later that day I found myself scrubbing the floors of a really big hall, as I had barely gone half of the halfway through the hall, I laid on my back lost in nothing but my own thoughts.
"Elmore?"
"Yes Logan"
"Do you do this everyday?"
" No, just only when it's almost Christmas"
" Uhnun... what do you mean by almost Christmas?"
"It's almost time for Christmas, only ten more days to go"
If I was thinking about this right, I could remember that, that night I fell into that hole it stroke twelve which was Christmas morning, dose that mean I went back in time or something?
"Hey Logan, would you look at that? We're done"
" We are?"
" of course we are, why else would I have said hey Logan, would you look at that? we're done"
" ok sorry, but it was rethorical question"
" fine, anyway, you know what that means? lunch break"
We both sat on a bench and I could see some other peo... thin.... creatures sitting very far from us around a long dinning table,.I turned to Elmore.
"Why are they over there?"
"Because clearly they are the most useful and special ones, you know? the ones who do the important jobs like flying with Santa, stuffing their face with food, getting all fat, thinking they look good. You know?, stuff like that"
" Wait, they don't make the toys and wrap the presents?"
" No, elves don't do those type of stuff, that's the snow fairy's job"
" Okay, wait snow fairies? Those that mean we're elves?"
" Hey, what makes you think that we're not snow fairies"
" Well for starters we don't look like we could actually be fairies, I mean we need wings right? and plus I believe if we were, we would be wrapping some presents"
" True, you got a good eye mate. Okay yeah we're elves, and the poor kind too, that why we do a lot of jobs and eat bad food"
" Hey, the food isn't that bad"
" That's because you're eating it and not looking at it"
" I think I'll stick to just eating my food, thank you very much"
I sat down there as I realized that Elmore those this every year without anyone's help, he must had been very lonely with no one to talk to.
" hey Elmore how bout we make a deal?"
"and what might that be?"
" if I help get all your work done, and in return you help me get home and if you want you can come along too, what I mean is that..."
"I'll do it, it's a deal"
And just then he's rounded out excitement filled eyes dead out and bubbled up in tears.
"I'm sorry, it's just that no one as ever accepted to be my friend before, but you actually want me to come with you? oh Logan I promise you, you won't regret this"
He then held me close in a tight hug and for some reason I wasn't aware of, it felt good inside so I hugged him back with embrace.