Sandlot: "Don't be afraid to fall in love" (B. Rodriguez)

iii. Meeting Everyone

Babe's POV
You know that feeling where you are so confident but at the same time you are scared? Yeah that's my emotion as of right now. Most of my life I have been afraid to fall in love with someone. Mostly because of what happened to my mom and dad, plus I'm scared to fall for the wrong person. And I have a feeling I'm starting to fall for Benny. Most girls plan out their wedding and honeymoon, but me; I was scared that I started to distract myself with baseball. And I got pretty damn good at it. Soon enough I became the town's baseball queen.
Leaving it hard for me to be accepted until I had to finally proved myself to some boys in Atlanta which took a while. Than there was my best friend since kindergarten, Mackenzie Katie Walsh. I met her when she was getting bullied on the playground. Ever since that day we have been attached to one another from hip to hip. And since we had became so close, we would go over to each other's house. From her coming over to my house so much it has led her to have a crush on my twin brother. She would always say that he was the cutest boy on our block. Even though he was and still is the nerdy type. But in away so is she. She can design anything that you want her to make. Scotty has always had Kenzie's attention but as soon as we turned 10 years old she started to have his attention. It was the cutest thing ever but at the same time it was just plain weird. He is my TWIN brother and she is my BEST friend. In a way it's like she has a crush on me since we are twins to one another. Thankfully we are fraternal twins, so we don't look too much alike.
"We are going to have to go to a store so I can get a baseball to play with since the others had ruined the other one. Ok?" I heard Benny asked me and doofus next to me. You know another thing I hate about guys. They are taller than me, and I hate that since they call me shorty. And i'm standing between to boys who anyone can seriously see that they are taller than me.
I nodded my head, "Yeah that's fine with us, right fratellino?" Scotty just looked at me weird while Benny looked at me surprised. "Sure i guess. Do I even want to know what you called me?" I just smiled at the blonde boy.
"Sai parlare l'italiano?" Benny spoke to me. Now it is my turn to looked surprised at him.
"Si. Io e mia mamma siamo gli unici nella nostra famiglia a parlarlo, anche se siamo parzialmente italiani. Come conosci l'italiano?" Scotty just looked at us weirdly, "I don't speak Italian."
We chuckle at him, "stesso motivo per te. L'unica differenza è che sono più della metà italiana." I nodded my head at the boy, "Bene!"
Scotty groaned at the way we were talking, "I still don't speak that language here, you know?" We stared ahead and laughed together.
I put my hand on his shoulder, "I know. That's the reason I do it." He rolls his eyes at me and pushes my hand off of his shoulder.
Benny pointed to a store called Vincent's, "This the store right there." Wow. I just now really heard his accent. And it's one that can make any girl swoon. We walked in and I went a separate way than the boys. "Max. Stop it! You can't eat that while we are in here." A pretty brunette stated to a redhead girl. "Why not Ellie?" The redhead head pouted to her friend.
"1. Don't call me Ellie. It's either Eleanor or El. 2. Because you are not supposed to do that. Your going to get us arrested." She looked at her friend annoyed. Now that I take a closer look at her she resembles Benny. I look to the next girl and see chocolate around her mouth. I chuckle at that since it reminded me of when I would do that to Kenzie. Apparently the giggle wasn't small since the two girls turned their heads to me. They walked over to me.
The one with brown hair and brown eyes spoke to me first, "Are you new here?" I took a close look at the two girls before answering them. First one was the one who spoke. She had brown hair and brown eyes. The type of skin that was so tan but also so pale. She had her hair down in wavy curls. She had on a white shirt with Girl Power in red. Black leather skirt and brown ankle boots. She had a jean jacket tied around her waist with black sunglasses on top of her head. I also saw a red camera pouch around her shoulder. She was the one that looked like Benny. Next was the redhead. She obviously had red hair along with blue eyes. Her skin was paper than the girl right next to her. She had her red hair in a messy braid from what I can tell. She had a black tank top that tied around her neck with ripped skinny jeans. She had on black leather boots and was holding a cool looking skateboard.

