Supermassive Black Hole
Daddy and the others came back to the house a little over an hour after we had gotten back from northern Washington. Alistair seemed his usual, indifferent self. I was actually able to talk to him this time since he hadn't locked himself in our attic. He seemed very arrogant and wasn't really into our conversation, but I got to make fun of his accent with Jacob after he left, so that made up for it.
Needless to say, daddy practically kept me under house arrest for the weeks that followed the kidnapping. I suddenly wasn't allowed to be any further than a few hundred feet from the house or cottage and I had to always have someone with me. I already wasn't allowed to go hunting alone, but now I needed at least three others with me.
I didn't argue with daddy about these new little rules, though. I had to tell myself repeatedly that he was only being this unreasonable because he loved me and that he was just trying to keep me safe. Daddy always patted my head and confirmed this whenever I had this thought.
Daddy did cool off eventually. It took a good four weeks before he did, but he cooled off. I still had to have someone with me and always have my phone, though I already did. But at least I was allowed to go outside and play a little farther from the house. I was at Jacob's apartment for the first time in about a month now. He had ordered out Chinese food and we had just gotten back from picking it up.
"Honestly, why isn't there a Chinese restaurant nearby that delivers and is actually good?" I giggled while we both took off our coats after having put the food on his little table.
"It might have something to do with the fact that not many Native Americans are interested in the idea of owning a Chinese restaurant." He chuckled.
"Well, they should be." We kept laughing lightly. Once we had hung up our coats, we walked over to the table and Jacob started eating and I watched. He was using a fork.
"Why don't you use the chopsticks?" Jacob looked at me.
"Because I can't. I've tried and I can't do it." I wondered what was so hard about holding chopsticks. I took them out of the bag, broke them apart and then held them in my hand the way I had seen other people at the restaurant doing.
"Like this?" Jacob looked back at my hand and just glared at me playfully.
"Yeah, like that." I giggled at his mean tone. I played with them for a moment before putting them down on the table. "You want anything?" I just stared at him. He already knew the answer to that.
"Jacob." He chuckled.
"Just thought I'd ask." We laughed lightly. "But take this. You can open one too." He passed a small packaged cookie to me. "It's a fortune cookie. They don't really taste good by any standards but the fortunes are fun to read."
I took the little cookie and took it out of the little bag. I put it in front of me and waited for Jacob to finish eating before opening it. I wanted him to read his fortune first. He had a lot of food and it all smelled just about the same to me. I did taste an egg roll. I'd never tasted one before, and I immediately regretted ever trying it. It tasted like greasy dirt. Jacob simply chuckled.
Running water along my tongue made the taste slightly go away at least. I would have to wait until I brushed my teeth later before it was completely gone. I didn't like the way toothpaste tasted, but it was better than this. Once Jacob was done eating, he grabbed the handful of fortune cookies they had given him and split them between us. He got three, I got three.
"You want to read first?" I shook my head.
"You first. I'll read one after you, then you can read one after me." Jacob chuckled.
"Sounds like a plan." Jacob cracked open his first cookie and took out the little piece of paper. "'Good fortune awaits you on the new moon'. Interesting. Okay, your turn." I took one of the little cookies and cracked it open. I pulled out the little piece of paper and read what was on it.
"'Patience brings good fortune.'" Jacob chuckled.
"Not very original advice." I giggled.
"What do you expect? It's a cookie." He chuckled. He took another cookie and cracked it open. He laughed lightly.
"'Plan for many pleasures ahead.'"
"That's pretty vague." Jacob laughed.
"That's why it works. Its vagueness makes it apply to everyone." I shrugged and Jacob just smirked at me. I took my cookie and cracked it open to look at the fortune.
"'Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.'" Jacob and I both nodded.
"That's a good one." I nodded my head.
"It is." Jacob took his last cookie and opened it to see the fortune.
"'Something you lost will soon turn up.'" I giggled.
"That was anticlimactic." He laughed lightly.
"Let's see if your last one is any better." I smirked cockily and picked up my last cookie. I opened it and read the fortune.
"'Your heart is pure, your mind is clear, and your soul devout.'" I made a face and Jacob laughed.
"What's with that face? That's a good thing." I rolled my eyes playfully.
"This isn't a fortune, it's a statement. These are supposed to tell the future, not make a statement." Jacob laughed a little harder.
