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Chapter Twenty-Five: Nomads

Chapter Twenty-Five: Nomads

Bella POV

Carlisle and Rose did a stacking hand thing with the bat to see who would go first and Rose won. Me and Esme would be the referee and Alice would be the pitcher. Thank god, I would have fallen on my butt playing this game. I had a feeling they would start playing at vampire speed anyway, and something was telling me, we were going to have trouble.

"It's time." Alice says as lighting cracks across the sky. The gets into position and quickly glares at Emmett before throwing the ball at vampire speed. Rose hit it and it made a huge crack and went flying through the air.

I flinched slightly before watching in amazement as Edward zoomed off to get it. Wow, vampire baseball looked way more funnier than the regular kind. I understand now why they needs it to be storming.

Edward came back and threw the ball towards Esme. Rose came zooming around the corner but was to late when she hit base.

"Out." I say. Rose smiles reassuring it's ok and heads to stand beside us while Carlisle goes.

He hits it with the same amount of force and zooms off while Edward and Emmett run for the ball. They bang into each other as they both jump up for the ball making a loud crack.

Jasper's up next and I watch as he hits the ball with precision just like the others. He takes a run around an I can't help but notice he seems to be much faster than the others.

Of course their all fast so I don't know how I would be able to calculate that but, I guess I'm just full of surprises.

Suddenly Alice freezes and Edwards head snaps in my direction. He quickly gestures for everyone to come over to me while he moves.

"Carlisle, the nomads are coming this way. They heard us." Edward says and everyone glances at me worriedly.

Before they could do anything, I spot three vampires making their way towards us. I swallow and jerk my head slightly in their direction.

Everyone gets into a line and I stand between Carlisle and Esme. The African American one grins and holds his hand up, showing that he hold our ball.

"I believe this is yours." The man says and throws the ball at vampire speed. Carlisle's hands blurs up and he catches the ball.

"Yes, thank you." He says. "You do realize the land has been claimed."

The man acts surprised. "Well, I had not realized the land had been claimed."

"Yes well, we try to keep permanent residence."

"Oh my! I forgot to introduce us! I am Laurent. This is Victoria." He says gesturing to the blood, red eyed girl with fiery red hair. She nods slightly, not moving her gazed from us.

"And James." Laurent says, gesturing to the creepy, long, blonde haired dude. Carlisle nods.

"I am Carlisle and this is my wife Esme, and family: Edward, Alice, Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper, and Bella." He says gesturing towards each of us. Laurent nods.

"Sohoho, have room for three more players?" Laurent asks. Everyone glances at Carlisle.

"Come on, just one game."

"Sure, why not. A few were just leaving, you can take their place." Carlisle throws the ball and Victoria catches it with ease.

"I'm the one with the wicked curve ball." She says.

"Well, I think we can handle that." Jasper says, trying to ease the tension. Everyone laughs.

"Oh, we'll see about that." Victoria says grinning as she and Laurent turn and high five. They start walking but James doesn't move, his eyes trained on me.

Esme grabs my arm and we move but of course, the damn wind has to blow and ruffle my hair. Bella luck. James gets into a stance.

"You brought a snack!" He says sadistically. Carlisle and Esme crouch in front of me and everyone else hisses and crouches at the side. Laurent and Victoria get into crouch, following along with James.

"The girl is with us!" Carlisle says with a deathly calm.

"Alright, we shall leave then. James!" Laurent barks, slowly backing away. Victoria hisses before her and James jerk back and stalk away, with James putting his arm around Victoria.

Once their gone and out of sight everyone starts gathering things and pulling me toward the jeep. I just follow along, confused on what that was all about.

As I got in the jeep I started to get a feeling, were it was time, jut like my mom said. It was time to let them know, they were going to have to tell me anyway but, telling I know will make things easier.

Jasper drove very quickly back to the house. Everyone was waiting there when we got out. Carlisle came over to us.

"Laurent stopped by, warning us about Victoria." Carlisle says. Jasper shakes his head.

"Don't trust him." Jasper says before leading me to a black Mercedes. I get in the back and Jasper gets in the drivers seat. Alice hops in the passengers seat, much to her disappointment.

Jasper than hits the gas pedal and we're on our way to Phoenix, thou, I have no idea why.

Jasper keeps throwing me worried looks every so often. I kept nodding once every time he looked back. Alice, there was something off about her. Her mood around me had seem to shift slightly.

Jasper must have noticed or something to because he kept giving her confused looks. Jeesh, she was so confusing.

~.~

I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I knew, Kasper was shaking me slightly and Alice was up in the hotel checking us in.

Jasper helped me out of the car and lead me to the hotel room. Where we waited for any news on Victoria. Edward, Rose, and Emmett had gone to try and catch James off guard with my sent while Carlisle and Esme searched for Victoria because apparently Laurent was checking out Denali's; who were their-I'm mine too now I guess-cousins.

Suddenly, Alice gasped and scrambled for the paper and pencil that happened to be laying on the table. I frowned in confusion. Did Alice have a power also? Was Edward not the only one?

"Alice can see the future. She has visions." Jasper explains. I nod, that would explain why her eyes glazed over and she's drawing like crazy.

"It's the tracker, James. He's figured it out. He's change his course." She says as she keeps drawing. I frown and look at the picture.

"So the trackers course is going I lea him to my Aunts house?" I ask.

"You have an Aunt?!" Alice asks, seeming angry that I could have gone to my Aunt instead of them.

"No, I did have an Aunt. She was rich an died a few years ago. Thou, no one ever found her money so Charlie never got anything." I say grinning at how furious Charlie had been, thou, it ended with me being stabbed in the arm and smacked. That wiped away the smile.

Suddenly my phone started buzzing and I turned to answer it.

"Carlisle?"

"We lost the tracker. We're coming to get ya. Then hopefully we can move an get out of James's radar." He explains.

"Alright." I say and hang up.

I head to my 'room', feeling guilty and helpless. I messed up this family big time. I can't help do anything, and everyone's putting their lives in danger for me.

I laid down on the bed and stare up at the ceiling. A knock on the door made me sigh.

Jasper appeared in the door way and entered my room.

"You aren't helpless Bella. You mean way more to me and my family than you know." He says.

"But Alice-" I start but he cuts me off.

"Has her days. But just ignore her. she'll come around." He says. "But Bella, you are worth it."

I feel my eyes flutter close with his last words as lethargy takes over. But before I lost conscious, I could have swore he kissed me!