Chapter 20

After almost two hours Jin and Yi had stopped walking on the side of the street to take a break.

"Brrr" Yi replied as she stopped along with her friend, then Jin dropped their shopping bag down and took out a cover to place it over her back.

"It's starting to snow" Jin mentioned looking up at the sky to see small snowflakes fall down from the sky. "Good we still have these covers to protect us….but I just don't know for how long"

"I think now it was a bad idea to leave the camping place"
"It's just snow. We can deal with it. If we need to walk the whole night to avoid being buried alive in the snow, then we do it"

"Good"

"We're both together in this and I know together we're going to manage this" Jin assured earning a smile from Yi.

The weather ratio started to get worse with the time causing a strong wind to blow against the two friends, that tried hard to fight against it and move forward.

"F….fuck!" Jin barked overwhelmed, then got hit by Yi's cover over his face and stopped along with the girl. Jin took it off, watching Yi freezing, then he helped it placing it around her back and tied it around her neck. "Here," Jin said, then adjusted the cover he placed around his body to avoid freezing, then tried to walk along with Yi.

"Crap!" Yi gasped as the wind blew the two friends hard enough to aggravate their path, then Jin grabbed Yi by her arm trying to pull her behind him, but it wasn't possible. Jin watched Yi shiver from the temperature, then he looked at the shopping bag, where the third cover was and he took it out, followed by the wind blow he fell down on the ground while being pulled by the cover. Jin got up on his knees to watch Yi in front of him holding her hand down, then Jin grabbed her hand and Yi helped the boy up and he placed the cover around Yi to protect her more from the cold.

"Jin, you need to watch for yourself too!" Yi warned followed by Jin placing his arms around Yi, which was rolled together like a sushi roll.

"It's okay" Jin commented rubbing with his hands on Yi to heat her quicker.

"Jin please get the cover off me. You need it too" Yi pleaded the friend, which kept helping the girl to get warm. "Jin, please….do this for me," Yi asked as the friend had looked at her seeing her tragic about his stubbornness. Jin felt his heart aching from seeing Yi's concern about him, then he sighed and removed the cloth from Yi's body and along with her, they placed the cover above their back. The snow kept storming against them making it difficult for the two to move forward on the snow and both embraced each other tightly in the weather desperate about the conditions.

"I'm….s...sorry I brought you out here Yi" Jin apologized watching Yi lie her head on his chest trembling from the negative temperatures. Jin tried to help the girl keep warm by caressing her on the back. "It's all my fault" Jin lamented seeing Yi shook her head slowly.

"N….no.. it'...its…not" Yi stammered from the cold, slowly slipping off Jin's arms, which in shock held her in his arms, then squatted on his knees holding the girl in his arms.

"No! Yi! Please get up, you can't just give up right now!" Jin bawled in panic. Jin used the cover he had given Yi in the first place to give her warm and tried to warm her up with his arms again. Seeing Yi with her eyes closed gave the boy more insecurity and he pulled her closer to him rubbing her on the cover with his arms trying to produce heat for the girl. "Please don't leave me alone here Yi, please don't do that to me" Jin begged starting to shed tears on his eyes frightening the eventual death of his friend. "Help!" Jin shouted echoing around the darkness where nothing was to be seen.

Meanwhile, on the road a man sat inside a large SUV together with a teenage girl, which gazed through the windshield of the car noticing how bad the sight was for them to see.

"Are you sure, were going to make it back dad?" The teenage girl asked the driver.

"The current circumstances we need to go slower, it's hard to see the road in front of our noses" The driver answered.

"God, we should have left earlier if we knew we would land in the middle of a snowstorm" The teenage girl commented taking out the smartphone, that lied in the inside of the cup holder to see the time.

"There is something" The father mentioned slowing the car down, then he squinted his eyes to see the boy Jin covering Yi with the third cover, which was the one he wore before. "There are two people out there!" The man exclaimed stopping the car while removing the seatbelt, then he got out of the car to see the two teens.

"Wait dad!" The girl shouted leaving the car to help her father.

"Go open the back door for them" The man ordered the girl, which ran back to open the door, then watched the father carry the boy into the vehicle.

"S….ssssss..aaavee…...h….herrrr….f... .sst" Jin pleaded as the man sat him inside the car gently. "P...p..please…."

"We will don't worry" The man assured the teenage boy. "First you need to get warmed up. You're nearly freezing to death" The man mentioned, seeing Jin shiver terribly from the low body temperature and the man removed his jacket and covered Jin with it.

Yi lied on a couch covered with a fleecy cover with her eyes closed resting.

"Are they okay?" A female voice asked in the background.

"Yes, they're better now, than when we picked them up" A male voice answered. "I just don't know yet, how they ended up alone there"

"They must have got lost" The woman mentioned. "I'll be serving them a hot herb tea, if they're able to drink"

"Dad, I had a strange dream last night," A second female voice said.

On the couch, Yi opened up her eyes slowly looking around at the living room she was in, then sat up slowly checking the surroundings, where she was to spot a brunette man and two blonde women.

