Ghost of Ex-mas Past

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My high school sweetheart left me to pursue his fortune-and I still have to spend every Christmas with him.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It's what I get for falling in love with the boy next door. His parents are my parents' best friends so even though we went down in flames every Christmas we had to stay in the same crappy cabin together stuffed with holiday cheer while our families revel in their perfect lives. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I'm not </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>trying </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>to be a scrooge about the whole thing but it's hard to be stuck in a snowy cabin with my first love.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For Christmas present things have changed. We're getting a cabin upgrade and Charlie is NOT flying in with his family...</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Because I'm his ride. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A ploy from our mothers no doubt.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And now I'm stuck in a car with the man who broke my heart.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He seems different this year-humble and generous. But I swore that I'm done with dating in the city-I want a small town charming man in my life not the disastrous finance and tech bros on the dating apps. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But I still see the ghosts of his past self though and after all these years Charlie's decided he wants me back. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I doubt he's changed that much-he's still a workaholic and he amassed his new wealth through drive ambition and going for exactly what he wants.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And what he wants this Christmas...is me.</span></p><p><br></p>