Snow Day

It was a typical Monday morning. When I awoke I took a look outside to see that it snowing rather heavily with the wind blowing it around. A smile came to my face and I quickly turned on the radio to hear the local school cancellations. To my delight I heard the announcer say that all english school boards were on a system wide shutdown. I nearly leaped for joy at the music to my hears. I imediatly started running around my house and then did what any kid would do. I turned on my Xbox 360 and started playing as much video games as I could.

My mom was still asleep during the first few hours of gaming. I noticed that outside my window the wind was blowing rather hard. I could hear the whisteling it was making. I opened my curtains and saw that a foot of snow had been created. I smiled at the sight. With any luck if this continues then tomorrow school may be cancelled as well. I continued playing games until noon. Thats when things started from a cheery snow day, inot something unpredictably strange. I heard a bang outside of my window. I jumped at the noise. I puased my game and decided to take a look. I opened my curtain once more only to find...nothing.

Outside there was nothing but white. The dark sillouhettes of the trees were agianst the cold grey sky. I closed my curtain this time and was about to start my game agian, when the bang was heard agian. I whipped around and flew open my curtain. Still nothing. I decided that it was one of my freinds trying to play a joke on me and walked out of my room into the kitchen. I put in a couple of slices of bread into the toaster for some lunch and opened up my cupboards to see if there was anything to eat. To my dismay there was nothing worth eating. I closed my cupboards and look outside agian. The wind was blowing harder than ever this time and more snow blanketed my yard.

I sighed. The radio announcer came on once more after some rock from the 80's. "Attention! All roads have been closed untill further notice due to heavy snowfall and dangerous winds, Thank you". I sighed agian becuase this meant that mom wouldnt be able to go to the store to get some food. I walked back into my room and started gaming agian. Not 20 minutes after an even louder bang was heard agian outside of my window. I got up in frustration and shut off my Xbox. I was going to get to the bottom of this.

I put on my snowboots, jacket, gloves and ran outside. I stared at my bedroom window from outside my house. Nothing was there...except for one small pair of footprints. I followed them all the way into the woods behind my house, I live in a rather small rural community. There was no way I was going to let this kid ruin my perfect snow day. I followed the footprints into the woods. They winded around turnes and seemes to dart through trees. The only thing odd about them is that they never seemed to look like the kid had been runnning.

I was beginning to get very cold and wanted to turn around and go home back to my nice warm house but I pressed on. The wind picked up which was strange becuase I must have been surrounded by hundreds of trees. I looked back down at the track, the snow was beginning to fall much faster now. I finally turned around and started to head home when...when I looked down. My tracks had completly disappeared. I turned back to the tracks I had been following. They too were gone. I panciked slightly for about a split second but remembered that all I have to do is go straight and I'll find my house.

I began walking and walking...and walking for what seemed like hours. A ridiculous amount of time had passed and I was beginning to get worried. Maybe I was lost. Just when I was about to start running when I heard something behind me. "Hello". I was startled and turned around. I saw a small boy in what looked like a dark blue snowsuit. He was covered in snow and he wore a thick scarf around his face so I could only see his eyes. Which were as grey as the sky. "H-hello?" I managed to say back. "Who are you?" the boy asked. I was struggling with the situation. "Well, Im...Im lost really". I really hoped the boy wasn't young enough to start calling me "lost" but he looked smart.

He luaghed...it was a cold luagh. I could actually feel a shiver crawl up my spine as he did so. "That's funny" he said finally. I stared back at those grey eyes. Something about this kid was creeping me out, what was a small boy like him doing all the way out here. "Who are you?" I asked him. He giggled once more sending a shiver through my bones. "My names Jack" He said. At least I got something from this kid. My hands were freezing cod and I wanted to get out of here, but mostly I wanted away from this creepy kid. I looked at him once more and asked "Do you know the way out of here?" it looked like he was smiling through his thick scarf. He held out his hand.

I took it and was met with a shot of sharp freezing pain sent up my arm, I winced but the boy didnt seem to notice. He led me through the woods for a while. Neither of us said a word. I didnt dare ask him any more questions. After a while my hand was starting to go numb and I could barely feel the kids hand in mine. I started to fade in and out of sleep. I couldn't fall asleep. The first thing they teach you about hypothermia is that if you fall asleep. You may not wake up. i continued walking. The kid still said nothing. My hand and forearm went completly numb.

I decided to break the deafening silence by asking the kid one more question "What are you doing out here?" he kept walking and finally answered "I make the snow fall". That was the last thing I was ever going to get from this kid so i just kept walking and walking and walking. Finally I stopped. I shut my eyes due to the blowing snow. I was so cold. I should have never left the house. "Listen" I said "Do you know of a shorter way out of here?". I just heard a cold luagh echoe around me. I looked down and saw that the kid was gone.

from there i was so scared and cold that I just started running and running. Untill I broke through the trees out into a feild. I collapsed. I was going to die becuase of a stupid kid. I shut my eyes. When I opened them, there was sunlight. I arose from the snow to fins that I wasn't in a field. I was in my back yard, The boy had led me out of the woods. After i went inside i immediatly found my mom in the kitchen making hot cocoa. "Were you playing outside?". I didnt say anything untill she handed me a cup "yeah" I said flatly back.

From this day on, whenever school gets cancelled becuase of the snow, I remember that kid...and his chilling luagh.

Sometimes if I go outside when its snowing. I can hear it faintly in the wind.