"Good morning" The woman greeted along with the man.

"…...Morning" Yi greeted gazing at the family a little shoo from the foreign people. "Where am I?" Yi asked, then the man approached the girl bending down to the Chinese girl.

"You're in our holiday house….well it's rented, but that's not the point. I and my daughter Sonja caught you and your friend out there in the cold nearly freezing and helped you out of there"

"Thank you" Yi whispered. "We were completely lost. We missed out coach and needed to go back and…..where's Jin?" Yi asked remembering her childhood friend in shock, then the man calmed the girl down.

"He's fine, don't worry" The man promised. "He's lying on the other couch there" The man pointed out to the other couch, where Jin lied also covered with a woolly cover resting. Yi sighed and looked back at the man.

"Thank you so much for helping us out. I think we wouldn't be here anymore if you didn't show up Mr…."
"Haas"

"Mr. Haas. Thank you Mr. Haas" Yi thanked earning a smile from the man. "I'm Yi"

"I hope you're okay with the clothes I gave you yesterday. They're from my son and he's the only one to be similar to your size"
"It's fine Mr. Haas. I'm okay with them" Yi answered watching the man get up and leave the living room through the bow from the corridor of the entrance of the house.

"So Yi I have warmed up in the kitchen for you and your friend" The woman explained walking into the kitchen, then Yi got up from the couch and went down on her knees to Jin, which lied on the couch.

"Oh Jin I can't believe we're still alive after this" Yi spoke watching the boy, which slept on the couch in serenity. Yi leaned her forehead in front of his placing her hand on his, which lied in front of his face. "This whole trip is insane"

The teenage girl, that assisted her father with helping the two raven-haired teenagers watched Yi holding her forehead in front of the boy, making her smile enamored with the sight of the two.

"After what happened out there I would also be worried about my boyfriend" The girl mentioned seeing Yi lift her head while looking at the medical student smiling a little, then she shook her head and sat down in front of Jin's carefully.

"We're not really dating" Yi corrected.

"Oh okay…..I didn't know that"

"It's alright, no problem" Yi answered, then the blonde girl got up and passed by Yi.

"Look, I'll be right back. I'm gonna check if my mother needs something" The girl explained walking behind the couch. "And my name is Sonja, by the way," The blonde introduced earning a smile from Yi and the blonde left the living room and Yi looked down at Jin, therefore she placed her hand on Jin's head watching him breathe normally. Yi moved herself to the side by accident hitting him on the nose with her elbow, waking the boy up.

"Woah" Jin replied, then looked up at Yi, which looked down in shock at Jin, afterward she sighed seeing the friend was alright. "Hey" Jin greeted slowly sitting up on the couch, then Yi embraced the boy tight surprising the boy.

"Great to see, you're safe and sound Jin" Yi confessed lying her head on the warm covered chest of the boy. "And your jammies are so soft" Yi complimented looking down along with Jin at the shirt he wore, which was pink and had the sentence big unicorn princess.

"Did they really give me a girl's pajama?" Jin asked making Yi laugh.

"At least you're not freezing anymore"

"That's a good point" Jin mentioned looking at Yi, which still had her arms wrapped around the boy, which made Jin do a wry grin at the embrace.

The mother came out with two cups of hot tea and stopped in front of the two friends.

"Great you two are awake now" The woman mentioned. "I've made a herbs tea for the two of you. Be careful it's hot"

"Thank you" Jin answered taking a cup along with Yi.

Mr. Haas came back with a bunch of clothing on his hands and meet up with his wife and the two friends.

"For the moment I think it's better for you to keep the pajamas on. Then before the lunch, I would suggest you take a shower and wear these clothes" Mr. Haas explained. "And don't worry, I've brought you a pair of jeans and a hoodie for you. You won't be wearing anything girl-like" He explained making Yi chuckle, while Jin rolled his eyes annoyed.

"Thank you, sir"

"But the only thing I could get from Ben was his energy drink shirt and cargo pants"

"It's okay, thank you"

"I can ask you the questions later, but just curious. Where were you going the other day?" Mr. Haas asked watching the teens carefully take a sip from their tea.

"We were traveling by a coach to Kathmandu, but my friend Jin here during the break the coach did went to the restrooms and got his head hit on the wall and lied powerless on the ground. Unluckily I just went a little later to see, if he was okay….and well he wasn't"

"Are you diabetic? The man asked interested seeing Jin shake his head.

"No the floor was wet and after I was done with my job I slipped on it"

"Oh...okay" The man answered. "Look Kathmandu is around 9 hours away from here. We could take you two up there eventually. We planned to visit the Sche-Phoksundo national park this week, which is near"

"If you don't really mind our company, that would be great sir" Jin answered with a simper smile.

"The trip will be tomorrow if you don't mind it. You two will be our guests here and you two can rest, eat, sleep or join our family plans together, if interested"

"That sounds good for us" Yi answered taking a sip from her drink.

"Take it slow, you two. You've got enough time" Mr. Haas spoke earning a nod from the two.