Thursday, August 11, 2011
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I felt the bitter air drift across my face feeling like 100 needles pinning my skin. I pulled my scarf up higher until all you could see was my eyes. I looked down at my footprints in the snow. Counting the ones that weren’t mine. What had happened? I tried to replay the moments in my head over and over again. There she was and there she wasn’t. It was like she vanished into thin air and she wouldn’t return. I walked up onto a rock and sat down. I held my head up looking at my breath. I must have been sitting on that rock for hours trying to figure out what went wrong. I finally sat up stretched my legs. I started walking again but this time think not about the girl I once loved but about where I was going to sleep tonight, and if I would get lucky enough to get something to eat. I continued walking until I had reached a small gas station. I walked inside feeling a blast of warm air tingle my skin. I saw a map and looked over it to see where I was exactly. I wasn’t too far from my brothers house, maybe three or four miles away. I put the map away and walked over to buy some coffee and a muffin. “Hello sir” the man at the front desk said. I nodded still too cold to talk. I slowly put my coffee and my muffin up on the counter. “Cold isn’t it?” the man said again trying to start a conversation. I nodded once more. “That will be $3.98” the clerk said with a smile. I digged in my pockets counting out the money. I had enough but not by much. “Sir would you like to sit here for a while, until the sun comes up? You look a little tired and cold.” The clerk said “Sure, if you don’t mind.” I said. I sat down on a chair they had in there. I closed my eyes and fell asleep.
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