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Okay this is a little preview for you guys. This is PART of the baseball scene, which I fully intend to finish writing, I would just like your opinion first.
(Nadi's POV)
Sam and I had spent two incredible weeks in New Zealand. We walked along the beach, we went skydiving, scuba diving, horseback riding, (which Sam did not enjoy.)
Now we were on a plane flying back to Washington. I was sitting next to the window looking at the incredible sight below me. I had never been to New Zealand before and it was certainly an amazing experience.
The first day we were there, Sam and I walked took a walk through the hills. We stopped on top of a hill and looked down at the sprawling landscape.
Then Sam did something that shocked me. He gasped. I turned to him to see that was wrong, he was staring down at the hills before us with wide eyes and happily exclaimed, "It's just like Lord of the Rings!" I laughed so hard at my little nerd wolf that Sam didn't speak to me for nearly ten minutes. While I was trying to recover from my fit off laughter, Sam sat down on the edge of the hill.
"Are you done laughing at me?" He snipped. I rolled my eyes, and then ran at him tackling him hard. Sam rolled down the hill like a runaway train. He got to the bottom and looked bewildered, I could see that with my sharp eyesight. That caused me to laugh more. I eventually rolled down the hill to him and he caught me at the bottom.
For the rest of our honeymoon I called him "nerd wolf." He didn't like it at all. He got me back when we were walking through the cliffs. I recognized a spot from the movie "Dead Alive." That caused me to bounce in place and say in my best New Zealand accent, "This monkey is coming with us!"
Sam now calls me Sumatran. (Dead Alive or "Brain Dead" reference, if you don't get it, don't worry about it. I'm a horror fanatic, so it's what I do.)
I smiled at the memories we had made in just two weeks. Sam squeezed my hand that he hadn't let go off since we got on the plane. I looked over at him. He was staring at me again. I smiled and kissed his cheek.
He kissed me on the lips for a long moment then pulled away and brushed hair out of my eyes. I lay my head on his shoulder and sighed in content. I drifted into a brief light sleep.
Sam shook my shoulders gently and whispered in my ear, "We're landing in Seattle."
Finally! I thought and sat up. I looked out the window again; sure enough our plane was approaching the tarmac.
As soon as we landed, Sam and I left the plane; we had been on there far too long. Sam automatically took my hand and walked protectively in front of me to the luggage carousel.
I paid barely any attention to what we were doing or what was going on. I was too busy leaning on Sam, my head spinning because of his intoxicatingly wonderful scent.
Before I knew it, we were heading toward the doors to leave the airport. I vaguely heard someone calling my name, but it wasn't Sam so my mind disregarded this alien voice.
Then, I was hit by a force that almost knocked me down. Whatever it was had ripped me from Sam's grasp and I was not happy about that. I looked down to see Leah crushing herself against me. I hugged her back just as tightly.
"I missed you guys so much! I want to hear all about it! Or, not everything, but what all did you guys do except 'it'?" She teased, raising her eyebrows suggestively.
I pushed her away from me gently. "We swam, scuba dived, and lots of other fun stuff." I said shortly. Leah huffed, but left it alone.
We walked out into the sunlight to find my dear sweet Cristina sitting by the curb. There was a strange man standing next to it. He had shaggy hair and was wearing a rainbow colored beanie, a pair of jeans and an old Pink Floyd t-shirt.
A dirty hippie was leaning against my car. I turned to Leah, "Who the hell is that? And why is he leaning against my car?"
She looked down nervously. "His name is Eric, he's my imprint remember?"
Of course, Leah had imprinted on the guy after our big fight with the newborns, but I hadn't met him before. Leah always said he was too infuriating to be around. I didn't quite understand her, but I let it go. I knew she would introduce him to us soon enough and here she was.
I put my arm around her shoulders; I noticed she was a tad closer to my height now, six-two if I had to guess. "He is your imprint?" I asked quietly. Sam started to laugh next to me.
Leah and I both looked up at him. "What?" I asked.
He shook his head and said, "I just can't believe Leah imprinted on a hippie." He chuckled again. Leah growled.
I smacked Sam on the arm and he shut up. I looked back to Leah, "So what's he like?" Sure the guy was standing thirty feet from us, but he seemed to be more interested in the gray Washington sky than us.
Leah smiled bigger than I had ever seen her smile before. "Well, he's really creative, artistic, he loves music and," She said this with a dreamy look in her eyes, but then they darkened, "He is oblivious to anything that goes on around him, all he wants to do is play hacky sack, get high and skateboard! He is so infuriating!" She started to shake slightly.
Other people around us started to look at her funny. I smiled at them and put my hand on Leah's shoulder. "Leah! Snap out of it. Does he know about us yet?" I asked.
She shook her head as she calmed herself down. I nodded, "Okay, well, let's go home, we'll deal with all this later."
She nodded and walked over to the car. She spoke to Eric briefly and they both climbed into the backseat of my Maserati. I had missed my beautiful car while we were gone.
Sam's deep laughter broke me from my thoughts. I looked at him and he smiled, "If you're done dreaming about your car, why don't we go so you can drive it?"
I nearly ran to the driver's side and waited for Sam to put our stuff in the trunk. I ran my hands over the smooth leather of the steering wheel. The passenger door opened and Sam climbed in.
I turned around to look at Leah and Eric. Eric was quite handsome, if he would wash his hair. He had smooth white skin, deep brown eyes and sharp cheekbones. I smiled at him. "I'm Leah's friend Nadi. Nice to meet you." I said cheerfully.
