The Summer of Love ♡ Benny Rodriguez

3. Proving them wrong

The car ride was long but mom was right. By then we finally arrived at Utah. It was breathtaking, the place was beautiful. We first made a stop to get food and then when we did that we went to a neighborhood, not small but not a big neighborhood. It was average, normal, and calm. I saw a few kids outside, playing. We then arrived at the house mom bought and it was pretty decent. It was a two story house, white and blue, and of course it was cute in my opinion. We stop at the side of the road and my mom went to the U haul that's in the back. Luna was asleep, her head on my shoulder. I then shake her but not so hard because we have finally arrived.

"Luna... Luna!" I said, whisper shouting at her. She groans and opens her beautiful hazel eyes;she looks at me.

"What Nati?" She asks.

"We are here. Don't be such a lazy piece of shit and help us get the stuff inside the house." I say opening the door to the car. I got out and take a deep breath and then exhale very loudly so Luna can hear.

"Can you not breathe out so loudly. It's kinda annoying." I roll my eyes at her.

I look at the neighborhood. It was pretty quiet around here. I then spot a boy, kinda tall, dark brown hair, perfectly tanned skin, walking straight to what I think might be his house, which weirdly is in front of mine. He catches me staring and smiles at me. i smile back and he continues walking and entered his house and seconds later ran back out. I was confused on where he was going but then I didn't care much about it.

"Aren't you gonna help? You are just standing there." Luna says carrying a box that had her stuff in it. I can tell its her box because I can see from here where she wrote "Luna's box! Keep out or else" I laughed in my head.

"Of course I'm going to help." I grab the big box, that's obviously mine. My jersey from the softball team I was in fell out.

"Oops. I'll pick this up" I said to myself and picked it back up and put it back in the box. I then went inside the house.

"Wow, the house is even better on the inside." I keep looking around. I then went upstairs and found the perfect room for me. I finally had my own bathroom, "This is my room!" I scream out.

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I put then settled everything except for my baseball things. The rest took me about an hour to organize. I take the baseball bat from the box and look out the window. I went downstairs to look for my mom only to see her organizing the living room.

"Ma? Where exactly is that sandlot you were talking about?" I ask softly. She looked at me and then she looked at her wrist watch.

"It's not that far from here. About a 3 to 4 minute walk." She said with a smile painted on her face.

"Cool... I can go right?" I asked just to make sure. She nods and then told me to be back by 7 for dinner. I ran upstairs grabbed my glove, baseball and bat. I also found my LA cap and put it on since it was so sunny outside. I said goodbye to my mom and Luna and ran out to the sandlot.

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I finally arrived and slowed my pace. I ran too fast that now I was exhausted but I didn't mind. I opened the gate to see a group of boys, ages maybe 10-15, playing ball. There were 9 of them. The darked haired boy I saw today was at the home plate. I watch him swing a couple of times and when a darked skin boy threw the ball, he immediately hit the ball and went flying towards me. A chubby boy that was behind the one I saw earlier yelled out to me.

"Watch out!" He yelled out. Luckily I had my glove on so I just lifted my hand out and caught the ball.

All 9 boys came running toward me. With all of them talking I didn't understand any of them.