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Prologue
My head hits the pillow and my eyes flutter shut. Slowly, my mind is welcomed into the darkness of dreaming.
And then the nightmares begin.
And so does reality.
-Max
"Why the hell did we have to move to freaking Alaska?" I say in a grouchy voice as my mom wrestles with her Map. "You know I hate the cold."
"Honey, you know that I tried. I can't help it that my boss sent me here." She stares blankly at the road as if, just by staring, it may lead straight to our new home in Anchorage, Alaska.
"Max," Angel – my six-year old demonic sister – whines from the back seat, "Not all of Alaska is ice, ya know. It sounds really pretty."
I roll my eyes. "Did you know that we're going to be living in the city? Cramped up with thousands of other people?" I looked at her startled face and continued. "No breathing space . . . no more blue skies. Everything in the city is bleak and–"
My mom hands Angel a picture of Anchorage.
"Oooh! It's so pretty!" Angel squeals and jumps around in her seat in the back. "I can't wait!"
"I can't wait . . ." I mutter sarcastically and lean my head against the side of my window of our tinted SUV. My eyes dip and I resist a yawn.
I can feel my mom rubbing my shoulder as she keeps her eyes strained on the road. "Why don't you just take a rest, Max? We'll be there before you know it."
Just a quick nap . . . that can't hurt me. It can't hurt me . . .
Yeah, nothing bad can happen from just a nap, right?
Not.
Ice covers me from head to toe and all I'm wearing is a cammie and a pair of shorts – I'm freezing.
"Help . . ." I call out weakly, but no one is in sight. "Help me . . ." I can't get up.
With difficulty, I manage to bring my hand up to my sight to see it's turning a white-blue. Panic seeps in deep within me.
I was just supposed to take a nap! I scold myself. Someone wake me up! Before it's too late! Please!
My lips start chapping together, and my teeth stop chattering. My brain feels numb as my mind slowly goes blank . . .
"CRAP!"
The car lunges forward and then screeches to a halt. I'm awakened from my sleep. Thank God . . .
I stare into the street in front of me as a boy with strawberry blonde hair and pale skin, dressed in a sky-blue snow jacket, thick black pants and boots with a back-pack slung over his shoulder, crosses the road.
Mom shakes her head. "Jeez, I almost hit him." She grips the steering wheel of our car hard. Her hand reaches out to grasp mine but she quickly pulls away. "Sheesh, Max, your hands are freezing."
I shrug and look out the window at my new home. "I told you Alaska was cold . . ."
-Fang
"Dude, I heard there's a new chic coming into town," Iggy tells me as we walk home back to our apartments in Anchorage from school. The apartment next to me had finally been sold and my mom had to me that a new family with two daughters were moving in. Iggy was pumped up for the girls.
"Ig, it's one girl our age and the other one is six-years old." I stare at him indefinitely.
He hesitates. "I get the older girl for uhm . . . two months? Then you can have her. Then we can switch back."
I smack him and he cracks up laughing. "Man, I'm just kidding. You know I am."
I roll my eyes. "Sure you are."
He keeps laughing as he crosses a busy street over to his apartment, cars honking at him. One car with a blonde girl in the front passenger's seat had to swerve to the side to avoid hitting him.
I sigh and turn around, walking the other way to my apartment which was a sky-scraper, it's windows mirrored so you can only see out of them – not looking in. I pulled open the large glassy door just as I saw the car with the girl that almost hit Iggy pull into the parking garage.
-Max
The apartment windows were all mirrored and the Jewel Lake which was reflecting the purple-ish blue mountains in the background.
"Isn't this gorgeous?" Mom tugs me along, smiling. She looks back at the goose-bumps on my arms. "I told you, you should have worn warmer clothes."
I hug my bare arms, cursing myself for only wearing a pair of black Uggs, black skinnies and a fitted Shinedown T-shirt. "Mom. We're from Arizona. All the clothes you've ever bought me were shorts and short sleeve shirts. I was lucky I found these boots on the way here at the strip mall."
