CarnivalBarker
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"Are we just stuck here?" Katie asked, her voice raising half an octave.
"No, goddamn it," Kyle replied. "Just calm down for a minute and let me think." Katie looked around and saw nothing but snow covering the ground and white covered fields as far as her eyes could roam.
"We can't stay out here," she said. "We'll freeze."
"I said, just shut up a minute." Kyle looked at his phone. No service. "How far back was that gas station we saw?" Katie thought hard. She wasn't sure she had noticed one. Nothing was coming to mind.
"I don't know," she finally replied. Kyle thought it had to be three or four miles. He could try to get there, but walking in temperatures below 30 degrees would be dangerous. And it would be dark soon. There was no guarantee he'd even get there on foot. He reached forward and punched the hazard lights. He tried to start the car one more time. As the engine ground out another refusal to turn over, Katie wondered how they had managed to slip the caravan of cars carrying their friends to their first spring break trip to the mountains. Last year, she went to Padre Island with three other girls and two guys, spending five days drinking and laying on a beach, working on a tan, the greatest threat to life and limb being alcohol poisoning. This year, the group, along with their boyfriends, decided a trip to Purgatory, Colorado would be a nice way to spend time off from school. Despite a mild snowstorm sweeping through the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, they made no change to their plans to drive the 9 hour trek. Now, she could not be more annoyed with Kyle for falling too far behind the other cars, and at the same time frightened that they would be stranded. As evening fell, the gray sky took a dark turn, and the snow had fallen a bit harder. An hour ago, the car's interior lights had dimmed briefly, and Kyle chalked it up to the heater being tested to its limit when he cranked it up. When the power steering went out and he guided the car to the side of the road, their friends were nowhere to be seen, and Katie immediately knew something was very wrong. After checking the engine and finding nothing noticeable, Kyle now sat, unable to think of how they would get out of this weather and to a warm place until the snow went away or the morning came. Already, Katie felt the chill from the outside begin to sneak into the car, the heater no longer running and the seat warmers no longer on. She peered through the window and through the snow. Far in the distance and rapidly approaching were two tiny yellow dots, set on the horizon just to the left of their vision.
"Look," she said, careful not to raise her voice and set Kyle off. "Someone's coming." She knew they had only seen the occasional car for the last two hours and there may not be any coming soon. "You'd better flag them down." Kyle looked at her annoyed, but clearly knowing he had no choice. She was right. He had no other plan or idea. He opened the door and stepped into the street, running across the two lanes heading north, the median, and the far two lanes. Katie zipped up her Northface jacket and pulled her headband over her ears, keeping herself warm and watcing hopefully from the passenger seat as Kyle begin waving his arms and jumping on the far side of the highway, trying hard to get the driver's attention.
"No, goddamn it," Kyle replied. "Just calm down for a minute and let me think." Katie looked around and saw nothing but snow covering the ground and white covered fields as far as her eyes could roam.
"We can't stay out here," she said. "We'll freeze."
"I said, just shut up a minute." Kyle looked at his phone. No service. "How far back was that gas station we saw?" Katie thought hard. She wasn't sure she had noticed one. Nothing was coming to mind.
"I don't know," she finally replied. Kyle thought it had to be three or four miles. He could try to get there, but walking in temperatures below 30 degrees would be dangerous. And it would be dark soon. There was no guarantee he'd even get there on foot. He reached forward and punched the hazard lights. He tried to start the car one more time. As the engine ground out another refusal to turn over, Katie wondered how they had managed to slip the caravan of cars carrying their friends to their first spring break trip to the mountains. Last year, she went to Padre Island with three other girls and two guys, spending five days drinking and laying on a beach, working on a tan, the greatest threat to life and limb being alcohol poisoning. This year, the group, along with their boyfriends, decided a trip to Purgatory, Colorado would be a nice way to spend time off from school. Despite a mild snowstorm sweeping through the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, they made no change to their plans to drive the 9 hour trek. Now, she could not be more annoyed with Kyle for falling too far behind the other cars, and at the same time frightened that they would be stranded. As evening fell, the gray sky took a dark turn, and the snow had fallen a bit harder. An hour ago, the car's interior lights had dimmed briefly, and Kyle chalked it up to the heater being tested to its limit when he cranked it up. When the power steering went out and he guided the car to the side of the road, their friends were nowhere to be seen, and Katie immediately knew something was very wrong. After checking the engine and finding nothing noticeable, Kyle now sat, unable to think of how they would get out of this weather and to a warm place until the snow went away or the morning came. Already, Katie felt the chill from the outside begin to sneak into the car, the heater no longer running and the seat warmers no longer on. She peered through the window and through the snow. Far in the distance and rapidly approaching were two tiny yellow dots, set on the horizon just to the left of their vision.
"Look," she said, careful not to raise her voice and set Kyle off. "Someone's coming." She knew they had only seen the occasional car for the last two hours and there may not be any coming soon. "You'd better flag them down." Kyle looked at her annoyed, but clearly knowing he had no choice. She was right. He had no other plan or idea. He opened the door and stepped into the street, running across the two lanes heading north, the median, and the far two lanes. Katie zipped up her Northface jacket and pulled her headband over her ears, keeping herself warm and watcing hopefully from the passenger seat as Kyle begin waving his arms and jumping on the far side of the highway, trying hard to get the driver's attention.