
Day 16 | Advent Calendar
The Longest Day by Trent McDonald
I had been awake for quite a while, staring into the blackness in a place outside of time, when I heard my brother whisper, “You awake?”
“Yeah,” I answered. “What time is it?”
“Don’ know. It’s still dark, though.”
We slowly got up and pressed up against the door. A small sound was heard just outside the door, in the hall. Silently and efficiently we threw on some clothes. We didn’t bother to turn on a light, so it was dark in the bedroom. But that didn’t matter, anything and everything was fine for this special day.
My brother cracked the door a smidgen.
“Shhhh,” my oldest sister said from across the hall.
My other sister came out of her room and tip toed down to our group.
“It’s about a quarter after six,” my oldest sister said. “Remember last year when we got them up…