Immediately, Joe picked up on the situation and sprang into action, quickly loading them into the car.
Jenny had suggested that they listen to her favorite Christmas CD, so they drove through the flickering flakes of snow as the Chipmunks chattered out, “Christmas, Christmas don’t be late.”
About fifteen minutes into their drive, the snow became so thick they could barely see through the window.
“We better turn back while we still can,” Joe decided, the streets becoming quickly wrapped in white.
Jenny was occupied in telling Miranda such when Skyler leaned over and in a soft tone told him, “Joe, if I go back home with you, I could become stranded. Doesn’t look like the snow will fade anytime soon.”
“Then you’ll stay the night,” he told her in an offhanded tone, deciding that he loved snow. “Always wondered what it would be like to have an elf sleep over,” he laughed in a light tone.
“But-but, I don’t have any spare clothes - and there’s the business about my job and returning the van to the company. I must do such before the morning,” she told him, her face looking worried.
Joe found that he didn’t like her looking stressful, and realized that he’d placed her in a tricky predicament. In fact, she could lose her job because of him.
As things turned out, they barely made it back to the house - the roads banked so thickly in snow that it was almost impossible to tell the roads from the ditches. And they had been the only ones foolish enough to brave the snowstorm.
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