Bella pulled her brunette locks into a pony tale and sighed.
Stupid camp.
Stupid baseball game.
That's right.
Baseball.
For someone as clumsy as Bella, that sport was a game from Hell.
Bella had only been at camp for three hours and already she had tripped nine times. With all the scratches and bruises on her palms and legs, the thought of what she could do with a hard chunk of wood like a bat made her feel faint.
Sighing, she lokked around the field.
No one else looked nervous.
Emmett, an enormouse, athletic dude, had batted first, he looked completely at ease. Bella liked him already. He was very friendly and laughed alot. He made a homerun and was now hooting and gulping down bottle after bottle of water that Esme, one of the two camp counselors, had laid out before the game.
The three guys in out field were really great too.
Eric was VERY helpful to say the least. Tyler was welcoming and excitable, and Mike was enthusiatic enough, he just didn't seem to know what personal space was. That was gonna get annoying.
The only other girls were Jessica- a nice but overly talkative girl, Lauren- the sterotype diva, and Angela, a chick who was smart and sweet, she and Bella had hit it of really quikly.
Laurent was, kinda, um, different. He was quiet in a calculating way. Everyone seemed to try to avoid getting with in twenty five feet of him.
Bella looked at the pitcher- Carlisle- the second camp councler and gulped. He was about to hurl the little white ball of death at her, well, not litterly at her, it was James who was up to bat. With Bella's luck the ball would for some odd reason change course and knock her out.
She flinched as Carlisle pitched. She was really hoping James missed so that she didn't have to try to guard the base she was assigned to. There was no chance she could stop him.
She was seventeen. She had met him in sixth grade, when she was eleven. After six years of befriending the blond she knew him well enough to understand that he was beyond strong. His body was pure muscle. No fat. Just muscle.
If James hit the ball she'd have to throw her self out of the way to keep from being smushed.
She waited as the target flew towards her friend.
James didn't miss.
He ran, so fast Bella couldn't believe it.
Bella could feel anxiouty flood her body as sweat began to cover her skin. She couldn't do this, she was going to be humilated in front of her peers.
James was gliding towards her.
She closed her eyes.
Bella felt a weight hit her head, numb for a couple seconds, then pain, awful pain.
Then nothing.
Edward was watching the brunett girl.
He noticed everything, he had wanted to learn more about her, and he was.
He now understood that she hated sports and why.
Already she had tripped twice on her way to her assigned post.
What a clumsy little thing.
He didn't mind though.
"Isabella, can you hear me?" a sweet female voice asked from the darkness.
Suddenly a light overcame Bella, white everywhere, a dull pain circled her head. She forced herself to open her eyes, immediantly wanting to go back to the blackness of unconciouciness. The room was so bright. Bella reconized this place immidently.
The camp's nurse's office.
Great.
What the heck had happened to her?
She didn't remember how she had wound up in this tiny room, with a painful head.
What happened?
"Are you okay, honey?" the voice asked again.
Finally Bella glanced up.
A gorgouse young women stood there. Her hair was copper and her face shamefully beautiful. Gently, she put her hand on Bella's. Her beautiful brown eyes looking over the teenagers sore face.
Bella knew who she was- Esme, one of the two adults in the camp. Two adults. Only a dozen or so kids.
"Mrs. Cullen?" Bella questioned, sitting up, dizziness attacked from all sides.
"Yes, dear. Are you all right?" the red-head responded, concerned, moving her hand to Bella's shoulder to keep her upright.
"I think so, what-" the younger girl begn to ask, but the opening of the door stopped her. A handsom man with blond hair and warm eyes entered, coming from the microscopic waiting room.
"My sincerest apogolies, Ms. Swan. I'm afraid I might have thrown the ball much to hard. Your head took quite the fall for my mistake. I don't think you have a concussion, but would you like me to phone the hospital to be sure?" he told Bella.
"No, no, um,that's not, uh, nessacary, it doesn't hurt.....much." the girl mumbled, blushing under the handsome counselors worried gaze.
"All right, the pain should dull in a few hours, if you need it, come back here. Emily, our part time nurse is here from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM. Once again, I'm sorry." with that Mr. Cullen gracefully left the room.
"Mrs. Cullen-" Bella began.
"Esme." the counsler told her, smiling warmly.
"What time is it?" Bella questioned. There were no windows in the room, so telling time by looking at the sky was in possible in this situation.
"7:30, dear, why?" answered the beautiful woman, looking at her elegant watch.
"Oh.......I've been knocked out for, like four hours?" Bella gasped, astonished.
"Honey, if you're worried about having missed dinner, than that's not a problem. My husband or I will send some food over to your cabin." Esme replied sweetly.
"No- it's just- I'm surprised I was out that long. I hope I didn't mess up any schedule you guys had." Bella grimaced.
Mrs. Cullen smiled understandingly.
"Not in the least. The other children were exceptionally understanding. Jacob carried you here, James wanted to, and a fight almost broke out, but Mr. Cullen stopped it. Your friends, Jacob, Alice, and Emmett, are waiting out in the waiting room for you." Esme told her kindly, helping her off the bed and putting an arm around her shoulder, to make sure the young girl wouldn't fall over.
Bella made extra careful steps, not wanting to humiliate herself in front of her one-day counsler. Esme opened the door to let her out and Bella walked into the room.
"Bella!" Alice squealed, throwing her arms sround her friend, "Are you okay?"
"I see her head's still on, so she's probally fine." Emmett grinned, opening the exit door so that every one could leave.
Bella, out of sudden impulse, stuck out her tongue.
"I've got a surprise for you, Bella!" Alice bounced around.
Bella groaned.
"I'm glad your okay." Jacob said quietly.
"Esme told me that you got me there, thank you." Bella told him.
Jacob smiled.
Edward watched from the trees.
His heart filled with that feeling that had taken control.
Love.
He'd never felt it before.
Never seen Bella before.
But that didn't mattter.
Suddenly he was wrapped up in thoughts and desires that he'd never considered before.
He wanted her.