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Let It Snow
The kitchen was alive with the warm scent of freshly cooked food and the crackle as more baked in the oven. Roxanne gently scooped out more batter from the bowl and smoothed it out in the tray before she bent down to check on her biscuits.
She opened the oven and secured an oven mitt on her hand before she pulled the hot tray out and placed it on top of the stove before she pulled the next tray towards her and then pushed it into the oven before shutting the door.
'Something smells good,' a voice from the doorway said and Roxanne turned around to see Fred standing there a bright grin on his face and she smiled at him as she pulled off the mitt.
'Yes it does,' she replied airily, turning her back on him though she knew he'd be either frowning or drooling. Or both.
'Can I have some?' he asked, already reaching out are hand which Roxanne slapped when she turned around and caught him.
'No,' she replied sternly. 'This is for Christmas. Gran asked me to make it and you won't get any until Christmas.'
'You're no fun, Roxie,' he grumbled and Roxanne rolled her eyes. 'Well, if you ever decide to stop being a bore, James is coming round and we're going up the hill for a snowball fight and we're going to try and find the old sled.'
'Give me twenty minutes,' she said, glancing at the oven. Fred sighed before leaving the room. Roxanne rinsed out her mixing bowl before filling the sink with hot soapy water in which she washed all of the bowls and other utensils she'd used before wiping down the bench and putting all of the biscuits onto a wire tray to cool.
By then the slice was ready and she shut off the oven and left it to cool on the stove top before racing upstairs to pull on her coat, tie back her hair and pull on her pair of boots. She raced down stairs and then outside.
She had just reached the hill when a shout made her look up and she leapt out of the way with a shriek. James and Fred went speeding past her on the old sled before they promptly crashed into a tree.
'Oh very nice,' she said sarcastically as they pulled themselves out onto the snow. 'Real slick.'
'Says the one who screamed like a baby,' James snapped and Roxanne raised her eyebrow.
'Excuse me?' she said incredulously. 'At least I'm not some pathetic thirteen year old who can't even control an old piece of wood.'
'And what is that supposed to mean?'
'Shut it you two and help me get this back up to the top,' Fred interrupted them and they both huffed before turning to the sled. They each grabbed hold of it before they began to drag it back up the hill.
Once at the top, they positioned the sled on the edge so they just had to let go and it would roll and Roxanne jumped into the front and when James opened his mouth she interrupted him.
'You've already proved you can't control this and I don't wish to die before Christmas,' she said coolly and he glared at her before clambering in behind Fred who was already sitting behind Roxanne.
'Okay, ready?' Fred began and Roxanne grinned.
'Set?' James said next, his previous annoyance already gone.
'Go!' cried Roxanne and they let go causing the sled to fly forward and Roxanne steered them past the tree much to James' annoyance.
'Hah,' she cried once she leapt out. 'See? I am better than you!'
'Not even in your dreams,' James replied and Fred groaned.
'Please you two! Just drop it,' he moaned and they nodded before Roxanne decided to be the bigger man, or in this case woman.
'So who wants to try my slice?' she asked and both boys grinned before they raced to the back door, Freddie muttering 'thank you' to her on the way.
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