𝕯𝖎𝖋𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖓𝖙

𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗 5

𝙱𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚢

When I got home, man, I felt high up in the clouds. I finally did it, I asked Elena Maria Santos to be my girlfriend, my lover, my queen, my everything. Man when she kissed me, I felt fireworks go off. But now what makes me scared is what if our family finds out. I really wanna show her off everywhere I go but our town is small and everyone knows everything.

I woke up around 7:00am to go to the sandlot earlier than the others. I kicked my sheets off me and dragged myself out the room to the bathroom. I brushed my teeth, brushed my hair a bit and put on my blue dodgers hat. I changed into my long sleeve green and white shirt and put my 'Rodriguez 30' over it. I changed from my plaid pj pants to my jeans and folded them at the bottom. I put on my PF flyers and looked in the mirror to see if my outfit was fine and it was.

I walked downstairs to the kitchen to make myself cereal. No one was awake due to it now being summer. So my mom didn't have to wake up super early anymore to make my siblings and I breakfast. I reached up to grab a bowl from the cupboard. Grabbed the cereal from the pantry and the milk from the fridge. I started mixing the cereal and milk and threw everything back to its place and grabbed a spoon and sat in the island to eat. I then saw a magazine of the MLB and started reading threw it. The magazine read,

"The 1992 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1992 season. The 89th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Toronto Blue Jays and the National League (NL) champion Atlanta Braves. Toronto defeated Atlanta four games to two, marking the first time a team based outside the United States won the World Series. The Blue Jays remain the only Canadian team to have appeared in, and won, a World Series (which they would do again the following year, in 1993). The 1992 World Series was the first World Series in which games were played outside the United States."
Man seeing history happen was cool. I then heard the floor creek. I shot my head up from the magazine and seen my brother.

"Dude what are u-" he got cut off with a yawn -doing up so early?" "Well I was getting ready to go to the sandlot." "Like always 🙄." "Ima go back to bed so next time don't be so loud." "Sorry Alex." He then mumbled something but I didn't really hear what he said and shrugged it off. Then I washed my plate up from when I finished the cereal and walked outside. "Shoot, almost forgot my bat." I grabbed my bat and went back out. I started walking to the sandlot when I saw the scariest person in the world. Elena's older brother Oscar. He then saw me and nodded his head as in a way to say 'hi' I just nodded back and walked to the sandlot. Man was that the scariest time of my life.

I walked in the sandlot to see everyone huddled  in Mr. Mertle's fence. I furrowed my eyebrows and walked over. Then I started to hear a few more sniffles. Mr. Mertle's eyes were glossy. I wasn't able to see anyone else's face. "Hey guys what-" then I saw it. Hercules there lying with his eyes closed and his chest not moving up and down till I realized...he passed away. I just took off my hat and put it up to my chest. Then some memories started to play in my head when I felt my eyes get watery. The guys and I grabbed a blanket and moved Hercules on top of the blanket.

"Hey guys!-" I turned to see Elena. "What happened?" The boys turned their faces to see him. She then followed and she just froze. "No....please no....NO PLEASE NOT HERCULES PLEASE." She then fell to the ground next to Hercules' body. I then ran to her and held her close to me. She just kept crying in my arms. Man, seeing her like this broke my heart so much.

The boys and I then starting digging a hole in the backyard and carried Hercules in the hole. They then started putting the dirt back on top of his body. Elena stayed close to Mr. Mertle to keep him company. Even though he was blind, hearing all the commotion made him know what was happening. Under his sunglasses were just droplets of tears. We then finished digging and Elena was gone. I started looking around and saw her with some flowers and a picture frame of Hercules with all of us. She placed the flowers on top of the dirt and kissed the frame and put it on top of the dirt. She then backed up and stood next to me.

We didn't play baseball at all that day. We just sat in the dugout and stayed silent. We all just cried. Elena's head was rested on my shoulder. Hercules was the best dog anyone could ask for. He was really loving and very protective. "So Elena how do u know Hercules if I've never seen u with him?" Ham asked. "Oh um...when I was younger Mr.Mertle would take care of me while my parents were working and my siblings were still in school. So everyday I would always go outside with Hercules and play with him.
Everyday I would sometimes go take him on walks. Older men would pass by us and he would just growl at him." She then chuckles and wipes her nose with the tissue. "Then they would just run off. Or even sometimes I would buy food and I would sometimes get him a bowl of chicken and I would eat outside with him." She then starts sniffling again and her eyes start getting glossy. "I just miss him so much. If he were here right now he would probably be the one comforting me." I pull her into a hug and she puts her arms around my waist and I wrap my arms around her arms.

The boys all look at each other with the word 'confusion' all over their faces. "WAIT WAIT WAIT, u 2 a thing?" Yeah-yeah asks while pointing to us. "Ya we are." I answer back. "HAHAHA I WIN. GIVE ME YOUR MONEY PEOPLE!!!" Everyone just groans and each of them pop out a dollar and give it to squints. "Huh?" Elena asks confused just as I am. "Oh right we bet that if you both were gonna date, I would get paid a dollar by each person. 😁 Everyone doubted me so I made a bet with them. So now I'm rich." Everyone just groans and Elena let's out a small laugh. We all get up and head home because the sun was setting. "Hey we'll see you guys tomorrow." "Ok Benny. Bye Elena!!" She waves and they all walk off. "Benny what is it?" "I just wanted some alone time with you." I say as I grab her hands. "Aww Benny 🥺." She then tippy-toes and give me a peck on my lips. We then start playing baseball until it got really dark.

I walked her home and I walked in my home and my whole family was there. Everyone was pissed my mom was in the corner shaking her head with my brother. He looked really sorry for some reason."Um what's up familia?" I ask really confused. "Your in big trouble mister!!" My sister Jimena says. "Very!!" Daniela says. "Why were u with that girl?!" "Dad what are you talking about?" "ELENA!!!" My dad and sisters scream in sync.
Oh shit...