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Chapter 3: DINGER!

The rest of the day for Dawn went by pretty fast, as her afternoon classes were all exploratory classes like Art and Computers. In all of her classes, Dawn was warmly welcomed by all the students and teachers. Her final class was Gym, and surprising enough to her, Ash was in her class. When she got to the gym, she saw Ash, and they both smiled at each other, and Dawn waved. As they both started to walk towards each other, Professor Birch (Also a coach for the Swellows) got class started. They started with some basic stretching and a lap around the track. After that Professor Birch announced that they would be starting the Slow Pitch Softball unit. So he divided up the young adults into 2 teams of mixed genders. Ash and Dawn were on separate teams, and were both hoping they were on the same team, but that wasn't the case. Ash and Dawn both did very well, and Ash even hit a homer. The class ended and Dawn's team came up on top 7-4. The class headed back in with Ash and Dawn talking to each other.

After school, Ash headed to the locker room to get changed into his practice-shirt, which was purple with a red stripe on both sides and had a huge Swellows logo on the front with Ash's last name on the back with his number. The pants were gray with 2 stripes of purple down the sides of the pants. Ash got changed in to his practice jersey and got all of his stuff and headed out of the locker room throw the tunnel shortcut to the field. As he got out of the tunnel, he realized he was the first one there, so he set his things down in the dugout, took his glove, and made his way on to an empty field

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Dawn was making her way to the baseball fields as she called her Mom. Her Mother was surprised to her that she has already made some new friends, and was happy she was supporting the team. She said that Dawn had to be home by around 6:30, which gave her plenty of time since school ended at 3, and practice started at 4. As Dawn put her phone away, she began to she the baseball field up ahead. The field was pretty big with beautifully cut grass in the outfield and parts of the infield. The field had a perfect amount dirt and it smelled very nice.

"Man, this field is nice" Dawn said as she walked up to the bleachers. As she climbed up to the top she saw Ash and Drew playing catch leftfield. Ash saw her and they both smiled, as blush kissed Dawn's cheeks. Eventually all of the players came out of the locker room, and the fielders took a quick infield, while the pitchers went to the bullpen to pitch to the catchers. Dawn heard some footsteps to her left, and it was May, Iris, and Misty walking up the bleachers.

"Hey Dawn! How you doing?" May asked Dawn

"Good!" Dawn said. "How are you guys?"

"Great!" Iris said excitedly. "What are they doing right now?"

"It looks like they're taking groundballs." Misty said looking observant.

The Swellows ended up taking groundballs for quite a while. Coach Oak hit grounders to third, short, second, and first. Soon Ash was ready for another ball hit to him and Oak called out to him to be ready. The ball was hit to the left and it was going pretty fast. Ash had to run a little was and dived out to catch the ball backhanded! Everyone was very impressed as Ash got up and threw the ball to Gary at first base. You could hear all the "oooooohhhhhhhs" and "aaaaahhhhhhhssss". As Ash wiped off the dirt on his jersey, May, Iris, Misty, and Dawn clapped. Ash looked over to the stands down the third base line and smiled. He was happy that he had friends that supported him. He mouthed, "Thanks", and got back to practice.

Afterwards, the Swellows did some batting practice, and Drew went first. He did pretty well, and hit on home run.

"DINGER!" Drew screamed as he saw the ball go over the fence (dinger is also another word for home run)

The whole team laughed and decided to have a home run hitting contest. Gary hit 4 homers, Brock hit 3, Tracey hit none (because he is a pitcher), and Jimmy hit 2. When it was Ash's turn, he wasn't holding anything back. Each player each got 10 pitches, and out of those 10 pitches, he hit 9 home runs!

Dawn was very impressed. She now knew that May wasn't lying when she said Ash was good. Ash had won the contest.

Swellow's Practice was starting to come to a close, as the sun was starting to set on a beautiful Monday night. Ash was talking to Drew as they were walking out of the dugout.

"Drew, I need your advice" Ash said needing so help

"What's up?" Drew asked looking confused

"I think I really like Dawn" Ash said looking a little embarrassed

Drew looked a little surprised, as Ash hasn't had a crush on a girl since the 8th grade

"Well, uuuhhh…" Said Drew "If you like her that much, then you should ask her out for ice cream tonight, it is going to be really nice out!" Drew said as he left nodding and smiling at Ash "I gotta go, see ya man! And good luck!" Drew said as he left.

Ash was nervous, but he had to take a chance. He went up to the bleachers to where Dawn was, as May, Misty, and Iris had to go home.

"Hey Ash!" Dawn said delightfully as Ash approached her "You did really good at practice today!"

"Thanks!" Ash said blushing a little. "Now's your chance Ash!" "So a Dawn… it's supposed to be pretty nice out tonight… so… you want to go get some ice cream?"

"Uuuuhhhh…." Dawn said a little shocked. What was she going to say?

TO BE CONTINUED…

MUAHAHA! Guess you'll have to wait till Chapter 4! Huge shout out to Espeon44 for some great suggestions! Make sure to keep an eye out for updates and R&R. See ya!

-DomDawg20