Bright
As Joy
Prologue
December
30, 2009 11:58 PM
On the highway leading down a steep
hill, it began to snow. Our RV was jumping up and down over crusted roads that
weren’t ridden on before.
“Dad, are you sure you know where
you’re going?”
“I’m sure, Janie. This is just a
short cut I used to take when I went down this road with Mr. Winters. We were
fine… Well, in the summer.”
I held onto the couch, with my pink
blanket right on my lap.
“Hey Janie, it’s 11:59! One more
minute until your birthday, and Christmas too! You’ll turn eleven at midnight,
which was the actual time you were born!”
My mom was smiling, ready to scream
out Happy Birthday and sing. The snow was starting to fall faster, each
snowflake bunched up on the driver’s w
