Chapter 12

“Gah! W-What are you doing here?” she yelped, hoping that I wasn’t watching. I could see her cheeks were ever so flushed, and definitely not from the cold. Actually, she was still in her fall garb.

“Nothing…Aren’t you cold? You’re still wearing fall stuff.” I pointed at her complete lack of mitts and hat as the snow blended into her silver locks.

“You mean the weather? Yeah, I guess it would be pretty cold!” Aria gave a playful nod as I scratched my head. That’s not what I meant.

“No, I mean, don’t you feel cold? You aren’t wearing mitts, or a hat. You have your hood down and it’s filling up with snow.” Aria turned over to her hood, a look of surprise before emptying the snow-filled hood.

“Oh it is! Guess I have to watch for when that happens.”

I was flabbergasted. There was no way.

“Do you feel cold? At all?”

Aria turned back to me, head tilted as her silver eyes stared up at me as if I was talking to her in a foreign language.