A Puppy for Christmas Page #4

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NOELLE:
Oh!

LIAM:
Oh - y-

EVERYONE:
Surprise!!

NOELLE:
Oh my gosh! Uh....

MAN:
We have heard

so much about you!

NOELLE:
Oh...?

WOMAN:
Guess you didn't

tan much in Peru!

MAN:
Yeah, do they eat

guinea pig down there?

Or is that not true?

NOELLE:
Uh...

MAN:
You're even

prettier in person!

NOELLE:
[laughs]

WOMAN:
Merry

Christmas tome!

MAN:
Did'ya git

to birth a llama?

NOELLE:
One moment, please!

Okay...

NOELLE:
Excuse me.

Why didn't you call

ahead to tell them

youweren'tcoming with Jessica?

[laughing]

I'm sorry about that,

the reception is

really bad out here.

And how did those

people get here anyway?

That road we drove up, looked

like it hadn't been used

in a hundred years!

In fact - I don't

think it was a road!

There's a paved

driveway in the front.

Oh! The back road's faster.

LIAM:
Look everybody!

Ah, this is all so unexpected,

but there's something I should

really clear up, look--

OLD MAN:
You're

under the mistletoe!

EVERYONE (chanting):

Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!

OLD MAN:
What're ya chicken?

Kiss the girl!

LIAM:
Ah, OK, whoa, whoa!

Everybody calm down okay

[nervous chuckle]

this is not Jessica!

This is Noelle from work.

NOELLE:
Hi!

OLD MAN:
What're

you a swinger now?

[laughter]

LIAM:
Gramps?! Whoa!

Easy! No!

Jessica's flight got delayed,

she'll be here tomorrow!

And uh,

Noelle just got dumped

and she had no place to go, so--

[crowd gasps]

Oh my god, I'm sorry.

No I didn't - that

came out wrong...

WOMAN:
Moonshine?

Yes, please!

[club music]

[group laughing]

MAN:
Models and bottles baby!

[group cheering]

[humming"Angels

We Have Heard on High"]

Whoa! Do you--

do you need some help?

Nah, [chuckles] I've

been putting this angel on the

tree for almost fifty years now.

Did Liam's grandma make it?

She did!

Remarkable woman.

You must miss her.

Not a day goes by

that I don't think of her.

Especially over the holidays.

But with this on the tree,

it kind of feels like

she's still here.

That's beautiful...

Well...

at least for this last year.

Last year?

We've been running

this Christmas tree farm

for over forty one years now.

I used to do all the chopping,

but [chuckles] she

was the brains.

Just got too

expensive to maintain.

Sometimes,

life throws you curve balls.

NOELLE (slurring): That

moonshine sure was good!

LIAM:
Whoa, I think

I got drunk

smelling your breath!

NOELLE:
Hmm...

why am I Santa?

LIAM:
Well, you insisted on

trading outfits with my sister.

[laughs]

Oh, I bet she loved that.

LIAM:
Okay Mrs. Claus,

it's time for you to

dream of the North Pole.

NOELLE:
Hmm...

Hey Liam?

[sighs]

Thanks for inviting me.

Your fianc's going

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