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Chapter 4—Shopping bags

"Noooo!" I groaned as I heard an annoying ringing sound. It took me a minute to figure out it was probably Alice, calling to wake me up. I glanced at the alarm clock, 6:00! It's a flipp'n Saturday!

I sighed and picked up the phone, "Hello?"

"Hey! Are you ready for shopping?" Alice squealed into the phone.

"No, but I'm ready for more sleep. Do you know what time it is?" I asked as I sat up.

"It's six right?" she asked. "Hurry up and meet me outside your house in ten minutes."

"Okay, see ya," I said.

"Aloha," she said.

Wait, aloha? "Alice, I thought aloha meant hello?" I asked as I got up.

"It means hello and goodbye."

"But then-"

"Just hurry up Bella, Rose and I don't have all day!" and then I was talking to dial tone. I grumbled to myself as I put on jeans and a blue hoodie. I looked quickly in the mirror and figured it was a ponytail day. When I walked outside Alice and Rosalie were already waiting in M3 convertible I saw yesturday.

I scooted in the back seat and said, "aloha."

I saw Alice roll her eyes at me. "So, what exactly are we doing today?"

"First we're stopping for some breakfast, then we're shopping for the Spring Fling!" Alice squealed.

"When is the Spring Fling?" I asked now that I realized I had no idea what weekend I will randomly feel the desire to visit my mom.

"It's in a few weeks-at the end of baseball season. It's kind of like our second homecoming," Rosalie said as we pulled onto the highway.

"Why are you shopping now then?" I asked confused.

"Well, we buy what we think we may want now and if we find something better we get that," Alice said like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Okay.

"So why do I have to go?" I asked trying to see the point in me going on this shopping trip.

"Your shopping for the Spring Fling too," Alice said cofindently.

"Uh, no I'm not. Weren't you listening to my converstation with Jessica yesterday?" I asked like she was insane.

"Yes I did, and that's exactly why you are going," she said looking straight ahead.

"Do I look like I want to wear a dress?" I asked stunned. This girl will never give up!

"Nope. But you will," she said smiling confidently.

"I'm not going," I told her surely.

"Oh, but you will. You may not think that now, but you will go," she said smiling widely now. I huffed and sat back in the seat. This is going to be a long day…

"Finally!" I said throwing my hands up as we stepped out of the car in the mall's parking lot. Alice and Rosalie smiled triumphantly at me…oh, they thought I wanted to be here. Ha! I just wanted to escape the rap music that had been blasting through the speakers. Some rap is okay, but not a lot.

Alice glanced at me and said, "First stop-"

"-food!" I yelled quickly, hoping she would get the hint.

Rosalie snickered and Alice looked at me with an annoyed expression. "Shoes."

"Ugh! But I'm hungy," I whined.

"Too bad," Alice said, sticking her tongue out at me. They effectively dragged me around half the mall looking for 'the perfect shoes.' They did find shoes, but I couldn't tell you exactly which ones were oh mighty perfect ones because they bought shoes at every store.

"You did good Bella, we're meeting the boys for food now," Rosalie said smiling.

"Finally!" I said happily. I'm so hungy it's not even funny. "Let's go," I said as they paused to look into a shop window. We quickly got to the food court but I didn't see the guys.

"They'll be here in a little bit, let's just sit down," Rosalie said heading to a booth off to the side. I followed her lead and scooted into the booth.

We were just talking about random things when an all too familiar voice filled the air. "Oh look, it's Swan and her poorly dressed friends," Lauren said coming to stand at the front of our booth.

"Oh look, it's Lauren. She still isn't healed from her latest nose job and I think it's effecting her voice," Alice said smirking. Lauren' s hand reflexively flew up to touch her nose and we snickered.

"I hope you guys aren't shopping for the dance. It'll be such a waste for Cinderbella over here-you know she won't be able to get a date," she sneered.

