A/N: Hey guys I know you're not used to me doing author's note, but I felt I needed to thank everyone who reads this story. Without you I would have never stayed committed to writing. Your reviews make me feel as if I'm the most loved person in the world, so know that every time you click the little button at the end of each chapter you're making someone in the world feel extraordinary. I almost quit last night. I stayed up until four in the morning typing this chapter and my computer deleted it. But I looked at my review page and one from a reader, HallieAnn Lissette (don't be mad if I spelled this wrong) gave me the encouragement to retype this. Anyways this version is more suspenseful and intense, so I guess it was for the best. I'm sorry for boring you all. Let's get back to Renesmee.

Love,

Hailee

PS: Sorry. Soccer's the easiest for me to do. You'll see…

I wouldn't press that subject again. The next few days were uneventful. A few strangers would show up here and there, asking if we would like their help, and, as you already know, we always did. Alice would get flickers of the Volturi coming down a mountain, of which she pointed out to Dad, like a black gray wave.

Emmett, who complained about being bored on a daily basis, had been itching to play a game, any kind of game as long as it was a sport; "It'd be freaking awesome!" he'd exclaimed. I had to agree. There were over forty vampires here! Jake had wanted to have the game, as well.

They nagged Tanya and Grandpa, the unsaid leaders of our covens, until they abided.

"You must wait until Alice gives you the word," Grandpa had headed.

"ALICE!" Emmett yelled. I don't quite understand his need to be so loud! We all have amazing hearing.

"WHAT! Oh." She replied from the third floor. I blinked twice and she was next to me.

"You can play tonight at five."

"Yes!" Emmett hissed.

"What game?" I asked.

"Soccer!" Alice and Emmett said in unison.

"Okaaaay."

"You're on my team," Emmett called behind him as he ran off to find others that wanted to play.

"Sure."

Vampires. Can't live with 'em. Can't live without 'em.

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"Emmett and Ben are captains. There are no fouls. Only one person on each team can touch the ball for more than three seconds. The goal on that side is where Emmett's team can score. That goal is where Benjamin's team scores. No out of bounds. Carmen and Tia are reffs. I think that's all… Oh, and watch Renesmee and Jacob, they're fragile. Fair enough?" Dad explained to the lot of us who sat on the mountain side. Almost everyone had played. Raidon of the Japanese, Liam, and the Romanians were the only ones who didn't participate.

It was Ben's pick first. "Peter!" he shouted. Peter waltzed over to him and clapped him on the back.

"Edward," Emmett said. No surprise there.

The process continued until there was no one left on the ground. I was on Emmett's team, as he had said I would be. Alice was our goalie. Ben's was Randall.

After a few minutes, Tia stepped in the middle of the mile long field. "Is everyone ready?" she asked. A few of us nodded. "Go!" she shouted, throwing the ball she had in her hand in the air, just before she ran to the other side of the field to avoid being clobbered.

Ben's team had possession first. Garrett dribbled down the field with blinding speed. He was going straight toward Alice. Alice braced herself, and then took off running toward Garrett. Alice did a tuck flip, and when she was nearest to the ground she grabbed the ball. When she landed on her heals she cart wheeled, ball in hand, and whipped it to Emmett. Emmett kicked it to Dad who passed it to Jake who passed it to Mary who shot it in.

There was a roar of cheers from our team, in which I joined happily.

"One to Zero!" Carmen called.

The ball was put back in the center of the field.

"Damned leeches are hard t keep up with," Jacob huffed next to me.

"Tell me about it," I laughed.

Ben's team had kick off. I lost focus for only a half a second and I had lost the ball.

"Crap," I murmured.

"C'mon, Nessie!" I hear Mom say.

All I saw was a blur of brown hair and white skin and blue cashmere and I was on Mom's shoulders.

I laughed as Mom stole the ball from Aika.

We played for hour and hours on end until the weather became unbearable, even for a vampire. If it were up to me we would have never stopped.

But the temperature had dropped below zero and the hail was coming down in shards. The wind blew so hard that I could hear it's every turn and whip. Even my toasty one ten degree skin was beginning to feel chilled.

It all happened after everyone was inside. Our whole coven was going hunting except for Alice, Dad, Mom, and myself., Maggie, Jake, Michele, and I were in the foyer conversing casually. I held a cup of some hot hazelnut drink. I've lately discovered that human food isn't all bad.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Alice sitting on the ground and looking at her hands that lay in her lap. She was weeping dryly. The scene would break anyone's heart. Dad was standing next to her. He looked down at her with a mixture of horror and shock. Mom was staring at him with a confused expression. She held his face between her hands. Maggie continued to speak, but the world had seemed to go silent and all I could here was my Mother speaking.

"What is it, love? Look at me, darling! Edward!" she said frantically. Dad's eyes never left Alice's face.

He looked to Mom's face slowly, blankly, like he had been looking for her. He wrapped his arms around her waist.

She pulled away from him. "What is it?" she asked.

I pulled on Jacob's hand. "Jake," I managed to choke out. I jerked my head toward Mom and Dad.

"Uh oh," he said sarcastically. "Looks like Mommy and Daddy are fighting," he smiled arrogantly. Yeah, he can be a jerk sometimes.

"You're so obnoxious! Look at them! It's obviously something they're worried about! I can tell. It's important," I hissed.

"Okay. Cool you're jets, kid. I'm sure everything's -" He cut off after looking to where Mom, Alice, and Dad were. His eyes widened. "Fine," he breathed, finishing his sentence. "Alright. C'mon," he said, pulling my arm towards Mom and Dad.

"Excuse us," I blurted out to Michele and Maggie, whose expressions were almost as confused as I felt. Jacob was close to dragging me, not because I was resisting him, but because his unusually fast paced strides were extremely hard for me to match.

"What is it, Bells?" Jake asked when we were next to the group.

"Oh, Jacob! I dunno! I can't get a word out of them."

I kneeled down so I was at Alice's level. "Now listen here, Alice. You are going to tell us what's going on. Now."

Alice looked up at me. Her eyes looked tired. Probably from her sobbing. She nearly tackled me with her hug. "Oh, Nessie. How could you? Why would you? I'm so sorry! "

What the hell was she talking about?