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1.       Rose hit the snow packed ground and felt the pain shoot throughout her body. She groaned as she pulled herself back up using the side of her car as support. When she was standing she took a minute to make sure her legs wouldn’t give out on her again.
2.         “Rosie…” Rose could make out only a whisper of James’s voice as he called to her. She looked up toward the sound. There on the mountain side about fifty feet from where her car had landed she saw the dark outline of a man.
3.         “James!” Rose screamed, but the man didn’t move. “Jay I’m coming!”
4.         She pulled herself as best she could up the mountain. It was hard keeping her left wrist up close to her body, trying to remind herself that it was broken and not to use it. Her legs couldn’t be helped, and caused her pain that would have been unbearable if she hadn’t been so eager to reach James. Rose climbed over the broken guard rail keeping her eyes on James’s form half buried in snow. “James? Baby, answer me.” She pleaded as she finally reached his side.
5.         He groaned quietly when Rose reached out to pull back the torn jacket that covered his face. Rose let out a cry when she saw this man was not James. She had been so sure this was him that she never thought about the passenger of the truck. She began crying and searching the ground everywhere for James.  Frantically calling out to him and moving as fast as she could. She couldn’t feel the pain now, not above her fear. But all she found was the truck that had pushed them over the edge, and all she could hear was the moaning from the man on the ground.
6.         Rose was over by his truck when she heard him cry out again. He was obviously in pain. Good Rose thought bitterly, look what he has done! James is out here somewhere and we are all in trouble if we don’t get help soon. She was leaning back against the truck easing the weight off her legs as best she could when she saw the wrapped present on the ground next to the truck. She picked it up and read the tag “To my beautiful princess Sarah. Love Daddy.”
7.         “Oh crap…” Rose sighed, “you’re gonna make me care for you huh? How come you couldn’t be some jerk it would be easy for me to hate?” She said it in the direction of the man. “Fine!” She grabbed a blanket out of the truck, tugging to get it free and climbed painfully back to the man in the snow.
8.         Carefully wrapping the man up in the blanket she started talking to him and seeing what damage had been done. He seemed to have gotten out with only some cuts and a broken leg. There was a bump on his head, but other than that he seemed ok. “Do you even know what you have done? How is it fair you’re not in any worse shape?”
9.     She reached to put his hand under the blanket and saw he had a watch on. 6:10 am. The sun would be out soon. Thank God! But the next hour went by incredibly slow. Rose searched as far as she dared go from the accident site back in the direction she was sure she had heard James’s voice calling for her.
10.      She searched until the tears from her pain and the cold forced her to give up the search. She wrestled with her new, slightly overweight companion, trying to move him next to the truck for shelter from the wind. She finally was able to collapse next to him. She had found some more blankets and wrapped herself in them. 6:45. I’ll just close my eyes for a minute Rose thought, leaning her head into the trucks broken frame and onto its seat.
11.       “James…” Rose cried, “I’m sorry!” Her sobs grew harder and hurt as they wracked her body. “Please be okay baby. Hold on, we will be okay.” She said it more to herself as she fell into a restless sleep.