[Prompt] Snow Below

The air was crisp, but not as crisp as the sound of snow crunching under Eve’s boots as she walked outside, closing the front door behind her and inhaling the cold air that burned her nostrils and lungs. The sun wasn’t even up yet, the fresh layer of snow twinkled and glittered like precious gems under the streetlights, and it was so quiet Eve swore she could almost hear stray snowflakes gently floating and dancing on the gentle breeze. She took another deep breath and pulled her jacket together, zipping it up before pulling a hat out of one of the pockets and pulling it over her hair. She wanted to enjoy this moment, the stillness of the world before everyone woke up.

She took a couple steps towards the stairs before stopping, closing her eyes and simply enjoying the moment of peace, almost getting lost in it until it happened. She heard a crunch of snow off to her left, the swish of a jacket rubbing up against itself followed by a cold sobering blow to the side of her head by a rather large snowball.

Eve lifted her hands to wipe the snow away, then turned to see who had the audacity to ruin her beautiful moment of peace, only to see her husband standing there with a goofy ass grin on his face, and another snowball in hand.

“Oh, you want to fight?” She laughed and darted off the porch and around the house to take cover and prepare her own ammunition. You can’t have a snowball fight without snowballs, well you could but it wouldn’t be much of a snowball fight then would it.

“That’s what you get for getting out of bed so early!” She heard Adam laughing in response, but he didn’t immediately follow her. She had at least a couple minutes to prepare, and once she had squished enough balls together, she gathered some in her arms, got up and ran back to the front. Arm raised back ready to yeet one of these bad boys right at his face… and yet he wasn’t there.

“Oh, what the fuck. How does he just vanish like that?” She scoffed and lowered her arm, taking a couple steps to go investigate his footprints when another snowball hit her in the back. She turned around quickly and threw her own snowball, watching as her big ass husband somehow managed to swerve out of the way just in time

“Ooooh you gotta be quicker than that!” He laughed and pranced off teasingly.

She tried not to laugh and ran after him, throwing another snowball which grazed his shoulder. Then another that hit him in the arm.

“Just remember you started this!” She giggled and continued to throw, dodge and inevitably get hit by snowballs. The two of them running around the yard at first and soon began to take over the neighborhood. Houses and cars being used for coverage, snow forts made by children in the neighborhood also served as refugee and a source of premade snowballs… sorry little buddies your snowballs were put to good use.

Eve panted behind one of the snow forts, hands shaking a little from the cold as she scooped more snow up and began to form it into a weapon of mass destruction, then peeked up around her temporary sanctuary. Home was only a few hundred yards away, if she could make it inside she would be safe!

“Okay Eve, you can do this. Hot chocolate and blankets are calling your name.” She whispered to herself, looking around trying to figure out where her dearly beloved husband was and yet once again, he was nowhere to be seen. Sneaky motherfucker. Its fine, maybe he had the same idea and had snuck back inside. She took a deep breath and emerged from her cover, glancing around one last time before booking it for home. She darted through her neighbors’ yard, across the street and into their yard. Hands stretched out to grab the stair railings to slip on a patch ice, only for a large set of arms to wrap around her waist and scoop her up against a warm body.

She squealed and started to laugh, squirming in Adams arms as he playfully swung her around in circles until he stumbled and the two of them tumbled into the soft, thick snow. She started to roll away from him, but didn’t get very far as he reached up, grabbed her hips and pulled her back towards him.

“Adam!” She gasped “You’re getting snow up my jacket!” She squirmed from the sudden chill and watched him crawl over her.

“I guess I’ll just have to warm you back up then.” He grinned and leaned in to kiss her.

She smiled and kissed him back, one hand slowly running up his chest while the other started to feel around in the snow until she found it, one perfectly intact snowball.  She lifted it up and gently smashed it into his face, both of them bursting out into laughter as he wrapped his arms around his wife and started to get up with her

“Alright I concede. As your reward Ill make you some of that expensive hot chocolate.” He purred happily, lifting her up into his arms and walking up the stairs to the door.

“Hmm I think I want some dessert for my reward instead.” She whispered in his ear. And the only thing he could think after that was ‘Damn maybe we should have snowball fights more often’.