Just Another Day.....

A chilly winter day in December, all the leaves had fallen off the trees and snow fell like a pure white blanket. I put on a pair of jeans and a shirt, grabbed a jacket, my bow and arrows, whistled for my pet wolf, Jackie, to follow and headed out the door. Jackie pranced behind as i walked towards the woods, she had a bright green harness on her so i wouldn't get her mixed up with another wolf in the woods. Before i got to the woods my best friend Skylar called me, "Hey bro! Whats up?"

"Dude! Where are you!? I'm ready for hunting! how 'bout you???" I hung up the phone as i walked up behind her.

"I'm here, let's go." she clicked her tongue for her pet fox, Nymphadora, to follow. We both preferred bows over guns because they are quieter and easier for us to use.

Skylar and I were a lot alike. had the same style, same taste in music, and we always got along. We have been best Friends since we were twelve. We are both now sixteen almost seventeen. I'm only a month older than her. As we enter the woods in our winter camo, I spotted a deer in the corner of my left eye running through the snow. I signal Jackie to follow the deer but not to kill it. I climbed the nearest tree and had Jackie get the deer to come back my way. I shot an arrow and its a clean kill.

"we got dinner tonight!" I said joyfully to Sky. I never enjoyed killing animals but I loved the flavor of meat. Plus I was a dead kill shot. Skylar's fox brought back a rabbit and Sky killed a doe. We bagged the meat and went home to clean it. Sky lived four houses down from me. After we got done cleaning the meat in the river that ran threw out back yards, I walked into my house with the deer meat and took off my hoddie.

"Got deer meat for dinner Mum!" I said entering the kitchen to find my mother. She just stared at me.

"Is that ALL your wore in this freezing weather!?" she asked with a firm tone.

