She Was My Colour

7: Loving her

A goodnight's slumber never hit the brunette this hard and effortlessly than that night did. The snow wandering down from the heavens also took a drastic fall as the morning of Christmas arrived considering how the backyard right behind Jennie's house was now laid with a bunch of snow.

She was skeptical about it because the last time she remembered, there was barely a layer of snow. And by a layer, she didn't even mean a centimetre.

It took her the time she finally gets freshened up for the day which was by the way, almost afternoon, till she senses a fair shadow moving by the corner of her window just at her yard.

Terrorised, she swiftly peeps out in hopes it wasn't the same man who came by yesterday. Eventually, when her eyes catches on a lean figure with blonde hair plunging a shovel violently into a pile of snow, she gets even more alarmed.

Jennie dashes out of her door and her heart finds peace as she finally takes in a whole sight of Lisa destructively stomping her feet on a mountain of snow and patting it with the thick shovel she was wielding.

She observes the girl for awhile and spots two snowmen just beside the tower of snow Lisa was currently plunging herself into. The snowmen had their eyes stuffed with pebbles from the sidewalk of her neighbour's house and the nose was fixed horizontally with a fallen roof tile, also found from her neighbour's house.

Their mouth was compressed into a V shape with two twigs that turned out looking really unholy. And as for the buttons on the bottom half of the snowmen, Lisa got them shoved with acorns from trees.

There were sewn scarfs wrapped around their neck areas, one summer yellow and the other baby pink. The hands of the snowmen were also stuck with twigs, but thicker ones.

Never in the entirety of Jennie's life has she seen such hideous looking snowmen, ever.

She struggled to keep herself from cackling out loud, just in case she disturbed the so very invested and concentrated blonde now tugging at the shovel that perhaps got stuck in the snow.

Now it was clear to her that the snow hasn't fallen drastically today, it was just Lisa wheeling them in from the side of the roads when she spots a wheelbarrow parked against the brick walls dividing her house from her neighbour's.

And when she catches on the other enormous block of snow being stacked up, she figures Lisa was building something much identical to a hut.

She shifts closer to the tall clumsy blonde and hears her mumbling to herself.

Jennie made it out to be something like, "I'm going to build this for her" and "she's going to love this" though she couldn't exactly hear what she was muttering.

Until she steps on a twig by accident, Lisa flinches and almost falls backwards into the snowmen she spent all morning stacking. It took her brown glistening orbs to glimmer harder once she recognises Jennie in no more than a second.

"Oh- hey! I- I was just trying to build an igloo, and a couple of snowmen. I uh.. I wanted to surprise you today, but guess I wasn't as discreet as I thought I was."

The cheery blonde scratched her forehead under her bangs and kept her straight demeanour. She gave a strict nod making Jennie giggle even harder. Lisa only had the energy to rub her nape, shoulders restless. She had spent most of her energy beautifying her snowmen she was losing the strength to complete the igloo.

Yet she was still trying to build it well. For the girl she had been thinking about all night.

Jennie's heart warmed at the sight of an ungraceful looking Lisa with her shovel, and the fact that the blonde had come early in the morning to surprise her with her snow crafting efforts.