Love and Softball

Chapter 3

"Spence, are you nervous?"

"Only a little, but I think I'll be fine. I'm excited actually!"

"Well that's good champ."

"Dad. I'm in college now! Stop calling me champ, you make me fill like a little girl."

"Spence you'll always be my little girl."

"Daaaad. Sometimes your little girl has to grow up one day!" I whine.

He laughs and says, "Well I guess that day is today."

We get into the elevator and press 3. Moments later, we are greeted by a long hallway with two hallways on it's left and right.

To the left, the room numbers go from 315-330 then on the right, the room numbers go from 331-346.

I follow my dad down the hallway as he checks the room numbers. The last door on the right was room 313.

All of a sudden, a wah of nervousness came over me. I wonder if these girls will like me. Are any of them on the softball team? Are they wild or dull?! Should I knock or just walk in?

"Go on champ. Don't be nervous!" My dad says giving me a push.

I tooka deep breath and twisted the knob. To the left was the living room with a flat screen tv in the middle. On the side of the tv was windows on both sides. I gasped as I realize what I saw, the football field!

"Omg! I've got the perfect view of the football field." I gush.

"Awesome right?" an unfamiliar voice says.

I turn around and see an italian girl. She's about my height, 5'7, with dark brown hair. She seems friendly, I wonder what sport she plays!

"Totally. I'm Spencer Gibson, and this is my dad, Tyler." I say reaching forward to shake her hand.

"Nice to meet you both, I'm Riley Moore."

"Cool, what sport do you play?"

"Softball, wbu?"

"Omg, me too!"

I talked to Riley for a little while and then checked for an empty room. Since I was the second person to arrive, I had got to check the rooms for which one I wanted.

There were four bedrooms with two bathrooms. I chose the room beside Riley's. I had an amazing view of the football field and I was right across the hall from the bathroom.

My dad helped me decorate my room and settle in. My room was very spacious with an already built in flat screen tv, a queen sized bed and a wooden desk. There was also a small walk in closet.

The moment I dreaded the most had finally came. It was about six o'clock when my dad and I went to get ice cream before he had to catch his plane back to texas.

We were sitting in the parking lot of dairy queen on a bench talking about how things will be different now that I'm in college.

He had a chocolate fudge ice cream sundae with cherries while I had a cookie dough blizzard.

"Spencer, I know that you've saved some money for college life but I know that you won't have that mh time for a job, so here's a debit card." he says while pulling out a black card and giving it to me.

"It has about $5,000 on there. I want you to spend this money wisely and not that much on clothes and shoes. You need to remember to prioritize your moeny. I won't add any more money to this card until the end of the semester. I'm proud of you champ and I know your mom is proud of you too." he says

"Omg. Thanks so mug daddy. I promise to use it wisely!" I say as I get up to hug him.

We talk a some more until we both finished our ice cream. When we headed back to the dorm, he didn't go up to my room. Instead, he stayed in the car and I had to say goodbye to my best friend.

"Bye daddy, I love you." I say through tears as I kiss him on the cheek and give him one last hug.

"Bye champ, make me proud! I'll see you in two months. I'll be wearing green undies." he says giving me one last hug and laughing.

Many softball players have superstitions. Mine happens to be wear green. My mom wore a green shirt to the last game she saw me watch. I hit a homerun that night!

I laugh and tell him bye once again as I watch him drive away. Wiping my tears, I sigh and rad back to my room.

I'm so glad classes don't start until next week. But our first practice doesn't start until three days from now.

Tommorow we have a team meeting, I guess to get to know each other.

I walked back into my room and notice two other girls and a guy watching tv.

One girl, who has long blonde hair and blue eyes turn around.

She squeals making the other girl and boy turn around. The other girl has red hair and brown eyes. I shift my gaze to the boy and let me tell you, he is hot. He has hazel eyes and black hair. He kinda resembles Justin Russo from Disney channel mixed together. The squeaky girl jumps up over to me. "are you Spencer?" she asks

"Yea in the flesh! And you are?" I ask with a smile.

"I'm gabby and that's Ariana-" she says pointing to the red haired girl, "- and that's Jacob!" she says pointing to mister hottie.

"Nice to meet y'all." I say while smiling at Jacob.

"The pleasures all mine." Jacob says in a flirty tone while walking over to me.

I glance at Gabby who rolls her eyes while Ariana seems to get mad. She gets up and walks to what I'm assuming to be her room. She slams the door.

"Ouch. Did I do something wrong?" I say while the door opens, revealing Riley.

"No, she just uh, gets mad easily. It's no biggie!" Gabby says while we all acknowledge Riley.

I talked to the three of them for about half an hour. I learned that Gaby came from Tennesee! She swims. Riley is from Florida and she plays soccer. Jacob is from Tennesee and he plays football and is currently in an off and on relationship with Ariana. He is also Gabby's older brother! I guess that's the reason she got mad? Ariana is from Tennesee also! She plays softball. She's a catcher.

When I heard that she's a catcher I immediately thought this couldn't be good! Pitchers and catchers are supposed to have the eat relationship on the team!

We won't win any games if she already hates me!

Once we all got to know each other, they decided they'd go out for pizza but I declined and told them I had to settle in.

The dorm was empty by now. I decided to take a shower and then call up my best buddy, Raeen.

We talked for what seems like hours. In between our conversation, I fell asleep.