The girl next door//Benny Rodriguez

Chapter 2: Stalkers

Benny's pov:
I watched the girl leave, I wonder if they had just moved. She was pretty, like really pretty. Like prettier then Wendy Peffercorn pretty.

Anyway, I went up to the cashiers after they left to pay for a muffin. "Hey Gramps, just this" I said, putting the muffin on the counter. "How y'a doin Rodriguez" Gramps asked as he typed in the price of my muffin into the register.

"Pretty good, actually I have a question" I said, as he handed me my muffin. "And what's that son" he said, putting his arms on the counter.

"Who was that gir- who were those two in here earlier" I said, scratching the back of my head. "I don't exactly know jet, the young lad said they had just moved from Ontario" he said, wiping down the counter.

I wonder if she plays, she had a jersey on. I think it said Levesque 27, "oh cool, thanks Gramps" I said, walking away from the counter. "See y'a around jet" he said, as I was leaving.

I walked to the sandlot still thinking about this girl, I don't know why though. I've never thought about a girl this much. Baseball is usually always on my mind.

I walked onto the sandlot, all the guys were sitting in the dugout. "Jeez Benny took y'a long enough" ham shouted at me. "I know sorry I wanted to get a muffin" I said, sitting down on the bench. "It doesn't take that long to get a muffin, Benny" said, DeNunez from behind me.

"Yeah yeah, what else were y'a doing" I heard yeah yeah ask me from the other side on the dugout. "Nothing, I was just talking to Gramps about the two new kids" I said, grabbing a coke from the fridge.

"New kids?" Said Bertram, who was throwing a ball up and down. "Yeah, a boy and a girl". Squints looked at me with a smirk, "you were looking at a girl". I looked at him, "what nooo! I was just... yeah I was, she was pretty ok" I said, putting my head in my hands. "How pretty?" Said ham, sitting down beside me.

"I thought she was prettier then Wendy" I shrugged, blushing thinking about her. "Wendy Peffercorn!?!" Squints yelled.

"Yeah?" I said, confused. "No way Benny" he crossed his arms. "I'm serious!" I crossed my arms, mocking him. He cooked his head back, surprised.

"Wait do you like her?" Said DeNunez, putting his hand on my shoulder. "No man, I just thought she was pretty and plus, baseball"

He looked at me with his eyebrows raised. "I don't like her DeNunez, I didn't even talk to her" I said, shaking my head.

"Now I wanna see her" said Yeah Yeah, standing up. "Me too, no way she's prettier then Wendy" said Squints.

Now everyone wanted to see her, I shouldn't of said anything. They all get weird with girls, like flirting and shit.

They all started to walk away, "wait hold on you're serious!?" I said, catching up with them. "Ugh yeah we wanna see" said Ham. I shook my head.
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We walked the way I saw them leave, I don't think were gonna find them though. I hope not, the guys would probably scare her away.

We were getting close to my house, when I noticed across the street two people throwing a baseball back and forth, the girl and the boy.
"Guys! That's her, cmon" I said, as we all hid behind a bush staring at her.

"Man, you were right, she is pretty" said Smalls. "Yeah yeah" said yeah-yeah. "Yeah and she plays!" Said DeNunez. We all sorta just stared at her.

Kinsleys pov:
Me and Luke were bored so we just went outside to play catch. Jacob was asleep and dad was watching tv.

We started throwing the ball around, "man I gotta get a new glove" Luke said, as he threw the ball back, examining his glove.

"Yeah, it's gonna brake someday, getting you right in the face" I laughed, throwing it back.
"Ha ha, very funny, just don't throw any harder" he said, throwing it back.

"You mean like this!" I wounded up my arm, bring my leg up and pitching him a ball. He caught it in his glove but made him fall back at the same time. He took his hand out of his glove, shaking it up and down "Jesus Kins, that stings you know, holy fuck" he said, still on the ground.

"Yeah well, better get used to it, I mean you are living with the best female baseball player around these parts" I said, adding a western accent and the finger gun to the end of my sentence.

We both laughed as I helped him off the ground. "Ugh who are they?" He said, pointing somewhere. I turned around to see some boys staring at us, they moved back quickly trying not to get caught. I caught them

"I have no idea" I said, turning back towards Luke. "Lemme deal with them" he said, punching his hand, giving the hint he was gonna beat them up.

I laughed, "no it's fine I got this, we just moved they're probably curious" I said, walking toward the bush.

As I got closer, I heard whispers from behind the bush,
Shut up they saw us
What no we're fine
I wonder if they're nice
Yeah yeah maybe she'll play with us
Yeah she plays
She plays

I walked around the bush to see 9 boys squatting on the ground. "Hey stalkers, can I help you?" I said, with a confused smile.

They all got up really quickly, their eyes wide. "N-no we just heard about new kids" said the dark skinned boy.

I recognized one of them, the cute boy from the bakery. "Hey, I saw you at the bakery right?" I said, pointing at him. "Yeah, that was me" he said, shyly.

"You play baseball?" Said the shorter boy, who was dressed a bit fancier then the others. "Yeah I do, well I did back home" I said, looking down at the ground.

"Yeah yeah, that's cool, I've never met a pretty girl who plays... actually I've never met any girl who plays" said another one of the short boys.

"Well now you do" I said, winking at him. Making him blush. "I'm Kinsley, Kinsley Levesque." I said, smiling at everyone.

"Well I'm Benny Rodriguez, and this is everyone". He introduced everyone as they all spat on the ground. I thought it was kinda funny but I didn't wanna laugh you know, that's... rude.

"You should play ball with us" said Smalls, looking around at everyone. Before I got a chance to say anything, Ham spoke up, "no way! She's a girl! Just because we saw her playing catch doesn't mean she can play" he said, putting his hands on his hips.

"Did you not see her pitch, it knocked that guy over!" Said Timmy. "Yeah, it knocked that guy over!" Tommy copied and I giggled.

"It's fine I get it, it happens a lot. I'm a girl" i said, putting emphasis on girl. "Anyway I'll talk to you guys later, or probably not... because I'm a girl" I said, walking away from the guys, turning one last time to see Benny looking upset.

Luke was watching from the window, "what did they want?" He questioned me. "Nothing they heard about new kids so they wanted to check us out I guess" I shrugged.

He nodded, "you mean check you out" he pointed at me. "What no!" I laughed and rolled my eyes. Luke being overprotective again, here we go.

I walked away from Luke before he could keep going and I just went to my room. I wanted to be friends with the boys but they're like other teams I've played on. I'm a girl who is really good at baseball and no one believes me. Stupid society.