"I miss screaming and fighting and kissing in the rain, now it's 2 am and I'm cursing your name." Hope Brown wasn't planning on sticking around, neither was her grandma. New town, new summer, same plan: stay invisible, stay moving, never let anyone matter. But the Sandlot boys have a way of noticing things-especially Benny, all swagger and sunlight, the kind of boy who turns base-stealing into hard liqour poetry. Hope throws harder than she talks. She barely smiles, but when she does... it sticks with you. She's got calluses on her palms and a storm behind her eyes. And Benny? Benny's the first person who doesn't flinch. "He asked what I was running from. I asked what he was running toward. We never answered." In a summer of cracked bats, firefly-lit fences, and almost-kisses that taste like bubblegum and fear, Hope has to decide: Does she want to be the girl who leaves again-or the one who finally stays? "I have emotional motion sickness, somebody roll the windows down."

𝐉𝐨𝐬𝐡 𝐌𝐮𝐧𝐫𝐨𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐬𝐛𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.. Josh is loud, unpredictable and plays the drums. Andrea, who to her unfortunate has a window direct across from his bedroom, plays the electric guitar. Even worse? Josh supports the New York Yankees while Andrea the Boston Red Soxs. So what's it to them when they have to converse for one dinner? Or when that dinner spirals into Josh sleeping on a mattress in her bedroom..

"That was the summer of 1963 when everyone called me Babe and it didn't occur to me to mind!" Summer in Valley Vista is supposed to be simple-baseball, late nights, and staying out of trouble. But for Cynthia Alden, nothing is ever that easy. She's the less popular cousin of Wendy Peffercorn, for starters. The Sandlot boys still don't know what to make of her, and the Tigers? They're worse. "It's like winter didn't even count. My whole life was measured in summers. It's like I don't really begin living 'til June." And then there's Jordan "silver spoon, golden rule, private school, never missed Sunday church" Phillips. Staying away from him was supposed to be the premise of Cynthia's entire life... right? ╰┈➤ 1. #wilhorneff ╰┈➤ 4. #sandlotfanfic ╰┈➤ 13. #jordanphillips