Bella woke up the next morning to Edward's beautiful face, breathing sweet air onto hers. He looked so peaceful, he could have been sleeping. His eyes opened and they grinned at eachother for a second before Edward sat up and cradled Bella in his arms.

"It's going to be really cold out. Want me to get you something to wear?" he asked, a smile in his voice. Bella could see, for once, the little boy that Edward had been a long time ago. She looked back and saw the enthusiasm playing in his eyes. She couldn't help but smile back.

"I can pick something out." She stood up and ruffled through her closet, pulling out a ridiculous amount of clothes. She looked at it for a moment before pulling out a pair of under armour pants and an under armour shirt, soft black pants, a navy blue turtleneck, a blue hoodie, and wooly socks.

Edward waited patiently on the bed, touching the warm black blanket Bella had just been under, while Bella picked out her clothes and smiled, content. She began to inch off her pants and looked up at a transfixed Edward. She grinned.

"Are you going to watch?"

Edwards eyebrows flew up and he pulled together an adorable innocent look before covering his eyes with his hands. Bella had to struggle not to run over to the bed and kiss him again and again.

She quickly pulled on her two layers of pants, her three shirts, and her winter jacket. Edward pulled his hands away and soon was at her side, handing her boots from behind the door. They were black and long and had sheepskin on the inside of them.

Bella winced but accepted them. "I'm only taking these because I out grew my old ones and I forgot to get some new ones. But thank you," she added, hugging Edward. "I love them."

"You're very welcome," he said, kissing her head. "You look so…warm," he said.

"Ugh. I look like an overstuffed marshmallow, but it'll be better than freezing to death out there." She pulled away to grab her gloves but Edward already had them, along with her hat. "I found these in your closet."

Bella grabbed them, struggling to reach her other hand because her arms were stiff with her fluffy layers. Edward reached over with a smile and put on her gloves.

"Let's go!" he exclaimed, excitment in his eyes. "Everyone's waiting for us."

Bella had momentarily forgotten about the snowball fight. "Oh. Right." Dread washed over her. "But Edward, how will I be able to play? It'll be hard enough for me to make it through the snow without landing in it."

"Bella, vampire snowball fights aren't the same as normal ones," he said, fidgeting as he was rearing to go.

"Why not?" she asked, but Edward was already out the door.

Later:

Charlie had still been sleeping, so Bella just left a note for him. Then they climbed into the car and began to drive. All too soon she felt Edward make the familiar turn into the Cullen's driveway. Edward climbed out and took Bella's hand once she had. His thumb rubbed rhythmic circles on her hand.

They were immediately met by a white blur. When it slowed, Bella could see it was Alice, and she was jumping up and down.

"Edward and Bella, you're on my and Jasper's team. We're going to win! Let's go!"

"Will you?" Edward gestured towards his back.

"Alright," Bella muttered, and climbed on Edward, piggy-back style.

Soon, they were at the spot they had once played baseball, that time they met Victoria and the others. Bella frowned with the memory, so glad that that was all over with now.

The scene was incredible. Two giant walls of snow were built up for forts. All sorts of sizes and shapes of snowballs were piled on one side. Jasper stood, wearing only a thin shirt, and nodded. "We're ready."

"Edward, why aren't your snowball fights the same?"

"They are the same," Alice said. "Just faster."

Bella's eyes grew wide.

"Obviously they'll take it easy on you, Bella," Alice added. "And Edward would be right in front of you."

Bella gulped and nodded, but decided there was no way she was going out there.

"We're ready," Alice said at normal volume.

Suddenly, they heard a sound like a gun shot followed by several others. Bella realized that those were snowballs smashing against their fort. Amazingly, their snow wall didn't budge. Alice and Jasper jumped around the side of the wall and began to throw some snowballs of their own. A few minutes later, Edward left, after making sure Bella was fine by herself because she refused to go out there, which he understood, he assured her.

Bella finally found enough courage to peek her head around the snow wall. She saw a blurry Edward, Jasper, and Alice dodging the lightning fast balls of snow and pelting them at a blurry Carlisle, Emmett, and Rosalie. It seemed Esme was staying behind, like Bella, to keep up on snowball supply. It also seemed they were evenly matched until…

"EMMETT!" An entirely snow-coated Rosalie shrieked. Everyone slowed and Bella saw what happened. Emmett, in an attempt to get ahead, had dove onto the snow and sprayed it all onto his partner.

Soon, Emmett had more to fear than a little snowball. Rosalie charged after him and they were soon out of sight. Bella laughed at the sight and heard Edward chuckling, back at her side.

"Emmett always snow dives," he explained. "We've all got our little extra attacks. Alice grabs a lot of snowballs and spins around and they fly all over the place, and Jasper likes to flick his wrist so they spin. Carlisle is just so fast; that's what makes him so good. Esme, when she plays, always gets you in the stomach. An Rosalie excels at throwing and dodging and at the same time. Well, she didn't do too well with the dodging today," he finished, chuckling again.

"What about you?" Bella asked.

"Me? I don't need an extra attack. I have a lucky charm." Edward smiled, his topaz eyes sparkling.

"Where?" Bella's eyes raked over him quickly, looking for some sign of said charm.

Edward kissed her forehead softly and touched her cheek. "Right here."