Baseball Girl

Chapter one

Nicole POV

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I hear my alarm go off. I turn to look at the clock
*6:30*
"Ughhhh" I moaned as I dragged myself out of bed. Today is my first day at my new school and baseball tryouts. Yes, baseball. This new school cut the softball program and some of the girls are trying out for the baseball team. My brother Max is also trying out. Max is 1 year older than me. The best part is that my dad is the new baseball coach. Well okay that's not really a good thing I mean do I really want baseball practice to be a family event. No of course not but there's nothing I can do about that, I love the game so much I don't have another option.

I'm finally out of bed. I walked into the bathroom took a shower and brushed my teeth. I walked over to my closet and threw on an outfit. After I got dressed I braided my hair and hopped down the stairs for breakfast
"Hey Nic you ready for school" my dad said as I sat down at the counter
"Sure" I said pouring a bowl of cereal
"Girls" Max said sitting down next to me rolling his eyes.
"Well good morning to you too Maxy" I sad rolling my eyes at him. I grabbed my bag and walked into the garage Max following after me.
"So you ready for tryouts?" Max called as we walked into the garage
"Yeah are you?" I asked
"Yup" he said popping the p. I swung my softball or baseball stuff over my shoulder and got in the car with Max.

We got to the school and I slowly got out of the car. Out of nowhere a group of guys came over to Max and started talking. I started walking away when Max pulled me back and said "guys this is my sister Nicole, she's trying out for the team too."
Great their baseball guys...
"Hey" I said softly
"Hi" a bunch of them said I could feel them all looking at me. They started talking again and I walked away. I was almost the the front door when I heard some one call my name
"Hey ummm Nicole" I turned around and saw one of the baseball guys
"Hey I'm ummmm Jackson"
"Are you sure?" I asked " you don't seem so sure"
"Haha yeah I'm sure" he smiled " so uh Nicole.."
"You can call me Nic. Max only calls me that cause he knows I don't like it." I interrupted
"oh uh yeah sure Nic, do you need any help getting to you classes or anything." "Um sure That would be nice"
"Okay um what do you have first?"
" oh um I have math"
"oh really me too, let me show you where it is."
"thanks" I smiled
We walked into the school and immediately everyone looked at me. I just put my head down and kept walking with Jackson. We walked into the math classroom and I sat next to him. The bell rang and the first thing the teacher did was say
"Okay class we have a new student today her name is Nicole Logan I want you all to be nice."
The whole class started to whisper. I heard someone say "why is she with Jackson" "yeah I know that's so weird"
I just blocked them out and tried to focus on the teacher
After class I gathered my books and started to leave when Jackson stopped me " Hey Nic I've been thinking."
"Really and what were you thinking about?"
"I think I'm going to call you Nicole I like it better."
I smiled and as I walked down the hall I said back to him "my name is Nic"
S K I P T O T R Y O U T

The final bell rang and I couldn't wait to get out of there. All day people kept staring at me and whispering. I had another class with jackson -science and then at lunch max made me sit with the baseball boys. As I made my way to the locker room I started to get nervous and I'm not really sure why. When I finally got changed and on to the field I saw Max and Jackson moving equipment.

"aye nicki get you butt over here and help us won't you"

Max yelled he was trying to set up the batting cage and was getting tangled in the net. Jackson was trying to help but he couldn't stop laughing at my idiot brother stuck in the net. I put my stuff down and jogged over. I set up the net and laughed at max

"was it really that hard" I said shaking my head and giggling.
Jackson smiled as my dad walked over.

"come on kids lets get to work" and as if on que every body walked over at once.

We started with stretches then ran a mile. When it was time to start throwing Jackson asked to be my partner.

"I wanna see what you got Nicole" he smirked

"it's Nic" I said as I hit a perfect throw right to Jacksons glove.

he laughed as he threw it back "I'm still calling you Nicole" he said as I caught the ball.

"you're a catcher" I said as I threw it back "I could tell by the way you throw"

"correct and you play third base. I can tell by the way you field" he said throwing me a grounder

"that's right" I answered throwing it hard into his mit.

"hey Nicki stop socializing and throw the damn ball, I'm sure mister Baker over here can handle it."
"sorry coach" I said firing the ball at Jackson

"there ya go kid" my dad said patting me on the back

My dad walked up and down the rows of players and finally called every one into the pitchers mound and separated us into groups. In my group was a kid named Kyle, Ben, Jack, Chris and Jackson. Great. His deep blue eyes are so distracting.

As we rotated through the stations I heard the boys in my group whisper. I was starting to think that they weren't expecting me to be any good. I ducked under the net and got set in the cage. I get ten pitches to prove myself pitch one strike. I relaxed and pretended no one was watching I stepped back to watch a pitch then stepped back in pitch two bam. Hit the back of the cage. pitch three bam. Right back at the machine. Pitch four bam. Five bam. Six bam. I crushed every pitch. I stepped out of the cage and turned to the boys they were all shocked even Jackson who has been complimenting me the entire practice. I looked at them smiled and said "who's next"

Ben slowly walked over to the cage still stunned, I took off my helmet and stood next to Jackson. he just looked at me and said "damn Nicole that was awesome"
I smirked and said "it's Nic"

At the end of practice I walked to the car with Max and jackson came up beside us. He was talking to Max so I started to put the stuff in the car. Then Jackson came up to me and said "see ya later Nicole" and winked. As I got in the car I turned around and said " it's Nic" and Max drove off.