Chapter 8 – Baseball

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Chapter 8 – Baseball

Alice and I finished setting up the bases, but we still had about half an hour left until the storm started.

"Alice?" I asked. She looked at me, "Well, um, two things. First of all, I can't play ball—"

She interrupted me. "Bella, trust me. You'll do fine! Don't forget about your talent!" she said and winked at me.

"Can I use that? Isn't it cheating?"

"Kind of, but who'll know?"

"Um, Edward will?"

"Oh yeah." She pressed he fingers to her temples and closed her eyes. She suddenly opened her eyes. "He won't tell on you, though!"

"But Alice, surely they'll know if I change their minds? Alice, you can't expect me to cheat! I don't trust you!"

"Hey!" Alice said punching me playfully.

"Alice, if I were you I wouldn't mess with me! You know how strong I am now!" I grinned evilly.

"Oh, yeah!" She looked at her feet, and then looked back at me with a mischievous grin on her face. "You know how you said that they will know if you change their minds? Well, you could make them forget that you changed their minds!"

"Alice, stop trying to make me cheat; it's not going to work, and I'm not even going to try, so just forget it!"

"You do realize that that doesn't work on me, don't you?"

"Yeah, I know, I was just trying to make a point."

"Oh, okay!" she said, understanding. Edward suddenly jogged over to us.

"Bella, you may not want to remember this, but do you know what happened before? In the meadow?"

"What? Jake?" I asked and he nodded. "What about it? Is he here now?"

"No he's not here now, but he's not far off. He really wants to speak to you."

"He does, does he? Well, if he wants to talk to me, he can come and find me, can't he?" It wasn't really a question, but Edward answered with a brief nod anyway.

He glanced at Alice meaningfully; she nodded once and skipped off to find Jasper.

"Edward!" I moaned, "What can I do about Jake? If he wants to talk, fine, but . . ." I trailed off and burst into what would have been tears if I were still human, but came out as dry sobs now that I was a vampire.

"Bella," Edward soothed, pulling me into his chest, the smell was overwhelming and I forgot why I was crying dry tears for a second. "Bella, he just wants to catch up, he's been gone for an awfully long time!"

"Does he know about our marriage?" I interrupted through my sobs.

"I'm not really sure, love. I don't think so…"

"No!" I moaned. "Why does everything bad always happen to me? Why hasn't anyone told him? Billy or Sam? They could have told him. Prepared him. You know? Why is it happening to me?" I said angrily, I could feel the dry sobs coming again, and held them back. I didn't want to cry for Jacob. He was my best friend and I loved him, but he ran away. I didn't get a phone call or a letter from him. I have to admit that I have got on with my life. I got married, went on a honeymoon, etc . . . However, that doesn't change the fact that he left, I still hurt a little when I thought of our parting.

Once I got a grip of myself, I looked up at Edward; he smiled his crooked smile and kissed me. My 'heart' went mad, beating so fast and loud. I swear even humans could have heard it! My hands snaked up to his hair, pulling his face closer to mine. He pulled me closer to him, I pulled his hair harder, and he kissed me even more passionately than before.

"HEY!" I heard a loud voice yell. "Get a room!" Edward and I glanced at Emmett who had just appeared in the clearing, then got back to what we were doing.

"Guys, it's time to play!" Emmett shouted. We let go of each other and walked over, with Edward's arm wrapped around my waist and my arm around his waist.

"Okay, let's split into teams! Bella, you be the captain of one team, and I'll be the captain of the other," Alice said. "Bella choose someone for your team!"

"Guess?" I told them all and everyone looked at Edward. "Ha, good guess; I pick Edward!"

"It wasn't hard," Emmett muttered. I let go of Edward and punched Emmett in the chest; he fell over and landed on his bottom.

"HEY!" Emmett moaned, "Unfair!" He crossed his arms across his chest and pouted like a five year old.

"Stop being a baby," I said, while laughing at his pose. I walked back over to Edward and resumed my position. Emmett got up and charged over to us. Edward, as always, leaped in front of me and growled ferociously at Emmett.

"Emmett!" Rosalie scowled at him, "Leave them alone!"

"Fine." Emmett gave up. "I'll get you when you least expect it."

"Emmett!" Rosalie scolded. "Haven't you learnt anything? Bella's proved she's stronger!"

"Yeah. And? She's a new born! I don't have to get her anytime soon! We have all eternity!"

"What about her and Edward?"

"Oh." He looked disappointed. "I'll just get her when she's alone…"

"Never going to happen!" Edward said quietly.

"Argh!" Emmett yelled.

