First Snow

In the morning Serai woke up to a strange light shining through her windows. She got up and looked outside to see that there was about deep snow lining the ground everywhere. She got up and got dressed for the cold weather. 'I wonder if I'm still meeting with Lunar today' she thought as she got her camera and headed to the living room.

"Good morning! It's quite cold today, are you still gonna meet with Lunar." Leasa asked,

"I think so, I'ma head over there now."

"Ok, but be back before it gets dark," Leasa told Serai.

"I will." Serai got on her tall winter fury boots and headed out. When she got to the clearing she looked around. 'Wow, it's so beautiful in the snow.'

"I'm surprised you came, it's so cold," Lunar said as he walked out of the trees and into the clearing.

"Ya, I didn't know if you were gonna be here either, but I thought I could at least check" she replied.

"Well, I thought we could go snow hunting now that you know how to use a bow."

"Sure let's go." They headed out into the snowy forest and soon saw a rabbit, Lunar singled to Serai that she should try to shoot it, so she took out her bow and shot it, and to her surprise, the arrow hit the rabbit and it fell limp.

"Wow, I got it!" Serai felt shocked.

"See, it's not that hard once you get used to it, good shot by the way," Lunar told Serai.

"I'll leave it here. The morning patrol will pick it up". After a bit of hunting, they managed to catch some more prey.

"I know where a nice hot spring is, and it's not too far from here wanna go?" Lunar asked.

"sure a hot spring sounds perfect right now!" Serai shivered as she spoke.

"Ok, we can stop at the camp for swimwear." After some time of walking in the snow, they got to the hot springs, they changed and went in.

"Ah, the hot water feels so nice with the cold weather right now," Serai said, slipping into the nice warm spring. It wasn't as big as the spring they went to the day before it was only about six feet wide and long, and no rocks lined it, but it was as warm as a hot bath, and she could see the steam rising into the air. They chated in the water for about an hour before they heard voices in the woods coming towards them, and before either of them could say anything Rose and Birk appeared out of the woods.

"Oh, sorry we didn't know you guys were here. Are we interrupting something?" Rose asked grinning at Lunar and Serai.

"N-no!" Lunar said, looking down at the water, obviously embarrassed. Serai hadn't noticed how close they were, she could see why Rose would get the wrong idea.

"So when did you guys get here?" asked Rose, laughing a little.

"A while ago, it was just too cold to get out," said Lunar, happy to get off of the subject.

"Yea it's pretty cold," stated Birk.

"yea, for that it was so warm yesterday," Serai replied.

"have you showed Serai the crystal spring yet Lunar?" Rose asked.

"no, but we should do that the next time you stay the night" replied Lunar.

"ya you should, that place is beautiful at night!" Rose stated.

"I could ask if I could stay tomorrow night would that work?" asked Serai.

"Yeah, I don't think we're doing anything tomorrow that you can't do with us" replied Lunar.

"We don't even have any hunting or patrols, it's our free day!" Rose stated.

"Ok then tomorrow it is!" announced Birk. Serai noticed someone else standing shyly behind Rose.

"Who's that?" Serai asked, gesturing to the girl behind Rose.

"Oh, that's my girlfriend, Olivia," Rose said, Pulling out Olivia from behind her. She had short, shoulder-length, light blond hair, and her eyes looked like light blue husky eyes, she was about a foot shorter than Rose.

"She, a little shy," Rose said, kissing Olivia's forehead.

"say hi" Rose whispered to her.

"H-hi," she mumbled. After a little introduction, everyone jumped into the spring, and they chatted for a few hours.

"I think it's time for me to go, I'm gonna go change," said Serai

"ya it's probably time for us to go to," said Rose,

"It's so cold!" Serai said as she walked out of the spring and all three of the girls ran to the changing room.

