Kissing Danger
Lei grins, holding her fluffy pink ones up to the lights that illuminate the pond, the surface of it just a thick sheet of ice.
I hold Lei’s hand as we clamber onto the ice, careful not to slip. We have been doing this for years, having become awfully proficient at it. I tug my thick coat closer to my body, gliding across the slick layer of ice to the middle.
"Off where?" Lei questions, twisting in a circle with her arms outstretched. I giggle as the glacial wind whips her blonde curls into her eyes, leaving her scrambling to wipe them away.
"I don't know, somewhere warm,” I tell her.