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A few seconds later, Veronica opened her eyes and found herself on the sidewalk. She only fainted for a matter of seconds, not even in terms of minutes lying there. She started to head towards the convenience store, as Luis and Allison arrived.
“Veronica, are you feeling okay?” Allison asked as Luis followed along into the convenience store with her.
Veronica was beginning to feel a craving, starting to develop within her mouth and stomach. She went towards the slushie machines and saw that there were about 6 different flavours. The flavours consisted of blueberry, green lime, Sprite, Coca Cola, banana and Fanta Orange. She picked up three jumbo sized containers, filled up each jumbo container, then laid them down on the counter to cash out. She headed towards the freezer section, got tons of freeze pops, ice cream sandwiches.
“Veronica?” Luis looked in shock on how much she was buying in terms of cold drinks and snacks. “You sure you are feeling okay?”
“I’m fine guys,” Veronica smiled. “Just having one of those days, just need something to cool myself off with.”
“Erhm okay….,” Allison and Luis spoke at the same time as she cashed out and took her slushies and cold snacks.
They exited the convenience store. Veronica sat down by the curb right by the store. She raised up her jumbo slushie container and drank it immediately. She was drinking nonstop, as Luis and Allison were witnessing this. She finished the entire jumbo slushie and did not experience a brain freeze or even cheek freeze at all. She threw the empty cup in a nearby trash can. She proceeded onto the next one, again drinking it in one go.
“You’re gonna get a huge brain freeze,” Luis warned her. “Are you sure you feel okay?”
Veronica ignored the statement, as she finished the second jumbo sized slushie and proceeded onto the third. Her feet, skin and body were starting to feel cold; it was as if temperature in the environment was dropping rapidly. It was a warm day out; the sidewalks were burning hot with barely any wind blowing that day. She finished her third jumbo sized slushie and threw it away in the trash can. Luis and Allison witnessed with opened mouths that, she did not experience a brain freeze or cheek freeze at all.
“Unreal!” Luis exclaimed. “What are you? I’ve known you all my life and I know you were sensitive to these kinds of things, experiencing brain freezes and all.”
As Veronica started eating the ice cream sandwiches and freeze pops, a transformation on herself was beginning to happen slowly. Her hair was beginning to get harder and harder, losing its silky touch. She began to feel the weight of her hair becoming a burden, since it was getting slightly harder to raise her head up in a proper posture position. She touched her hair and noticed that it felt like icicles and she began to run away, as she witnessed her skin getting icicles slowly around it. Luis and Allison witnessed that, dropping the ice cream sandwiches on the sidewalk.
“I gotta go, guys,” Veronica stammered. “Got to check on Trixie.”
“Veronica!” Luis tried to chase after her. “Wait!”
“I will go after her, Luis,” Allison stopped Luis. “Go to your archery tournament. I will let you know how’s she doing.”
“You sure?” Luis said. Allison nodded and began to chase after her. Luis sighed.
Veronica headed around the corner of the street and was gone before Allison could get to her. Her feet were beginning to feel brittle and cold in her shoes, also numbness started to develop around the soles of her feet and toes. She took off her shoes, since she needed breathing space for her feet, and she laid them on the hot warm sidewalk, but it did not really help at all. The soles of her feet weren’t getting enough blood flowing, constrained by the cold and numbness. She carried her shoes and began to run through the trails, heading back home.
As she ran and ran through the trails in the woods, the plants and grass around her started to turn into ice as her feet had contact with the ground. She witnessed that ice trail was surrounding her as she kept running and running. She continued running but suddenly-
THUMP!
Her foot got caught in a branch, that was sticking out from the stump of a tree, which was at the edge of a soil cliff. She tumbled down towards the lake. She screamed as she lost hold of her shoes and before she hit the lake, an extraordinary, magnificent event happened. She unleashed a long-curved sheet of an ice wave, which helped her slide within it and prevented her from getting wet. The ice sheet formed into an ice slide that helped her get to the edge of the lake and land safely back onto the soil ground. Her shoes ended up in a pile of mud, she sighed in a depressed tone, picking them up.
Her hands were beginning to shiver, her fingers could barely hold the shoes and she dropped them. She was beginning to panic as she looked at her feet, hands and touched her hair. “What is happening to me?” She yelled in a scared tone.
She tied her shoes together with their laces while her fingers were shaking or starting to get more numbed. As she swiftly used her feet to run in the trails on her way home, ice sheets began to generate around her bare feet, causing the soil a couple meter radius around her to freeze. She slipped on the ice sheet that she generated, landed on her behind and groaned in pain slightly, as she grinded her teeth
