Take me {Paul Zimmer}

Being her future?

•Danny's POV•

We finish cleaning up and I go to get dressed for the game with all the adults and my old coaches. The guys don't want to play against 'a bunch of girls' but Tony offers to play and Danny also offers.

We all get dressed in the uniforms and get in the cars to go to the field.

We get to the City Park and walk to the softball field.

I see all of my old coaches and I go to hug them.

I introduce them to the band and to Paul and Danny.

We come up with the line up and I'm first baseman , Tony is outfielder , and Danny is third baseman.

I am designated hitter and my high school coach is behind me.

We all go to the field and shake hands. Then the game starts.

Our team is up to bat first.

I grab a bat and head to the home base.

I get the first pitch and it was too high. I don't bother swinging knowing that would cause a strike.

•Danny's POV•
I see Chloe bat and she doesn't swing at the first pitch. How did she know that it was a ball?

The second pitch gets pitched and she swings.
She hits it to the outfield. She runs so fast to first and goes to second. She stays at second and they don't even have the ball at second yet.
Why didn't she go to third? Oh well.

Chelsea Clemets, Chloe's high school coach, is up to bat.

She walks up to the plate and gets ready. The first pitch is thrown and she hits it. It goes straight to the outfield.
Chloe runs to third and waits for them to get ball.
Wtf? She had time to run home!
Oh my god! It's whatever.
Her coach waits at second and they wink at eachother and nod.
What are they planning?

Audri's coach is up to bat and she hits the first pitch. It goes to in field.

Chloe and her high school coach both run home.

"Two home runs in one?!" I say stunned.
"How did y'all do that?" I ask.
"It's called the chickens hatch, Chloe came up with it her first year in high school and it works every time. My kids still use it to this day. Chloe is pretty famous at FHS. They were so happy when they found out that Chloe is in the band. We always play the video she made her freshman year. She was singing to me in the lockeroom. It was a week after my husband passed away in the service. She sang 'Temporary Home' by Carrie Underwood. She made me feel better. She even sang at his funeral. Chloe's a good kid. We miss you down here Fireball."
"Fireball?" I ask confused at the nickname.
"Yeah. They called my Fireball because back in my Little Field days, I would run so fast that they used to tell me I had 'Flames' coming out from the bottoms of my shoes and that my pitches were really fast. Therefore, Fireball was born." Chloe laughed.

We go on to the field and writhing 10 minutes the other team gets 3 strikers.
It's time for us to bat again.

I just stand there adoring her and her past. She is such a  good person and she's loved by many.

I look at April and she nods telling me 'yes'.
I get everyone on the team in on what's about to happen. Paul runs up to the soundbox and plays mine and Chloe's song. I feel my palms get really sweaty. I reach in my baseball bag and get the box. I put it in my pocket and the umpire stops the game. Chloe looks around in confusion and I walk up behind her.

I take her bat out of her hands and throw it to the ground.
"What are you doing?" She asked. I kiss her to tell her to stop talking.

"Chloe, we've been together for exactly a year today. I've seen you in your ups and your downs. I've loved you more than I have ever loved myself. Seeing you play with kids makes my heart melt and when you smile at me I die a little inside knowing that I get the privilege to see it in my life. Before I met you, I was broken... You fixed me. I fixed you too. I was there when you tried ending your life and that hurt me. When I told you to cut my arm instead, you stopped cutting. We've been there for eachother the whole step of the way. We have laughed at and with each other. I remember you telling me that you love when people get proposed to at baseball games and that you love Texas so we're here at a softball game, in Texas. I'm glad you brought me here to learn your past. Now that I know your past, will you let me be in your future?"
I pull the box out of my pocket and keel down on one knee. I open the box displaying the diamond ring holding my heart in each diamond.