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Sarah

With a sigh, I looked out theat the frigid landscape that zipped by This wasn’t exactlytrip To me, a vacation meant sun, beaches, and cute cabana boys Not constant snowfall and temperatures below zero Yet here I was, on my way up aski trip

Out of the corner of my eye, I watched Nathan nod his head in ti fro, snowboarding, or even hopping on a sled to slide down a hill, he was there with a smile on his face This trip had to be a dream come true for him

Especially since his daddy was the one paying for all of it

His father, and et out of the house and relax Withjust passed, he said it was the perfect chance to go have so myself in my school work like I usually did

And Nathan hadn’t done anything but nod and grin as his father spoke, the traitorous bastard He knew da a ith his friends soh up on my priority list

Especially if Billy was going to be there

I shuddered at the though Out of all of Nathan’s friends, Billy was my least favorite I’d have been perfectly happy to never see hi were pretty damn sliot together

Just the thought of hiht back the o Billy had set his eyes on me the moment he’d walked in the door He’d see drink after drink in front of me until I was more than a little tipsy

That’s when he’d cornered ue down my throat I’d tried to push hiain, earning him a swift kick in the nuts

He hadn’t tried anything else that night, but every ti me I’d made sure to keep ave me the creeps whenever I saw him

And noas going to be stuck at a ski resort with him for a week

Lucky me

“Where are we?” I asked, trying to getbut snow covered trees It seemed like we’d left civilization a while back

But Nathan just grinned, see, besides us “Short cut We’ll be there in an hour or two, at this rate The main road would’ve taken us almost five hours”

“Okay,” I said with a nod That seemed reasonable And the less time I had to spend cramped in Nathan’s Jeep, the better It was pretty nice, as far as Jeeps went, but it still wasn’t the ideal vehicle for a long road trip Besides, I really needed to pee soon!

Sighing, I closedto be stuck here for another two hours, I ht as well take a nap It see at frozen trees at least

Only a fewsounds,me jump out of the seat My eyes flew open as I whipped over to look at Nathan “What the hell was that?”

Nathan frowned and shook his head as he pulled over “Not sure Gonna have to get out and check”

Now I frowned That didn’t sound good at all Already, sI wanted was for us to get stranded on the side of the road in this frozen hell

Nathan turned the car off, then reached behind the seat to pull out his jacket He shimmied into it, then turned at o out and check it Stay in here”

Like he needed to tellout in the knee deep snow unless I absolutely had to Freezing my tits off wasn’t on my to-do list today, thank you very much

The longer Nathan was out there, fiddling around beneath the hood, the fast an to beat I slid le bar of service, ht as I shoved it back into et any worse?

I tappeddeep breaths to try and calm myself Time seemed to slow to a crawl as I waited for hi out there And the entire tile car drove past in either direction

We really were out in the middle of nowhere

God kno long it took before Nathan slammed the hood shut and ran back around to the driver’s side and slid inside as quickly as possible He shivered slightly and rubbed his hands together, bringing the on them to warm them up

“Well?” I asked, i on It was still pretty early, but I wanted to get to the lodge as quickly as possible A cup of hot cocoa and a nice roaring fire was just what the doctor called for right now

Nathan shook his head “Looks like we’ve blown a gasket”

Whatever the hell that means “Can you fix it?”

“I could,” he said, “if I had h? Not much I can do”

He reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone, cursing under his breath as he looked at it

“No service either?” When he shook his head, I groaned “Nohat do we do?”

Nathan shrugged, then ed his temple “Well, we can either wait here and hope so down to the cabin we drove past not long ago”

Cabin? I must’ve missed that, since I didn’t recall any cabin But if he saw one, I tru

sted hi all thatto a rando, but neither did sitting here freezing my ass off as the heat left the car

“Can’t we just hike up to the lodge?

“If you want to spend the entire day hiking in the snow, sure,” Nathan said with a laugh “It was going to take us two hours to drive there You kno long it would take to walk?”

I frowned and shookoutside, it probably wouldn’t have been too bad But Nathan had a point It would take forever to hike in this, and we’d probably freeze to death long before we got there

“I guess let’s head to the cabin Sounds better than just sitting here doing nothing”

Nathan nodded and took a deep breath He leaned into the back again and pulled the rest of his snow gear out, along with his bag

I did the sa to hike, I was going to wear every single piece of snow gear I had TheKelly and I had gone out shopping for brand new stuff last weekend

Not only would I be the irl on the mountain, but I made damned sure I’d be the warmest

“Ready?” Nathan asked after we’d both bundled up When I nodded, he gave o then”

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Nathan