Benny x Fem Reader // Play ball

Chapter 5

Thursday, June 14th, 1962

Y/n POV 

Me and Tessa were, again, sitting at the dugout, pop in our hands. However this time, we were accompanied by the rest of the team. It has been about a week or so since me and Tessa started hanging out with the sandlot boys, and currently we were all waiting for Yeah-Yeah and Squints to bring back a baseball to begin playing. But with this heat going on, I wasn't sure if it would be worth it to play.

Finally, we saw the 2 boys running through the sandlot and to the dugout, Yeah Yeah dragging Squints behind him. "Where you guys been? We've been waiting here forever already." Benny said, walking up to them with the bat in his hands. 

"Aw Squints was pervin' a dish." Yeah Yeah said, handing Benny the ball. "Shut up! I wasn't" Squints said, making his way towards the bench. "Yeah yeah you were- your tongue was hangin out of your head, and you was swooning! Oh, Wendy Peffercorn, my darling lover girl!" He exaggerated, holding the glove up to his chest. 

"I said shut up! I've got a lot of things on my mind.." Squints shot back, turning back to the bench. 

"This pop isn't working, Benny. I'm baking like a toasted cheeser! It's so hot here!" Ham panted, throwing his arms up in the air. "Is 150 degrees out there, you can't play baseball! You have to call it for the day." Squints said, taking a swig of his soda. "You gotta listen to him Benny." The others agreed. 

Annoyed, Benny finally responds. "Vote then. Anybody who wants to be...a 'can't hack it' pantywaist, who wears their mama's bra, raise your hand." He said, standing in front of all the boys on the bench. "Um, does it count if you already wear a bra?" Tessa asks, and I laugh at her remark. The rest of the boys on the bench all raise their hands, mumbling to eachother.

"Yeah, I can handle that."

"I could handle that" 

"Same here"

I raise my hand aswell, followed by Tessa. Benny just shakes his head. "Fine, fine, fine! Be like that. So what are we gonna do?" He asks, looking at the group of kids in front of him. 

Yeah yeahs starts laughing, and looks to the others. I look at him confused, what was he gonna do this time? "Scam pool honeys!!!" They all shout at once. Oh boy, was this gonna be a long day.

....

"Hi..I remember you...oh, sexy..." Ham mumbled, walking in front of a large group of girls sitting besides the pool. He stopped by the edge of the water, and began to "flex" his muscles. "Hey girls" he smirked, blowing them a kiss. Suddenly, he shouted, "CANNONBALLLL" with that he jumped into the pool, the splash hitting all of the girls that were previously resting there, causing them to get up and run off. 

We all watched in amusement as they cursed to themselves, Ham swimming up to us in the water. "Good going, Ham. You sure know how to clear a crowd." I laughed. Ham just shrugged. "Eh, they don't know what they're missing.." he said, grinning to himself. He then turned to Squints, who was staring at something. All the other boys followed, and soon all of them were crowded around eachother, staring off.

Me and Tessa joined them, and I leaned over to Benny. "...what are we looking at?" I whispered, and he turned to look at me. I blushed a bit, but he luckily didn't notice. He looked at me, then nodded towards the lifeguard, and I then realized what they were doing. Sitting on the lifeguard-chair, was the one and only Wendy Peffercorn.

I laughed a bit to myself, and Tessa followed my gaze and laughed aswell. Sure, I had to admit, Wendy was really attractive. Like- really attractive. But the way they all were just staring her down was funny to me. "Aw, man" I heard someone say, along with, "Yeah yeah, too cruel." And "she don't know what she's doing"

"Yeah she does" said Benny. "She knows exactly what she's doing." I looked from him to Wendy, and back to him. "Uh, putting on sunscreen?" Tessa snickered next to me, and Benny laughed slightly. "I've swum here every summer of my adult life..." Squints started, before (aggressively) wiping off his glasses. "And every summer, there she is. Lotioning, oiling, oiling, lotioning! Smiling...smiling! I can't take this no more!" He said, before getting out of the pool.

We watched as he walked around the edge of the pool. "What's wrong with him?" Smalls asked, all of us watching in curiosity. Eventually he made it to the diving board, and began climbing up the ladder. 

"Three summers of this, I think he finally snapped." Bertram said. "I don't know, but that's the deep end and Squints can't swim!" Yeah yeah said. My eyes widened when realization finally hit me. 'This idiot's gonna drown himself cause of the fricking life guard-'

Up on the diving board, Squints pulled off his glasses and looked over to Wendy, and waved nervously. She smiled and waved back, causing him to giggle. He then plugged his nose, and jumped off the board, straight into the deep end. Suddenly everyone started to panic. We all crowded around where Squints jumped in, and soon enough Wendy jumped in to save him.

We watched as she pulled him out of the pool and onto the concrete ground, shouting and yelling. Wendy kneeled down beside him, before beginning to give him mouth to mouth. 

"C'mon Squints..."

"Come on!"

"Wake up man"

"Come on, breathe, would ya?" 

"Come on..."

Wendy continued to give him cpr, as we all watched in anticipation. I looked around at the crowd that had formed around the scene, before turning back to Squints. "C'mon man, you can do it, wake up...." I muttered. "Come in Squints, you can do it! Pull through bud!" Smalls yelled from next to me. 

I felt someone grab my hand, and I turned to see Benny's hand wrapped around mine. He was watching the scene before him, and may not have known what he did himself. I squeezed his hand lightly, still watching as Wendy kept trying to get somewhere. 

"Yeah yeah, he looks pretty crappy"

"Oh god, he looks like a dead fish...."

Suddenly, we saw Squints open his eyes and glance at us. I looked at him in shock, as did everyone else. "What?" We all asked in unison. Next thing we knew, Squints had wrapped his arm over Wendy's head, holding her in place as he kissed her quickly, not before she pushed him away. "What the fuck-" I yelled.

"You little pervert!!" She yelled, grabbing his arm and pulling him up. "Aw man he's in deep shit-" Tommy yelled, before we all followed behind Wendy as she dragged Squints out of the pool. Everyone else had crowded around the gate and watched as well all ran after Squints and Wendy, before she threw him forward and onto the grass. "And stay out!" She yelled, before walking angrily back into the fenced area.

Me and Tessa shared a look before we burst out laughing, following behind the boys. As we were running we heard Ham and Squints behind us. "You planned that?" Ham asked, handing him his glasses. "Course I did, been planning it for years" he said smugly. 'Of course he did-' I thought to myself, Ham shouting at the rest of them. "Guys he planned that he knew what he was doing!" He said, as we all continued to run from the pool. 

We got banned from the pool forever that day. But everytime we walked by after that, the life guard looked down from her tower, over to Squints, and smiled.

That was a bit of shorter chapter, sorry about that 😅. I hope you enjoyed, and happy holidays (I'm writing this in December-)