Emma's POV

I rubbed my eyes and lifted my self to sit up straight on my bed. I looked at my alarm clock and it was 1 pm. Oh yeah, I was watching movies

all night, then I fell asleep at 5 am.

I laid back down and wrapped myself in my warm blanket and decided to go back to sleep since I was still tired and it was also way too cold to get out of bed.

Just as I closed my eyes, my phone rang, I groaned and reached over to grab my phone from the bedside table, and felt my phone so I grabbed it and pressed the answer button.

"Hello?" I said, yawning."Emma, are you seriously still sleeping?" Becky asked. "Yeah" I muttered. "Well get your lazy ass out of bed, have you looked outside? It's snowing!" she yelled through the phone.

"You know I don't like snow right?" I asked. "I know, but I don't care, I already invited the guys to go over to your house to have a snow fight, before we go pick up Eric," Becky said.

"What? Seriously?" I asked, getting annoyed."Yes, Emma, they are coming at 2 so get dressed in super warm clothes its freezing outside. See you later" Becky said and hung up.

I groaned I hate snow, I hate cold weathers, I want to sit in bed and watch movies all day and eat. Not play snow fights.

But there is no saying no to Becky so I pushed myself off the bed and got up. The moment I got up, I thought I was going to freeze so I jumped back in bed and wrapped myself in the blanket, curling up in a ball.

"Emma! I told you to wake up," Someone yelled at me. I opened my eyes and stared at a blurry figure standing in front of my bed. I rubbed my eyes and found myself looking at Becky. Shit, I must have fallen asleep.

"Sorry, I got out of bed, but it was too cold so I went back to bed," I said, sitting up straight. "Well get ready, the guys are already downstairs with your brother," She said, pulling my arm.

I didn't like the sound of that.

I ran to the bathroom and washed my face, brushed my teeth and went back in my room, got a turtleneck shirt and pulled a sweater above, I wore warm leggings and sweatpants above and wore some thick socks that came right above my ankle. I went to my winter drawer and took out a beanie and water-proof gloves and put them on.

I was still feeling cold, but whatever. Becky walked down the stairs and found the guys laughing, sitting at the kitchen island.

They looked at me and my brother's mouth started to open, clearly not wanting to answer a question. "Let just go play outside," I said and walked towards the front door.

I got my boots and put them on and opened the door.

Wow, everything was covered in snow, I couldn't even see the grass in my front yard. It was pretty, but I still didn't feel like playing.

Soon, Becky, Theo, Brendon, Levi, and Conner came out as well."Emma is on my team!" Becky yelled."I'll go with Brendon's team." Conner said and walked to Brendon's side.

"I'll go with Becky," Theo said and walked over to our side. Then Levi went with Brendon's team.

"So half an hour, build a small fort and make snowballs. Then we start the war, no excuses, only half an hour." Becky said, taking her phone out and setting up the timer.

"Ready..set..Go!" Becky yelled stuffing her phone in her pocket, Becky and Theo then jumped onto the ground and started making snowballs."Emma, you make the wall thing." Becky said, throwing me a brick-shaped mold, and I caught it. "Ok captain," I said, while saluting with my free hand, then went a few steps behind them and started stuffing snow into the mold then placing the perfectly shaped snow-brick on the snow-covered grass.

I continued to make more and more bricks, this wasn't that bad, I made a wall that was high enough for someone to sit on their knees and duck, and also made the wall curve in a bit on the side for more protection, then I covered the bottom with snow, just to hold it up stronger and made sure the bricks won't fall down. I place a red flag on the wall.

Becky and Theo quickly ran over with a big container full of snowballs and put them behind the wall. Those were for emergencies and the ones we will use now were in another container, that was placed outside the wall, right in front.

Suddenly something started to beep really loud, Becky took out her phone and stopped the alarm. "Everyone put your hand on your head," Becky said, stuffing her phone in her pocket and putting her hands over her head.

