SNOW by Genevieve Cadwell

I crept out of the house. It was still dawn, but we were bundled up in our winter gear. There was a light snow falling, but it was still super cold.

My sister and I were heading to our secret hideout. Our clubhouse. All of our meetings are held between 3 and 5 A.M. That way, our parents would still be asleep when we return.

We ran throughout the little village we live in. There are only five other girls in our village. All of them are in our club. We ran all the way to the edge of the forest. There was our hideout. In a cave.

Two of their clubhouse members, Chelsea and Lucinda, were already there. They had started a little fire in the firepit we made.

Before long, all of our clubhouse members had arrived. There were seven of us. Me(Melody), my sister(Lexi), Chelsea, Lucinda, Courtney, Henrietta and Morgon-all of us were here.

At 4:30, our meeting was done. We all gathered up our things and left. But as we were having our meeting, it began to snow harder. We could hardly see. Luckily, the seven of us had stuck together. We decided to go back to our warm clubhouse. There was no way we would make it home safely.

At our houses, all of our parents were up. But none of us were home. They must have been worried sick, I thought.

I tried to send them a text, but it wouldn't go send. The only thing I managed to do, was send my Mom a crappy voicemail.

“Mom. We’re in the clubhouse. All seven of us! We’re snowed in!!”

My parents immediately gathered all of our friends parents, and together, they began a journey in the snow.

Three hours later, they found us. By now it was 10:00. But there was still no way home. So now we had nineteen people in our clubhouse/cave. It made it warmer. But we were still cold.

At 2:00 that afternoon, it finally stopped snowing. We climbed out of the cave, and started crawling home.

We were all at my house at 4. We had a party and a sleepover. It was a happy way to end the day!