Story Time: Buttons sleeps on

It was Christmas Eve and Buttons was very excited. But he was also so, so tired. Buttons had stayed up really late to go out for a delicious Christmas Eve pizza with Fats and Harry. They’d all eaten crispy cheleb pizza with extra pepparoni and cheese and a big bowl of pickled onions. Yum. And then they’d finished off with strawberry and sticky marshmallow ice cream. Even Fats felt full after that lot.

Buttons had a bubble bath and felt even sleepier – he could hardly keep his eyes open. He snuggled down under his duvet and fell fast asleep. He slept all night and all the next day. When he finally woke up on what he thought was Christmas Day, he was so disappointed when he went downstairs and saw that all the presents under the tree had been opened. He ran upstairs…what was going on? Then he realised what had happened. He couldn’t believe it. How could he have slept through the whole of Christmas Day? And Christmas lunch? And all the presents being opened? Buttons felt very sad and began to cry. Just then, the doorbell rang. It was Harry. He had a large parcel with him. ‘This is for you’ he said. He’d saved a present specially for Buttons. Buttons was so pleased he gave Harry the most enormous hug and almost knocked him over. ‘Heeeeeeep’ said Buttons, ‘thank you’. Then they all sat down to a special Boxing Day lunch.

Buttons made his mind up that he would always go to bed early on Christmas Eve and never miss Christmas Day again.