TRAGEDY UP NORTH
Chapter 3: Things Get Serious
Meanwhile, on the other side of the mountain, Lizzie and Ethan were having a great time together. Lizzie was trying her hardest to flirt and show off, but was fairly unsuccessful. Ethan was focused on skiing and skied directly ahead of Lizzie, although she wasn't complaining about the view. Although things were going smoothly, Lizzie suddenly hit a rough patch on the snow and went flying. She stumbled right into Ethan and they began to fall together. Eventually, they landed with Ethan right on top of Lizzie. Lizzie was in shock and was nervous yet excited at the same time.

"Sorry," she said still flustered.

"Hey, No problem here McG," he responded looking into her eyes. He began to slowly crane his neck down towards her and was just about an inch from her lips when they were interrupted by a shrill scream. They both sat up abruptly although Ethan thought to himself, "we'll continue this later."

"Oh my god, Ethan did you hear that? That could have been Miranda."

"Just calm down dude," Ethan responded. "Here, let's just try to climb back up and find them."

So that's what they did they climbed and searched, but were having no luck finding anyone from their group.

. . . . . . . . .

I wonder what's going on with Lizzie and Ethan? Gordo thought while slowly skiing down the steep slope. Miranda looked up at him questioningly. 'He's been so weird lately,' she thought, 'I wonder what's going on in that head of his?'

"Gordo, what's up?" she asked him suspiciously.

"Umm, uh, nothing Miranda," he answered unconvincingly. With that Miranda knew something was wrong, so she pulled him over to the side and sat him down.

"Gordo, you can tell me what's wrong you know. We can always talk about anything."

"I know Miranda it's just." Just as he was about to spill, they were also interrupted by a scream. All they had to do was look at eachother and then they were off.

'Oh my god,' Gordo thought, 'what if something happened to Lizzie before I got to tell her.'

. . . . .

Ethan and Lizzie had been searching for quite some time, but were still unsuccessful. Just as they were about to give up, they looked down and saw something.

"Um Ethan, do you know what that is?"

"It looks like an animal or something," Ethan responded obviously confused.

Lizzie couldn't tell what it was, but she knew it wasn't good. "Kate, Claire!" she called out and was surprised to be answered with this,

"Lizzie, help . AAAAGH." Lizzie looked at Ethan who had a sheer look of terror on his face. They still couldn't quite see what was going on, but by the sound of that scream they knew they had to help.

"Here Ethan, let's go call the ski patrol, they can do something," Lizzie said rather confidently, but just as she was about to turn around, she tripped again and rapidly stumbled down the mountain heading right for whatever terror was going on at the bottom.

"Ethan, help ME!" but it was too late!