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Chapter 28. Snowballs and More Gifts

We arrived at the Cullen house about 5 minutes after leaving my Dad's. Edward and I got out of the car and I walked over and unstrapped Riley from his carseat. I picked him up and turned around just in time to see a snowball hit Edward right in the face. Emmett's booming laughter filled the air.

Riley laughed at Edward's snow-covered face, while I tried to hold in my laughter. Edward wiped the snow off his face and scowled. "Emmett, I'm going to kill you when I find you!" he shouted.

"You gotta find me first!" yelled Emmett. Since everything was covered in snow, it was difficult to tell where he could be because everything was just so white.

"Don't worry, Emmett. I will!"

I laughed as another snowball came out of nowhere and hit Edward in the chest and Emmett shouted, "Good luck, dude! You're gonna need it."

Edward bent down and started to make some snowballs of his own, when another one flew right by his head and landed on the car right next to me. I didn't want myself or Riley to get hit, so I told Edward we would wait for him and Emmett inside.

I walked into the house with Riley and was greeted by Carlisle.

"Hello, Bella. Hey there, Riley." he walked over and gave us both a hug. "Where is Edward?"

"Emmett started a snowball fight with him." I explained. "I didn't want us to get hit, so we left them to it."

"Ah. Well, that explains where Emmett went a few minutes ago." he said with a chuckle. "They do this every year."

"Who usually wins?" I asked.

"It's kind of a tie. Sometimes Emmett wins, and sometimes Edward does."

"Huh. Where are the others?"

"I think they're all in the kitchen making snacks. Why don't we go join them while we wait for those two to finish." suggested Carlisle.

"That sounds like a good idea. I can make them some hot chocolate to help them warm up once they get inside."

I followed Carlisle into the kitchen and greeted everyone when we got there.

"Hey, guys. What are you up to?" I asked.

"Nothing much." said Jasper. "We were just making something to eat."

"Where is Edward?" asked Alice.

"Is he with Emmett?" questioned Rosalie.

"Edward is outside, and yes, Emmett is with him. They're having a snowball fight." I told them.

"Oh." said Alice.

"Wait, they're having a snowball fight without me?" asked Jasper. "That's not fair! They didn't tell me they were going to have one." He started to walk out of the room to go join them, but Alice stopped him.

"You're not going to go out there! The last time you got involved in one of their fights, you got hit with a ball of ice and had to get stitches in the side of your head. go sit back down and eat!"

"Alice." he whined, "That was an accident! Emmett didn't realize it had ice in it."

"That's kind of the point, Jasper." said Rosalie. "It's dangerous."

He sat back down and mumbled, "Whatever."

While Jasper sulked, the rest of us talked about what we did earlier in the day.

About 10 minutes later, Emmett and Edward burst through the front door laughing and covered in snow. After they had gotten cleaned up, they came into the kitchen and sat down with the cups of hot chocolate I made for them.

"Who won?" asked Carlisle.

"I did." Edward said proudly.

"He cheated." grumbled Emmett.

"I did not cheat!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Hey! That's enough. It doesn't matter who won as long as you had fun. Now drink your hot chocolate, so we can go open the last of our gifts." I said to them.

They both did as I told them, and with a smile, I took Riley into the living room. The others soon followed, and we began to open our gifts. Since we only had so much room to carry things with us on the plane to go home, everyone just got Edward and I gifts we could share.

Emmett and Rosalie got us some books they knew we would like, and Alice and Jasper gave us some new clothes that Alice had designed herself. We loved the gifts they had gotten us, but I think our favorite gift had to be from Carlisle. He had given us a photo album that was filled with pictures of all of us from when we were kids. It brought back a lot of happy memories from before my mom died. Some of the picture were familiar, but there were also a few that I we had never seen before. It was really beautiful.

We thanked them and let Riley open his gifts next. He got some more movies and a few games from all of them.

We thanked them again, and cleaned up the room once more. We told them about our plans for visiting in the future and before we knew it, it was time for us to go. We didn't want to stay too late, because we wanted to get our things packed so we would have everything ready for when we had to leave in two days. Doing that would give us an entire day to spend with everyone before we went back to Chicago.

Before we left, we thanked everyone again, and headed to the cabin to pack.

Once we had tucked Riley into bed, we started to pack. It took about 45 minutes to get everything put away and to make sure we didn't miss anything.

We still had a little bit of time before it got too late, so we decided to have a little adult time. We checked on Riley in the next room to make sure he was asleep, and once we were sure he wouldn't wake up, we headed back to our room and closed the door.

We ended up making love two times before we got tired and decided to call it a night. Besides, we needed to get some sleep, so we could have the energy tomorrow to visit everyone one last time before we had to head back to Chicago.

A/N: You gotta love Emmett. I wish I had a brother like him, but unfortunately, my brother is a jerk and rarely speaks to me unless he has to, even though I'm only two years older than him. He and I have absolutely nothing in common with each other. I don't get to see him often though, because he is in the Marines, and is currently stationed in Okinawa, Japan. He was there for the typhoon that happened recently, and he said it was the most exciting thing he's ever experienced. What an idiot. LOL. ;)

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