Chapter Four

Hey, I'm back with a new chapter to the story you all seem to enjoy. So this is to all you reviewers! You motivated me to continue with it.

"Sledding?" Johnny asked as I got off the bed and went to look out the window again. I love the snow. It's so clean and new and pretty. I'm not a big fan of the cold part, but just the feeling of tiny flakes landing on your cheeks and making them tingle makes me so happy inside.

The window fogs from my breath
My face pressed up close, up close against
Catching the snowfall under a beam of streetlight
And praying for accumulation all through the night

These confrontations puncture the skin
Reveal evidence that you are easily broken
You're so easily broken
Exposed and relentlessly bleeding from the cracks
At that age when everything is seemingly life or death

Please let the snow swallow the streets whole
Keep the bus from coming
Let us stay at home
So we can avoid the daily drudgery
The cruelty fueled from laughter that will echo in our sleep

Seasons, weakening the hold
The blades dulled from the front that hints the snow
Warming engine slowly turns
Stuttering awoken from the sounds of shovels scraping concrete
At that age when everything is seemingly life or death

Adrenaline fuels my
Fist grinds my teeth through sleep

Finally dragging Johnny outside, I headed to the park with my red toboggan. Yeah, I call it a toboggan, not a sled. Before leaving, I had to give Johnny one of my coats that I aquired over the years. Thankfully they were all black and not a pink or purple shade. Then I would've never gotten him out of the house.

"Have you ever been sledding before?" I asked him as we wandered between the flakes. The crunching of the snow underfoot was the only sound to be heard in the late morning.

"Umm..." He said

"What?"

"Actually, I haven't been sledding in ages. I think the last time was when I was about five." He said, in a weird, slightly ashamed way.

"Oh, that doesn't matter." I said. "If you crash, that's a good thing in my book. The more screw ups the better."

We landed at the bottom with Johnny a few yards up and me to the right a bit. So let me change my mind. It's not that great to crash in the first place. I basically had the wind knocked out of me.

I just looked up to the sky, the snowflakes always missing my eyes but making my nose and cheeks sting with the cold. The sky was completely gray and just the sereneness of the whole moment amazed me. Could it actually be so quite in this world, with now worries and thoughts passing in and out of one's mind?

Crunch, crunch crunch.

"Hey," Johnny practically whispered as he sat down by my feet. "You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm good." I said, sitting up to face him. "Just enjoying the moment with no commitments."

"You think too much." he said to me, smiling. I loved it when he smiled at me. It's like I had to work so hard for each one.

"Maybe I just like to think." I said with a smirk on my face. Yeah, me, the terrible joker. Always trying to get something started. Wait, am I flirting?

"That's why I like you so much. You always come up with something in that extremely small brain of yours."

I grabbed a handful of snow and threw it in his face giggling. "Oh, you think your so cool greaser guy."

"Yes, I am." he said, taking a handful and throwing it in my face. Cocky cocky guy.

I wiped the snow out of my face quickly. I hated when my face got red, but I couldn't help it. It was cold.

"Now my face is all red!" I said, getting up off the ground, my jeans wet from the snow.

"You look cute with a red face." he said, putting out a hand so I could help him up(A/N. I always have to have my friends help me up when I'm sitting on the floor in gym, haha.)

"Thanks." I said, actually blushing this time.

"Hey!" I heard a familiar voice yell. Turing towards the sound, I saw the gang run down the hill.

Sorry about this chapter. It's basically just to move things along, and I've had a really bad writing block for the longest time, haha. So, as always, review and rant about how good or bad this story is.

Oh yes, and the song is "Snow Day" by The Honorary Title, which I suggest all of you to listen to! Yeah!