ALICE’S WINTER STORY IN ROMANIA

Once upon a time, there was a little girl, very stubborn, with big puppy blue eyes and a beautiful dark silken hair, that was glowing when she was staying in light, like a irradiant halo around her . Her name was Alice, she lived in a little town with “big” people. Everybody loved Alice, because she was nice and kind with everyone , and of course very naïve .
When the winter was about to come, she was already waiting for the Christmas with eagerness, because she knew that someone very special to her had to come . It was his BIG time. Yeah , you are right, you know who it is. Santa Claus!! She believed in Santa Claus more than anything, he was like a second father to her, because she knew and she felt something special and pure between them . Like some teenagers saying “Forever is over” for them this was just a joke to laugh about, they were inseparable through all those letters and beliefs they confide in, and especially the power from their relationship when they were together .
In one day when she was 5, she discovered and met for the first time an “outside “ world, just when the Santa came. There is where Santa took her away in every Christmas. A beautiful world , full of elves and snow and a lot of sweets . It was something magic to her, because she could only stay there for one day , so she had to enjoy everything as much as she could . Now she is 12, she has been there for 6 times. Imagine , she was extremely anxious to get there again. But something happened, her parents called her in their room to talk with her about something . She didn’t know what they wanted or what were they supposed to talk about. They started talking about this Santa Claus thing, they told her that Santa doesn’t exist, and everything she thinks is not real, is just an illusion to make her childhood more happier . In that moment she vanished from there, actually she was gone and devastated in her locked room, she was crying and yelling at her parents, she couldn’t believe that. And this year she didn’t “wait” the Christmas, everything to her was in vain, because she couldn’t feel anything about this Yule-tide thing.
And when the Christmas came, and the Santa was on her house with Rudolf and the other reindeers, she cried till she fell asleep, instead of staying near the fireplace to wait for “him”. Santa came inside her house , ate those tasty cookies with milk and then she was looking after Alice, he couldn’t find her because she even hid herself under the bed. Alice didn’t want to see him, she denied him. But then it happened, Alice came out with a big smile on her face and Santa gentle took her little delicate hand and took her away in the “outside” world.
She couldn’t believe this, she felt very special inside, like it was for the first time there and she realized that Santa is real to her and everything is real only because she believed in him more than anything.
When she got home, she decided to keep this “little” secret hidden . Alice slept a lot that day, thinking in her dreams about that fantastic world where she doesn’t have to be afraid of what the others think about her beliefs, of course Santa for her is real, we all have something real, we just got to find it .Like all the “Alice” stories, this one should’ve been a fantastic one too , so there you have it 2 Alice,2 worlds .



ANDA NECULA
IXTH GRADE

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