Whoa! I got two reveiws! I kinda feel loved right now! Hopefully I'll get more after this, it's my first fanfic so I was kinda excited.

Stephenie Meyer owns all awesomeness…dang her.

Chapter 3—Tin Cans and Co. Captains

To say the least, I was a bit nervous about today. I don't want everyone to hate me just because I play on the baseball-not that it would stop me. It would just kind of make my situation a little more suckish.

I pulled my truck into the parking lot next to an unusually expensive looking car. It was a red M3 convertible. Nice.

I grabbed my backpack and headed into English. Through out the whole class people were stairing and whispering. Everytime someone would look back at me I would meet their gaze head on, daring them to say something. Well, let's just say that would effectively end our little staring contest.

As I headed to second period a couple girls I have never talked to congratulated me. I was a little surprised but glad that not everyone thought this was such a bad thing. But other than those two girls, I mostly got glared and/or stared at.

When I was about half way to my class I just so happened to run into a precariously placed foot. Let's just say I was toppling to the floor in no time. My books flew everywhere. I sighed and started to pick them up. It took me a second to realize someone was helping me. Emmet.

"Thanks Emmet," I said as he handed me my book.

"It's no problem Bella. What did you trip over anyway?" He asked looking around at the ground really quick.

"Someone carelessly dropped their foot right in front of me," I said sighing like it was the most tragic thing that could have possibly happened.

"Is it because of the baseball thing?" he asked in a serious tone that didn't sound like it belonged to him.

"Probably. I think it's kind of funny actually actually," I said laughing.

"How is getting tripped funny?" he asked completely confused. I had the sense that him being confused happened often.

"Well, normally I cause myself to trip. But hey, if someone wants to spare me the trouble…" I said shrugging. He started laughing and I added, "Besides, it'll be even more funny when I find out who did that and the crap out of them with a baseball bat!"

His booming laughter echoed around the school and the stares we were earning made me start laughing too. "Let me know when you find'em, it'll be fun to watch," he said still laughing as he walked away. I shook my head at him and headed to class.

The rest of the mornig basically went the same-minus the tripping. But lucky me all glares were still included plus more!

When lunch rolled around I quickly got some nachos and went outside. I spotted Rose and Alice sitting at a large picnic table and headed over. "Hey, can I sit with you guys?" I asked once I was within hearing distance.

"Of course Bella, how was your day so far?" Alice asked cheerfuly.

"Besides being tripped it was pretty boring," I said shrugging.

"Someone tripped you?" Rosalie asked, clearly pissed off.

"Yeah, it's no big deal though," is said shrugging nonchantly.

Alice was about to protest when a nasaly voice spoke from behind me. "Like playing in the dirt yesturday Swan?" Lauren asked, her voice dripping with disgust. She was flanked by Jessica and another blonde girl I didn't recognize. No doubt another cheerleader.

"Yes. Yes I did enjoy it. Thank you for asking Lauren," I said sweetly.

She looked at loss for words for a while-I was hoping she would stay that way-but unfortunately she spoke again. "Are you going to the Spring Fling?" she asked suddenly.

I snorted, "not if I'm lucky." Out of the corner of my eye I was vaguely aware that Alice and Rosalie exchanged a horrified glance when I said this. Also, Emmet and Jasper were now at the table.

"Good…because I'm going to go with Edward so you better stay away from him," she said smiling smugly at me. I heard Alice snort behind me.

"Ooo…you see Lauren, I don't think that's going to work out. I have practice with him everyday and not to mention I sit with him in Biology-but of course you would know this. Your basically his stalker, right?" I asked trying to sound thoughtful.

She looked completely taken aback. She opened her mouth to say something but nothing came out. I smiled at her like I didn't just accuse her of basically being a sexual predator. "Hey, Lauren you have really pretty hair. I was just telling Alice how much…shinier your hair was than mine. So, can you shake your head really quick?" I asked curiously.

She looked just as confused as everyone else, but did what I asked. I smiled, trying to look thoughtful. "I was right…it sounds just like a beebee in a tin can," I said shaking my head sadly. (If you didn't get that…yeah sorry…I can't help you)

Emmet, Jasper, Alice, and Rosalie all burst out laughing. Lauren and her croonies didn't seem to get it, but seemed to understand that it was insult. Lauren glared at me and said, "You better watch yourself Swan." I just laughed more at her attempt to threaten me. She glared more feircely, and then stomped off with her brainwashed buddies.

"That was priceless!" Emmet boomed, banging his fist on the table.

I smiled, "Thanks, I was trying to be nice but it was just too easy."

"I can't believe you said that!" Rosalie scoffed, her face was completely beet red by now.

"Get what?" a voice said to my left. I looked over and their was Edward Cullen-just the guy I want to see. Greeaatt.

Alice happily explained the whole thing. I expected him to start laughing-and apparently so did everyone else. But instead of doing what any normal person would do-laugh histerically at Lauren's expense-he said, "You really shouldn't make fun of people."

I stared in shock for a second, along with everyone else. Then I said, "should I go apologize mom?"

