Ok I'll pick you up at nine" As David puts the phone down he feels a small drop of sweat trickle down the side of his face

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First Ice Story

“Ok I’ll pick you up at nine”

“Thanks see ya later”

As she hangs up the phone her mother lightly taps on the door to her room. She strolls in with a mixed look of worry and annoyance on her face. She takes an almighty breath waiting for the inevitable argument she is about to have with her mother.

“Ok I’ll pick you up at nine”

“Thanks see ya later”

As David puts the phone down he feels a small drop of sweat trickle down the side of his face. He decides to open the window and as he does so a numbing blast of freezing winter air thrusts through the open window. Whilst David is checking the local cinema listings for a film that he and Louise can watch, the first snow flake of winter falls to the ground outside the house nestling on a fallen leaf instantly melting and running onto a small spider that is hiding from the cold trying to keep warm.

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The room lights up suddenly from the TV set, the curtains drawn, and the cat fed and watered, Louise locks the door and continues down her garden path.  Suddenly Louise slips on an unforeseen ice patch, snapping on of the heels of her shoe, she knew wearing high heels was going to be a bad choice!

David climbed into his car and turned the heaters on so that when Louise got in it would be nice and warm.  This was David’s first car, a Ford Escort and it was his pride and joy, his baby that he looked ...

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