#winterevent02

The thought of an avalanche had barely crossed Addy’s mind for the entire four months she’d been in Wintergreen. She thought about it on occasion, especially on particularly bad weather days, but other than that, it wasn’t something she worried about. Addy wouldn’t call herself a worrier and there are a very little amount of things that she’d truly freak out big-time over.

Lucky for her, she was happy in the bar when the avalanche hit, which meant that a few things were already ticked off her list – being somewhere she was comfortable, being somewhere she knew was safe and being with people she was comfortable with. But the longer they were in there, the more uneasy Addy became. It surprised her, the unease, because she never thought that a situation like this would make her uncomfortable or worried, especially because she knew that someone would come and get them out of there at some point. 

But, as the manager of the bar, Addy sort of took charge where she could. She’d make sure everyone was okay. She’d make sure everyone was warm and fed and had water to the best of her ability. She made sure that everyone was doing okay just so she didn’t have to worry about herself being okay – a trait she’d had since she was a child. Her mind was running fast, though, and she couldn’t help but worry just a little about her other friends on the mountain that were possibly hurt or in danger. 

She convinced herself, though, that they were going to be fine. Just as she convinced herself when she slipped off to her office for a second to take deep breaths and calm herself down whenever she felt her heartbeat getting quicker and her breathing becoming shorter. And then she’d return to the rest of the group, all of whom she’d suddenly grown to care a lot about, and put on a little facade to seem totally chill with the situation.

The whole reason Nate came to Wintergreen every year was to detox. To relax and just chill out after a long year working. He never came to Wintergreen with the intention of getting stuck in a store with a bunch of strangers after a damned avalanche. But, luckily, his career offered him some refuge in a place like that. He knew all about being underground, having gone underground on digs before, and he wasn’t claustrophobic at all because of it.

In fact, Nate was pretty chill for a majority of the time. While getting stuck with strangers was definitely not his idea of a relaxing day, he found himself pretty easy to relax regardless. Those sort of emergency situations weren’t a bother to him and he often found himself becoming the voice of reason, mostly to himself because he couldn’t be bothered to really reassure anyone else, especially because they all seemed to be mildly okay with it – after all, they were in a store. They had food and water and even if they didn’t have power, at least they wouldn’t die of starvation if nobody ever found them. It’d be death by cold or something.

But nonetheless, Nate was never bothered by the avalanche. He was pissed that his phone didn’t have service so he couldn’t tell anyone or call for help, and while he is the type of person to have games on his phone, he isn’t the type of person to just chill in a corner and play Subway Surfers until his phone dies.

Having lived in Wintergreen her whole life, Tess was never afraid of avalanches. She knew there was always the possibility of them happening and that they were dangerous if they did, but they never worried her. She was the type of person who’d hang off a cliff to get a picture of something cool, so avalanches were just another thing she didn’t particularly worry about. She’d never experienced one before this one, though.

When she was stuck in the car with Cam, she was a little nervous. After all, being stuck in the car wasn’t the greatest place to be in this sort of event. But she was safe, and that was what mattered. And she wasn’t alone, so that was what mattered, too. She always had food in the car. She’d bought a bottle of water earlier that day and it was still half full. She knew, deep down, that she was going to be fine.

But in the back of her mind, her thoughts were racing. What about her family? She was okay, but what if they weren’t? What if Eli was hurt, or Piper and Oliver were stuck somewhere? What if Lucas and Loren were missing and something terrible happened to Wes and Libby? What if Ethan had been injured badly and she didn’t know? But she tried to keep her cool for Cam’s sake – it wouldn’t do to have both of them freaking out. 

She kept her cool for the most part, not freaking out on the outside so she didn’t freak Cam out anymore than he already was. And for the entire time they were in the car, Tess tried to think up as many good situations where they got out of there as possible just to keep her mind occupied and not drifting off to possible bad situations.