50 Things To Do When You're Bored
Chapter 33: America's Pastime
A.N-This chapter is dedicated to Emmettluver! Her one shot will be sent out when she finishes it :) But everything else I have to say is at the end of the chapter.
Jacob
Today I got a call from Edward asking if me and some of the pack wanted to go over to a part in the woods to play some baseball. Is he kidding me? A few of us could kick their butt in baseball-Then again, I wanted to kick some vampire butt. So I decided to say yes.
I had convinced some of the pack to come and play some baseball. What harm was there? I would get to see Bella so it was worth it. Seth had agreed the second I asked him. That kid sucked up to the vampires too much. He's friends with some of them too. I couldn't say that Edward and I were friends, but at least we weren't trying to kill each other. Well, him killing me and me trying to tear him apart.
Leah had also joined the team. She had some excuse about watching her little brother and the other was that we were going to win. Of course we were going to win! I also got Quil and Embry to join. They did it for the fun of baseball.
So my team had five players, the same amount that the Cullens had. Unless Carlisle and Esme were going to be joining us, which I doubt. And I really doubt that Bella will be playing.
Now we were running through the woods towards the place where he told us to meet him. I kept drowning out the thoughts of my friends, not caring to hear what they were thinking now. No doubt it would be excitement or annoyance. We were a few feet away from the clearing, so I phased back to my human form and pulled on some jeans.
I entered the clearing and six pairs of eyes turned to look at me. Five golden ones and a pair of brown eyes.
"What's up bloodsuckers?" I greeted, walking towards them. Around the field I saw everyone else come out from the woods. Seth even brought along a hat in honor of the game.
"Hey Jake," Bella greeted, waving too me. She turned to wave at everyone else who decided to come along. Leah raised her eyes at me, but greeted her anyways. "So you guys ready? I'll be the one keeping score."
"Yeah we're game," Quil replied, walking towards them slightly. He looked around and his gaze landed on me. "So how are we playing this? Only human pace, us in wolf form or just all out? Or is Bella choosing what we do?" Psh, I hope that we can go in wolf form. If we did, we would be able to catch up with the vamps if they ran.
"Nope, we're playing as well as we all can," Edward stated, throwing a bat too me. I caught it swiftly and whirled it, not really caring if it hit anything since I was surrounded by air. "You guys can take wolf form if you want, and you probably will. We can run as fast as we can, and so can you guys. Just no biting."
Hah. We all let out a nervous laugh, but we weren't afraid that much. I knew they wouldn't bite us, and we wouldn't hurt them. It was an unsaid deal that we had some how come up with, and I was fine with it. "Every other rule is the same?"
"Yep," Jasper answered. "Ready?"
I nodded my head and my team came together. We had the bat, and they had the ball. I could hear thunder in the background so we would be able to hit the ball as hard as we wanted. "It's easy, just win," I instructed, pulling Seth's hat down over his eyes.
"Thanks," he replied sarcastically. "We're up first then? Awesome."
I grabbed the bat and took the position on the home base. I looked forward and saw that Alice would be the one throwing the ball. You've gotta be kidding me right? This was going to be a piece of cake. She lifted her leg and her wrist snapped back in less than a millisecond and flew past my head landing in Jasper's hands behind me. I somehow managed to swing the bat a second after it came. "Strike," Jasper said.
"Nice going," Leah snickered at me, staring at the ball flying back to Alice. "Actually hit the ball next time."
"Oh I will," I replied. The ball came once again, and this time I hit it. The sound was louder than the thunder and the ball flew past a few trees. I morphed right there, running to second base already. Emmett was out retrieving the ball, so I stopped at the second base just in time for Rosalie to catch it. She glared at me but threw the ball to Alice. Take that, Barbie.
The game went on, Seth going next, then Leah, then Quil and Embry. I got out after Edward threw the ball to home plate. But Seth and Embry got a home run while Leah was out when she first hit the ball. We were up by two. Leah took pitcher while I got outfield.
Now we were on the outfield. Seth decided to be pitcher since he was on a team when he was younger and was the pitcher on his team. Quil and Leah took wolf form since they were outfield. They would be able to run as fast as the vampires could so we would be tied in strength.
I stayed in human form. Only one person needed to stay in the field because the vampires were most likely going to hit it as far as they could. It was not that easy to keep the ball in the field anyway since we were using most of our strength. It made it easier for me anyways since I got to keep my eyes on Bella.
"Hey!" Bella called out, getting up from her seat on a fallen tree. "Can I take a swing? Most likely I'll miss, but can I just for the fun of it? It's cool watching you guys play and all-"
"Take a chance and hit the ball Bells," I interrupted, not bothering to let her finish her sentence. She was probably going to say something about how she wouldn't be able to hit the ball but she wanted to try anyways. "Seth won't throw it that hard, so maybe you'll get it."
"Yeah love," Edward added, running over and handing her a bat. "Why don't you take a shot?" She smiled warmly at the two of us and made her way over to home plate.
Seth threw the baseball back and fourth between his hands. "You ready?" he asked. Bella gave him a quick nod and held the bat in the position she had seen us do before. "Here it comes." He brought his arm back just a tad bit and threw it as straightly as he could towards her.
Bella swung but was off by a few seconds and the ball went into Embry's hands. "Nice try," he commented, giving her a smile. "You'll get it the second time." He threw the ball back to Seth.
"You wanna go again?" Seth asked.
"Yep."
He threw his arm back once again, throwing the ball and making it as straight as he could. Bella brought the bat back and brought it forward, using all the strength she could. She hit the ball and it flew. Right as the ball collided with the bat, an ear splitting crack filled the silence.
Bella instantly turned red as everyone howled in laughter. All you could hear was laughter from wolves and vampires, which made Bella blush more. "Ooops, I broke the bat."
A.N- Okay so sorry for the long wait, I was too busy watching the movie :) Which I thought was phenomenal! But a lot of people had mixed emotions about the movie, so you may have a different take on it. Overall I thought it was pretty good, yeah they missed some scenes, but they covered the plot. Remember they had to fit a 400 paged book in 2 hours. And Edward Cullen sparkling... *squeals*
There is a poll on my profile of what you thought of the movie. And if you wanna talk about it, there is a forum that I have. It's under the 'Breaking Dawn' one in my forums. So go and vote!
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