They slid along on the sleigh, slowly getting faster (if you get what I mean).
"How do you get this into the air?!" Jess exclaimed, being thrown around by the bumpy ride.
"Don't you need special magic sparkle dust from Father Christmas?" Hannah remembered.
"Oh CRAP!"
The reindeers zoomed on, oblivious to their surroundings and plunged the sleigh straight over the edge of a cliff.
"ARGHH!" Jess and Hannah gripped onto the front of the sleigh for dear life as the sleigh plummeted. 5 metres from icicle-impaling death the reindeers pulled up and began to fly.
"That was close." Hannah observed.
"Right, well, where are we going?" Jess asked.
"Um…dunno. We could go to Australia…" Hannah started.
"NO." Jess leant forward and grabbed the reins ot prevent them being steered 'accidentally' to Antipodean climes.
A brief silence ensued.
"You're taking us to LA, aren't you?" Hannah asked.
"No," Jess replied, quickly.
"Will you two PLEASE make up your minds where you want to go?!" Said a voice in front of them.
"What the hell was that?" Hannah exclaimed.
"It was me." Jess and Hannah leant forward to see one of the reindeer craning his neck to look back at them. "Now, where do you want to go?"
"Australia!"
"Shut up, Hannah."
"YOU shut up! You only want to go to LA because that's where Sean liv-"
"SHUT UP, HANNAH!"
The reindeer cleared his throat in a very patronising way.
"I think I should take you back to the-"
"NO!" Jess and Hannah both chanted in unison.
"We're not going back there." Hannah said.
"Alright, where then?" The other reindeer asked, sounding like he was bored out of his mind.
"Let's take them back to their home, Holly."
"Ok, Ivy."
The two reindeers pushed on through the ice-cold air.
Jess and Hannah sniggered behind them.
"Do you mind?" Ivy said, turning her head.
"Sorry." Jess and Hannah tried to stop laughing at their silly names.
"Never mind, Ivy…" Holly consoled her reindeer pal. "Their names are probably more stupid than ours."
"What are your names?" Ivy asked, sounding doubtful.
"Jess and Hannah." Hannah answered.
There was a sullen silence.
"Great." Ivy said sarcastically. "Outdone by humans."
"So, where do you live?" Holly asked.
"What?"
"Well, we're taking you home, so we need to know where you live." Ivy said.
"Oh." Hannah paused. "We live in…Las Vegas." She said, slowly.
"Eh?" Jess looked up.
"Oh, that's nice…what an exciting place to live!" Ivy said.
"Yeah…lots of flashing lights, and music, and…stuff…" Hannah said. "It's cool."
"Since when did we-" Hannah knocked Jess into the back of the sleigh.
"ONWARDS!" Hannah declared. "TO LAS VEGAS!"

The sleigh touched down on a bank of false snow.
"Blimey." Jess hopped out. "Look at all the lights!" She promptly dropped to the floor and had a brief epileptic fit.
"WAZOO!" Hannah made a snowball out of the fake snow and threw it at Jess, who started foaming at the mouth – it was actually soap flakes.
A bunch of drunk Texans rolled up beside the Christmas display and roared with approval.
"They look like REAL reindeers!" One hiccupped.
"Dance for us!" A man threw some quarters at the reindeers.
Holly and Ivy refused to dance and instead trotted off of the fake-snow mound and off down the motorway.
The men carried on down the pavement, (or gutter as most of them thought it was the pavement), exclaiming, "WOW!", and, "REALISTIC!".
Hannah pulled her friend up and dusted her down, Jess spat out the remainder of the snowflakes.
"We don't have any money!" Jess exclaimed, still frothing a little uncontrollably.
"Let's walk somewhere warm." Hannah suggested, guiding Jess down the pavement. They walked along in silence past hotels lit up with thousands of fairy lights.
"We're, like, 5000 miles from home!" Jess said anxiously.
"Probably more." Hannah noted.
Jess sighed, depressed.
"Don't worry, we just have to raise enough money to get home." Hannah trailed off. "Or…"
"Or what?"
"We start walking." Hannah said.
"Bugger." Jess swore.
"Woah there!!" Hannah stopped and looked down at the floor in shock.
"What?!" Jess looked down hopefully.
"A quarter!!" Hannah yelped, picking it up.
Two straggly kids limped up to them holding up an upturned hat with a hole in it. "M…m…money?"
"Sorry kids," Hannah said. "Duty calls." She dragged Jess into a nearby casino. "Let's get some money!" She said. "You feeling lucky, J?"
There was a hesitation. "No."
"Great."