Abbey was in the taxi cab on her way to the airport. She usually didn't take a plane to her home village, but she felt too anxious to make the grueling journey all the way over to the Himalayas. She checked her cellphone one last time, and it was a message from Heath. All it said was, "Good luck".

Abbey replied with a "Thanks". The ride in the taxi seemed to go on forever. Finally the taxi got to the airport. Abbey got out. The driver offered to carry her suitcase for her, but Abbey politely said no to his offer. She went through security and got to her terminal. She was just taking a small plane to the Himalayas, where she would climb up. She was sitting on the gray seat in the terminal, playing Angry Yak, when she saw a familiar yellow figure walk towards her flight terminal. Abbey put her cell phone in her pocket and curiously walked towards the man, she saw he had dark red hair and eyes. She immediately recognized it was Heath!

"Heath, what you doing here?" Abbey asked him.

"Abbey, I'm not having you do this alone," Heath said, holding her hand tightly.

Abbey put her hand out of his grip, and placed both of her hands on her hips. She formed a scowl. "Heath, you not knowing my village. Village love Anton, will be hard for village to accept what happen to Anton."

"I'm coming with you whether you like it or not." Heath sat down on a grey plastic chair outside of the terminal.

"Fine, freeze butt off, I not care."

The two sat next to each other, and it was a tense 30 minutes until a uniformed woman announced that the plane was ready to board. The two got on, with Abbey angrily stomping a few steps ahead of Heath.

They sat next to each other in the very back row. Abbey had her arms crossed, she still refused to talk to Heath.

After a while on the plane, Abbey began to get bored. She had to remind herself not to talk to Heath, she wanted to get her point across. She occupied herself by wondering about her new house mate, Anna.

She remembered Yetis in her village drinking alcohol, but she was too young then. She never joined them. She laughed to herself as she recalled how much of an idiot everybody acted after drinking. She also wondered what this "marijuana" did. Abbey was curious what this stuff was like. Clawdeen told her all of that stuff was bad news, and not to touch it. That only made her even more curious.

Eventually the plane landed near a mountain in the Himalayas. Heath noticed everybody who got out of the plane had a lot of hiking gear on them.

"Crap, I didn't think this one through..."

Heath was very unprepared to take a hike. Staying warm would not be a problem for him, obviously. It was just the journey up to Abbey's village that filled him with dread.

"Come on Heath," Abbey said as she grabbed Heath's wrist. This was the first time Abbey had talked to him in five hours.

Heath looked up the snowy mountain in dread, and he took a large gulp.

"Was not such good idea, was it?" Abbey taunted.

Heath snapped out of his daze. "Uhhhh...Ha ha... No babe, I'm just fine!"

"You wanting to go back?" Abbey offered.

"No, I can do this. I'm a track star, remember?" Heath stated with a grin.

Abbey rolled her eyes. That definitely wasn't going to help him.

The two climbed up. Heath shivered as the cold, strong winds hit his face. Abbey seemed unfazed by the harsh temperatures. The two climbed up, and halfway through the journey, Abbey had to carry Heath.

They made it all of the way up the mountain, and they arrived at Abbey's village. The elders came out to greet them. Heath was now wearing Abbey's faux fur coat. Abbey dropped him, and yanked her coat off of Heath before the village elders approached them.

They came up to Abbey and conversed with her in Yetish. The conversation looked joyful and tame at first. After half an hour of talking, the conversation erupted into tears and arguing. The elders began to shoot disgusted looks of scorn at Heath. Heath kept his head down, trying to be less noticeable. The fire elemental still stuck out like a sore thumb in the snowy, Yetish town.

More villagers came out, and Abbey talked to them. Tears of sorrow and outrage flowed out of the villagers eyes as Abbey talked to them. Some angry villagers charged for Heath, but Abbey stood in front of Heath and guarded the two of them with a thick sheet of ice.

"You guys don't understand, Anton was an evil bastard!" Heath yelled. The few Yetis who understood him still held their angry glares at him.

"We not welcome here Heath, we must be going," Abbey said to Heath. Heath nodded his head in agreement. The two of them walked off. The villagers attempted to attack the couple, but Abbey froze all of them. She then formed an ice-snowboard, and mounted Heath on her back. Abbey boarded down the Himalayas as fast as she could. Heath was fearing for his life as they went down the mountain, but Abbey was going down as if this was something she did everyday. Chilly wind, snow and Abbey's crystal tears blew into Heath's raw face. Heath could vaguely hear Abbey's cries and wails. He wanted to comfort her, but his severely chapped lips couldn't move. His throat was unable to produce any sound, it was like his sore vocal chords were frozen together.

Anna went into her home. Her younger brothers David and Eli went down the carpeted downstairs to greet her. They three hugged, and Anna commented on how much she missed them. Anna smelled the musky carpet smell that she remembered growing up with. She usually hated it, but she now savored it. She missed living here. Her parents were upstairs, Anna called for them but they didn't come down. "What the hell?" Anna muttered to herself.

Anna went up the stairs, and tripped over the last step. She forgot about that step, she remembered constantly tripping over it during her days growing up. She got up, brushed off her knees, and walked over to parent's room with a limp. "Mom, dad, where are you?" She yelled through their door.

She still had no response. David showed up behind her. "Where's mom and dad?" Anna asked her brother, feeling very confused.

"They left," his squeaky voice responded.

"What? Why?" Anna asked him.

David shrugged his shoulders.

"When did they leave?" Anna asked him, she began to feel a lump in her throat.

"Like, um, on Tuesday," the little blonde boy said.

"Huh, what? You guys are four and seven! Why would they leave you?"

Eli came up from the stairs. "Janie comes by everyday, she makes sure we're okay."

"You guys still shouldn't be here alone?!" Anna exclaimed, confused.

"Mommy and daddy are coming back tomorrow," David commented.

"Well good! I've got a lot to say to them!" Anna shouted.

Once her brothers went down the steps, Anna checked their bedroom. She looked through her parent's walk in closet. All of her mom's shoes were there. She looked into the bathroom and noticed that her mom's full makeup bag was laying on the counter of the bathroom, so were her parent's toothbrushes. "What?" Anna screamed to herself. Something was going on, Anna had to get to the bottom of it, the only issue was that she didn't know what could possibly be happening and where to start searching.