"I guess that's true. So much for Confucius." We laughed again. We started cleaning up all the empty boxes and cleaning the plastic containers. I liked keeping those to keep leftovers in. It wasn't often that there were leftovers, but it was good to have something to put them in when there were.
When we finished cleaning everything, we went to the couch to see what was on. Jacob came across The Sixth Sense. I hadn't seen the whole movie, so we watched that. It was at the beginning, so we didn't miss anything. I rested my head on my little nook on his shoulder while we watched the movie. It was an interesting movie. I thought the ending was especially unexpected. After the movie, Jacob started looking through the channels again.
"I love that movie." I grinned at him.
"It's a good one." Jacob chuckled too. "I love how Cole managed to come to terms with what he was seeing."
"Yeah. I love the ending. When I had first seen this, I didn't expect it. It made the movie all the better." I smiled at Jacob before looking at the clock. I noticed that it was ten o'clock. When Jacob didn't find anything else good on, he turned off the TV and looked at me. "Are you tired?" I smiled.
"A little. I'm up for one more movie if you are." Jacob chuckled lightly.
"Alright. What were you in the mood for?" I hopped off of the couch and went to the large bookshelf full of movies and looked at my options. I'd watched everything that he had on his shelf. Thanks to Emmett and Jacob, there wasn't a good movie that I hadn't seen. The only popular movies I'd never seen were chick flicks. One time, I had told Emmett that I thought Hot Chick looked good and he just smacked my head and called my comment blasphemy.
"How about this?" I pulled out one of my favorite movies. Ferris Buller's Day Off. Jacob laughed when he saw what I had chosen.
"Awesome choice." He took the movie and put it in. We spent the rest of that time laughing at the many antics of Ferris Buller and his friends. This movie took us till midnight. When it was over, Jacob looked at the clock, then at me. "I better send you to bed, Nessie." I smiled back at him.
"Okay. I'll go get ready." I hopped off of the couch and went to my bathroom to go about my nightly routine. Jacob passed me and went into his room to go about his nightly routine. When I was done with my routine, I went into my room and changed into my pajamas. When I was dressed, I went to Jacob's room and waited for him on his bead.
He came out of the bathroom with his flannel sweats on and rubbing the water off of his face. He looked up from rubbing his face and saw me sitting on his bed. He smiled sweetly at me and started walking over to the bed. He sat on his side and scooted a little closer to me.
"You crashing here tonight?" I nodded my head.
"Yeah. You don't mind do you?" Jacob smiled at me.
"No problem. Just don't hog the blanket." I rolled my eyes.
"I won't hog the blankets if you promise not to snore." He rolled his eyes back at me.
"I don't snore."
"Well I don't hog the blanket." We laughed at each other. Jacob ran his fingers once through my hair, then ruffled my head.
"Let's get some sleep, Nessie." I nodded my head at him and helped him pull the covers back. We pulled the covers back over when we got back into bed. I scooted a little closer to Jacob.
"Night, Jacob." He smiled and kissed the top of my head.
"Goodnight, Nessie." I kissed his cheek then held onto his arm. We both closed our eyes and tried to fall asleep. I managed to fall asleep before Jacob did, so as to avoid his snoring.
When I woke up that morning, Jacob wasn't there. I was lying on my side grasping at nothing. I opened my eyes and looked around the room, but he wasn't there. I got out of bed and walked out of Jacob's room to see if he was in the main room. He wasn't there either. Then I noticed that there was a note on the fridge. I ran over t it to see what it said.
Nessie,
Billy called earlier this morning. He needed me to drive him over to Charlie's house. No one else was available. I'll be back as soon as I drop Billy off. I'll see you when you wake up.
Jacob
I sighed a little after I was done reading. I crumpled the note and threw it out and went into the other part of the room to see what was on. It was Saturday, so there was sure to be plenty Invader Zim episodes playing on any kid's channel.
I looked through maybe ten channels before managing to find an Invader Zim episode. It wasn't a marathon, only two back to back episodes. But that's okay too. Just in case Jacob would take longer than that, I checked to see what would be on after that. It wasn't anything good. I always had OnDemand if all else failed.
