47

Amora

"You know I still cannot believe you're wearing a flannel!" Carrie stated, throwing her hands around as she motioned down towards my clothes.

I shrugged, looking down towards my clothes. I had on another one of Bennys piece that he stupidly forgot again.

Excerpt this time it wasn't a jersey, it was his blue flannel.

I had soon decided to just wear it after many minutes of contemplating and fighting with myself.

Today, I chose to pair it with a similar, dark blue plaid skirt and a plain white shirt. With white tube socks and my of course usual, white baby doll Mary Jane heels.

"Don't I recall you once saying flannels we're a don't?" She questioned, tilting her head as she nudged my arm.

"Yes, and I also recall me saying that Benny Rodriguez was a don't? Now look" I sighed, nudging her arm back.

"Lesson learned Carrie. Major lesson learned" I huffed, shaking my head as I kicked at a rock down the sidewalk.

We both continued to walk down the sidewalk before reaching the familiar gate and walking past it to see the group of boys who all sat around the dugout.

We both walked over, immediately making me roll my eyes when hearing them all awing once seeing me.

"Awe, she's wearing your flannel Benny man!" Kenny awed, smiling smugly as he nudged his arm.

"Oh how cute!" Squints mocked, folding his hands onto his chest with a sarcastic smile.

"Gosh ok.. can you mindless oafs please shut your mouths?" I huffed, sending them all an angered look.

I scoffed lightly, shaking my head as I glanced over to see Benny who rolled his eyes at them before walking over towards me.

He glanced down, cracking a smile as he shook his head "Why do you keep wearing my stuff?"

"Why do you keep leaving your stuff?" I questioned back, tilting my head slightly to the side.

He sighed, shaking his head with a smile."You know I'm doing it on purpose right?"

Immediately my eyebrows furrowed in confusion, crossing my arms as I huffed lightly."What! Why?"

"Because I know you, and I know exactly what you're going to do with them" He explained, cracking an amused smile as he pulled me closer towards him.

I scoffed, shaking my head at him as he wrapped his arms around me tightly. "Oh I so so knew it. You couldn't be that moronic to leave your favorite jersey twice!"

"Oh yes very cute, but can we please wrap this up. My clothes are going out of style here!" Squints exclaimed, throwing his hands up impatiently.

He immediately looked back, shooting yeah-yeah a look once seeing him beginning to open his mouth to speak. "Don't you dare yeah-yeah!"

"Oh finally! Now that you mention I've been so meaning to-

I paused once seeing squints very, highly unamused face. "I was kidding!" He grumbled.

"Oh you were? I wasn't" I smiled, tilting my head making him scoff at me.

Benny shook his head, squeezing me slightly before pecking a kiss onto my cheek and finally letting me go.

"Gosh finally. Go away you're going to crease my shirt!" I exclaimed, looking down and quickly smoothing out my top.

He smiled, shaking his head with a laugh before motioning the rest of the boys to follow as he turned, walking off down to the field.

I watched as they all one by one followed behind, sighing as I walked over and took a seat next to Carrie.

We continued to watch them for a few minutes when suddenly, harsh, continuous taps at my arm made me groan and shoo Carries hands away.

"God what?" I groaned, waving her hands away before rubbing the now sore spot on my arm.

"Look... it's Penelope?" Carrie suddenly exclaimed, pointing out.

Immediately I whipped my head over, knitting my eyebrows together in confusion once seeing Penelope at the fence.

She scanned the field slowly averting her gaze towards us, immediately smiling and walking over once she spotted us.

"Hi guys!" She smiled, flashing us a small wave once standing in front of us.

"Hey.. what are you doing here?" Carrie questioned, patting the spot next to her.

"Oh Benny asked me if I wanted to play so, here I am?" She smiled, shrugging as she motioned out into the field.

I slowly nodded, crossing my arms and leaning back onto the wall, sighing as I watched the boys continue to play.

"Oh hey, you came too play?" Benny asked, once jogging over.

"Yeah.. if that's ok?" She questioned, titling her head slightly.

"It's cool. Here, you can bat?" he questioned, holding up the bat in his hand.

"Eh..I may need a little help. I could use lots more practice. But sure" she motioned her hand side to side unsurely, shrugging slightly.

She nodded once taking it from him, shooting him a smile before they both jogged off back to the field.

I let out another sigh bringing my hands back up too cover my eyes from the sun, hoping to see the game better.

I watched as Penelope held the bat looking down at it unsurely, looking up and waving Benny over.

I scrunched my eyebrows, crossing my arms as I leaned forward to see better.

I bit onto the inside of my cheek, as Benny moved her hands around the bat before stepping back and nodding.

Penelope got into a stance, hitting the ball once it was thrown at her, sending the ball far out into the field.

The boys nodded in approval, clapping their hands with Benny who cheered and gave her a pat on the back.

I sighed rubbing my eyes, hoping desperately too cool this sudden frustration.

"Girl, what's up with you?" Carrie laughed, tearing open a packet of m&m's.

"Oh just peachy Carrie, nothing" I muttered, waving my hand and brushing her off.

We continued too watch the game, with Penelope who continued too bat a few times before getting switched again with Benny.

Suddenly a stupid, crazy, totally idiotic idea popped into my brain.

It was stupid, but nonetheless I continued with it. Slowly standing up from the bench.

"What are you doing?" Carrie asked, slowly plopping an m&m into her mouth as she watched me.

"I'm.. going to play" I answered simply, taking off my bracelets and rings before setting them down onto the bench.

Immediately she coughed, spitting out the now discolored m&m into her hand.

"What! What do you mean you're going to play?" She exclaimed, shooting up from the bench.

"I mean, I'm going to play?" I repeated, letting out a huff as I whipped around.

