"I wished you had come along for this Winter getaway... It would have been the first time we stayed over with my friends."
"I know. I wished I went along too... But I promised I'd cover Chloe's duties at the shelter."
"Ugh. Sometimes I wish you weren't so nice."
"Well, if I wasn't so nice, I wouldn't have met you, right?"

"Hey, JOSH!"

Holding the phone to his ear, he turned around to see his sister, Beth, waiting for him with her hands on her hips.

She looked at the phone. "Could you speed up your sweet talk with my future sister-in-law?"

Josh tried to cover the receiver just as Beth yelled the last four words. "What-Are you crazy? Shut up!"

Beth laughed just as her brother pushed her away. As soon as she was out of range, he uncovered the receiver and sighed. "Sorry 'bout that."

"No, no. It's fine." She said. "Say hi to Beth for me."

"You didn't hear what she said, right?" Josh asked.
"Oh, you mean possibly being married to you in the future?" She replied.

He felt his heart race as his palms begin to sweat. "I-She was-She was just joking."

"So you mean you never thought of our future together, huh?" She said.

"What! No-I mean-We've been together for almost a year and I-"

She chuckled, stopping Josh from rambling on. "Josh. Relax. I know Beth meant it as a joke. It's okay."

Josh felt a wave of relief even though he already had an answer in his heart.

"So, anyway, I've gotta go and it seems like you've gotta go too. We'll talk later, yeah?" She said.

"Yeah." Josh replied. "I love you."

He could almost see her smile over the phone. "I love you too."

"Gotta have my girl's back!"

The Asian girl with black hair laughed. "Are you sure we should do this, Jessica?"

"Uh-Yes, Emily. We should. Anyone trying to mess with my friend's man gets it." Jess said.

"I don't think this is a good idea."

"Oh, relax Sam." A tall African-American boy said. "We're not doing anything to harm her. We are just having a little fun."

"Yeah, and besides, Mike is my man. Nobody gets to look at him thinking otherwise." Emily said.

Sam looked at the tall Caucasian boy. "Mike, please say you think this isn't a good idea."

He shrugged. "I kinda agree with Matt here. It's harmless fun. What could possibly happen?"

"I think it'll be okay."

"You too, Ashley?" Sam sighed, putting her hands in the air. "You know what? I give up. You guys enjoy being assholes. I'm not going to be a part of this."

The girls ignored Sam as they giggled, hurrying into a room with the boys, to assume their positions for their prank.

"Hannah?"

Beth walked into the kitchen, looking for her twin sister. They'd promise to do the dishes together but Hannah seemed to have disappeared. She looked at her brother, Josh, and his best friend, Chris, passed out on the breakfast bar.

She rolled her eyes as she picked up a beer bottle. "Great. If you can't hold your liquor, don't drink it."

Putting the bottle back onto the bar top, she sees a piece of paper by the side. She picks it up to read the contents.

'Hannah,

You look so damn hot in that shirt... but I bet you're even hotter out of it. Come to the guest room at 2.00am ;)

Mike XXX'

"Oh no. What did our silly sister get into this time." Beth breathed.

She put the note down and headed straight to wake her brother.

"Josh." She said. "Josh. Wake up!"

No matter how hard she shook Josh, he was passed out drunk and wouldn't get up. Looking at Chris, she contemplated waking him up but what was the point? They both couldn't take their alcohol so trying to wake Chris up was going to be useless. She figured she would try to find her on her own.

Just as she was headed out of the kitchen, she saw Sam and the others whizz past her. She hurried after them till they stopped at the front door. Beth pushed pass them as she yelled into the cold, blowing Winter wind.

"HANNAH!"

Beth turned around. "What did you do?!"

"Hannah ran off after these jerks made fun of her." Sam said.

Beth looked at the rest. "What?!"

"It was just a prank, Beth." Emily said. "We didn't expect her to react like this."

"You guys are such assholes!" Beth exclaimed.

She went to grab her jacket by the door and put it on before running out after her sister, despite the others telling her not to.

Sam looked at the rest. "I hope you're happy now."

"It isn't our fault Hannah couldn't take a joke." Matt said.
"Sure, keep telling yourself that." Sam said.

She pushed pass them and went to grab her coat. Putting it on, she came back out. Mike lightly held her back just as she was about to step off the porch.

"Where are you going?" Mike asked.

"To find them." Sam replied. "I'm not going to just stand here and wait for something to happen to them.

"Sam, are you crazy?" Jessica said. "It looks like a blizzard out there!"

"Beth and Hannah are out there!" Sam shouted.
"I know but if we all get split up, it's not going to help anyone." Emily said.
"Exactly. Besides, Beth is resourceful. They'll be fine alone for a couple of hours." Mike said.
"At least let's wait until the wind dies down." Matt said.

Sam looked at Beth's tracks and looked back at her friends. "Fine."

Just as she walked back in after her friends, she turned back to look at the footprints as she whispered under her breath. "Please be safe, guys."

"BETH!"

She looked down at her hysterical twin sister. "Hold on, Hannah!"

Beth looked back up as she felt her hand slipping on the rock she was gripping onto. Just then, a masked face popped into her view and looked right at her, with his arm outstretched.

Weighing her options, she realized there was no way she was going to take this person's hand without first dropping the extra weight. Glancing down at her sister's frightened face again, she knew she had no other choice.

"I'm sorry, Hannah."

With that said, she released the grip she had on the rock and fell with her sister.