Story

            Let me tell you a little story. It's the story of life. It's important to know this story so you won't fall. This story will start out all happy but it might go..... I can't tell you. Lets begin the story. There was this girl. Her father was the leader of the Aspen tribe. You know how the girls used to be forced into marriage? Well her father was trying to get her to marry this guy who is big and strong. But she didn't love him. No matter how many times she tried, she couldn't persuade her father to not let her marry him. Her father refused to let his daughter marry someone else. "This man big and tough. May save you from wolves of the night" he told his daughter calmly. "I'd rather marry a wolf than him" she yelled and ran out of the hut. She wandered a long while until she came across a river. She sat down and sobbed.

 "This isn't fair" she sobbed. "What isn't fair" a manly voice asked. She jumped up in suprise. She saw this man standing on a rock in the river. "What are you doing here" she asked. "I might ask you the same thing. Isn't it a little cold for a girl to be out. Alone?" the man responded. "I'm not a girl," she huffed. "I'm nearly 18". "Well crongrats. You want a ribbon?" he asked sarcasticly. "What's a ribbon," she looked at him. "What are you wearing?" she asked with eyes studying him. "These are clothes. What are you wearing?" he asked. "I'm wearing deer skins....It's what my tribe wears." "Tribe? You mean... you are a Native American?" he asked hesitantly. She looked down. "I've never seen a Native American before." he said. She looked up and found that he was walking across the river. He thought it was safe, but she knew it wasn't. "Don't step there!" she yelled. Astonished, he stepped back. He stepped on a rock that made him lose his balance. As he fell in the water, she ran over to him. "I'm fine." he told her. But then he realized she bent down and picked up..a rock. He looked at her confused. She looked over at him and said "you hurt him". "Whatever do you mean? It's a rock. Rocks got no feelings." he said. "They do," she said, "everything has feelings no matter how big or small". He looked at her like she was crazy. "I should go.." she said. She slowly walked away. "Wait! What's your name?" He yelled after her. She looked over her shoulder and said, "Next time you'll see." He watched her walk away.



        "You should've seen him. He was handsome". "Really?" "Yes." "Go back to work!", Thomas yelled. The girl and her sister walked over to the fire pit. The girl bent over to grab the coals. She picked them up and her fiance hit her and said, "No you get water. Be a good wife. You must follow man." She set them down and murmured yes Thomas. She scurried to the river. When she got there, she saw the man again. "Why hello there "Next time you'll see"". he said. She smiled. He looked at her closely. "What happened to your face?" he asked. Her hand went up to her cheek, "I fell," she said quietly. "Mmmhmmm. Let me see," he went over to her. His gentle hands caressed her hurting cheek. "I know he hit you" he said quietly. She looked down. "Can you tell me your name?' he asked. "M-my name is Winter. Winter bird" she said. He looked into her eyes. "That's a lovely name" he whispered. She got chills traveling up and down her arms. "Winter!! You come now!!" Thomas yelled. "Yes" Winter said quietly. She scurried to get the water and ran over to Thomas. She walked away with Thomas. She looked over her shoulder to look at the man. He say him wave her good bye as he.... was he crying?


        A few days past since the man last saw Winter. He had to stay by the river for his post. But he couldn't handle not seeing her. He walked the direction he hoped to see her emerge from everyday. As he walked he saw amazing things. He saw a doe with her young. He saw a buck fighting another buck for a female. He walked straight until he saw a village. "This must be her tribe" he whispered to himself. He saw a young girl and said "Have you seen Winter?" The young girl squealed and said something in a tounge he didn't understand. "Excuse me?" he asked politely. She yelled something and he saw her. He saw Winter in her...wedding dress? "Winter" he breathed. She stared at him for a while then attacked him with a hug. He hugged back and put his head in the crook of her neck. "What are you doing here man?" She asked. "I came to see you" he answered. She pulled away. "You must go." "What I just got here" She looked around. "You must go before it's to late. Go." she said. "Why? What's going on?" he asked. "You must-" she started. "Winter! Who is that man?" Thomas yelled. Thomas came over to them. "My name is Logan. I've come here to take Winter and call her my own" Logan said. Thomas looked at Logan and laughed. "Why, you no man like I" Thomas said. "I real man. You not" "I am pretty sure I am a real man because I don't hit women" Logan spat at Thomas.


