Sep.28

September 28th
At the end of the school year in the 8th grade I decided to try out for the softball team.
Chrissy obviously encouraged this.I even got the pitcher position.I preferred
baseball because I throw better over-handed but I just practiced.Chrissy showed me a few
pointers also.Its a friday so we have a game.We play Bonier Girls Academy.They
are about 35 miles form our city.I like their shopping malls there,but their
clothes cant even prepare them for the butt-whooping thery are about to
receive.We will be called out of class at 2:00 so we'll have time to get there
and time to practice.
2:10
The bus was crowded when I got on.A tangle of Orange and purple uniforms
and socks.Sam saved me a seat in the back so we could act up all we wanted
The boys were riding in the bus behind us because their game was against
Bonier Boys Academy and came after our game.Ours at 3:20 theirs at 4:30.
Unfourtunately I didnt see Roy when before I got on.That didnt matter since
everyone was buzzing about their hookup.Now the bust was filled with
gossip and rumors going right to left.My heart plunged as I heard even one
of their names.Lunch today was the hardest me having to watch his hand resting
on her low back.I know enough to make you want to puke,obviously also
enough to make me fill up with enough envy and jealousy to devise plans
against her.I wonder how I would look if I was blond?Mom could take me
shopping.....
"Amber!"Samantha screamed.
"What,huh?"I asked all confused.
"Ive been calling your name for the last billion years,"she said taking a sip of
her gatorade.
"Oh my Gawd,"Gatorade,I forgot mine!"I said feeling dumb I must have left
it in my locker.I always leave things my homework assignments everything!
I did have my picture of David Becham that made me smile everytime I opened
it.He had his shirt off.
"Chill,you can buy one when we get there,"Samantha said in her laid-back play
it cool voice.This was good for me cause Im always freaking out about everything
I say or do."Thank you Sam,I'm glad you are my bestfriend!"I said hugging her
tightly.
Sam took this as a surprise and her body stiffened.
"Okay Weirdo,can you let me go?"she said.
I let her go.
The Bonier Stadium was bigger than I had imagined.
There was alot of people..here to see me.Bonier was a big school not much
bigger than ours though,and softball was a major sport there.I could see my Mom
in the stadium waving at me.I waved backMom and Dad always came to my games
If mom couldnt come than dad would.They both were busy,then Chrissy would
film it.Bonier was a tough team to beat.They put up a good fight but the ending scores was 5
to 8.I scored a homerun,the only homerun.We were all celebrating when the
boys passed us to stretch.Roy looked my way so I told him good luck .
He just smiled at me.A kind of flirtacious smile.He looked so good in his uniform
I heard myself giggle.He has a tight butt.
"Um Amber are you going to keep doing this?"Sam said her hands on her hips
I had zoned out again.Everyone was looking our way.
"Uh-yeah,I mean no....Keep doing what?"I asked not remembering what she
had said or asked.
"Its like you live on another planet sometimes,"she said.The bus ride was loud
and rumbunctous.I didnt participate in any of it. I just sat in my seat wondering about Roy
and what I was going to do.I did not talk to him after thier win he seemed occupied with him and the
boys being rowdy and out of control on purpouse.Their coached had threatened them that he would make them walk if they didnt behave.I had laughed and trying to picture them walking all the way back
J.Brown or Bronathon,the name of our city.I wonedered if anyone would try to pick them up.I know that
I would.Mom and Dad came and picked me up from the school.It was 5:50.I was glad that it was the
weekend.Mr.Chuck was getting on my las nerve with all of his lectures about the 9th grade and the
pressures,its like when are we going to start learning about the American Revolution ?I said good-bye
to Sam and we pulled off,me in the backseat of my dad's Lexus.We're not rich,just middle class,my dads an attorney,and my mom is a pediatrician which served well when I was a baby.