I walked over towards the field, seeing them continuing to play, barely noticing I was now approaching.

"Oh no, did you just come too make out with Benny or something?" Squints groaned, throwing his hands into the air.

They all erupted into laughter at his question. Rolling my eyes I scoffed, shaking my head at his words.

"No four eyes, I came.. to play?" I shrugged, lowering my voice as I grew nervous, dreading their reactions.

Immediately their laughter abruptly stopped, dropping their mouths as they looked at me in shock.

"What! You, you want to play?" Bertram exclaimed, pointing at me in confusion.

"Yeah sorry sweetheart, I don't think you could actually play. Well, maybe not good" Ham joked, crossing his arms as he shook his head.

They all erupted into more fits of laughter at his remark, making me roll my eyes again and cross my arms.

"Excuse me? You don't know if I could play good!" I defended, letting out an annoyed huff.

"Yeah yeah we do. Sorry Amora but your not really the ball player type" Yeah-yeah chimed in, shrugging as he looked down to his mitt.

"Oh whatever! Here- give me the bat!" I groaned, whipping around and holding out my hand.

Benny knitted his eyebrows together in confusion, continuing to watch as I approached him.

"Are you ok?" He questioned, titling his head as he give me a mix of confusion and worry in his expression.

He brought his hand up, placing the back of his hand onto my forehead. I scoffed, immediately swatting his hand away.

"What? I'm- I'm just fine" I groaned, clenching my teeth as I snatched the bat from him.

I let out a huff, whipping back around before slowly looking down at the bat as I realized I had no idea what to do with it.

"Uh.." I muttered, scratching my head in confusion.

Benny shook his head, cracking a small laugh as he stepped forward, placing my hands correctly onto the bat, and helping me with my stance.

"Benny- oh fuck what am I doing!" I whispered, suddenly wanting to turn and retreat.

"Oh I'm not even thinking straight. I'm going to totally make a fool out of myself, they're never going to let this go!" I continued, widening my eyes in panic.

"Amora, don't worry you'll do good. Just ignore them, you know how they are" Benny sighed, shaking his head as he looked back to the boys.

"What? Having second thoughts toots?" Squints called out, placing his hands onto his hips.

"No? Pfft- shut up!" I called back, shooing him away.

"Ok, you gonna throw or what denunez?" I questioned, motioning to the boy who stood in front of me.

"Alright.. I'll go soft on you" he teased, curling up his lips into smirk as he threw up the ball up.

After about two times of trying to hit the ball I wanted to scream and puncture a hole into the ball with my heel. Though that'd be nearly impossible and I would completely break my shoe seeing how hard the ball actually was.

"See, we told you!" Squints called out, after seeing the ball fly past me.

"Shut up, I'll go over there and beat your ass with this thing!" I shouted back, holding up the bat in my hand.

"Hm.. I wouldn't mind?" He crossed his arms, rubbing his chin as he thought.

Benny shook his head before swiftly throwing the baseball at him, making squints let out a shriek once the ball harshly hit him on the arm.

"Oh I swear to god I'm about to break something if I don't hit this thing" I mumbled to myself, angrily holding the bat back up.

I let out a huff, by now boy was I practically raging with anger at these annoying adolescent boys. I stood waiting for the ball too be thrown back to Kenny, quickly closing my eyes in fear once he threw the ball at me as I swung the bat as hard as my noodle arms could. Maybe even pretending it was squints and ham's face.

The sound of an unfamiliar voice letting out a shriek made me open my eyes, immediately looking around once seeing the ball was no longer in sight.

"Holy shit! You hit it over the fence!" Kenny exclaimed, looking over towards where the ball flew over.

"What-really?" I squealed, immediately dropping my mouth in shock.

"Did I just see correctly?" Squints questioned, taking off his glasses and rubbing them onto his shirt.

"How in the hell did you. Out of all people, do that!" Ham shouted, furrowing his eyebrows in confusion as he threw his hands up.

"I hit the ball? Benny I hit the ball!" I exclaimed, dropping the bat from excitement.

I whipped around to see his eyes lit up and his mouth slightly dropped as he looked at the fence before slowly looking down towards me.

"Holy shit.." He breathed softly, watching as I lightly jumped up and down.

I let out another cheer whipping back around, clapping my hands excitedly. Immediately dropping my smile once seeing a sudden little boy with Carrie.

"Yeah you hit the ball, but you also hit this little guy!" She called out, motioning down to the boy next to her.

"Oh shit!" I muttered, letting out a huff before quickly walking over.

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I waved at the little boy as he gave a sweet, adorable smile before walking back down the sidewalk.

"Oh he was so cute!" I awed, smiling as I turned back to Carrie.

"Yeah..too bad he now has a bruise on his cheek" She laughed, shaking her head at me.

I sighed, rolling my eyes as we turned back around, walking back into the field.

I quickly spotted Benny and Penelope who stood in front of each other on the field, talking while the boys began to make their way to the dugout.

I sat down onto the bench continuing to eye them. Slowly furrowing my eyebrows once seeing Penelope who looked down with a blushed face, tucking in a lose strand from her ponytail behind her ear.

She had this giddy smile plastered on her face, and I could definitely tell she was trying to hold in as much of the beaming smile as she can back.

They both nodded before separating with Penelope who waved at us before walking away.

Benny walked over taking a bottle of pop, turning around and immediately furrowing his eyebrows once he looked at me.

"Are you alright?" He questioned, sitting down next to me.

Immediately then I had noticed my face was tense, eyebrows scrunched, jaw clenched. Making me quickly soften my face and nod my head.

I cracked a small smile, nodding my head."I'm fine" I assured, my voice coming out softer than usual. Hoping to convince him and hold myself from completely bursting out.