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For me, everything looked like a Winter Wonderland. Through my emerald colored eyes I saw the tall, green trees that were filled from top to bottom with white snow. Even the tree branches had large, clear snow crystals that hung from it.
Every Winter, Cale and me knew that the snow would always fall from the gray colored sky making the snowflakes unique from each other. Not one of them being the same as the other.
Every year we would catch snowflakes on our tongues. We would giggle and laugh showing how childish we were. Those were the fun times in our lives.
Being my best friend, Cale always had snow on his ash blond hair. We were best friends since elementary school and our parents knew each other. So we always got to hang out and play at our houses. Those childhood memories of Cale and me were always the best.
Walking through the knee deep snow was hard and our legs felt heavy as we pushed ourselves to make our snowman. This year we were making our annual snowman at Cale's backyard next to the lake. Every year we would switch places where it would be at, so last year was at mine.
Of course we had the the orange carrot for a nose, black buttons for the make believe jacket, a brown scarf to be around it's puffy neck, and a random stick we used for it's cane. Our snowman always looked the same year after year.
I felt Cale tap his gloved hand on my shoulder and turned to my side to look at him. “Sadie, you forgot the small rocks for the mouth.”
“Huh?” I spoke softly as I paused for a second to remember what he was talking about. “Oh, yeah. I knew I forgot something. Do you have them Cale?” My voice reached a little higher as I spoke the first sentence.
Cale's turquoise colored eyes shined a little brighter. “Here.” I took the small rocks from his gloved hand and placed them one by one on the snowman's face. We were now done. “Cool.” His smile got bigger as congratulated each other on our efforts of our snowman.
I spoke happily to him, “I think our snowman looks great.” My smile was always big as his.
We then pulled our glued eyes away from our plump snowman and looked around the backyard. My eyes flickered towards the lake and when I turned to face Cale his smile had disappeared. Cale's mom told us to be very careful if we wanted to go ice skating. “Wanna go ice skating, Cale?”
“Ah, come on, Sadie. That's for girls.” I saw him roll his eyes as he moaned.
“Cale, I am a girl.” I pronounced every word slowly for him to hear me correctly. “Come on. It's not going to be that bad. Just give it ten minutes, okay?” I was trying my best to convince him.
He took a deep breath in. “Fine, Sadie but only for ten minutes.”
I smiled at my best friend and we headed down to the edge of the lake to put our skates on.
Cale's mom and dad told us that the lake was completely frozen solid and all we had to do was have fun.
After sliding on our skates that Cale's parents provided we walked slowly onto the frozen lake.
“Whoa.” We both said as we tried to balance ourselves.
“This is harder then I thought.” I spoke loudly through the fierce wind.
A few minutes went by and I was skating around with the cold wind blowing through my blond hair. I felt relaxed and happy and knew nothing could take that away from me.
Time passed and I looked at Cale who was surprisingly skating really well. Where did he get this talent from? No longer was he upset but now happy as before. He seemed to enjoy our time together. I smiled and waved and Cale waved back.
Then without himself noticing, Cale had fell on his bottom. I rushed to his side but instead he was laughing. “What's so funny Cale?” I couldn't help but laugh too.
“I thought I was doing pretty good.” His warm smile had brighten my worried mood.
Suddenly we heard the sound of a crack. I immediately looked to my side and saw the lake cracking. A rush of panic rose within me. “Oh my god, Cale. We need to get out of here!”
“Help me up Sadie.” His voice was now frightened as I grabbed his gloved hand and pushed him up.
“Come on Cale! We need to get off this lake.”
We started skating with all our might to reach the edge of the lake but Cale was too slow. The second I turned around to grab his arm to free him, he was already falling into the freezing lake. “Sadie, help me!”
“No, Cale!” I ran to to him and took his hand but the glove was to slippery from the snow. I tried to pull him up but it was too late. “Someone help me!” I called out.
But the second his parents came out from the house, Cale had fell into the lake.
Persuading him to skate on the dangerous lake was all my fault.