"mum! You know I love the cold weather and it doesn't bother me!" She didnt want to hear it because she has told me time and time again to put on warmer clothes to go outside in the snow. I never listened. I took a towel to Jackie's coat and dried her off from the snow melting on her thick fur so she wouldnt get could. I threw a log on in the fireplace and headed for my room. As I headed for my room Jackie ran infront of me to get to my room first to lay on my bed. I walked into my dark purple room with black bed sheets and black curtains with black tinted windows. So naturally my room was very dark. I turned on my stereo and Three Days Grace, One-x, was playing. My ceiling was covered with band t-shirts, band pictures, old concert tickets and album covers that stretched across my entire room. Photos of friends and family where all over my walls and suddenly one photo fell. I went over to pick up the photo to see it was a picture of my ex boyfriend. He left for the Army a little over two years ago. We made up before he left and he is still my best friend. I miss him lots. The photo was from his visit home. He was in uniform and i was in shorts and a tang top. I always wear shorts and a tang top no matter what. It was a normal look for me. I just turned sixteen in this photo and he was nineteen. As i pinned the photo back onto my wall i whispered "I love and miss you very much." i took out an old notebook, turned on my light and found a pen. After his first visit home and missing him so much and realizing how much i loved him and why he was my best friend, I started writing to him. So once a week I always wrote to him, keeping him updated on whats been up and telling him everything like I always did when we were younger. Just as i finished my letter mum called me for dinner. I left my notebook on my bed as I walked out of my room and turned off my light. I gve Jackie a bowl of the meat, raw because she's a wolf, and washed up for dinner. As i sat down at the dinner table to see the deer meat smothered in gravy over delishous mashed potatoes. After i finshes up my dinner, I thank my mother, put Jackies harness back on and go out for a walk. Jackies was walking behind me when suddenly someone yells "RIBS!!!!!!!" I turned around to see it was Ryan's old friends, Sam. Jackie barked joyfully at his presences. I gave his a small hug. "what's up?" "I just got a call from Ryan, he says he'll be home soon for another visit but he only has a week this time." He told me. "That's great! But why only one week?" "I don't know, he didn't say" "oh well, at least he'll be home again." "Yeah, well I gotta go, I'll talk to you later" "Okay, bye." Sam walked away and I continued on my way to the woods. As soon as he was out of sight I ran for it, booked it all the way deep into the woods and jumped onto a pile of snow. As I laid their I smiled and whistled to hear the mocking birds sing. It was our thing, Ryan would whistle as a signal to let me know he was their or wished to speak to me because I was always in the woods and it was hard to find me. The woods were like my home no matter what the weather was like. He knew that he could always find me in the woods. I got up and took out my notebook, climbed the nearest tree. My eyes changed with my mood. Everyone knew this so it wasn't a big shocker when my mood changed, my eyes would glow a color according to my mood. I was also I song writer and when I found a perfect spot in the tree I started to write a song. The mood to this song was sad and brought back sad memories and my eyes changed to blue. I soft breeze was blowing and my hair was all in my face so I put it into a ponytail. As I continued to write I would whistle a small tone and the mocking birds would sing it back to me so I could hear the beat of my song. This helped me write so much better. As a week passed by I was working on a few new song and of course using the mocking birds help. I whistled a small tone again and they sang. Then out of no where another whistle and the mocking birds sang again. I got a sudden rush of happiness and thought "could it be him!?" he was the only one that did that to get my attention. More thoughts went through my head that I was thinking throughout the week. "I wish he was home!" "I miss him so much, I really need him right now" "he was the only one that never left me and I need him right now, why isn't he here!?" Then another whistle and the mocking birds sang once again, and at that moment I knew it was him. Their was a yell "JAZ!? YOU HERE!?!?!?" I whistled and started running for the edge of the woods. "I'M HERE! I'M HERE!" already tears were streaming down my face because I missed him so much. As I was near the edge of the woods I could see him in my sight in the distance with his arms open wide to catch me. I ran as fast as I could right into his arms. I ran into him so fast that his uniform hat fell off. He picked me up and spun me around. "Wow more beautiful than ever. You've gotten older" he chuckled as he put me down. I smiled at him and wiped one of my tears. "Of course, and I missed you so much, I- I-" "Jaz, Jaz, its ok" he wiped my tears. "Jaz its ok I'm here now" I smiled bigger and gave him another hug. Then I went over and picked up his hat, dusted off the snow and put it back on his head. "what are you doing in only shorts and a shirt in the snow!?" "oh come on Ryan< u know the cold doesn't bother me!" "okay, okay, okay" He picked me up and took me back to my house. When we got into my house, I warmed him up some deer meat so he would have something to eat, better yet a nice warm home meal. "it's a fresh kill, enjoy." I smiled "thanks Jaz." As he ate, I sat and cleaned my arrows. After he was done eating he was showing me, his new computer he skilled he learned while he was away. He was a programmer for the Army and he knew I was a computer geek and wanted to show off. An hour passed and I asked my mum if I could go spend the night at his place like I use to when we were best friends. She let me and told him he had to bring me to school in the morning. I rushed into my room and packed my old worn out duffle bag and we headed to his place. I finally got my lesions so I wanted to drive and when we arrived to his house, his mom was in tears to see him again. We all missed him. As the night went on we shared laughs, memories and thoughts. Me and Ryan played video games like we use to and had some fun. I was really tired that night and passed out on his bed with controller in hand and laying at the foot of the bed. He shut down the game system and took the controller out of my hands. Layed me the right way on his bed and cover me with a blanket. Soon enough an hour passed and he was out laying next to me, we weren't touching when he fell asleep and when we both woke up to his alarm I was cuddled up and his arms. We both jumped back then laughed. "damn I fell asleep in here??? Sorry dude." "it's ok Jaz." He chuckled as he thought about how we just woke up. I went and took a shower and got ready for school. He brought me to school and soon after that the week passed like nothing and he was gone once again. And of course, just like always I missed him and didn't want him to leave. Luckily I got to go hunting with him once also while he was home before he had to leave. I got newer photos and had our memories and like always the photos went on my walls. The winter passed by slow and it got colder and I had to get more wood for the fireplace so then my house would stay warm. Stores closed because of the snow and how much of it we got so both mine and Skylar's family depended on us to go hunting and bring back more food. We got a lot of good kills and I had extra meat and knew Ryan's family needed a hand so I brought them my extra kills. When i brought the extra meat to his mother she thanked me and gave me a hug and i left. As the winter continued on the snow started to melt and stores reopened and soon enough spring came and the flowers were bumming again. I got a new boyfriend after a horrid fight with my old one and carried on through 10th grade writing to Ryan often.