Brother's Teammate (Andrew Benintendi)

Chapter 21

APRIL 25TH, 2017 

They boys (Sox and Marlins) have been doing outstanding this month of April and I couldn't be any more proud of both teams. 

Today the Sox were at home against the Yankees (or the Skankees as I like to call them) and we were in Philadelphia playing the Phillies for a 3 game series. We were currently 13-5 and the Sox were 14-5. 

Now those are really good records if you ask me. I can only hope for the better as the season goes on for both teams. 

I got up around 8 and went down to the gym and did my workout for the morning, like I do everyday, nothing new. I finished in about an hour and then I went upstairs to get some breakfast and saw AJ, Dee and G sitting at a table so I grabbed my food and went over to them. 

"Good morning sunshine, how'd you sleep?" Dee asked as I sat down. "Pretty good, traveling is starting to take a told on me you know?" I said with a laugh and they all nodded. "Yeah it'll just get worse, just wait." G said. 

We talked about random things and after we were done, we went to our room and I got to mine and went right into the shower and got ready for the day. (outfit in media) 

I grabbed all my stuff and went downstairs to get on the bus to take us to the stadium. I sat down in the open spot next to Christian and he turned and smiled at me and kissed my cheek. "I missed sleeping with you last night." He said. 

Don put me in my own room this road trip which was fine, I just didn't understand why. "I missed you too, I was all cold having no one to cuddle with." I said and he laughed and intertwined his fingers with mine. 

Soon enough, we were at the park and the boys went to the clubhouse and I went to the field to take pictures for the social media. That's a pregame ritual of mine, I go to the field first before every first game of the series and take a picture and caption it "Calm before the storm, first game against.." and I put whatever team we're facing. 

Soon after, the boys took their BP which lead to me taking more videos and pictures and then finally it was game time. 

Around the 3rd inning my non work phone started to ring and it was my mom, I wondered what she wanted. 

"Hello?" I said into the phone. "Kristen, you need to get home." She said, she sounded like she was crying. "Mom? What's wrong?" I asked getting up and going out of the stadium and making my way down to the clubhouse. 

"It's Xander, he got hit hard tonight. In the face. It's the same thing that happened to Giancarlo a couple of years ago. Just get home as soon as you can." She said and by that time I was in the clubhouse starting to cry. 

"Alright mom, I will. I love you and I'll see you soon." I said and we hung up and I went into the dugout and found Don and told him everything that was going on and he told me that I could leave and go home to Boston for a little while until everything was better. 

Christian was up to bat so I couldn't even tell him I was leaving, but G heard the conversation and told me he would tell him as soon as he could. I hugged him and ran out of the dugout and out of the park and into a cab and got back to the hotel and packed as fast as I could and got to the airport and took the first flight out to Boston. 

I didn't have to wait long for a flight and soon enough I was in Boston, in a cab and on my way over to the hospital. 

I walked into the Emergency Room to see my family and the whole Red Sox team in the waiting room. My mom saw me and ran right over to me and engulfed me in a hug. "This is not the circumstances I would've like to see you under, but I've missed you sweetie." She said and I nodded and said the same. 

I said hi to the team and Andrew looked so depressed and I couldn't stand to see him like that, he broke my heart, but my heart broke even more to see him the way he is. I sighed and went over and sat next to him. 

"Hi." I said to him. "Hi." He said sounding hopeful in a way. "How have you been?" I asked. He sighed. "Well honestly, not good. Baseball is going great, but everything else is crappy, you?" He said looking at me. 

"Honestly, not going to lie to you, but it's actually going good. Miami is treating me really well, but I do miss my family up here." I said and he sighed. "I know, it's all my fault and I didn't even get a chance to explain myself and I want to. Will you give me the chance to?" He asked with hope in his eyes. 

"Yes I will. Let's go outside." I said and he nodded and we got up and went outside. "Start talking." I said and he nodded. "Well I was just so mad that they had invited you out to dinner and I didn't want to see them drool all over you so that's why I went out with some of the guys last night. I started to drink a lot and I got drunk and the next thing I know Xander was yelling at me and there was a girl under me that wasn't you. I honestly didn't think anything of it, I guess my drunk self thought it was you and it wasn't and I know I fucked up big time and I'm sure you hate me but I just want another chance with you because I love you Kristen." 

I had some tears in my eyes but I couldn't let him know that. "I understand everything Andrew, I still love you too and I don't hate you, I just can't trust you because I don't know if you'll ever do that again you know? It's going to be hard for you to gain my trust back." I said and he shrugged. 

"I know it'll be hard, but I'm willing to do whatever it takes to earn that trust back and I'm not going to stop." He said stepping towards me. "I know you won't you have a hard head." I said and we both laughed. 

"I missed you." He said giving me a hug and it felt so good to be back in his arms but I can't admit that to him. Not now anyway. "I missed you too Andrew." To be honest, I really didn't miss him all that much, I was having too much fun in Miami and I forgot a lot of what we've been through. But being here tonight, all of it came back. 

"We should get back inside." He said and I nodded and we walked back inside and my family was gone and I looked at the guys. "He's out of surgery and they went to see him, you can go." Brock said and I nodded and made my way down the hall to his room where my family was. 

I walked in and saw his face, it was nasty and I gasped at the sight and then joined my family by his bedside and waited of him to wake up. I can't believe this happened to him. 

I got tired of waiting and told my mom that I was going home to get some sleep and she nodded understanding and I got one of the guys to drive me home and then I looked at my phone for the first time since I got here and I had a text from Yelich. 

From: Christian

Hey love, hope you're okay and safe in Boston, I miss you so much already. I hope Xander's okay and I saw the hit on ESPN and it was pretty nasty. Hope he recovers fast and you get back soon, text me when you can so I know you're okay xoxo.

To: Christian

Hey there handsome, yeah I'm okay. I'm back at home and he got out of surgery a couple of hours ago and he hasn't woken up yet and he looks terrible. I'll be back in a couple of days, I miss you too and I'll see you soon, goodnight love.

Do I go back to my ways with Andrew? Or do I try new things with Christian?