Kasey sat down on the couch and held the cocoa in his hands trying to warm them up a bit, "I'm Kasey and thats my cousin Paige." He pointed to Paige who had taken up a small portion of the couch.

She took a sip of her hot cocoa before she explained that Kasey had gotten them lost, "He said he was going to show me this cool snow man he had made and then here we are three and a half hours later." She glared at Kasey before taking a another sip of the cocoa. She was sitting with her knees close to her chest her chin placed on the top of her knees and her arms hugging her legs closer to her cold body.

"Thanks for letting us in by the way." Kasey said for both him and Paige. He was thankfull that he wouldn't have to continue walking around aimlessly and having to listen to Paige yelling at him for getting them lost. Yeah. This place was allready much better than that.

Rheia trudged angrily through the snow. It was cold, but that was the second thing on her mind for a while. Soon enough, though, the cold was eating through her snow gear and biting it's way into her thoughts. "Wow. It's really cold out here." She shivered as she walked on. Then, she looked around her and saw no sight of anything familiar. She realized she couldn't even see Ty and his snowmobile anymore. "Great. I am lost." She then saw a house in the distance. She trudged towards it, hoping someone was in there who could help her. She reached the door and knocked on it.

Ty kicked the snowmobile. He was angry. Not only was his snowmobile stuck, Rheia had just stormed off. Women could be so tempermental. "I better go find her. The wind is picking up." He trudged in the snow, following what was left of her tracks.He didn't think she could have gone too far, but the tracks knew otherwise. He followed the tracks all the way to her, standing on the door step of some house. "Come o, Rheia. Let's get back to the mobile."

Rheia turned and looked at him angrily. "No. I don't want to go anywhere with you, Ty. I can't believe you would do that."

"Do what? Ask you out? I thought that would be okay."

"Ty, after we broke up because you cheated on me, I told you we would only be friends. Never anything more. I told you to never try asking me out. So you take me on some stupid snowmobile ride to do just what I told you not to do. Look, Ty. You are scum. Go away."

Ty had no words yet. He was just angry, and he could tell by her look that she was angry too. He knocked on the door again for her, knowing no one would hear her soft knock.

Paige caught the sweats. If Garett was going to be shot it wouldn't be her who shot him. She wore stuff like this all the time but mostly on weekedns when she's being lazy and has nothing to do but other wise she wore her signature white T-shirt, blue jeans, and combat boots.

"Uh, where would be the bathroom so I could change?" She asked setting the mug of hot chocolate down on a coaster that was on a little table beside the couch.

Kasey kept taking sips of the drink a happy smile on his face. He loved hot cocoa and since it was freezing outside that made it all the more pleasurable.

  Garrett pointed the way down the hall in answer to Paige's question. Suddenly, there was another knock on the door. "Really? Seriously? How many people can get lost in ONE blizzard?" he muttered, going back down the hallway to the door, Molly jumping excitedly at his heels. He opened the door to reveal a young woman who looked like she had been crying and an angry looking man. "Come on in guys. You'll freeze to death out there," he said, streching out his arm to usher the girl into the cabin, letting the man follow behind. Garrett rumaged through the closet again for some clothes for the girl and handed them too her, indicating for her to get dry and warm. "I'm Garrett." Molly gave her highest leap yet, straight into the girl's arms, apparently sensing her upset and trying to comfort her. "That ball of hyperactivity with fur is Molly. If she annoys you, just pop her on the nose. Gently. You go get on some warm clothes, I'll have some cocoa for you when you get done. Aria, Alyssa, there are other bedrooms down the hall as well. You guys can use those to change."

  Aria got up to follow the girl, concerned by what she had observed. "I'm Aria," she said, extending her hand. "Are you ok?" Her eyes were bright with worry, though her ponytail was wet and bedraggled.

Alyssa looked at Garrett. "May I have that long purple shirt and the jeans?" She asked politely. She smiled at him and said "Ill use the room." Molly sat in her lap pawing. She sipped her hot cocoa. 

