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Bella's POV
I woke up to a loud bang. I opened my eyes and sat straight up. I looked toward the direction of the bang, which was towards Rosalie and Emmett. I realized Emmett hit his hand on the coffee table. I laughed to myself when I noticed that he wouldn't even be waking up from it.
Once I was awake, I couldn't get back to sleep. I turned towards the digital clock on the wall. 5:45 It read. I suppressed a groan while thinking about spending the morning by myself. I carefully got up, trying not to disturb Edward who had been a foot away from me. I then made my way up the stairs and into my bedroom. I grabbed my laptop from my desk and tucked myself into my bed.
I looked at the school website which had posted that there would be no school. I smiled even though I already knew this. I then leaned my head down on my pillow and tried closing my eyes. A moment later I heard breathing. I opened my eyes and saw a very sleepy Edward. He was reaching toward the ceiling in an attempt to stretch.
"Edward?" I asked my voice laced with sleep.
"Ditch us all to your bedroom, Isabella?"
"No." I said. "I just woke up."
He raised an eyebrow.
"I can't lie." I told him. "Especially before six in the morning."
He yawned and sat on the other side of my bed.
"Let's just go back to bed." I yawned and then paused. I didn't mean for it to sound so… eh.
Edward laughed musically, but lay down on my bed on top of the sheets. Two minutes later, even though normally I cannot go back to sleep, I was in the best sleep of my life.
Edward's POV
I awoke next to Bella. I smiled at the thought of it, but then grimaced at the reason I had been awoken this time. I could hear the snickering of our friends.
"I bet they slept here all night." Emmett said.
"Ten bucks says they didn't." Jasper said.
"Deal." Emmett said.
"Come on, guys." Alice said. "They're sleeping."
"Obviously," Rosalie said, "if they weren't then Edward wouldn't be that close to Bella."
Emmett laughed and I wanted to give him the finger, but stopped because I felt Bella grab my hand and squeeze it.
"Let's get out." Jasper said. He was easily surpassing Emmett in my favorite guy friends category.
Our friends left, but left the door wide open.
Bella was the first to break the silence between us by sitting up and laughing. She yawned halfway through it and I wanted to tell her to go back to sleep.
"We need new friends." I grumbled, running a hand through my hair.
"You're just figuring this out?" She asked lightly getting out of the covers of her bed.
I shrugged and she smiled at me.
"We should probably go supervise them, though." Bella laughed. "Charlie would kill me if I let Emmett burn the house down."
When Bella and I arrived, our group of friends was sitting around the living room eating frozen waffles. They left a plate for Bella and one for me. All of us were just sitting around eating when we all began to hear the distinct noise of Emmett snoring. He had fallen asleep.
Rosalie wanted to draw vile things on him, but Jasper advised her not to. Bella got down on her knees next to Emmett, who was lying in the middle of the living room on his back, and she gently shook his shoulders. He didn't respond. So, she said, "I'm going out for some snowman making…"
"Wait!" Emmett mumbled.
"What's that?" Bella asked.
"I'm not sure…" Rosalie said.
"Me!" Emmett said louder and then stood up, but was still closing his eyes. "Wait for me!"
Bella laughed and Emmett opened his eyes. He saw Bella and picked her up and led her toward the laundry room to get shoes before they went off on their adventure. He was being completely serious and Bella didn't back off.
A few minutes later we heard the door slam. Rosalie began to shake her head and Alice laughed.
Jasper threw my phone to me. "It's been going off constantly."
"Thanks." I said and walked away. I looked through the missed calls. All were from my parents.
I quickly dialed the house and on the second ring my mother answered.
"Edward?"
"Yeah, Mom?" I asked.
"Oh, Edward, are you alright?"
"I'm fine."
"The policeman's house was okay? Do you need us to come pick you up?"
"Staying here was fine." I said, although it was much better than fine. "And I don't need a ride home, yet."
"You're positive?"
"Yeah," I said, "Alice and Emmett are also here; one of them will drive me home."
"Alright, sweetheart. If you need us call, okay?"
"Okay."
"Love you." She said.
"Same here." I said shutting my phone and leaving it on the kitchen counter.
Bella's POV
"Think fast!" Emmett yelled at me throwing a hat at me. I caught it with ease and placed it on top of our snowman. I smiled at the pathetic snowman. It was pretty big, it came up to my shoulders, but it was a tad lopsided. And since it was still snowing, its head was becoming a little too big for its body.
"What should we name it?" I asked.
"Hmmm." Emmett pondered coming to stand next to me.
"Hmmm, indeed." I said.
"I think," Emmett said, "Fluffy Frosty."
A big wind knocked me off my feet and on to my bottom.
Emmett laughed loudly. "Actually, Fluffy Frosty Buns works."
I frowned at him, but smiled when he plopped down next to me. "I like it!" I proclaimed. "I think this is the best snowman made, ever."
"This is definitely the tallest." Emmett said. "Alice won't allow the snowman to be taller than her."
I laughed, "Yeah and Jasper won't let me take his hat. So, my poor snowman is always cold."
"Then Edward always is too rough with the thing and ends up kicking it to the ground."
"Rosalie spills hot chocolate on it. Then that's bye-bye snowman."
"Hold on." Emmett told me standing up and grabbing a stick. He made a big box around the snowman. "No one, except us, is allowed inside this box.
