It was the last day of school at Mihoshi Academy, and the baseball starters were happy and esctatic to say that one girl, Ren Mihashi, will not be joining them for next years baseball team. "Hey, did you hear? Mihashi's going to a different school." a guy said with black hair. "Finally, I get to pitch now." a man with black hair also said. "Do you think she's going to play for another school?" the black haired man from before had said. "No way, she can't even pitch." and that was the end of that.
Mihashi Ren was a petite girl with amber hair that went down to her neck and was currently in a ponytail. She was looking for the baseball field. "What am I thinking?" I had mumbled forlornly and smiled sadly "I'll just not play this year and watch from the sidelines." I had murmured to myself and then a hand protruded from somewhere I have not seen yet.
"What's a pretty girl doing here?" the manager, whom I found out was a woman. "I was looking forward to play baseball...?" I mumbled looking down. "GREAT! GUYS I FOUND ANOTHER ONE! AND IT'S A GIRL!" the manager had said very enthused. "What? What position?" one of the guys had said. "That's right, what position do you play?" the manager had asked me "Pitcher..." I mumbled looking down. "Alright! We've been looking for one! What's your name, honey?" she had asked "Mihashi." I looked up and then smiled sadly.
"Great! The one next to Mihashi is Sakaeguchi." she introduced and I smiled cutely "Hey, nice to meet you." he had said winking at me. I blushed and looked at a brown haired boy "Hey there, cutie! I'm Tajima! I bat clean-up and on third base!" he said also winking at me and I blushed. "That's Abe, say hey." she said and I found my eyes looking at a black haired boy and he blushed. "What's up?" he had asked and I smiled.
Hanai said he won't play for a woman and I looked at him coldly. "Even if a girl is on the team?" I asked when my normally shy voice went down a octave. "I heard she was called the Ice Queen back at her old school." Tajima said lazily. After that, Momoe-san took a bat and was keeping a tempo with a baseball.
"Hey, Mihashi! Let's see what you got!" Abe said and I looked down and started to cry. "Did I say something to make her cry?" Abe looked at me and I sighed. "Look, I'm not the one your looking for." I mumbled and they looked at me and I stood up. "What do you mean?" Abe said and I went back to crouching. "I got in because of nepotism." I said softly "So what? I would totally play for nepotism!" Tajima said and I smiled softly. "You don't get it. My grandfather owns the school I used to go." And I smiled and Abe smirked.
"Quit your whining! I don't care if you are a girl!" Hanai was saying. "Abe, let's show him a girl can fare against a girl." I said darkly "I'm on it. Hey, Hanai, want to make this a challenge?" and soon enough, I was on the pitchers mound.
"We worked on the field the whole Spring Break. We didn't know what kind of pitcher we would be getting. The outfield still needs a lot of work." Abe was explaining and I nodded. "Abe, let's get this show on the road!" Hanai had said haughtily. I stared at him and then it was time for the challenge.
I shrugged my blazer off and saw that my shirt was small for me. I unbuttoned the first two buttons and the boys were blushing. "That's better. Hanai, ready for you're going to get your ass kicked by a girl!" I announced to him. "Hey! Hey! I want to take a try!" Tajima said and Abe told him next time.
Tajima climbed the fence to see his grandpa. "Hey, Grandpa" Tajima had said waving to his grandfather. "Hey there, Yuichiro!" his grandfather said waving back. Sakaeguchi asked if he lived close by "Yup! Down the road, that's the reason I enrolled here." He had explained and I smiled as I was tossing a ball and catching it. "Mihashi! Let's get this started." I nodded as Abe said.
"Alright!" Sakaeguchi had said and I nodded and followed Abe's signals. 'What? He wants a curveball down the middle?' and I gave him the curveball. Hanai missed and I smiled serenely. Abe gave another signal and I gave him a fastball. He hit it and Tajima caught it. "You is out, Hanai!" I said with bad grammar this time. I went back to what Abe said.
"What I hate the most is pitcher's brushing off my signals."
After I gave him a ball that looked like it kind of floated, Hanai went on a tangent on how it floated and Mizutani and Sakaeguchi said "Yeah right." And I smiled. "Mihashi hasn't had formal training before and I believe she gives it sections." And Abe asked if I give it sections "Ye-Yeah." I said stammered. "How many?" he had asked "Three down and three across." And Momokan said "That's nine sections." And Abe said "She has ball control as most pros don't have that. And she hasn't had formal training." I smiled and nodded.
"Whoa." Tajima said and I went to pick up my jacket and I heard my phone ring.
"Kiss me silently—"
"Yes? Oh, of course, no, not yet, I know, what are you spouting about, you have not, really, no seriously, ok, ok, sheesh, yeah, yeah. Okay, I love you too." I got off the phone and went off. "Mihashi. You are on the team." Momokan had said "When I had thought, I didn't know it would be for real." And I went off.
"Strange girl." All the boys had said sweatdropping.
