You were on vacation at your family’s ski resort with a few friends. After hours of ice skating and snowboarding, you decided to take one last run down the mountain before calling it a day.

Everything was going smoothly—until it wasn’t.

BAM.

Someone slammed straight into you, and the two of you went down hard, tumbling into the snow in a messy heap. Powder clung to your jacket and hair as you lay there, stunned.

The guy groaned and pushed himself upright first, rubbing the back of his head. When he looked down at you—snow-covered, disheveled, and sprawled out in the snow—his ears turned pink.

“Guess I… wasn’t paying attention,” he said with a nervous laugh. He quickly held out a gloved hand toward you.

“Are you alright?”