Just another Christmas song

The reason for the season is once more with us, the Christmas season. However not everybody will feel the Xmas celebration, like the following story put it succinctly Xmas is a thing of the hearth.

Hubert: top of the morning to you son

Nathaniel: merry Christmas dad

Hubert: it’s too early to say merry Christmas

Nathaniel: no dad, is the month of November already

Hubert: I’ll prefer you wait till December to wish me merry Christmas

Nathaniel: but my teacher at school said we can wish everybody around us merry Christmas because it’s just seven to eight weeks away

Hubert: eight weeks is not four weeks, so is still far

Nathaniel: no is not

Hubert: darling would you please tell your smart little son when we celebrate Christmas in this house

Alice: actually the feeling of Christmas is in the air

Hubert: unfortunately I’m not feeling it

Alice: come on honey even our Arab neighbor know xmas is close

Hubert: I bet you they don’t know what Christmas is all about

Alice: I think they know is Christian yuletide season

Hubert: is that firecracker his holding, you better tell him firecracker is out of bounds in this neighborhood

Alice: his going out already

Hubert: tell Nathan to meet us outside

Alice: Nathaniel hurry up don’t be late for school

Nathaniel: I’m almost through

Alice: what have you been writing, you hardly eat your breakfast

Hubert: nope go to the back seat; don’t bother me with your xmas fever

Nathaniel: Just composition homework they gave me in school

Alice: what’s the topic?

Nathaniel: the English teacher ask us to write anything about Christmas

Hubert: oh now I know why we have this early Christmas season

Alice: let me see the composition, the topic is just another Christmas song

Hubert: why do you title it just another Christmas Song?

Nathan: that is the only present I want for Christmas

Hubert: great for once I’ll buy you something cheap for Christmas

Nathan: no dad you will sing the xmas song

Hubert: you must be kidding

Nathan: that is what I want for Christmas, you and mum will have to sing

Alice: no problem Nathan, say hello to your English teacher for me

Hubert: and wish him a very early merry Christmas

Nathan: I’ll surely do that

Alice spotted Mr. Rashid their Arab neighbor heading for a retail park

Hubert and his family are still basking in the euphoria of their early Christmas season.

Alice: hey that’s Mr. Rasheed

Hubert: what are you doing don’t call him

Alice: his coming our way

Hubert: great I have less than half an hour to get to work, now his going to delay us

Alice: be cheerful Hubert

Mr. rasheed: Mr. and Mrs. hasting how are you doing this morning

Alice: we are doing fine rasheed

Mr. hasting: I can see you have some firecracker with you there

Mr. raheed: oh yes i was not aware firecracker is not allow in our street

Mr. hasting: no is dangerous especially when kids are handling it

Mr. rasheed: but they should allow adult to use it for the Christmas, after all is the reason for the season

Mr. hasting: well whatever that means, rasheed we have to go now

Mr. rasheed: I’m sorry Mr. hasting, hope I have not taking much of your time

Mr. hasting: to be frank with you, I’m really….

Mrs. hasting: no problem (Alice cut in) see you at the house

Mr. rasheed: okay then merry Christmas, oh wait wait sorry what about Christmas tree

Mrs. hasting: sure you can bring in xmas tree

Mr. hasting: yeah you can buy dozen and put it in your house nobody cares (Hubert sound pique)

Mr. rasheed: i have to buy one big fat xmas tree

     (It was rather surprising that raheed could not see it in Hubert face how hurry his willing to leave that place)

Mrs. hasting: good for you, merry Christmas to you, bye bye now

Mr. rasheed: merry Christmas to you as well, and i …

Mr. hasting: oh please (Hubert zoomed off)

Mr. rasheed: Mr. hasting must really be in haste, just want to ask him if he need a Christmas tree as well (rasheed his a liberal man to the core, never take offense when someone is rude to him)

Nathaniel: Brooke you are wearing your pink shirt today

Brooke: of course my horoscope predicted a bright day for me, so I put on my brightest shirt and my red skirt

Nathaniel: you said the pink shirt brings you bad luck

BROOKE: that was before; my zodiac sign just change everything now, besides the color fit this season of xmas

Nathaniel: what about the homework Miss Xian gave us, are you through with it

Brooke: yes, but I must tell you I did not find it easy, the only thing i know about Christmas its Santa Claus red clothe with his beard and big pot belly

Nathaniel: that is a common story in Christmas, many of the guys will probably write something similar to that, that’s why I wrote something different

Brooke: how did you write yours?