"Okay," Alice said, "Enough!" Emmett wandered back to Rosalie's side, "Bella chose Edward, and I choose Jasper!"

"Obviously," Emmett muttered.

"Shut up, Emmett!" I said to him, he looked at me and frowned. "So, my turn again?" I asked Alice, she nodded, and I turned to Edward. "Who should I pick?" Emmett rolled his eyes.

"Emmett, he can hit the ball the hardest," Edward replied.

"Okay." I turned to everyone else, "We pick Emmett." Emmett ambled over to us as slowly as he could, and Edward started laughing.

"What?" I asked, confused. He looked at me, and then laughed even harder. "What? Tell me, Edward!" I was getting annoyed. He pulled himself together.

"You told him…" He started to laugh again.

"Edward!" I moaned.

"Sorry, you…you…you told him to stop talking…" I looked at him for a second, confused.

"You mean he's not talking 'because I told him not to?" I laughed, Emmett scowled at me, and I stopped. "Alice? Your turn!"

"I'm not going to play." Esme said.

"Me neither!" Rosalie added.

"I guess that means you're stuck with me!" Carlisle said to Alice and Jasper.

"Oh, that sucks!" Jasper said sarcastically.

"Kay, now that we all have our teams, let's play some ball!" Alice yelled enthusiastically.

We all abided by what Alice said and started playing. It was actually fun, especially since I'm not clumsy anymore. I let Emmett talk again, too. He was thanking me for that. I simply laughed at him.

Sports were an easy thing when you're a vampire. But then again, what isn't easy when you're a vampire? I ruled at baseball! I didn't even cheat, as Alice tried to convince me to do

In the middle of the game, Alice gasped, and a second later, so did Edward.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Alice's visions went blank," Edward explained. "You know what that means…"

"Werewolf. Ugh. I can smell it. You guys were right, they do stink."

Edward rolled his eyes and suddenly, out came Jacob Black in his human form.

"Bella?!" he exclaimed as soon as he saw me. His eyes went huge and his mouth dropped. "What happened to you?!"

"Well, I got married and I begged Edward to change me. And he did."

"I am going to kill you, Bloodsucker!" he said to Edward.

"Calm down, Jacob Black. It was her wish to do so. I really didn't want to do it, but she wanted it and I wanted to make her happy."

"Why didn't you want to do it? Didn't want her to be around so long?" Jacob said sarcastically and pain shot through me at his words.

"No, Mutt. I didn't want to take her soul away."

"Soul my—" Jacob started, but I cut him off.

"Calm down, Jacob, this was my decision. You have no right to interfere." To my utter shock, Jacob calmed down. I didn't think it would work on him, since Alice's visions don't seem to. Nevertheless, I guess I was wrong.

He took a few deep breaths and started talking again. "But . . . why, Bella?!" he questioned. "We could've been so happy together. Why did you choose him over me? Why?" he said and dropped to the ground. I felt sorry for him for a moment, but then regained my composure.

"Because I love him. I love you, too, but only as a friend. Not at all the same way that I love Edward," I said, being as nice as I possibly could. "I'm sorry, Jacob."

"Whatever. I'm going to get out of your lives forever. Are you going to be moving anytime soon?"

"Yes, we are," Edward answered for me. "We're moving away from Forks. We're moving to a place with not too much of a population. Just in case."

"Oh. You aren't going to be back here anytime soon, are you?"

"No, Jacob. Now could you leave?" I asked.

"Yes, but I have one more question." I sighed.

"What is it, Jacob?"

"When and where are you guys moving?" I wasn't really sure about the when part, but I knew we were moving to Alaska. Carlisle answered for us this time.

"We're moving tomorrow morning. And as for where, well, don't you think it'd be better if you didn't know?"

"I suppose. Okay, well, I'll leave now. Goodbye, Bella. Cullens," he nodded to all of them, and very hesitantly came and hugged me. I hugged him back.

"Bye, Jake. Love you."

"Love you too," he said, and slowly walked away.

I sighed and Edward put his arms around me.

"Don't worry, love. It'll be okay," Edward said soothingly. I nodded and we got back to our game.

That night, after the game, we went home and packed.

It didn't take us long, thanks to vampire speed. After packing, we all sat around the living room, just talking.

The next morning, it was time for us to leave to go to Alaska. We stood outside the house, staring at it, saying our goodbyes to it, in a way. I'm sure we'd be back to Forks, but not any time soon. Perhaps another hundred years or so.

Soon, we left to go to Alaska. To our new home.

A/N: Hey, guys! This is Twilight-is-lovee. Some of you might know me if you've read my story, 'Surprise!'—it's an ExB story, and a lot of you have probably never heard of me.

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