"Oh please, half the baseball team is already drooling over her," Rosalie snorted. I looked at her shocked, what?

"They're just amazed that she hasn't gotten gender reasignment surgery yet," Lauren scoffed.

"Can you spell reasignment?" I asked her slowly like she was a four year old. She just glared at me and I smiled innocently.

Suddenly her eyes darted over my head and her glare turned into a flirty face-ew. "Hey Eddie!" she squealed waving over my head.

"Lauren. Hey Alice, Rose…Bella," Edward said as he scooted into the seat next to Rosalie. Jasper and Emmet followed quickly behind him.

"So Eddie, are you going to homecoming?" Lauren asked-trying her best to sound seductive. She sounded my like someone shoved peanuts up her nose.

Edward just shrugged and Lauren frowned slightly. "Have you asked anyone?"

"No," he said simply.

She smiled widely now. "That's good news, no one's asked me yet," she added.

"I wonder why?" I muttered under my breath, causing everyone-but Edward-to laugh.

"Has anyone asked you Bella?" Lauren shot back quickly. At least she came up with a decent come back this time, maybe she wasn't as dim as I thought…

"Nope," I answered, reaching across the table and stealing one of Emmet's nachos. Love those things.

"I bet it's because your on the baseball team," she said like it was the most obvious thing in world.

I shrugged and said, "Maybe, but I wouldn't to go anywhere with a guy who had a problem with that."

"That's too bad," Lauren said like she really meant it. "Hope you guys enjoy the rest of your day," she said brightly before walking her hips. I'm surprised she didn't fall over from swaying her hips so much.

When she was out of earshot I turned to Alice and Rosalie. "How does she change attitudes so fast?"

"She's been doing it for years," Alice said with a roll of her eyes-but I could tell it bothered her just as much as it bothered me.

"That's why all the guys are so oblivious you know," Rosalie said matter-of-factly. "Well, some guys could care less-but that's why the good ones don't know."

"Yeah Edward," Alice said glaring at him. He was seriously falling for Lauren's act?

"I think you guys are just over exagerating. No one could possibly be that evil one second and be as nice the next, it's not possible," he said sounding very sure of himself.

Rosalie opened her mouth to argue but I interrupted her. "I'm sure nothing we do or say will change his mind so he'll just have to walk the halls of Forks High completely blind. It's not his fault this blindness will eventually cause him to take Lauren to the dance where he will no doubt lose several IQ points before they even get there," I said nonchantly. They all burst out laughing and Edward scowled at me-but I wasn't completely sure if he didn't doubt all this himself. He seemed like a smart guy…

"We should go dress shopping now!" Alice said exitedly.

"Alice I don't even want to go, why do I have to shop? And besides, I haven't even eaten anything yet!" I whined.

"Why don't you want to go to the dance anyway?" Jasper asked.

"One I can't dance and two what's the point? " I asked seriously.

"The point is to have fun with your friends and feel confident and beautiful for a night," Alice said just as seriously. I guess that kind of made sense…if you cared about that stuff-which I didn't.

"I guess your right but can't I be 'beautiful' my way?" I asked making quotations around the word.

"What do you mean Bella?" Rosalie asked confused.

"I feel most confident when I'm playing baseball…so can't I just wear my jersey or something? You know, team spirit," I asked hopefully. They just glared at me and Emmet and Jasper looked like they were trying not to laugh. "Fine. Do whatever. Can I at least get a chance to look at the cleats around here? They just legalized metal spikes," I said with a wide grin on my face. (I really don't know if they legalized metal spikes in baseball…but they did in softball. Hehe.)

"Did they really?" Emmet asked excitedly. See, that's how your supposed to react! Alice and Rosalie just looked at me like I spoke pig latin or something. Which I can't for the life of me-I know, I tried.

"Charlie just told me last week, I had no idea," I gushed to the guys.

"Fine! You can look at your cleats after we dress shop," Alice said dragging me away from the table, the food, and the sane.

