Benny Rodriguez, your day one best friend. Literally day 1 you share the same birthday. He's been with you through everything, and I mean everything. He was with you when you figured out your parents died, and he lets you spend the night when things...
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May 31, 1962- First Day of The Summer of 62 Your POV
"Bubs. Bubsss. Bubblesss." I hear Benny saying but I pretend to ignore it. "Y/n wake up. We gotta meet the boys in 45 minutes. We gotta grab the new kid too." Benny says lightly shaking me. "Why do you gotta use my real name Benny." I say turning away from him. "Please get up bubbles." Benny says whining now, and I notice he's completely ready. "Fine. Fine. I'm up, see." I say. I grab the clothes out of my bag I want, and go into the bathroom to get ready. I brush my teeth and my hair. I put on my clothes, and then my cards hat. I then pop in a piece of gum.
"Kk I'm ready now." I say going into the living room where I see Benny watching the Astros and Cubs highlights from last night. The Astros beat the Cubs, thankfully. (If you don't know the Cardinals and the Cubs have a rivalry.) I hate the Cubs. They. Suck. Sadly, the Cardinals lost by one point last night to the Pirates which bites. But for the most part our season is going good right now. I really wish my dad never got hurt and played for the Cardinals. It's sad to think that by now he'd be playing in Busch stadium with people like Bob Gibson and Stan Musial. I mean my dad playing with Stan "The Man" Musial that would be amazing! Ken Boyer too. My dad was a center fielder so Curt Flood also had a place in my heart as well. "Bye Mom." Benny says taking me out of my trance. "Bye Myra." I say too and she tells us bye. "Benny do you realize my dad could've been playing with Stan Musial and Bob Gibson." I say as we walk. "That would've been amazing." He says thinking about it.
In a couple of steps we are at the new kids house and we see him sitting on the steps with a black eye. "We're gonna play some ball. We need an extra guy. Wanna come?" Benny says to him. "No thanks." He replies not looking at us, but his busted glove instead. "Why not? Don't you like baseball?" I said to him. "Oh yeah, but-" "but what" Benny cuts him off. "But my glove. It's busted." He says showing us his ruined glove. "See now I can't go. Thanks though." He say looking sad. "It's okay. I got an extra one." Benny says tossing him his glove. "Let's go" I add on. "Mom, I'm going to go play some ball! I'll be back in a little while!" He screams into the house. "Why's your name kid?" I ask as we walk towards Vincent's. "Scotty Smalls." He says. "Nice. Well Smalls, I'm y/n y/l/n, but you can call me Bubbles or Bubs. That's Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez, but you can call him Benny." Benny hits my shoulder playfully. "Come on Bubs you know I hate my full name." He says as I laugh
Smalls POV Are these two dating?
- time skip to Vincent's-
Your POV All I could hear was some muffled noises coming from ham. He had a bubblegum cigar in his mouth trying to say something. He takes it out. "I'm the great bambino!" All the boys go "oh" after wards and I laugh. "Whose that?" Smalls says. We all look dumbfounded and Benny just rests his head on top of mine with his hands on my shoulders. He probably regrets this now. "Were you born in a barn?" Bertram says. "Yeah yeah what planet are you from?" Yeah-yeah adds on. "You've never heard of the Sultan of Swat?" Squints says. "Yeah the titan of terror" Kenny says afterwards. "The Colossus of Clout." "The Colossus of Clout." Timmy then Tommy say. "The King of Crash man." Benny and I say at the same time his head still on top of mine and his hands on shoulders. I get butterflies realizing how long we've been standing like this. Oh my god. Butterflies. What. This is new. Oh Lordy. Okay it's fine. It's fine, and I repeat it's fine. I can feel myself getting a blush, and getting hotter. I try not the let the guys realize. "Oh yeah! The great bambino. I thought you said the great... Bambi." Smalls says taking my out of my Benny trance. "That wimpy deer?" Ham says. "Yeah I guess. Sorry." Smalls says almost defeated.
