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S-No Kidding–Page 6

"Ahh, I know what you mean.  You thought that I wouldn’t remember what we were taught in OTM!"

"Well?"

"Sure," she said, pushing me down into the snow.  We made our imprints on the world, well at least in the snow, and then went back to the car.  We went to a fast food restaurant and then went back to the hotel.  We scanned the channels for something interesting to watch.  Unfortunately, there wasn’t, so we opted to go back outside and do some more ice skating.

The time came for us to go to back to the Red River.  Kendall proposed to change clothes, but I didn’t see the need for it.  I thought that she would just make herself more of a target.  She conceded and we left for the Red River.  Walking inside the club, we went and took a seat.  I called a waiter over, and I asked him about the DG.  He had no information.  Just then, we spotted the trio over in the corner.  They were roughing up another couple.  I looked into Kendall’s eyes, and we thought just about the same thing.  The couple was forced up from their chairs and escorted outside.  We followed them out.  "Excuse me,"  I said.  The lead man turned and faced me.  "I said, Excuse me.  I don’t figure that they wanted to leave."

"It’s none of your business."  The one guy said.  The gentleman and lady looked frightened.

"Oh, I would say that it was.  You see, you tried to take my date away from me just the other night."  I said, reaching behind me for Kendall’s hand.  She offered it to me and came into the light.  The guy let the couple loose.  They three of them came after us.  "Just stay behind me."  I whispered to Kendall.  Meanwhile, the couple went in the club and called the police.  I took on the two bullies while Kendall took on their leader.  She was doing a good job.  We threw the three of them in the corner and the police came and took them away.

On the way back to the hotel, I turned to Kendall and said, "I guess you really can take care of yourself."

"I told you I could.  I took Karate for a little while."

"A little while!  From what I saw you are probably a black belt!"

"Well," she said, her cheeks showing a slight blush, "do you think that I’d let you get hurt after all that you have done for me?"  Looking into her eyes I saw something that was not there before.  If I did not know better I would have said that she liked me.  The scary part was that something deep down inside of me liked her too.

Snapping out of my daze, Kendall and I went to the tubing place.  We got our tubes, but everyone had gone to the winter games in town so we had the place to ourselves.  We rode down a few times, and it began to snow.  After one of the trips down she got up.  Her cheeks were red, and she had snow in her hair and hat.  She reached out her hand toward me.  She took me over to return the tubes, and we walked over to the wooded area.  "Adam."

"Hmm."  I replied.

"It sure is pretty up here."

"Yes, that it is."

"It must be wonderful to have a white Christmas."

"Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas for me without snow."  I said, looking at her.  The giant flakes of snow continued to fall all around us.  We stopped.  Peering out of the corner of my eye I saw our tracks beginning to be covered over with the snow.