TUESDAY

DAYS LEFT AT THE SKI CABIN: 6

"Willow. Willow, wake up!" someone said, shaking me awake. I moaned and opened my eyes to see Paige kneeling next to me on the bunk bed with a pancake in one hand and a piece of bacon in the other.

"Wha-? Paige?" I murmured, rubbing my eyes.

"Wil, get up. It's time for breakfast."

"What? It is?" I murmured and sat up, and Paige nodded. I staggered out of bed and saw that i was the last one awake. Great.

I squeezed myself into the tiny bathroom to brush my hair and change out of my pajamas into jeans and a t-shirt. I walked back into the kitchen and saw a hung over Jenna with her bouncing brown curls and tight mini-skirt cooking bacon, scrambed eggs, and pancakes over the stove.

Paige and Maddie were chatting away, eating their breakfast slowly while the guys were shoveling theirs into their mouths like it was their last meal.

"Whoa, boys. Slow down! I want some, too," I said, smirking and sitting down in front of a plate piled high with steaming hot breakfast food.

"Morning, Wil!" Vern chirped through a mouthful of bacon. Maddie wrinkled up her nose in disgust but I just laughed at him.

"Morning, Vern-o."

"Hey! Brats! I'm having a few friends over on Friday, so don't bug 'em!" Jenna snapped from the stove.

"So, what are we gonna do today?" I asked, ignoring the bitchy, drunken college girl.

"SLEDDING!" Vern screeched, making everyone jump.

"Aww, come on, Vern-o, sledding is for babies!" Teddy moaned, but Paige shook her head vigorously.

"No! No, that sounds fun! We could just play in the snow all day!"

"Sounds fine to me," I said. "We could have a snowball fight and shit." Teddy perked up at the mention of a snowball fight. He liked to pretend he was at war during snowball fights.

"Yeah! Yeah, we could do all that stuff!" Gordie cried, and I guess everybody seemed pretty psyched about it.

Except Maddie. Big surprise there.

"I don't know, you guys! It's cold out!" she moaned, and I rolled my eyes.

"That's sort of the point, Maddie."

"But still! It's freezing cold out there!"

"Listen, Maddie, are you coming or not?" I pressed as we all got up from the table.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm coming," she grumbled and followed us as we put our heavy winter coats on. Jenna didn't have any sleds so the guys got a whole bunch of wooden planks and nailed them together to make sleds.

"Nuh-uh! No way am I riding on that thing! It's like a wooden death trap!" Maddie cried.

"Suit yourself!" Vern cried and grabbed his homemade sled and trudged up the hill. Gordie, Chris, Teddy, Paige, and I followed him, dragging our "sleds" behind us.

On the way up, we saw Vern-o come rocketing down the hill, his sled shaking like an earthquake, and him screaming in terror the whole way down. I giggled and ran ahead of everyone else screaming, "I'M GOING NEXT!"

I laid down the sled and laid on it, and pushed off. It went slow at first but then picked up speed. The wooden planks started shaking underneath me and the poorly hammered nails went flying everywhere, making the sled collapse from underneath me. The remnants of mt sled hit a jagged rock and I screamed and covered my face before being hurtled through the air and slamming into a nearby tree. And that was all I remembered before I blacked out.

"Willow? Wil, are you okay?" It was Chris. I stirred nd let out a moan of discomfort. God, why did my head hurt so damn much?

"Guys, I think she's coming to. Wil? Are you okay?" It was Gordie now. I moaned again and opened my eyes. Five concerned faces were staring down at me. What the fuck? Where was Maddie?

"What happened?" I murmured, trying to sit up, but feeling woozy and collapsing back down again. All of the guys reached out to help me in a panic and I pressed my hand to the back of my head. I felt something sicky and wet.

"Great!" I moaned, extending my bloody hand for all to see.

"Oh man. We gotta fet you to a doctor," Chris said.

"Can you walk?" Teddy asked, and I shrugged.

"I dunno...where's Maddie?"

"She went to go get Jenna," Gordie replied as Teddy and Chris helped me to my feet, and they helped me walk to the cabin. With his free hand, Teddy shot a fist in Vern's direction, and he flew back about ten feet. Teddy slugged him five times in the arm.

"Ow! What was that for?" Vern moaned, rubbing his arm.

"Two for flinching," Teddy explained. "and three for getting my girlfriend hurt!"

"How is it my fault?"

"You were the one who said we should go sledding!"

"I didn't know it was gonna happe-"

"Shut up, you guys!" I moaned. "You're giving me a worse headache than before!" Teddy and Vern grumbled their apologies and we walked the rest of the way up to the cabin in silence.

"Oh My God!" Jenna shrieked when she saw my head. "I'm going to call a doctor!" Jenna ran off into the kitchen. and the guys laid me down on the bed.

"Thanks," I murmured and my eyelids started to droop when Jenna came bursting through the door.

"Alright, Willow, get up, we have a two-hour drive to the nearest doctor." Chris and Teddy helped me out to the car and then Jenna sped off, leaving them in the dust.

I came back with a big bandage on my head. Paige, Maddie, and the guys came running out when we pulled up.

"Wil! Are you gonna be okay?" Paige cried, worriedly.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I just have a concussion, thanks to you, Vern," I said, smirking and Teddy punched Vern again.

"Come on, Wil! I didn't mean for it to happen!" Vern whined and I just laughed.

"I know, Vern-o, I'm just messin' with ya'. But thanks to you, I have to stay up all night so I won't fall into a coma. Yay."

"Well, we'll stay up with you, Wil," Chris said. "All of us." I smiled.

"Thanks, guys."