It was getting close to the end of the second episode when I heard the doors open downstairs. I listened a little more closely to hear where the footsteps were going. They traveled up two flights of stairs until they got to Jacob's floor. Then they traveled four doors down until they came to a halt in front of Jacob's door.
I hopped off of the couch and was about ready to run to the door, but I kept myself in the kitchen. The key unlocked the door and in came Jacob with a bag full of what smelled like fish, fried fish. Jacob smiled when he saw me in the kitchen waiting for him.
"Morning, hun." I held in my little blush and smiled back at him.
"Hey. How's Billy?" He chuckled lightly.
"He's good. He was in a really good mood this morning. I think because Sue had brought him some fish fry. It took her a while, but she finally got it to just the way Harry used to do it." I giggled.
"What's there to it? Its floor with salt, pepper, a little powdered chilly and fried in garlic Crisco." Jacob looked at me wide eyed for a moment, but then started laughing. I gave him a weird look. "What?" After Jacob stopped laughing, he took a deep breath and kept smiling at me.
"I guess I should have realized you would know what's in it." Then he moved a little closer to me after putting the bag on his counter. He kneeled down to face me and gave me pleading eyes. I looked at him for a moment before realizing what it was he wanted. I sighed.
"Just because I know what's in it doesn't mean I know how to make it." Jacob chuckled lightly.
"It's no different than frying chicken or something like that." I just looked at him. He pouted at me. "Just once. Try it once and see how it turns out. And if it isn't exactly the same or better, then I'll never ask you to try again." I sighed.
"Okay, once. Do you know what fish he usually used?" Jacob nodded his head.
"He normally fried the fish he caught himself. Occasionally he would use store bought fish too. He always fried cod, trout, tilapia or catfish. Catfish is my favorite." I rolled my eyes playfully, and he chuckled.
"Why does that not surprise me?" He laughed a little harder.
"Hey, I liked catfish long before I turned into a wolf."
"Mmmmhmm. I'm sure. A mutt as always." Jacob reached for me and started tickling me. When I was younger, he had discovered that I was ticklish in my midsection and, for some strange reason, on my knees. He rarely tickled me, though. He only did so when he wanted 'revenge' for me calling him a mutt.
"A little man eater as always." He was laughing and so was I. He tickled me a little longer. He stopped a minute later when I was on the ground in a curling position trying to keep him from tickling me and I was laughing so hard my chest began to hurt.
When he stopped tickling me, he lifted me over his shoulder and stood up. I was confused as to what he was doing exactly. When he was upright, he carried me over his shoulder back to the kitchen where he had left everything. When we were in front of the fried fish, Jacob placed me back down on my feet.
"You're not going to ask me to taste it are you?" Jacob's face became still for a moment, then started looking in the other direction.
"No. Of course not." I started laughing as Jacob continued to unwrap the fish. It smelled horrible to me, but I bared it.
"You're eating it now?" Jacob nodded his head.
"Yeah. I didn't eat breakfast. I'm starving." I giggled.
"Jacob Black didn't have breakfast? I think Hell just froze over." He chuckled lightly.
"Where a coat." We laughed a little more before Jacob started eating his fish. I took in a deep breath, trying to figure out what fish it was. I was pretty sure it was cod. It was large enough for that.
"Is that cod?" Jacob nodded.
"This one is. Two were cod, the rest are catfish." I nodded my head and let him get back to his lunch. It took Jacob no time to finish the fish. He was finished eating in no more than ten minutes.
"You're like a bottomless pit, you know that?" He chuckled.
"Yeah, I do. Bella and Billy have made that little fact about me very clear." I giggled. I helped him clean everything up. When everything was cleaned up, I heard my phone ring in the other room.
"I'll go get that." Jacob nodded his head and I went to my room to go answer my phone. I saw who was calling me on the caller ID. It was daddy's cell phone. I answered the phone and spoke pleasantly. "Hi daddy. Am I late coming home?" Daddy had said to be home at one, and it was only eleven.
No, you're not late. Alice actually just told us that there's going to be a thunderstorm in the next hour. So we're planning on going out to play baseball. I already called Seth and asked him if he wanted to come. He's inviting Embry and Quil too. Do you want to go or would you rather spend a few more hours at Jacob's house? I had never actually played baseball with my family before. It had been a while since there was a thunderstorm that lasted long enough for us to do anything.
