He explains that there are two other employees who are also calling friends. Keun explains that 14 cheerleaders are stranded at his restaurant and want to play Twister. They are interrupted by a call from their friend Keun, who works at a Waffle House. Tobin’s parents are stuck in an airport while Tobin and his friends are home watching movies.
The two kiss again, and Jubilee returns to spend the rest of Christmas with Stuart and his family.Ī ”Cheertastic Christmas Miracle” by John Green tells the story of Tobin, JP and the Duke. Humiliated at her behavior, Jubilee finds her dry clothes and tries to sneak away to the train. Stuart and Jubilee begin kissing but are interrupted when Stuart’s mother and sister come in from the storm. He caught her at a Starbucks with another boy.
Stuart comes in and tells how his girlfriend had been cheating on him. She confronts him with Stuart’s idea, and Noah admits he was only waiting until after the holiday to break up with her. Indignant, Jubilee runs upstairs to Stuart’s bedroom and calls Noah. Noah is acting exactly how Stuart’s girlfriend, Chloe, did before they broke up. Stuart tells her that Noah’s behavior shows he actually wants to break up with her. Jubilee tries to explain everything that happened over the past day, but once again, Noah rushes her off the phone, promising to call back later. While the two play a game, Noah finally calls. Stuart’s mother takes Rachel outside to play in the snow, leaving Jubilee and Stuart in the house alone. When Jubilee tries to talk to Noah again, he rushes her off the phone with the excuse that his family is just sitting down to eat. Stuart finds the number for the jail where Jubilee’s parents are being held, and she is able to talk to her mother. Although Jewish, the family still celebrates Christmas, and the 5-year-old can’t wait to open her presents. In the morning, Rachel, Stuart’s energetic little sister, wakes up Jubilee. Instead, he groggily tells her to call him back tomorrow. Although it is 3 in the morning, she hopes her boyfriend will console her. She finds Stuart’s mother in the kitchen and is greeted with hot chocolate and food.īefore falling asleep on the couch, Jubilee calls Noah. When she finishes, she discovers someone has taken her clothes and left her dry ones in exchange. Soaked through and freezing, the two make it to Stuart’s house, where he immediately demands Jubilee take a hot shower to warm up. Jubilee decides on the short cut, but the two fall through ice into a creek.
As they near his house, he gives her the option of walking through the neighborhood or taking a short cut. She accepts his offer, and the two trudge through the storm. Grace strikes up a conversation with a teenager named Stuart who eventually offers to let her come stay at his house since the train will not be able to run for a long time. When the train becomes stuck in a snow bank outside of Gracetown, they all decide to head to the Waffle House that they can see in the distance. They are also inundated by a group of cheerleaders on their way to a competition. On the train, she meets Jeb, a young man desperate to get back together with his girlfriend, who lives in Gracetown, Pennsylvania. The trip is even more depressing because she must leave before her boyfriend, Noah’s, Christmas Eve party. In the first vignette, “Jubilee Express” written by Maureen Johnson, 16-year-old Jubilee Dougal is forced to take a train to Florida after her parents are arrested in a riot of shoppers desperate to buy a limited collector’s piece of a Christmas village. This book is a collection of three separate, but intertwined, short stories.
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