Dress shopping with Alice and Rosalie was pretty bad. Torture would be a good word. I just went in and out of dressing rooms, showing them all these frilly girly dresses that I really hated. A lot. I probably changed clothes more times than I did in a month. It was really boring-worse than biology.

The last one I tried on I didn't even bother looking in the mirror before I walked out. All I knew was that it was this midnight blue and it was a long formal gown. Probably really expensive too. When I walked out Rosalie's and Alice's eyes both widened-mouths hanging open and everything. I figured it looked so horrible they were speachless-I would have rather heard that.

"Oh. My. God." Alice said finally.

"That bad?" I asked grimacing.

"It's perfect!" Rosalie yelled. I raised my eyebrows at her as if she was insane.

"Bella, have you seen yourself?" Alice asked, dragging me to a mirror I hadn't noticed. She set me up in front of it and my mouth dropped open. Even with my hair in a pony tail I looked good. It had no back so I turned around to look. You could see all my muscles and it looked really cool. I looked older too-not in a bad way-more mature.

"You have to get that dress!" Rosalie said seriously.

I glanced at the price tag. Whoa. I shouldn't even be allowed to touch that dress. "I can't afford it you guys," I said a little sad now that I realized it was perfect.

"I can," Alice snorted and started shoving me back into the dressing room. I kept protesting that she shouldn't buy it for me but nooo Alice refused to leave that beautiful dress at that store. Even when I threatened I would never wear it because she bought it she knew I was lying. Because I would. Wear it. It was perfect and I couldn't even deny it. And boy did I want to.

"Let's go look at cleats," Rosalie said as we walked out of the store. I knew she was just trying to me so I wouldn't feel guilty about Alice spending money on me. I didn't mind that much. It turned out that they did have the perfect cleats for me and I bought them-because I had to. I couldn't resist. They were even more perfect than the dress. That's saying a lot.

"So, we're going home now right? I have an English paper due Monday and I need to finish it to be eligible," I told them as we headed out of the store.

"Yep, I think we got everything we need for now," Alice said smiling hugely. I definitely didn't miss that she said for now, but I let it go because I knew that no matter what I did, this was not the last time I was going shopping with Alice. Dang.

I finished my paper on Sunday and did nothing the rest of the day. Just hung out and relaxed bedcause I knew we had a game on Friday and this was my last chance to do nothing. I'm just glad most of the guys wanted to keep me on the team now. When I day most I mean everyone but Edward, I think. I can never understand that guy. He will be perfectly nice to me one second and the next he gets mad at me. I was pondering that almost every minute of the day and I don't know why it really mattered to me. Well, every minute that I wasn't practicing. Which wasn't much.

Friday at the Game

I was so siked for this game! We were playing Johansonburg and they were in third place last year. I also can't wait to see the reactions on all their faces when they see me play, I also want to see the faces of everyone who's coming to watch from Forks. Ever since Coach officially decided I was on the team practices weren't frequently open to specatators. I didn't get it but Coach said he wanted to keep it a secret-which is okay I guess.

When we got off the bus in our uniforms I could tell this school was different from ours. We were a pretty school, but so are they. They looked like they had a bunch more money than our school, which is pretty likely-and it made them in their clean white uniforms a little more intimidating.

We got in the dug-out and started situating the bags. It took the other team a while to figure out a girl on the other team was in uniform and they all started staring-which really bugged me. I don't know why but attention just got me mad, so I was completely ready to beat the crap out of the ball.

When we started warming I partnered up with Ben and the guys on the other team started laughing the butts off. I glared at them until I got an idea. When Ben threw me the ball, I dropped it. That made the other team laugh even harder and my team stare at me incredulously, because I never dropped the ball. Never.

Since I was on the end closest to the other team, the Johansonburg Jaguars didn't see me wink. They didn't notice that my whole team was trying not to laugh. And most importantly they didn't notice that I was good.

