"Hey, hey, hey ladies." Ty Evans walked concededly towards the fence; pulling off his dark sunglasses to reveal bright hazel eyes. "How's it going?"
Gabe looked into the direction of the screaming and noticed the vampire who'd been in his home weeks ago accompanied by a very plain and average looking girl. He shot a glance towards Adrian and growled loudly. "Great, this is just perfect. Stay away from her, Adrian."
Adrian rolled his eyes at his friend and ran to catch up with Ty. He zeroed in on Alice and grinned broadly. He paid little attention to the girl standing next to her and knew Ty was doing the same. Once they reached the fence, Alice's small voice rang out like a melody to his ears. "Hi, Adrian. How's your hand?"
"Whoa, Daniels, you know this beautiful woman?" Ty scanned Adrian trying to find a reason such a gorgeous creature would have any affiliation with someone with such little charm.
"Doing much better, thank you. Who's your friend?" Adrian answered ignoring his friend's rude outburst that he was so accustom to.
"This is Bella," Alice answered pushing her forward, "she's my brother's fiancée."
Adrian slid a few fingers through the fence to attempt to shake Bella's hand but she ignored him and turned on Alice. "This is the slayer?"
"Whoa! Slayer?" Ty looked curiously at Adrian and chuckled. "Is that what the ladies are calling you nowadays?"
Adrian rolled his eyes and shook his head. "Yeah, that's right Ty. They still call you 'the little engine that couldn't'?"
Ty mumbled a few colorful phrases under his breath, shot him a rude hand gesture, and shoved his glasses hard back onto his face. "We don't have time for this. Let's get back to the game."
Adrian leaned against the fence and motioned for Alice to move forward. Dropping his voice, he asked "Would you mind meeting me at Suds later? I've got a ton of laundry to do and could use the company."
"I'll think about it." Alice called out teasingly, as he turned to jog back to the group standing on the courts. She caught Gabe's hateful stare, his eyes surely white behind his dark goggles, and gave him a friendly wave.
"Think about it?" Bella yelled. "What about Jasper? He asked you not to be around this guy! What are you doing?"
Alice shrugged and turned back towards the parking garage with more of a spring in her step than usual. Bella knew that this could only end badly. And to make matters worse, it'd begun to rain.