Hello0o0oo, here's a shiny new chapter for you guys. This idea is from Bookworm777 who requested a chapter with all the boys and then one with all the girls, so part two will be here next week. Oh, and for those of you who wanted to know what the "squishies" were, uh...I'm not sure, really, but I've seen them before at the beach, and they are fun to poke =]

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Three boys loitered around the no-mans-land between Emmett and Jasper's houses. Edward,

Jasper, and Emmett weren't doing anything in particular, really, just messing around in the freshly fallen snow. Clean, thick snow was a rarity in Forks, and they intended on taking advantage of the opportunity; they just didn't know how yet. Because of this, the boys simply settled on wandering the snowy space until inspiration found them.

Fwip, Fwip, Fwip

Emmett's snow pants swished together as he explored the frozen expanse of land. This boring patch of grass and dirt right next to his house had somehow transmogified into something new, strange, and fun. Plus there was no school—that helped. Experimentally, he grabbed a fistful of snow from the small mound behind him and was delighted to find that the crystals clumped naturally together into a near perfect sphere with practically no effort on his part.

Perfect.

A mischievous grin dimpled Emmett's face as he took aim at Edward, the closest target. The grin widened when the snowball flew through the air and plopped against Edward's back. With unexpected speed, the bronze-haired boy turned around to face Emmett, sporting a crooked grin and two already made snowballs.

"Ohhh..." Emmett's grin disappeared as he ducked the first snowball and then turned down in determination as the second one hit him square in the chest, "It's on!"

As Emmett and Edward proceeded to blitz each other with snowballs, Jasper was examining the snow around him meditatively, seemingly oblivious to the two other boys. After a moment, he turned to face his friends,

"We should build a fort," The blond's authoritative tone carried through the air, causing the playfully feuding boys to look up before shrugging and agreeing happily to the proposition.

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Once they had worked out what kind of structure it was going to be, snow-fort construction was underway, with each of the three boys attending to different tasks. While Emmett hoisted ice chunks to create the bulk of the fort, Jasper efficiently cemented the blocks together with handfuls of snow, also similarly insulating the inner dome to prevent cave-ins. Meanwhile, Edward scouted out the surrounding areas for more sources of ice blocks, as Emmett's supplies quickly ran low.

A little ways into construction, when Edward was helping Jagger out with a weak wall, there was a loud, muffled crash from somewhere out of sight.

"Agh! Avalanche!" Shouted an equally muffled voice from the vicinity of the crash.

Emerald and sapphire eyes met, and both boys snickered.

"Oh, Emmett," Edward sighed. Jasper just rolled his eyes. After the shared sardonic moment, the pair wordlessly trekked off to see what kind of help Emmett needed.

"Woooow," Jasper whistled once they reached the obvious crash site.

Emmett was sprawled out on the snow, covered almost completely by huge blocks of ice and about a foot of loose snow that seemed to have fallen from the hedge he was wedged against. Emmett just looked out at them expressionlessly from under the pile. Edward and Jasper just couldn't help themselves; now the two laughed much harder than they had before, causing a look of annoyance to spread across Emmett's round face.

"It's not funny," The buried boy grumbled. The other two stopped laughing and stared at him until Emmett laughed, "okay, it's pretty funny. How 'bout helping me out?"

Naturally, Jasper and Edward's first instinct was to help the other boy, but when would they get a chance like this again? Once again, they just couldn't help themselves.

"Hmm, I dunno if we should," Jasper looked out at the boy standing next to him from under his shaggy blond bangs, "whattayou think, Edward?"

The bronze-haired boy smiled mischievously, "It's a tough call..."

"I mean, he's all strong, right? He always beats us at arm wrestling, so he should be able to manage himself," Jasper reasoned.

"Yeah! Okay, sorry Emmett, looks like you're on your own here," Edward teased, and with that, him and Jasper started to walk away. However, before Emmett could even shout anything at his friends, they turned back around and headed towards Emmett.

"Oh, you guys are funny," Emmett grumbled at them as the two dug him out, "like, Saturday morning cartoons funny. Bugs Bunny's got nothin' on you. You should have your own show, that's how funny you are."

"We're un-burying you, aren't we?" Edward pointed out, and Emmett's half-hearted invective ceased, only to be replaced by a hearty, tone-deaf singing of the Song that Gets on Everybody's Nerves.

"Okay! You're free!" Jasper grunted a little while later as he dragged the last major chunk away, "You can stop singing now!"

"It kinda stopped bugging me after the seventy-fifth verse," Edward put in, kicking some snow off of Emmett's stomach.

"Well look on the bright side, At least we've got a whole bunch of building blocks now," Emmett pushed himself up from the icy ground, "and my singing rocks, so don't pretend you didn't like it."

It was true—well, the first part, anyway—there was now a surplus of ice littered on the ground, perfect for the fort. Working steadily, the boys eventually built up the structure into a huge dome, wide enough to comfortably fit the three of them and tall enough to keep Emmett from bumping his head too easily. All in all, it was a heck of a fort. Excited, the trio clambered into the igloo, thrilled to have finally finished their task.

Once they were all seated in various positions in the white dome, they chattered happily about how incredibly cool it was to have their own fort. However, after a time, the conversation died, and several moments of silence ticked by.

"So...what do we do now?"

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