Hey there. Sorry for the week long delay. I've had a bad case of writers block but I seems to be gone now.

I looked on as Gabriel, and Mason were 'warming up' for the game this afternoon, in the northern corner of Olympic National Park. It was a very secluded spot about 30 miles from Forks.

Edward thought that his meadow would be good enough, but Gabriel stopped that thought cold, by saying that we'll need at least 2 miles of clear, open space to play in. Right after school, the three of us went with Alice and the rest of the Cullen's to wait in the field, while Edward went home to get Esme, and Carlisle. The sky was darkening, threatening with rain and thunder, but Alice had assured us that there would be no rain, only the noise we needed to play in.

Esme had been working all day in the back yard to build a pair of goal posts for the game, and Edward was on his way to pick them up.

The twins' 'warm up' was an understatement. They were punching, kicking, and lunging at each other like they were in a real fight. I had already thrust my mental shield around Gabriel to keep Mason from cheating. Mace could easily use his talent to gain the upper hand and I was used to keep anyone from cheating. I had to stay close by to keep the shield intact. As they battled on, neither one having the upper hand, not knowing what the other one is going to do, Edward and his parents showed up in Emmett's jeep with the homemade posts on the top.

Edward immediately came to my side, kissed me on my temple, and watched in fascination at the twins speed, his arm around me. I had seen this all our lives, so it was nothing surprising to me, but Edward had not seen them in their little fight mode yet. Just then Mace gained the upper hand on Gabe as he delivered as punch to Gabe's torso and sent him flying. Gabe recovered before he hit the ground and shuffled away from him, in full defense mode.

"Wow. They're really good." Edward observed.

I smiled. "Yeah, they do this all the time."

"Hm. Want to come help us set up the posts?"

"I can't. I have to stay nearby to keep my shield around Gabe."

"Wow. You mean you're doing it now? I can't hear your thoughts."

"Heh. That's just the way my shield works. I have to concentrate to lift the shield from around my brain, but it's no problem to put it around someone else."

"I don't understand" Edward said, tilting his head to the side.

I thought for a moment. "Well, think of my shield as in two parts. There's the one that's always around my brain, and I have to pay attention to lift it away so you or the boys need to hear my thoughts. Then there's the part that's always around my body. That doesn't take nearly as much concentration to stretch around someone. I'm still having trouble learning to pull both of them away from me. It just takes so much out of me."

"Oh, okay. It's like your own personal cocoon. Always there unless you take it away yourself."

I smiled at his comment. Edward looked into my eyes, a warm smile on his handsome face. His hand that was around my waist started rubbing small circles on my hip.

When Mason got close enough to him, Gabe set out to punch Mason in the head, but Mace dodged and let out a barrage of punches to Gabe's chest. Gabe expertly dodged all but the last one, and punched Mace square in the jaw, sending in a spiral towards the ground.

They continued chasing after each other, punching and kicking, completely oblivious to the world around them, until Rose called out, "Guys we better get this game going. Emmett's straining at the leach on join in over here." Edward and I looked over to Rosalie literally holding Emmett back from joining in the fight. The fact that her small body actually being able to hold Emmett off at all was amazing in itself.

I laughed at the sight before us and said, "Emmett, you can't fight the twins."

Emmett had stopped trying to pull against Rose slightly to ask, "Why?"

"Because you would actually hurt them, that's why. They aren't made of stone like us."

Almost everyone turned to look at me. Well, everyone except the boys, who were in their own little world.

"What do you mean? They don't have skin like ours?" Carlisle asked, watching the boys spar.

"Well, it's sort of complicated. See, because I was human when they were born, their skin is semi-soft like mine. Kind of like a stone covered in a thick shroud of velvet, where as ours is just…stone, you see. That puts them at a disadvantage when fighting other vampires but their abilities more than make up for it. Emmett would be able to hurt them, not because he stronger, but because they have half of Edwards skin and half mine. They do however; have all the speed and strength of a full vampire. " I finished looking over at Gabe and Mace, still fighting.

"Simply amazing." Carlisle finished watching the twins as well.

