Who Would Win?

Chapter 5

The next day Ed took Bella home, he quickly called me and the others. I had my first babysitting job. Someone had been in Bella's house, someone would need to protect Charlie as Jasper and Emmet would scower the area for whoever broke in.

Esme called Charlie asking him to "baby-sit" me. Ed was supposedly bringing me down. I waited at the door. Charlie opened.

"Edward, Tabitha!" He grunted while saying Ed's name, the dissagreaments from the leaving Bella thing had not changed one bit.

"Hi Charlie!" I said walking in. I noticed what he was watching. Baseball. "Mariners on?"

"Yes," His expression told me he was surprised.

"Can I watch?" I asked him smiling ear to ear. I didn't like the mariners completely, I was always a die hard Red's fan. He noticed that pointing to my hat.

"The Red's aren't doing that good though."

"They will eventually get better!" I had Alice on my side, but they wouldn't be going to the playoffs until 2010. Even then, they wouldn't go very far in it.

I sat on the couch, worried about what was happening at the house, or anything outside. I didn't even pay attention when the Mariners hit an infield homerun. Later into the night Ed picked me up and talked to Jacob on the phone, he came up with an idea. We could work together. I didn't mind, why would I?

I ran over through the field. Seth was waiting for me. I ran over while he threw me a baseball. I caught it mid backflip.

"Show off!" he yelled at me as I lightly threw it back telling myself not to kill him.

"Good throw though!" I yelled back. "You have fun at the camp fire? Bella told me you were there."

"It was good. I think Paul ate as much as I weigh." He yelled back. It had been a few weeks since the little agreement. I still couldn't figure out how Ed didn't know about all of this.

"I hope you got some food too." I caught the ball he had thrown with my bare hand.

He laughed. We threw back and forth while he went on to tell how he thought Bella was way to pallid and how Emily was the best cook in the world compared to his mom. We finished after a little while to study so he wouldn't forget about his school work. He unlike myself had not already gone through the ninth grade. It was laughable how much I understood.

I looked at him as he read through his book. He smiled at me as he felt my eyes on his back.

"Kind of hard to study while your watching me!"

"Sorry, it is kind of fasinating."

"It's actually kind of creepy!" He said giving me a sarcastic look.

"Yeah, it is!" I laughed my head off.

"You know, I could call the cops on you!"

"I would love to see Charlie come and arrest me!" I told him trying to look frightened.

He just laughed, with his smile flashing the world.

I sat myself up by my elbows. "Who do you think would win in a baseball game? Vampires or wherewolves? Wait, why am I asking when I already know?"

"Wherewolves!" Seth stared at me like he thought he knew what he was talking about. "100%!"

"I was going to say Vampires."

"Well, there is only one way to find out." He said raising his eyelids.

I bit my lip. "I wish our families would be friends. I mean we haven't killed each other!"

"Yea, if our families got together, that would be one awesome baseball game." He said smiling at the sky.

"We could protect against Victoria better."

"We could all have a beach party at La-push."

I smiled at him. "Not to mention. We wouldn't have to be a secret."

"That would be nice." There was a long awkward silence.

"Why are you so ok with me and my family? You should hate us and if you have imprinted on me, feel like the least lucky guy on the planet!"

"Well, I don't particularly like your family completely. Still, your not going to drink anyone's blood. You just drink animals, so what is the harm in that?"

"You make it sound like we are perfect." I said in slight reconciliation. "We have all slipped up!"

"Have you?" He asked probably not wanting to hear the answer.

I made sure he wouldn't get angry by my answer.

"I have, I was young and stupid." I turned my head to look at him. "I regret it every day I live."

He didn't show any emotion. He looked at me putting my hands in his. I breathed trying not to kill him. "We all make mistakes. I am not going to get upset at you for that!"

I smiled. "Your supposed to kill me! Damn it! You are way to laid back!"

"I am not going to kill you!" Seth rolled his big eyes. "I am upset. What the hell am I supposed to do about it. I can't do anything, your too good of a friend."

I smiled putting my arms around him to hug him. I let go suddenly out of fear. I thought to myself. We sat there for a while. "Alice is throwing a graduation party." I said trying to break the tension. "Going to be kind of boring."

"Yeah, a bunch of teenagers in a vampire's home hiked up on red bull sugar." He laughed at me.

"Ok, maybe not that boring. Actually kind of hilarious to watch a bunch of crazy teens. I just hate being called the cute little freshman all the time."

"That would drive someone nuts!"

"It does!"

He stood up reaching his arm out for me to grab. "I may be able to fix that!"

"I am not sure I want you breaking any of their bones, I can do that myself!" I took his hand.

"I would hope not. I might have a problem with that if you killed someone now! Still I might be able to help with the boredom."

I stared at him inquisitively. Then realized what he was actually talking about.

"You want to come to the party?"

"A party with a ton of vampires running it. Sounds like fun!"

"Just don't seem to inconspicuous."

He seemed giddy as I told him the date of the party and what time he should come over. I had to go, but I couldn't wait for that day. We left putting the whole past talk behind us.

I looked myself over in the mirror. I looked ok. I had my hair curled along with a nice floral skirt with a pink tighter top. I paired it all with some ballet flats. Alice would approve. I would change later for the party. Right now, I was just trying to look nice for yet another graduation.

"Little Tabitha!" Carlisle called with a concerned voice. "I need to talk to you."

I ran down the stairs still putting on a long necklace. I went over to where Carlisle and Esme sat. "Hey, is everything alright?"

"Little Tabitha, Alice keeps seeing you dissapear like as if you were going across the treaty line." Carlisle seemed distraught. Esme's eyes never left me as I sat on the couch. "What is going on, are you crossing the line? If something is going on we need to know about it."

