Tommy Miller was upset. He didn't want to leave. The San Diego Padre's was his family. San Diego was his home. And now he had to leave. He loved this place. And now he had to go make a new home in a new city. Yeah, this was always a possibility, but he never imagined that it would happen to him, but he was proven wrong.
Al walked to up Tommy. He had a look of guilt on his face.
"Tommy, we need to talk. Step into my office."
Tommy walked into his office. "What is going on?"
"You have been traded. They Cubs wants you there by tomorrow. I'm sorry Tommy."
"Nah. Don't worry about it."
With that, Tommy got up and walked away. He was hurt. He didn't want to leave.
Tommy didn't realize that he was walking until he bumped into someone. He looked up to see Ginny Baker falling. He immediately reached to wrapped his arms around her waist to keep her from hitting the ground.
"Whoa. Be careful. Didn't mean to knock you down, Baker." He said apologetically.
"It's okay. Are you okay though? You seem distracted." She said concerned.
"Yeah. I'm fine. I'm good." He said, brushing off her concern.
"No. You are not going to brush this is off. What's wrong?" She said getting a little upset that he is trying to brush it off.
"Baker..." He said trying to calm her down.
"No. I'm serious Miller. What the hell is wrong?" She said cutting him off.
Tommy put his head down not looking at her head. "I just found out that I got traded."
With her eyes widening, Ginny gasped. "What the hell would they do that for? Now you have to uproot your family, your life. I can't believe this." She yelled.
"There is nothing that I can do right now. I have to go home to tell my son. He's going to be upset because he has to leave his friends at his school. I just don't have the time to go through this with you right now." Tommy said upset.
"I'm just saying that it's unfair." Ginny said sadly.
"Well, what the hell did you think was going to happen when you came? Someone was going to have to leave. You came and took my job, and now you have the nerve to sit here and act upset." Tommy said angrily. "We are not friends. We've never been friends. We will never be friends. So get the hell out of my way."
And with that, he turned on his heel and walked away.
"Tommy. Tommy, wait." Ginny called after him. But Tommy didn't stop.
Ginny turned and ran to the locker room and went straight to her room where she changes. As soon as she got there, she let the tears that built up in her eyes fall. She was really hurt.
When Tommy heard Ginny sniffing, he turned around to see her running away. He immediately felt guilty.
"We've never been friends." he says. I thought that we were friends. I thought we made progress.
She couldn't believe. She couldn't understand why they would trade Tommy. He was good.
"You came and took my job." I didn't mean to take anyone's job. I just came to play baseball. That's all I wanted.
What she didn't know was that Tommy had followed her when she ran away. He felt bad for how he spoke to her.
She also didn't know that he was listening on the other side of the door.
Tommy stood with his back to the door listening to Ginny sobbing. He looked up when he saw the team entering the locker room.
"Miller, we heard what happened. We going to miss you man." Mike Lawson said, giving Tommy a goodbye hug. Following him, Blip came up to him.
"You are great player man. It was good to work with you man."
The rest of the team said their goodbyes.
When Tommy walked towards the exit door, he stopped and looked at Blip and Mike. "Take care of her for me."
Mike replied. "We will, man."
As turned to walk away again, Ginny ran into the locker room. "Tommy." She yelled stopping him in his tracks. He turned to face her.
"Yeah." Looking in her face and felt even worse seeing the tear streaks going down her cheeks.
Ginny ran to him and wrapped her arms around his neck tight. "I'll miss you so much."
Tommy rubbed her back up and down. He felt a shiver run down his spine having her in his arms like this. He never wanted to let go, but he knew he had to.
"I will miss you too, Baker." He replied pulling back to look at her face. "I'm sorry for how I acted earlier." He whispered so just she would hear.
She smiled sadly, "Miller apologizing. I should have recorded that." He laughed. "Take care of yourself, Baker."
"You too, Mi-Miller." She said with trembling lips.
And with that, Tommy walked out the door leaving his old team behind. Leaving a broken heart behind as well.