"Aw man! That means that we have to let up when we're playing?" Emmett asked. He had completely stopped trying to join in their sparing practice.

"No not necessarily Emmett. They are still full-fledged vampires. You just can't go around intentionally trying to hurt them."

"Oh alright. As long as we can still play."

Edward and I both laughed and I called the twins off each other and we got this game going. There were ten of us, all of us joining in, so the teams were quickly formed. They consisted of: Edward, myself, Gabriel, Esme, and Carlisle. And the other team was: Emmett, Rose, Mason, Alice, and Jasper. Emmett was eager to test his strength against the twins but he could settle for Gabe since the twins wanted to play each other. The twins had been explaining the rules and moves of football to the Cullen's all day in school, so all that was left was to start the game.

Emmett's team had the ball first, so they started off at the far end of the field to kick off to us. As soon as Emmett's shoe-covered foot came into contact with the ball-basically a football shaped rock covered in pigskin felt-, it shot off in the air towards us like a bat out of hell. Edward caught the ball and immediately began running towards our goal post, the rest of us following closely behind to ward off the other team.

As soon as both teams came into contact, an earsplitting crash came from Emmett and Edward that hurt even my ears. We were stopped at the halfway point to our post. It was then time for the standoff. We all got into formation, and Edward handed the ball off to Gabriel, who then threw it off to Carlisle before getting sacked by Emmett. Carlisle ran it almost forty feet before getting taken out by Jasper.

The next set started then. Edward hiked the ball to Gabe, who was almost immediately sacked by Emmett. This caused Gabe to fumble the ball. There was a flurry of activity to retrieve the ball. In the end, Alice was the one who retrieved the ball. That meant that we were on defense now. Emmett quickly got into position behind Jasper, who hiked the ball to him, and immediately turned to take down Carlisle. With everyone getting knocked down, this meant that I had a clear shot towards Emmett. I took it.

I expertly weaved in and out of the others way on my way to him, before he could throw the ball to Rose waiting out in the field. I managed to sack him but Emmett being Emmett; he did not go down easily. Just then Gabe appeared in my line of sight and tackled Emmett from the other side. Together, we both managed to take him down before he threw the ball.

The whole game was a blur of everyone having fun, and the occasional, "Hey, you cheated!" to Edward, Gabriel or even Alice whenever they sacked someone. By the end of the game the score was us at 234 and them with a score of 242. It was all because Emmett was the quarterback; he was very hard to take out by just one or two people. The thunder stopped long before we did, and the sky was beginning to lighten up, with the promise of a sunny day.

~o~O~o~

"That was the best game I ever played!" Gabe yelled out then fell to the ground exhausted.

"Yeah, that was fun. We'll have to do it again soon. Baseball gets really boring after a while." Emmett's voice rang out across the field at us. I heard Alice chime in then.

"Don't worry the will be another storm in almost a month, we'll play then." Alice said with a confident tone, sitting in Jaspers lap, leaning against a tree.

I sat in Edwards lap on the far end of the field, next to Esme and Carlisle, who were discussing something I felt no need to listen in on. All I could see, and feel was Edward. He had one of his hands in my hand, and his other hand on my thigh rubbing small circles, while my head was leaned against his shoulder, my eyes closed, listening to his breathing.

"Mm." I heard Edward say suddenly.

"What are you doing?" I asked. I lifted my head to turn and look at him

His answer was, "Bella, you have been out of my life for far too long. I almost forgot what you smelled like, so I'm just remembering."

"Huh, so what do I smell like?" I asked, curious, but a smile still in my voice.

"Amazingly enough, you still smell like the day you did when I first met you." he said, then leaned his head back to my shoulder, where it stayed there.

~o~O~o~

We were all crowded inside the Cullen's large living room around six am, just talking and laughing. It was so easy to fit in with our new family than I thought it would be. Gabe was on the floor in the middle of the living room talking about music with Edward, Mace was sitting on the couch chatting about supping up my truck some more with Rosalie, and I was just sitting beside Jasper on the couch, watching my sons interact with their family.

I watched as the suns first rays of light shone through the Cullen's glass wall they call a window, and hit Gabriel at just the right angle. He shone with a faint glow. Emmett was the first to notice this.

