Stuck in a Blizzard with you

This was a very exciting time for us. The senior class trip to a cabin in the mountains was going to be a blast! It was supposed to be educational but come on…being locked in an isolated cabin with girls for 3 days and with only one teacher, as a chaperone how educational is that? I walked up to the bus with Gerald. He scanned the crowd looking for Phoebe, his long time girlfriend. " So Gerald, what are you and Phoebe going to do after we get to the cabin?"

"Don't know. Probably get lost in the woods and eaten by snow leopards."

"There aren't any snow leopards up here."

"Okay snow…gnomes."

"Snow gnomes?"

"Sorry Arnold. There's Phoebe." Gerald said walking away.

Great! Now I was going to spend this entire vacation alone. Gerald was going to be with Phoebe and Lila. Well Lila and I had broken up several weeks after prom. And she wasn't speaking to me so um…yeah. I spotted Helga standing next to a bus brushing various dust off her pink snow boats. Sid, her boyfriend, was nowhere in sight. "Hey Helga."

"Hey Sailor." She said without looking up from her boots.

" I have a question."

"And I may not have the right answer but I'll try my best."

"Why do you call me Sailor?"

She looked up at me. Her blue eyes were red and swollen from crying.

"Hey what's wrong?" I asked immediately forgetting the Sailor question.

"Sid! He's such a bastard." She whispered hugging herself against the growing wind.

"What did he do?"

"He dumped me…for her." She said nodding toward Sid and Lila.

I looked at them and sure enough Lila's fingers were tangled with Sid's

"When did this happen?"

" It started a few weeks after prom. Sid started avoiding me then he quit calling. Then today he broke up with me. Arnold…" she said, falling into my arms and crying softly on my sleeve.

Was this not perfect timing? We were both single. Now would be the perfect time to tell Helga that I loved her.

"I don't think I can ever date again." She whispered still clinging tightly to my arm.

Then again maybe not… "Don't let him get you down, Angel, there are other fish in the sea…"

"I don't want a fish. I want a boyfriend…and I know that was supposed to be a metaphor. I'm just unhappy right now."

"What about Phoebe? Hasn't she tried to comfort you?"

"Nope…to busy with Gerald. My mom has been asleep behind the couch for the past 3 days and my sister don't even ask about her."

"All right guys!" Mr. Simmons yelled from a bus window, " We need to get a move on if we are going to get to the cabin by nightfall."

"Thanks for trying to comfort me, Sailor."

"Hey do you have anyone to sit with on the bus?"

"Nope my friend is sitting with her boyfriend."

"Well can I sit with you?"

"Sure Sailor, why not."

Phoebe and Gerald sat behind us. Gerald poked my ribs. "What?"

"Tell her…"

"Tell her what?"

"That you have a crush on her. She's single ya know."

"Yes and I don't want to badger her with my proclamation of undying love."

"Okay have you been drinking your grandmother's green tea again?"

I rolled my eyes and turned back around. Helga slipped her headphones on and winked at me. "Remember this song Sailor?" she said before she began humming the tune to Lifehouse's Breathing.

"Yeah that's the song they played at the prom."

"Yep it's our song."

I blushed slightly. That was the first time Helga had ever referred to it as "our song". Maybe this was a good time to tell Helga about my undying love…I opened my mouth to speak but the bus lurched forward, which caused me to bite my tongue. Fate was so cruel. Helga watched with amused eyes as tears gathered in my eyes. (Okay so I cried a little but that really hurt.)

" It's because I had a dream about you…"

I looked at Helga a bit confused.

" I call you Sailor because I had a dream about you. In it you were captain of a ship…It was so beautiful. The full moon shone brightly on the clear water…"

I noticed the color rising in her cheeks. She was embarrassed but I didn't quite understand why. But I had a feeling the next three days would be enlightening.