Lia stepped off the bus at the bus stop corner. The icy cold air immediately met her face causing her to squint and walk briskly through the snow. She hated staying at her sister's house but all of her friends lived too far for her to commute to work everyday.
Lia had just gotten off from work and already dreaded the negative comments and criticism her sister was going to give her about her life when she got in. The only reason Lia has been staying with her the past few days is because Lia had one too many overdue heating bills and couldn't afford to keep the heat on in her own house. Regardless, that's where she was heading right now to pick up a few extra clothes.
Her long box braids swayed back and forth with each quick step she took in the crunching snow.
As she got closer to her house she could see a big round snowman sitting on her front yard. "Who made THAT?" Lia thought to herself not remembering seeing it there when she last left the house and never even building a snowman a day in her life.
Lia walked up to it and took note of the effort someone put into making it such as the rocks forming eyes and a smiling mouth, a carrot stick in place of the nose, and a few more rocks going down it's body like buttons.
She quickly turned her head and looked to see if anybody was around or maybe hiding behind a parked car waiting to see her reaction but there was nobody. Lia seemed to be the only person outside on her block in this freezing temperature.
"Damn kids," she said to herself before marching up the deep snow covered walkway leading to her front door.
When she got inside, she closed the door but didn't bother to lock it figuring she would only be a few minutes.
While upstairs looking through her bedroom closet tossing pants and hooded sweatshirts onto her bed she sees an old black top hat sitting in the corner. "Alright, now I definitely don't remember where this came from!" Lia said to herself holding up the mysterious top hat.
That's when the idea came to her.
"Well since I now have a snowman, I might as well complete the look!" Lia said giggling to herself while taking the top hat downstairs and out the front door.
She marched up to the snowman and placed the top hat right on it's head. "Perfect!" Lia said before looking at it for another moment. As she turned to start back into the house, she thought she saw something sparkle out the corner of her eye. When she looked to see what it was nothing had changed. The snowman was still there wearing the top hat and nobody was around.
Back in her bedroom after ten minutes of collecting a few clothes, Lia packed them into a backpack and was finally ready to leave for her sisters place. When she got downstairs, she suddenly stopped moving at the sight of her front door being wide open and a long track of snow leading inside to her kitchen.
Lia knew that wasn't the way she left the door. She had closed it but still didn't bother to lock it the second time she entered the house. She also knew that she could easily run out of the house right now fearing the intruder may still be inside but there wasn't any foot prints. The long track of snow on the floor was literally just a long track as in two narrow lines of snow which had a wide space in between them.
Curiosity got the best of Lia as she sat her backpack down quietly on the floor and tiptoed following the long track of snow into the kitchen.
Her eyes suddenly grew wide in disbelief and she gasped in terror as she saw the snowman that was outside wearing her top hat now standing in front of her open refrigerator drinking a carton of iced tea with big hands and muscular arms made completely of snow! It was even still wearing the black top hat on his head!
Once it noticed her presence it immediately dropped the iced tea carton he was drinking from and stood there staring at her.
Lia was too much in shock to move. She felt her heart beating so fast she thought the living snowman could see it pounding through her Christmas sweater under her winter coat!
Something then started forming on the bottom half of the snowman still staring at her.
Lia could see something round and clear start to poke out of the snowman's torso. Then it got bigger and bigger and bigger until it was about 6 inches long and was sticking straight out! A single snowflake then formed at the tip of it and fell slowly and silently down to the floor melting into water.
