Scamper languidly stretched her long furry body, claws extending and retracting. She had fallen asleep on her human's lap, but now found herself laying on a blanket at the edge of the couch, her human gone. Yawning once, Scamper hopped to the floor and paused. The house was dark and silent, the only lights were from the fake tree and a red light under the noisy picture box, which was now dark and silent too.
Scamper went down the hall to her human's room, but the door was closed. She considered scratching the door to get her human's attention, when she heard a curious sound, some thumping on the roof. Tail erect, Scamper padded back to the living room as it seemed closer to where the sounds were coming from. She thought she heard a bell, was it Felix coming to pay her a visit?
There was an odd sound coming from the fireplace, when all of a sudden a human fell out of the chimney! Scamper raced and hid behind the couch. She crawled under and peeped out of the gap at a very large human in a red outfit. The human stepped out of the fireplace and walked over to the fake tree.
Scamper observed the red human pull colourful boxes from a sack and place them under the fake tree. It seemed the big red human was about to return to the Chimney when it said 'oh ho ho, what do we have here?'. The human walked over to the small table next to the noisy picture box when Scamper saw it. A glass of milk.
Scamper loved milk and had a sudden realisation that the big red human was going to drink her milk! She quickly ran out from under the couch and jumped on the small table and yowled at the human, trying to communicate 'go away, this is my milk!'. The human paused and said 'hello little kitty, what a fine ginger furball you are'. Scamper understood from the human's tone that it was admiring her, just like her own human often did. So she meowed at the strange human. 'Hmm', it said. 'I think the milk and cookies were left for me, but you know, we can share'.
Scamper observed the big red human pick up and start munching on the cookies. She was fine with that. She didn't like cookies. Next thing the big red human took her milk! Scamper began to hiss in outrage but stopped when she realised the human was pouring her milk onto the plate that held the cookies.
She started lapping up the milk as the big red human watched her. When she was finished she looked up at the big red human baring it's flat fangs at her. Her own human often did this, so Scamper was not concerned about being attacked. But then it reached down and picked her up!
Scamper meowed in concern and the big red human spoke to her. 'If I had a cat, I'd want one just like you. One of those boxes has a little present for you. I hope you like it!'. With that, the big red human deposited Scamper onto the floor and stepped into the fireplace.
The big red human whispered 'Merry Christmas!' and was suddenly sucked up the chimney and then was gone. Moments later there was more thumping on the roof, the sound of a bell and then silence again.
Scamper was confused, it approached the fireplace and looked up the chimney. It was much too narrow for a human. Scamper then decided that the big red human must have been a cat in disguise.
