You are like snow.Cold and cruel to begin with, but it's somehow beautiful, and you miss it when it's not there. And if you hold it in your hands close enough and long enough, it changes. It melts.

-unknown

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"I don't know how he did it... But I'm impressed, I owe him! Big time!" Gabe said placing his bag under the bus

"We owe him!" Sophia stated

"True! We are you're best friend's and we don't know how to convince to that level" Zoey commented

"Can you guys stop talking?!"

"Damn he really did it ugly this time didn't he?!" Gabe asked

"No comment"

They walked inside the bus and sat down, Zoey next to Sophia and Gabe with Alina.

"I wanted to show this Gaga playlist I did for some time and now I have the perfect opportunity"

"Im actually in the mood to hear some Ray LaMontagne"

"Oh you mean you're depressed" He laughed, she stared at him with her deadly look making him turn away

"No Gaga for the trip then"

"How are you? Is everything nice in the back seats" an annoying voice asked. Emma.

"It was about a minute ago now there's this smell" Gabe made a nauseous face then got close to her and sniffed "oh wait never mind it's from you"

"Just because I'm the students trip coordinator you can't talk to me like that"

"What will you do? Say something mean? But... You're the trip coordinator, so responsible, so sweet you don't want to ruin your image do you?"

"I will come for you Gabe! When there are no teachers around! I will end you and you three" she said looking at the others, she then turned back and sat down next to Colten

"Pathetic" Zoey commented

"Ok guys you'll share your room with the people you choose last week" The teacher announced "Be carefull with the sharing you're older enough to behave this nothing new!"

"Now take your bags to your rooms, you'll have the rest of the day off due to the long trip" the other teacher announced "see you tomorrow morning at 9"

Everyone cheered knowing they had the day to themselves. Gabe grabbed Alina's hand and he pulled her to their room.

"Ah the same room" Sophie said sitting down in her bed

"I missed this" Zoey says throwing herself to the bed. There were 4 beds in total in the room. 2 queen size beds and 2 twin size beds.

"So are we going to do? We have 5 hours left till dinner" Alina asked

"SKIN CARE!!" Sophia and Gabe screamed in joy

After the long afternoon full of cleansers, masks, exfoliators, cream and moisturisers they took a shower and went downstairs to have dinner with their classroom mates.

It was a buffet. They took their plates and what they felt like to eat and sat down.

"Hey guys!" Travis said once near them, he sat down with his tray of food

"So you're going snowboarding or skiing tomorrow?"

"Travis, honey have you looked at me?" Gabe asked

"A couple of times, yes "

"Do I look like the kind of people who likes sports?"

"Well-"

"I look like a chicken in PE"

"Ok got it" Travis smiled a bit scared "what about the rest of you"

"I didn't want to be here in the first place so no" Alina said

"I prefer sleeping" Zoey answered, Travis looked at Sophia but she wasn't even facing him her eyes were stuck in her food as if it was the most interesting thing in the world

"What about you Sophia?" He asked her gaze lifted, she looked angry

"Are you serious Travis ?" She spat "Do you really have the guts to come here?"

"Girl why are you still mad?" He asked she rolled her eyes "Do you know how I've been trying to talk to you to simply know why you just ghost me?"

"Oh my god Travis are you fucking serious?" Sophia said now really loud and clear that everyone in the room eating heard them and were now paying attention to them

"Uhh she mad" Gabe stated " you better run boy"

"Dude you simply bailed off of the room"

"Because of what you said!" She said now getting up picking her tray

"I didn't say no lie! We agreed on it for fuck sakes !" Travis said loudly

" I swear you are such an ass" she said angrily leaving the place

"We better take care of that" Zoey said they nodded and followed Sophia  and so did Travis they found them screaming at each other

"I'm done with you!" Sophia said leaving walking upstairs to her room followed by Zoey and Gabe. Alina looked at them climbing the stairs and then took a good look at Travis.

"You cool?" She asked. She saw him agitated with one hand on his head and cursing himself  "T?"

"What's the problem why can't we just have a normal conversation like friends have I just- URGH" he groaned and angry left the place also going to his room upstairs

"Where's T?" Alina heard someone asking

"Just went upstairs"

"What happened?"

"Your friend doesn't understand simple things, which is quite frustrating if I say so myself" Alina said drifting her gaze to the boy in front of her

"She could simply say she likes him" Colten raised an eyebrow

"You really don't get love and all of that things..."

"All of that things?! No, I guess not but either way I will try to enlighten him"

"Oh thanks so kind"

"No welcome" he smiled, she rolled her eyes and started to climb the stairs when Colten stopped her

" 10am we are going snowboarding "

"We who?"

