Chapter 16 - In Our Dream

It was a perfect Christmas Eve. The night was bright and clear and the snow sparkled where ever light hit it.  Jennah parked her car in her driveway and got out to look around.  Turning, she eyed the door to her apartment and sighed.  She didn’t want to go sit in there alone and think of what it would be like to share this night with family and children.  Locking the car, she dropped the keys into her pocket and turned toward the sidewalk. 

She stopped to watch a family outside playing. The children were excited, and rightly so. This was a pretty big night in their young worlds.  The parents were happy. She could see the secrets they held between them each time they looked at each other on this magical night.

Each home she walked by was decorated and sang out the season’s joy.  Feeling a chill, she pulled up the collar on her jacket and then stuffed her hands into her pockets.  For this one night there was only happiness in Rid