I arrived home for the holidays a day late and as I expected the house was empty as my parents and my younger brother had left early that morning to go to our family's condo in the mountains. As usual we were going to spent the holidays skiing as we do every year. I was home from my first semester at college and had ten days off.
My name is Janine and I'm nineteen years old and enrolled in sociology. I'm quite petite but athletic with long black hair and a very shapely figure. I spend a lot of time swimming and am engaged in a fair amount of athletics included some gymnastics. I have been skiing since I was very young as we have had the condo at the ski resort for years. Some of my families friends have property there and we usually go in groups however I have sort of been left behind by this time.
The plan was that I drive out there when I get in. Mom and Dad took the car and left me the Ford explorer all full of gas and ready to go. I found a note on the table and it was a message for me to call the home of some family friends and they asked me if I would pick up their son and bring him out with me. His name was Gordie and I knew him well but had not seen him for ages but it was okay. Gordie used to be a bit of a nerd. When everyone else was doing things when we were younger he would be at home playing computer games. He is almost the same age as me and had always been sort of skinny. He had been a bit of a loner and didn't seem to make a lot of friends however he was always nice to me. I'm not much of a party girl either as I have also been wrapped up in my studies.
I called and he answered the phone and said he had been waiting for my call. I told him how I had to change, get packed and load my stuff and would be there as soon as I could. It was a three hour drive and it would be best to get started.. I liked the explorer because it had lots of room to put stuff in. I packed about four changes of clothes plus my boots and all the winter clothes and then locked up the house and drove over and picked up Gordie
He was waiting outside for me when I got there and he still looked very thin but actually he was better now then before. He had nicely groomed blonde hair and he had grown quite tall but he was not very muscular for sure. He was really not a bad looking boy just had never acted his age and many times I had to remind myself years ago that he was the same age as me. Because of our parents being friends I have been around him a lot on ski trips and camping and always considered him like another brother.
We loaded his stuff and then started out. I'm a good driver and have been driving since I was fifteen and had made this trip myself many times and this time it was nice to have someone to talk to. We got out onto the freeway and headed towards the mountains. It was turning colder and we noticed the snow starting to sift across the road and then as we got an hour out from the city the road narrowed down to two lanes and it was beginning to turn into a storm. The vision was getting poor, it was turning colder and the snow was beginning to accumulate on the road. I was by now down to about forty miles per hour and had engaged the automatic four wheel drive on the explorer and a few times I felt it slip on the upgrades.
I pulled over on a wide spot and called the lodge on my cell and Dad answered and I told him how I was running late. He had been concerned as there was a full blown storm where they were but assured me we would be okay and to just be careful. We proceeded and traveled slowly and it got worse. The snow got heavier, visibility became really poor and we had not seen any sign of a snowplow. I saw a sign board saying that we were opposite a small town I recognized and as we came over a hill approaching the off ramp there was a police barricade and we were pulled over. They informed us that the road was blocked with snow ahead of us and that they were closing the road in both directions and that we should go into the town and try to get some form of lodging as it would be a while. It was only four o'clock in the afternoon and seemed early to have to find a place but they told us they doubted if the road would be cleared before morning.
That left us trying to find a couple of rooms in this small town and we found out immediately it would not be easy as we spotted no vacancy signs one after another and almost began to panic when we saw one motel that had a vacancy sign and I pulled in. We went inside and found they had no actual rooms left except a cabin unit in the back. They were part of a tourist association so the manager phoned a local booking agent and found the town was sold out. I was not really interested in trying to sit in the car over night so I phoned my dad and he told us to take the cabin and stay overnight and I stood there wondering what someone like Gordie and I were going to do all night..
Gordie went to a little store and picked up some sodas, sandwiches, chips etc and we took our key and drove around to the unit in the back. It was a cute cabin and when we went inside we found it was warm and comfortable and it even had a big stone fireplace and some split firewood. There was a TV and it had a large couch that they said made down into a bed and a large bed area . It was very clean and actually quite nice.
We got comfortable and I was not very concerned about being in a room with Gordie as we had been around together since we were younger.. I was tired because I had been up early to travel home. I lay down and woke up almost two hours later. Gordie had started a fire in the big fireplace and had the TV on and it was very nice in there. I checked out the bathroom and there was a nice big shower. I sat down with Gordie and we each had one of the sandwiches and a soda. It was dark outside now and the storm was not easing up. We were no doubt in for the night and I could see the snow piling up on the steps outside and the explorer was almost covered.