"Dude! I thought you guys were kidding when you said you two didn't shine like us!"

"Yeah, it's been like this for as long as we remember. It's nothing new." Gabe said, waving it off.

"The hell it's not." Emmett was closest to mason so he leaned over Rosalie's form to poke mason in the arm repeatedly.

"Hey, dude, stop" Mace said trying to get off of the couch.

"No way man. This is so cool." Emmett retorted while following Mace around the house, poking him in the arm or shoulder or back.

"Emmett, I'm serious. Back off or you're gonna be sorry." Mace said with an air of malice. But only an air. I saw a ghost of a smirk cross his face. He spun on his heel to look Emmett in the eye, even though he was almost a foot and a half shorter than him

"Again. No way. I'm having too much fun to stop this." He said poking Mason in the chest, actually pushing him back. Mace stumbled back about three feet.

"Ok, that's it!" Was all Mace said before he lunged.

Emmett was ready for it. He grabbed Mace by his shoulders and slammed him down to the ground, carefully so as not to hurt him. I heard Esme gasp softly.

Mace got up three seconds later with a bored expression.

Uh-oh I knew that look.

"Come on. Bring it." Mason said softly. He wasn't in any sort of defensive or offensive pose so I knew he was going to use his power.

Emmett stalked forward slowly. I knew that he knew what Mace's ability was, having seen it first hand when we came here that first night.

When Mace didn't appear to move, that only made Emmett more smug. He started walking forward a little more quickly and move to Mace's one side to get a better jump on him. Mason all the while was calmly watching him from the corner of his eye.

Mace was biding his time. His power was fully enabled now. He was just waiting…

His waiting paid off. The second Emmett got at just the right angle, Gabe rushed him.

Emmett wasn't expecting that. Caught off guard he was thrown to the ground by the front door, Gabe landing on top of him.

"Whoa!" Emmett breathed. He looked up and saw Gabriel above him. "Hey! No fair, cheating! I call foul! Unnecessary Roughness!" Emmett was ranting.

Gabe stood up, laughing, "Emmett were not playing football anymore."

"I don't care. I was having fun with Mason until you decided to barge in." He said while picking himself up off the floor.

"Heh. I'll try to not take offence to that. You mess with Mason. You get his brother too." He looked over at Mace who was laughing uncontrollably on the floor right beside where Emmett was a second ago.

Everyone, including myself was laughing as well.

Mason walked over to stand by me, "I could have taken him." He grumbled but I could still see the smile that played across his lips.

A laughing Alice chimed in then. "I saw it happen. I could resist the chance for Emmett to get…what's…"

I noticed her eyes then, they were glassy and staring at nothing.

Huh. It's rare when a vision makes her stop talking. I chuckled to myself until I noticed she had a slight frown on her face.

To make matters worse, Edward suddenly appeared at my side, crouched and snarling, looking around for some unknown threat.

I leaned down to stand over him, franticly searching his face for a clue to what was happening. His eyes were swimming with hate and fear and worry.

"Edward, tell me what is wrong," I demanded. He said nothing, only continued snarling.

Alice finally snapped out of her vision. "Alice, what did you see?" Carlisle said gently.

"An island, they are on an island. An island somewhere between here and California. That might be Alcatraz.

"Alice, who?" Jasper prodded.

"They are planning an attack." She said in that same detached voice. Not answering his question.

"Who?" Emmett demanded.

"It will be fairly soon." She still didn't answer the question. Edward suddenly stood and wrapped his arms around me. I rubbed his arms. I could see the twins standing off to the side with very confused looks on their faces.

"Alice, who?" I cried out.

She looked at me. A painful look on her face.

"I…I don't know."

My first cliffy! YAY! Please let me know what you think!

I also wanted to let everyone know. If you would remember, I said that I had the first 5 chapters ready to go. Well this is it.

Now I have to work on them in my spare time in between taking care of my ten month old that just learned to use her feet.

The updates will no longer be once a week I'm afraid.

Thank you for keeping up with me this long. I look forward to your reviews for this chapter. If you have any ideas about what should happen next, feel free to let me know.