Carlisle

Another few days past, Leah was still quiet, and always had the photo with her, but she looked okay. She talked occasionally. Mason wasn't okay, I could see it in his eyes, but he kept strong for Violetta.

Violetta and Jasper had gone out to talk and had been gone for about an hour.

"Mason?" I asked.

He looked up at me from the carpet, where he had been staring the whole time. All of the girls had gone on a shopping day, first to Port Angeles, then to Olympia.

Jasper and Emmett were playing their video games with Garrett. Edward and Eleazar were talking about something, and laughing a lot.

Renesmee was trying to keep Jacob and Seth occupied by a board game. She tried to get Leah involved, but she just watched. Occasionally she would be the argument resolver, deciding who was wrong in whatever game they were playing. This was their third one.

I motioned for Mason to follow me, and he stood, trailing behind me to my office.

He walked in and I closed the door. "That doesn't really provide much privacy, does it?"

"They're occupied."

Mason nodded and sat down when I motioned for him to. I sat on the corner of my desk. "Talk about it." I said.

"About what?"

"About whatever is upsetting you."

"I'm not upset."

"Hasn't anyone ever told you that you can't lie to me?"

"Yeah, I've been told multiple times." He rolled his eyes.

"So?"

He sighed and started talking quietly, but he was well aware that I could hear him clearly.

I waited patiently and nodded every time he looked up at me.

Then I proceeded to try and make him feel better, lift him up a bit.

He thanked me when I was finished, and he seemed to believe some of the things I said, or he was just a really good actor. He walked out and I sat behind my desk, completing some paperwork from the other day that I had never finished.

It was late when the girls got home. I let Renesmee order pizza for her, Violetta and the wolves, partly because I didn't feel like cooking, and because I wasn't sure when Esme would be back.

I heard Esme ask where I was, and she came up to my office where I was now reading.

She knocked quietly and walked in. I smiled and put my book down, "How was your day, love?"

"It was so much fun." She smiled as she walked around my desk towards me, "I missed you though."

I smiled again as she sat down in my lap and kissed me a few times.

"Esme, correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem to be leading to something else…"

"Mmhmm." She hummed as she kissed me again, tugging on my lip lightly.

Thunder sounded outside in the stormy rain. "Baseball!" Emmett exclaimed.

Esme and I ignored his excitement and she moaned into my mouth as my hands moved slowly down from her face to her waist, then to her hips.

Esme groaned and stood up when someone knocked. She appeared across the room and opened the door, "What Emmett?"

"Sorry in interrupt…" He was smirking, "But we're going to play baseball and I figured I would invite you."

Esme looked back at me and I shrugged my shoulders. I didn't mind which activity we did. Granted, this could be the only time to play baseball within a few weeks, and we could always return to our original plans later.

"We'll be there soon, you can go set up." Esme said.

Emmett's face lit up and he disappeared from the door.

A moment later I heard all of them leave, and I heard Leah laughing. That was nice to hear again.

Esme turned and looked at me, "We can always have private time, we can't always play baseball."

I smiled and nodded, standing up.

We went and got changed for the game and ran to the clearing we always played in.

When we got there, it was all set up and they were trying to decide teams. Tanya said she didn't want to play as she walked away with her ringing phone, and I assumed it was Alistair.

That gave us 18 people, 9 to each team. We decided mate against mate was good, and sister against brother in terms of Leah and Seth.

"Vi, do you even know how to play baseball?" Emmett asked.

"Oh Em, I was playing baseball before I could walk…" She replied.

"Really?"

"…No, it's just expressing that I know how to play baseball…"

"Oh, I thought you were being serious."

"You thought that I couldn't hold myself up, but I could hold a bat? And I could throw and catch a ball?"

He shrugged his shoulders, "You can do everything else."

She stared at him for a second before shaking her head and walking over to Jasper and Rosalie on the other side of the plate. She was on our team, and we were batting first. It was me, Violetta, Jacob, Jasper, Rosalie, Leah, Bella, Garrett and Carmen.

"You've got two wolves…" Emmett laughed.

"So do you…" Jasper said.

"No I…oh, Seth and Mason."

"Ha ha, you have Mason." Violetta smirked.

'Hey, you're going down, Vi." Mason called.

She was still smirking, "Bring it on."

Esme and I looked at each other and broke into laughter. I don't know why we were laughing, but everyone looked really confused.

"What?" Emmett asked.

Esme shook her head as she tried to stop her laughs.

"Okay, let's get this game going."

Rosalie batted first, getting to third base. Tanya hung up her phone and moved to umpire. Garrett was next, hitting both him and Rosalie home.

Emmett caught Jasper out in the air, leaving Emmett calling jokes out and rubbing it in.

I hit next, getting to second as Edward almost tagged me out. Carmen hit herself to second next, but I only reached third because they threw the ball to Esme, who was catching. Leah hit herself to first, not getting past there, as she was only in her human form.

Next was Violetta. Mason egged her own as she approached the plate. She moved the dirt under her feet and twisted the bat in her hands before she settled herself. Alice pitched, and Violetta hit the first one, out far into the trees. Emmett and Kate chased it out, but they didn't catch it. Violetta hit myself, Carmen and Leah home before she slid into home plate where Esme almost tagged her out. Tanya called her safe.

Our whole team cheered, and Emmett and Edward were left with their mouths hanging open. "What the hell? You're so small…" Emmett said.

