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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