"We as me and you! I need a photographer"

"You're literally the photographer"

"Yes, but I'm going snowboarding and I'm pretty sure you don't have anything better to do ..." he gave a mischievous smile and walked to the stairs "see you at 9 for breakfast, Jones"

"Wow amazing" she whispered " He loves photography, always taking pictures of whatever he takes pictures of and now I have to wake up earlier for this? GREAT" after her monologue she climbed the stairs to meet her friends while Colten did the same.

-Travis' room-

"Come in"

"You look revolted" Colten said sitting down in the bed watching his friend near the window

"I don't get girls man I seriously don't"

"Yeah they are quite complicated" Colten chuckled

"I just wanted to be chilled, I love to chill"

"Yeah I know"

"And I was chilled. I really was. She made me chill you know and everything was fine. When you kind of set us up to do ... well, you know... I was so thrilled I had a crush on that since ever she looks like a goddess but then she freaks out of nowhere" Travis said making Colten chuckle even more at his speech "We didn't just have sex, we would stay with each other in bed we would talk a bit after, asking how was your day, what have you been doing, how are you doing I loved her company dude and then one day because I told her she was my friend with benefits she storm out of the room and NOW she is having this weird behaviour and is messing me up I haven't got laid since she left me in the room! I think I have a trauma!" Travis said in his drama self making Colten realise Sophia wasn't the only drama Queen

"We'll have you thought about why she is like that?"

"How can you keep up with dozens of girls? One fucked my whole head !" Travis bursted out

"Well I know how it feels there's always one person, one girl that dramatically changes your life upside down and leaves you with no floor and with no rational thoughts"

"Yeah, that's literally exactly how I feel" Travis sat down near Colten and Colten gave him a side hug

"Look, I suck at these kind of things! I mean to talk about love, romance or couple things I am not the man, not the one with good experiences but based on it I think I can give you good advice because I know what not to do" Colten began "She was mad at you when you refer her to your sex buddy right?" And Travis nodded " have you thought why?"

"Because she is crazy?!"

"Or maybe because she was disappointed you still saw her like that?! Maybe she didn't saw you as just a sex buddy but something else..."

"What are you trying to say?!"

"I'm trying to say that you need to be smarter. Sophia didn't want to explained it to you because she was embarrassed that for not even a second you thought about her in a different perspective"

" I didn't wanted to hurt her! I call her that because it's literally what we used to call each other"

"I know man! You didn't do it on purpose,  but she was hurt and more now... because you didn't analyse the whole situation and still can't understand her"

"Are you saying she likes me? More than a sex buddy? " Colten nodded at Travis question " she likes me? Like of liking someone ? She wants to date me?"

"Well if you keep acting like an asshole I don't believe so but if you hurry up and make it up for her maybe"

"Oh shit this is great man" Travis jumped in joy making Colten smile

"calm down boy! Tomorrow will talk to her! Take her on a date! We are in a ski lodge it's a perfect place to have a nice time and solve things out"

"Yes! Thanks man" Travis said hugging Colten

"No welcome"

"How do you know so much about these things?" Travis let out a laugh

"I've told you ... I learned a lot with what not to do"

"Are you confessing that you were in love? " Travis smiled and wiggled his eyebrow

"Shut up! I have a girlfriend why can't I be in love now? Hm?" Colten bae him a smack in the arm

"I'm your best friend, I know you Coltie and you are not in love with Emma my friend. But I know who you may be in love wit-"

"Ok ok... that's it you go to sleep so you have a nice date tomorrow bye" Colten said stepping out of the room

"Thanks cupid" Travis said in a teasing tone

-Sophia's room-

"Stop crying" Zoey said annoyed with a pillow over her head

"Just calm down woman" Gabe said.Sophia was crying her heart out her head laid down in Alina's shoulder

"Guys are such dickheads" Sophia cried out

"Tell me about it" Alina whispered

"You need to cheer up ok?" Zoey said getting up "Guys suck but the truth is ... you like him so I think you should tell him"

"What?" Sophia said shocked "no! I'm not I refuse ok?!"

"I think it's actually a good point Soph" Alina agreed

"Yeah at least you would have no regrets babe " Gabe told her while painting his nails

"Are you guys mad? You want me to tell him that I like him?! NO"

"You're so stubborn" Zoey rolled her eyes

"Not more than Alina" Gabe teased

"True" Zoey laughed

" I know you're hurt but at least you wouldn't be thinking about what things would be like if... you did that and if you didn't" Gabe explained

"You should tell him when you have time because if you wait it might be too late and when you want to tell everything the words don't come out of your mouth because things changed and everything's gets complicated and ... " Alina breathed and looked at Sophia in the eyes "just tell him what's going in your heart"

"Fine ... so deep"

"Yeah where did all of that come from?" Gabe asked

"From my common sense"

"You have a very in love common sense" Zoey laughed

"Yes, make fun of me... but just do it"

"I will... tomorrow. Thanks Cupid " Sophia smiled

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