Only You Can Save Me (SkyDoesMinecraft Fanfic) <Watty Award's 2014>

Chapter 16 {So Cold}

My eyes shoot open, and immediately I'm struck with a huge wave of cold. Looking down, most of my body is covered in a thin layer of snow, as if I had been lying here for a long time. I reach a hand up and brush it away, stumbling to my feet. I notice my bag next to me and I grab the handle. I begin to walk towards a drop off in the snow and I look down. About a twelve foot slope of snow was separating me from the road. Automatically, I sit down and slide down to the road. My eyes scan the cars, which are no longer stopped up. How long had I been out? Then I see on the other side of the road Adam's car. Flipped. My eyes widen and I wait until there's a space in the cars and I sprint across. The winds are for the most part died down at the moment. When I reach the other side I crouch down and look inside the car. Empty.

I stand back up and look down the highway. Adam told me the first day Ty's address. Maybe they already started walking to Tucson. I reach down to grab my phone out of my bag and call them, then remember it had died earlier. I sigh and begin to walk down the road. Cars continue to zip by, completely ignoring the sixteen year old girl walking by herself. I glance down at my hands and I freeze. Pure white. I didn't realized how cold I am till now. My body starts to shake, and I put one of my hands in my pockets, holding the handle to my bag in the other. I have frostbite. I need to get somewhere warm quickly. I stumble slowly through the snow, shivering and my teeth hitting against each other.

Suddenly there's a huge blast of wind and I'm knocked off my feet. I fly into a snowdrift on the side of the road and the icy cold rushes through my body. I cry out in shock. Then I hear footsteps, and a few people come into view. They all look a lot older than me, except one boy who has his face covered by a ragged scarf. The other men look about in they're twenties or thirties. "Hey look, there's another one over there!" I hear one of them shout. Thats when I realize one of them is pointing a gun at the younger boy. I panic. "St-stay a-a-away!" I stutter, not from fright, but from the cold. I pull myself out of the snow and try to run. Then I feel one of them grab my arm, with a very strong grip. "Where do ya think you're going missy?" I struggle a bit against him, but I'm too weak from walking in the storm. He rips my suitcase out of my hands and I whimper. He drags me over to the group, where the younger boy looks up. His face is still hidden but I can sort of recognize them. No! I think. It can't be!

"Got her Zach." The guy holding me says. "Tie her up." Zach says. "George, give him the rope." A blond guy who looks about the same age as Adam hands the guy the rope and I feel them pull my hands out of my pockets. I wince at the sudden exposure to the wind and they tie my wrists together. "She has frostbite." He says to Zach. "Well we can start a fire soon." He snaps. I count the people around me. Seven, including the younger boy. They shove me next to him and we begin to walk. "Hey, is that you?" I whisper to the boy. He turns and looks at me with sadness in his eyes. "Hey Jess." Xander says. My eyes widen. "Oh my god, I thought I'd never see you again!" I say, holding back tears as not to have them freeze to my face. "What happened to you, why are we here!" I ask.

"We were in the car, but then they stopped us by shooting the windshield of the car. Didn't hurt anyone, but scared my mom half to death and they made me get out or they'd shoot her." I nod sympathetically. "I got sucked out of our car the second day, luckily I kept my suitcase, but now they have it. The car crashed and Adam, Gwen and Joyce weren't in there. We were headed south to Tucson to stay with Ty, so I think they started walking." He looks at me in shock. "Jess, when did you say that you had been sucked out of the car?" I look at him confused. "The second day of the storm, why?" He gapes at me. "Jess, that was almost two weeks ago!"

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Sorry it's short, but it's a very important chapter!

I've been busy, so I haven't been able o update sooner.

See you gems later! *fwoop*