Hi again!!! I had started writing Benny's Sister, but I had no clue what I was doing and it wasn't going to make since, so I deleted it. So here's my other idea. I hope you like this one. Chapters will be coming slow. Disclamer: I don't own anything... sadly.
CHAPTER 1 Morning People
The heat was stifling. That was the first thing Casey Rodriguez noticed as her eyes opened in the morning. She yawned and turned over to avoid the light that was seeping through the window.
"Casey!" her brother's voice broke into the silence of her room. "Casey! If you're going to the sandlot you had better be downstairs in five minutes."
"Shut up, Benny!" Casey grumbled.
Nevertheless, she threw the covers off of her and stood up. She jumped at first as her bare feet hit the cold hard wood floor.
"Are you up yet?" Benny's voice called impatiently from the door, pounding on it as loud as he could.
"I'm up! I'm up!" Casey yelled back at him. "Give me ten minutes and I'll be down!"
"Ten minutes, Casey!" Benny yelled from the closed door. "If you're not down in ten minutes then I'm going to the sandlot without you."
"I'll be down quicker if you'd go away!" Casey rolled her eyes at his voice.
"Ten minutes." Benny repeated before his footsteps echoed down the hall.
Casey sighed. She really didn't like morning people and she had been born a twin to the earliest morning person she had ever met. Downstairs she could hear her parents moving about. She sighed again. Make that she lived in a family of three morning people.
She hurried out of her room and into the bathroom. She took a shower and changed into jeans and a T-shirt. She went back to her room and looked in her drawer. She dug around for a few minutes before giving up.
"Great." She slammed the drawer shut. "Mom took the jersey."
She walked out of her room, glanced toward the stairs, and headed to Benny's room. She hurried over to his cabinet and opened one of the drawers. She pulled out one of his jerseys and threw it on.
"Casey!" Benny called from the bottom of the stairs. "You have five minutes!"
"I'm coming!" Casey called back.
She ran back to her room, grabbed her baseball cap, glove, and bat and hurried down the stairs. She ran to the kitchen and sat down beside Benny who was finishing up some cereal.
"Good morning honey." Mrs. Rodriguez smiled at her daughter.
"Morning mom." Casey said.
She started eating the cereal in front of her.
"It took you long enough." Benny remarked as he put his bowel in the sink.
Casey just shook her head and kept eating. In less then five minutes, she and Benny were walking down the street.
"Why are you wearing my jersey?" Benny asked as they walked across the street.
"Cause mom hid mine again." Casey shrugged.
"So you have to wear mine?" Benny replied.
Casey shrugged again.
They hurried across the street and stopped outside the gate of their friend Scotty Smalls' house. Scotty ran out of the front door as they paused.
"Hey Smalls." Benny greeted his friend.
"Hi Benny." Smalls smiled. "Hi Casey."
"Hey Scotty." Casey was the only one who called Scotty by his first name.
"Come on!" Benny exclaimed, "Let's go!"
The three of them started walking down the street toward the sandlot.
"Hey Casey," Scotty said, "Why are you wearing Benny's jersey?"
"Mom hid mine," Casey told him, "So I borrowed one of Benny's."
"More like stole." Benny grumbled.
Casey and Scotty laughed. In ten minutes, the trio had reached the sandlot. As expected, no one was their yet. The three got in a triangle and started throwing. They had been throwing for about ten minutes before the rest of the team showed up. Ham, Tommy, Timmy, Kenny, Squints, and Yeah-Yeah walked in with bats and gloves.
"Hey guys!" Scotty called out.
The trio ran over to join the group.
"How do you three always get here so early?" Ham asked.
"It's called living with morning people." Casey said sarcastically. "And next to a morning person."
"You could sleep in if you wanted too." Benny told her. "No one forces you up."
"You bang on my door until I wake up." Casey objected. "And any time I do try and sleep in, you come in my room and pour water on me."
"Once!" Benny exclaimed.
"Will you two quit arguing?" Ham shouted.
"You know," Squints spoke up, "Sometimes I wish I had a twin, then I come and watch you two argue and I'm all better."
"Are we going to play ball or what?" Kenny asked.
"Yeah, yeah!" Yeah-Yeah agreed. "Let's play."
They all readily agreed and headed to their positions and started playing ball. Casey looked up at the sun. It was still early and everyone was all hyper and ready to play. She sighed. Everyone she knew was a morning person.