She waves her hands at me. "We'll go out and buy some clothes as soon as you and Angel help me bring in all of the boxes. You and Angel can go out and explore around the city, get some things you girls might want. I'll give you some money."
The inside of our apartment was . . . amazing. It had a lot of space and had two big windows over looking the Jewel Lake in the living room. There were three bedrooms (thank god I don't have to share a room with Angel!). I chose another room facing the lake. It had a small love seat under the window and a big Queen-sized bed frame with a mattress on it. Dark cherry wood furniture were pushed off to the sides of the pale tan walls. A vanity with a large mirror was next to my bed and a book shelf was off to the side. To the left of my bed was a sliding mirrored door (jeez, a lot of mirrors, huh?). I walked over and slid it open, reveling a large closet with a shoe case and hangers. I smiled.
-Fang
"Mom, Iggy and I are meeting up at the Hilltop Area with the other guys. We're going snow boarding." I grabbed my goggles, which I always seemed to forget to bring, and fastened them around my neck. My black snow pants made a swishing sound as I walked down the apartment and to the elevator.
Iggy met me up outside and we caught a bus up to Hilltop Area.
He nudged me as we sat on the bus. "So, did your neighbors move in yet?"
I shrug. "I think so. I didn't really check."
Iggy sighs. "Well, the first thing we're doing when we get back is going to your house. Then, we're gonna meet the new girl." He smiles deviously.
The bus stops and we load off of the bus. At the small lodge in the middle of the snow sight where you could either go skiing, tubing, sledding, or (my favorite) snowboarding, Iggy and I met up with our friends to get ready.
"Fang! Iggy! Over here, dudes," Jack, one of our friends called over to us. He had icy blue eyes and slightly tanned skin because of his family genes. His dirty blonde hair was cut short and he was wearing a brown snow jacket with matching pants, black boots, gloves, a hat and goggles. His new snow board was at his side.
Around him stood two of our other friends: Nate, who had green eyes and a normal colored skin tone for the weather, scraggly brown hair and was dressed the same way as Jack only his equipment was mostly dark green and white. Next to him, sitting down was our friend Derek. His stingy dreadlocks were pulled back into a pony tail holder and a red under-armor hat was pulled over his head. His dark skin stood out against his bright white smile and brown eyes. Just like the other guys, he was ready for boarding with his board tightly pressed against his side as he laced up his snow boots.
"Hey, guys," I greeted them as I sat down next to Derek and checked my boots just to make sure they weren't coming untied. The lodge that we were in was much like a cabin, with wood walls and ceilings and a big roaring fire place with stacks of wood next to it. Nice wooden tables were placed inside for people to hang out and sit down at while they ate and drank the food from the small food stand or if they just wanted to get ready for going outside. "Ready?"
Everyone nodded.
-Max
"I want this jacket," Angel told me as she held out a pink and white snow jacket with pockets at the side. I looked down in my hand at the small wad of cash my mom had given us. Only a hundred dollars and the jacket Angel was holding was ninety dollars. The prices on the other jackets weren't much better.
I sighed. Guess I'd be getting a jacket another day. "Sure. Try it on, though."
Her blonde ringlets bounced as she tried jamming the sleeves through her arms. Her blue eyes twinkled at me. "Can you zip it up for me?"
I nod. I kneel down and zip up the jacket to her chin. She gives me a toothy smile, exposing some of the gaps where her new adult teeth were growing in. To me, she was adorable. To anyone else, she was an angel – ironic, huh?
I knew better . . .
"So, do you like this one?" I ask her.
She nods quickly. I sigh.
"Okay, let's go buy it." She squeals in delight as I take her over to the cashier.
The cashier takes the money. "Would you like a coupon for your next trip up to Hilltop Area? The Shop is sponsoring them now."
"Hilltop Area?" I ask a little breathless. It sounded cool. "What's that?"
The cashier stops and then she smiles at me. "It's awesome. I go up there all the time with my boyfriend. You can go snowboarding, sledding, skiing, tubing . . . pretty much any thing that has to do with snow you can do up there."
