A Grand Slam Romance: Lars Nootbaar & Aaron Judge

Bonus Chapter!! Stella and Noot during Spring Training

A/n: before we get into this one is a long one and I really hope you love it as much I loved writing it for you guys! Happy reading!

Pov: Stella

I wake up with Zoey blow drying her hair. Her blow dryer is so loud for no reason!
I get up and go to the bathroom.

"Good morning. Lars stopped by and asked if you were awake." Zoey says.

"WHAT!? WHEN?" I practically scream.

"Ok calm down and it was about 2 hours ago."

"Why were you awake at 6am?"

"A girls gotta impress Nolan Gorman somehow."

"Oh my gosh you are so delusional."

"Says the one that was just yelling because my brother asked for you."

"It's only because he hasn't talked to me since our 'date' which was 9 days ago!"

"Well maybe he wants to be your friend!"

"Maybe."

"Get dressed. He says he wants to see you at 10."

I nod and put on a baby blue crop top and jean shorts with air forces. I put on light makeup after that. Afterwards I check my phone and I see that he texted me.

Lars Nootbaar

Lars: hey! I know you probably aren't awake right now, but around 10 I'm getting brunch if you wanted to come with..
sent at 6:30am

Stella: hi! Sorry I just woke up about 30 minutes ago. I'd love to get brunch with you!"
sent at 9:00 am

I'm not sure when he will respond but maybe we can do other things together.
I go down to the lobby and wait there. I just watch the scores on my phone.

He proceeded to respond 20 minutes later.

Lars: "Ok great! I'm at the hotel right now"

I look around for him but I don't see him. 20 seconds later someone comes up from behind me and scares the living crap out of me.

"Hey Stella" he says with a smile.

"Hi! Where were you planning on going to eat at?"

"Well maybe Ihop. But first I wanted to make sure if it was ok with you if I brought along a friend."

I then seem a little disappointed because he doesn't want to hang out with me alone.

"Oh yeah uh sure. Who?"

"Ohtani."

"You are joking."

"I'm not."

"You are insane"

"Nah I just have freinds."

"But yes he can come I don't care!"

"Ok great let's go then."

We get to the restaurant and I just feel like the luckiest girl in the world because I'm literally about to have lunch with Lars Nootbaar and Shohei Ohtani. What is life!? Obviously Ohtani doesn't speak English so his translator is also sitting with us.

Noot and Ohtani start talking about the WBC and I just sort of sit there, knowing that I cannot go with them. I think Noot sees the little sadness in my face because he rubs my back. This causes my cheeks to burn and I get butterflies. I look over at him and he smiles at me. Is it bad that I just want to kiss him right now?