Oh the weather outside is frightful…but the fire is so delightful…a since we've no place to go…let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…the radio blasted. December of 1972 was extremely snowy, more so than most years. But I didn't tire of it one bit…we hadn't had a snowy winter since the forties, and I embraced the cold. It was one of the coldest days so far…
Alice and I dashed out into the two feet of snow covering the ground, wrapped in our similar peacoats. Emmett, Jasper, and finally Edward, came running after us. The snow fort we had built yesterday had been covered in a light, fluffy coating. Emmett hurled a huge snowball at me, but I dodged it easily. Meanwhile, the other three were starting a snowman. Alice and Edward were arguing about whether he should have a hat, whilst Jasper stood by rolling his eyes at the insignificant issue. I laughed, falling back into the snow, staring at the perfectly blue sky. The trees were all totally whitened with snow weighing down on their branches.
"Rose…we should go sledding…or tobogganing!"
"Sure…do we have a sled?"
"No…" I knew he would think of something…"we can use garbage can lids!"
"How?" he seemed to think it was obvious, but I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about…garbage cans?
"Wait, are you saying you've never done that before, sledded with garbage can lids?"
"Um…no…" he smiled a huge, goofy grin, showing his perfect teeth
"Come on!" he grabbed my hand and pulled me behind the house, searching for the metal trash bins that were often found there. I stared out at the back yard—it was so serene and beautiful…
"Found em'!" he yelled happily
"We can go on that big hill out front…" we rarely used it for anything, other than that time the two of us spent the day rolling down it, of course. My clothes got so messy…
"Great! Oh, wait, should we ask everyone else to come too?"
"No…I just want to go with you…" he smiled at this. Edward, Alice, and Jasper were almost done with a snowy work of art—two actually…they were holding hands. One was shorter, as skinny as possible, being a snow person, and wore one of Alice's parkas. The other was taller, and from the way the snow had been shaped, there looked to be loose curls on his icy head—Alice and Jasper! Currently, they were starting a new one now, probably Edward…
"So…all you have to do is sit, and grab on, and just go…totally easy. I can't believe you've never done this…it was like, a major memory of my childhood, we couldn't afford sleds, so I did this every winter…" he sat on the lid, and starting to slide, rapidly. I was surprised he didn't dent it, but it must've been strong…I sat on the cold steel, and gripped the sides, looking down at him waiting at the bottom of the slope. Laughing, I took the steep plunge. It was a little like running really fast was for me…as peaceful as I could feel without sleeping. The air whooshed by me as Emmett neared, and I slid away from the house. The evergreens sort of blended together…
"You were like a bullet!" he shouted from the bottom, which was then only ten or twenty feet away.
"Thanks…again?" so we walked back up, slowly, giving us time to talk. I never really tire of talking to him, because there's always so much to learn…we rode down that hill so many times, all day, probably. Long after everyone else went inside, we stayed, until it darkened. By the time we went up the hill for the last time, we saw that there was a whole family of snow people. All modeled after us…Carlisle, Esme, Edward, Alice, Jasper, Me, and Emmett. But there was one thing missing. I pulled him over to our snow likenesses; studying Emmett's…there…he had no dimples! Now, the family was complete…after all, his dimples were the first thing I loved about him in that clearing so many years before.