Wow. I got my first flames for the last two chapters.
Well.
I like to play with fire.

Anyhoo, I would have had this up wayyy earlier, but I was busy filming some stuff for a contest thing my friends and I are entering.
So here. It's ALOT more lighthearted than the last two chapters, which I apologize for.
They were too dark. :)
And for the last time.
BELLA WILL NOT BE IN THE STORY UNTIL THE EPILOGUE.
SO LEAVE ME ALONE ABOUT IT.
Thank you. :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or High School Musical.


I really love your hairdo
Yeah,
I'm glad you like mine too.
-Bohemian Like You, The Dandy Warhols

Chapter 6

Previously:
Emmett broke the silence.
Troy was first to bat for the Wildcats. He swung the bat around like he was fighting off bees.

"Batter up!"

"Bugs giving you trouble Troy?" Jasper laughed. Troy glared at him. He took his place and stuck out his butt and swung his bat over his shoulder. Alice was leaning with her hands on her legs to support her as she laughed her head off.

"Can we please be serious and start the game?" Ryan called from the dug out. Alice recovered and stood very still, holding the ball in both hands low at her side. Troy waited for her to throw it. Before he could even blink, she had flicked out her wrist and the ball smacked into Jasper's glove. All the eyes of the Wildcat's went wide.

"What the basketball was that?!" Troy cried.

"Shut up and get on with it!" Emmett cried from second base. Alice threw the ball again and once again it hit Jasper's glove. Troy swung a few seconds after. He looked frustrated. Jasper threw it back to Alice. This time, she made a huge show of winding up and throwing the ball as hard as she could without giving herself away. Troy swung pathetically.

"YOU'RE OUT!" the umpire shouted. The umpire was the one that the team usually used for home games. He had agreed to help out with this game. The rest of the Wildcats had as much success as Troy did. So the Cullen's turn came up fast. Rosalie was first to bat. Chad was pitching for the Wildcats. He threw the ball and with a loud crack, Rosalie hit the ball out of the field. She flitted around the bases and arrived back at home plate where she received high fives from her family. The Wildcats stared with their jaws dropped. The rest of the Cullens easily scored homeruns. The Wildcats were shocked. How could the weird pale new kids be so good?

After their show in the first inning, the Cullens turned it down a little, allowing the Wildcats to score some homeruns, but never letting them catch up. They also allowed themselves to get out occasionally. It was key to not seem too godly.

So, when the bottom of the last inning came around, it was no surprise that the Cullens were leading. By a lot. The final score was 23-7.

The Wildcats trudged away from the field, crestfallen and more disappointed than they had been all day.

"Wow. Troy looks sadder now than he did when he found out Gabriella was missing." Emmett commented. The rest nodded in agreement.

"Well, job well done everybody. It was an amazing feat we just pulled off here." Edward said with heavy sarcasm. Rosalie smirked.

The weekend passed without incident and all too soon, the Cullens had to return to the home of the Wildcats. Like a bad soap opera, everyone had moved onto new problems and seemed to have forgotten completely about Gabriella.

Alice was skipping off to her next class, her favourite, Home Economics. She was very into everything involved in the course. Especially the sewing component. She was a slave to fashion and loved designing. Her class consisted of all girls, with one exception, Ryan. He and Alice were top in the class.

When Alice slid into her seat, she was unsurprised to see Ryan slid into the usually empty seat next to her.

"Hi Alice." He said. Alice smiled in acknowledgment.

"Hi Ryan." She replied. Ryan looked a little flustered. He fidgeted and played with a loose thread on his shirt. Alice, of course, knew the reason and was waiting patiently for him to bring it up.

"Listen. I was wondering…Would you like to be partners for our final project?" he said very fast. Alice wouldn't have been able to understand, was she not a vampire. She broke into a wide smile.

"I'd love to." She replied. Ryan looked relieved and ecstatic. Their final project was to design, sew and model a full length ball gown. They had to present it and explain the components and design of the gown. It was worth a large percent of their final mark.

"Great! I've got soo many ideas already. I'll show my sketches later. We should eat lunch together today! Do you want to model the dress or should I? What colours were you thinking? Light and flowery or dark and with mystique?" he gushed. Alice giggled lightly.

"Let's talk about it at lunch. I'll meet you at the cafeteria doors." She said. Ryan nodded and smiled. They spent the rest of the period talking all about fashion. Ryan was well learned in the subject. Alice was very excited to finally have a friend that was as enthusiastic and knowledgeable about the subject. Ryan had even said he'd love to go shopping with her. Alice usually took Rosalie, but Rosalie got impatient and grumpy and was no fun. Ryan was lots of fun.

Alice sent her plans to Edward via thoughts. She told him to tell the others not to wait up for her and to not freak out, as she saw them doing. She was allowed to have a human friend, right? Nothing would happen.

At lunch, Alice and Ryan discussed their ideas for the gown. Alice was pouring over Ryan's sketches while he prattled on about colours.

"Now, I think darker colours are more mature. He should do something navy, maybe. Or a forest green. Oh! A lovely aubergine. Oh, but if you're modeling it won't work." He was saying. Alice's head snapped up.

"Why won't aubergine work?" She said, through clenched teeth, already knowing full well why.

"Well, you can't pull off purple that nicely." He said awkwardly. Alice glared.

"Oh?" she said. Ryan was terrified.

"No, no, no." he said, trying to fix his mistake, "Of course you can. I mean it's just that a different colour, say green, would look much more flattering?" his voice went up at the end, turning the statement into a question.

"I see." She said, returning to the sketch book. She was horribly angry. So Ryan thought he knew what did and didn't work on her? She glanced down at her plum coloured shirt. She looked great in purple! What did Ryan know? She slammed the sketch book shut. "I have to go now. Let's continue talking later." She said, before stomping out of the cafeteria. She shook her head in annoyance. She crossed her arms across her chest and leaned against a locker. Ryan knew nothing about fashion. Alice knew a lot more than him. He thought he was better than her. Well, Alice would show him how very, very wrong he could be and how very, very cruel and sneaky she could be.

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