Goodnight Princess

Chapter 23

Then, out of nowhere, a snowball shot up from the edge of the roof and nailed Mattheo in the face. Spluttering, he wiped his eyes. "What the-"

I stagger towards the edge of the roof, my stomach hurts from laughing. I peer over the edge and to no one's surprise, Draco is standing on the ground, grinning wickedly, a second snowball clutched in his mitten. He throws it at me, and I duck back onto the roof, still laughing. Abandoning the sketchbooks, me and Mattheo rush out to join Draco on the lawn.

I run into the woods behind them as Mattheo practically tackles Draco into the snow. I dig out a trench in the five feet of snow. I made it big enough that two of us could fit behind the wall. I grab the snow that I had moved to the side and started to form the classic round form of a snowball. I sat there making dozens of them before I saw Bella walk outside to see what all the commotion was.

She picks up some snow, forming it up into a snowball. I was shocked when she did not take her son's team. She aimed it directly at Theo's head. She had perfect aim. He looked up in shock, snow dripping from his dark curls, seeing his mother running towards him with yet another snowball at the ready.

"Theo make your way to the edge of the woods."

He confusingly looked over toward the forests. He drunkenly stumbles through the feet of snow. Once he made it to where the snow drops off for the start of the trench he just falls in not seeing it.

"Ow. A little warning next time princess." I just shrug. We look out to see Draco and Bella have teamed up, but even more surprising is that Narcissa has now joined them. We look over at each other in confusion.

"Ok so ambo is over here." I show him the pile of numerous snowballs that lay behind me. We soon turn our attention back to our three worthy opponents. But I see only Bella and Narcissa. Draco is nowhere to be seen. We each take a snowball aiming one at each of them. They both hit. Suddenly I feel a mound of snow hit the back of my neck. I whip my head around to see Draco hiding behind one of the trees in the forest.

"Mattheo, Draco is behind us hiding behind a tree." I whisper into his ear. He discreetly takes his wand out and points it at Draco as he pops out to throw another snowball. He mutters a spell that I didn't quite understand. Next thing I know Draco is encased in a snowman.

We both start laughing and end up rolling on the ground. It was a very confined space and it seemed to be getting smaller. Wait, it was getting smaller, it was not just a fragment of my imagination. I frantically tape Theo's shoulder as the top starts to close. He also notices what is happening and sticks his head out. As I hear the two remaining opponents laughing.

"Bellatrix spelled it to trap us in here, any idea why?" I knew exactly what she was trying to do. It was one of her tricks to try to get us together.

"No, you?"

"Nope."

"Any idea of how to get us out?"

"Nope." he answers discouraged. I take in our surroundings. We are trapped in a 7 by 7 igloo minus the entrance. Unlike an Igloo that is warm since it traps the wind; it is actually very cold. Neither of us were dressed for a snowball fight. I was not even wearing a coat. Theo was only wearing a light over size jacket. I was shivering despite myself. Theo noticed and inched closer, unzipping his jacket. He motioned for me to lean against his chest. It's not like I have a choice anyways, so I obliged. He wrapped his jacket around me and with it his arm. I rested my head back on his chest. We sat there for hours in each other's clutches trying to keep warm. But with Theo it felt like only minutes, or at least until I started to get hungry. We talked the entire time. Never getting bored of each other's stories. We talked about where we saw each other in the future, what we wanted to be, where we wanted to live, how many kids we wanted. Weirdly all of our wishes aligned, though we didn't say it, all of them included each other.