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Spring by the Sea, the Last Snow on the Mountain
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Childhood Sweethearts
Tragic Love
Melodramatic
Bias
Mistress
Winning Back the Wife
I was snow, lent to the human world by the Snow Realm. As a child, I led three lost boys out of the snowy mountains. One became my boyfriend. The other two became my closest childhood friends. The Snow Realm allowed me to stay human on one condition: Every year, before spring arrived, someone had to walk the last stretch of snow-covered trail at the summit with me. If no one came, I could no longer remain human. That first year, all three came, each trying to be the one to clear a path through the snow for me. And every year after that, they came again. Until this year, when my boyfriend Ethan’s cousin, Lily, moved to the city for school. She said she’d never seen the sea and wanted them to take her there. Before they left, I asked, “Who’s walking the snow trail with me this year?” Ethan answered first. “I am.” Noah and Lucas smiled. “Have we ever let you go alone?” But on the day we were supposed to leave, I waited at the station until dark. Then Lily sent me a photo from the beach. The three of them crowded around her, her smile as bright as a summer day. I asked, “Weren’t you supposed to come up the mountain with me?” “It’s Lily’s first time seeing the sea,” Ethan said. “I can’t just leave her here.” “You go every year,” Noah told me. “What’s the harm in skipping it once?” “We’ll go with you next year,” Lucas said. I looked toward the distant mountain. “But the snow will be gone tomorrow.” “Then we’ll go earlier next year,” Ethan replied. That night, they sent another message to the group chat. “We’re coming back to the beach next week. Want to join us?” I lowered my head. The snow on the back of my hand was slowly melting.
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The Snow Realm had no calendar like the human world’s.After returning, it took me a long time to get used to not checking the weather forecast, not counting how much snow remained at the summit before spring.The people of the Snow Realm noticed how often I looked back at the human world.“Are you still waiting for them?”“No,” I said. “I was just wondering—if I’d told Ethan that I wouldn’t disappear as long as one of them came, would he have left sooner?”“Didn’t you tell him?”I thought of the messages I’d sent.I’d told them when the snow would melt and how long the drive from the beach would take. I’d said I couldn’t walk the trail. I’d asked if they could come.“I did.” I lowered my head. “Over and over.”“Then stop making excuses for them not listening.”I didn’t ask again.Later, the people of the Snow Realm took me farther north.The winters were long there. Fresh snow fell at night, covering the old footprints, but there was still a path to follow the next morning.Sometimes,
Spring by the Sea, the Last Snow on the Mountain Chapter 9
A few days later, a light snow fell at the foot of the mountain.Ethan, Noah, and Lucas arrived almost at the same time.The snow was too thin to cover the rocks, but they followed the old trail to the pine tree anyway.Noah reached the end first. When he turned, Ethan had stopped halfway.“Come on,” he said.Ethan stared down at the exposed path.“She waited for me here last year.”“This year, too.”After saying it, Noah couldn’t take another step either.Lucas handed them each an orange.No one peeled theirs.They stood there for a long time. Snow landed on their shoulders and quickly melted.Ethan caught a snowflake in his hand.His palm grew wet.“Do you think it hurt?” he asked.“She told me she couldn’t walk the trail,” Lucas said. “I never asked why.”“She asked if I was coming,” Noah said. “I told her to stop pressuring me.”None of them said, “If only we’d known.”Those words were too slight to bear the weight of the day I’d spent waiting.The people of the Snow Realm asked if
Spring by the Sea, the Last Snow on the Mountain Chapter 8
The pool in the Snow Realm was still.I could see Ethan and the others, but I couldn’t touch anything in the human world.Those first few days, I couldn’t stop looking into the pool. I knew they wouldn’t look up and see me. Still, I wanted to know whether, once they finally returned to the mountain, they would walk the trail.On the third day, Ethan went up alone.He brought no flowers, no food.Only the gloves I’d never had the chance to wear.The snow trail had melted away completely. Wet mud surrounded the pine tree.He reached the stone steps where I’d last sat, crouched down, and laid the gloves across his knees.“Claire, I’m here.”He waited a long time.No one answered.After coming down, he met with Noah and Lucas. He gathered the security footage and my final messages and handed everything over to the investigators.He answered their questions over and over.He no longer hid behind the excuse that I’d been upset with him.Noah handed over his own phone.It held photos I’d sent
Spring by the Sea, the Last Snow on the Mountain Chapter 7
The footage began at four forty the previous afternoon.I propped my phone against my backpack and sat beside the snow trail, my coat still in place.Ethan pointed at the screen.“There she is. Keep playing.”He turned the volume up high.The voices on the other end of my call were too faint to make out, but mine was clear.“Look at me.”Ethan stared down at his shoes.The footage continued. My right sleeve slowly flattened. The hem of my coat sank onto the stone steps.There were no legs beneath it.“Stop,” Noah said sharply.Mr. Brooks paused the video.None of them moved.Finally, Lucas spoke.“Keep going.”At four fifty-seven, I looked up at the camera, as though waiting for someone on the other end to turn toward me.At five sharp, the snow beneath the pine tree melted.And the person on the screen was gone.My coat fell, leaving only a little water on the steps. The phone stayed lit for a few more minutes before its screen went black.Noah reached out and touched the monitor.“Is
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