"Yeah, you should," he said sounding completely sincere.

I shrugged and soluted him. "Yes m'am." Everyone was chuckling a bit after our little exchange but completely shut up when I turned to face Lauren's table and yelled, "Hey Lauren, can you come here for a second?"

Her entire table turned to stare at me incredulously. I have to admit that their expressions weren't that much different than everyone's at my table. She got up and slowly walked over, swinging her hips obnoxioulsy-my guess is it's because Edward was there. She looked at me and glared. "What do you want Swan?" she sneered.

"I just wanted to say that I'm sorry," I said tyring my best to sound honest. I swear all my friend's mouths drop.

"Sorry for what?" Lauren asked, clearly enjoying this.

My plastered on smile turned into a smirk as I said, "I'm sorry. I mean, I would feel confused all the time too if my age was higher than my IQ." I honestly wasn't completely planning to say something mean back, but it just…slipped?

She gaped at me for a second and then stomped angrily back to her table. My whole table roared with laughter. Rosalie fell off the table and Emmet was pounding the table so hard I thought it would break. "Where did Edward go?" Jasper asked suddenly, looking at the now vacant space beside me.

"He's just got something up his butt," Alice said between giggles.

"Well, whatever he's got up his but it's sideways," I said. Everyone burst into another fit of laughter. (Name that movie? Can't? I ashamed. Stick It you fools!) Once we all calmed down, we started talking about some random things.

Emmet and Jasper were in the middle of fighting over who's the best power ranger (it's totally the red one) when Rosalie gasped. I followed her gaze and landed on my nachos. Alic looked too and gasped, sounding completely horrified. "What?" I asked confused.

"Do you know how many calories are in that?" Rosalie asked staring at the nachos hungrily.

"Nope," I said before popping another nacho in my mouth. Emmet and Jasper chuckled but the girls shot glares at them and they shut up.

"You mean your not trying to watch your weight?" Alice asked incredulously.

"Yeah, I'm actually on this all calorie diet. It's doing wonders," I said in the most serious tone I could muster. They both glared at me while Emmet and Jasper tried to fight back their laughter and failed.

"Aren't you worried about getting overweight?" Rosalie asked.

"Uh…no," I answered between nachos.

"What about obesity?" Alice asked. I sighed and stood up. They all looked at me completely confused. I pulled my shirt up enough so they could see my flat, musceled stomach.

Alice, Rosalie's and Jasper's jaws all dropped and Emmet let out a low whistle. Rosalie smacked him on the back of the head. "I don't think I'll have to worry about being overweight anytime soon," I explained sitting down.

"Holy crap Bella, your ripped!" Alice exclaimed, snapping out of her shock. I just shrugged and continued eating my delicious nachos. After a little bit the bell rang and I got up to go Biology. Yayyy!

"Hey Bella, do you want to go shopping with me and Alice some time?" Rosalie asked before I got too far away.

"Um…sure," I answered. After seeing the smiles that appeared on both Alice's and Rosalie's faces I instantly regretted it.

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Biology was absolute torture. Edward kept on shooting me these sideway glances. I wanted to be like 'what the hell do you keep staring at me for?!' But nooo, I couldn't do that because Mr. Banner didn't shut his yap once during the entire class period. But the torture that was class couldn't even compare to the horror that was Lauren as she flirted with Edward before class starte. She was leaning over extra far across just so Edward could take a peek at the grand canyon that was her chest! I mean, seriously! She could at least try to be more subtle!

Finally that was class was over and gym went by in a flash of volleyballs hitting my face. Sure…you give me a ball and a bat and I'm in heaven, but if I can't hit it with a stick it's not my sport.

Thankfully it was now time for baseball practice. I quickly got changed into basketball shorts and a t-shirt and made my way to the field.

"Play catch, warm up," Coach said as he approached the field.

"Partners?" Jasper asked coming up from behind me.

Thank God! "Thanks Jasper," I said as he backed up to get in the opposite line.

"No problem," he said adjusting himself next to Emmet. I swung my arm in a windmill motion a couple times to get loosened up. Then I threw the ball at Jasper. Hard. You didn't think I was going to easy on him? That wouldn't be any fun at all!

"Damn," I heard him mutter as he threw the ball back. We played catch for a while until Jasper held up a finger in the 'hold on' sign and turned to Emmet. I watched curiously as he whispered something to emmet and they traded spots in line.

"Jazzy's hand hurts," he explained to me, earning him a hard kick in the leg from Jasper.

He threw the ball the me-harder than Jasper did-but not harder than Charlie throws. My Dad's got an arm! I threw it back a bit harder than I did when playing catch with Jasper-just wanting to see his reaction. I smirked when I saw him cringe a little before he took the ball out of his mit.

After about twenty minutes of playing catch the Coach told us we are going to be having a scrimage so he can see how we actually play in a game. He made Edward and I captains. This should be good.

"Heads or tails?" he asked Edward as he flipped a quarter.

"Tails." Ha! He sucks, it was heads!

I picked first. "Emmet."

"Ben." Damn. Ben was a good hitter.

