Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS

"MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE"

Evangeline Malfoy rolled over so she was on her front, throwing her pillow over her head to block out the awful noise that was her brother singing muggle Christmas songs. She wasn't going to lie, she loved Christmas! But this was that one time of the year where she wished she stayed in her parents' side of the manor.

Okay she didn't, she knew what they got up to there.

But sharing half of the manor with her three siblings (soon to be four) when two of them were over excitable goons was not a good thing.

Suddenly, her bedroom door flung open to reveal her brother Hyperion singing his head off.

"SNOW IS FALLING, ALL AROUND US"

Eva pushed her pillow away and glared at him "Yeah but it's not is it. So go away" and then she threw the pillow at his head. Being completely pants at Quidditch, he dropped it.

"Um, I think you'll find that you are mistaken sister, have you looked outside?"

Eva rolled her eyes before shuffling over her bed so she could peer out of the window. Opening up her blue curtains she was shocked to see that her brother was telling the truth. Out of the large window there was snow falling rapidly onto an already white blanket covering the ground. She grinned before getting up properly, rubbing the sleep from her eyes.

"Get out of my room Hyperion, last person outside is a rotten flobberworm"

"Not fair, my room is at the other end of the hall"

"Well then, you better get a move on" she said, pulling out her underwear from a drawer as Hyperion ran out of the room to get reading before his older sister.

Twenty minutes later, Evangeline Malfoy was ready and dressed in warm winter clothes. Her white ski coat was buttoned up to her collar and her ski boots covered her feet. She and her family had gone skiing last year and luckily she hadn't grown at all. She pulled up her fur lined hood and skipped out of the room to beat her annoying brother.

Unfortunately he was already there, dressed in his Gryffindor red jacket and boots, his blonde hair tousled and unkempt. He grinned when he saw Eva.

"Ha, I knew I would beat you, you're too girly and perfect"

"What do you mean? I didn't have a shower this morning because of you and I am very proud of myself"

"Mm, but you still took five minutes brushing your hair"

"Just because I take care in what I look li..." but she was cut off as Hyperion laughed

"Eva, we're going outside to play in the snow. You are not going to bump into some super cute guy who is going to immediately whisk you off your feet and take you away to fairyland"

I raised an eyebrow at him but he just shrugged

"What?"

"Nothing, you just never fail to amaze me"

"That's because I'm awesome" he gushed before running across the large entrance hall to go out into the grounds. He pushed open the door and ran around the gardens. Eva watched her energetic brother as the snow whirled around him, landing on his nose and hair. He flicked up his tongue to lick a bit off his top lip and Eva giggled.

She stopped when she felt a cold sting on her cheek and lifted her hand to feel wet snow dripping down it. She turned and glared at her brother.

"Hyperion, that's not fair"

He spun around, shocked by her outburst "What's not fair?"

"You threw a snowball at my face!" she shrieked

"No I didn't" he stuck his gloves in her face "See, they're dry"

"Well then who..." she looked around just in time to see a snowball heading straight for her face. She ducked and heard a cry from behind her, the snowball had hit Hyperion.

"Aha, and you thought you were the early birds" a voice that sounded a lot like her father shouted from in front of her and she looked up to see the other four members of her and Hyperion's family stood in front of them, laughing in the snow. Eva scowled at her parents and younger siblings.

"That's not funny"

"No, it's hilarious" Astrum squealed as she got up from the ground, where she'd just made a snow angel.

"Or not" Eva growled as she bent down to clump snow into a sphere. Then something hit her bottom and she heard her brother laughing wildly behind her.

"Ha, serves you right for ducking"

She looked around to see that the snowball she had ducked for had indeed hit him directly in the face; he had water dripping past his cheeks and snow caught in eyelashes and hair, his face was red raw from where the coldness had hit him.

Eva glared at her brother before running off to the rest of her family.

Ten minutes later they were sorted into teams of three;

Eva, Quinton, and Hermione

Hyperion, Astrum, and Draco

But Astrum was completely rubbish at snowball fights so it was technically just Hyperion and Draco, Astrum just cheered them on from where she was attempting to make a snowman by herself.

After half an hour of non-stop snowballs flying left, right, and centre. The Malfoy's stopped throwing and went over to help their youngest member with her snowman. Unfortunately she hadn't gotten very far.

"I want to make his body" Astrum squealed, Hermione looked doubtful.

"Perhaps you can make the head with daddy, and the rest of us can make the body" her youngest daughter looked upset so she added "And then you can give him his nose, hat, gloves, and eyes"

Astrum's face lit up and she grabbed Draco's hand, dragging him away so they could start on the snowman head.

Once they were finished, Draco lifted Astrum up (the snowman was very tall since Hyperion had gotten a little carried away) and she put the carrot nose in. The snowman was very handsome.

"What shall we call him?"

"ASTRUM"

Eva's giggled at her hyperactive younger sister "That's your name silly"

"But it's a cool name"

"It's a girl's name and this is a snow darling" Draco cooed, throwing Astrum over his shoulder so that she squealed in delight.

"What about Chris?" Hermione suggested

"BORING" Astrum moaned making her mother scowl at her.

"What about Alan?" Eva pondered but Astrum looked at her in glee.

"Yeah Alan, that's so cool!"

Hermione looked at her daughter in appreciation "Okay then, Alan it is"

"YAY" Astrum shrieked, fidgeting around in Draco's arms. He put her down and she ran off towards the direction of the house.

"I think she wants her presents" Quinn said