Chapter Six

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BPOV

I made the team! Feeling really good about myself I go to get ready for another day of practice. After I'm done I head out of the locker room and out to the fields where everyone is starting to stretch.

Everyone being Eric, Tyler, Emmett, Brandon, Jasper, Mason, Sean, Riley, Kyle, Blake, and last and in this case least... Edward. I don't even give him a second glance after the other night.

I join the circle with out saying anything so I don't draw much attention to myself. We run a little as a warm up then begin to practice... in the pouring rain. I guess you have to expect that when you live in forks. Ah well it doesn't bother me.

We split into teams to scrimage again. I mentally pat myself on the back when I'm not picked very last. This isn't much improvement but I'll take what I can get. The captain that picked me was Jasper Witlock... a quiet but nice guy from what I've heard.

Me and the rest of my team (Jasper, Emmett,Mason,Kyle, and Blake ) circle up and pick possitions. Jasper looks at me, "Bella I want you left mid, since you have an awesome left foot. Okay?" He says this simply as a statment, meaning nothing by it, but I secretly take it as my first compliment.

I just nod my head and he continues assigning possitions to others. We have an advantage because we have our actually goalie, Mason , on our team... so he gets put in the goal. Emmet and Kyle are defenders because of their size ... they can just take someone down they are so big, with muscle. I wonder why they never thought of playing football... they would definately fit in.

That leaves me, Blake, and Jasper as our forwards. We all take our spots on the field, but the other team gets the ball first. Edward being their center midfielder gets the ball passed back to him from Tyler... and the game begins.

I study him as he scans the field. His eyes linger on Sean, the tall kid with brown shaggy hair a couple yards away from me. Edward then puts his head down and begins to kick, which is my cue to start running towards Sean. The ball is flying in the air so I use my chest to trap the ball.

Ha. Take that Edward. The first move of the game and he's already screwing up. I run down the field fake out the two defenders, Eric and Riley, then score on Brandon. It's almost too easy.

Everyone on my team runs toward me and cheers things like "You all just got owned by a girl" and "Good job!" while I act like it's no big deal. On the inside though I'm doing my own personal celebration dance.

The game continues like this. They score too, just not as much as us. Finally the coach shouts out, "Next to score wins!". We are all so tired, but knowing that the end is so near makes us play even harder.

Edward's team has posession of the ball. He flying down the field toward our defense. He jabs one way and completly fakes out Kyle, and then goes on to nutmeg Emmett. I'm too far away to help our team and all I can do is stare as he shoots the ball... straight into our keepers hand!

I don't have time to insult Edward in my head as the ball is thrown towards me. I trap it and then pass it to our center Jasper. He gets pressured by the defenders though, so he splits them with a pass to me.

I'm close enough to the goal to shoot. I see Brandon is standing way to far to the left.. leaving the far post wide open. I pull my leg back to kick the ball... but that never happens.

The next thing I know is that I've been slide tacked, and am in excrutiating pain. To my embarrassment I yelp as I fall to the ground. I roll back and forth and hold my ankle to try and release some of the pain, but it doesn't help. Whoever hit me, kicked me where I have no protection from my shinguards.

I hear the coach telling everyone to "Step back! And give her some room." He asks whats wrong and I tell him my ankle. He pulls my shoes and sock off to reveal an already swollen and slightly bruised ankle. It looks really bad, I hope its not too serious.

Coach breaths out and his nostrils flare. "Edward!" He snaps, " You and I both know that takle was uncalled for! You were standing right next to the girl... " Of course it would be Edward. He really doesn't like me does he? I don't care anymore, all I want is some ice for my ankle, but I dont want them to think I'm a little girl though and will cry whenever someone touches me.

"It's okay coach. I don't think its that bad, I can still play." I honestly didn't know if I'd be able to or not but might as well try. The coach and Edward each take one of my hands, Edward is probably only doing this because he feels bad, and lift me up onto my feet. Only to fall right back down to the same possition hold my ankle.

"Sorry kid I dont think you can play today. Why dont we have you sit over on the side lines for the rest of practice and ice your ankle. Then you can rest it over the weekend?" He asks.

"Sure," I said trying not to sound as sad as I really was, but I think it might have come out that way becayse I saw him smile at me sympathetically. While Emmet and Kyle help me walk over to the side lines all I can think is, Great way to start the season Bella. I sigh as I sit back down and continue watch everyone play. The coach comes back a second later with a bag of ice and placed it on my ankle. I jump a little because of the cold.

"I also brought you a pair of crutches you can borrow so you can stay off your ankle and then you wont need people to help you walk," he said. I told him thanks, and then he continued to watch the scrimmage untill one team scored. Finally Edwards team ended up winning. Coach told everyone to cool down and strech... while I just continued to sit there. While they were all streching coach came over and told me to stay off my ankle this weekend and ice it two times a day, then I was free to leave. Getting up on one foot, I slung my bag over my sholder and picked up the crutches. I couldn't wait till I was on my way home and I have the whole weekend to myself.

I walk into the parking lot when I hear Edward call out my name to stop me, "Hey Bella wait up!" With a sigh I turn around.

"What do you want?" I asked sharply. I cant believe he has the nerve to talk to me right now after what happened.

He slowed down next to me a little out of breath. Probably ran to catch up to me. "I, um, just wanted to apologize for, you know, slide tackling you..and hurting your ankle," he said awkwardly guesturing down to my swolen ankle.

"Yeah," I said, "You should be." I started to walk to my car when he stops me.

"Wait you can't drive with your ankle like that." He said looking at me like I was crazy.

"I'm fine thanks. Its only the one foot, I use my other foot to drive anyways." I said like it was obvious. "What do you think I'm going to do, have you drive me? I'll pass," I said walking away to my car again.

"Whatever, but I'm driving behind you to make sure you dont kill yourself," he said. Like always having to have a sarcastic comment.

I didn't say anything, just kept walking. I didn't mind that he was gonna drive behind me. Just another chance to annoy him by driving slow. That's what he gets for tackling me to the ground.

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