A/N: Okay, sorry it's been a while since I updated. I'm stuck on chapter seven right now and I'm getting annoyed. I ahd this really good idea and now I just can't remember the idea so I'm thinking about deleting what I ahve written so far and starting again. So I'm not sure when you will get your next update, unless anyone has any ideas for me? Or somehow happens to know what my idea was.
Enjoy
A seventeen year old Addison groaned and curled tighter into a ball as twenty year old Archer shook her awake. "Ads? Ads wake up. It's Christmas."
"Go away Archie, it's six am." She pulled the covers up over her head.
"Yes, but it's Christmas. Don't you want to open your presents?" He sat on the edge of her bed.
"No."
"Yes, you do, come on." He shook her again, pulling the covers off her.
"Archieeeeeeeeeee." Addison whined, trying to reach for her covers again.
"No Ads, come on, get up." Archer took hold of her arm and tried to pull her up.
"Nooooooooo." She tried to curl back up.
"Yes."
"If I get up will you leave me alone?" Addison questioned and looked at him sleepily.
"Once we've opened our presents yes." He nodded.
"Fine then." She sighed and sat up in bed, seeing the excitement in his eyes. "You're twenty, you're not meant to be this excited."
"You're only as old as you feel Ads." Archer grinned. "And anyway, I feel like I haven't seen you much this year. So come on, hurry up. Santa's been."
Addison rolled her eyes and got out of bed, brushing her hair and pulling on a dressing gown before following Archer down the stairs and into the living room, where she was surprised to find her parents already sat, looking tired.
"Good morning Addison." Bizzy commented as she saw her daughter.
"Morning." Addison gave them a smile, before sitting down on the couch as Archer sat down in front of the tree.
"Presents time!" He announced and picked up a present and looked at the label. "For dad." He handed the present to his father, before finding one for his mother and handing it to her. Then he found one for Addison and gave it to her, grinning as he did so.
Addison took the present and looked at the label, seeing that it was from Archer. Carefully she began to unwrap it, looking at the small box before opening it, gasping as she saw the necklace.
"Do you like it?" Archer suddenly began to worry that it wasn't her. That she didn't like it.
"I love it." She grinned at him. "Thank you Archie." Addison picked up the necklace, looking at it.
"It's a guardian angel to keep you safe."
"I love it." Addison smiled widely, un-clasping it before putting the chain round her neck and doing it up.
"It looks perfect." Archer grinned at her.
Addison grinned, before hugging him tightly and kissing his cheek. "I love it."
"Good."
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Later that day, once all the presents had been opened and before lunch and both sets of grandparents arrived, Archer and Addison made their way out into the back garden to build a snowman like they used to when they were younger. Archer grinned at his sister, seeing her wearing tan coloured ankle boots to keep her feet warm, a black thick coat with a matching glove and scarf set she had received that day and a hat on her head, covering her ears and down to her eyebrows. Her red hair hung loose over her shoulders and within being outside for a few minutes her nose had turned red and she had rosy cheeks.
Archer laughed at his little sister. "You don't change Ads. You still look as cute like that as you did when you were five."
"Oh shut up Archie." Addison smacked his arm playfully. Her nose and cheeks always went red in the cold while Archer's never did. He could stand out in the snow in boots, a coat, gloves, but no scarf and hat and not go red.
Archer smiled at her and bent down, gathering up some snow so they could start a snowman. They worked together like they always had and got a big round ball for the base, before moving onto the body, and then the head. Archer picked up two branches and stuck them either side for arms. Addison pulled out a carrot from her pocket and stuck it in the middle of the head, before carving out the mouth and eyes with her fingers. It was something she always did, Archer used to have to pick her up so she could make the face, but not this time, she may not have been as tall as Archer, but she was getting there.
"There." Addison stood back and grinned.
"Wait Ads, he needs a hat." Archer jogged back up to the deck where he got the hat he had left there and jogged back, placing the hat on top of the snowman's head. "There, now he's complete."
"He needs a name." Addison smiled.
"He does."
"Kyle?"
"No." Archer shook his head. "Jamie?"
"No." Addison shook her head. "Liam?"
"No. Joseph?"
"No. Carrot?" Addison grinned, making Archer laugh.
"No, how about Frosty?"
