Tabitha--Ginger

Ginger the ginger gingerbread girl was very excited for Christmas. She was so excited to put up the tree and put up the lights and make everything pretty. She loved picking out the perfect gifts that she knew her friends and family would love even more than she loved receiving gifts. She started to play Christmas music in the car a week before December because she was just so excited. Ginger got pumped for Christmas early, maybe a little too early. See now Ginger was the type of girl who liked to plan out everything and she had planned in her head to have a wonderful holiday season all throughout December, but her plans were interrupted by one little boy. Tobi was had the same exact feelings towards Christmas that Ginger did except he had one more special thing planned. He wanted to pick out a special gingerbread cookie to eat with his hot chocolate. His special day had come, his mom was going to take him to the bakery to pick his special ginger bread cookie and when he got there his eyes went directly to the perfect cookie. Tobi had red hair and when he saw the little gingerbread girl with red frosting for hair he knew that cookie had to be his special Christmas gingerbread cookie. Tobi got home, ripped open the bag, pulled out his cookie, and bit off its leg. He went in for the other leg but was stopped by his mother who called him to go help being the groceries in. Ginger wakes up and freaks out when she realizes that her leg is gone. She gets up and immediately falls back down. She lays there and tries to think of a way to get away. She sees toothpicks on the counter and picks them up and uses them as crutches and limps away as she sobs over the loss of her leg. She makes it back to the bakery and finds her friends and they help her get a new leg and then they attach it with frosting. They couldn't really put it on quite right so Ginger was now a little lopsided. She got up and tried to walk and again fell down. Her friends held her up and she tried to step and fell again, but this time she just stayed there and cried. She cried for about an hour but then she saw something out of the corner of her eye, a Christmas tree. She stopped crying and called her friends to help her up to get closer to it and she took some steps with the help of her friends and then pushed them off and limped herself the rest of the way to the tree and sat under it. She sat under the tree and though about the big change in her life that happened today, she thought about all the plans she had for the Christmas season, and the rest of her life and how her new lopsided leg would affect all those plans. She decided that even though her life plans would change a little bit she wouldn't let it ruin her Christmas spirit and happily went off to her finish her Christmas cookies. She limped around the store and finished her shopping, she wobbled on the ladder and completed her tree, and lastly she plopped down on her seat Christmas morning and happily opened her present. It was sparkly new crutches colored bright red to match her hair.