Legacy ~ B. Rodriquez

A Not-So Perfect Plan

The next day Roni woke up feeling very excited.

She got dressed, did her hair, put on her cap, and grabbed all the things she needed.

Roni suddenly heard a ring at the door and immediately rushed out of her room to open it.

She wasn't surprised by who was standing there.

Benny always came to her door every morning to walk her to school or the sandlot.

She was greeted with a "hey" to which she returned and they are off.

They walked up to the new kids house and saw him sitting on the steps of his porch with a destroyed baseball glove.

Roni looked to Benny then looked back at the kid before going up to him.

"Hey, um we're gonna go play some ball and we could use and extra player. You wanna go?"

The new kid looked up at her with a black eye and a sad look. "No. Thanks."

Roni looks down at him confused.

"Well, why not? Don't you like baseball?" She asked.

The kid looked stumped as he relied. "Oh, yeah but, um..."

Benny became annoyed. "But what?"

The kid stood up. "But my glove, it's busted. Uh, see? So you know I can't go. Thanks though."

Roni smirked. "It's okay. I have an extra one."

She pulled an extra glove out of her back pocket and tossed it to him. The kid caught it and looked up at her.

Roni smiled as Benny encouraged the new kid to go with them. "Come on, let's go."

With that the new kid opened his front door.

"Mom, I'm gonna go play some ball. I'll be back in a little while." He yelled out before he shut the door and started walking towards Roni and Benny.

Roni motions for him to follow them. "Come on, let's go."

The new kid started followed them as they ran to the Vincent Drug Store where they found Ham doing a really bad impression Roni's father. All the boys were sitting down on either boxes or crates watching him.

Ham had his back to Roni, Benny and Smalls as he began his impression.

"I'm the Great Bambino." He said with a a roll of gum in his mouth making it muffled as all the guys asked what he said.

Ham just sighed and said it again. "I'm the Great Bambino."

It was still muffled and all the guys were still confused as to what he said.

Roni sighed as she jumped in. "He said, he's the Great Bambino."

Ham took out the roll of gum and nodded as all the boys finally knew who he was talking about.

However, the new kid Scotty Smalls didn't.

"Whose that?" He asks.

Roni just looks down embarrassed and could see Benny doing the same.

Ham turned to look at the three as all the boys stood up and looked at the new kid like he was an alien.

Roni stood with a hand on her face as Ham asked. "What?"

The three still stood there more embarrassed then ever.

"What did he say?" Ham asks in disbelief.

"What, were you born in a barn, man?" Bertram asks the new kid teasingly.