A Tipton Christmas
Chapter 2
A Snowball Fight
A/N: Remember that Maddie's family lives at the Tipton as well.
Zack got up at 6 AM. He was tired, but he still got up and got ready. At 6:30, he was ready, but everyone else was still asleep. He went into his bedroom, and marked off another day, making it one day closer to Christmas. He decided to go to the lobby and get some hot chocolate.
Zack stepped out of the elevator on the floor in the lobby. He ran straight for the Dining Room. There were only two older couples there eating breakfast. Zack went to the center of the room, where the drinks were. He got a Styrofoam cup, and filled it with hot chocolate. He went into the lobby, and sat in one of the comfortable chairs next to the fireplace. He quickly drank his hot chocolate.
He then looked outside, and noticed it was snowing. He bolted to the elevator, and quickly pressed the button to the 23rd floor. Once he got there, he quickly went to their suite. When he got into his bedroom, Cody was just waking up. "Come on, Cody. Wake up, it's snowing!" Zack exclaimed. Cody quickly opened his eyes, and looked out the window. Zack was right. He quickly put on two layers to keep warm, as Zack put on his extra layer. They ran out of the suite, and got into the elevator. Once they were in the lobby, they ran out of the door.
It was snowing lightly, and it had been all night, causing a two inch thick layer of beautiful miniscule white crystals on the ground. Zack quickly made a snowball, and started rolling it in the ground. "I'll make the bottom layer, you make the middle," said Cody doing the same as Zack. He rolled for a long time, until it was big enough to be the bottom part of a snowman.
Zack had just come back from getting two branches. He set the middle part of the snowman on top of the bottom, and put the sticks on each side of the snowman. Cody got out some buttons he had got from inside before they left and put three on the middle part of the snowman. "I'll make the top part, you get the carrot, scarf, and the other things," said Zack. As Zack started to make the top part of the snowman, Cody went inside.
Cody first went to the Dining Room, and got a carrot. He ripped off the green at the top, and ate the top part of the carrot. He then went to the suite, and got a hat, a scarf, three more buttons, and a black licorice twizzler. He hated them, but Zack liked them. He went back down to the lobby, and outside.
He put the licorice twizzler where the mouth would be, and put the buttons where the two eyes and nose would be. He then carefully placed the hat on the snowman, and loosely wrapped the scarf around the place where the top part and middle part meet. Zack and Cody stepped back to admire their work.
Then Zack sneakily got a snowball, and threw it at Cody. It thumped Cody in the head, making him fall over. Zack laughed really hard, but then a snowball hit him in the stomach. "Oh so that's how it is?" asked Zack in an inquisitive voice. They both quickly started to pack up snow to hide behind during their snowball fight. Once they were both done, they started making snowballs while behind their 'walls'.
Cody smoothed one out carefully. He slowly leaned out to peak, but quickly jerked his head back as a snowball flew past him. He then quickly stood up and threw it at Zack, he ducked to dodge. For another hour or so, they continued throwing snowballs at each other. Then Maddie walked out. Cody quickly ducked behind his cover while Zack, as Cody expected, walked up to her and began talking to her.
Cody made a snowball, and peeked up, seeing Zack still talking to Maddie. He made another snowball two. He threw on at Zack, and the other at Maddie. Both were direct hits. Cody quickly started running as Zack chased after him and Maddie just laughed and went back inside. Zack caught up to Cody, and tackled him. He then made two snowballs, and hit Cody with both of them. "I surrender," said Cody. "Yes, I won this time!" cheered Zack.