Sorry guys! I was hella busy yesterday with a band concert and eating dinner with my mom and doing homework, so sorry this was late! But I'm posting today-today's right after this one, so please forgive me and gimme a little credit for doing two in one day :D

"Today's" theme: Snowman

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Benny takes his hands off the giant ball of snow, shaking his head; the giant puffball on his hat threatens to whap Ethan right in the face.

"No, E, not like that- the torso has to match the bottom and the head. If one half is lopsided, then the others will be, too."

Rolling his eyes, Ethan just steps back and watches as Benny sculpts the giant snowball into the shape that he wants it. They're outside with Sarah, Erica and Rory, building a snowman. Thankfully, it had snowed a lot more since the first night, and now the snow was beautifully thick and wet- great for packing together and making it into a snowman.

Or, as Rory liked to show them, a snowball.

Ethan watches as another sails through the air and lands right on the hunched part of Benny's shoulders, sticking and sliding over his winter coat.

Benny doesn't even give Rory the satisfaction of standing up and yelling at him. He just keeps on scraping snow off of the ball and biting his red lips.

"Rory, you're going to have to try better than that!" he yells towards the other boy, sniffling in the cold. "I thought you were supposed to be a vampire ninja."

Ethan grins and bends over to put his mouth right next to Benny's ear. When he speaks, his breath tickles the hairs poking out of the hat and he watches in delight as Benny shivers.

"I thought you vowed to get the best of Vampire Ninja," he teases, pressing a light kiss to the shell of Benny's ear.

Benny looks at him over his shoulder with a smile so wide that Ethan can nearly see all of his teeth. "I'm biding my time, babe. Do it when he'll least expect it."

Warmed by the sudden pet name, Ethan's cheeks flush an even rosier pink, and he travels over to help Sarah make the head with a stupid look on his face.

He walks up at the wrong time.

"-We can't put a penis on it, Erica. It'll scare the neighborhood kids." he hears Sarah scolding, and Ethan's face scrunches up in all the right places to make Erica laugh like Ethan's uncomfortable expression makes her happier than taking down an asshole to snack on.

Sarah turns to look at Ethan, with her fuzzy ear muffs, mittens, and coat, and she smiles apologetically.

"Her argument is that all the neighborhood kids have already seen penises, anyways, because most of them have them."

Ethan is shaking his head before Sarah even finishes. "No. Absolutely not."

Sarah sticks her tongue out at Erica, and in response, the blonde girl hisses back at her and crushes what was probably the beginning of a penis made out of snow. She looks mildly irritated, but since it's her default expression, Ethan doesn't take it too personally. He can see the fondness hiding right under the surface, and it makes him smile wider.

"Okay, I think I've got the torso ready!" Benny calls from a yards away, and Ethan turns to look at the prepared body of their snowman. It does look, admittedly, a lot better than Ethan had originally made it, and he just smiles cutely at Benny because yeah- his boyfriend's mildly artistic.

Ethan turns to look at Rory, who was supposed to be making the bottom of their snowman.

"Rory, have you got the bottom part of the snowman done?"

Instead of an answer, Ethan gets a wet and absolutely freezing snowball right to the face, and he stands in shock for a moment, trying to think up his next best move.

But Benny does it for him.

"You'll pay for that one, Rory!" Benny shouts, sounding too much like Ron in Harry Potter when he tried to curse Draco with eating slugs. But this time, the magic actually works. "Caesum!" he shouts, and a purple light flashes out of the tips of his fingers.

Rory, who was laughing seconds before, now freezes in place with a look of curiosity mingling with the humor. It takes Ethan a few breaths to realize what Benny's done.

Rory is stuck in place, like an ice sculpture.

"Good," Benny nods, admiring his handiwork. "Now I can give him some payback."

Benny bends down and scoops up an entire armload of snow, and takes his time patting it along Rory's bare skin and shoving it down his jacket and caking it into his hair. Ethan and the girls watch in morbid fascination as he does this, trying to decide whether to laugh or help him.

When Benny's decided that Rory's payback is good and in full, he laughs to himself and stands back beside Ethan. Raising his hand again, he says clearly:

"Meve."

And Rory, who was frozen in mid step, unfreezes and stumbles to the side.

"Oh, god, Benny," he whines, trying and failing to get all of the snow out of his hair and jacket. "This is mutiny, dude."

"You're not going to throw snow and Ethan and get it away with it, you psychopathic vampire ninja!" Benny declares, and while Sarah facepalms, Erica pretends to throw up onto their pristinely made snowman head.

"Oh, please, Benny." she scoffs. "You made me sick."

Benny laughs and just goes over to his torso; Ethan follows, and together, they begin to push it to Rory's giant snowball.

"Let's put this thing together, shall we?"

Ethan asks this with flourish, and already forgetting about the moment of frozen fun, Rory snaps to attention and moves to help them lift the torso on to the bottom half he created. They fit the two snowballs together and meld the snow to keep it from falling off, and then Sarah and Erica put the head on top of the torso and pat it down, as well.

When the snowman is put together, Sarah pulls out her bag of random crafty pieces, and they begin adding character to their snowman. Benny works on winding a flannel scarf around the snowman's neck, while Ethan carefully puts the carrot nose into its head. Rory scuttles up the big tree in Ethan's backyard to pull two branches off for the arms, and Erica fits the hat on while Sarah puts buttons on the stomach and face of the snowman.

When Rory gets the arms into the tightly packed side, the five of them step back to admire the snowman they made together.

It looks like something right out of a Christmas card, or a Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup commercial, and Ethan grins so widely that his cheeks cramp up.

"This is awesome guys!" he declares, and the other four agree; Benny agrees silently, as well, by snaking an arm around his waist and pulling him in close.

They end up taking a horridly stupid picture with the snowman on a camera that Benny's grandma magic-ed up to be able to photograph vampires. Rory's floating nearly on the snowman's shoulders, Erica's doing an odd peace sign over her eyes, Sarah doing the same next to her, and Ethan and Benny are the original dorks, hugging onto each other and smiling like idiots.

It's wonderful and stupid and completely them.

Erica adds to the mood by throwing out:

"I still think it would have looked better with a penis."

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Wheew- that is the quickest I've ever writing a fic! It only took me about an hour! Weeew! I hope you enjoyed this, because I loved writing this one!

So let me ask you this: What's the best thing you've ever created/made by yourself? (It doesn't have to be out of snow if you don't get snow where you live)

I remember when I was about ten, I made a HUGE snow fort with my friend Maddy, and we spent the entirety of Christmas Eve in it with all the other neighbor kids, pretending to be survivalists and had a snowball fight at like ten o'clock at night, and it was so magical.

So, since I need to post two today to get back on track, the next theme is: reindeer :D See you in a bit!