A Beginning

That familiar whiteness falling from the sky.

There was a time when it meant something, when there was significance to it. The snow used to mean an advent of something. The snow would fall and the world would be hushed with dread, for fear that she was coming. But she had long since been gone. However, no one smiled to know that she would never return. No one.

No one had even noticed her passing. They did not notice that her disappearance caused that had always gathered to witness her coming to scatter, to disperse into the world. Friends, they once were. Now, they were strangers drifting across the land that all of them once called home.

It was snowing again, but none of them cared anymore. Time passed and they settled into new lives and tried to forget that time in their pasts. That time when they had stood together with others who felt the same as they did. The time when they stood united. But now, one of them was gone - and the rest could not hold.

A family. A family was dying.

But most were doing their best to forget those times now. Spending time trying to make their own new families, they were doing their best at erasing their past lives.

All but one.

It had been ten years, but still one of them refused to forget.

They told him that she was dead. But he knew that really they just wanted her to be because that would make them feel better about giving up on her. She was gone, yes - but there must have been a reason for it.

He looked out the window of the small lodge that he was staying in for the night. The wind had formed the snow into wispy, drifting piles across the lawn outside.

Ten years. Had it really been ten years? He certainly felt older. His mind seemed more at ease now, more clear. He focussed only on one thing now. It was more than just about proving everyone wrong. This was simple truth to him. She was alive, and he was going to find her.

He stepped out into the swirling snow and wrapped his scarf around his face to protect himself from the icy wind.

She was alive, and that was enough.

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Kalinka's next attempt at writing a story that does, indeed, include everyone she knows because they like those stories.

-KB.