KILLER EYES

CHAPTER 17

A few days passed and I can say that my snowboarding has gotten way better. I fell less than before, I snowboarded down the hill  without a single fall and the feeling of happiness flowed through my body. I felt like I was full of energy and I had more self-confidence. Although I can't go fast, it felt impossible for me to snowboard down such a big slope without a single fall a few days ago, and when I succeeded, I thought I would cry because of how happy I was.

It was still cold outside, but less than before, as the sun had finally peeked through the clouds and the wind was blowing in my hair and stinging my face. My cheeks burned from the strong wind and they were red like a tomato, but I didn't mind at all. Because I'm enjoying snowboarding on my own as much as I can. I went slowly and Zero was right behind me in case I fell or did something wrong.

We reached the end of the slope and I had to catch my breath and stop for a moment. People skied around me and my eyes were caught by the mountains, which now looked completely different than before as the sun shone on them. The mountains looked sad when it was cloudy and snowing but now they look a lot more cheerful. I would like to know what it looks like here in the summer, but I can imagine that it looks just as nice as in the winter.

„Let's go, pancake" Zero pointed to the ski lift.

Even though we snowboarded together for days, our conversation went nowhere and I preferred to stay away from him. There was always only silence between us and even when there was a word between us, it was only on his part and mostly it was that I was incapable, let's go or the word pancake, which is supposedly my nickname, but every time he says it I feel like hitting him.

It's like he doesn't know my name and I'm supposed to be the stupid one. He was almost always the only one talking while I was barely breathing because of my fear of him or I was lost in my thoughts and ignored him.

It's not that we don't have anything to talk about, it's more like my fear and hatred towards him won't allow me to say any words to him. I'm not interested in talking to a killer and he's just interested in getting rid of me. Nothing more, nothing less, that's why we don't talk to each other, even though it seems to me that he's rather stuck thinking about something, so maybe that's why his stupid remarks went silent for a while. I wonder what happened for him to be so quiet.

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After 2 hours we were done snowboarding and I was so tired I sat down in the snow and took off my snowboard. I was tired and the only thing I wanted to do at the moment was to sleep. We leave tomorrow night and we have time off and I have had enough for today, even though I think that in the end I will miss the slope a bit. I would like to do something like this again in the future.

I saw the mountains and learned to snowboard, so I'm happy. I fulfilled my little dream and I can't wait for my mom to see the photos I took. I know that she will be very happy that I had a good time and the photos will definitely make her happy, but who knows if she'll have the time to look at them, so sending them to her by sms seems like a better option.

I took out my phone from my pocket and decided to take another picture of the mountains with the sun shining behind them because I can't stop looking at them. I tried to zoom in a bit so that the photo looked more beautiful and there were no skiers in the photo. I smiled and took a picture.

„How long are you planning on sitting there?" Zero asked and raised his eyebrow.

I got up from the snow and put on my gloves so I could hold the snowboard in my hands better. It was covered in snow, so I wiped the excess snow off with my hands. My body was tired and I felt weak and just picking up that snowboard was a challenge for me. My gaze was focused on Zero who was smiling broadly. His eyes looked at me from top to bottom, as if he was making fun of me for being weak.