Chapter 10! Sorry it took a little while. Remember if you recognize it from Twilight I do not own it!

Chapter 10

BPOV

Shopping with Alice and Rosalie was interesting to say the least. They did not try anything on, they did not let me pick out anything, and they did not let me try anything on. That, and the fact that they went through fives stores in the time it would have taken to go through one.

I walked behind them as they grabbed clothes off the shelves and racks, only pausing occasionally to look at the clothes, mutter about something they had to match it or having to find something to match it. I gave up trying to ask them questions or anything.

Finally we were in the car with twelve bags stuffed in the trunk. Rosalie was driving and had become more accustomed to my presence, meaning she did not glare at me every time we were within fifty feet of each other. Alice suddenly went into a vision, we both looked at her concerned. This rather frightened me because Rosalie's eyes were not on the road but I kept my mouth shut.

When she came out of it Alice was grinning from ear to ear. "What?" I asked.

"It is going to thunderstorm tonight."

"So?" I looked at Rosalie and she too was smiling.

"Should I go ahead and ask Carlisle if he wants to play?" Rosalie pulled out her silver cell phone.

"Yeah, even though I know they are all going to say yes."

She did not stop grinning, "What is the big deal about a thunderstorm?" I asked again since the first time I had been ignored.

"We can play baseball during thunderstorms."

I blinked several times but decided not to question her further figuring that I would find out soon enough. As soon as we pulled up to the house everyone was standing outside waiting for us.

"Hurry up, we want to have plenty of time to play," Emmett called.

"Alright, alright, just let us go put up these bags," all of us rushed upstairs and dumped the bags on Alice and Jasper's bed.

I was thrilled when I realized that I had gone the whole day without tripping, maybe it was wearing off. Then, I shook my head. Tripping for me go away? Yeah right.

Emmet, Jasper, and Carlisle were gone when we came back outside. Rosalie, Alice, and Esme took off as soon as we were out of the door. Edward looked at me and smiled crookedly before grabbing my hand and pulling me into a run.

I heard thunder as we past through the trees. It did not take us long to get to where we were going. All but Esme were already warming up. I could just make out a ball flying between Jasper and Alice as they stood about twice the distance from a normal pitcher to batter. Then I saw that the plates were also placed twice, if not more, the distance than a normal baseball set up.

"Why do you have to wait until a thunderstorm to play baseball?" I directed at Edward.

"You shall see," he pushed a piece of hair that had fallen out of my ponytail during the run behind my ear, I tried not to let him see the shivers that ran through me when he touched me.

He ran towards the field and I sat by Esme on a rock a few feet away.

"You're not going to play?"

"Oh no, I referee. You should see them sometimes, so competitive it is unreal," she shook her caramel head.

The family divided into teams and the game began, Emmett came up to bat with Alice pitching. Emmett hit it into the trees with Edward taking off after it. Emmett ran through a couple of bases when Edward came back through the trees holding the ball high.

Jasper slapped his hand as he passed, Emmett seemed more than a little annoyed. I laughed as they made there way back into position.

The game continued until Alice came up to bat, she picked up the bat and swung it once then dropped it.

Everyone crowded around her and it did not take Jasper to tell that, like always, everyone was filled with curiosity and concern. When she pulled out of it she seemed a little bit worried.

"There are some others passing through here. They heard us playing and want to see what is going on. There are three," she said in a whisper, "but they are not like us, we'll have to watch them carefully."

"We will. They should not stay long but we will continue playing and see what they want when they get here," Carlisle's word was final.

They continued to play but Alice kept looking over her shoulder cautiously, Edward followed her gaze one time and froze. I followed after and saw three figures emerging from the trees.

The front one was a medium built male with glossy black hair, seeming to be the leader by the way the other two were following after him. One of the other two was a female with vivid orange hair who looked rather like a feline. The other male was oddly plain for a vampire with soft brown hair.

As the group moved closer I saw that there eyes were a deep burgundy, very much unlike the Cullens' but distinctly like mine until, as I have been told, they turn.

The group approached us confidently. We gathered into a small area in the center of the field. As they came closer I could have sworn I heard Edward's low growl and then he pushed me behind him slightly. All of this was done as he glared pointedly at the brown haired male.

The leader and the woman looked at Edward puzzled but the male smirked. Edward nodded at Carlisle, which is probably something that the rest of us were not supposed to see.

"Hello, I am Laurent," the front male was the first to break the awkwardness, "This," he gestured to the feline like female, "is Victoria." She nodded in greeting but her eyes were cold. "And this is James," a breeze blew by and James stiffened, staring at me.

Carlisle introduced each of us, being very casual as he said each of our names, I was very thankful that he stuck mine in the middle because first and last names in a list stick out the most. Edward glared at James the whole time and kept me close to him.

This was really strange, I could not help but wonder what James was thinking that infuriated Edward so. I was so caught up in my thoughts that I did not hear what was going on until Edward was pulling lightly on my sleeve.

"Let's go Bella," his voice was a very forced calm.

"Where are we going?" I looked around stupidly.

"Back to the house," I finally saw Laurent and his coven heading through the woods behind Carlisle and Esme.

"What was James thinking Edward?"

He turned around and looked at me surprised. "You saw that?"

"Well it is sort of hard not to notice when you are keeping me so close and glaring at James with a look that would have sent a human running for the hills."

He smiled his crooked smile and then his face became serious again, "he was thinking some rather Newton like thoughts about you."

I looked up at him puzzled but he grabbed my hand and pulled me along until I started running. Then he dropped my hand but glanced back at me every so often, probably to make sure that I did not trip. I felt rather triumphant when we finally made it back to the house, I had not tripped the whole way. I actually enjoyed the speed of the run.

Everyone was sitting in the living room. Carlisle was explaining to Laurent our diet and how we managed to stay in the area so long.

"The humans don't notice the animals missing because there are wolves and bears around here that kill them any way. Not to mention that there are hunters as well that sometimes leave their prey as a dead carcass."

Laurent then asked Carlisle a question but I did not hear it. James was staring at me intently. I could feel Edward stiffen beside me.

James then rose and came over to me, he offered me his pale hand before asking, "Can you please walk with me?"

I tried to look away to look to the others, begging for some clue as to what to do but I was already on my feet heading out the door. The whole time I could feel Edward's eyes bearing into my back.

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