  By this time they were face to face with Winter screaming no in the background. Thomas went to make a move, but Logan was faster than Thomas. Logan swept Thomas off his feet with ease. Winter screamed as she saw Thomas wrench Logan off his feet. During his fall, Logan twisted his ankle and banged his head against the cold hard ground. Within seconds, everything went black for Logan. Winter screamed and ran over to Logan. She gently picked his head up and put his head in her lap. She started to sob as her soon-to-be-husband laughed. "Why you crying for him, woman?" he demanded while laughing. "I-I love him" she responded while sobbing. He immediatly stopped laughing. "You love him? Winter you must not love him. Love Thomas," her father insisted. She shooked her head and sobbed. She layed her head on Logan's head. A single tear left her eye and fell on Logan's face. Logan's eyes fluttered open. "Oh!" Winter exlaimed. "Logan! You are okay!" she hugged him. "What-what happened?" he asked. "Don't worry about that" Winter said softly. Thomas looked on at the two with rage. He stomped away into the forest. "Oh does somebody need a nappy-wappy?" Logan asked in a little kid voice. Everyone laughed. Winter helped Logan up and they faced her father. Her father nodded to Logan and said, "welcome, son".


    A few years has came and gone as Logan and Winter are rocking themselves on their porch watching their little twin girls playing with a little boy. They were in a agruement of what to play next. "You pretty. You not real, I'm real" the little boy said to one of their daughters. "We should play mommy and daddy." One daughter said. "No. I don't wanna" said the boy. One of their daughters poked him in the chest. "You play". "Ouch" the little boy said, "You poked my heart". "Are you okay? Say sorry" one of the daughters said. They continued to argue when Winter came over to them. "Now, now children. Don't fight." she said calmly. They all said okay and ran off around the yard. She went back to Logan and hugged him. He hugged back but with a questionable look. She shooked her head smiling like a thousand chersire cats.


   When the twins were 16, one of them got a boyfriend. Logan and Winter didn't want her to have one yet but it was too late. After a while, she was on her way to her boyfriends house. On her way there she got hurt really bad. She was in the hospital for 4 weeks. But during those four weeks, her boyfriend stayed by her side. Every time she had pain he ran to get the doctor. Every time she had a nightmare, he was there to hold her till she fell back asleep. Logan and Winter started to like him. But one day they got in a fight. Winter comforted her. As she was going to lose all hope for men, he came to her door. "Mary, I have a story for you. I hope this makes you love me again, but if it doesn't.... I hope it stays with you". He told her about this young Native American girl that fell for this man that she shouldn't have loved. Her father, the chief, was filled with fury when he found out. He cursed his daughter into a moon and the man into an wolf. So every full moon, when the moon is at it's highest, the man howls his love to the moon. She started to cry as he held her close. They told each other that they loved each other.


A few weeks later he proposed. A few months after that, they got married. Winter was happy when she found out that her daughter was pregnant. When the baby girl was born, Winter found out that she named the baby after her sister. They both started to cry as they held each other. She held her daughter close to her as her mother fell asleep. But something was wrong. Logan gently shook Winter. "Honey, time to wake up" he said. He continued to shake her but she didn't wake up. He was starting to get worried. He told someone to get a doctor when he found out that she wasn't breathing but it was too late. He sat there next to her crying. They got her into a gurney and put her in a seperate room. They were able to revive her. She stayed in the hospital for a few weeks and then she was able to go home. Logan and her got in a fight after she was home for a few weeks and she threw a rock at him. It hit the wall and he knelt down to pick it up. "You hurt him" he said quietly. "It's a rock! It doesn't have feelings" she yelled at him. He looked up at her. "Everything has feelings no matter how big or small" he told her. She stared at him. "Like when we first met.." she said quietly. She started to shake. He got up and led her to the couch. Something was wrong. She looked at him and everything went black.


A few years has passed. Logan hasn't gotten another wife. Every night he cried. Every day he begged someone to save him. Then, he stopped. Their daughter and grandchildren were upset. The daughter blamed herself saying she should've saved him. Well, that's the story.