Snowed In at Jingle Falls by Kaylee Baldwin

Author:Kaylee Baldwin [Baldwin, Kaylee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sweetly Us Press
Published: 2021-11-02T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

“ALL HANDS ON DECK FOR the Santa village.” Dad’s voice boomed over the heads of all the people gathered in their kitchen and living room who had come to help.

Harper loved watching her dad in action. He had a talent for rallying the troops and making people excited about doing hard physical labor. Outside. Where it was twenty-four degrees with snow up to your knees, and dark clouds edging closer and closer. Yet, as Harper looked around, all she saw were eager expressions.

Even Nolan’s. He stood out in his head-to-toe black in the midst of the colorful Christmas blend of glittery beanies and sweaters in red, blue, gold, and green. Which definitely explained why she couldn’t keep her eyes from drifting in his direction and taking him in.

Like when you lose a tooth and your tongue keeps going to the empty space. It’s just instinct and didn’t have anything to do with how good it had felt to be in his arms at the gazebo. Nothing at all.

They still needed to finish getting the gazebo ready. Her dad handed out assignments, and when he got to her, she said, “We’re going to finish the gazebo first—”

Her dad’s swift head shake cut her off. “That’ll have to wait. Santa’s village has to be top priority, and it’s going to take every single one of us to pull it off.”

Lucas, always at her dad’s side these days, nodded. “We have the entire Santa and Mrs. Claus structure to build, plus we need to set up the trees and the pathway, and I found some waist-high toy kits in the warehouse that I think would look really great.” He paused. “The kids will love it.”

She nodded in resignation. As much as she wanted to get back to that gazebo—and not just so she could have some one-on-one time with Nolan, but because she hated to leave a job unfinished—she agreed. The children in the Davis family jumped up and down in excitement at the idea of a Santa village, giving credence to Lucas’s statement.

Today, he wore regular clothes—well, if regular meant a candy-cane striped shirt with a green collar—rather than the Santa suit.

Everyone made their way to the park. She and Nolan worked together to build a waist-high wooden train that would go along the walkway where the kids would wait in line to see Santa.

She had her dad’s battery-powered drill and a back-up old-fashioned hand-crank kind in her bag for when this one gave out. All around, people in the town chatted and worked hard to pull the village together. It made her heart feel warm, like the Grinch at the end of the movie when he sees the people in Whoville singing together.

That was Jingle Falls all the time. A place where Christmas brought them together—and not just the over the love of opening presents or to bringing in tourist money from the Christmas village—to pull off something amazing. She missed her sister, though. Avery being here was the only thing that would make this better.

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