Winter had just arrived in Canterlot on a mid December day. School was out, roads were covered in snow trying to be cleared by snow plows, and that meant one thing for Sour Sweet and Sunny Flare...well, for sure her sister Sweeten Sour.
Sunny Flare put on her scarf and went outside. She smiled big at the view of the big white blanket that had covered the city.
"It's amazing! The beautiful scenery of winter, long snowy nights, tiny crystals falling from the sky," she held her hand up to feel them landing on her gloves as she began a drama - like speech, since she came off of a recent Christmas play at the school.
"The joy of children playing. Snowmen, Snow angels, the pursuit of happiness," she lowers her hand and rolls up her fingers, "Oh how I love it so..." She perked up.
"Oh! Got into play mood again. Heh heh." Her face turned a bit red.
"That was pretty!" Sweeten Sour applauded.
Sunny felt startled and saw her, "Hello Sweeten! Enjoying the weather?"
"Definitely! Sour and I when we were younger always had snowball fights and we used to make a snowman. I wonder if she's up for it again this year?" She thought.
"I'm sure she is dearie." Sunny smiled.
Sour Sweet then came out in her winter outfit.
"Sister! Do you wanna build a snowman? Come on, let's go play!" Sweeten jumped for joy.
Sour saw Sunny and felt awkward, "That would be fun, if you were a little kid."
"Come on sis, we love playing in the snow!" Sweeten encouraged her.
"When we were younger."
"Sour what's wrong?" Sweeten asked.
Sour looked over at Sunny, thinking she was going to make fun of her. But Sunny was smiling, then she waved.
"Umm. Nothing."
"Is it because you feel like I'm going to poke fun at you?" Sunny asked.
"Maaaybeeee....ok yes!"
"Don't worry about it. I love making snowmen." Sunny said.
"Really?" Sour asked.
"Yes. May I join in on the fun?
"Of course!" Sweeten quickly answered.
"Come to think of it, you need to try Sunny's homemade hot cocoa. It's so much better than the store-branded ones!" Sour added.
"Oh please, there's some good ones out there." Sunny chuckled.
"Is it that good?" Sweeten asked.
Sour nodded and winked at Sunny. Sunny pointed and winked back.
"Come on come on! Let's build a snowman!" Sweeten begged.
"Alright sis. Let's do it!" Sour smirked.
They spent a while building a snowman. The usual three big parts. The base, middle and head. They used a carrot from Sunny's fridge for a nose, two olives for eyes, and three more for the buttons. Then they put an apple slice for the mouth.
"How does it look?" Sunny asked looking at it.
"I think it came out pretty good." Sweeten smiled.
"Me too! Because we know how to be artistic!" Sour boasted.
"Now now sissy." Sweeten giggled.
"Hmm?"
Sweeten rolled up a snowball and threw it at her sister.
"Oh you wanna snowball fight?" Sour asked, then she smirked, "Bring it!"
Sour Sweet took a snowball and tree it at her sister, she dodged and it hit Sunny Flare in the face.
Sweeten laughed, "Good one sis!"
Sunny Flare took the snowball remains and looked at it in her glove, "Looks like I have to join in." She smirked.
She took some snow and built a snow fort around her. It wasn't much, it only covered her to her feet if she stood up.
"That's just downright puny." Sweeten giggled.
"Sunny my friend, this is how you do it!" Sour built a much taller snow fort that would cover her of she crouched down.
"What's wrong with mine?" Sunny asked.
"Oh nothing at all...unless you're a toddler."
"Really then? I had an A in sculpting class this semester. I'm sure I can make a snowfort better than you all." Sunny crossed her arms.
The two sisters tried not to laugh.
"Oh of course! I had an A too!" Sour smirked.
"Well...yeah we were partners." Sunny stuttered.
"Show us what you got." Sweeten added.
"Alright then."
Sunny Flare took some more snow and gently made a fort around her. However she made it quite tall, making it to the top of her head when she stood up. The sisters were quite shocked.
"How did you..." Sweeten's jaw dropped.
"As always I should not underestimate her!" Sour grunted.
"Maybe I can try and toss it up there." Sweeten said.
"I got this." Sour winked.
"Bonne chance~!" Sunny said good luck in french from the bottom of her fort. She kicked back and relaxed.
Sour raised and eyebrow.
"She must know good french.." Sweeten commented.
"Oh yeah. She's really good at it." Sour then took a snowball and threw it up the air, however it just missed her and went through the window and burnt out the fire in Sunny's fireplace.
Nice try~!" Sunny sung.
"I think you might have gotten her fireplace." Sweeten looked closer, "Yep."
"Whoops." Sour Sweet innocently smiled.
"Well, no worries. I can start up a new one." Sunny got up.
Sour Sweet then had an idea.
"Let's go to Cinch's place and do that!"
"Do what?" Sweeten asked.
"Throw a snowball at her fireplace."
"Well. Aunt Cinch sure loves her winter's nice and warm." Sunny commented.
"Surprisingly!" Sour went to her Sour mode.
Sunny climbed over and slipped, "Woah!"
"You ok?" Sour helped her up.
"Yes I'm fine. Thanks." Sunny wiped off the snow.
"Come on let's go!" Sour said.
The three took a bus to Cinch's house. Cinch was sitting on a couch by her fireplace watching daytime television. She sipped her coffee.
"Too bad I was forced to cancel school. The children must be at their best. We have a rrrrreputation to hold!" Cinch said to herself.
They overheard.
"Wow. Does she do this a lot?" Sweeten asked.
“Unfortunately.” Sunny sighed.
“Hey her windows are closed!” Sweeten pointed out.
“I know a trick, I got this.” Sunny watched Cinch get up to check her computer in another room, she was out of sight. She took a stick off the ground and used it as a jack to slowly prop the window open.
“Careful!” Sour whispered.
“Whenever I have to see her and forget the keys, I do this all the time.” She opened it to where they could easily hit the fireplace.
Cinch felt it get cold, “Did the A/C break?”
“Now! Now!” Sunny said.
Sour Sweet took a snowball and flinged it into her house, landing directly into her fireplace.
Cinch perked up from the other room, “What was that??”
“Quick go, go, go!!” Sunny said as they ran through the thick blanket of snow. They left in time when Cinch came back into her living room. They watched her react.
“Who threw a snowball at my fireplace? And why is the window open?!” She went to shut the window, “Crazy kids…”
As they walked back to the bus stop, they were all laughing.
“Oh my gosh, that was hilarious dearie!” Sunny laughed.
“I would so do that again!” Sour Sweet chuckled.
“Take that mean ol’ principal! No offense..” Sweeten said to Sunny.
“None taken dearie.” Sunny smiled, “Come on, let’s get home and warm up to a nice, new warming fire,” She looked at Sour Sweet.
“I didn’t mean to.” Sour put her hands up.
“I know,” Sunny giggled, “And have some of my homemade hot cocoa.”
“Marshmallows!” Sweeten clapped her hands.
“Of course marshmallows, I ran out the other day and Rarity bought me some at the store. She makes it too. I told her my recipe. She loves it!” Sunny explained.
“Sounds lovely!” Sweeten smiled.
THE END
