Chapter 29 – Snow falls
Bella POV
I woke up feeling the cold wind in my face but with a smile. I stretched and my fingers touched a paper placed on my pillow. I opened my eyes and rolling to the side I grabbed it and unrolled it. The drawing was of a girl with blushing cheeks, wide eyes, pouty lips swollen from a kiss and an expression filled with excitement.
"Nik"
I said softly jumping from my bed and I walked to the cork board above my desk to pin the new drawing among the few others that he had given me. I walked to my window to breath in the fresh air and was amazed by the sight that greeted me
"Beautiful"
I breathed. The ground and everything was blanketed by snow. The big tree outside my window was covered in snow as well and even the bushes around the house were white now. When it last snowed when we moved here, I hated the mere idea of the icy water around me, now though, it seemed so serene and beautiful.
I closed the window and went to grab my morning blood bag, heated it, poured it in my mug and headed tot he front porch to drink it, glad it was Saturday. I stepped out and sipped my blood only to be hit by something soft and grainy. Looking to the side I saw a fully clothed Pete snickering crouched behind my car.
"Peter!"
I shouted annoyed, finished my rapidly cooling blood in one gulp and ran to my kid brother that kept pummeling me with snowballs to tickle him mercilessly.
"I give, I give"
he was laughing his face red, his smurfs pj's wet and damp with snow. I stood up pulling him with me.
"come on we need to put on warm clothes"
I said laughing.
"Can I take your car to Henrik's?"
he asked as I poured some warm coffee for the both of us. I laughed humorlessly
"Absolutely not. We'll take mom's jeep"
"we?"
he raised an eyebrow looking like a mini-Charlie.
"I want to see Rebekah"
I explained, knowing the blood filling my cheeks at my lie
"Rebekah wasn't the one you had a date with last night"
he said smartly
"Exactly what I want to see her about"
I replied equally smartly
"Once you start dating, you'll understand'
I joked but he didn't laugh. Instead he grew serious and fidgeted
"petey, is there something you want to tell me?"
I said serious now. he bit his bottom lip, a slight blush coloring his cheeks
"there might be someone"
he muttered under his breath. I leaned forward
"pete... you know you can tell me anything, right?"
he fidgeted and nodded blushing harder
"not now, 'k?"
"okay..."
I said softly and extended a hand to ruffle his shortly freshly cut hair.
"I'll go get ready then, you should put on a turtleneck though, you got a little something"
I let him contemplate my words and the small but very visible hickey at the base of his neck. About an hour later we were both dressed in jeans, boots, turtlenecks and Pete wore a soft blue pullover over the ensemble, under a thick, deep blue jumper jacket with woolen gloves and cap. Not actually feeling the cold, and very happy about it, I had a pea coat only on over my favorite v necked quarter length sleeved blue blouse. I put my car in the garage and took mom's bright yellow jeep out and handed Pete the keys.
"promise not to get us killed AND stay ten miles under the limit?"
"no"
he cried out sticking his bottom lip out. I glared and nodding his acceptance, he jumped in the driver's seat.
"Where's the dog? I haven't seen him around lately"
I asked him as he slowly pulled out of our driveway
"Dad takes him to work with him these days"
he pouted. minding his speed, he drove us through town, stopped at the pastry store to get cupcakes for the, hopefully awake, Originals and after three near collisions with a moving van, a cars and even a tree, we finally made it in one piece.
Would I be too ridiculous if I kissed the ground right now?
Yeah, probably. So I didn't and greeted Mikael instead who shoveling snow out of the way.
"good morning sir, is Henrik here?"
peter asked Mikael, whose eyebrows raised and nodded wordlessly. Pete smiled brightly and dashed inside, slipping on the soft snow a few times.
"sir?"
"guess he was raised with manners. Cupcake?"
he didn't reply but a something soft hit me in the back. I pursed my lips and pushed the large box in the laughing face of the Original Father.
"I'm going to kill your children"
I told him simply and handed over my coat as well.
"Maybe you'll have better luck than I did"
he deadpanned and I took off after the flash of blond hair I saw behind a tree.
"gotcha!"
a flair of red hair shouted from up a tree and threw snow at a grinning Elijah, an upset Kol was complaining about his hair since his youngest brother had teamed up with my brother and kept throwing icy goo at his hair. I was tackled to the ground by two grinning blond vampires.
"ladies"
I greeted Lexi and Freida before grabbing snow with both hands and smashing it to their heads from the side. they laughed and we all stood up. A whistle stopped all movement as fin had his wife thrown over his shoulder.
"how about we put some rules guys?"
"girls vs boys"
Sage suggested, her face barely visible behind her husband.
"no fair, we have Pete"
Kol complained. I laughed and spoke back
"we have me. After everything I still can't aim"
"isn't that the truth"
Pete joked under his breath and I stuck my tongue out at him. with a mental countdown from ten we all ran around the vast backyard and the true war began.
Pete started throwing snow balls at Lexi who easily dodged them and got him back.
henrik was being targeted by Freida until a much larger Jasper came to his rescue and began chasing her, his massive strength easily blocking her original, older speed.
Kol tried to hit sage but hit Angela instead as she walked in front of the window at the Salvatore house making her screech, laugh and throw a jacket on coming out to play. Stefan came after her.
hearing the ruckus Rosalie and Damon joined everyone ignoring the set rules as Damon went after his brother and Rosalie went after Rebekah. From what I gathered the two blond vampires couldn't exactly make peace with not being the most beautiful ones.
Kol called them smurfettes. the teamed up and made him eat his words in frozen water way.
I had perched up in a tree, knowing that with my unique ability to get myself hurt I'd be out really quick but Elijah spotted me and pulled me down. I threw some snow in his eyes and unlike James, where the pepper spray only annoyed him, snow managed to hurt him so I ran to Angela's side who was suddenly the aim of Finn.
laughing we made our way behind Klaus who was throwing balls at Emmett in a try to get him away from Rebekah and hit him from behind at the same time. when he turned around to get us we stumbled our way to Lexi who had gotten Stefan on the ground, sat on his back, and was pushing snow under his shirt ignoring his squeals. Angela grabbed Stefan's hands and Lexi grinned and began shoving snow down his jeans too. I would join them but a certain blond original hybrid pulled me from the side and began ticking me with icy hands.
"hi"
I whispered grinning taking in his flushed cheeks, carefree smile and patted with melted snow hair.
"hello"
he whispered back. Suddenly everyone screeched as blizzard hit us all. a very well centered blizzard covering only the vampires and avoiding the only two humans perfectly.
"MOTHER!"
Finn and Elijah shouted. Esther grinned from the back porch
"I wanted to play too"
she said
"Enough playing, come inside before you all freeze out here"
"I don't know who that woman is, but I have to say I like having her as a mother"
Klaus said softly in my ear as he extended a hand to lift me up and we joined the others inside for warm cocoa, warm clothes and blankets.
