The Never Ending Game// Benny Rodriguez

Part Five

When I got home from the walk I realized my mon had woken up. I walked into the house and looked around. She was on the couch with a beer and cigar in her hand. The tv was really loud. "Hey mom." I said, she didnt agknowledge me. Usual. I walked to my room. I didnt really want to get in my feelings right now. I was way to happy. I mean I think I have a crush on Benny. He was really cute, and he seemed super sweet. He also seemed like he got a lot of the girls though. I lay on my bed throwing the baseball in the air and catching it with one hand. I really liked baseball. I never talk about it to others, just to avoid more judge ment. So Im definetly not telling anyone here. I plan to keep it a seceret. Its not that Im ashamed. I dont know. I really didnt do anything for a while, one O'clock became 5 O'clock and I was still in my room. Sitting at my desk, painting my mom called for me, "Sage, get the phone!" She was probably to busy, making a beer, or simply laying there. I walked downstairs and answerd. "Hello?" It was sammie. "Hey Sammie!" I said, happy I knew I had a friend. "Hey Sage, I just wanted to say I'm sorry for not sticking up for you when Jamie said stuff at lunch, and to make up for it, I was wondering if you wanted to come hangout with me and some people tonight." She said it really fast. I didnt know how to respond, a lot of kids a school dont like me, who would be there? "Ummmm yeah, my parents wont mind." I said "Great! Ill come over at about eight to get you." I gave her my address and hung up. This is really weird, a good weird though. Diffrent, freinds, I was happy. I looked at the clock, 6:54. I went to get dressed, I wasnt going looking like this. I didnt want to dress up either. I just decided to put on my highwasted baggy cuffed shorts, and tuck in a blue flannel to it. I wore my black calf socks and white chucks. I wanted to make sure I didnt look like a complete slob. I waited for the time to pass by trying to figure out how I was going to write that essay for english. What it should be about. I thought really hard, I just couldnt process interesting things to write down. Good thing this wasnt due until next year! My dad then bust in the room, great. "What are you doing" he asks in a firm tone. "My homework" he looks at me and the blank journal. "Yeah, your so smart as I can tell" he left the room and I could hear him stumble to the living room. So what. A couple minuets later I decided to walk outside, I didnt want my mom or dad answering the door. Thats when Sammie pulled up and greeted me. "Hey, are you ready?" "Yeah" I replied, uncertain what the night would bring. She said we could walk, that it wasnt that far, I wouldnt mind it even if it was though. We walked for a little while, it was dark and pretty outside. The starts were faintly shining and the street lamps made everything dark and mysterious. I liked it. We walked past the park and through a field, behind the trees there was a huge ditch. As we got closer, I could see it was this increadbly huge hole in the ground, there were christmas lights at the bottom, kids, and a couple of other things. "C'mon" Sammie said motioning toward herself sliding down into the hole. I followed. This seemed pretty cool, something I couldnt do back at my old home. When I got down into it Sammie helped me up and we walked towards the group of kids. I heard a familar voice, "Yeah-Yeah Benny just do it man." I froze. Oh god not them.