"Can Jacob come?"
I figured he would actually. He can invite anyone else from the pack that he wants to. I smiled.
"Sounds like fun. Should we leave now?"
You don't have to leave right this minute. Jacob knows where the clearing that we usually play in is.
"Okay. I'll ask Jacob if he wants to come. If not, then he'll just drop me off at the house."
Sounds like a plan, honey. We'll see you soon.
"Yeah. Bye daddy."
Bye, Nessie. With those last words, we hung up our phones. I wasn't sure if Jacob heard any of the conversation. He was still in the kitchen, so he probably only heard me. I left my room and went back to the front. Jacob was sitting on the couch watching Scrubs. I had only recently been introduced to this show, and I loved it.
"Jacob?" He grunted, acknowledging that he heard me. It wasn't a rude sound, just a little tired. "Daddy called." He chuckled.
"That explains why you said daddy when you answered the phone." We both laughed lightly, then I continued.
"Anyway, there's going to be a thunderstorm in about an hour."
"Okay." I giggled at his confused tone.
"Everyone's going to the clearing to play baseball." Jacob looked at me, confused.
"During a thunderstorm?" I nodded.
"It's the only time we can play." Jacob's face became aware.
"Oh. I guess it would be wouldn't it. So what, if they bump into each other it sounds like two rocks colliding?" We laughed lightly.
"That's what it always sounds like when Jasper and Emmett are play fighting." We laughed again. "So do you want to join the game?" Jacob grinned from ear to ear.
"Sounds like a good time. I'll change into something else and then we'll go. Why don't you go ahead and change into something you won't care if it gets dirty." I nodded my head and went into my room. Jacob passed me and went into his room.
I looked through my closet, trying to find something that I could wear to play in that Alice wouldn't have a hissy fit over. I finally found a pair of blue jeans and an old Gir shirt from a few months ago. It was a little small on me, but it was okay. It wasn't so cold outside that a half inch of midriff would hurt. Not that the cold could really bother me anyway.
When I was dressed, I tied my hair into a ponytail and took off my locket and bracelet, not wanting to risk losing them while playing. I hadn't stopped wearing those two things since I had found them earlier this year, so it felt weird having them off. When I got to the front, I put on my one pair of tennis shoes, tied my jacket around my waist, and waited for Jacob.
When Jacob got out, he was wearing a black t-shirt and his work jeans. Those jeans were covered in oil stains already, so a little dirt wouldn't mean anything. He pulled his hair back into a rubber band. He had cut his hair again recently, but he never cut it too short. I liked being able to play with his hair whenever I was sitting next to him or in his lap.
"Let's get going." I smiled and Jacob came a little closer to get his coat and grab his keys. We walked out of the building and went down the stairs. I smelled something really strange.
"What's that smell?" Jacob chuckled lightly.
"My neighbor's wife is going through a little Indian food obsession. She's been making nothing but curry for the past few days." I wrinkled my nose at the smell. The smell burned my nose and I started running to the front door to escape the smell. Jacob chuckled again when I started running.
Once we were finally out of the building, Jacob unlocked his car and we got into the car. I loved the smell of his car. It smelled like him, but it still smelled like leather too. Before starting his car, he called Sam to ask if he wanted to go play baseball with us. He apparently said yes. Jacob hung up the phone and looked at me.
"Sam's coming. He's bringing Emily and Mikey too. He said he'd call Jared and Kim to see if they want to go." I smiled.
"Are they going to bring Allison Shea?" Jacob chuckled.
"Most defiantly. You haven't met her yet have you?" I shook my head.
"No I haven't. And frankly, I'm offended." He laughed harder, and I started laughing to. Allison Shea was Jared and Kim's newborn baby. She had been born July 14th. I did see a picture of her when she was in the hospital with Kim holding her, but I hadn't gotten to meet her in person yet. Jacob started the car at last and we were on our way.
"How did they come up with Allison Shea?" Jacob smirked.
"Allison was Kim's mom's name. Shea was Jared's dad's name. So they just combined the two. Sort of like what Bella did with your name, only it's two separate words as opposed to one." We drove in the direction that Jacob remembered as the general direction of the clearing he remembered. It had been a while since the last time he'd been there and he'd never gone there via car.
