7. STARING

It's been a week since we came to Denali and started the full-on-vegetarian diet. My new friends are adapting well. I have no problem, my blood lust is easily controlable. It's not like I don't have it, because belive me, I can apreciate a good O negative as well as the next vampire; it's just that I have a great force of will.

I was subtly trying to help Jasper with his blood lust by shielding the others from time to time. Though, he did notice that sometimes he couldn't feel the emotions coming from the others, and looked at me when that happened.

Well, he gets points for being perceptive, not that it was hard to know who could shield him from emotions in that house. Sometimes he would smile a little at me with a grateful look in his eyes.

He apreciated it the most when super happy-to-the-point-of-high Alice was in the room, and you could see it was a strain for him not to start bouncing and skipping and clapping, so I took pitty on the poor soul and shielded him from his overdosed-on-shopping wife. You could see him visibly relax at those intervals.

Also, when I shielded everybody so he would feel nothing, he liked it. At the begining he paniked and looked arround with a worried look on his face. That is, until he met my eyes and I nodded at him. He understood and slightly relaxed and by the end of the night he got so used to it, that when I snaped my shield back, he actually flinched and frowned. Poor guy.

I was getting along with the others as well. I figured that since I wanted to play, I had to play nice so my playmates won't get scared and run away screaming. I can be a very hard one at times.

I liked Kate and Elezar the most. Kate was a very outgoing person. She liked a good fight and she had a bit of a mama-bear personality. Elezar was like the best uncle you can have, no matter what you do, you simply can't stop yourself from loving him.

Tanya was a small Rosalie in her way. I could see that she really loved her sisters, but she also had a major crush on Edward and she was constantly giving me weird glances. Ok girl, I got it. You like him. That doesn't mean I'm not going to play with him a littke bit...and maybe mess with you. This game is constantly getting better and better.

I'm curently in the game room, playing LOL with Emmet and some guys from South Korea. God only knows what possessed me to agree to play, it's been going for ages.

I am playing with Jinx, Emmet with Vayne and the Koreans had Vi, Alistar and Elise in the Howling Abyss. We were kicking butt and I loved it but I still wanted it to end. When it finally did, Alice bounced into the room.

"There is a storm coming..." She let it linger looking sheepishly at us with big doe eyes.

"Coool! Storm! Eddie, Jazz, grab the bats and take your balls out. They are sooo ready for some action." Emmet booms storming out of the room, probably searching for the boys. I think I'm gonna puke. I look at Alice, with an I ate-a-lemon face.

"Please tell me he didn't say that or say it like that," I beg Alice.

"Unfortunately, he did say that. Fortunately, not like that. That is Emmet for you." She gives me an apologetic look. "So do you want to play some baseball?"

"Neahhh," She tries to hide the dissapointed look on her face, "But I would love to wach." When she hears that last part she brightens up like a Christmas tree.

"Ok, you can play umpire," She smiles a bright, toothy smile at me.

"Uhhh, Alice I know next to nothing about baseball. So, like I said, I would love to just watch."

"Ok. Esme will play umpire...like always. Come on, we have to go." She cheers, "Let's go people!" She yells loudly.

"Alice dear, you don't have to yell. Everybody can hear you just fine if you speak at a normal volume...without hurting anybody's ears." Esme says as she gives Alice a look when we enter the living room.

"But Emmet yelled too," She pouts.

"Yes, and you are not Emmet," She smirks.

"Ok, ok. Let's go before the storm passes," Alice said, now pissed off.

Just then Emmet, Edward and Jasper came in the living room. Emmet was wearing black open hem tracksuit pants with a navy blue t-shirt. Jasper was also wearing tracksuit pants but they're gray with a closed hem and a white t-shirt. Edward was wearing black with white stripes three quarter pants with a gray t-shirt and basketball shoes. I think I died and went to heaven; He looked...well...like sex on legs. With wild bronze hair. Yummm.

Shit, I'm dead. I have a feeling this game is going to be one hell of a baseball game.

He looked at me and we locked gazes for a moment, but suddenly he stretches behind Jasper and punches Emmet, while he does this, his t-shirt rides up and I could see half of his abdomen, his happy trail the sculptured V and those six packs, well two packs but I knew the rest was under there somewhere.

Ohhhh, dear Lord give me strength. You already have it, idiot.

"Heyyy, what was that for?" Whines Emmet.

"You know very well for what," Says a grumpy Edward.

"Well keep out of my head. It's not my fault you don't like what you hear...or see," Emmet states.

"Belive me, if I could, I would. Your head is the last place I would like to be in," Edward says as he heads to the garage. Alice looks me over and raises an eyebrow.

"What?"

"Are you coming like that?" She points to my clothes. Looking down at my clothes: dark skinny jeans and a blue t-shirt, I decide it's not the best baseball outfit.

"Errrrr, I'll be right back," I run upstairs and change into a gym suit then head back down. Everybody was there and dressed similar to me and the guys.

Edward came from the garage carying two duffel bags. I could hear the sound of metal hitting metal and sense the smell of leather. I presume that those are the bats and balls. He throws the duffel that smelles like leather to Emmet.

