The snow, the more anxious. The window in the corner of the wood division, and the snow. The winter sky overcast one.
Suddenly, a bird fly into the yard flopped about, lurching fall in snow, mouth down fall on the ground. Then tried to stand up, staggered walking back and forth, down from on the ground a peck.
Boy on windowsill, nose against the glass, looked at the bird and thinking about: night can avoid the family to slip away? In the yard of that piece of couch leaves fall full of snow, should it come over pour...
Mother inside out her a sound, the boy took down a hallway walked toward the kitchen.
He walked into the warm hallway, sat down at the table waiting for breakfast. As usual, and mom doing short prayer before Thanksgiving. The boy had to use the fingernails on the table in the old stroke to off. A prayer over, picked up the spoons, into the hot chicken soup noodles bowl.
He broke the cookies, bubble into the soup, barely raise eyelid sitting opposite looked younger sister. Sister's eyes have been followed his face turned.
He finished eating the noodle soup, and drank dry her milk: "can I go?"
Mother looked up and puzzled: "where?"
Boy impatient staring at mom, think he should have know: "I think over the try out my new skates."
Mother at the sister at side, said softly: "wait a few minutes, take her."
The boy a push away the chair, cried: "I a person to, don't take her!"
"Please, this jie, you never give her a chance, you know, he likes skating. As you think, because he is a mute, can ignore her, but this time or let her go with you."
A pinch of grey hair hanging down, hang in a mother's pale face, he tired waved his hand: "the younger sister in the hallway of the ice skates closet." Boy angrily stared at my mother and sister, screamed at the top of my lungs shouted: "I just don't take her!"
Say that finish, he rushed to the closet, grabbed his coat, mittens and hat, the door of "bang" behind the rejection, ran into the garage, took off skates on the shoulder, and ran into the courtyard. Couch still lay quietly in there. The boy went up to him and put them off at the end of a dynasty and a smile ran towards the field.
The boy in the snow covered the horse sat on feed box, put on ice skates, put on shoes is together, on the shoulder, and to the pool to walk. He made in the pond, shaking with excitement.
Suddenly, a hand has pulled the boy's coat, he a surprised, the lower the head, found the sister. He put the sister according to sit down, thinking it, and want to take back the sister, and thought, and if so, will attract more trouble. Thought of here, boy to sister put on ice skates, her cruel pull force shoes, carry eyes to see the face of the fear of pain sister have expression. But have no...... A change also have no, although have deep into the shoes of his flesh, but he still sit still, watching the brother, two eyes to see her heart of silent the deepest.
"Mom why not have a lovely child, but had a you." The boy looked at younger sister, as if he is a burdensome hate items, he even for yourself this hate sister and indignation up his own. Sometimes, he found himself even can't remember the name of the younger sister; Perhaps, he would forget is....... His sister to lace up your shoes, and got up and went away.
A little wind, blow through the boy's corduroy trousers, he slipped away to the middle of the pond and began to slide, bare ankle in the cold and have a comfortable in the stabbing pain. He can feel a sharp blade "path" wipe enjoy ice. Threatening cold, cold wind in her cheeks and ears and sole was painful cold.
The boy backward slide, see sister with up from behind, he stared at the sister in a graceful posture toward his slippery, and he also knew she always slippery so beautiful.
Sister finger movements not very well, but he was slippery than anyone. Perhaps it is her short and thin let him feel disgusted, the pale, ash do not sneak away autumn unlucky things.
The boy looked at the little sister light slide over the pond, like a disc cutting down of borneol. He hit a corner and skateboards forward. In the stop to wipe my nose, he felt a tug on her big skirt, he an beating sister's hand, in another direction slippery.
He looked up and went looking for his figure, no! He cross to the middle of the pond, looking around, found in another sister pond head, beyond the safety zone! Although no sign, but he know there ice thin as paper.
For an instant, the boy was shocked. Can a turned again, once an accident, it is easy to explain, he said to his mother as long as he was not know there skating...... sister From then on, my mother is old and tired expression will be full of wrinkles from the face elimination...... From then on, sister in the bedroom will never spread again and again the patience and persuasion; Never has a sister refused to myself to learn to tie my shoelaces, mother of that kind of helpless in the face of facial expression; Also don't see mother tears......
The boy was, look at the more slippery more far younger sister. Suddenly, a bird broke into her line of sight, that is a clumsy Wu snow. At the moment, he appears more delicate, but fly so beautiful, he slowly across the pond. The boy was about to look closely, but he disappeared, but suddenly he still see, he is in the courtyard of the morning to see only elf!
The boy's two legs began to accelerate stamped on, gets crazy had hewn out in the ice. Sister gone! The boy was so anxious, legs like on fire and he waved his arms, trying to speed up, total feel fast enough. The tears from his eyes welled out. Sister gone! He had watched it slide to thin ice.
Then, he heard the sound of huge ice fracture, and feel the ice tremor.
The boy exerted to collapse of the ice edge smooth, be careful to climb on the ice, and caught the sister of the coat HouJin, cold water immediately frozen her fingers, he holding, run out whole body energy pulled up. Sister head appeared, but coat but slipped out from his hand, sister and to sink. In despair, he put his arms are into the water, crazy even touch with grasp, and finally the coat in the hand grasp, and this time, the sister hauled the ice.
It seemed a long time, he stared at the sister blue in the face, silent qi tell his eyes can open soon. Sister finally slowly open your eyes. His heart was cramps. Sister and trembling, the boy quickly take off his wet clothes, put her thin body wrapped tight in his coat. He used the hand of frozen removed her skating socks, set in the sister's feet. The piercing cold immediately following his arch climb up.
Frozen hands how also solution don't open up your shoes, he put them at random on set, picked up sister, toward the shore run. Her sister, stiff. He noticed sister lips cut, bleeding from his pocket paper towel, dry for his blood. She bowed his head, and want from sister's eyes to find out what look, but still what also have no......
No pain, no blame, what also have no...... Only the tears. But once upon a time, she never saw sister cry once, although some time, my mother was the sad sister before frazzle, he still is indifferent sat there. But now, her eyes welled tears, tears flowing down from his face. The boy finally remembered her name--Cheryl!
He struggled to brother warm body crowded, boy used up the strength to cuddle her tightly in the bosom, he followed with sister, gently calling his name. Finally, he found that younger sister's eyes a tender feelings, he recognized her elder brother!
Boy quickened his pace, and walked toward the house.
