"That's okay, it'll be good exercise," Doug said. "Plus, I need to stretch my legs before we can't go anywhere."
"That's not a bad idea; we'll come with you, right girls?" Kathleen said enthusiastically. "I'll show you the lookout. You'll love it. It's an old tree house where you can see everything for miles around. The mountains will be beautiful with all of this snow."
"You know, we weren't planning on going that far," Mike said.
"The look out's about a half a mile away. It won't take us long to get there."
Liam's arms constricted around Sera as Mike shot him a look. Sera looked up at him, and then over at the others. Her brow puckered in confusion before her eyes widened in dawning realization. Her hands tightened upon his jacket as she turned toward Kathleen. "I would rather stay here and finish the snowman."
"We can't finish it without their help," Kathleen retorted.
"We can roll the last ball and wait for them to come back," Sera insisted. "Besides, I'm getting pretty cold. If we walk through those woods just think about how much colder we'll be."
Kathleen stomped her booted feet. "Yeah, I guess you're right," she relented.
Liam blew out a breath of relief as Doug and Jack swung shocked and impressed eyes toward Sera. Pride bloomed in his chest as he hugged her closer. "We'll let them get cold, and when they get back they can put the snowman together for us."
"Ouch," Jack said as he grinned happily. "That's just wrong."
Sera grinned as she stood on her toes to kiss Liam. "Right?" she asked sweetly as she batted her eyelashes playfully.
"Blackmail is illegal," he whispered in her ear.
"Yes," she murmured. "But so is what I am going to do to you later."
He laughed loudly and kissed her, he was secretly pleased that her shyness seemed to be slipping further away. His dick began to harden as he thought about exactly what he was going to do to her tonight. "I'm going to hold you to that." He let her go before he decided to forgo the walk and carry her back into the cabin for the rest of the day.
"You'd better. Be careful."
She tossed an enticing grin over her shoulder before bouncing back over to Danielle and Kathleen. She sat on Frosty's stomach, a smug look on her beautiful face as snow fell down to coat her hair, and clothes. "Don't be too long!" Kathleen called after them. "It's going to get dark fast tonight!"
"We won't!" Mike yelled back.
They trudged through the knee-high snow into the woods. "I guess it's all right that you told her," Jack said after awhile. "She is pretty cool."
"She's more than cool," Mike joked. "She's hot."
"Oh yeah," Jack said eagerly. "She is definitely hot."
"Don't make me have to threaten to kill you again," Liam replied as some of the tension left his body.
"You might have too," Doug said as he slapped Jack on the arm. "I think he's in love."
They all laughed as they trudged their way up the mountain.
***
Sera clapped the excess snow off her gloves and stepped back to look at their three very large snowballs. The snow was coming down faster, and the wind had risen to a thunderous crescendo. Branches cracked loudly as the trees bent and swayed from the force of the gale.
Her hands and feet had long ago gone numb, and her hair was a tangled, wet mass. Kathleen and Danielle had already gone inside to warm up. Sera knew that she should go too, before her feet froze into the snow, but she couldn't stop staring into the woods.
She turned and headed back to the cabin. She wasn't going to make them magically reappear by standing there and staring. She wiped the snow out of her eyes as she pushed back an annoying piece of hair that was whipping across her face. "Hello!"
Sera almost fell into the snow as she spun awkwardly around. A young girl waved to her from the edge of the forest. Sera waved back as the girl made her way forward, the snowshoes strapped to her feet made her journey easier. Sera stared in amazement, and curiosity. She didn't know what could possibly bring someone out in these conditions. The girl stopped before her, her black hair billowed in the wind like a whipping banner that contrasted sharply with the white surrounding them.
"Hi," Sera greeted in disbelief.
The tiny girl was amazingly beautiful. She had striking features that were delicate and sweet. Her nose was small, and sloping, her lips full and luscious, and a deep blood red color. Her eyes were shimmering, blindingly brilliant, emerald orbs. Sera stared at her in amazement, and the girl stared back with a smile on her pouting lips. She was small and petite, at most she was five three, and only weighed a hundred pounds with all of her snow gear on.
