Jesse+Cason

Children’s Book

Paul had been a bad boy all year. Christmas was around the corner and he was so excited. He was sure that this Christmas was going to be a great one, but what he didn’t know was that his mom had been keeping a list of all the bad things he had done since December 26th of last year. The list read.

· Painted his dad’s toe nails pink · Shaved his little sister head while she was sleeping · Glued toilet paper to the back of his sisters pants · Deleted all contacts off of his dad’s phone · Purposely peed on the rim of the toilet and left it there · Put laxative in his brothers coffee · Glued his mom’s purse shut · Put a stink bomb in his dad’s suitcase right before an important meeting To be continued…

Paul didn’t care for anyone’s belongings, except for his, but that would soon come to an end. About a week before Christmas Paul’s mom handed him a mysterious envelope. It said that it was from the North Pole. He opened it and it had a letter inside. The letter read:

Dear Paul, I have gotten a disappointing letter from your parents. Both you and I know that you haven’t been the best boy that you can be. There needs to be something done about that. I have a special gift for you this year and I would hate for not to get because you have been acting up. I have a plan for you to prevent you from acting up. There is six and a half days until I hop on my sleigh and deliver these presents to the world. If your mom gives me another complaint in between that time, you will not get to see the special present I have for you.

Sincerely, Santa Claus

It was a bitter sweet feeling for Paul. He was happy Santa had a special gift for him, but he doubted that he could keep from being bad for a whole week.

Paul was the perfect kid for about three days, but on the day before Christmas Eve Paul had trouble with a kid from kinder garden. A kid named James held hands with the Sophia, a girl that Paul liked. The girl had no idea that Paul liked her, but Paul didn’t care about that. In his mind she was his girlfriend. So before recess, when James went in the closet to grab his coat, Paul locked him in there. James had been locked in the closet for about forty minutes before the class came back in from recess. When the class got back James was let out by the teacher. With tears running down his face he reported to the teacher what happened to him. Paul was expelled for three days.

Paul knew that he had made a bad decision. He had his parents to deal with and not knowing if he was going to get a gift from Santa. Paul waited with anticipation for Christmas. In that back of his mind he was hoping that Santa had not gotten the news about his misbehavior. He also knew that it would be very hard to trick Santa, and if he did he would be punished for it later.

Christmas morning had finally come. Paul was the first one up. Before he went down to check the tree he woke up his little sister to come down with him. Paul and his little sister raced down the steps to see what was under the tree. When they got there all of the presents said Maria on it, which was his sisters name. Paul circled around to tree with a little bit of hope left that he would find a present with his name on it, but he had no luck. He was a little jealous watching his sister open her gifts. Then a small envelope caught his eye. It was lying at the far end of the tree. He ran to it, and to his surprise it had his name on it. He opened it as fast as he could expecting money or gift cards, but it was just another letter. It read:

Dear Paul. I am really proud with how long you held yourself from misbehaving, but I am also disappointed that you couldn’t hold out for three more days. As you know I am a man of my word, and I told you that if you misbehave one more time you will not get your special gift, and I am holding on to that word. So this Christmas will be a lesson learned. Don’t be sad or mad. Just remember that next Christmas starts now and if you are a good boy until then you will get all of the presents that your heart can desire.

Sincerely. Santa Claus