Noelle held a very important letter in her hand. It was asking permission to stay most of Christmas break with Noah's family. She had spent hours working on it. Trying to get the right amount of charm and pleas into the letter to convince her mum to say yes. Her dad would say yes. She knew of it. He was the easy one to convince. It was her mum she was worried about.

So Noelle held the letter gently as she opened the owlery door and looked in. She was surprised to see someone else there. Colt. She gave him a hearty grin as she headed for one of the owls that usually did her biding for her. "Well hey Colt ." She said brightly, feeding the owl a treat before rolling the note up and putting it in the holder on it's legs. "Its a wonder why we havent figured something out better than owls yet." Seriously. Waiting for responses was agonizing sometimes.