Everyday Moments Of Perfection
A/N: Tis winter in Forks! A vampire's favourite time of year...
Outside the Cullen house, the snow was falling in glistening white flakes, covering every surface in pure ivory clouds of snow. Alice was lying in the driveway, almost blending in with the colour of the snow, her cream winter outfit and alabaster-coloured skin making her nearly invisible. She stretched out her arms and started brushing the snow beside her, to make snow angels. Alice closed her eyes and laughed at herself. Snow angels…
She opened her eyes and saw above her, a snow angel of her very own.
"Hey, you," Alice said, showing her pearly white teeth as she smiled.
"Hey, you, yourself," replied Jasper, lying down beside her in the snow. "What are you doing out here? The rest of the guys are building snow forts in the back yard."
"I know," said Alice. "Tell Emmett he's going to get his butt kicked by Edward's supreme 'Snowballs Of Death'."
Jasper chuckled, "Yeah. I'd better go and break it up. The emotions are getting kind of intense back there."
As Jasper got up to leave, Alice pouted. She reached up and pulled Jasper back down to the snow-covered ground.
"We've got five minutes and twenty-two seconds until it breaks out into an all-out fight."
Jasper reached up with one, pale finger and wiped a snowflake off Alice's nose. Alice giggled in reply and rolled herself over until she was on her feet, leaning on one of the Cullen cars.
With vampiric speed, Alice whipped up a snowball and fired it at Jasper. It hit him squarely on the head and his mouth dropped open, making a show of being appalled.
"Alice!" he cried dramatically. "How could you?!"
"Very easily, slowpoke," teased Alice.
"Right," said Jasper. "That's it." He leant down and rolled up a snowball. Alice giggled and leapt over the car, hiding behind it.
Jasper sneaked around the car until eventually he got a clear shot. He threw the snowball at Alice's back, where it exploded over her coat and she froze, shocked.
"Hey! That's not fair! You get back here right now, Jasper!"
Jasper ran for all he was worth, laughing loudly.
He heard Alice in the distance. "When I get hold of you, Jasper Hale, you're gonna pay for that!"
True love, thought Jasper wryly. What a beautiful thing.