Home Run to You

They grew up together. Before the stadium lights, the crowds, the music, and his name started appearing on jerseys and posters there was just Sylvia and Jayson. Jayson Arendt has always been the boy next door, her best friend, her safe place, and the person who somehow knows exactly how to make her laugh when she's having the worst day. Now he's a rising baseball star for The Texas Tailgaters splitting his time between the diamond and the stage as one of the team's performers and Sylvia, she's been there for all of it. Every early-morning practice, nervous audition, bad game, incredible win, and song he's written when he couldn't find the right words. She's the person waiting in the stands when he looks up after a home run, the voice telling him, 'You got this', when the pressure gets too loud. His biggest supporter, best friend, and secretly, she's been in love with him for years. But Sylvia knows better than to risk the one relationship she can't imagine living without. So she keeps her feelings hidden behind teasing, late-night conversations, baseball games, and the familiar comfort of being Jayson's girl best friend. Until something starts changing a lingering look lasts a little too long, hugs feels different, his hand stays in hers and suddenly, Jayson isn't looking at her like the girl he's known since childhood, he's looking at her like the woman he's falling for Sylvia may have fallen first...but Jayson he falls hard. Now, between baseball games, team parties, rehearsals, music, road trips, childhood memories, and moments that feel a little too intimate to call just friends, they have to figure out whether the love they've been searching for was sitting beside them all along. Sometimes your greatest love isn't with a stranger, sometimes it's with the person who has been there from the very beginning she was his home before either of them knew what home meant and maybe this time, their friendship is only the beginning.