A Very Un-Merry Christmas Time PV

The days were rainy. The sky was overcast, with not a speck of sun in the sky. There was no snow in London so it didn't feel like Christmas time. It felt like an immensely gloomy version instead. Yet, three days before Christmas, Reyna was wandering the streets, her brown umbrella in hand. Her mood was just as gloomy as the weather.
She had yet to find Christmas presents for her parents. For her overworked father, her guarded and stoic mother and her mourning grandmother. What was one supposed to get for a broken family? Even Reyna wasn't put together. She was hanging on barely by one singular thread, trying to keep her family from falling apart. She was trying to keep her family cheerful during this Christmas.
But it was the first Christmas without him.
Her Grandfather had been the most joyful person she had known. He made Christmas time fun. He had the best gifts, he was a master chef, he told the funniest jokes... Christmas time without him just felt well... sad.
But she couldn't let his favorite holiday of the year be turned to ruins. That would not be what he would have wanted. So now it was her responsibility to keep the family afloat this Christmas time. And that was why, even though she was falling apart, like a worn out piece of clothing, and the weather was far from satisfactory, she was here to buy gifts for her family. There had to be some gifts under the tree.
Reyna wandered the streets of London in hopes of some cute shop that had gifts worth giving, meaningful, cute, something. Perhaps matching sweaters, or an apron for her grandmother that loved to cook, or some new CDs for her father to add to his collection.
Suddenly, she spotted exactly what she was looking for: a beautiful, cozy little shop with all sorts of trinkets. Reyna was drawn to it; the intricate Christmas decorations that were inviting, the unusual items in the shop, but most of all, the people who came out, grinning ear to ear, like they had had the best time of their lives. All of that and it was only a little boutique. Nothing special, nothing magical.
Still, she stepped inside, hoping she could find something special and maybe walk out with a smile of her own. Reyna rarely smiled anymore. Where would the joy come from? She had lost half her friends and was slowly losing her family. Between endless schoolwork, chores, broom racing, and recovering from her injury, she barely had time for herself, let alone a reason to smile.
She hoped this shop might change that. It only took a quick look around before Reyna wandered farther into the store. Floor to ceiling it was covered in decorations. She found matching sweaters and pajamas in the first aisle, every cooking supply one could imagine in the second, stationary in the third, legos in the fourth, and posters of so many muggle artists in the fifth. And somehow, everything was Christmas themed.
A lego set on the top shelf in the fourth aisle caught her attention. It was a winter wonderland scene, snow sprinkling down. A family sat in a house, squeezed near a fireplace with hot chocolate. Rows and rows of houses lined the street as snow fell in the background. The houses themselves seemed relatively simple to build, but the inside was intricate. She’d never seen lego’s that let you decorate the inside of houses.
She reached to grab the lego but found that even in her tippy toes, it was far too high to reach. Glancing around for a ladder, Reyna attempted to reach the lego again, wirh no success. Great. The one thing that actually intrigued her was the one thing that she couldn’t get. She sighed. Of course. Nothing was that straightforward. No staff seemed to be around to help her, and not wanting to bother anyone else, she glanced up at the lego one last time sadly. It wasn’t coming home with her, at least not until she found a way to get it down, or someone to help her.
She tried one last time, this time even standing on the sides of one of the shelves but barely missed it. Reyna hated being short. She needed heels, or something, someone to help her.
And while at the moment Reyna felt as gloomy as the wet London streets that awaited her outside the doors, she had no idea that her life was about to change for the better, all thanks to the simple kindness of a stranger on that very un-merry Christmas day.