The lights of the oncoming car winked at Sue and her sister, Elaine as they waited along the side of the road...

It had been a bitterly cold wait. Sue and Elaine were all too eager to be home. Christmas was always a fun-filled time spent with family and friends. Elaine had been so excited to pick Sue up from the airport and travel home for the holidays with her. Five months ago Sue had departed for College and Elaine had missed her. Home felt so empty, the room they shared together felt equally void of her presence. Elaine longed for those nights the two would stay up late into the early hours of the morning chatting about everything under the sun. That was life as it was - a past reality they never really stopped to think would ever change. Sue was in college now - Elaine would soon follow next year. Life was changing and it came to a shrieking reality as the two girls sat huddled on the roadside with a blown-out tire and new awareness of just how different things were and could be down the road. For now - all they cared about was home, the Christmas lights that were ahead, and the opportunity to just be together, if for a while.