"Yeah, me and my twin brother just moved here a couple of days ago." I explained to the two. They both nodded and smiled at me. The brown headed one reached her hand out to me, "I'm Eleanor Rodriguez but I go by El. And this is my friend Maxine Peffercorn." Maxine glared at El, "Please ignore her. She likes to call me by my actual name. I go by Max. What's your name?" I smirked at the pair for the way they were acting, "My names Babe Smalls." They raise their eyebrows at me, "Yes that is my real name." They nodded their head at me. Max was going to say something but someone cut her off, "Babe where leaving." Benny and Scotty walked around the corner. All three of us girls turned towards the boys. El groaned a bit, "Hi Benjamin."
Benny glared at the girl, "It's Benny and hi Eleanor. Max. I'm guessing you guys have meet Babe." They both nodded at the boy.
Than he pointed to my brother, "This is Scotty Smalls, Babe's twin brother. Scott that's my younger sister Eleanor or as she likes to be called El. And that's Maxine Peffercorn, she goes by Max." All three waved at each other. Benny asked the girls if they wanted to go to the sandlot but they said they had plans. Before they left they said us girls need to get together and hang out. I told them that sounded like a plan than everyone was on their way out. They went right while the three of us went left. We walk around Vincent's drug store to see a group of boys there. Red head stand up, "Ok ok check this out." He put a candy cigar in his mouth, "I'm thw grwt bawbiwno." The other said what. He repeated again and they were still clueless. I chuckled a bit. "He's saying I'm the great bambino." I told them then all of them started ohh'ing. "Who's that?" My poor twin asked them. They all turned slowly or standed up looking at him while I just shook my head with Benny doing the same as me.
Red head spoke first, "What? What did he say?" He asked the others like Scott wasn't there. "What were you born in a barn man?" Tall glasses asked. "Yeah yeah what planet are you from?" A tan skin kid asked. Short glasses, "You never heard of the Sultan of Swat?" Dark skin, "The Titan of Terror." A blonde hair boy, "The colossus of clout." A shorter version of him repeated him. Benny finally spoke, "The king of crash man."
Scotty tried to play it off, "Oh yea the great bambino of course. I thought you said the great..Bambi." I could tell he was lying. Redhead, "That wimpy dear?"
My brother just nodded a bit, "Yea I guess. Sorry." Some of the boys shook their head. Benny spoked up after a second of silence, "Anyways , Scott Babe, That's Timmy and Tommy Timmons" spit "Mike 'Squints' Palledorous" spit "Alan McClennan, we call him Yeah-Yeah" spit "Bertram Grover Weeks" spit "Kenny DeNunez" spit "and Hamilton Porter." Spit, "We call him Ham. Guys this is Scott and Babe Smalls." My brother waved, "Hi." They said nothing and Squints spit. They all looked at me. I raised my brows wandering why they were looking at me. I just nodded my head at them. Some nodded back and others smiled at me.
Benny spoke, "Yeah, um, well, he's gonna play with us cause he makes nine. Now we got a full team."
He got interrupted by Ham, "Wait so what's girl going to do?"
I rolled my eyes, "1. My name is Babe, not girl. 2. I'm going to watch for right now." Then he mumbled, 'Well she is a Babe so that would explain her name.'
But he also just had to open his mouth, "So princess doesn't know how to play." I got a flashback of my dad since he always called me princess.
"Never judge a book by its cover, Porter. Just because I want to watch for now does not mean I don't know how to play or can't."
He just nodded his head sarcastically, "Ok so when we get there you can show us you know how to play then."
I nod at that, "That's cool to me, stupido culo." When I get irritated or anything I'll speak in Italian. He just smirks cockily. Then Benny finished his sentence, "Were wasting time. Let's got to the sandlot."
Most said "Benny it's 9:00 in the morning."
I just shake my head and mumbled to myself, "Non mi piace cosi tanto." This is gonna be a long day.