The following day had Lightning and Sally sitting outside of Flo's with empty plates in front of them.

"Wow," Sally said rubbing her hands on her arms. "It's freezing out!"

"Yea," Lightning said rubbing his hands. "I heard on the news that it might snow today."

"Hmm, it probably will." Sally said shakily.

Sally learned a lot about Lightning while they were talking and getting to know each other better. She learned that his first dream was to become a professional skateboarder until he kept paying attention to his father's races. This was also hard to believe for Sally, but Lightning was also a geek from seventh grade until he started looking better in his senior year in high school. Sally told Lightning about how she became and orphan and her sister Haylie.

Lightning wanted to converse more. "Sally, who is your boyfriend?" he asked bluntly.

She hesitated for some reason. "Oh, um..." she took her wallet out of her purse. Opening her wallet, she took out a small picture of her and her boyfriend hugging each other. She handed it to Lightning and said "His name's Ethan."

Lightning looked at the picture in his hand for a while. Ethan was a spiky, light brown haired and light green eyed (like Sally) guy."The reason why I don't see him often is because he's a student teacher." Sally said.

Lightning had a questioning look on his face that said, How does that prevent a couple to see each other?

"I know what you're thinking," Sally said recovering. "How does that separate people? Well, he teaches in Nevada. And we met from a field trip that was here. We got to know each other better when he started taking some time off from school" she chuckled.

Lightning chuckled also so she wouldn't feel stupid (even though he didn't get it). The pushing wind made Lightning and Sally shiver.

They were the only ones outside! All the other customers were warm & toasty inside Flo's cafe. Flo offered them to come in, but they didn't really mind. This bitter weather made Sally remember something else important,

"Hey Lightning," she started to ask. "What are you doing for Christmas?"

Wow, Lightning forgot about that. It was the first week of December (and almost the second)...Lightning felt a little stupid forgetting about an important holiday.

Sally's eyes widened at Lightning's hesitation. She felt very awkward. "Oh my God," she said feeling stupid. "I'm sorry, are you Jewish?"

Lightning almost laughed. "No, no, no. I just paused because I kind of forgot about it." he said smiling humorously.

"Oh," Sally said feeling stupid. "Sorry." she started laughing a little.

Lightning gave her back the picture and took a sip of his hot chocolate, thinking of an answer to Sally's question.

"Well, I'm not so sure actually." Lightning said. "My sister has a husband and kids so she usually spends Christmas with them. My mom usually goes to a different country with my step dad...yeah, I pretty much spend Christmas at my brother's house."

With too much curiosity, Sally asked, "Oh, you're parents are divorced?" She just realized that she asked an uncomfortable question and her face turned into an awkward expression.

Again, Lightning hesitated suddenly feeling gloomy.

"Actually," he said looking at the ground. He answered a little slowly. "My dad died from lung cancer about 4 years ago."

Her eyes widened. Her question was more awkward than she thought.

"Oh my God," she said cupping her mouth and then putting it back down. "Lightning, I am SO sorry." she said very seriously.

Lightning half smiled at her. "No, it's ok."

Sally had a sad look. She put her hand on Lightning's.

"You know," she said looking at his hand. "Every time I think of my real family, I feel like they...died, or something. Like..." She looked up at Lightning's face now. "Like I strangely find out where they are and are now dead."

Sally's sad face was reminding Lightning of a pouting puppy.

He felt like Sally's words were reaching and trying to pull out his heart so he could actually feel the position of Sally not knowing her family. So sensitive Lightning can finally come out of selfish Lightning. And he did.

No, this wasn't a big, dramatic, soap opera moment. This was a small everyday moment. Not a big sappy one. Just, a moment.

When Lightning smiled, the puppy faced Sally reassured her face in a pure teeth showing smile.

Looking at each other for a moment, Sally suddenly forgot Ethan. Oooh!
The two looked at each other until they noticed a snow flake falling on Sally's hand which was still on top of Lightning's.

They looked up into the sky and saw more and more snow flakes falling and covering their hair and table, and dissolving in their cups of hot chocolate.

They looked back at each other chuckling.

"Look Mommy!" screamed a little girl in Flo's cafe. "IT'S SNOWING!!!!!!!!!"

All of the adults' children charged out of the building screaming and laughing and jumping and sticking their tongues out.

The snow wasn't a big deal since it was covering everything very slowly, but the kids didn't care. Even if they saw frost on house lawns, they would start freaking out!

Even preteens and teenagers were crazy about the snow. (Maybe because it was the first day to snow in Arizona :-D)

Sally thought it was adorable how all the little kids were crazy about the small amount of snow and how their moms yelled at them to put their heavy jackets on.

She laughed and so did Lightning. Looking at the little children was suddenly hitting Sally in the head that kids are soon going to have Christmas break from school. That means Ethan won't be busy for awhile. Speaking of Ethan, Sally's cell phone rang,

Wow, longest chapter yet! I'll probably make the new chapter tomorrow cuz I'm going to a sleep over today! yay :-D