"Corey lets go!" Joc yells at me from his seat next to me. "What?" I ask snapping from my trance of scanning the crowd for that girl. "You're up! Right now!" "Oh shit" I grab my bat putting on my helmet as I run up to the plate and quickly get in my stance. Strike 1. Strike 2. Hit. I whack the ball clear to centerfield and take off running glancing up to see it fly out. "YEAH!!" I yell throwing my fists in the air crossing the plate my teammates are all hitting and jumping on me but I find myself unable to move. Behind the dugout. Third row back. 7 seats in from the aisle. That's the girl. "Oh Coreyyyyy" Kiké sings poking my cheek with one of his damn bananas. I slap it away shaking my head and muttering about needing to see her. "Bro are you ok? You're way out of it tonight" Alex asks taking a seat to the left of me. "Ya I'm just a little distracted. I'll try to focus." "A little birdie told me it's a girl? A fan to be exact?" he winks wiggling his eyebrows. "Hernandezzz" I groan and run my hands over my face but I tell him the truth telling him where to look next time he is able to. "I gotchu man pass me a ball" he holds out his hand and I place a spare ball in it. "Dear pretty girl, Corey is so very distracted by your flawlessness and would like to know if you're going on a date with him after this game? Smile for yes, flick me off for no, but you're going Loveeeeeeee Alex" he says writing all over the ball. "Now I just gotta throw it up to her and see what she says!" "No no no you are not throwing her that ball. That's terrible!!" I grab the ball tossing it back into the bucket. No one will care when they find it they'll think it's some joke. But it's not.
"SHE SAID YES!!" Alex screams at me as I slump in the dugout after striking out. "Hmm? Who said yes? To what?" "That girl!! She's meeting with you after the game!!" "WHAT THE HELL?!?! I SAID DON'T ASK HER ABOUT IT!!" I run to the bucket to see the ball missing and mentally slap myself. Of course he would do it anyways. "Alex why can't you listen?!" "Bro I'm sorry I didn't know it mattered that much" "Whatever. That's bs" "There's so many pretty girls just go find another one. What's so good about this one?" "You wouldn't understand just leave me alone" my shoulder shoves his as I step by him and go to sit with Joc. Atleast he doesn't mess everything up.
