Uptown girl ~ benny rodriguez ~ the sandlot

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I woke up the next morning elated, i have friends, i have a date today, my mother left for a week long vacation this morning, everything good is happening!

"morning molly! i say walking down the hallway"

"morning roxy! another good day today i see?"

i walked over in the kitchen and poured myself some cereal
"yep! you'll never believe it! I met this boy at vincent's drug and he asked me out! his name is jordan phillips"

"wow really? what happened to benny"

that's right, i completely forgot about benny and i had just been leading him on, it'll be fine right? it's just one date with jordan? it won't hurt? they probably don't even know eachother!

"um.. hes just a friend, he doesn't mind"

about and hour later i headed to the sandlot.

"there she is, we have been waiting for you!" squints yells

"sorry guys i was up late last night" I walked up to home plate

"oh yeah? doing what?" ham asks annoyingly

"ham leave her alone" benny tries to defend me

"that's none of your business" i say as i grab the bat. kenny pitches the ball and i hit it smoothly and make it to first base.
I ran to first base, man today was hot, it was almost 100 degrees and i almost didn't even realize it.

I stood on first base eagerly waiting for benny to grab the bat.
benny grabbed the bat off of the ground and gently lifted it behind his back with his arms out, he was so concentrated, the sun hitting his face making his eyes light up with color. the ball came soaring at him as he perfectly hit it, he made a funny concentrated face when he hit the ball which made me chuckle a little bit.

"earth to roxanne? your supposed to be running to second base?!" timmy reminds me

"oh shoot! right!" benny starts to catch up to me while i was just standing at first base so i quickly started sprinting to second.

benny made it safely to first and i to second. everyone just stopped moving and didn't even go get the ball.

ham rises from his catching position and takes off his mask.

"benny man i'm baking like a toasted cheese it so hot out here!" he says whining

"yeah, yeah he's right it is pretty hot out here"

benny scoffs  "well we already started the game? what's the point in stopping now?"

"we gotta call it off benny" squints says

"well then what are we gonna do?" benny asks

I come up with an idea
"we could hang in the dugout? it's cooler in there because of the shade, plus we have some pops in the cooler?"

"good idea roxanne, see she's becoming a true sandlot boy everyday!" kenny says

"please the last thing in this world is to be a boy" i make everybody laugh with that.

"alright fine.." benny finally agrees
"but you all are panty-waists" he says narrowing his eyes at us as we walk to the dugout.

we all let out a sigh as we sit down with cold coke bottles in our hand.
"roxanne?" ham says as takes a breath from chugging his coke

"yes?" i turn to him

"what was it like being in a movie with elvis presley?"
everybody's attention turns to me as they all are waiting for me to say something