Raspberry Kisses

Chapter 5

This chapter is dedicated to @JudyMoody because she was awesome enough and had enough lion power to message me at a random time, which made me feel quite special. :) xx Robin

Phil

I walked back from the bathroom to find everyone staring at me.

“Hello. My name is Phil,” I said, sitting down again. Dan, Carrie, and Alex all laughed at this. “Were you talking about me?” I asked, feeling slightly out of place. They had all gotten silent when I appeared.

“Why would I talk about you?” teased Dan.

“Hey!” I punched him in the arm. Then we chatted a bit more before paying the check and heading to the car.

“Alex and Carrie are cute couple,” I said. “No offense,” I laughed.

“What can I say? Carrie was too cool for me.”

“Or you were too cool for Carrie. Not that I would ever say that to you because your head is big enough already.”

Dan rolled his eyes at this and I turned on the radio. “What are we doing tomorrow, Dan?” I asked. It had begun to snow while we were with Carrie and Alex and now the flakes were falling heavy and fast.

“I dunno.”

“WE SHOULD GO SLEDDING!” I yelled, practically bouncing in my seat.

“YES!” Dan shouted back. I grinned. I loved the fact that we could act like this around each other and neither of us cared. We ran inside and went to bed, ready for our morning to bring us our adventure.

I woke up before Dan again. I made toast and tea and even waited patiently checking emails until I couldn’t wait any longer. I wanted to go sledding. I ran into his bedroom but then thought better. I would startle him with my ninja lion skills. I quietly made my way into the room. I slid carefully into the bed with Dan. I lied there, waiting. After a few minutes I started to poke him in the rib cage. Suddenly he flew up, yelling.

“WHAAAAT?!” He rubbed his eyes, recovering. He then looked around and spotted me. “Phil?”

“Good morning!” I said, giving him a huge smile.

“What the hell are you doing?”

“Waking you up with my awesome lion stealth powers.”

“Right.”

Dan and I got dressed and bundled up. The entire way to the park I was bouncing in the shot gun seat. When we got there we unloaded the sleds and headed to the hill. It was still snowing, but it was more of a light dusting. The snow from last night had created a thick blanket on the ground and trees, making everything look beautiful. I shivered in the cold and pulled my blue hat farther on my head. We hiked up to the top of the hill and stood there with our sleds.

“LAST ONE DONE CARRIES BOTH SLEDS UP!” I yelled, launching myself and the sled down the hill.

“NOOOOOOO!” Dan yelled back, chasing after me.

Dan ended up carrying both sleds up the next seven runs. By the end of the seventh run we were both a bit knackered, so we parked the sleds at the top and lied on the snow. Dan started making a snow angel while I caught snowflakes on my tongue. I shivered and suddenly all I wanted was to give Dan a hug. I scooted over and wrapped my arms around his neck, inhaling the scent of raspberries.

Dan

I was still out of breath, both from the sledding and from being so close to Phil. I made a snow angel while Phil caught snowflakes on his tongue. Whenever my arms went out, my right arm brushed up against Phil. We lied there in silence for a while. After a minute he gave me a look, the same look he gave me in Aubaine. I tried to decipher the look. Sadly, I wasn’t a mindreader.