Page 22 of Single Girl Rules: HoHoHo

I wished they could have skied down with us. But we had tonsof luggage. And they needed to do a thorough inspection of the ski lift beforeusing it to transport our luggage down to the hotel.

“Wait,” said Ash. “What’s that black diamond for on that sign?”

But it was too late for questions. Ghostie and Teddybear hadalready given us a shove to get us started down the mountain. I greatlyappreciated that Ghostie shoved me by pushing on my ass. If I was lucky, I’d beable to have his hands all over me again soon.

“Chastity! What does the sign mean?!” Ash yelled again.

“Don’t worry about it!” I shouted over to her. The black diamondmeant that this was a super challenging slope only for experts. But Ash saidshe’d been skiing before. I was sure she could handle it.

And I was right. She was skiing like an absolute pro. Infact, she was going the fastest out of any of us.

I pointed my skis to try to catch up to her, but she justkept going faster and faster.

I finally caught her just as the first trees started to comeinto view.

“You’re doing amazing!” I yelled over the wind in our faces.

“AHHHHHHHHHH!” she screamed back.

I’m loving her enthusiasm!“You’re a natural!”

“No I’m not! I can’t slow down!”

“Just lean and turn your skis!” I yelled. And then I added, “Veryslightly.”

But I wasn’t sure she heard that last part. Because she leanedsuper hard to the right and turned her skis at least 45 degrees.

One second she’d been in the middle of the slope, and thenext second she was headed directly towards the woods at like 90 miles perhour.

Shit!

Chapter 6 – Mesh and Lederhosen

Christmas Eve, 2013

I turned to follow Ash into the woods. But I did it much moredelicately than she had. Slavanka was right behind me.

“Ash?!” I yelled into the forest as I wove between trees. Atthis speed, with this much snow, and with the sun setting, I could hardly see athing.

But I could still hear her screaming bloody murder.

Ash?

Out of the corner of my eye I saw a bright white blur barrelingstraight towards me, so I turned my skis a little.

Ash flew past me, less than an inch away from clipping myskis.

“Watch out!” I yelled. The next obstacle in her path was a particularlythick tree that would really not be good to crash into.

I let out a sigh when she swerved to avoid it and two moretrees.

She turned back to look at me. “What?!”

No! Don’t look at me!“TREE!” We were skiing through afreaking forest!

“WHAT?!” she yelled louder.

I lifted my ski pole and pointed in front of her.

---