After talking it out with Noah and getting more baseball information, I felt more relaxed . He helped me straighten my thoughts out and I was thankful for it . He told me the boys probably ordered a pizza from the snack bar and got the food by now, so we should hurry back .
He was accurate with his assumption . The three were sitting at a round table chomping on an extrlarge pizza, water bottles all over the place . They stopped eating as we approached the table . Noah sat down and looked at me, expectantly .
I took a deep breath and looked Zeke in the eye . "I want to hit . "
The twins jaws dropped .
Zeke gave a simple nod . "Yes, I know . But it all depends on the situation . You have to look at who is pitching: are they good or bad? Do they have endurance? Would a hit on the first pitch throw them off? Or on the fifteenth pitch? There's a lot to take in account during games . "
AdvertisementNoah rolled his eyes . "A simple yes would have sufficed . Jake likes to hit . You should have explained that you don't want him to foul off every pitch all the time . "
Zeke frowned . "No, that would probably make pitchers angry and throw at you . Today was just practice . "
I crumbled to my seat . Practice . Again . I thought today was for relaxation and hanging out . The twins laughed at my heartbroken expression .
"You really surprised us though . " Kyle passed me a plate with pizza . "I didn't expect you to snap like that, at all . "
I turned red, ashamed of how I acted, letting my emotions get the better of me .
Dave nodded along to Kyle's words . "Yea, no kidding . Only Zeke can piss off a mute so much that he'll speak aloud . "
Noah frowned . "Jake isn't a mute . "
Dave waved him off . "Yea, sure . He's pretty damn close . Normal people talk more in an hour than he does in a week . "
Noah glared, then he pouted at Zeke . "Dave is bullying Jake . I think the only compensation we need would be ice cream . " Zeke got the stern look on his face, making me shrink in my seat . "Look, you too! Ice cream or I tell mom you almost made Jake upset enough to run away . " Blackmail . No surprise there .
Zeke caved though . He looked at Dave . "Go buy ice cream for everyone . "
"Everyone?" Dave squinted at his oldest brother . "Including you?"
Zeke nodded . "We have to stick together . If one of us doesn't get ice cream, they might tattle on the others . We're family . " My heart started to pound at the last word .
Dave rolled his eyes . "If we're family, then pitch in . I'm super broke after today . So many tokens and now you want me to buy the ice cream . . ?"
"Denied . " Noah replied . "You insulted Jake so we have more dirt on you . You would get the biggest punishment . "
Dave groaned and got up, stomping his way to the counter . Kyle and Noah laughed as me and Zeke continued to eat pizza .
The rest of the afternoon was spent stuffing our faces and playing video games . The twins took a strange pride in beating me and Noah at every game we stopped at . Zeke just sat in the snack bar area with our bags, playing on his phone .
When we passed by him after over an hour, I noticed he was still on his phone . I tugged Noah's sleeve and pointed at the scene, wanting to know what was so important .
Noah gave me a light smile . "The bracket for the tournament must have came out . He's probably looking up every team that we might potentially play . "
"Not even probably . " Kyle cut in . "He's definitely looking up every team . Even the loser ones that will play against seeded teams . Zeke is overly dedicated to his captain position . "
I nodded . I know that he knows everything this is about baseball . It only makes sense that he would be checking out other teams .
"The tournament this weekend has a simple format . " Noah explained . "You win, you move on . You lose, you go home . "
"It's all relatively local . " Dave added . "Sixteen teams including us . Everyone plays in the morning . Then there'll be eight teams left to play in the evening . " So a doubleheader? "Sunday morning is the semi-finals . Sunday evening would be the finals . "
They added little tidbits here and there about what schools we need to worry about, but it didn't mean much to me . I was more focused on the fact that an elimination game would be my first official baseball game experience .
Chapter end
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