Yeah… so… I failed miserably. I'm sorry. I really did mean to update as much as I said I would. But then I went to a party, and my brother (who I haven't seen in like 2 months) was there and a bunch of my friends. And then we got Taboo out, and we argued over who was better, Jeff Dunham or Twilight, I of course, said Twilight, but my wonderful family thinks Jeff is better… and time just went bye-bye. I know. *sniff* I'm a horrible person.
But, here is the next chapter, and I don't own it!!!
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We decided to go out to the western shore to race our bikes, and possibly play some games. When we walked to the garage, a low sigh escaped from Rosalie's lips. I could only assume she was in mechanic heaven.
"Damn…" Emmett whispered incredulously. "Thought you didn't like expensive toys, Bella."
"Eh, changed my mind." I chuckled. I unwrapped Edward's arm from my waist and crouched by my bike.
"Hello, baby. I missed you!" I stroked the pretty blue paint. Rosalie stood behind me, "How fast does that go?" she asked.
"Um, about two-twenty." I answered, hardly paying attention. I sensed Edward's reaction. He wasn't happy. Silly boy.
"I can make it go faster." Rosalie said confidently.
"No, you can't. We already pulled the restrictor off, and did a lot of tweaking." I said, rising and turning to look her in the eye.
"Oh." She said, backing off.
"You could, ride it, you know, if you want." I said slowly, taking the first step.
She smiled; her breath-taking face lighting up. "Okay."
"Hey! What am I? Mortal? I've never been on one!" Alice whined, waving her hands.
I just laughed. "I'll take you out now, if you want, Alice."
She just smiled and jumped, landing perfectly on the bike. I climbed on in front of her and twisted the key. I smiled at the humming of my perfectly tuned bike. I twisted the throttle and we shot off. I eased up a gear, and we went faster, racing between trees, over rocks, and under vines. Soon, we shot into the huge clearing, at least a mile wide and half mile long. I raced towards the small hill, letting Alice get used to the speed and jumps.
Edward and the rest our families soon were to the clearing, Matthew, Bryan and Peter on their bikes, and Emmett and Rosalie riding together and Jasper riding solo on the spare bikes. Carlisle, Esme, and Edward were riding in the Jeep we kept here. A sudden idea came to me, and I blocked Alice's thoughts.
"Wanna scare the hell out of Edward and Jasper?" Whispering so softly she had to lean forward to hear me.
"How?"
"Doing a double flip off of a jump."
Her eyes widened. "Absolutely."
"Good. Just hold on tight and try to follow my body patterns as closely as possible." I kicked the clutch and gearshift up twice, and we raced right towards the biggest jump. I heard loud music begin to blare over the speakers just as Edward and Jasper shouted at the same moment, "What the hell are you doing?"
"I love this song." I murmured about the blaring hip-hop song as the bike tilted backwards slightly as we began the slight ascent.
"Lean back… now!" I pushed her back with my body, and we flipped through the air twice, Alice screaming in exhilaration.
We landed, only jolting slightly, and raced back to our families, the Cullens staring incredulously. Edward and Jasper looked as though they were going into shock. I slammed the brakes, fishtailing and stopping six inches away from Edward.
"Breathe." I told him, laughing at his expression.
Jasper was first to recover. Alice jumped lightly off the bike and landed in his arms. "That was amazing! I want one for Christmas. It was fabulous." She finished, sighing. "Rose, you have to try it."
"Dude, don't." Matthew said in a warning tone.
Edward's eyebrows raised, and he held his hands up. "Come on." I motioned to him. "You know you wanna try!" I laughed. He took my hand and lifted on leg over, wrapping his arms around my waist and leaning his chin on the crown of my head.
"Just follow my body movements as closely as possible." I murmured, repeating my words. I don't know if he needed to grasp me quite like that as we sped off, but I didn't entirely mind.
* * *
After we were done showing off, Emmett decided he wanted to play a "real game."
"Like what?" Matt asked skeptically.
Emmett smirked. "Baseball." Bryan answered with a grin. "I think we can handle that." I walked over to my brother and asked him if he had brought the stuff.
"No. He didn't. I did, though. I knew this was going to happen." Alice said sweetly.
"Well then, let's play."
"Are you sure, Bella? I mean we don't want to beat you too bad." Emmett laughed.
"Don't worry, Emmett. I'm not." I said just as sweetly as Alice.