"So how did you guys meet each other? I thought that humans and elfes don't usually interact with each other, much less date," Serai asked,

"Well I was always forbidden to go anywhere near humans, I was told that they were bad, but I was always curious about them, so one day I covered my ears and our some human clothes and I went into the village, that's when I met Olivia, we started to meet up more, even though I got into huge trouble with my parents and the clan for meeting up with a human, they started to accept us once they met her though. But yea, that's how we met," Rose explained

"Oh," 'so the humans thought the forest was bad, and the elfes thought the humans were bad.' When Serai came back out, Lunar walked her back to the clearing.

"Well thanks for letting me spend my day with you, I can't think of any other way I would have rather spent a cold day like this," Serai said, giving Lunar a hug.

"Well, thanks for spending your day with me" lunar returned the hug.

"bye, see you tomorrow!"

"bye!"

By the time Serai got home, her boots were filled with snow, making it so she couldn't feel her feet, and her hair turd into icicle's from the water of the spring, 'weird I didn't notice when I was with Lunar, must have bin to busy' she thought. After she took a nice hot shower, warmed up, and dried her hair, she put on a big dress-like t-shirt and started hanging up the pictures that she took that day, 'hmm I'm running out of space, I should tell mom to get some picture frames'

"Serai come here for a sec" she could hear her mom calling from the living room,

"Coming!" She replied. When she got there her mom was on the phone.

"Some of your friends want to come over, do you want them to come, or are you too tired?" Lessa asked.

"Who is it?" Serai asked.

"Emma, Ava, and Mia" Lissa replied.

"Ya, they can come over. Oh, and by the way mom, can I spend the night at Lunars tomorrow?" Serai asked.

"Uh, ok but don't come back too late"

"Thanks!" When Serai got to her room she laid on her bed 'i can't wait to tell them about Lunar and the crew! Man, I'm so sore and I don't know why' she thought, then she remembered all the walking and hunting she did in the past few days 'I don't think I've ever walked this much in my whole life' she thought to her self. After a while of lying on her bed thinking, Mia, Emma, and Ava came into her room,

"Hey, girl! we haven't seen you in like a month!" stated Emma.

"Before we do anything, groop-hug!" announced Ava and all three of them jumped on Serai's bed and hugged her, almost to the point of overwhelming her,

"Ok, ok that's enough" Serai replied in laughter.

"Where have you bin? You haven't returned any of our calls, and when we called your mom she always said you were busy or out with a friend?" asked Mia.

"Oh my god, did you get a boyfriend!" Emma asked.

"Well that's what I was gonna tell you," Serai answered.

"Oh my god, you did! who is it? do we know him?" Mia asked.

"No, I didn't get a boyfriend, he's just a friend," Serai answered.

"Rightttt~ just a friend," Ava said sarcastically,

"girl in a few weeks you're gonna be calling us telling us that you're dating, trust me," Emma added.

"If you guys don't stop interrupting, I won't tell you the story, so do you wanna hear it or not," Serai asked, starting to get impatient.

"Ok, ok, tell us," Mia said.

"Ok, so it started when I went into the lost forest-" but before Serai could say any more Emma stopped her.

"Wait, you went into the lost forest!" she spoke with disbelief.

"But I thought it was haunted!" stated Mia,

"well if you guys will let me finish you'd know what happens" answered Serai with a warning glare.

"Right, sorry" they both apologized,

"Ok so I went in and I met someone," Serai told them the whole story from when she first met Lunar to the day it the hot-springs, and they were so shocked that they couldn't say a thing, after all, they did think forest was haunted and "anyone that went in never came out."

"And that's where I've binned the last month or so" she ended

"wow that's so cool, you should take us to meet him someday" answered Ava,

"Yea, that would be so cool! what do you think Mia?" Emma asked,

"I don't know, he would have to come here cause I'm not sure I want to go into the forest," Mia spoke softly,

"That's ok what about the day after tomorrow?" asked Serai

"Sounds great!" declared Emma

"now let's get some snacks and binge-watch our favorite show like we always do!"

"ok sounds great!" replied Emma

"ok I'll get the food," Serai said as she headed to the kitchen.

"and I'll get the show started," answered Mia, and after they watched the show and hung out they went to bed. 'Finale I get to sleep, I'm so sore.' Serai let the tiredness drag her to sleep.