Hey guys sorry I haven't updated soon I just haven't had much time so this might be my second to last update before I go on Vacation! So here it goes!
After Edward strapping me into all those confusing seatbelt straps we took off. I looked out the window most of the ride and noticed that the once white clouds turned into gray, then black. My eyes burrowed in confusion.
Then I turned to Edward. "How are we going to play with clouds that black?" I asked.
He turned and looked at me. God those eyes were so—Stop! "You'll see. Are you sure you want to play?" he asked.
"Positive." I answered.
"I'll ask you that in about ten minutes." He said smirking and then looking out the window.
I just looked at him. Edward was the most complicated, mysterious, most beautiful creature in the world. Thank God he couldn't read my thoughts. Soon the sky darkened and it started to pour.
"Yeah Boy!!" Emmett boomed while driving causing Edward and me to look at him. He looked back at us, "What? It's going to be a big one!" he said after he saw our facial expressions. I giggled a bit and continued to look at the storm.
Then it dawned on me. "How are we going to play with a downpour?" I asked suddenly.
"Don't worry Alice is leading us to a clearing where the storm hasn't hit yet." Rosalie answered from the front seat.
"Gotcha." I replied and once again looked out the window. Soon the downpour turned in to drizzle and gradually stopped. In a minimum of five minutes Emmett stopped the jeep.
"Showtime." Emmett said as he got out of the car.
I went to unbuckle my seatbelts but I just looked down confused. Edward was already out of the car helping out Emmett with carrying the equipment, as was Rosalie. I looked down and tried to unbuckle myself. I tried and failed. It didn't take long for the seatbelts to get tangled together.
"Shit" I muttered while trying to untangle them.
"Need help?" a familiar velvety voice said.
I jumped and looked up at him. He had a dazzling crooked smile on his face.
"No." I said sarcastically. "I just wanted to try out my knot tying skills on the seatbelts." He gave me a puzzled look. "Of course I need help!" I exclaimed after a minute.
"Okay! Okay!" he said as he quickly untangled and unbuckled the seatbelts. He helped me out of the jeep and I noticed that we weren't in a clearing.
"I thought we were going into a clearing?" I asked.
"We are, but we aren't there yet." He said as he shut the door and locked the car.
"What do you mean? Where are Emmett and Rose?" I asked looking around.
"They already went to the clearing and what I mean is I want to show you how fast vampire speed is." He said with an impatient tone.
"Okay?" I said cautiously stepping forward.
"Get on my back." Edward commanded while slightly crouching down.
I walked around him so I was facing his back and grabbed his cold shoulders for support. I gave a quick pounce and I got on his back, wrapping my legs around his waist and arms around his neck.
"You might want to hold on tighter than that." He said. I followed his advice and squeezed a little tighter. "Ready?" he asked excitedly.
"Um. I hope!" I said with a nervous laugh.
Edward didn't reply all he did was take off. I felt like I was on a 300 mph roller coaster. We were running through the woods at impossible speeds. We didn't even hit a tree. All I could see was blurs of green and brown as we traveled swiftly through the dense forest. In about a minute we were at a clearing.
I couldn't speak. I couldn't say anything. I wanted to say how amazing that was how exhilarating that was. How unbelievable this all was.
"Whoa." Was all that came out of my mouth.
Edward chuckled. "You can let go now." He said.
I loosened my arms and legs and hopped to the ground. We were defiantly in a clearing a huge one in fact. Everyone was in the distance setting up the game. Emmett ran around setting the bases down. Rose was taking practice swings, and Alice was practicing her pitching with Jasper. Esme was discussing something with Carlisle probably the rules.
"C'mon. Let's go." Edward said taking my hand. He led me to where everyone was.
Alice noticed Edward and me. "Serena!" she said as she skipped over to me. "So I hear you want to play? Hmm. That's going to be different but I'll try to go easy on you." I smiled and nodded my head.
"Edward?" Carlisle called.
"Yes?"
"Would you like to pick the teams?" he offered.
"Sure. Um. There is going to be an uneven number so I guess Alice, Jasper, and Rose on one team and Carlisle, Emmett, Serena, and I on the other." He said.
"That's not fair!" Rose complained. "Your team has more people!" she said accusingly.
"Well since Serena is a little slower," He looked at me, "No offence!" he added then looked back at Rose. "I can help her out so we will count as one." He offered.
Rose pondered it for a second. "Fine." She said.
"Wait what about Esme?" I added.
"I'm the reff. I know they cheat someone has to keep and eye on them." Esme answered my question.
"Okay! Who's batting first?" Carlisle asked.
"We are!" Emmett and Alice shouted at the same time.
"Man! I would fight for the spot by playing rock, paper, scissors but I already know I would lose." He said hanging his head.
"Well that's settled." Carlisle stated. "Let's play ball!" he exclaimed.
Alice grabbed the bat as Emmett, Edward and I walked out to the field. Carlisle was pitching for us.
Emmett told me to play center field and him and Edward would handle the rest. I was focusing on Alice and Carlisle until Edward whispered in my ear.
"Try your hardest to keep up this is probably going to be the slowest we can be." He said.
I nodded. How hard could this be?
I was so caught up in my own thoughts that I didn't notice the game started the ball was hit really fast and was traveling in my direction.
"Duck!" Edward shouted I followed his command. I ducked and saw a shadow of Edward jump over me and catch the ball he landed gracefully on the ground and threw it towards home base. Alice looked like a track star going around the bases. She was way to fast for me and the worst part is that I knew she could go way faster than that.
Esme caught it and touched home plate just before Alice reached it.
"OUT!" Emmett boomed.
I was still in a crouch on the ground. My mouth was open in disbelief.
This was going to be harder than I thought.