We divided into teams; the groupings almost equal. Esme declined, "I'll play referee, I know you cheat." She smiled, and took place with my team. Edward, Bryan, Matthew, Alice, and I were one team, Jasper, Carlisle, Emmett, Rosalie and Peter made up the other team. It was decided that Peter's team would start batting first, and I smiled, dashing out to the outfield. I danced to the hip-hop music still blaring from the Jeep while Emmett warmed up. Matthew covered the right half of the field, Edward stood back with me, Alice pitched and Bryan took left field.
Alice flicked her wrist, and the ball was flying with a loud crack from Emmett's immense swing. It was going far out to the right. Both Matthew and Edward took off, Edward being slightly faster, caught the ball and whipped it to Alice. She laughed as she tagged Emmett.
Emmett cussed as he walked back to the home plate.
Next was Jasper, he smacked the ball directly to me, about 25 feet above my head. I turned and shot off, jumping up into a dead tree which cracked under the added weight of my one-hundred and ten pounds. I jumped lightly down and threw the ball to Edward, who then ran after the blur of Jasper's running body. He dived, and Esme called Jasper safe. Edward snapped his fingers and laughed.
"Next time!" He promised. Jasper just laughed it off, reaching over to mess with Edward's hair.
"Yeah, right, little brother!"
He laughed and came to stand next to me. "That was a nice catch," he whispered in my ear, putting his hand in my hip.
"We have a game to play," I reminded him, laughing.
I heard a loud crack, and I pushed him away laughing. Luckily, the ball went to Matthew, who caught it and dived towards Rosalie. They smashed together, and she cussed.
"Rosalie!" Esme chastised.
"Sorry." She rolled her eyes and stood up.
It was Peter's turn to bat, and I smiled. Soon, I would be able to bat. Alice's leg came up, and I remembered a long time ago when I thought she had looked like a ballerina. That memory was enforced here. Peter hit the ball, and it went to Bryan. Big mistake; and Peter realized it. However, he took off running any way. Bryan chased him for a second, and then tackled him. The sound was so akin to thunder, I actually looked up. A second, later, I felt very foolish.
"Change it up!" Esme said in a clear voice.
I raced to the "plate" and grabbed the bat. Carlisle stepped up to the mound, and grabbed the ball.
"Watch this," I heard Matt murmur to Edward. I could tell he was definitely watching.
He twisted his arm around in an intimidating wind up, and then released the ball. I waited for the opportune moment and swung the bat with all my power.
CRACK!
I tossed the bat back behind me and took off running at the same time as Emmett and Jasper. I pushed my feet faster, almost never touching the ground. I realized Jasper was behind me and Emmett was running beside me, just a few feet away and getting closer every second, as well as Jasper. I tossed my long braid over my shoulder and tried to run even faster. I was a few yards from home as I sensed Jasper diving for my legs.
I jumped, trying to dive, and slid in the mud. Both Jasper and Emmett tangled with me as my hand touched the base. I heard Edward growl, and in that same second, Esme called one word.
"Safe." I twisted onto my back and looked at Emmett. "Ha." I said, feeling superior. They both just cussed.
"I've been waiting to do that forever." I smiled and stood up, taking the few steps to the rest of my team. Alice rolled her eyes and started to brush mud of my clothes. Matt's eyes widened.
"Yeah, baby sister!" Bryan yelled, clapping my hand in a loud high-five. "Best run ever. How'd you do that?" I just smiled. Edward looked incredulously. I wrapped my arms around him, laughing.
"Didn't you used to be clumsy?" He asked, furrowing his eyebrows.
"Well, when you have two brothers and a dad who love extreme sports, and you're tiny, like me, you learn to do things like a boy." He just shook his head and stepped up to bat.
* * *
Later, after my team had won ("That's the only reason you sided against me, isn't it, Alice?" Jasper asked. She had just smiled), we had gathered at the big house and were watching a movie. It had taken a while before everyone had agreed. But finally, we had chosen a movie that had all the elements, comedy, action, some romance, and had settled in.
Jasper and Alice were on the loveseat, with Jasper's arms contentedly around her, Rosalie and Emmett, Carlisle and Esme, Peter and Bryan were on the huge wrap-around couch, with Matthew sitting on the floor, reclining against Bryan's leg. Edward and I shared the overstuffed chair, I in his lap, which neither of us seemed to mind.
I know, I'm not very original, but I wanted to have a chapter where Bella totally PWNed Emmett and Jasper.