I gulped, knowing that the "gig" was up. I figured that I would have to talk about it. "Ok, just keep an open mind. I am sorry for keeping this a secret from you." I told them the whole story, looking at the floor. I knew that they would be more disappointed of this than anything else that I had done. When I finished, they both were very quiet. Carlisle broke the silence after thinking for what felt like hours.

"Why didn't you tell us about this whole situation before now?"

"We were afraid that we wouldn't be aloud to see each other." I felt very upset. I wanted to cry. I wished I could have.

Esme got up and sat beside me. "Sweetie, are we happy about you being friends with a wherewolf? Not particularly. We do want you happy. That is what is most important."

"Exactly Little Tabitha." Carlisle followed Esme and sat on the other side of me. "We don't exactly agree with it, but we want you to be happy. What I want to know, is how he could imprint on you being a vampire and never changing."

I shrugged.

"My question is when do we get to meet him?" Esme said with a loving smile.

"Tonight!" I said looking at them both then taking a deep breath. "I kind of asked him if he would keep me company."

They both smiled. "Ok, as long as nothing goes wrong."

I walked into the gym. It smelled of teenage blood mixed with wolf. It wasn't Seth's, his had not been as pungent as it usually was. I looked for the cause of this smell. Jacob Black. I thought Bella had banned him from us when she right hooked him breaking her hand. Seth and I had been laughing about it for a while.

I sat next to Emmet and Rosie. They held each other's hands. I smiled. Would Seth and I ever get to holding hands? We did try dancing, but I wanted to kill him every moment. How could I ever overcome this love hate thing?

The graduates in their ugly yellow gowns lined up. The speakers were boring. After they were done, Alice glided out. She pulled off the yellow without a hitch. Ed was next, he probably knew about Seth and I. I wasn't hiding it in my mind anymore. He probably had more things on his mind than my silly friendship so why should I worry?

Graduate after graduate glided out. Bella came out and was greeted with loud applause from Charlie, the wolf, and his father. I clapped. First time graduating for her. I never would get to graduate. I could barely pass for 16. 18 was a longshot.

Afterward at the house, Alice drove me nuts. Party décor this, party stuff that. I did escape to get ready for that night. I changed into a nice purple dress that had a high waist sequin belt that matched the dresses halter. I kept the same shoes on. I looked nice for me. I ran down the stairs where Alice stopped me.

"Tabitha Annabella Braun Cullen!" Alice looked disappointed. "Why didn't you tell me? Now I know what was wrong with my visions of you. Your dating a dog!"

"Hey, Carlisle told you?" I looked at her disapprovingly. "Be nice, he may smell like a dog and occasionally look like one, but that is as much his fault as it is ours being Vampires. And we aren't dating, we are just friends."

"Whatever!" She stroked my hair smiling. "You look nice tonight."

I smiled at her. "Thanks Alice!"

The doorbell rang loudly. "That might be Bella!"

Alice ran over to the door with Ed while I hid away in case graduates showed up.

I watched as the party progressed from the balcony above the stair way. I was not the biggest person for parties.

The guest were scared of us. I laughed when one of the girls screamed when they saw me above them laughing. I saw Emmett grin at Mike over the food table, the red lights gleaming off his teeth, and laughed as I watched Mike take an automatic step back.

I suddenly saw Bella walking over to Alice who seemed lost in space. Bella asked what she had seen. The doorbell rang and I knew who it was as soon as Alice spoke.

"Who invited the wherewolf?"

I laughed but stopped as Bella raised her hand saying that she was the guilty one. Alice apparently didn't know about my whole Seth invite thing.

I slid down the banister. Overly happy. I ran over to open the door and stood for a moment, there stood Jacob, two other werewolf's and behind them almost hiden by their monstrosity was Seth. Smiling. After the others made their way in, we surprised ourselves, we hugged. The urge to kill him swept through me. I pushed them aside with a new feeling. One I couldn't explain. We let go quickly before someone else saw.

"I hope your family didn't see that!" Seth said with concern.

"They wouldn't care, they found out today!"

He smiled. "Good, because I fazed for the first time in months today, and the guys are not thrilled."

"Your ok, right?" I asked him with worry.

"They just think I am a crazy kid with a really bad crush. Only the ones who have imprinted sort of understood."

I smiled. "You are ok, though right?"

"Yes! Now even more that our friendship isn't a secret!" He opened the door and we walked inside.

"I need to introduce you to Carlisle and Esme. They have been dieing to meet you! In a manner of speaking."

"Ok, let's meet the bloodsucker family!"

I gave him a disappointed look. "Now, be nice, I defended you. Or should I introduce you as my new puppy?"

"Now Taby, no reason for that!" He laughed until we stopped, seeing that Jasper, Alice, Ed, Bella, and the wolves were talking. We wanted to know what was going on, but we were afraid they wouldn't let us know. We hid behind the doorframe, listening. They were talking about working together to fight the impending newborn army. Were they going to it with us or were the newborns coming here.

"Alice-tell them no!" Bella's voice was insisting. "They'll get killed!"

The three wolves laughed, and Seth was red wanting to laugh."

"Bella," Alice said with no worry in her voice. "Seperatly we could all get killed. Together…"

"It will be no problem," Jacob finished.

Bella tried fighting with them about not having the wolves fight. I didn't mind. It would be the perfect baseball game. We were having a strategic meeting tonight and the wolves were coming as well. Jasper was surprised at the idea. Seth and I looked at each other. We were going to work together. It was what we always wanted. Happiness only lasts a while.