I was wearing my red tracksuit as I stepped out of the car. I still hadn't spoken to James, but I had been thinking. A lot. I locked the car and walked towards the baseball pitch. The school parking lot was crowded, with the red, representing Liberty high, and the Blue, representing Barrymore. I had my sports bag resting on my shoulder. Mum and Dad were sitting in the middle, where as I was going to be sitting with Angela, Rosalie, Alice, Tanya, and a few others, including a new girl called Victoria. We were sitting right at the front. Waiting for the game to start. There were whistles and whoops as our team entered. 'Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present to you, the Home team, the Liberty High Hawks," The crowd stood up in recognition, and we watched the big screen, on either side of us. 'Starting with the two captains, Emmett Cullen and James Fabello. Then Jasper Cullen, Edward Masen, Ben Cheney, Caius, Marcus and Aro Volturi,' There were cheers. Rose and Alice waved their pom poms enthusiastically. Emmett being Emmett, bowed lowly, making to crowds go even wilder. Jasper hit him over the head and they just laughed and stood on the opposite side to us.
Then Roger Vanders said again, a lot less enthusiastically, 'and uh, the other guys. The Barrymore Beavers,' he practically sighed, there were loud cheers but louder boo's from our side. Alice and Rose were really going for it. Hissing and booing when they had too. I would have joined in, but I was too nervous. Then the game began.
We watched as Caius the pitcher, took the first throw to the big Barrymore player. He hit it hard, but Edward caught it, catching him out, cheers erupted. Edward laughed, and threw it back to Caius. That's how most of the game went. They were defensive, and were doing well. That was until the fourth inning. Barrymore got a load of homeruns. They substituted the big guy, who had been caught out in the first inning. With a smaller guy, with a hell of a good aim. Then came the seventh inning stretch. I knew what was coming and unzipped my tracksuit top.
Edward POV
We had been playing well, up until fourth inning, that substitution has trashing us. We were sitting on the sidelines; coach was talking to us, trying to up our strategy. We were all trying to stay in the game. But Coach kept on at us. That was until the last five minutes when he went to get a beer. We all looked at each other. An awkward silence ensued. Until Marcus broke the silence, with a wolf whistle.
"Looks like the cheerleaders are coming out to cheer us on," he hit Aro's chest. He was right; they were setting out in a 'V' formation, from what we could see on the big screen.
"Check out the foxy Brunette, she is working that mini," Emmett laughed. I had to say that I agreed, she did.
"Dude? Your girlfriends of the team remember?" I reminded him.
"Dude, don't ever say that about that girl ever again," James sounded disgusted.
"Why?" he laughed.
"You'll see," he smiled. The Girls were wearing a red and white coloured uniform and I could see that the girl at the front was obviously the captain. Telling people where to go and such. I smiled to myself.
'And now Ladies and Gentlemen, the Liberty High Hawks present their cheerleading team.' He turned on a pop tune, making it higher slightly, 'Led by their new Captain, Bella Cullen!'
"WHAT?" Jasper, Emmett, Caius and I yelled. The screen zoomed in, and sure enough it was Bella, going trademark beetroot red. They turned around and started to dance, as cheerleaders do. But it wasn't the fact that they were dancing, it was the face that Bella was dancing. Bella couldn't dance, she had told me, the night of our first kiss. I had led her across my garden, her standing on my feet. She seemed perfectly competent now. She even looked like she was enjoying it. That would explain what she was doing here so late on Friday afternoon. Of course.
I had had a weird feeling about Bella, since she returned from her incapacitation at the hands of Mike. She seemed like a different person. A lot different, she was so weak and innocent before, but when she came back, she had lived through a lot of crap. And she seemed to have hardened, like she had grown up a bit. And when she returned from Ireland, she was like a completely different person. Not the beautiful, dressing gown clad girl, I had fallen in love with. I sighed, but I had Tanya now. She was enough for me. But that as the thing. I had never thought of Bella as anything but, someone I wanted to be with. From the first moment I ever saw her, in all her dressing gown finery. I just wanted to hold her in my arms and never let go. Still, we had agreed that it would be better for us to be friends than is an item. We had never been friends. And I had never wanted her to be. I looked at James, he was smiling. In the direction of the cheerleaders.
"You knew didn't you?" Emmett growled.
"Hey, she swore me to secrecy. What could I do?" he laughed.
"She didn't even tell me. I'm the one she likes," Jasper groaned. Emmett snarled, "Out of all the blondes in our family" he added. We laughed as they formed a pyramid for the finale, Bella was at the top. The music stopped. There were cheers, and the pyramid dismantled. Bella done a somersault, and landed in Rosalie and Tanya's arms. They put her down, She hugged them both, the whole team laughing.
Bella POV- The final inning.
The mood around us was tense. We had crawled our way back up, and now all we needed was one more homerun. Everybody was out except James and Edward. Edward was up next, he hit the ball, but he was caught out by the short substituted guy. There was a groan from our side. James left the bench touched Edward's knuckle and approached the batting area, the beaver's tried to heckle him, but he just waved at them.
He was totally prepared and when the ball hit the bat, he hit is so hard, he bounded for the first base, but the ball was still hurtling through the air, us cheerleaders stood up, first, looking at how high it was reaching. James was still running around the bases. The ball was reaching the edge of the pitch, it still hadn't landed. James passed the second base. The ball still hadn't landed. Other members of the crowd rose now, mutterings started. It was nearly at the big screen. James passed the third base. The ball now disappeared from sight, behind the big screen and out of the park. James passed the fourth base. The cheers erupted from our side.