It still didn't take us long to get there. Only about a half hour. I pointed out a little pathway that daddy always took whenever he was going to the clearing in Emmett's jeep. Just about everyone was already there when we finally arrived. Embry, Seth, Quil, Paul and Sam were already there and in position in the outfield. Granted, they weren't quite as fast as vampires in human form, but they were pretty close.
Emily, Claire and Rachael were sitting closer to where the batters were, Emily holding little Mikey on her knee. I ran over to them, waving my hand. They waved back at me and when Mikey noticed me, he started screaming vowels with excitement. Claire was jumping up and down with excitement herself. When I finally got to them, Jacob running into the outfield with the others, Mikey and Claire reached for me and I gave him a hug.
"Hi, Mikey, Claire! How've you been?" Emily, Rachael and I giggled when Mikey attempted to answer me with his adorable string of vowels.
"I've been real good. I start kindigaten next week."I gave Claire an enthusiastic look.
"That's great Claire! Are you excited?" She nodded her head.
"Yep. I a big girl now." I giggled at her grammar.
"Yeah. You're a big girl now." Quil was chuckling. He was really proud that Claire was starting school. I handed Mikey back to Emily when he announced the word 'zuba', which apparently meant that he was hungry. I went to where my family was and stood next to momma and daddy. Momma took the spot of umpire and Esme did catcher position.
"Jared and Kim are almost here." I looked behind me and saw headlights from a car in the distance. Jared parked right next to Emmett's Jeep and steps out, Kim following. Jared stood next to the car as Kim went to the back seat to get her little girl. Once Kim had Allison Shea tucked safely in her arms, she and Jared started walking to the field. Once she was close enough, Kim took the last seat that was put out for them.
"I'm crushed you haven't introduced me to your beautiful daughter yet, Kim." Kim giggled lightly when she saw me, then she looked back at Allison Shea and smiled a loving smile.
"I'm sorry. I wanted to introduce you two sooner." I smiled and took a closer look at Allison Shea, even though I already could.
"She's so beautiful." She was. She had dark, dark black curls and the perfect combination of her mommy and daddy's faces. She had Kim's nose and chin. Everything else was Jared all the way.
"Isn't she? She looks so much like Jared." I giggled.
"She looks like you too. She has your eye lashes." Kim giggled. Kim had eyelashes that went out for miles. I sincerely envied her for them. She would never need to use mascara, her eyelashes were such a dark black on their own.
"Maybe. She has gorgeous black eyes. You never get to see them though since she does nothing but sleep." We all laughed lightly. I then heard Alice in the background.
"Game starts in three, two, one." We hear a crack of thunder. Kim and the others just stared at Alice in disbelief. Daddy chuckled and I looked back to them.
"Cool isn't it?" They laughed and nodded their heads. I went back to where my family was lined up waiting for their turn to bat with Alice as pitcher. Jasper was the first one to bat. Jacob and his pack stayed far back into the field anticipating that it would be a far hit.
Alice did her little dance before throwing the ball. Jasper hit the ball as hard as he could, producing a crack louder than thunder. Jacob and Seth were already running backwards trying to catch the ball. Jared ended up catching the ball just as Jasper reached first base. All this happened in barely a half second. When Jared had the ball, he threw it at second base. Jasper was called out.
"Our point." Jacob called cockily to us from the other end of the field. Daddy laughed lightly and Rosalie raised her voice to them slightly.
"It's one point mutt. You can brag if you survive when we play outfield." Daddy laughed harder this time. I knew what was coming.
"Hey Rosalie, what do you call an eternity?" Rosalie rolled his eyes and Jacob just laughed. "Four blondes at a four way stop." I laughed with everyone. Rosalie just hissed at him and grabbed the bat.
"I'm batting next." Daddy rolled his eyes.
"Rosalie, don't be childish."
"Oh come on, it'll heal." I looked between daddy and Rosalie confused. Rosalie nodded at Alice and Alice nodded back. Alice did her little dance and threw the ball. When Rosalie hit the ball, she hit it with all her might and began running. The ball was going straight for Jacob. Jacob held up his hand to catch the ball. When Jacob caught the ball, the force from the ball hit Jacob right in his jaw.
"Jacob!" I ran over to where he was on the ground and daddy just rolled his eyes when Rosalie made it home with everyone distracted. When I reached Jacob, he was staring absentmindedly into the sky. "Jacob, are you okay?" Jacob looked at me, then laughed.