We all did, except Brendon, who lazily put his hands in his pocket. Becky ignored that then gave me a look and then Theo, then Conner, Levi, and Brendon yelled 'attack' and started throwing snowballs at us, I quickly ran and hid behind the wall, and started throwing snowballs at them as hard as I can.

Their wall, was much bigger, and there was a blue flag, that's what I had to get, kind of like capture the flag, but if you get hit by a snowball, you had to run all the way back to your own fort for around 5 seconds. None of them were guarding the fort, they were all busy attacking Becky and Theo, I crawled out and then started running towards their fort.

I quickly ducked behind their fort, I took a sneak peek and realized no one even saw me here. I quickly pulled the flag and ducked down again.

I quietly started to get up to run away, when suddenly someone grabbed my waist and pulled me up and snatched the flag from my hand, I screamed, but then turned around pulled the flag from Brendon's hand and went out of his grip and ran to my fort.

On the way, I suddenly hit the ground, feeling someone's weight on my back, they grabbed the flag and got off me. I turned to lay on my back and found my brother holding the flag, then he threw it to Levi.

"You had to physically tackle me to the ground to get a stupid flag?"I asked and grabbed my brother's hand and he helped me up."Yup," he said then suddenly Levi yelled 'No' we turned around and found Becky holding a blue flag and jumping around in our 'fort'.

"We won!" Becky yelled. I ran and high-fived Becky and Theo.

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After playing friendly matches and building a snowman, we got inside, me and Becky made some Nutella hot chocolate and put mini marshmallows and whip cream with it and went to the living room, where the boys were sitting around the fireplace, warming up, covering themselves with throw blankets.

Becky and I took a seat on the ground next to them and put my blanket over my legs. "Let's play a game," Levi suggested. "Sure, what game?"I asked, taking a sip of my hot chocolate.

"Truth or dare?" Becky suggested. I looked around they all noded."Well then, truth or dare it is."I said, placing my mug down next to me.

"Who wants to go get a bottle for the game?" Theo asked. Everyone shook their head. We were so cozied up in the blankets we didn't want to move."Fine, let's play without a bottle." I said.

"I'll go first," Levi said. We all nodded. Levi looked around for a second then asked "Theo, truth or dare?"

"Truth" Theo answered.

"Hmm... If you were trapped on an island for 3 days, what would you take with you?" Levi asked.

"Well, let's see, food, computer, and my girlfriend." He answered. "I'm an object to you?" Becky said, putting a hand on her chest as if she got hurt.

"That's not how I-" The Theo quickly tried to answer," I'm just joking babe," Becky said, cuddling more into Theo's chest.

"Ok my turn, so hmm.. Brendon," Becky said.

Brendon groaned. "Truth or dare," Becky asked."Dare," Brendon said.

Becky smirked, "Go to the neighbor's house and ask for a spare condom." She said, after thinking for a moment.

"I expected something harder than that," Brendon said simply, then got up and put on his jacket.

We all got up after him and I used my phone to call him, so we can hear everything he is saying without having to come with him.

Becky, Levi, Theo, Conner and I, stood in front of the window, peaking between the curtain ends, and saw Brendon walking towards my neighbor's house.

"Okay, you ready?" I asked through the phone, putting it on speaker."Yeah," he said, then pressed the doorbell.

I saw the front door open and an old woman come out. Wow, I don't even know my neighbors.

She was wrapped in a red thick blanket, "What do you want?" She asked in a grumpy tone. "A spare condom," Brendon said.

The woman slammed the door right in Brendon's face, I almost dropped the phone at how loud she slammed the door shut.

"I think I broke my nose," Brendon said through the phone, we saw him turn around, and walking back towards my house, holding the bridge of his nose.

We laughed and I hung up the phone, and went and opened the front door.

"Okay, your turn Brendon," Conner said, giving me a knowing smile. I knit my eyebrows and gave him a glare and mouthed 'what', he just laughed and turned to look at Brendon.

Brendon looked around the room."Conner, truth or dare." He asked.

