One Snowy Day

In the small sleepy town of Wrentham, Massachusetts, tucked beneath trees and new fallen snow, a girl named Lauren hurried down an empty street to the comfort and warmth of her own home. She was returning from a long day sledding at her friends house. As she was rounding the corner at the bottom of the hill that marked the top of her street, she noticed a young boy laying in a snowbank on the side of the road, he was not moving and appeared to be unconscious. Lauren frantically tried to wake him by shaking him gently. Finally, startled and confused , the boy opened his eyes to look at her. Peering at her nervously, he opened his mouth to speak, "who are you and where am I?" he asked. Lauren replied and tried to calm him down, "my name is Lauren and this is Dana Drive, do you remember how you got here?" The boy finally started to relax and sat still in the snow, thinking. Finally after a few minutes he turned to face her and told her that he lived in her neighborhood, just down the street on Jennifer Drive. Lauren, still trying to figure out how he had wound up unconscious on the side of the road, continued to pry his memory and see if he remembered. "Do you remember what you were doing on this street? or how you got knocked out?" As the boy was trying to remember, a snow plow drove by. "Thats it!" he exclaimed, "a huge piece of ice came up from the a plow's wheel and hit my head... thats the only thing I remember" a few seconds passed by and then he turned to her to speak again, "Wait, I was out here walking by dog, you haven't seen him have you?" Before he could even ask her another question, a dog came running towards them, barking frantically. Behind him was a woman, who appeared to be the boy's worried mother, who ran fast as she saw them. When she arrived at the snowbank she asked the boy what had happened. When he had explained to her the story of the plow, and how Lauren had found him here, she was nearly brought to tears. The mother was so happy that her little boy was okay, and that their dog had led her to them. "I was so worried" she said to him and appeared to relieved when she held him in her arms. His mother was so thankful to Lauren that she invited her over for hot chocolate and cookies. Lauren ended her day by the warmth of a fireplace, eating cookies, drinking hot chocolate, and sharing stories or her own childhood scares with this little boy and his mother, while they laughed and laughed, happy that he was home safe and sound.