SO SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG! I'VE BEEN OOBER GROUNDED!!! I HOPE YOU CAN FORGIVE ME!!!!! I don't own twilight but I do own Addie & Juliet, and my editor is still a poor fool! PLEASE REVIEW! NO FLAMES!) NTE

Ivy of the Poisonous Variety

"Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests." - Thornton Wilder

The sky was a deep purple color, almost black; lightning dotted the sky and claps of thunder shook the trees. Perfect for baseball, at least for the Cullens. The excitement of the game was dimmed a bit by the impending arrival of the two mystery girls, however. Everyone was tense and the usual air of ease was replaced by expectant glances and calculating eyes. Carlisle had wanted to cancel the baseball game after Alice, Edward, and Bella had told him about the arrival. But Emmet bounded into his study and suggested that, if they played, the new comers would think that they hadn't expected them, and they could plan on what to do. The four stood there for a minute, thinking it over. It was quite brilliant.

"Emmet…that was…" Edward stopped and Alice picked up from there.

"That's quite…" She trialed of, and Carlisle finished for her.

"That's brilliant Emmet." His voice was devoid of the shock or disbelief the others conveyed. (A/n: Yah! Emmet gets brownie points! Sorry I just ruined the mood) So here they were waiting, expecting the worst.

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Two girls were crouched on a patch of ivy near a clearing. Both were tall and athletic looking, both were chalk white. Their facial features mirrored each other-both had sharp, perfect features. The only way they looked at all different was their hair. One had straight black hair that she let fall down her back like a silk banner; it was completely black with the exception of a one inch strip that was platinum blonde that framed the right side of her face. The other had a short boyish cut, a long chunk falling in front of her left eye. Her hair was platinum blonde except for a one inch of black in her fringe. The two were graceful in their manner and all over pixy-like.

"Hey, is there something wrong with this ivy? Juliet asked her sister. Adeline shook her blonde head.

"I don't think so." They surveyed the scene in front of them. A group of vampires stood in the field in front of them. They were…they were playing baseball?

"What the hell is this?" Juliet muttered.

"I think it's called baseball Juliet." Adeline said in a slow, loud whisper. Juliet rolled her eyes.

"I know that! I've just never seen our kind playing baseball before." As she said this, one of the people in the field snapped his head in their direction. He was all the way at third but she could see his bronze hair from a mile away. "Duck!" She whispered pushing her sister into the green growth beneath them.

"What is it?" Her sister asked.

"I don't know."

"Well look!"

"What?"

"Look and see what's going down!"

"Going down? That's not dorky. That's not dorky at all."

"It was the first thing that came to mind!"

"Oookaaaaaaay, but I can't, that bronze headed one just looked in our direction, like we'd called his name or something." Adeline was quiet for a minute, then popped up and looked over their cover of bushes and ivy. After looking for a few seconds she let out a low whistle.

"Look at that huge sucker at bat." She said pointing to the guy at bat. Juliet raised her self a little bit and stole a peak.

He was about a hundred yards away from the pitcher, and from first. He was tall and muscular. His dark curly hair fell slightly in front of his eyes. He wore his cap to the side. This guy was HUGE! One of the biggest people she had seen.

"He is huge!" Juliet glanced at the bronze haired one. He was grinning to himself. She decided to send him a little message with her little gift.

"What are you laughing at?" She asked him in his mind. His eyes widened a fraction of an inch and his eyebrows went up, but he kept smiling. Juliet was extremely peeved, but she got a response. This had never happened with anyone but her twin before.

"Emmet is rather large isn't he?" Adeline, picking up on the conversation in Juliet's mind, gasped.

"So you like messing with other peoples heads do you?" Juliet asked "Pathetic." Hypocrite, she thought to herself. The boy continued to smile as he ran the next base. 'Emmet' had whacked that ball into next week.

"Look who's talking." He sent back. Adeline gasped again at Juliet's side.

"Yes I know he can respond, you don't need to gasp every time he says something," she snapped at her sister. This guy was annoying her and she was taking it out on her sister. "Sorry." Adeline just shook her head and pointed at the ground

"Never mind that, I just realized–" She was cut off by another smack of the ball, this time it was a blonde guy. He wasn't as muscular as the last, but still he had some muscle. The other one was now on second base, and the bronze haired one was talking to a black haired girl. But he still sent her a message.

"Well?" Ignoring her sister Juliet replied.

"Well what?"

"I'm the pathetic one? At least I'm not sitting in poison ivy." It took Juliet a few seconds to realize what he just said, and confirm its truth. Adeline was pointing at the ground and babbling, and her skin was itching like crazy. She caught what her sister was saying at last.

"We're sitting in poison ivy!"

"Really?" She asked hopelessly.

"Yes."

"Crap"

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Edward knew he should have told them earlier, but it was just so funny. He held his sides and supported himself on Emmet as the two girls they had been expecting tore into the field and started to roll on the ground. He thought he even heard faint cursing, whether in their minds or from their mouths he didn't know.

When they finally calmed down enough to where they were sitting up and scratching their arms and legs vigorously, Carlisle approached them.

"Hello, I am Carlisle, and this is my family." He said, waving back at everyone in the field-Alice, Bella, Edward, Emmet, Esmé, Jasper, and Rosalie. The girl he had been talking to, a tall, black haired girl with pale skin and a beautiful face stood up and bowed to Carlisle. She was obviously the leader of the two, but after two years ago, Edward wasn't going to take any chances.

"I'm Juliet, this is my sister,' she said, grabbing the blonde girl's hand and helping her up. "Adeline. We mean you no harm. We've been traveling for a while and we are very tired and hungry." Edward saw and felt Emmet and Alice move closer to Bella. Seeing this, Juliet laughed; her laugh was rich and carefree.

"Oh, no thank you. We don't eat like that." Carlisle's eyes widened.

"Really?"