Ashley Pentz is the number one Hallmark movie writer of the year. She specializes in everyone’s favorites, Christmas movies. The movies always go the same: the girl is a hard worker in a busy place like New York City, who has a boyfriend, or fiancé who clearly doesn’t love her. All of a sudden, the main character gets a call and urgently has to go back to her small hometown, where everyone knows everyone and there are many festive traditions. When the main character gets to town, she will run into an old childhood friend, and instantly fall in love, causing chaos in their everyday life. Eventually, the girl will fall in love with her hometown all over again, she will decide to stay and live in her childhood home and live happily ever after.
Ashley has always loved writing for these films because she doesn’t believe in any of this happening in real life. She finds it amusing to see people’s love for her movies where the same thing happens in each movie. She has never been one to believe in love at first sight or soulmates. She even had her doubts about love itself. Ashley didn’t always think this way.
She once thought she had love, a true love, but they were young and dumb. They would never have made it. Besides, she was young and in college with still the whole world to see and experience, and they were just a silly high school couple. Since then, Ashley moved away from home to achieve her childhood dream of acting. Soon she realized that she’s better at writing for the movies rather than being in front of the camera.
It’s been years since she’s left her small town of Bluebell, Montana. She usually comes home on holidays and the occasional birthday. Except she hasn’t been home since her mom died two years ago. She just can’t bring herself to go back in that house and see everything that once brought her happiness, gone. The past couple of years her Christmas plans consist of her alone in her and her fiancé’s apartment, watching Christmas movies and drinking cocoa, while her surgeon fiancé works all night. She still calls her dad but they have never been very close, or seen eye-to-eye.
However, this year is different. Three days ago she received a call from her father where he told her he would be selling the house claiming it was “too big to keep up with, living there alone, and the expenses have gotten too hard to maintain.” Since then, Ashley told her fiancé “Bon Voyage” and set on her way back home to try to convince her dad to keep the house. That house was her mother’s favorite place in the world and when she would decorate for Christmas the house looked magical. Ashley needed to just remind her dad of these things and maybe, for once, he might just understand.
Walking up to the house, she winced at the sight of the for sale sign in the front yard. Her dad was in the middle of a tour when she walked through the door. Looking around the house made her feel choked up. It looked so cold and lifeless, until Ashley couldn’t even think clearly.
“Jake? What are you doing here?” She said in almost a whisper tone.
Jake turned around to face her and instantly they were both speechless. They hadn’t seen each other in years. What will happen? Will they reconnect? Will Ashley save the house? Will she have her own Hallmark Christmas love story?
