Who Says Girls and Baseball Don't Mix?

Chapter Four: Step Up To The Plate... With a Major Heartbreak

"Your window," Katie Hill, a tall, gangly girl with shoulder length brown hair, side swept bangs, blue eyes, and freckles, says slowly, trying to process this, "is directly across from Gordon Jones's window?!" I smile and nod for the fourth time while Kara Rester, a fairly pretty girl with freckles, blue eyes, and dark brown hair, whispers with Kari Preston, an alright looking girl with ratty blond hair, brown eyes, and very, very hooker type clothing on, looking at me as if they're better than me. Both girls are seniors and both of them somehow already hate me. We're in the back of Katie's father's truck with hers and Jaxon's older brother, Michael, driving. We're heading to the Boise mall where Katie said that there is an amazing dress shop that's having a sale and everything is under four hundred dollars. My parents gave me three hundred, so I'm hoping I find something good for that low of a price.

Tara Rester, Kara's identical twin sister, smiles at me and I give her a smile back. I don't like her sister, but from what I picked up, Tara is the younger of the two and she is picked on by her sister all the time and she doesn't stand up for herself. The only way that you can tell the two apart is that Kara has blue eyes while Tara has blue-green eyes. That's what I've picked up. There are two more girls who have actually been nice to me on this trip: a pretty red head with hazel eyes and glasses by the name of Kelli Smith and a very fun, dorky looking blond with dark chocolate brown eyes by the name of Jane Winston.

There's also one more girl, who I have yet to figure out. She's wearing dark black sunglasses that are very stylish. She has medium auburn hair and pale skin. She has her hand on her dog that's next to her. The dog puts his head in her lap and she smiles. I lean over to Katie, who is sitting next to me, and ask, "Who's that and why does she have a dog with her?"

"That's Evangeline, but she told us to call her Angel. And Cinnamon is her Seeing Eye dog. Angel's blind."

"But not deaf," Angel says, now speaking up for the first time. "You could have asked me, new girl." She doesn't sound angry, which I'm glad for. She sounds more sarcastic.

"I'm sorry," I tell her. "My name's River by the way."

"What do you look like?" she asks. "I like to know what the person I'm talking to looks like. Details, please!"

I look over at Katie, raising my eyebrows. She shrugs and gestures toward her, where Angel is leaning forward, waiting. "Uh, I have dark, golden brown hair, light green eyes that some people say sparkle whenever I'm laughing, I have fair colored skin, I have a spattering of freckles across the bridge of my nose and onto my cheeks, I'm fairly tall for sixteen, about five foot eleven, I have a button nose, long, slim fingers, and I'm sort of lean. Is that detailed enough for you?"

She laughs and nods. "Yeah, that's fine. I have a clear picture of you now. Just before anyone tells you-" She pulls her glasses down and I see that her eyes are very unusual. One is completely black to where I can't even see the pupil and the other is a dark, dark violet color. "-these are the colors of my eyes. I have a mutation to where I don't have my-" She coughs. "-'special girl' days and no hair anywhere on my body except for my head and my eyebrows, but unfortunately this also cost me my sight."

"I'm sorry-ish," I say awkwardly, rubbing the back of my neck, looking over at Katie.

Angel is smiling happily and petting her dog. "I'm not. I feel better than some girls-" She raises her voice at this and Kara and Kari both look over at her while the other three that aren't in the conversation snicker into their hands. "-because I don't have to deal with some of the type of crap they go through."

Seriously, I hear both of the girls growl.

Angel smiles again at me and says, "Yeah, I lost my sight, but Katie here is a writer. Everything that she sees she can describe in more than perfect detail." She pauses for a moment as Katie flushes red. She then says, "Katie's also that girl that you go to if you're having relationship problems. She gives great advice."