"I have to admit, that was pretty good." I gave Jacob with a stern look.
"No it wasn't. That would have killed any human." Jacob laughed lightly again.
"I guess it's a good thing I'm superhuman." I smacked Jacob where the ball had hit with him still laughing at his little joke. When Jacob managed to bring himself back up, he called out to Rosalie. "Good one, Rosalie. You're the only person who was ever able to make me punch myself in the face." Rosalie smirked and hissed at Jacob. I ran back over to the others and took the bat from Rosalie.
Alice gave me a cocky smile and I gave her the same smile. Momma and Esme stood close behind me, evaluating everything that was happening. Momma was still laughing lightly about Rosalie's little jab. She hadn't been laughing at first, but she started laughing really hard when she saw that Jacob was still alive and well.
I hit the base with the bat once while waiting for Alice to throw the ball. When she saw that I was ready, she did her little dance and threw the ball. I took a deep breath and hit the ball. I didn't stop to see where it went. I did, however hear someone say that I hit the ball high. I took a quick glance after reaching first base and saw that my ball was already long gone. Seth and Embry were running into the woods to get it. I ran as fast as I could to get home.
I was barely there when Embry and Seth came out of the woods with the ball and threw it at the home plate for Esme to catch. I touched the home plate just a nanosecond before Esme caught the ball and momma was smiling at me proudly. I smiled back and her and daddy smiled at me too.
"Safe." I heard Emmett yell out in excitement and everyone else just smiled at me.
"Nice hit, Nessie." I heard Jacob call from the field. I turned around and smiled at him, knowing that he could see me. I saw him smile back at me. Jasper walked over and patted me on the back. We had two points and Jacob's team had one.
Daddy batted next. Alice danced, threw the ball, and daddy hit the ball with a cracking sound that made me jump. The ball flew into the forest and daddy was running the bases. Jacob was the one to catch this ball and threw it at the home plate where Esme caught the ball right when daddy hit the plate. Momma laughed lightly.
"You're out." Daddy laughed lightly and momma laughed too. He lifted himself off of the ground and gave momma a quick kiss before rejoining everyone in line. Jacob's team needed one more out and they would be batting.
Carlisle helped himself to bat next. Carlisle had a big smile on his face as he put himself in position to bat. Alice threw the ball and Carlisle hit it with a cracking sound. Quil and Paul were running towards each other to catch the ball. It was too high for either of them to catch, but then they surprised me. Paul stopped abruptly and Quil ran up Paul's back and caught the ball in his left hand. He threw the ball at third base and Carlisle just barely managed to pass it unscathed. He made it home safely.
I giggled when Paul and Quil looked disappointed. Emily and the others started talking about how clever that was. I will admit that it was. Emmett batted next. He was wearing his usual cocky smile. I giggled to myself and daddy gave me a stern look. I pouted my face at him. Daddy sighed and shrugged his shoulders. I started out with the batter chant and made my comment just as Alice threw the ball.
"Emmett, a hippy." He stood up and looked where I was looking.
"What?" Just then, Esme caught the ball. Momma forced her lines out through laughter.
"Strike one." Everyone was laughing. Everyone who got the joke especially. Emmett had a strange, violent hatred of hippies and comments that he used to eat hippies for breakfast. This was funny until daddy pointed out that this wasn't far from the truth. In truth, his reasons for hating hippies were really silly.
Apparently, when they had all been going to high school in the seventies when they were living in Wisconsin, Emmett often had hippies hanging out in front of his locker and they stunk up his space. What put the nail in their coffins was when one hit on Rosalie and tried to kiss her after he'd just shared a joint with his friends. Ever since then, you even mention the word hippy, and Emmett seems to go into murder spree mode.
"You little monster." I started laughing as Emmett chased me around. Daddy and everyone else was laughing too. After a few circles around everyone, Emmett caught me and threw me onto his shoulder. Jasper was laughing hard as he made his little comment.
"You have to admit that was pretty funny, Emmett. It's your own fault for believing her." I kept laughing and hitting Emmett's shoulder. Emmett glared at Jasper and put a little more vigor and emotion in his statement than was really necessary.