"How long since you've done that?" Rosalie asked him with a smirk.

"I don't want to follow that…" Jacob said.

"Awh, come on Jake." Renesmee called, "If you get safe at first, I'll buy you a beer."

He stepped up to the plate and hit the first one Alice threw. Eleazar jumped up a few trees and caught it, throwing it back to Alice easily.

"Now you owe me a beer." Renesmee laughed.

"We'll see how you go." Jacob smirked at her.

Bella turned the bat in her hands a few times and steadied herself. Alice threw a ball, Bella left it. "You're not going to get me out that easy again…" Bella laughed. Alice laughed with her.

Alice threw one right down the middle. Bella hit it into the trees. Seth was standing back at the trees, it fell straight to him. He caught it and threw it to Edward, who threw it to Alice.

"Can't throw that far Seth?" Jasper asked.

"Saving my strength." He called back with a smirk.

Rosalie was up again and only got herself to first base as Renesmee picked it up from the ground and threw it in.

Edward caught Garrett out next.

Then we swapped over. Mason stopped Violetta as they passed each other.

"That was a good hit." He complimented.

"I believe you are not supposed to support the opposing team, Mason…" She smirked.

"You catch me out and I will not be happy." He smiled and walked away as Emmett called him over.

"Wait, do any of you pitch?" Jasper asked.

We all shook our heads. "Shit…" Jasper said.

"I have in the past…" Violetta said.

"Were you any good?" Rosalie asked.

"I don't think that matters Rose, she's the only one that can do it even remotely well…" I said.

Jasper gave me the ball. "Good luck."

We spread out across the field.

"Oh, you pitch too? You're just a gun." Kate smirked.

"Watch yourself…" Violetta smiled, "You wouldn't want to strike out."

"Oh?" Kate raised her eyebrows.

"Ha! Alice, she knows more pitches than you do!" Edward said.

"There is a lot to hate about you, Vi…" Alice smirked.

"Just step up to the plate." Violetta rolled her eyes.

Edward stepped forwards, flicking his hair and steadying his stance.

Violetta pitched it to Carmen. Edward let the first one go to see the pace and action. It was a strike.

"Holy shit, you're faster than Alice too." Edward said.

"Oh, fucking hell." Alice shook her head and laughed.

Edward hit the next one, it was a curve ball, but he still got it. It went out to Garrett. He lunged for it and almost dropped it, but was successful in his catch. He threw it back into Violetta. She caught it without really watching. She was looking at Jasper who was laughing at Edward as he cursed and walked off.

"How the hell did you catch that?" Jasper asked her.

"Well, I put my hand under it and it landed in it. That's usually how you catch a ball."

"You're being very savage today…" He said to her.

She laughed with him and turned back to see Alice approach the plate. She kicked the dirt and winked at Violetta, waiting for the pitch.

The game went through, and we were tied after we batted twice, and they had batted three times. We didn't turn over after their second round, so they had 2 in a row. Our last batter was Violetta, and Carmen was on third. If she hit Carmen home, then we would win. Emmett and Edward were very hyped up and ready to catch her out, and throw Carmen out at home. If they did that, we agreed that they would win.

Violetta was smirking, they had all moved back except for Mason and Seth, who would take the shorter space, but they were a far way apart, and they wouldn't get there in time if she hit it to the right spot.

She hit it out, to the exact spot I was predicting. Mason dived for it, but he missed. Seth didn't even try. Emmett had run forwards for it but he didn't react quickly enough.

Carmen got home easily. Emmett fumbled with it, and Violetta got between third and home by the time it reached Esme. She stopped and smirked at Esme as she saw Edward out the corner of her eye run towards third for a run down.

The closed inwards onto her and she saw only one option to get safe. She stood near Edward, and the moment Esme let go of the ball, she was sliding between Esme's legs, popping up and running the few extra steps to home plate.

"You're just a pro. That isn't fair, I didn't realise we would be playing with a freaking major league member…" Emmett joked as they all walked in.

"Just because you would have tripped Esme over…" She smirked at him.

"I wouldn't have gone between her legs." He shook his head.

"Hey Emmett, remember when Esme came back from her search for Violetta and you called her hot?" Edward asked.

"You did?" Esme stared at him.

"No." Emmett shook his head quickly.

"He did." Rosalie, Jasper and Alice said at the same time.

"That's your mother…" Jacob said to him in a disgusted tone.

"Emmett? Don't come near my wife." I joked.

"Oh please, if I wanted her, I would have her…" He said.

"Don't flatter yourself…" Esme smirked as she put her arm around me.

Mason walked over behind Violetta and slid his arms around her waist. He kissed her cheek and she smiled.

"My hand still hurts…" Seth said quietly as he inspected his hand. He didn't extend his arms completely, so when the bat connected with the ball, it hurt his hand.

"It'll fade soon." Leah assured. "Maybe if you could swing a bat…"

"Shut up Leah." He smirked at her.

I smiled and kissed Esme's hair.

"Can we go home now?" She asked quietly.

I smirked and nodded.

"Yeah, guys were gonna hang out here for a few hours…4 hours." Edward said, glancing at us briefly. "No arguments…" He said to the others.

They all caught what he was saying. Violetta made a disgusted noise. Carmen smirked at Esme, "Remember our conversation the other day…"

"Esme put in the most advice." Rosalie laughed.

"Ah, you can shut up now." She said, looking down in embarrassment.

She took my hand and pulled me away swiftly.