One frosty winter weekend when i was staying with Vanessa and JH we had an indoor snowball fight. It was early Saturday morning and JH was gone to the store. Iris, Jenny, Vanessa and i were all in Vanessa's king size waterbed watching cartoons. Vanessa and i were painting each other's fingernails and the girls were, of course, bouncing around like superballs on crack. The heat had been left on too high the night before and it was stifling in the trailer. Vanessa bitched mightily and cursed JH for a fool. Little did we know, JH had returned and was outside the bedroom window.Little did we know, that is, until he boomed in the back door dragging a bucket of snow. He hurtled down the hall and pelted us with snowballs. Vanessa jumped up screeching and laughing. She called her girls to help and wrestled the bucket away from JH. Iris and Jenny managed to trip JH and he fell to the bed laughing, Iris pouncing onto his belly. Vanessa dumped the remainder of the snow on him and he squealed like a girl. Jenny snatched up the bucket and ran outside for a refill.At this point Vanessa noticed me in a corner of the waterbed watching their family frolic. She always tried to include me. Always. Sometimes when i was at Vanessa's, for a few minutes i didn't feel like an outsider. And, this was to be one of those times."Oh no you don't!," she yelled, laughing. "Oh no! You don't think you're not getting wet do you? Oh no!"Iris and JH took up the cry of "Oh no!" as the backdoor boomed open again and we heard Jenny struggling with the bucket. Vanessa ran to help her. Iris hopped on me, and started yelling for Jenny to come put her cold feet on me. And, down the hall that little blonde imp flew. She jumped on the bed and shoved her icy little feet under me. Before i knew it i was giggling and playing with the rest of them.Snowballs flew for over a half an hour, leaving the room a soaking mess. It was worth every minute of cleaning it up, because we all had a blast.
