L I V I N' | dazed and confused | Randall pink Floyd

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|| 3rd person ||

| Thats your girlfriend? |

When Randy arrives at the elementary school kids baseball game, Don, Benny,  O'Bannion and Melvin are already there.

The group of boys' goal was to get at least one of the boys from the game tonight. Most, were hopping for Mitch, since Jodi said to take it easy on him.

"Look out! Look out! Look out!" Fred  O'Bannion yelled.

"Hey, batter, batter, swing!" Benny called distracting the boys playing.

Tommy Houston and Mitch Kramer were talking in the field when O'Bannion yelled "Hey, Kramer, quit stalling'. Let's go, baby! We're waitin' for you!

"Hope you got more than a jockstrap under there, you little rat!"

"What are you lookin' at? Keep your head in the game. Concentrate!"

"You want some, huh, huh?"

Pink was sat a little farther away, he wasn't focused on the guys or the hazing and more so how his girlfriend was going to get out of the house. Sure she'd done it countless times before but he always worried about her.

He wanted to feel her skin against his own and if she got caught there was no way Shannon or her dad would let Melissa keep seeing him. Well her dad seemed to like him and Melissa always said not to listen to a word Shannon spoke because she was 'full of shit' but he still couldn't help but worry about all the things that could go wrong.

The baseball game soon finished however as the guys left to lick Mitch Kramer, Randy got held up by his old baseball coach. He couldn't help but worry that every second he wasted talking to the old man, was a second longer that Melissa could get caught.

"How's your dad doing?" The old coach asked.

"He's doing great."

"This arm ready to throw about 2000 yards next fall?" The man asked, gripping onto Randy's elbow.

"Oh, I don't know. We'll see."

"We're depending on you boys. And let me tell you what. You're looking good! Thirteen starters coming back, 22 lettermen. Lookin' tough."

"Yeah. Well, you folks take care."

"Good to see you, Randy." The two shook hands before Pink walked off towards his car.

•••

When he got back to the parking lot he noticed Mitch Kramer, leaning against a car getting paddled. Melvin, Benny, O'Bannion and Don taking turns paddling the poor kid.

"What's goin' on here?" Pink asked, slapping the front of a car to announce his presence.

"Oh, Pink, you missed it!" Don exclaimed.

"What's up, buddy?" Melvin welcomed.

"Where are you guys headed off to now?" Pink questioned walking closer to the freshman.

"We're goin' up to point. You gonna join us?"

"Yeah, see you up there." Pink said as he walked over to stand beside the freshman.

Benny picked up Mitch's cap that had fallen off during the licking he'd received and placed it back on Mitch's head. "Want you to sign my paddle later." He told Mitch.

As Benny walked away, O'Bannion came back. "I gotta get seconds with him."

"Wait, wait." Melvin said before handing the paddle out to Pink. "You next Pink?"