It’s a winter wonderland outside the window, windshield wipers working overtime to reveal the powdery scene to you and Leon. With finals out of the way and the uncertainty of what each exam score will procure for your overall grades a concern to be handled after winter break ends.

Leon tells you that there’s not much driving left, that you two will make it to Aspen in just a little under an hour. That’s enough time for another Creed album, according to him.

“The seat’s warm enough for you?” Leon asks, turning his head to gauge his daughter’s comfort within the passenger seat.

Oh, how his little girl’s grown. There was a time where you’d yet learned how to stand up on your on two feet—he swears it was only yesterday.