It was the worst kind of day to be lost and alone on a mountain rain was pouring down in sheets causing Tempest’s long brown hair to stick to her face and her clothes to become heavy with water the wind was coming in gusts that seemed to last for hours and threatened to blow her right off the side of the mountain every so often lightning would streak across the sky followed by a thunderclap soon afterwards Tempest clung to the side of the mountain trying to find the same path she took on the way up if the situation weren’t so dire she would have laughed about the Irony of it all about the fact that her name was Tempest which means stormy weather and now here she is caught in a thunderstorm on the side of a mountain on a trail she was unfamiliar with so now she inched her way down the mountain clinging to the mountain face as she did one false step could spell her doom the rain made it hard to see so she could only hope she was taking the right path back down this particular path often forked and if she took the wrong one she would never find her way back somehow by some miracle she made it to the bottom of the mountain and hurried her way down the path that would lead her back to her car she fumbled with the keys for a moment before she was able to get the key in the small hole to unlock the door then she got in turned the car on and cranked up the heat holding her hands in front of the vents to warm them up before she began to drive home she knew she should have checked the weather report before leaving but it was so bright and sunny that morning and she couldn’t wait to get out who knew the weather was going to take such a bad turn well at least she was on her way home where she could take a long hot bath with lots of bubbles and then put on her favorite pajamas and sit in front of her tv with some hot chocolate and watch Gilmore girls or Harley Quinn or if she were in the mood for something spooky she had a few a haunting episodes recorded she smiled at the thought as she parked her car in the garage and went inside when she set her keys in the small dish on the counter she always kept them in she noticed the message light on the answering machine was blinking so she pushed the button to play the message

“Hey Tempest it’s me Sarah I hope you get this message before you go out today I just checked the weather and it is supposed to storm today and I think you better say home call me when you get this”

Tempest groaned in slight annoyance

“Sure now she tells me” she said grabbing the cordless phone and dialing Sarah’s number as she made her way upstairs to fill the tub for her bath