"Now." Edward said. I looked up from my position he was looking down at me with an amused expression. "Are you sure you still want to play?" he asked.
I got up. "Hell yeah!" I exclaimed as I walked past him back to my position.
I didn't look back but I think I heard Edward chuckle lightly. Rose was up next. Carlisle threw the ball and she hit it, this one made a huge booming sound, a sound similar to thunder.
Now I see why they need the thunder.
It shot past me into the woods. I turned around to see Edward running at vampire speed into the woods and Emmett complaining how that was not "slow".
"So I'm assuming that's a homerun?" I asked Emmett.
"Nah, Edward's really fast in fact here he comes now." He said as he nodded his head towards the woods.
I followed his gaze towards the woods. Edward appeared a second later, ball in hand. He chucked it as hard as he could towards Esme who caught it and got Rosalie out in the nick of time.
"Yes!" I pumped my fist in the air and did a little victory dance.
I laughed at myself and looked over at Emmett who was in his own world doing a victory dance also. I rolled my eyes and looked back at Jasper who was now at the plate
"You can have this one he's going to do a grounder." Edward called to me.
I nodded my head and focused on Jasper and the ball Carlisle was holding. Next thing I knew Carlisle threw it and Jasper hit it hard, but Edward was incorrect it was a high but short pop fly ball.
Shit.
"I got it!" I shouted with my glove in the air running as fast as I could towards where it was going to hit. It came lower and lower and lower until, pop! It was in my glove. I looked down at my baseball filled mitt in shock.
"Holy shit." I muttered to myself. I just caught a pop fly ball that was hit by a vampire! Oh my God!
"YEAHHHH!" Emmett boomed as he ran and pulled me into a huge bear hug. Which caused me to catch my breath and start laughing as he was jumping up and down with me in his arms.
"Out!" Edward said to me as soon as I got out of Emmett's grasp. "Nice." He said as he gave me a high five.
"Thanks!" I said excitedly.
"Now are you ready to bat?" Edward asked as we started for home plate.
"If I can catch a ball hit by a vampire, I think I can hit one thrown by them. I think?" I answered.
"Don't worry I'll try to go easy on you!" Alice said before Edward said anything else.
We got to home plate and I went and sat down on the grass. Edward was batting first. Emmett was second and he was behind Edward taking practice swings with an abnormally large bat. He must need it though.
Edward stood at the plate ready for the pitch. Alice looked so determined when she pitched. It's so funny how such a small pixie could have such a fierce attitude.
Alice looked at Edward silently asking if he was ready and he nodded his head. Alice drew back gracefully and the ball was a blur as Edward hit it
I stood up to see where the ball went and saw that it went really far.
Man they weren't lying when they said Edward was the fastest! I watched him go around the bases in a blur. He was truly amazing.
Little did I know I got so caught up in the game that I was right dab the middle of Edwards's path. He was on his last stretch and noticed I was standing on the other side of home plate.
Uh oh.
"Ah!" he screamed as he came closer and slowed down as much as he could before he tackled me to the ground.
"Ahhhh!" I screamed at the shocking impact and we both dropped to the ground.
"Oomph!" we both said as we hit the ground.
Edward was on top of me with a look of shock as was mine. We just stared at each other in shock before Emmett exploded into a roar of laughter.
We looked at him and he was on the ground holding his side laughing so hard. Edward turned back to me we looked at each other for a second and both burst into hysterics at the same time.
"Are…haha… you…haha…okay?" Edward asked still laughing. He got up off me and held out his hand to help me up.
"Hahahahahaaa… yeah I'm fine!" I said taking his hand and getting up.
"That was too perfect!" Emmett bellowed from the ground.
Soon all the laughter died down and we continued the game. Emmett got us another point because with his strength he hit the ball five miles away from the premises. It was my turn now.
I took a few practice swings and soon I was up to the plate. Edward was standing next to me with a suspicious look on his face.
"What's up with you?" I asked putting the bat into the place and looking off towards Alice.
"Nothing." He said lightly.
I just ignored him and focused on what was about to come.
Alice drew back and threw the ball it was fast but not really fast. I swung and missed it.
"STRIKE!" Emmett yelled. I glared at him and took a deep breath as Esme threw Alice the ball.
Alice drew back again and I took another deep breath she threw it. I closed my eyes and swung as hard as I could I heard contact and I opened my eyes and the ball went flying.
Next thing I knew Edward slung me quickly onto his back and we were off around the bases I was in a fit of giggles the whole way through and I even let out a holler as we rounded third base and straight through home.
"Safe!" Esme stated.
"Yes!" I threw my fists in the air still on Edwards back.
Then I felt a raindrop, then another, another, until it started to drizzle.
"Game over!" Carlisle said as he gathered up everything. I jumped off Edwards back and we headed back to the car. Of course we had to run to the car because it was about to start pouring.
We got to the car and Edward opened the door for me and strapped me in. A second after he strapped me in he closed the door and as the door shut the other one opened and he got into the car.
Raindrops were on his messy bronze hair and I couldn't help but stare at him while he buckled himself up.
He looked up after getting situated and caught me staring. I quickly looked away blushing.
"Did you have fun?" he asked.
I yawned. "That's kind of a dumb question don't you think?"
Emmett and Rose emerged through the trees and packed everything in the car. Rosalie's hair was wet and she looked anything but happy.
They both got in the car in silence. Probably because Emmett doesn't want to get Rose any madder than she already was
On the way home I yawned again and my eyes started to get droopy. Wow, the day must have taken all the energy from me. I leaned against the window and fell asleep.
My slumber was partially interrupted when I felt cool hands undo my seatbelts and gently lay me so I was leaning on him.
The rest of the way home I fell asleep in Edwards arms.
