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Hopefully she was just
being stupid. She really didn’t relish the idea of turning around and enduring
the mostly uphill drive back to her house. It would be much easier to make once
they had plowed and sanded. Her road was actually high on the priority list of
the back streets, because of her hill. There was also a man down the street who
worked for the city, so that probably helped.
    “Okay. I just get really nervous
driving in the snow. You seem to be a good driver though,” she added just to
verify that she didn’t think it was him.
    “Thanks, but it’s not me I’m
worried about. There are bunches of idiots out there that don’t know how to
drive, but still insist on going out. I’m trying to keep an eye out for any of
them. Case in point, the idiot on the right who just realized that his light is
red and he can’t stop.”
    Haley turned her head quickly and
gasped as the car spun full speed around to the side and then into the center
of the intersection. The guy was spinning, trying to get his car in the right
direction, and she turned to look and see if anyone was coming up behind them.
    Austin threw the truck in reverse
and backed up, going through the gas station. As he drove out the other side of
the driveway, she looked and saw that if he had remained where he was, the
other car would have hit them. “Nice move.”
    “Thanks. He has no idea what he is
doing and I figured he would slide in our direction sooner or later. Plus it
was making me nervous to be sitting at a green light when we couldn’t move.
Visibility isn’t all that great.”
    Haley nodded. She suddenly needed
to be closer to him and unbuckled her seatbelt, sliding over and putting on the
central one. At least that way if they were hit on her side, she wouldn’t be
against the door.
    Austin put his hand on her knee
briefly and gave her a smile. “You really are nervous, aren’t you?”
    “Just a little. If it had been me,
I would have stayed in the house until it melted some. On two different
occasions I was driving home in the snow and was almost hit. Then of course there
is my hill. You have to take it quickly or risk getting rear-ended. The hill is
so steep that you also need the momentum to get up it. If your tires don’t
catch, you slide straight into a tree. I actually stopped with maybe two inches
to spare one day. Then of course, was the job of getting the car rolling again.
To be stuck on the bottom and have someone else try to make the turn, you are
both in trouble.”
    “I can understand that. Your hill
is a bitch. Of course this truck has four-wheel drive which helps.” He pulled
into a long driveway and headed toward the back. “A young couple owns the front
house, but there is a right-of-way clause in the land agreement. They have to
make sure I always have access to get through.”
    The driveway was unplowed further
back and he stopped the truck, putting it in park. “Stay put for a few minutes
while I plow this. I don’t want to pack the snow down.”
    Tugging up his hood, Austin got
out. He hurried to a shed off to the side of the driveway and swung open the
large door. Within minutes, he was zipping out in a quad with a plow on the
front. Haley sat and watched as he wove a zigzag pattern back and forth across
the driveway, pushing the snow to either side. He disappeared into the falling
snow and she wondered exactly how far back his property actually went.
    Turning on the radio, she
discovered it was a station she liked. She started to sing, despite the fact
that her singing voice was horribly off key. It wasn’t like there was anyone to
hear her, and it offset the creepiness that was seeping slowly into her brain. To
be sitting in his truck, waiting for him to return was unnerving. When she saw
him racing back up the driveway a few moments later, Haley breathed a sigh of
relief. He pulled the quad back into the shed and then came out, shutting and
locking the door behind him. Stopping only to shake some of the