Author's Note: Nope, they aren't in Toronto. Just some hick-town.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters, only Kali.
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"This is me and Cosmo," I tell Zac and Carol, as we flip through my photo album.
"That's Susan's kid right?" Carol asks, looking more closely at the picture. It was taken only a few weeks ago, Cosmo is cradled in my arms and we stare at each other. It's a pretty cute picture.
"Yep, he's so adorable! You'd love him," I smile.
"Is this Alex," Zac asks, pointing to the picture of Alex and I sleeping on the couch in the doctors' lounge.
I can't help but laugh, "Uh huh."
"And who are all these people?" Carol asks, studying a picture of Neela, Sam, Luka, Ray, and I. They're all sitting on Abby's couch and I had laid on their laps just as the picture was taken. Hee hee!
"That's Luka, Sam, Neela and Ray," I point them all out.
"Cute, these are cute," Carol grins as they flip through the rest of the book. I wander around Zac's room and smile when I see that he has the glamour picture of me, framed and hanging on his wall. Carter, Abby and I had gone to the studio and they had both wanted professional pictures of me. Carter had bought extra for me to send to my friends here.
"What's Carter and your sister doing today?" Zac asks.
"Ice fishing, we should go see how they're doing eh?" I giggle.
"Okay let's go," Carol dashes out of the room and we hurry after her. Bundling in our coats and mitts and whatnot, we hurry to the lake and look around at the many fishers to find Abby and Carter.
"Is that them?" Zac is pointing to a couple who seem to be having a hard time drilling the hole.
"Yep," I shake my head in embarrassment. We jog over to them and as we can't closer I realize how far they are from all the other fishers.
"Wait stop," Zac cries, grabbing Carol and I by our arms.
"What?" Carol asks in confusion.
"Look," Zac looks down at the ice and I glance down too. The ice is thin here!
"Abby!" I scream, but my voice is muffled by the wind. I wave my arms scream some more. They don't notice us, they have they're backs turned.
"What are we going to do?" Carol's shaking with fear. Abby and Carter are in danger, but so are we.
"I'm going to go get them," I say shakily. I take a few cautious steps towards them, the ice cracks a bit.
"Kali don't!" Carol shrieks.
"I have to, you two go get help," I call, running across the ice.
"Kali no!" Zac shouts.
I keep running, the ice is pretty thin and we're far from the shore. But I'm close to Carter and Abby, maybe 20 feet away. Abby turns and sees me.
"Abby come on the ice is-" I start to yell, but my yell turns into a scream as the ice opens up and I plunge into the freezing water.