After school i met Hamilton by the bike sheds, but he was waiting with some small tan kid.

"Are you ready?" Hamilton asked me

"yeah" i nodded "who's your friend?"

"This is Allen McLennan, but call him yeah yeah"

I nodded at yeah yeah and he replied with a simple "Hi"

"are you really gonna try playing...?" yeah yeah said to me

"Acacia, my name it acacia. And yes i am. In fact I'm gonna strike Ham's ass out"

Hamilton just smirked "Don't bet on that skirt"

I just winked at Hamilton and we left down the road

When we got to the pitch, there were already 7 boys there. They were all in the middle of a small game, a tall tanned guy was standing on the home plate while the pitcher, bowled the ball. He hit it...far! I was impressed, he didn;'t look half bad either. When we walked in all the boys looked up and stared at me. I little pale boy with large glasses started snickering. I just wanna strike ham out and then leave.

"Everyone this is Acacia, she claims that she can strike me out" Ham stated loudly. All the boys started laughing apart from two. A small boy with ashy blonde hair, same colour as my long wavy hair, and a tall, dark haired, tan boy. They just stood there ignoring the whole situation.

"Come on then" a black boy handed me the ball and chuckled to himself.

"Oh you guys don't think i can do this!" I raised my voice, i was almost shouting. Thats when the small blonde and the tall tanned boy finally turned to face me.

"you won't be able to do it sweetheart, sorry for you to have to hear it" Hamilton said to me#

"Just go stand on the Home Plate" I went and stood on the pitcher's mound ready for Hamilton to get in position

"C'mon doll face, Throw..."I threw and i striked him out "strike One!" i shouted

"heyy hey, i wasn't read-" I threw it again, this time a nice curveball "Strike Two!"

"What the hell-" I threw it again, another fastball "Strike three" i yelled. I went to collect the ball. When i had it in my hand i threw it back to Hamilton. We were on different sides of the pitch but i had still managed to get it straight into his hand. When i walked over there all the boys were still speechless.

"Okay bye guys" i said beginning to leave. But then i got tugged back by the black boy "where'd you learn that?"

"Memphis" i answered

All the boys started talking at once

"That was amazing"

"you've gotta Join the team"

"Benny man, she's gotta join the team"

"yeah yeah, she's gotta play with us benny"

Who's Benny, was he like the captain? The tall tanned one came forward "what do you say, wanna play baseball with us?" he asked me

I nodded "Yeah, thank you" He smiled at me. He had a cute smile, slightly crooked.

He introduced all the boys to me and we started to play.

"Hey acacia!" Porter shouted "how do you bat?" he said chucking me the bat

"as well as i pitch i guess" I replied

Kenny stood on the pitchers mound "I got a heater for you kas" he smirked "see if you can hit this" He raised his knee bringing his arm back, then he threw. God that ball was fast, but i had it right where i wanted it. I swang and hit the ball. I heard i ripping sound when i did though. The ball landed a few seconds later unravelled. The outside of the ball had come off.

"Shit!" "I'm so sorry guys!" i ran over the ball where all the other guys were now standing

Benny looked up at me shocked

"Benny I'm sorry, I'll buy another ball"

Benny shook his head "nahh don't worry about the ball Kas" He looked back at the ball "i'm impressed"

I grinned and sighed in relief.