'And the Liberty High Hawks win!" Roger shouted, with delight. James seemed bemused, but then went for a team hug with his team. We ran out onto the pitch, it was crowded; it must have had several hundred people on it. I could barely find them, but when I did. I saw James. He took me into his arms, and twirled me around. I laughed. Nobody was paying attention to us; they were still enjoying the victory.
"Jay, I have made a decision," I whispered to him.
"What?" he yelled, he couldn't hear me.
"I made a decision," I yelled back.
"What?!" he laughed. I sighed. I pulled his collar in my hands and kissed him on the lips. He took me into his arms again and twirled me around as we kissed. I ran my fingers through his hair, and I could feel his, gripping tightly onto my waist.
When we finally broke apart, I looked into his eyes, he smiled, my arms around his neck. We leaned in to kiss again, when several cleared throats made our attention. We hadn't noticed the silence, everybody was staring. Everybody. People I didn't even know. I looked behind James' head, and our kiss, in slow motion was play, showing me pull him close to me, and us twirling around together. Oh my god, my dad was in the audience. We looked at each other again. His beautiful blue eyes, bore into my dull brown ones. I smiled. We looked around, and then cheers erupted around us. And we hugged as we walked out of the pitch. His arm around my shoulders, mine around his waist. Once we had left the huge crowds, we sat on the bonnet of my car. He held my hand.
"This feels nice," I said, leaning on his shoulder. He kissed my forehead. I smiled. It did feel nice.
"Yeah it does. Do you think that your family is going to castrate me?" he laughed, we played with each other's hands.
"I'll protect you. Don't worry. Nobody messes with my man," I smiled. He laughed.
"So I am your man now am I?" he smiled, chuckling.
"And don't you forget it bub," I poked his belly. He stroked my head. We could have sat there forever. When I began to get cold.
"Are you cold Bella?" he smiled.
"No, just not warm." I laughed again.
"Here, take this," he started to take off his letterman jacket.
"No, no. Then you will be cold." I urged him to keep it on.
"No, I won't ever live it down if I let you freeze on the night we officially became an item," He put it on my shoulders.
"Thanks," I snuggled into it.
"You can keep it, I like to let people know that you are mine," he smiled.
"I can think of other ways to keep warm," I giggled, licking my lips.
"Can you really?" he leaned in, our noses touching. Our lips were about to meet when we were interrupted.
"Hey! Fabello! Take your hands off our sister," Emmett roared. Shit. I stood in front of him protectively. Emmett, Jasper and Dad were walking towards us, Rose, Alice and Mum trailing behind them. Mum was holding my sweat bag, with my tracksuit in it.
"What do you think you're doing," I growled.
"He violated you," Emmett gasped.
"I kissed him you Jackass," I pushed him away.
"No Bella, leave it. I can take care of myself." I looked up at him, he winked. I sat back down on my bonnet.
"I just have one thing to say to you," Emmett growled. James looked unfazed. There was a dramatic pause. "Welcome to the family man," he pulled him into a huge, bear like hug. Emmett was laughing, as was James, Jasper and Dad. I was confused.
"What's going on?" I muttered, and walked over to Mum, and she hugged me, "Mummy, I'm scared," I whispered. Rose and Alice looked as confused as I felt, they shrugged at me.
"Me too sweetheart," James was hugging Jasper now. Emmett had walked over to Rosalie and was kissing her. James moved on to hug my dad.
"What did you think we were going to do? Kill him?" Emmett laughed.
"I definitely thought it was a possibility," I said. Holding my mother's hand. He was hugging my dad? This was definitely the twilight zone.
"Dude, we have been taking bets on how long it would take for you two to get it on. Admittedly it was a bit touch and go for a few years when he went off to Europe, and you got hot and heavy with Edward for a few months, but when he returned, bet's were back on baby!" Emmett laughed. "Jasper and Dad, you both owe me a hundred bucks" he laughed.
"How? You said by junior year. She is in sophomore year," Jasper retaliated.
"I meant your junior year," he mended. Jasper looked vexed.
"Of course you did," Dad laughed, opening the passenger side of my Ferrari. Emmett got in. I raised an eyebrow.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"Aren't you riding with James?" Emmett said matter of factly.
"Yes she is," James said. Rosalie got in the driver's seat.
"You break my car Emmett Cullen, I will hurt you," I snarled.
"What am I going to do? Kiss my girlfriend?" he asked. Rose rolled her eyes.
"Don't worry; your car will be fine. Don't you trust me?" she laughed.
"Of course I trust you Rose, Just not my dear brother," I retaliated.
"And now I think I will take Bella home, before she has an aneurysm," James laughed. Steering me to his car. I started at Emmett, who had his hands over his mouth, in mock terror. I made the 'I am watching you' gesture. He closed the doors. I sat down in the passenger seat, waiting for James' to come in. He closed the door.
"Now where were we before we were so rudely interrupted?" James laughed, putting on the heating.
"I think I can remind you," I said, we both leaned in and we kissed. I smiled. He laughed, we broke apart.
"Are you sure you made the right decision?" he said.
"Ah, now I am thinking about it. I am having second thoughts," I joked.
"No, no. I'll make you forget what I just said," he kissed me again. I pulled away this time.
"Yes, I have made the right decision," I smiled, and I kissed him on the lips once more.