He was in his room wrapping up a final Christmas present for his kid, hoping they were already asleep for the night as he tried to cut the wrapping paper as quietly as possible. It was just this one gift he’d yet to finish, and it probably wouldn’t have taken so long to get ready had it not been the most popular toy of the year. Just about every parent tried to get their hands on one of them, so he had to get it from a shop three hours away..

After finally wrapping the present, he had just put away the wrapping paper when he heard footsteps in the hallway, and they were only getting louder. He quickly shoved it into his closet and pretended like he wasn’t doing anything when the door slowly opened.