The Christmas Present

I had been sitting on the shelf in the store for what seemed like a very long time. Day after day after day I sit on the cold and sometimes uncomfortable shelf. I really wish that one day someone would come and buy me. From the first day I got put on the shelf in this toy store my wish has been to be bought, wrapped up in Christmas wrapping paper, and put under the beautiful Christmas Tree. That has been my wish from the very first day I got here and I really hope that this Christmas is the Christmas that my dream will come true.

One morning, it was a week before Christmas, very early in the morning when I was still sleeping on the shelf when I felt someone pick me up. I looked around wondering where I was going. Suddenly I got put down and I sat there for about five seconds until suddenly I got thrown into a plastic bag. After I fell to the bottom a few more things got thrown in on top of me and I was very uncomfortable. The bag got picked up again. I heard a door open and a then suddenly the temperature turned from very warm to very cold.

The plastic bag I was in got set down and I heard a car door close. I was very quiet for a little while and then I heard the car start. Where was I going! It was very scary inside this dark, cold plastic bag and I was really wishing that I was back in the warm, familiar, toy store.

After a while the car stopped and my plastic bag got picked up again. I heard another door open and my bag got put down. I got taken out of it and I got to look around for only about two seconds until I got stuffed into a box. I felt like I was sitting in that small, dark box for a long time. After a while I started to get very cold.

After I finally fell asleep, someone picked me up and from what I heard it sounded like I got put into another car on top of a pile of other boxes . That was the best part of my journey because it was very warm in the car and it reminded me of the toy store where I used to live. The car ride lasted for a very long time and I loved every minute of it. I was very tired after my very long day I felt like I needed to have a long, long sleep. So for the whole long car ride I had a very long sleep.

When the car finally stopped and I woke up, someone started to unload all the boxes. I felt the same feeling that I felt when I got carried out of the toy store. One minute it was very warm and then suddenly the temperature turned very cold. When we got inside the warm house, I heard paper being cut...... maybe it was wrapping paper and I was being wrapped up as a Christmas present. I sat quietly for a few minutes listening to the paper being cut until I felt my box being picked up. I looked out of a little hole that was on the side of my box and I that's when I saw it......... the thing that I've been waiting to see for my whole life...................... the giant, tall, beautiful............ CHRISTMAS TREE!!!!!! Was I dreaming or was this really happening to me?! Was my dream coming true? This was it! This was the Christmas that I would become a Christmas present! After about five seconds that I got to look at the beautiful Christmas Tree the wrapping paper got taped over top of my hole.

I felt my box being carried over to the Christmas Tree and then it got put down. I waited in the dark for a second until suddenly I heard a little girl say "oops!" and a Christmas decoration that she must of dropped hit the side of my box where the hole was and broke through the wrapping paper! I could see it again! I could see the Christmas Tree!! I was so happy that when ever I wake up I can look out the little hole and the first thing that I see is the Christmas Tree!

I couldn't wait until Christmas! Sometimes it got very boring just sitting in this box, but I'm just glad that my dream has come true and I have become a Christmas present and I am very that I have a very small little hole in my box that I can look at the Christmas Tree through.

It felt like I was waiting in my box for about five years (even though I was only waiting for one week) when one day I heard two people running down the stairs and yelling "Santa was here! Santa was here!". After a while I heard paper being ripped which must have been wrapping paper on presents being opened. I couldn't wait until I was going to be opened! I was getting really excited until I heard someone saying "Well, that's all of them". Suddenly I went from being very, very excited to very sad. That was it.... Christmas was over.... All the presents were unwrapped and it turned out that I wasn't a Christmas present. I went on that long tiring journey for nothing. I spent all my time from sitting in the toy store to getting squished into a bag, riding in the car, getting stuffed into a box, getting "paper" (not Christmas wrapping paper) stuffed on to me and then getting put under the Christmas Tree as a "pretend' present!!! this is the absolute WORST Christmas ever!!!!

After a while of sitting under the tree as a pretend present and feeling very sad and mad at the same time I heard someone say "What about this one?" and I felt my box being picked up. Someone started ripping the paper off of my box and the the box opened. "A Teddy Bear!" I heard a little girl say happily. She picked me up and hugged me. "This is the best Christmas present ever!" She said.

I hope that all the toys that get bought out of the toy store I came from get to have as good a journey and as great a Christmas as I did because even though earlier I said that this Christmas was the worst Christmas ever........it turned out in the end to be the best Christmas I have ever had and the best Christmas I ever will have for the rest of my life.

THE END!!