"Jake was a complete statue." Kyle was telling the whole family at dinner. "My dude didn't even flinch like he normally does."
"I'm not sure that's an improvent." Dave said with a raised eyebrow.
"It's certainly better than vomiting or passing out." Kyle refuted. He patted on the head. "Good job, Jake."
"He's not a dog." Noah slapped Kyle's hand away.
"Noah." Mom said with warning.
Noah rolled his eyes. "Why are you always busting , Mom? Kyle's the one giving Jake a hard ti."
"That sounded like a complint to ." Mom said before turning to . "You okay, Jake? With Kyle patting you on the head?"
I shrugged. "A lot of people pat on the head. It doesn't bug ."
"It'll stop once you start getting taller than them." Dave assured . "Zeke used to pat on the head all the ti."
"You an slap you upside the head." Kyle snickered.
"He'd still do it too if he was here." Noah laughed.
"Speaking of Zeke." Dad cleared his voice to get our attention. "His ga tomorrow is at San Francisco University. Your mother and I are planning to go and will stay the night up there. Your gramps will be in charge of dinner so I want you kids to be on your best behavior. Get your howork done and get to bed at a reasonable ti."
"I'm going to the girl's ga tomorrow." Kyle stated. "Coach already said he would give us the day off, but to expect a tough practice Wednesday."
"We're going too." Noah gestured to himself and then to . He looked at Kyle. "Are you trying to drive there? Cuz if you are, we want to ride with you. Jake on a bus with the baseball teams is hard enough. I don't want him to get stressed being with random kids from school."
I nodded in a hurry. "Yea, I rather ride with you."
"I'm going to need to get the gas tank filled up." Kyle said, looking at Dad. "The girls play over an hour away too."
Dad pulled out his phone. "I'll transfer you the money and you can get gas and snacks after school tomorrow."
"Guess it's just you and , old man." Dave joked with Grampa.
"Go with your brothers." Grampa waved him off. "I don't need you to keep company. I'll hang out at the community center and have dinner ready for you boys when you get back."
Dave grimaced. "I'm so la my own grandfather doesn't want to hang out with ."
"Do you not want to go?" Kyle raised an eyebrow.
"I would feel more comfortable about you kids taking the car if there are two drivers." Mom said, sounding a little worried.
"I'll go, I'll go." Dave said, cutting them off. "I was just going to work out on my own and maybe get so extra pitching in. It's not a big deal. I can take the day off like everyone else." He looked at Kyle. "Is Marie pitching every ga until they lose?"
"She'll get the start every ga." Kyle confird. "No pitching limits. But if she gets fatigued, they have others that can back her up."
The rest of dinner went quick. Then it was shower and bed. Not a whole lot of howork was due thankfully. The next morning was a flurry of looking for our school bags, in a hurry to eat breakfast, and then rushing off to school.
"Hey, leave the keys with ." Noah said as we started to unload the car. The twins had parked near the top, knowing that we wouldn't have to go to the baseball field today.
"What? Why?" Kyle squinted at him.
Noah rolled his eyes. "So I can take it for a joy ride obviously. No, you dope. Alisha asked if we could bring the signs she made in the car so it won't get ssed up on the bus."
"She's taking the bus? You didn't offer her a ride with us?" Dave asked.
Kyle handed over the keys. "Don't forget to lock the car."
"Yea, yea." Noah took the keys and looked to Dave. "She's taking the bus with so of her other friends. They're the ones that ca to our ga yesterday and scread really high-pitched."
The twins left and we waited for Alisha to co to the parking lot, saying 'hi' to a few classmates and teammates that would pass us by. Alisha showed up with two followers, and all three girls were holding a stack of posters.
Noah opened the trunk and put the third row down so there would be more space. Every poster had each player's na and number with so kind of encouragent written on it. There were bright neon posters, posters with glitter, and just so unique.
"Wow. I don't think you guys put this kind of effort into our stuff yesterday." Noah comnted as we helped get everything in.
"Of course not." Alisha slapped her hands together, trying to get so glitter off. "I don't have as much free ti with helping out Coach Wilcox prepare for your gas. It's a lot of note-taking."
"Our ga ended late yesterday and with the drive ho and dinner, you still found ti to do all this?" Noah gestured. "Yet you claim you can't do it for us?"
"Way to sound jealous, Noah." One of the girls, Brittany laughed.
"Noah hates sharing Alisha with Kaylee." The other girl, Amber, pointed out. She reached out to pat Noah's shoulder. "Don't worry, Alisha didn't do all of this. We did most of the work and just did the details together just now in the library."
"I expect the sa treatnt next week." Noah looked at Alisha with expectation.
Alisha grinned. "It's the finals. I won't let you down."
"What I think we should do is create a banner for the guys to run through." Amber suggested. "Like the cheerleaders do for the football team?"
"When would we run through it though?" Noah asked with a laugh. "Coming out of the dugout?"
"It was just an idea." She stuck her tongue out.
Noah closed the trunk and locked the doors, putting the keys away in his backpack.
"I have an idea!" Brittany raised her voice. "We definitely should get those big helium ballon letters. M-V-P." She spelt out. "For Jake to be MVP. Get it? It's going to happen right? All the guys say that he's like the best in the state right now or sothing."
I felt my face heat up. "I'm not the best."
Alisha laughed. "Yea, just second best." She turned to her friend. "That's a great idea. I'll get my parents to buy the balloons this weekend. They last a long ti so maybe we can use it for the girls ga too if they move on."
The girls and Noah all discussed potential ideas to use for the future. I just followed along, happy that we weren't just talking about . It was just a remark in passing. I could live with that. We reached the main hallway of the school and started to split up. Noah and I still had to go to our lockers and the three girls had class in the opposite direction.
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