Everyone gathers in the living room and tell us, the new comers, that there is a large field they use as a baseball field and that it is not far. Then they take off running as we follow close behind.

We reached a huge field bordered by a precipice. I wander how many baseballs are lost in there?

They started dressing themselves with Cullen white and blue baseball jackets and the Denali's had white and red jackets with D and C on them. Piotr and Ivan each grabbed the Cullen jacket and Sonya and Andy each took the Denali jacket, with it, choosing their teams. Esme was umpire.

Edward was in front of me, curently leaning down to grab some bats from the duffel bag...and I had full vew of his back side. Ohhhhhhhh, that ass. I mentally moaned. Shut up, idiot. He should think that about you not the other way around! But damn, he's got a fine ass.

Without warning he spun around and threw a bat somewhere behind me just as a baseball flew at him and Emmet's booming voice was heard.

"You're pitcher Eddie," Emmet laughed.

Edward streched his hand up to catch the ball and with it that damn t-shirt stretched too, exposing that well-toned six pack. Yummmmm... I licked my lips. Gaaah, wake up stupid. You could drown in your own saliva...venom.

They started playng when the first thunder broke through the silence of the forest.

I couldn't tell you one thing that happened in that game except that there was a lot of noise, running and ball throwing, but I could describe in detail the way Edward's muscles tensed and stretched when he threw the ball or hit it with the bat, or his feline grace when running, or the fact that he was really fast, or the way the wind blew trough his hair when runing. I could tell you all those small little details and more, but nothing about the game, except for the fact that the Cullens won…figures.

When the game was finally over -thank God for that, I don't belive I could have stood there ogling at Edward anymore- we went home and everybody went to shower. I just got changed into some deep blue denim ripped shorts, a navy blue tank top, fishnet stockings with a black lace top, black converse shoes and a black cardigan with long tips. I tied my hair in a messy ponytail with loose strands coming on the sides. I looked casually sexy. Perfect.

I went down to the living room. Everybody was already there, on the couch, the loveseats, and the floor. When I entred the room everybody looked at me and I could swear I saw Edward's eyes darken. When she saw me, Alice immediately brightened up.

"Great, now the party can start." Huh? "We are going to play truth or dare," Say what? And she says this like she is forcasting the weather, everybody just turns to look at her.

"Oh come on guys. It will be fun," She makes the saddest puppy dog eyes in history. Every body caves in with an "Okkkk..." or a grunt.

"Yaaaay. Now I already saw that Carlisle, Esme, Elezar and Carmen won't play, so that just leaves us. Now Bella don't be difficult," She says before I even get the chance to open my mouth.

"Alice, I'm not playing. That's it. No questions asked," I say determined.

"Yes, you are," She says cheerfuly, not fuzzed.

"Alice..." I sight, but before I continue Andy grabs me and drags me to the circle that was already formed.

"If I have to play, then you have to as well, sister." He says. Gah! Why is everybody against me tonight?

"Ok guys, here are the rules," Alice begins to explain, while sitting down indian style and placing a half filled botle of water in the middle of the circle "Tip of the bottle decides who is to be asked, bottom, who asks. Two out of five turns must be dares, no one can go only for truths. If you do not have two dares at every five turns, you have to remove an article of clothing or do a strip dance. The dares must be accepted without a word, also the truths must be answered without hesitation. That's about all. Let the fun begin! I'll spin first," She smiles a broad smile. Can I kill her...and Andy?

She spins the bottle and the bottle decides that Alice is going to ask Sonia.

"Truth or dare," Asks Alice.

"Truth" She responds horified. God, it means she can smell the evil intents of this pixie.

"Hmmmmm, what is the most akward hunt you had?"

"Uhhhhhh, my singer. I passed his house one night, and he was swiming...naked. Anyway, I go there he sees me, I can clearly see all of him. I was in that stage when I liked to play with my food, so I let him take a good look of me, clothes ripped; hair wild and so on... He gets an instant boner...and I get to see it. Finally my blood lust wins over. I jump in the pool and go for him. I bend his face to gain acces to his neck, he thinks I want to kiss him and starts groping me. My tights my ass. Anyay, I bite down and he shits himself. I can no longer look at pools the same since then." She finished looking like she was about to puke.

The game continues the same. I get some questions, like who I like to annoy the most, or how many men I had in my life. The others get the same easy stuff. Ok, so I start thinking that maybe this game is not so bad. Well I thought that, until the bottle spins and I was to be asked by Alice...and it was time for me to take a dare. Ohhhhh shit.

"Bella," She smiled sweetly "Truth or dare?"

"Dare" I grunt.

"I dare you tooooooo... French kiss for five minutes..." Don't say it, Alice. "Edward." Shit. Kill me now.


A.N. Sorry guys. I know this took long but as I told my beta , between self defence classes, gym, school (going to school takes an hour, coming: the same...by car) annnnd reading a book assignment, there is little time for writing if not, sometimes, at all. School sucks. Who shall join me in my mision to burn all the schools in the world?

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