He stared at me a minute, blinked and said, "Cool. I'm Eric."
I nodded at him as Sam introduced himself also. I turned the key in the ignition and listened to my baby purr. Smiling, I looked at Sam. He understood my look and laughed.
I pulled out of the airport parking lot and drove us home. It was a long drive, but I was fine with that. It gave me time to get to know Eric, catch up with Leah and drive my dear Cristina.
Eric was nice, though, he talked for a long time about skateboarding. I quizzed him about things on the way home. He mostly said "yeah" and "huh" a lot, but other than that he was cool.
I learned he was nineteen; he had dropped out of school because he was failing classes and he worked at Newton Olympia Outfitters. Poor boy had to deal with Mike Newton all day. He lived with his parents and his younger sister, Jackie. I dropped him out at his house in Forks, telling him to come by my house anytime he liked.
We arrived at our house in La Push around the time the sun was setting. As I stepped out of the car, I turned my head to where the sun was setting and my eyes filled with happy tears remembering Sam and my wedding day.
Sam's arms wrapped tightly around my waist, as if he knew what I was thinking about, than he leaned down and kissed my neck. I turned in his arms and hugged him. We had been married exactly two weeks now and I was still feeling the post-wedded bliss. If this were any example of the rest of our lives, I would certainly die a happy woman.
"Hey lovebirds, let's go play some baseball!" Quil shouted from my front porch. Sam and I both turned to face him. The entire pack and the Cullen family were standing in my front yard. How I hadn't noticed them before I didn't know.
I did, however, notice that some of the imprints were here also. Bella, Kim, Angela and Karen were all standing with their wolves. I looked around and saw Leah standing alone.
I felt bad that she had imprinted on Eric at roughly the same time Paul imprinted on Angela and Embry on Karen, but Eric didn't know about us. I wondered how that made Leah feel, having a mate but unable to be with him.
Embry shook me from my thoughts when he pulled me away from Sam and into his. He spun me around and said, "My new little sister finally back from banging my brother in a foreign country."
Sam growled, but I just laughed. Embry was doing much better now that he lived in Sam's old house. While we were gone, the boys and the Cullens moved all of Sam's stuff into my house. Granted they had put everything into a few of the guest rooms until we could sort through it properly.
Soon, each member of the Cullen family, the wolf pack and the imprints had each hugged Sam and I, welcoming us home.
Quil was starting to get impatient, as was Emmett. "Can we please go play baseball now? I've never played with vampires before!" Quil begged.
I sighed, "Sure, let's go." With that, I handed Emmett climbed in his Jeep. Kim, Bella, Karen and Angela following him. They had to ride with him to the clearing since they refused to ride on their wolf's backs again. Bella had actually gotten sick from it and vomited all over Seth.
The rest of us ran through the woods to the clearing. We gathered in a circle and started discussing teams. Playing vampire VS werewolf wouldn't be fair since there were nine wolves and only seven of the Cullens would be playing; as Esme opted to referee to ensure there was no cheating. Now we were fighting about who would be on what team.
Emmett finally pulled up in the Jeep. He hopped out and retrieved the ball and bat from the back. The girls hobbled their way over to the rest of us. Emmett also grabbed some chairs for the girls to sit in so they wouldn't have to sit on the ground to watch us play.
Emmett joined in our arguing for teams until Esme stopped us.
"ENOUGH!" She yelled. Esme actually yelled at us. We stared at her in shock as she continued, "Sam, stand over here. Carlisle, come stand over here. You are team captains, only I will pick who goes where and you will not argue, got it?"
We nodded simultaneously and Esme smiled smugly. "Good."
In the end, Sam's team was himself, Alice, Leah, Edward, Rosalie, Paul, Jake and Quil.
Carlisle's team was himself, me, Jasper, Emmett, Emily, Jared, Embry and Seth.
Esme has split up all couples and declared the game 'every man for himself.' I think she was worried that some of the mates would try to cheat, but she didn't have to worry about that.
Emmett opened his big mouth to trash talk to Rosalie. "Sorry, babe, but you're not beating us today." Emmett smiled as he tried to kiss her neck. Rosalie shoved him back.
"We'll just see about that won't we?" She asked angrily.
After that, the floodgates were open. Each of us that had a mate on the other team was determined to beat them.
Our team was up to bat first while Sam's was out in the field. Alice was pitching; Leah, Jake and Quil were on each of the bases and Rose was behind home plate to catch. Jared was batting first.
I heard Esme telling Bella, Kim, Angela and Karen that she had split up the couples to make things more interesting. If the couples were on a team together, there wouldn't be any competition or really any drive to win.
She caught me listening and smiled sheepishly. I smiled at her and walked over to stand next to Carlisle. Alice pitched the ball to Jared, which he hit into left field. Kim cheered as he ran around the bases. Just before he made it to home plate, the ball soared out of nowhere and Rose caught it just as Jared slid home.
Esme shook her head at him, "You're out Jared."
He stood up and stomped over to the rest of us. Emily gently patted his shoulder. I stepped up to the plate next. Alice pitched the ball, and I swung the bat. A satisfying crack rang out as I sent the ball soaring far into the woods. I saw both Sam and Edward running after it.
A/N: Like I said, this is just a preview, here's my question: Would you like for me to write a sequel, or just this little one shot of the baseball scene? There's a poll on my profile, GO VOTE AND LET ME KNOW! ~Ever Uley~