Benny started to introduce all the guys " Anyway, Scott, that's Timmy and Tommy Timmons, Mike "Squints" Palledorous, Alan McClellan, we call him Yeah-Yeah, Bertram Grover Weeks, Kenny DeNunez, and Hamilton Porter. We call him Ham. Guys, this is Scott Smalls." Once Benny said their name all the guys spit on the ground. When Benny was done Squints spit again. Through all this though he didn't get out of the position we were in. "Are they dating?" Smalls asks the guys pointing towards us. Benny immediately got off me, and I kinda missed it. Oh gosh I'm falling for my best friend. "No, no, no we're just really good friends." Benny says. "Yeah just really good friends." I add on. "Yeah-yeah friends who love each other." Yeah yeah says. "Shut it kid." I say to him. "Um, well he's going to play with us so that we can have an entire field and a batter. Now we have a whole team and an extra in case if someone gets hurt." Everyone knew Benny meant me "we are waisting time. Let's go to the sandlot." Benny finished.
"Why'd you bring him Benny?" Bertram asks. "Because now we have an extra. We have a whole field and a batter." Benny says. "Yeah yeah so would my sister but I didn't bring her." Yeah yeah says. I was standing behind all the boys with Smalls. "Don't listen to them. They don't know what they are talking about. You'll be fine. You'll figure it all out." I say to him lightly patting his shoulder. "With 10 guys we got an extra yeah-yeah." Benny argues. "No, with Elswenger. We had a whole team." Ham argues back. "Elswenger could catch and throw." Ham says. "Come on Benny, man. He ain't game. You saw the way he threw." Kenny adds on. I sit there and just shake my head. If you are going to talk bad about someone make sure they aren't in earshot...damn.
"Don't let em get to you Smalls. Even if you don't know how to play Benny and I will teach you." I say to Smalls seeing how he was getting more sad with every word. "And now I get to rotate the entire field and be batter. I need the practice guys." I hear Benny say as I start listening into the conversation again. "You're the best on the team you don't need any practice" said Ham. "No you don't" said Timmy. "You're the best man." Bertram added. "Come on Benny man, the kid is an L-7 Weenie." Squints said holding his fingers up in a square moving it away from his face. "Yeah yeah, Oscar Meyer even. A foot long!" Said yeah yeah. "Dodger dog! A weenie!" He continued to say getting louder. "Shut your traps guys. You all weren't good at one point either." I said finally speaking up tired of their shit. I walked towards the boys circle. "What're you laughing at yeah-yeah. You run like a duck." Benny says. "Kk but I'm.." "part of the game, right?" Benny finishes his sentence for him. "Mmm yeah." Yeah-yeah says. "Now come he don't get to be." I say. "Cause he's a geek man. He can't catch." Bertram says. I just roll my eyes. Benny looks down at me then up at the guys. "Man, just base up you blockheads." Benny says. He puts his arm around my shoulder and we head to Smalls who has his head hung low. Those feelings return from earlier. Butterflies and just enough to notice. "Are you good Bubs or do you need to sit down. You've been kinda spaced out today." He said looking at me and checking my face to see if I've gone pale. "I'm fine thanks for checking though." I reply. He doesn't believe my answer I know that. The reason I don't feel good is not cause I think Im going to faint, but it's because of the feeling in my stomach. "You're flushed. You're usually sick when you get flushed." He responds and he takes my face in his hands lightly and checking my temperature. "Benny it's probably 90 some degrees out here. Let's just talk to the kid, and I'll sit down and drink some water in the dugout. Sound good?" I ask "sounds perfect I don't want you to get sick on the first day of break." He says as we go back to Smalls. "I'm sorry I thought Bubbles was getting sick." He says. How I wish I was sick and not suddenly crushing on Benny.
A/N I'm sorry this isn't that good I've been in nashville for like 5 days and I've been so tired and busy lately I'm so sorry I'll update more
