• I watched the cars passing by, I think of what presents i will get tommarow for christmas. "I can't wait to see if i get a x-box360, mom." I glanced at her as she drove. "Blake.....I didn't get you a x-box..." My mom looked at me with her brown eyes, sorryness in them. "But mom!! I asked you so much all year! I even gave you one hundred dollars to help!" I looked at her in shock. "Blake, my new promotion took away my christmas bonus at work so we don't have enough money to get you a 300 dollar gift for christmas! Your brothers and sister get gifs too, ya know!" I was silent the rest of the trip.
    The next day, after opening up are gifts, we had gotten ready to go to the annual family party. After a hour longdrive we pulled up in the driveway. A bitter taste seemed to sit in my mouth and not go away, making me want to punch someone in the face. As we walked inside my cousin Katy's house, she's like 24, wesat near the tree and waited for everyone to show up so we could open the presents from the family. I looked over to my left and saw my little cousin Jackson sitting next to the tree, present in his hands, waiting for grandma to tell us we could open are presents. Jackson opened his present and saw it was only a small teddy bear, he looked up at me, and said, "It's ok, theres alot of peope who don't have christmas's cuz' they are poor! Any ways, my old teddy bears getting old, thanks Blake.
    I thought at what he said. The words he said pierced me like a dagger. I looked at my mom and thought for how harhe works for our family just to keep food on our table. I got my dad to take me to a Jared's jewelry store. I looked and looked and finnaly found it. A pair of blue topaz earings. "S'cuse me sir," I said to the man behind the counter, "how much are these earings?" He looked at me with a grin and said, "Well young man, these are 75.99 on sale." "uh...can you break a hundred?" He looked at me with surprise as i said the words. "sure.."
    That night before we all went to bed I walked into my moms room with the present behind my back. I looked at her and whispered, "I'm sorry mom." she looked at me with a puzzled look on her face. "here," i gave her the present. she looked at me with her brown eyes as she opened the present. "Thank you."