If Only It Were That Simple

Chapter 6- Story Tonight

Lorrie-

"Connor took you home?!" Benny yells at me.

"And he offered me a tutoring position, he says he's got a D- in English." I remind him

"You're, You, You've only got a B- in that class and you think you can tutor him?" He asks me still steaming, but quieter

"I didn't say I would, I didn't even tell him I'd think about it. He just mentioned it!" I retort, "And my English grade is an A-." I correct him.

"Lorrie, is that you?" a sleepy voice asks from upstairs, "Benny?"

Benny and I glance at each other before we both race upstairs to see what was wrong, "Nik, Nikki are you okay." I ask opening her door and looking in. Nikki looks up from her bed and races to me. "Aww, Nikki, what's wrong sweetheart?"

"I can't sleep." She sighs, "Tell me a story?" She pulls me into her room onto her bed.

"Crawl into bed and I'll tell you a story." I smile at my little sister,

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 when she reaches the top of the stairs and looks into her room. Nikki looks up from her bed and races to Lorrie. "Nikki, sweetheart, what's wrong?"

"I can't sleep, can you tell me a story." Nikki says pulling Lorrie into her room.

"Crawl into bed and I'll tell you and Smoky a quick story." Lorrie says helping Nikki back into bed and sitting down on the edge of the bed. Benny looks around for Smoky, when he finds the small stuffed dog he hands it to Nikki and kisses her on the top of her head.

"Night Nik, Lorrie" He gives both girls a hug and walks out.

"What story do you guys want to hear tonight?" she asks, Nikki holds Smoky up to her ear and listens.

"Smoky wants to hear about Santa." Nikki says.

"Okay," Lorrie says with a smile, "Once a long long time ago, the world was filled with good magic, there was a very nice family that lived up way up north, A mother, A father, and a baby boy. His name was Chris Cringle. He had eight beautiful baby reindeer that lived with him, every December Chris would use some of the Christmas magic and the reindeer would take them all over the world. Chris continued to grow with the reindeer, as he did, he begins to take gifts to the children of the world. But as time went on, the magic of Christmas slowly began to dissapear from the world-" Lorrie looks over at her sleeping sister. "Goodnight Nikki," Lorrie whispers as she tiptoes out the door and shutting it quietly behind her. She heads down to the kitchen where Benny greets her with a cup of hot coco.

"Nikki asleep?" He asks sipping his own drink

"Yes, she's sound asleep." Lorrie smiles, she drinks her won drink, "So, do you think you could spare a few minutes to help me with my dance number, I still can't seem to get this one part right." she sips the drink and nods toward the basement.

"Sure, after we finish our drinks." he agrees and they sit at the counter and quietly talk while drinking their hot chocolate.