THESE MOMENTS
BY
SILJA JÓNSDÓTTIR
We had been on and off for about a year when we went on that skiing trip and I still couldn‘t understand why we always came back to each other... She was always freaking out and that really bothered me and i knew that sometimes i was a little bit careless. I guess i am still a kid and she had grown up and hated how naive I acted, but thats no excuse for beeing angry all the time! I waited in the car for quite a while for her. We drove for several hours and i was very excited. We talked all the way and listened to my favorite Christmas song over and over again. It started well and i was beginning to feel good about this trip. When we arrived i jumped tired to a small bed in the middle of the room. She looked annoyed that i didn´t help her unpack the bags but i was tired and i just wanted to go to sleep, so she did too. It was snowing so much we could barely see through the window and we hurried outside. We skied down the hill many many times, fell down a couple of times. But it was wonderful. We stopped at a pizza restaurant on our way back to our little house to get some dinner and we ordered lovely pizzas. At least i did... She had ordered a margarita with extra cheese, and when the pizza came she freaked out on the waitor and said there was way too much cheese on the pizza and she wanted another one. I just wanted to have a relaxed evening so i didn‘t fight her and she got her pizza. The next day she freaked out about every little thing! Let‘s say i didn‘t make my bed, are you gonna freak out, or are you just gonna be cool with it? She freaked out! Maybe i fell 7 times in one run. Are you gonna freak out on me or are you just gonna laugh, help me up and keep skiing down? She freaked out! I knew we were going to stay there for a week so we might as well just keep skiing although i knew she was gonna freak out. For 2 days it was just her freaking out and me trying to cheer her up, telling stupid jokes but that only made things worse! For 3 days she had not freaked out the tiniest bit so when we were in the lift i decided to sing my favorite Christmas song as there were only 13 days to Christmas! ‚Good King Wenceslas last looked out On the feast of Stephen When the snow lay round about Deep and stiff and even‘ She laughed! ‚Not stiff?‘ ‚When the snow lay round about Deep and crisp and even!‘
We laughed. ,,Brightly shone the moon that night Though the frost was cruel When a poor man came in sight‘‘ She sung with me: ‚Gath'ring winter fuuuueeeeel! When we sung that last line together i realized that it were these kinds of moments that made us come back to each other. It‘s only 2 years since i went on that ski trip with you. I remember it like it was yesterday. We broke up 2 days after we came home, and never got back together. Although i know that it was the right thing to breake up i still miss you on lonely Desember nights when Good king Wenceslas sings in my head.