"Hippies are no joke, Jasper. Vegetarian or not, I won't hesitate to kill a hippy." Jasper was the only one who laughed at that comment. Everyone else just stared at the ground awkwardly. I looked at daddy, who gave me his 'I told you so' face. I sighed and nodded my head. Emmett put me back down on the ground and went back to the home plate.
"You're not too mad at me are you Emmett?" Emmett laughed lightly.
"I'm not mad at you. Just don't try to throw me off again." I nodded my head and he smirked at me before looking at Alice and taking position. Alice did her little dance and threw the ball. I said nothing this time, and Emmett hit the ball with a booming sound.
Emmett started running and everyone in the outfield was moving back. Jacob ran into the woods after the ball. I watched for Jacob to get back and watched Emmett fly through the bases. Jacob came back just in time to throw the ball at home base. Esme caught the ball right when Emmett skids home.
"You're out, Emmett." Emmett jumped onto his feet.
"Are you kidding? I beat that by a mile." Emmett wasn't yelling, but he wasn't exactly quiet either.
"Sorry Emmett. You got there just as Esme caught it. You're out. Now you have to go to the outfield." Momma kept a straight face.
"It's our bat, Emmett." Embry called from the field. I remembered daddy telling me that Emmett had a tendency to cheat. Daddy smirked.
"This isn't cheating, honey. This is just Emmett being difficult." Emmett looked at Edward.
"I'm not being difficult. I'm right. My eyes are just as good as the rest of yours and I saw that I was safe." Emmett had a strange cocky smirk on his face for some reason and daddy was just rolling his eyes.
"You can get them back in the outfield, Emmett." Rosalie said as she walked over to Emmett. She wrapped her arms around his right arm and daddy nodded in the direction of the outfield. Jacob and the others were already coming closer to take the bating spot. Emmett smirked and looked at Rosalie.
"And pay them back I shall." Rosalie laughed lightly and kissed Emmett before walking with him, hand in hand, to the outfield. Jacob and the others closed the rest of the distance and got to the batting spot. Jacob taped my shoulder when we crossed paths.
"Don't let Emmett cheat." He chuckled and I giggled as I smacked his arms. I walked the rest of the way out and to third base. Daddy was in the far left of the outfield with Emmett to the right.
Jacob took bat first. He cracked his neck on both sides before standing hunched over in a batting position. Alice remained the pitcher. She did her little dance and threw the ball. Jacob hit the ball with the same cracking sound that my family made and started running. He had hit the ball high and it was going far. Daddy started running in the direction that it was going and disappeared into the woods.
Jacob was running at a speed that equaled any of the others. Daddy caught the ball a couple hundred feet away from the field and ran back. He threw the ball when Jacob was half way home. Jacob's foot touched the home plate a nanosecond before Esme caught the ball. Momma smiled.
"Safe." Jacob hopped off of the ground and went to where Seth, Quil and Embry were waiting to high five him. Sam took position next. Emily started cheering for him and Mikey joined enthusiastically. He chanted that his daddy would hit the ball better than anyone. We all laughed lightly.
Alice threw the ball when everyone wasn't laughing anymore. Sam hit the ball with a much lower sound, but it was still a piercing sound. The ball started flying between Jasper and Emmett. As Sam was running, Jasper and Emmett both went for the ball, only to end up booming into each other with a sound like thunder.
Jasper and Emmett recovered quickly, Emmett picked up the ball, and he threw it to the home plate where Sam was reaching. Sam made it home safely. Jasper and Emmett were laughing then. The thunder storm lasted for four hours, so that's how long we played. Throughout the whole game, someone's team was always one or two points ahead.
Alice announced when it was five minutes until the last hit of lightening. We played for another ten minutes after that. Jacob's team was the last to bat. It was my team 25 and Jacob's 23. If he and the others could make three more home runs, they would win. Otherwise, it was our game. Jared batted first this time.
Alice danced and threw the ball. Jared hit the ball with a loud crack and started running before the bat hit the ground when he released it. Jasper caught the ball and threw it to Esme. Jared's foot touched the base as he slid home before the ball got to Esme.
"Safe." Mikey and Claire started cheering. Jacob smirked at me and winked. I laughed lightly and rolled my eyes. Daddy noticed this too, or read his mind.
