Four Seasons
Winter 2005
Lily looked out the window and watched as the season's first snow fell on the grass, streets, and porch. She watched as everything was covered in a blanket of white. She had always loved the snow...she found peace in it's consistency. She never had to worry that snow would be hot. It was cold...it had to be. It could not exist if it changed so it remained the same winter after winter.
She walked outside and picked up a handful of snow as she thought about Jonathan. She thought that she knew him, but a week ago everything she thought that she knew about him changed. A few months ago he was a bad man that kidnapped her, Kendall and Greenlee and almost killed them all but that was before his surgery and now she didn't know what he was.
A week ago he had come to her house to tell her he was sorry. He showed her his scar and told her that they cut out the bad in him. Her father was convinced that he was lying, but Lily wasn't so sure. His eyes were no longer dark and clouded with the raging storm of anger, instead they were kind and gentle.
She wished that people didn't have to change. It would be so much simpler if they always remained the same, but they did change and now she had to decide whether she would trust her father's opinion about Jonathan or if she should give him a second chance.
"Hi Lily," she heard Jonathan say.
She looked up and saw him waving at her as he crossed the street.
"Jonathan, what are you doing here?" Lily asked.
"I was on my way to the l...l...lake, when I saw you," he stammered.
"What are you doing at the lake?" She asked as she looked up at him.
"I want to go ice skating. Do you want to come?" He asked her.
"I...I don't know. My father says that you're still a bad man and that I should stay as far away from you as I can get," Lily stated as she looked around for any sign of her father.
"What do you think? Are you s...s...scared of me? I don't want to scare you. I don't want to hurt you ever again," Jonathan whispered as he looked at the ground.
"You don't scare me anymore. Your eyes have changed and I've decided that we can be friends," Lily stated. Jonathan seemed to be different like her and she knew in her heart that he was telling her the truth.
"Really?" Jonathan stated as his face lit up with a huge grin. "Does this mean that you'll come Ice-skating with me?" He asked her.
"No, I don't think that's a possibility. It's not cold enough for the lake to be completely frozen, but we can make snow angels," Lily suggested.
"I like that idea," Jonathan stated as they began to walk towards the pier.
When they got there Lily and Jonathan laid in the snow and made individual snow angels and built a snow women. They played in the snow all day long until the sun began to set.
"I better get going home before my dad begins to worry about me," Lily said as she looked at her watch.
"Thanks for being my snow angel," Jonathan stated as he waved goodbye to her.