"And . . . how would I get there?" I ask curiously.
She points outside at a bus stop. "Just hop on a bus and then the driver will say when you're at Hilltop Area. It's about a ten-minute ride from here."
I turn to Angel. "Wanna check it out?"
She bites her lip for a second, uncertain. She pouts. "I don't wanna."
"Aw, please Ang? I just got you your jacket. Please can we just go look at it? It won't take that long," I say, trying to persuade her.
She sighs. "Okay, Maxie."
I smile. "That's my girl."
As we head out the door, the cashier calls us. "Wait! Do you want your coupon?"
"Sure, thanks." I say as I take it. If I like the place, maybe I'll use it another time.
Angel and I get on the bus.
"This place is so cool!" I say, feeling much like Angel on the ride to our new apartment. The Hilltop was amazing. It had a cabin lodge in the middle of everything, a ski lift, a rental area, a snowtube hill, a place for sledding (which Angel liked because she'd never gone sledding before) and on top of that, the whole entire place was for skiing and snowboarding! I could see small forms of people gliding down the hills and making flips effortlessly on their snowboards. "Whoa . . ."
I started walking out into the middle of the area in a daze.
"Miss! You have to watch out!" Someone yelled.
I turned around to look at an employee who was coming out of the lodge and running towards me, his boots sinking into the snow. "What?" I said.
"Look out!" Someone else yelled. I turned back around just in time to see a guy dressed in all black snowboarding right down the hill I was standing in front of. He'd pulled his goggles off and he was yelling at me. "Get out of the way!"
I tried moving but my feet were stuck in the snow. Stupid Uggs!
The guy that was on his snowboard saw that I couldn't move so he tried stopping his snowboard before he would hit me. He leaned back, his whole back slamming against the snow. The hill was steep so he was still coming pretty fast.
Before I knew it, he was crashing into me.
-Fang
My snowboard dipped into the snow as I tried to loose speed, but this was the fastest hill on the resort, so the chances of me slowing down were slim.
The girl at the end of the hill had wavy dirty blonde hair and bangs that fell into her eyes. She looked sorta like a Roxy model from one of the magazines my sister Nudge read all the time. I could vaguely make out freckles and light hazel brown eyes. Her slim body tried fighting against the snow but her boots wouldn't allow her to make much progress.
Wait a second.
This was the girl that had almost run Iggy over. What was she doing here? And why wasn't she wearing the correct equipment?
My snowboard hit a rock and I started tumbling. Then, I hit the girl at the bottom of the hill.
She gasped and a blur of her blonde-ish brown hair went falling down in the rest of the snow with her. She sat up and rubbed her head with her not-gloved hands. "Ouch."
"What are you doing?" I scolded her, taking off my hat and goggles so I could get a better look at her. "Are you crazy?"
"I'm sorry," She said hastily. "I didn't know."
"You didn't know that you weren't supposed to be at the bottom of a snowboarding hill?" I shot back, almost furious.
She clenched her hands. "I said I was sorry."
I sigh and run my hands through my silky black hair. It was falling in my eyes again. Her light brown hazel eyes stared into my dark brown ones harshly. "Look, just forget it." I shake my head and get up. I reach my hand out to help her up. She just stares at it. "It's a hand, not a snake. I won't bite, I promise." I give a small smile.
Finally, she grabs onto my hand and I hull her up from the snow.
"I'm Max," she say's simply. "I'm new. I just moved here from Arizona." She looked shocked for a minute that she was telling me this then she shook her head. She pointed over at a small girl in a pink snow jacket who looked terrified. "That's my little sister, Angel."
"Max!" The little girl called out. She stood next to the employee who was yelling at her. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, Ang," Max shouts back.
"My names . . . Nick. But I hate that name, so everyone calls me Fang." I nod at her as we walk. With out saying so, we end up inside the lodge, her sister trailing behind us.
Max gives me a gorgeous smile. "Nice to meet you."
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