It was Paul, but he sounded different, very different."What do you mean?" My face, it's changing! What did you do?" Oh Christ, okay Paul, relax. I hav... an idea what's happened stay put and I'll get Anne to come over and help." Anne! She mustn't find out what happened between us!" The voice virtually screamed down the line."If I'm right, she is the only one who can help. Stay where you are. We'll be over in half an hour." She hung up, well, so much for keeping it quiet, she thought. Now the shit. If he missed the delivery deadline, he’d be ruined. The others took his story at face value, but not me. I could read between the lines. He’d done something inappropriate with the elves, pissing off Mrs. Claus… and if that weren’t bad enough, Christmas was in danger of not happening at all! A shiver went down my spine. Christmas was everything to me… hell, it was my reason for living! My first job was as a department store elf, and later I worked at the Christmas store. Nowadays, I sold and. ’A smiley face was her reward.She went back to her show for the next fifteen minutes. During this time, she finished her 5 play and played two commercials and one public service announcement. She was telling a funny story that was just emailed to her when she heard the messenger click again. She finished up the story and started a song to play before she turned to the computer.‘What’s you favorite color,’ he asked.“Emerald green and don’t laugh,’ she sent back.‘LOL,’ came back.Then,. "Now I'd believe that!" Chance answered with a wide grin. "What do you think, Barry?"Barry still was speechless. His head moved slowly from side to side."Well, I think," Chance said, "it was one of the... sexiest things I've ever seen!" Chance?" Tanya stared at her husband, unsure if she heard him correctly."I don't see how any man with his wits about him could think it was anything else," Chance grinned, opening his arms to his wife, who came trotting across the room and planted a long kiss on.