I kept that up the entire warm-up. I was hard-not doing my best. It had been drilled in my brain since I was a kid-if you don't try your hardest, it's not worth trying at all. Thankfully, Coach figured out what I was doing and he couldn't wipe the smile off his face.

Finally the game started. Our team was first up to bat and Ben went up to the plate. He was good, really good. He could not only hit but he when to take a pitch-which is something a lot of people have trouble with.

He let the first one go bye. Ball. The second one went right down the middle and he smashed it. It soared into the middle of left field. He got a single. The crowd roared and the team yelled.

Next , Edward was up. He hit on the third pitch, it was a grounder right to third. Ben got out but Edward was safe. Not too bad.

Now it's Jasper's turn. He had a nice hit just in the green, and no one got out.

Then it was my turn. As I stepped up to the plate I could he snickers from the other team. The pitcher turned around and called the outfeild in-then he called the infeild in. Jackass.

I took up my stance and stared hard and cold at the pitcher. He smiled back at me and pitched it fast right down the middle. I watched it go by, trying to evaluate his speed in my head. I could hear his team laughing their butts off now and saying things like "she can't even swing," and "Forks must be reallky desperate for players."

I glared and dug my foot into the dirt. He pitched it fast right down the middle. Perfect. I crushed it. The ball flew right over the fence in center field. I dropped the bat calmly and jogged to first and watched the team and the crowd stare.

My team started cheering loudly once they stopped laughing and soon so did the crowd. Especially Charlie. I was engulfed in a huge hug when I reached home-Emmmet.

"That was awesome! Look at their faces," he cried happily. I smiled and walked into the dugout.

"She can't play. Their has to be some rule against it. She's a girl!" the other team's coach was yelling at the ump.

"Believe it or not Tom, but she can play," the umpire said matter-of-factly. The coach continued trying to find a loupole but their isn't any. I can play and everyone knows it.

Finally the ump threatened he would kick out the other team's coach if he didn't let him continue the game. The coach went back in and started talking to the guys. I heard him say, "can't field" and "she's not a problem."

Then it was Emmet's turn at bat. Just as he was heading toward the base I said, "Emmet." He turned and looked at me confused. I smiled and tossed him the Freak 98 and said, "Plant your right foot." He grinned and headed to home plate.

He smashed it on the first pitch. I watch as the ball flew ove first base, left field, and it finally cleared the fence. I quickly yelled, "Run Emmet!" when I saw that he hadn't moved and was staring open mouthed after the ball. He snapped out of it and flew triumphantly across the bases.

He touched home plate and then did something that confused everybody. He he got down on his knees and bowed to the Freak 98 that was still laying on the ground. I burst out laughing and so did my entire team, and then our crowd joined in. Emmet finally go up off the ground and brought my bat in with him. He presented it to me like a sword and I gladly took it and gave him a big hug. "That was perfect Emmet!"

"I know. That bat rocks!" he said happily.

And so the game continued. I played second base, which completely stunned the other team. What shocked them more was that I was actually good at it. Edward got two of the outs pitching, and I got the last one on a line drive that was going to sail right past me. I snatched it right out of the air and everyone cheered.

And so the game continued. They did end up scoring a little at the end, but it didn't do much. It ended up being 7-2, we creamed them. A lot of the guys on the other team wouldn't slap my hands when we lined up. I just shook my head and continued like nothing happened.

Coach called us in a huddle. "You did a really good job today boys, I'm proud. Bella, nice job today-you really razzed'em up. And I would just like to say…Emmet got a homerun!" he yelled at the end. It's funny because for some reason Emmet always just tipped the fence before. Every time he bat. Until today. It was pretty awesome.

When we were loading up on the bus Edward quickly pulled me aside. He said, "You did really good today."

"You obviously pitched well. You had at least three no-hit innings," I said smiling. He smiled back and said thanks, and then we headed on the bus. Maybe Edward doesn't have a problem with me after all.

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