"He's probably lonely, though."
"Wanna make another snowman?" Emmett asked smiling.
I answered him by gathering more snow.
An hour later we had the snowman and snowwomen next to one another. Emmett told me they needed some alone time and we should go back inside. We entered through the laundry room and into the kitchen. Rosalie was holding a mug of steaming coffee and Emmett, being Emmett, ran up to hug her. She dropped the mug and made a face at Emmett.
"Shit." Rosalie said lamely. "It shattered."
"Sorry." Emmett said to me.
"You should be!" Rosalie said. "What if I spilt on myself?"
"I would gladly help you out of your wet clothes."
"Ugh!" Rosalie said. "You already made me wet with that jacket of yours! It's soaked, Emmett."
Emmett took his jacket off and threw it to Edward who was watching the scene. Edward rolled his eyes, but joined me in the laundry room to hang up the snow gear.
"How's your snowman?" He asked.
"Fluffy Frosty Buns is doing okay. He met a lady snowwoman awhile ago, though, so he should be doing better."
"Fluffy what?" Edward asked wonderfully confused.
I laughed. "Fluffy Frosty Buns."
"Can you say that ten times fast?"
"Fluffy Frosty Buns. Fluffy Frosty Buns. Fluffy Frosty Butts." I paused and heard Emmett laughing at me from the kitchen.
"Nice one, Bella!" Emmett yelled.
I sighed and shut the laundry room door.
"Sorry about that." Edward said not looking the least bit sorry.
I rolled my eyes. "Where's Jasper and Alice?"
"'Doing homework'," Edward laughed putting his hands in quotation marks, "upstairs, and alone."
I was about to make a remark when the telephone rang. Edward and I walked out of the laundry room and headed for the phone. Rosalie and Emmett were occupied cleaning the floor.
"Hello?" I asked into the phone.
"Excuse me, who is this?" Asked a female voice.
"Bella." I said. "Who is this?"
"This is Esme. Edward's mother." She said. "He wouldn't happen to be there, would he?" She asked.
"Um, yeah." I said. "Do you want to –"
"Oh, yes." She answered before I could finish the question. "And thank you so much, Bella."
"Um," I said, "Hold on."
I handed the phone to Edward who rolled his eyes and talked for a moment with his mother. When he hung up he said, "Sorry about that. She tends to be overprotecting."
I smiled sadly, "That's nice."
"You're lucky you live with your father." Edward said. "I bet he doesn't worry half as much as your mother does."
Shit. He didn't know and I didn't want to cry. Thinking about snow had always made me want to cry because she loved it so
much. My mother used to drag me out in it. Now she wasn't here."My dad's really protective." I said miserably, avoiding the mother subject.
"Really?" Edward questioned. "He seemed to be allowing three men to sleepover last night."
"He trusts Jasper." I said. "Plus, it's his policeman mentality to help those in need and you ran off the road and Emmett got a flat. I'm sure he'll be excited to get home and lecture you about taking safety precautions."
Rosalie sprung up by my side. She obviously heard the mother comment and realized I was avoiding it. "We need to talk." She told me and grabbed my wrist and up the stairs. When we got to my bedroom we saw Alice and Jasper sitting on my bed doing homework.
"Leave." Rosalie said.
"Me too?" Alice asked.
"Of course not." Rosalie said. "Just Jasper."
"Why?" Jasper asked.
"I have to talk about girl shit." Rosalie said sarcastically. "Get out."
Jasper raised his hands in a surrender-like gesture and snickered while getting out. I shut and locked the door and sat on my bed next to Alice.
"You didn't have to do that." Alice said. "He would have gotten out."
Rosalie rolled her eyes. "For you, yes. Me, not so much."
Alice seemed a little happy about that.
"Whatever." Rosalie said. "Bella, are you okay?"
I sighed. "Yeah."
"Come on, Bella." Rosalie said. "I'm not Jasper, but I can see you're miserable right now."
"What?" Alice asked turning to face me.
"I'm not miserable." I growled. "I'm…"
"Conflicted?" Rosalie asked.
"Yeah." I said.
"Why?" Alice asked. "Was this something Edward did?"
"No." I said as Rosalie answered, "Yes."
We faced each other and scowled.
"Fill me in, please." Alice said.
"It's just…" I said. "It's just that the snow reminds me of my mother and she…"
I looked to Rosalie to finish the story, "She passed away about four years ago."
"The snow reminds me of her." I said.
"Plus," Rosalie said turning to Alice, "Edward said something about how Bella's lucky to live with her father."
"He what?!" Alice sprung up and was about to leave the door, but Rosalie blocked it.
"He doesn't know." I told Alice. Then I faced Rosalie because she tended to be overprotective. "Rosalie, he didn't know. Don't hold a grudge, please."
Rosalie sighed disappointedly. Then Alice gave me a tiny hug. The three of us walked down the stairs and were greeted with the best sight ever.
Emmett, Jasper, and Edward were sitting on the couch getting lectured by my father, still in full uniform (gun included), as they sat there staring at him like he might shoot them. I laughed at the sight. Rosalie smiled broadly, probably hoping for Emmett to freak out. Alice stood shock still for a moment before resuming down the stairs and held her hand out to Charlie to introduce herself.