At one point, I was relieved he didn't pick me but then thinking about what he was up to, Conner was my brother. This isn't going to go well.

"Truth," Conner said, licking his lips. "What was your biggest fight or argument with Emma?"Brendon asked.

Oh no. Please, not that. Conner looked at me, I bit the inside of my cheek.

"Well..when we were younger..we used to tell everything to each other, we were like best friends. One day, I just cut myself off from everyone, including Emma, she got upset that I didn't tell her why, she never stopped trying to make me smile and normal like I used to be until Emma got suspicious about..our mom. She had a feeling that my dad and I were lying to her about our mom." He paused, I didn't look at him, I just looked down at my hands, my eyes were starting to tear up.

Don't start crying Emma, just don't.

"Then my dad told her what actually happened, and she came to my room, crying and yelled at me for not telling her. I told her that I didn't want her to get upset. She got more pissed saying me and my dad didn't think she could handle it, but it was true, she couldn't handle it. She also wouldn't let me explain, neither did she let my dad explain." He paused again, I could feel everyone's eyes on me.

"Never mind, you can stop now, we don't need to know the rest." Brendon quickly spoke up."N-no, go on, its fine." I whispered, feeling a teardrop on my hand.

"Then about a week later, Emma kept asking me to tell her why my mom took her life, I always denied knowing everytime she asked because to be entirely honest, I didn't know, but she thought I did. Emma kept asking and didn't stop, she then came to me once and asked if I was the reason for my mom and also the reason why I didn't tell her. She was young then, so she didn't know what she was saying, she was just mad and upset, but I was quite young too, hearing her say that made me explode and I got really mad,then.." He took a deep breath.

"I yelled at her saying it wasn't my fault and that it was hers and that she was a burden to my mom. I know this isn't exactly an argument, I mean we had a lot of arguments after she found out, but this was just the worst thing I've ever said or done to my baby sister." He finally said, his voice getting weaker.

I couldn't handle it, I got up and burst out the front door, and ran out in the snow. The cold air was piercing my skin like million sharp needles, but I didn't care, my warm tears started to fall down my skin and fell onto the snow.

I felt a hand on my shoulder, making me spin to look at Conner.

I felt a hand on my shoulder, making me spin to look at Conner

I looked up at him and he pulled me in for a hug. He rested his head on my shoulder, and I wrapped my arms around his torso tightly.

"It's okay Emma. That was the worst mistake I've ever done, and it isn't true, none of it is your fault, mommy loved us. It wasn't us okay?" Conner said, rubbing my back. I nodded then we walked back into the house, his arm around my shoulder.

My friends came running to me and gave me a big hug. Then we walked to the living room, I found a lot of blanket on each couch, and a bunch of snacks on the tea table and I sat down on a couch then looked at the time.

"Oh, Becky we got to leave in half an hour to pick up Eric," I said. "Who's Eric?" Levi asked. "Emma and Becky's best friend," Conner said while chewing chocolate.

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Becky and I got in her car and waited for the engine to warm up. "Emma, you didn't mention that your brother said that to you.." Becky said, with a concerned look on her face."I'm sorry, but I'm fine now." I assured her.

She nodded and gave me a small smile and drove out of the driveway."Let's go pick up our brother." Becky said, smiling.

"Not exactly our brother, but yeah let's go!" I cheered, then turned on the radio, the song Say You Won't Let Go by James Arthur had just begun playing.

His voice was so relaxing for some reason, for the past few days, I used this song to help me fall asleep.

I hummed while looking at the snowy environment outside us. When we finally got to the airport, we waited at the exit.

After a few minutes, we saw Eric come out of the exit, with a big suitcase. He looked around, but not in our direction.

 We quickly ran over to him and hugged him

"Oh my god, we missed you so much," I said, not letting go. "Me too, but you're going to miss me even more if you choke me to death right now." He said, we quickly let go and started walking towards the car.

"Well, it's good to be home." He said as he wrapped his arms around me and Becky.

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