Chapter One: Christmas to Remember

'We create our fate every day we live.' – Henry Miller

It was the year sixteen hundred, my two friends, Bernard and Sean, my younger sister Allie and I walked out of the workshop and ran to the stables to see the reindeer and the sleigh before Santa made his Christmas Eve routes.

"Sasha, slow down! We're not even supposed be on break. And the rulebook says that we are not allowed to leave our work areas until Santa has left to make his runs." Sean yelled at me trying to catch up to us.

"You wanted to come, Sean, so put a sock in it." I told him. That got a small laugh out of Bernard. I whispered to him, "You think he's always gonna recite from that book?"

He merely shrugged, and said "Probably."

It's not that I don't care for the rules, don't get me wrong, I do care most of the time. They are so stupid though; and they could really get us into trouble one day; but it wouldn't be my problem.

"It's not my fault you don't follow the rules." Sean said obviously hearing me and Bernard.

"Do too." I replied.

"Do not." Sean argued.

"Both of you shut up before we get we get caught! Sasha, you are 1500 years old start acting like it!" My sister, Allie, said starting to get annoyed; and then she started on a rant on how Bernard and I acted like little kids, when the only ones who have an excuse to act like kids where them. Allie 490 years old unlike me, who was 1500 years old and Bernard was 1602, and Sean had just turned 790 years old, but that's beside the point.

We finally got to the stables. The reindeer were ready to go and the sleigh had the sack in it. I leaned over the one of the sides of the sleigh to get my cat out of it and switch it with the puppy that mean Santa forgot about and grabbed my cat instead. I got Pearl out of sleigh and gave her to her 'Father', as Allie puts it, Bernard. And as I put the puppy into the sleigh, my favorite necklace fell. I dove in to get it and Allie went after me.

Bernard's P.O.V.

Sean and I watched as those two dove into the sleigh. I didn't know that necklace meant that much to her.

"What are you boys doing in the stables? …Never mind back up so I can leave, will you?" A voice said behind me and Sean. This was very bad. Extremely bad.

"Uh…yes sir." Sean answered and we both stepped back.

Allie's P.O.V.

'Those idiots! What about us?' I thought furiously as I heard their conversation with Santa. This Santa wasn't the nicest or most patient man, but that doesn't mean that they should just leave us here.

"Uh Sean, are sure we shouldn't leave?" I heard Bernard say.

'Bernard, you are so dead when we get out of here!' I thought angrily.

"Good idea; bye Santa." Sean said, and he and Bernard ran out of the stables.

"Peculiar… Why aren't those girls with them? Never mind, knowing them I'd rather not know." Santa said as soon as they left. He got into the sleigh and we all rode of into the twilight sky.

'I don't have a very good feeling about this.'

After a few hours, Sasha and I landed in some rural area in America.

Sean's P.O.V.

After we left the stables, Bernard and I wandered around the village a bit. I felt kind of bad for leaving them in that sleigh, but I don't think they'd be stupid enough to off the sleigh, well I hope they aren't.

"Allie's gonna kill you for not getting her out of the sleigh." I warned him.

He shrugged not really caring and said "Sasha's gonna thank me though."

This made me angry, he had let his stupid crush get in the way of saving them, so Sasha could have some kind of adventure.

"You mean you let them go so she could get out here for a while?" I asked incredulously, "How stupid are you?"

"They'll be back; they're only riding in the sleigh." He said trying to calm down.

"If they never come back, it's your fault." I mumbled.

When Santa came back, he was a new guy and they were gone. They had probably fallen out or stepped out of the sleigh while he was inside a house.