"One run, Jacob. Don't get too cocky." Jacob laughed.
"Likewise bloodsucker." I giggled and rolled my eyes. I think daddy did too. Jacob took the plate next. Probably because he just wanted to annoy daddy.
Jacob took his position at the home plate and got ready to hit the ball. When Alice threw the ball and it got to Jacob, a loud crack sounded from the impact and Jacob ran the moment he heard the sound. Daddy ran into the woods to catch the ball and had reached it by the time Jacob reached second base. Daddy threw the ball to Esme. Jacob touched the home plate a few seconds before the ball got to her. Mikey and Claire cheered in the background.
"Safe." Jacob smiled to himself. He and the others looked confident that they would win. Quil was the last one to come up to bat. If he got this run, Jacob's team would win the game. Quil hit the plate with the bat one time before taking position. Alice danced, threw the ball, and Quil hit the ball with the final crack.
As daddy ran into the forest to get the ball, Quil ran across the bases, quickly making his way past the first two bases. When he reached the third base, I saw daddy throw the ball to Esme. Quil started running impossibly faster. Jacob and the others were yelling for Quil to make it to the home plate. He leaped, landed and slid to the base. Mere seconds before the ball hit Esme's hand, Quil made it home.
Jacob and the others started cheering for Quil and even lifted him off the ground to cheer him on more. Mikey screamed his cheer and ran over to Sam. Sam lifted Mikey into the air and started spinning him around. Claire was jumping up and down and leaped into Quil's arms. I ran over to Jacob.
"Don't let the win get to your head, Jacob." I was smiling anyway. He smirked at me.
"Sure, sure. Just let me have my moment of glory, will you Ness?" Then he lifted me into his arms and gave me a huge hug. I hugged him back. Daddy and the others ran back to where we were, but didn't say much. Daddy just gave Jacob a teasing glare and Jacob stuck his tongue out at him and laughed. I couldn't help but laugh too.
We lingered in the clearing for a while just talking. Jacob couldn't help but run his team's victory in Emmett's face and Emmett was sure to let Jacob know that next time he was going down. Everyone drove home after an hour. Jacob followed daddy and the others home with me in the front seat. Jacob stayed to let me make him dinner.
I made the fish fry since we had plenty of fresh catfish in the fridge. In truth, I think Jacob had that arranged somehow. I did it with the same exact ingredients I smelled in his fish fry from earlier. When I served it, Jacob commented that it smelled just as good. When he tasted it, he looked at me and smiled. I sighed.
"Perfect, Nessie. Not a taste out of place." I nodded my head and sat down at the table with him. I guess this means I'll be making a lot of fish fries for him.
When it was later that night, Jacob said that he would take me back to the cottage and tuck me in. On our way to the cottage, Jacob and I talked a little more about the game and that he never thought he'd enjoy playing baseball with a bunch of bloodsuckers. I smacked Jacob's arm at his little comment and he just smiled and apologized. When we got to the cottage, I went about my nightly routine. I was pleased to find that I was now five feet tall. I was now officially taller than Alice.
After doing that, I put on my pajamas and went to my room where Jacob was sitting on my bed waiting for me to come in. He looked at the bed he was sitting on, then looked back at me with a light chuckle.
"You got a new bed I see." I giggled.
"Yeah. The other one was too small, so we got a new one. Do you like it?" Jacob smirked again and looked at the bed one more time.
"It's a bigger bed. What else is there to say?" We laughed together for a moment. When we stopped laughing, Jacob got off of my bed and let me get in. When I had the covers pulled over, Jacob kissed my forehead and my hair. I kissed his cheek. "Goodnight, Nessie."
"Night, Jacob." Jacob sat next to my bed side for the rest of the night as I slept. When I woke up the next morning, I saw Jacob still sitting next to my bed, but with his head rested on part of it. He looked so peaceful when he slept. He looked innocent even. He still snored, but somehow, it wasn't so bad. Maybe he'd started taking medication for it or something.
I just watched him sleep for a while. I could smell his musky woodsy scent. I suddenly realized that Jacob had really long eyelashes. They were longer than Kim's lashes even. He had full lips and pearly white teeth. His head was rested close to the little wolf toy that he had made me for our first valentine's day and the image was cute. While watching Jacob sleep and hearing his light snores, I couldn't help but blush.