"I still don't understand why Gin wants to move!" Jewel groaned as she helped Alex pack some of Ginny and Shawns possessions.

"The twins will be in the hospital for a long time, so they are going to rent a house that's closer to the hospital, that way they can see them every day." Alex explained. Jewel pouted for a moment, but then picked up Peaches and ran out side to "help" James and Jacob load a sofa onto the bed of their truck, when really she just sat there and watched. Ginny was still in the hospital, but Shawn had arranged everything already. He rented a small house closer to the city, and rented their house that was in Palomino Valley out to one of his friends from college, who was newly married and wanted a small house for their starter house. They agreed to find somewhere else to live once the twins were released from the hospital. In the mean time, they would care for the few animals Shawn and Ginny started out with, which consisted of three goats, ten cows, Gold Dust and Shawns mare, Polka. They would keep their two dogs with them.

  Once the truck was loaded, James got into the driver seat, Jewel wedged herself in the middle, and Jacob sat in the passenger seat. It took them a little over half an hour to reach the new house. Once they arrived, Shawn helped them unload and arrange the furniture in the small house. James looked out the front door and he bit his lip.

"Now that is depressing." He mumbled. Shawn heard him, and nodded.

"I know, Ginny is going to hate it." The back yard was tiny, and had one fruit tree that was a year old. There was no grass, and the fence was weather worn. From the back door, they could see into their neighbors house. Jacob grew up in these kinds of conditions, but his sister hadn't. She lived in Florida until she was four, then Alex and Collin got devorcied and Alex moved to Nevada to live with her parents with Peter, Ginny and James. She went back to school to get a job that way she could provide for her little children, and met David at UNR. He lived out in Palomino Valley, and after Alex married him, she took her three children and moved to the ranch they still currently own. David extended the ranch a bit, and made some minor changes, but that was really all Ginny ever knew. Florida was a blur to her, unlike Jacob, who sadly remembers it all. Moving so suddenly into the city would depress his sister, even more then she already was from her twins being in the hospital. He knew it was a bad start for their family.

   David drove up with the last truck load and they quickly unloaded. They didn't bother taking down the nursery in the old farm house,  because they knew the second the twins were released from the hospital, they would be back in Palomino Valley. This gave them all some hope, that Ginny would be back in her rightful place on her small ranch before they knew it.

***

That evening, before he prepared to go to school for the next day, Jacob ran out to the barn and slipped into Chevy's stall. He had been so preoccupied with everything else going on in his life lately, that he hadn't payed much attention to his mare. She slowly approached him as he shut the door. He smiled as her lip began to move side to side as she touched his shoulder, searching for any treats. He held up his hands to show her that he didn't bring anything with him and she turned around, walking away from him.

"Oh, so that all I am to you? Treat bearer? The person who bringeth thy treats? Is that all I am, Queen Chevrolet?" He gasped, taking a mock bow in her direction. She let out a snort and he smiled as he straighten.

"Keep telling yourself that, Chevy. You love me, you just don't know it yet." He said wrapping his arms around her large neck. She was growing out her coat due to the rapidly declining temperature. As it grew out, her coat was becoming darker. Something they've noticed happening with Wildfire as well. He looked back up at her and brushed a bit of mud off her white blaze, making the spot where it had just been yellow. He sat down in the shavings and stared at her for about five minutes, just admiring her beauty and the fact the she was his. Back in Florida, he couldn't even imagin the thought of owning his own horse. She had approved a lot in the past five months that she had lived at the Maxwell ranch. She still lived in the specail stall though, that was made just for the mustangs that came to live with them.  It was a larger stall then the others, because they wanted them to have enough room to run around a bit. Chevy was kept in here because she gave birth, and they needed more room to keep the baby with her, and then with her wounded shoulder, They hadn't moved her since, and David suggested keeping her there until they got another mustang, if they ever did, that way she wouldn't have to get used to the confining conditions of the small stalls.

   Jacob must have dozed off a bit, because he was snapped out of his day dream when Jewel came running into the barn shouting his name. He stood, startling Chevy at his sudden movement. He placed a hand on her shoulder to calm her and exited the stall. Jewel ran up to him beeming with delight.

"What is it?" He asked. She paused a moment so she could catch her breath.

"It's snowing!"

***

He'd only ever seen snow in movies or pictures, never in real life. His dad used to avoid the snow as much as possible, so when it looked like it was possible to snow in Miami, which was almost never, They would go on vaction to some place where it wouldn't. A few years ago his dad took him and Hayley to Hawawii. And a few years before that, Chile. Once Jewel told him it was snowing, he pushed past her and ran outside. Mil was holding Lucy in her coat as his baby sister stared in awe at the tiny flecks of fluffy white matter falling from the sky. His three sisters had snow in their hair and Jewel began to sing Chistmas songs.

"No!" Mil shouted at her. Jewel stopped and looked at her older sister curiously.

"Why not?"

"It's late October! Christmas isn't for two months!" Mil said shaking her head. "You can start to sing Chirstmas carols after Thanksgiving." She said before she took Lucy inside the house again. Jewel looked up at Jacob, who was too facinated by catching the snow flakes that he didn't even notice the exchange between his sisters.

"What is it?" She asked her brother.

"Nothing, just never seen Snow in real life before." He said running his fingers through his dark hair to get rid of the cold particals. Jewel stared in shock.

"Do they not get snow in the city?" She asked. Jacob laughed.

"Yes, they do. But not so much down South, and when it did, my dad would take me a place were it didn't."

"So you've never even built a snowman?" Jacob shook his head. Jewel giggled a bit and they both headed inside, where she told the whole family how sad Jacob's life before Nevada was. Alex wasn't as surprised as the rest of the family, who talked all about what he had been missing his whole life, but she promised to take the whole family up to Mount Rose resort that winter to make up for lost time before she sent everyone to bed.

***

His alarm clock went off a second before James' did and the twins dragged themselves slowly out of bed, not looking forward to the school day ahead of them. Jacob looked out the window and was surprised to see only darkness. James ignored it like it was a regular thing, but Jacob was amazed. They both got dressed and stepped into the hallway, noticing it's darkness as well. Mil joined them at their door.

"Why is everything so dark? Is mom and dad awake yet?" Mil whisepred to her brothers. They were used to whispering this time of morning since the babies were still asleep. James walked over to the light switch and flicked it on, but the lights stayed off. 

"Power's out?" Jacob asked. James nodded.

"Anyone got a flashlight on them?" Jacob went back into their room and fished a flash light out of his backpack that sat on the foot of his bed. He turned it on and went back to his brother and sister.

"You just happened to have a flashlight in your backpack?" Mil asked. He shined the light in her eyes before smirking.

"I lived in Florida. I carried a flashlight everywhere. Dad said it was better that way you'd always be prepared." He didn't wait for them to respond, he just headed downt he stairs. They tried all the lights, but none of them worked. Mil took the flashlight from her brother and opened the front door to go check the barn lights but stopped.

"I think I know why." She called to her brothers. Jacob joined his sister by the door and saw that the ground was covered in a foot and a half of snow.

***

It's been nice to write this book again, and I hope you guys appreciate it as well.  The end is comeing soon. I'm going to skip to Thanksgiving soon, and then I might end with the Maxwell's Christmas. Comment and vote please! I love the feedback!

~Avis