Addison rolled her eyes at him. "That is so un-original."
"Billy?" Archer suggested.
"No." Addison shook her head. It always took them a while to come up with a name for their snowman.
They then looked at each other, a huge grin on their faces. "Benny!" They laughed at their choice, Archer taking out his phone to take a photo of Benny. He smiled, putting his phone away before bending down and gathering some snow, standing back up and throwing a snowball at Addison.
"Archie!!" She yelled, shaking the snow off her before gathering her own snowball and launching it at her big bother. They continued to throw snowballs at each other, laughing and hiding behind the few trees that were in the garden.
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"Look at them out there." Edward nodded out the kitchen window to his wife at Archer and Addison having a snowball fight. "They seem to be enjoying themselves."
"They do." Bizzy nodded and sighed.
"What's wrong?" Edward looked at her.
"We never did that with them. We never played in the snow with them. We never made snowmen with them. We never had snowball fights. We hardly did anything with them."
Edward sighed as well. "Yeah, you're right, we didn't. We missed out. We screwed up. But at least they had each other, they weren't completely alone."
"Yeah." Bizzy sighed and looked up as her mother, Victoria, entered the kitchen, followed by her father, Harry.
"Where is Archer and Addison?" Victoria asked her daughter.
"Having a snowball fight outside." Bizzy pointed to the window where Victoria and Harry looked out of, watching their grandchildren throw snowballs at each other.
"They made a snowman?" Harry glanced at the snowman that got pelted by a snowball from Archer.
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"Archie!" Addison squealed. "You nearly killed Benny!"
Archer just laughed at his sister. "Relax Addi, I didn't 'nearly kill him' as you put it, he's fine aren't you Benny?" Archer smiled and looked at the snowman, before suddenly getting hit in the face by a snowball.
"Hey!" He wiped the snow from his face, looking at a grinning Addison before he ran towards her, making her scream and run away. Archer soon caught up with her and grabbed her by the waist, beginning to tickle her sides, making her squeal with laughter.
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"They certainly seem to be having fun."
"Who's having fun?" Jane, Edward's mother, walked into the kitchen followed by her husband Henry.
"Archer and Addison." Edward nodded to the back garden and Jane and Henry joined them, watching their grandchildren play in the snow. They watched as Archer tickled Addison before getting a handful of snow and putting it in Addison's face, making her laugh and squirm away from him, gathering a snowball and throwing it at him.
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After about nearly an hour of Addison and Archer having a snowball fight, then moving on to make snow angels in their back garden, they headed in for lunch. By now Addison's nose and cheeks were bright red as they walked into the kitchen.
"Hey nana." She smiled and hugged Jane, kissing her cheek.
"Well you certainly have a lot of colour in your face from playing in the snow." Jane smiled at her granddaughter.
"Well look who's stopped playing in the snow then." Henry grinned and held out his arms or his grandchildren, receiving a hug from Addison.
"Hey grampa." She smiled.
"Did you and Archer have fun with your snowball fight then?"
"Yep." Addison grinned.
"Good. Let's go and have lunch then."
They all moved into the dining room and sat down around the big table. They enjoyed their Christmas lunch together, something that was rare. They pulled crackers with each other, Addison and Archer standing up to pull theirs, only to succeed in Archer stumbling backwards after Addison won and jumped with happiness, pulling out a black ribbon attack to a clip which she proudly put in her hair before sticking her tongue out at Archer.
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They enjoyed the rest of the day together, Archer and Addison happy to have time with each other, missing the other when they were parted. Addison missed her big brother around, and Archer missed having his little sister to tease.
By the end of the day Addison was tired, and by eleven PM, she decided to go to bed, saying goodnight to her parents and making her way up the stairs, Archer following shortly.
"Hey Ads." He smiled and stood in her doorway as she crawled into bed.
"Yeah Archie?" She looked at him rearranging her covers, before lying back against her pillows.
"You know we're not going to see much of each other next year."
Addison sighed. "I know."
"But I want you to remember then you can still call me, and that I'm always going to be here for you." He walked in and sat down on the edge of her bed.
"I know." Addison smiled at him.
"I love you little sis." Archer leaned forward and kissed her forehead.
"I love you to big bro." She smiled, wrapping her arms tightly around him and he just hugged her tightly back. He missed her.