Best Friends

Chapter 3: Snow Days

Cammie POV

5 years old

I love snow, and that particular January afternoon it was snowing.

It was the white, fluffy, freshly fallen snow. Not the icky melted brown and yellow snow. It was the perfect snow to play in.

The rest of the neighborhood must have agreed with me because there were kids all down the street making snowmen, having snowball fights, making igloos and doing all the other fun things you can do with snow.

I grabbed my coat, put on my boots and was just about to head out the door when someone rung the doorbell.

"Mom! Someone's at the door.", I shouted.

She was upstairs doing laundry and even though she told me to never open the door, she'd probably get a little annoyed with me for calling her from upstairs.

She came down the stairs stomping her feet, something else she told me not to do.

"Who is it?", she asked.

"Me silly!", a very girly and familiar voice shouted excitedly.

"Abby?", my mom answered in disbelief.

"Yes it's me!", she said, "Now go fix me hot cocoa!"

I stared at my aunt in disbelief. She was supposed to be in some foreign country across the Atlantic!

"Come here kiddo!"

I ran to her screaming "Aunt Abby! Aunt Abby! Aunt Abby! You won't believe it, but, I'm in kindergarten now. There are so many things that we go over that I already know and-"

"Slow down, I can't keep up!", she said with a smile.

"I missed you so much.', I said

"Me too.", she said, giving me a big hug. "Why don't we go outside and play with all that freshly fallen snow."

"Really!", I said with excitement.

"Of course silly! We can't wait 'till it's all brown and muddy!", she exclaimed

I went back to where I put my coat and boots before Aunt Abby walked in, and finished dressing.

"Ready kiddo?", she asked.

"Ready.", I replied.

I looked out the window again to see a familiar mop of black hair.

It couldn't be Zach, could it? Zach lived in a totally different neighborhood and didn't have any particular reason to be in mine, unless...

"You alright kid?"

"Yeah."

"Well come on!"

I ran outside with my Aunt Abby, jumping around and throwing snow.

We laughed and played together until I suddenly felt a snowball hit me in the neck.

I turned around quickly, ready to lash out on whoever threw the giant snowball when I saw him.

"Hey, what was that for?!", I asked Zach.

"For not coming outside sooner?", he answered with a sheepish grin.

"Oh your own Zachary!", I shouted, throwing a snowball the size of his face at him.

"I wasn't ready!", he shouted at me as I ran away from him.

I ducked and dodged most of his throws, completely forgetting about Aunt Abby and our snow day. I was busy trying to find somewhere to hide from him when a girl with short blonde hair ran into me, causing us both to fall on the icy earth.