Mila **Completed**

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 I don't know where I thought I was going to go when I walked out my front door, still pissed at my mom for what she had said, but I ended up heading towards the small fro-yo shop in town. Which is probably for the best because it was almost time for my interview and although I really didn't want this job because of my mother, I needed the distraction.

But turns out snow is the only distraction that I needed. I was pissed, I was ready to just run away just like everyone thinks Mila did, I was ready to tell everyone how fucking terrible my mother is, I was ready to just end it all. Until the snow started to fall. It started with just a few small flakes, only visible to the undistracted. To the people that were thinking of everything and yet nothing at all. The people like me.

As the snow started falling faster and in larger amounts everything else seemed to become almost...happier. The sky was bright, the kids were running around laughing while trying to catch the snowflakes on their tongues, there were young couples walking hand in hand focused on nothing but each other, it was the happiest I have ever seen this small little town. But then again maybe it was always a happy little town, maybe it was me, maybe it was my mood that made this town seem so sad and depressing.

I kept walking just looking at the snow sticking to the ground and feeling the huge weight that was on my chest get a little lighter. I didn't notice that I had walked past the fro-yo shop until I finally looked up from the ground where I was watching how my shoes were starting to make footprints in the snow that had stuck there. I looked up to find that I was in a park, in a park that I had never seen before and I honestly had no idea where in town I was. But in that moment I couldn't care less, I just wanted to sit and look at the snow. So, that's what I did. I found a bench that overlooked a pond that was in the middle of the park and sat down. Not really paying much attention to the woman that was sitting on the other side of the bench.

I had too much on my mind to even really acknowledge the woman, which seemed to be perfectly fine to her because she didn't acknowledge me either. The only thing that I gathered about this woman was that she was blonde and she was wearing a giant black coat, but other than that I couldn't tell you much more about her. Me and this random lady sat on this bench for a good hour in complete silence. I sat there till it was way past my interview time for the fro-yo shop and it crossed my mind for a split second that my mother would be pissed at me but I quickly pushed that thought to the back of my mind. I didn't want to think about anything except for the snow and the happy people around me that day.

That is till the woman sitting beside me stood up to leave and when she did I noticed something fell off her lap. I didn't say anything at first thinking that she saw or at least felt it fall on the ground and pick it up but the fact that when I looked back up to see if she was going to pick it up and she was nowhere in sight proved that I was clearly wrong. So, I leaned over to grab the, what I now know is a black leather wallet, thinking that I will keep it and give it to her if I see her again and if not turn it into the police in case she goes looking for it. But the thing that stopped me dead in my tracks was not the amount of money that was in the wallet, or even the fact that there seemed to be blood splattered on the inside of it, but the picture of my best friend that had disappeared two years ago tied up to a chair, bloody and blindfolded......Mila