"Jasper."

The teams ended up being me, Emmet, Jasper, Mike, Tod, Tyler, Austin, James, and Kevin on my team, and everyone else on Edward's.

"Okay, Bella and Edward are going to be the coaches for today," Coach L said, mainly looking at my team. "Do what they say or don't play at all. Edward, your teams up to bat first. You have a little while to set up a game plan."

Emmet's hand suddenly shot up in the air.

"What Emmet?" Coach asked sighing.

"Can we have team names?" he asked excitedly. Coach sighed loudly but nodded his head.

"We're The Winners!" Ben shouted from the other side of the field next to Edward. His team all laughed while mine looked kind of pissed.

"Fine," I said smirking. "Then we're The Best." My team burst out laughing and 'The Winners' scowled in my direction. "Okay guys, huddle up. I'm pitching, Jasper's first, Emmet's catcher, James' left, Tyler's third, Mike's mid, Kevin's right, Tod's second, and Austin's short," I told my team confidently.

"But those aren't our usual positions!"Mike exclaimed.

"Well Mike, I would put you at third like normal but you can't throw for shit. I was practice yesterday. Do what I say or don't play," I said smirking as I repeated Coach's words. Mike scowled but everyone else chuckle, not seeming to have a problem with where I put them.

They all headed to the spots I told them to go and Emmet gave me a high-five before suiting up. When he came on the field I started warming up. I pitched the ball about ¾ my full speed. I didn't want to give too much away to Edward's team.

Ben was up first. I saw him bat yesterday, and he was good. I was hoping to get him on my team, but Edward beat me to it. At least I'm a better pitcher than he is batter. He got two strikes before he hit one right to Jasper at first. I struck the next two guys out easily. Then we were up to bat.

I sent Jasper up to bat first. I knew I could count on him to get at least a single. And he did. I pulled Emmet aside quickly before he went up to the plate. "Hang back a bit and then swing. Keep you foot planted," I reminded him. He nodded and headed for the plate. He listened to my advice perfectly, it hit the very top of the fence, just missing the open air above it that would send it over. He got a double, and Jasper was now on third. It was my turn.

I grabbed my precious Freak 98' (For those of you who don't know, it is a real bat. I've used one and they are absolutely amazing. Unless you have a Shawna on your team, then she break it. Oops.) Edward was watching the catcher's glove just as intently as I was watching him. I will hit the ball. I let the first on go even thought it was right down the middle. I wanted to gauge the speed. The second one I wasn't wasting. I crushed it and it went over the fence in right field.

I ran around the bases to home where Emmet gave me a bone crushing hug and Jasper high-fived me. That inning we got at least nine runs in.

The rest of the game went similar. Edward's team scored about five times in all because we were pretty evenly matched over all. We did win though. Well, we crushed them really as far as baseball goes but I didn't want to rub it in. My team did it for me.

"Bella you did awesome. They should change their team name to The Losers," Emmet said sounding like a four year old. I just laughed and shook my head at him.

We all walked over and shook hands with the other half of our team. Some of them glared but most of them were nice and actually complimented me. At the end of the line I shook Edward's hand-ignoring the funny feeling I got when I touched him-and said, "good job."

"Good game," he said before letting go of my hand and walking toward his bag.

"Swan, come here a minute," Coach yelled as he approached the field.

I quickly walked over and said, "Yeah Coach?"

"I was really impressed today, Charlie was right about you. Would you like to be a co. captain?" he asked smiling happily.

"Heck yes!" I yelled. "Thanks Coach!" I said as I jogged over to where Rosalie and Alice were talking to Emmet and Jasper. "I'm co. captain!"

They both squealed and hugged me tightly while Emmet and Jasper congratulated me. I started packing up my bag while they were talking excitedly about the shopping trip they were planning. Maybe I shouldn't have said yes…

"Hey guys," Edward said jogging over to our group. "Guess what?"

"What?" we all said at the same time-causing us all to laugh.

"I'm a co. captain again this year," he said smiling smugly.

I let out a snort and said, "Oooo, big deal," trying my best to sound sarcastic.

"It is actually," he said glaring slightly. "It's an important job, only the team's best players get it," he said smirking at me.

I smirked right back at him and said, "Thanks for the compliment." I turned and grabbed my bag and started walking away. "I'll talk to you guys tommarow." I could hear them all laughing at Edward's shocked expression no doubt.

Just as I was about to unlock the door on my truck my but rang. Ooooh, it's my cell phone. I grabbed out of my sweatpant's pocket and flipped it open. "Hello?"

"Hey Bella!" a voice squealed. Alice.

"Hey Alice, what's up?"

"Do you want me to call you before I pick you up for shopping tommarow?" she asked excitedly. Oh, we're going tommarow. Yay.

"Sure, thanks. See you tommarow," I said.

"Bye Captain!"

"Bye Alice," I said laughing.

Okay, that was my newest chapter. I'm going to try to put up a new one tommarow with the shopping trip and some more Lauren stuff-because it's fun to have Bella make fun of her. Please review!

Julie