
snowing. Natalie tried to restart the engine of the car.
"Hey, you're finished telling the story!" said the little girl of three and a half years sitting in the back seat. He tried again to turn the ignition key. Nothing. The battery was completely drained.
"The car is broken," said the mother.
"What is broken?" asked the child.
"Oh, you're stuck. We need to wait for someone." "Who comes?"
Natalie turned and looked at the girl in the back seat: "Now I come, my angel." He leaned his elbow on the back of the front seat, passed in the space between two seats and sat back with the girl: "Come on." The child opened his arms and circled until he could the body of the mother: "Mom, do not we go to Daddy?"
"Yes, yes, but now we must wait here." The mother held her.
"Now we can finish our story?" asked the little girl with a smile.
"Sure, honey," her mother said, "it snowed and snowed, and the little house stood quietly in the snow. You could look out the window on how much snow had fallen ..." "Even we remain under the snow? "
" No, no, it was snowing in the history much, much more. "
" Continue. "
" The older children then thought of making a big fire in the fireplace. The children began to throw all the wood they found in the fireplace. The fire was getting hot and red. Then we threw chairs, pillows and armchairs. Then the furniture and beds. Soon the house was not nothing left to burn and then the children began to rest and sleep. The next day when they awoke the sun was shining through the window. They ran to the window and saw that happy in the garden and the plants were blooming flowers. They warmed up so much around the house that the house had come spring. " "Mom, I'm cold."
"Courage my little one. Soon Dad will get us. Because while I tell you a story?"
"It was cold outside. Even inside though. And the house was under the snow. The children were inside the house. And then it began to burn everything.
When they awoke the house was gone. Only the grass in the garden. "
"Sleep now."
"Mom, I'm cold."
The woman shook the baby to him.
snowing stronger and it was colder. They were wrapped in wool blankets. Natalie sang the quiet lullaby, rocking the baby. A lively
gust of cold wind and stormy night in the hut shook the old axes. Martino closed the book, taking the thumb through the pages and turned his wrist. His watch said half past eleven. He put the book on the table, settled back on the couch and the pillow well wrapped in the blanket. It was proposed to be patient, not to worry and sleep, maybe Natalie was left by their parents.
So, while he spent the night. Natalie stood there shivering and miserable. He thought Martin
only in their vacation cabin, talk to the happy evening with him, who took the hot tea in front of a roaring fire to their bed, covered by soft and cool down.
dawn came the sun. Matt shone through the thick layer of snow on the car windows. He calculated that in three hours, four at most, Martin was coming. Just
Martino slept soundly that night and got up in the morning full of energy. Stirred the fire in the fireplace, made coffee and breakfast, got dressed and decided to go to break a bit 'of wood.
"Mom, I'm cold." said the child and coughed. Even Natalie was cold. Then he felt thirsty. Her throat was dry and burned.
"Now we get a bit 'of snow and sucks like an ice cream, will you?"
"Like a strawberry ice cream?"
"Yes my little one, like a strawberry ice cream."
Natalie tried to lower the window a little. He failed. It was blocked by the frost. He tried to open the back door. Locked. He lifted the little girl, made her sit beside him. "Now the mother tries to open a door," he said while the well covered with a blanket. He tried several times but the car doors did not open. He remained exhausted and powerless. Said softly
"There's too much snow, my darling. Wait for the sun to warm up the car."
"As in the story?"
"Yes, yes, just like in history."
Meanwhile, Martin was cut with an ax. Just above the left hand. His hand was hanging only by a strip attached to the forearm skin and some tissue that Martin could not recognize. A gush of blood bathed her face. The clock pulse had fallen in the snow, cut by the blow. Martin thought that had it not been for the clock, the hand probably would have removed completely. He raised his arm and tried to stop the bleeding.
rays of the sun disappeared. Natalie saw the changing light and shadows. The cold persisted. She seemed to be there for many weeks. Insensitive and in spite of her slumber. Natalie held her baby in her arms and rocked her singing a lullaby.
semiconscious, Martin lay before the threshold of the hut. Failed to enter the house.
He was leaning against the wooden door cold and hard. He was too exhausted to want nothing but lie and rest. Clenched teeth and with incredible clarity knew dying, a few more minutes and would stay there, lying dead.
Natalie no longer felt the cold. He continued to sing and rock the baby. He enjoyed from that hushed silence and beautiful. Our soft blonde hair that little head sticking out of the girl tickled his chin. They knew peace. It was a moment of happiness, she thought, childish happiness. Until he fell asleep.