Me: Yay another chapter. Big thanks to everyone who reviewed. I LOVE YOU ALL!

Nova: Calm down girl. You've got this story and another to finish.

Me: I know but that's a long ways away so, ON WITH THE STORY.

Day 1: Snowboard and Snowfall

Morning broke and the couple was still cuddle up on the couch. Antauri was the first to wake. Looking down, he saw his beloved sleeping with her head on his chest. Deciding to be gentle in waking her, he planted a kiss on her forehead, which only caused her to cuddle, if possible, even closer into him. Then deciding to be a little mean, he gently traced his free hand up her side, knowing she was ticklish there. She flinched and grabbed his hand. Her eyes openned. Amused met irritated as the amused one claimed the lips of the irritated.

When they broke apart, Nova's expression held a smile as she said, "That wasn't very nice, you know." Her smile was returned with, "I know, but it's fun to watch you squirm in my grasp, my beloved." Next thing he knew, he was in an all to familiar position as he landed with his back on the floorand a smirking Nova pinning him down, preventing any escape plans he had. He struggled to get loose, but all attempts failed. Nova's hold was pretty firm, but yet gentle at the same time. "Are you done?" she asked in a sweet tone. Antauri nodded in response. "Good, than let's go. I want to shred some ice with those boards ASAP."

One look at Antauri's face showed that he didn't understand. Nova sighed, "Shred some ice? It's the snowboarding term for 'let's get to the slopes'" "Oh."

Outside

Once the two monkeys were clad in their snow outfits, they headed outside into the morning snow with snowboards in hand. It took them about 30minutes just to get ready due to the fact that Antauri had trouble getting his boots snpped in. Nova had studied snowboarding a while back and was ready to go, so she showed Antauri how to do it so he knew how. Then came the tricky part...balance. (Me: It's harder than it looks. Depending on who you are, it's a pain.)

Nova was able to back away far enough for Antauri to be at arms-length. The black monkey stood there for a while before he started to wobble. He fell backwards and grabbed Nova's hand for balance. Unfortunately, he got too off balanced and pulled Nova on top of him. Nova giggled, "Looks like we've got a lot of work ahead of us." Antauri groaned as Nova managed to untangle herself and stand up, pulling Antauri with her. She held him steady as the second-in-command desperately fought balance. They worked until their light source began to fade.

"Well, it looks like I wasted our time and you didn't even get to the slopes." Antauri said, disappointed. He bowed his head, but it was pulled up by Nova's hand to reveal her face to be filled with tenderness. "Don't worry about it. We have the next two weeks, and besides, I enjoyed teaching you something for once." She smiled. "Now let's go inside. We skipped lunch and I'm hungry." The two laughed as they took off their snowboards and went inside the cabin for dinner.

The next day

The two monkeys were up early. It didn't take long for them to get ready, having taken all day yesterday to learn to prepare. Balance was still a little unstable, but at least they didn't fall down. Then Nova began to explain how to move in order to stay balanced and to dodge obsticales(sp?). "Now turning and keeping balance is both easy and tricky at the same time. To turn left, appliy pressure to the back of the board and use the leg that is out front to move the board to the left. Same with the right. Sometimes it's more effective to lean your body in the direction you wish to turn, but then it requires a whole lot more balance. Understand?" Antauri nodded. "Ok then. You ready to hit the slopes?" He hesitated with his answer,"...Maybe?"

Nova giggled at this, "You'll never know until you try. Let's go." Pulling the reluctant monkey to the top of the hill, she positioned them to begin their decent. Nova leaned foreward and began her downward track on the slope. Antauri watched as Nova shreded (Is that even a word?)down the hill and, much to his dismay, followed. It wasn't so bad. He followed Nova's instructions and turned a few times while maintain his balance quite well. Then he remembered Nova telling him that bending his knees would create less wind resistance. He tried it and began to catch up to Nova, but he hit a downward slope just right and lost balance. He fell face first into the snow and, instead of stopping like he had hoped, he continued to roll, creating a giant snowball around himseelf.

Nova stopped at a flat point of the hill. She looked up to see if Antauri was doing alright. Her vision was greeted...by a giant snowball rolling down at her. It engulfed her and continued to roll. Down, down, down til it hit a large rock at the botom of the hill. Everything was quiet for a while. Suddenly, Antauri's head poppedout from under the snow. He struggled until he got his arms out and proceeded to pull out his lower body. He felt wiggling beside him and out popped Nova's head.

"Ok, we still need to practice. Being flatten and carried down a hill by a giant snowball is not what I would call fun." she said. Antauri continued to struggle untilhis snow prison decided to released him, causing him to tumble down the giant mass of snow. He landed face first again. He picked himself up and unbuckled his boots from his snowboard while saying, "It it just me or does this mountain just like making me do face plants!"

Nova managed to get out, but she couldn't help falling down the snow and landing right on Antauri. She apologized and took off her snowboardas well. "It could have been worst." she said. "How's that?" "We could have broken something." "Nova, don't jinx us." "I'm just sayin'. Maybe we should practice somemore before we hit the large slopes." "Agreed." With that said, the two activated their jetpacks and flew back to the cabin for lunch and more practice.

Me: Another one's done, another one's done. (break dances)

Nova: Please stop that, you're creeping me out.

Me: At least it wasn't as bad as the time Sprx had those human hands. Talk about gross.

Nova: True. Or that time Otto was acting all freaked out with those robo apes.

Me: Or the time...

Antauri: While those two are talking about creepy stuff, I politely ask for everyone to Read and Review. Thank you.

Me: Oh, what about that time youhad Antauri look like a girl for that one mission (made that up).

Antauri: Hey, that was suppose to be a secret mission that no one knew about!

Nova: Oppsie, but I did get a good photo of you. Don't you look precious?

Antauri: (dives for her) Give me that!

Nova: Fire, catch.

Me: Alright, Monkey In The Middle, literally. Caio all my wonderful readers.

Antauri: Come on give it back.