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Jason looked at Paige and Aria. It made him smile. He sat listing to his iPod, still looking at them. He flipped his hair out of his eyes again. Molly walked past him and he gently rubbed her on the back. 

Kasey was a bit dissapointed when he finished the cocoa but not much he got up and whent into the kitchen to put his mug in the sink. He rinsed it out by force of habit before walking back into the other room and sitting back down where he was before. He ran a hand through his hair.

Alyssa walked out the kitchen. She went into her room and took out her notebook. She drew some people in a cabin spending Christmas together. "Santa, was I that bad this year? Do I really deserve this? You think on it and tell me." She mumbled angrily. She dug her head under her pillow.

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Jason took off his snow gear. He had on a blue shirt with jeans and warm fuzzy socks.  "Its quite warm in here." He said. "I don't think I was bad this year. I have to spend Christmas with a bunch of strangers and the nice man who let me stay in his wonderful house. Wonderful. Just Wonderful" He put his head back to despair. "Is the world ending or something?!? Talk about worst Christmas ever." 

Paige kind of liked it here. It was nice and secluded and not to mention it was warm. She heard what Jason had said, "So what your saying is you would rather be outside in the cold." She said looking at him with a rather bored exprestion on her face. All he was doing was complaining about how he had to spen christmas here in a cabin with strangers. Well maybe he would rather spen christmas outside buries under 6 feet of snow and frozen into a po cicle. Paige thought that this might be the best christmas she's ever had concidering that this would be her first christmas. Her paraents weren't poor or anything infact they were quite rich but they didn't even pretend that santa existed mainly because they were allways off on buiness trips or just didn't 'Have the time'. Paige usually just spent christmas like any other december day, playing cards with her nany.

Kasey took a sip of his cocoa and stayed out of the conversation. He had chrismas just like any other christian house. He was allways happy in the morning and didn't even wait for his parents to wake up before he opened his presnents and when he was older and was just pretending that he didn't know that santa didn't exist he would search through out the house looking to see where the presents were hiden this year. He wasn't quite sure if this christmas was going to be good or bad he was just knew it would be diffrent.

"Well Miss bored, yes I would! Its better than staying with your grumpy attitude." He sighed. Must she get on his nerves? He sat in the kitchen, and lay his head on the table. He felt like crying, but he couldn't since it wasn't manly. He sipped his coffee softly.

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Alyssa came out the room closing the door behind her. She took her drawing pad. "Um. Hi." She smiled softly. "I'm Alyssa, who are you guys? Mind telling your names?" She looked at them politely. 

Paige rolled her eyes at Jason as he left the room and took another sip of her cocoa and looked back to the fire. She turned her head to Alyssa when she came out of her room, "I'm Paige." She did a small wave with one hand before looking back to the fire.

"I'm Kasey." Kasey said looking to Alyssa. He saw a drawing pad in her hand, "What are you going to draw?" He asked. He was interested in what she might draw. She looked like she would be good at drawing but knew that just because she looked something doesn't mean she will be. He dicided to be optomistic about the subject and was guessing she would be a good drawer.

"Nice to meet you Paige. You too Kasey. I was going to draw the fire burning in the pit. I need to look at it to draw. Thank you for asking." Alyssa sat down and stared at the fire. She drew the outline of the fire. It took so long, but she finally got it. She set her picture on the table.

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Jason walked across to the bathroom. He was a little bit embarrassed.  He huffed when he passed Paige. "She's grumpy." He mumbled under he breath. He flipped his hair out of his face to the side. (He does it too ofthen) 

"Yeah I guess you do have to look at it draw it." He had never thought about that before. He wasn't much of an artist. "And your welcome." He looked at her drawing after she finished. It looked really good almost like the real thing. You know with out the moving and such. "It's really good." He said looking back at her.

Paige ignored Jason as he walked by. She was busy listening to her ipod at the moment. She was flipping through her songs untill she found one she liked. She smiled and closed her eyes as she listend to it. He shoice in song weren't the most relaxing but to her it was as calming as a lullaby.