Chapter 20:

You Know, It Sucks When Baseball Games Don't Turn Out As Well As Planned

Being on the pitcher's mound was the best feeling ever. I wasn't on it in so long. My team all looked at me. There was Emmett, Edward, Esme, Renesmee, and Carly. The others were getting ready to bat. For some reason, I felt like "Supermassive Black Hole" by Muse was playing but then again, other songs were playing in my head too. It was like, "WOOHOO! Party in my head!" Yeah. Be jealous of the part-tay.

A.C. was first to bat.

"Here we go," I said.

"Mazeltov," A.C. replied with a smile.

"Good luck to you too." I turned my body sideways a little and then kicked my leg up really high. As I turned my body straight again, my leg went down. I also threw the ball. A.C. hit it with a loud clang and she started running.

Emmett and Edward both climbed a tree to get it. As they jumped off to catch the baseball, they bumped into each other. Nice going guys.

"Thanks," Edward said.

I stuck my tongue out at him.

He threw the ball to me. A.C. was safe at third. Her team kept batting until Bella made the third out. Then we switched positions.

A.C. was pitcher this time. I was the first one to bat.

"Mazeltov," A.C. whispered and then threw the ball.

Her pitching movements were similar to mine. You know the phrase, "Like mother, like daughter"? Yeah, our pitching applies to that. Yet, if you first see us when we're not in baseball clothes, you wouldn't even think we were good pitchers. You would probably think we were some preppy cheerleaders or something. No offense to all you cheerleaders out there.

I hit the ball and ran as fast as I could. If you saw me in Jalice's eyes, then I was a blur. Thunder boomed loudly. The rain started pouring down on us.

The baseball game went on. When I was pitcher again and A.C. was batter, a vision came up. I was in mid-throw when it came. I slowly put my arm down. No one noticed.

"Stop!" I yelled.

Everyone looked at me with worried looks. Then they all ran up to me. I hugged Jasper and rested my head against his chest.

"Alice, what did you see?" Carlisle asked.

"It's the Volturi," A.C. said, seeing the same vision. She was looking off into the distance. "While Demetri was tracking Alice, they found out that my mom recovered. But that's not what's wrong. They also found out about Carly and Jalice… they think we bit them ourselves."

"Is that true Alice? Is that what you saw?" Carlisle asked.

I nodded. "Yes. That's what I saw."

"A.C., is there any more information?" Edward asked.

A.C. nodded. "The Volturi think that Carly and Jalice were someone else's children. They think my mom and Jasper kidnapped them just so they could get them all to their selves."

"But that's not true!" Carly exclaimed.

No one knew what to say after that. Then A.C. jumped.

"What?" I asked her.

"Someone's here," she said. "He or she is listening to our conversation. By how the thoughts sound, it's a she. She's repeating everything we're saying in her mind. Crap. She knows I know about her. C'mon. She's leaving. Follow me."

A.C. started to run away.

"A.C., no one's here!" Edward yelled.

"Someone was here! She's running away now!" A.C. yelled back as she was already in the forest. "Trust me!"

Carly and Jalice were the first ones to run after A.C. The rest of us started to follow one by one. The forest was almost pitch-black. Jalice's hand was holding my hand as a guide.

"Why is everyone going overboard about the Volturi thinking you guys bit Carly and me?" Jalice asked.

"You two are the first vampires to born as a vampire. Usually all vampires start out as humans," I explained. "Since the Volturi don't know who your actual parents are, they think your dad and I stole you from someone just so we can get immortal children."

"I still don't get how the Volturi found out about us if they've never seen us," Jalice said.

"Demetri can track people. So while tracking us, he tracked you and Carly," I explained.

Jalice didn't say anything else.

A.C. stopped running. She looked confused for a moment but then ran two steps up a tree and jumped to another. Quickly and quietly, she climbed to the top.

Everyone gave me cautious looks. I sighed and followed A.C. I climbed up the tree by doing the same movements as her. When I got to the top of the tree, A.C. was hanging on tightly to a branch and was looking out into the ocean.

I stood closely behind her. "What's up?"

She had determination written all over her face. "I saw someone run across the ocean. I think it was that girl whose thoughts I heard. She had black hair, red eyes, and looked to be around thirteen, fourteen, or fifteen… Oh my God." A.C.'s eyes widened.

"What?" I asked.

"That girl whose thoughts I heard… they belong to Kendall from the Volturi." A.C. looked at me, worried. "The girl running across the ocean was Kendall."

My mouth dropped. "Do you know why she was here?"

A.C. was silent. Then she looked back at the ocean and said, "She was going over this new skill she has. Ever since she joined the Volturi, she noticed that she was able to suck the life out of people's mind. It's like what happened to you." A.C. gasped. She looked at me with wide eyes. "Kendall! Kendall was the one who sucked the life out of your mind!"

I tried to consider this. When I looked at the ocean, I saw a little blob running across it. It did look like Kendall.

"We need to tell everyone else about this," I said.

A.C. nodded. Then we heard a snap. The branch A.C. was standing on was falling to the ground and A.C. was falling with it. Loud screeches and screams came out of her mouth.

"A.C.!" I yelled, voice breaking. I flinched when I heard a big thunk and A.C.'s arm crack.

Quickly, I slid down the tree as fast as I could to get to my daughter.