🚗+⛈️ (snow specifically) please!
Ok given the tons of snow that’s been going on here and how awful the snow plows have been at their work, I can definitely write this one from experience now
Car Wreck + Snowy Weather
Whumpee shivered, wrapped in the blanket they had thankfully stashed in their emergency kit. There was frost on their windows. At this point, they had gotten used to the sideways tilt of the car, the scenery of the forest and empty roads around the ditch.
They’d been careful. They went a couple miles below the speed limit, they had their brights on. They didn’t know what had happened - one second everything was fine, then...
Furrowing their eyebrows, they tried really hard to remember how they’d gotten here. They’d gone to a party at a lodge with some friends, Caretaker had wanted to chaperone, but Whumpee refused. Whumpee drove themselves, it was snowing hard. They left late because it was snowing hard, actually - they didn’t know how to drive in the snow very well, but they couldn’t ask somebody else for a ride. They didn’t want to just leave Caretaker’s car in the middle of nowhere.
So they’d stayed as late as they could, and they’d started driving back home. They were careful, Caretaker warned them to be very careful. Then the car suddenly felt... loose, underneath their feet. Their view out the windshield was swaying - they couldn’t get the car under control. It was turning to the left- they turned it to the right, and-
Whumpee stared at the side of the ditch they’d landed in, the car’s front tires buried in snow. They’d desperately tried to reverse, push the car back up to the street, but it wouldn’t budge. They were stuck here, and nobody was looking for them. Their friends had already gone, and who knew if Caretaker was still awake?
The car was running, and they were able to charge their phone, but the gas was getting low. They wouldn’t be able to keep the heating on for much longer, and then it would only be a matter of time before their cellphone died as well.
They had to keep calling. It didn’t matter that there was barely any service on this mountain - they had to keep calling.
“Caretaker... P-Please pick up... Please...” they sobbed as they dialed the number again. “Please...”