Nathaniel: I titled it just another Christmas song

Brooke: where are you going to get that, it’s going to be the same old Christmas song; I can bet you on that one

Nathaniel: I just want something unique

In this life some things are not just equal, like our fingers is not equal, so its life unequal some family have an exciting Xmas, for other family Xmas can never be boring than Mr and Mrs. hasting family.

[When Miss Xian step into the class, there was a perfect decorum she has a small stature but her elegant beauty speaks for her]

Miss Xian: I can see some of you are reading the Christmas story; maybe we should start from the homework I gave you

Brooke: oh no let’s do something else [Brooke speaking silently]

Miss Xian: Brooke is that silent night you are reading

Miss Xian: not at all Miss Xian

Miss Xian: come in front of the class and read your homework dear, come on don’t be shy

Brooke: I can’t believe this I’m the first person she call [she whisper into Nathan ear]

Nathaniel: ha ha (Nathan laugh quietly) don’t worry nobody in class will have a better story than you have

    [Brooke stooped her head forward, she get more confident with every steps she takes, she probably rely on Nathan statement]

Brooke: hello everybody, the title of my Christmas story is Christmas in my house

        [When Brooke finish reading the story everybody in class sees it as pretty much close to what they wrote, the normal good and sweet Christmas story with gift]

Miss Xian: well Brooke your story is good to some extent, but to me personally I feel the story sound cliché to my ear

     [All the student murmur, that's the first time they came across such word]

Miss Xian: how many of you know that word cli—che [ she stress the word]

Nathan: cliché means an archaic word

Miss Xian: no that’s not what it means, anybody else; well when we say the statement or word sound cliché we mean it has been used too often when something is used so often it will no longer be interesting to hear such phrase or word. I’m pretty sure when you get to senior class your teacher will teach you more on your vocabulary

          [Miss Xian gazes around to call another student forward to read]

Miss Xian: Nathan can you come out and read your homework?

Brooke: good let us see how she feels about your unique story

        [Nathan story make the whole class sober for a moment]

Nathan: so what I want for this Christmas season is just another Christmas song, thank you

Miss Xian: wonderful, i must say Nathan you did justice to that story, but I’m concern you said your dad is lackadaisical about Christmas
 In this life some things are not just equal, like our fingers is not equal, so its life unequal some family have an exciting Xmas, for other family Xmas can never be boring than Mr and Mrs. hasting family.

Nathan: to my dad Christmas is just another day, like every other normal day

Miss Xian: maybe I’ll pay your parent a little visit, is that okay

Nathan: I guess that will help

           [Nathan knows is clear if Miss Xian visit his home that will only do a little to change the spirit of Christmas in their house. when Miss Xian visit Mr. and Mrs. hasting on xmas eve she was not surprise with what she saw on ground]

Mrs. hasting: so you are Nathan English teacher

Miss Xian: yes ma’am

Mr. hasting: but wait a minute you are Chinese

Miss Xian: Japanese actually, but I was born in this country

Mrs. hasting: so what can we do for you on this special day?

Mr. hasting: did my boy cheat in school

Miss Xian: no I’m here because of what he wrote in his homework, about Christmas

Mr. hasting: oh that homework

Miss Xian: in the homework he said his not feeling the spirit of Christmas

Mrs. hasting: don’t  worry miss, Nathan it’s just too anxious to have fun on Christmas there is absolutely nothing to worry about

Miss Xian: like you said Mrs. hasting today is a very special day, so make everybody around you special Mrs. hasting: no problem miss, I assure you we are normal family that have a quiet Christmas

Mr. hasting: and besides things are hard nowadays, the economy is terrible

Miss Xian: but all the same Christmas is not just another day is a special day, so make the use of it

Mr. hasting: we will surely do that

Miss Xian: I will like to take my leave now, merry Christmas

Mrs. hasting: merry Christmas

Mr. hasting: Nathan is that your teacher in school

Nathan: yes that’s Miss Xian

Mr. hasting: I hope she teaches you well enough in school, for a moment I thought she she said hare Krishna instead of merry Christmas

Nathan: oh my god I have a pagan for a father

Mr. hasting: where did you pick this boy from?

Mrs. hasting: and I have a freethinker for a husband

  [Incredible as it may look a Christmas story without a Christmas song not a regular idea of a Christmas, thank you for reading]