Hope ya'll are enjoying the story. Here's chapter 12!!!!! Disclamer: I don't own anything

CHAPTER 12 Church and the Diner

It was 9:30 in the morning when Bo arrived at the sandlot. Everyone else was already there.

"Where have you been?" Ham exclaimed as he saw her coming in.

"Mrs. Spice made me go buy some skirts and dresses for the trial." Bo rolled her eyes. "She says pants are appropriate for legal cases."

"The trial's not for a week, maybe more." Squints said.

"She said she was going to make me go to church next Sunday too." Bo replied, blushing a little.

"Why didn't she make you go today?" Tommy asked, grinning.

"Why didn't she make you go?" Timmy repeated.

"She said that I needed some appropriate clothes for church first." Bo sighed again.

"Don't worry, Bo." Benny spoke up, "My Mom apparently talked to Mrs. Spice. I have to go too."

"Are we going to play ball?" Ham asked loudly.

"Let's go!" Kenny exclaimed.

They all ran out to there positions and they all played ball for the rest of the day.

The rest of the week went by quickly. The whole school seemed to have heard about the upcoming trials, which had been set for Tuesday. As they walked through the school and the classes, kids constantly whispered behind there back and stared at them as if they were aliens. It made Benny and Bo feel uncomfortable.

When Sunday arrived, Bo was forced to where her new dress. It was light blue with white flowers on it. She groaned as she looked at herself in the mirror. She had never like dresses and only wore them on occasion when she was younger when her mother was alive.

Mrs. Spice and she met up with Benny and Rodriguez on the short walk to the church. Benny had been forced into a black suit and both he and Benny looked uncomfortable.

"You look nice, Bo." Benny smiled as they walked behind the two older women into the large white church.

"So do you." Bo replied. "You think they'll let us go play baseball after this?"

"I don't know." Benny chuckled. "My Mom might let me, but I don't know about Mrs. Spice."
"Hurry along you two." Mrs. Spice called as she and Mrs. Rodriguez slipped into the second pew in the front.

Bo and Benny groaned as they sat down on the outside of the two women and waited for the sermon to begin.

After nearly two hours in the sanctuary and Sunday school, the four headed on home. Bo and Benny talked for awhile before falling silent and looking around.

"Wait," Bo suddenly exclaimed, "Why are we going by the sandlot?"

"I invited Mrs. Spice over for lunch, Benny." Mrs. Rodriguez explained. "This is the shortest way to our house."

"Does that mean we won't be able to go play ball today?" Bo asked, afraid of the answer.

"Just for this Sunday." Mrs. Spice answered.

"Benny!" a voice they recognized as Ham's shouted, "Bo!"

Bo and Benny turned around, Bo nearly falling in her new low heels. She groaned as she saw the gang running toward them.

"Are you guys gonna come…whoa!" he suddenly exclaimed.

The entire gang stared at Bo.

"What are you doing in a dress?" Squints asked.

Bo blushed as she responded.

"Mrs. Spice made me wear it."

It was then that she realized that the two women had left them and were waiting up the road.

"Benjamin! Beauregard!" Mrs. Spice called. "Come along now!"

"Got to go guys." Benny said.

"Will you two be coming back later?" Smalls asked.

"Doesn't sound like we will be." Bo replied.

They heard footsteps from behind them. Bo and Benny turned and looked at Mrs. Spice and Mrs. Rodriguez.

"Do you two want to go eat at the diner with your friends?" Mrs. Rodriguez asked gently.

There faces lit up as they were basically given permission.

"You two may go eat at the diner," Mrs. Spice announced, "But you must be back by 2:30. We have a few things to talk over before Tuesday."

"Yes ma'am!" Bo and Benny exclaimed at the same time.

They turned back and they and the rest of the guys and hurried to the diner, Bo tripping every so often in there haste.

In less then five minutes, the entire team was sitting in the large booth at the diner eating cheeseburgers. They talked a little and had paid and were about to leave when a familiar voice called from across the diner.

"Hey losers!"

They all turned and saw Phillips along with the rest of his team standing there again, just like on Bo's second day in the town, except this time there was a few kids from school there as well.

"Whoa!" he exclaimed as he saw Bo's dress. "My, my, my. Doesn't little Miss Baseball look hot?"

"Shut up meathead!" Bo snapped angrily.

"That's it." She muttered under her breath. "I don't care what Mrs. Spice says, no more dresses!"

"What did you say?" Phillips asked.

"I said that you're a dung Beatle." Bo snarled. She really wasn't in the mood for this.

"I have to say I'm surprised, Rodriguez." Phillips ignored Bo's remark, "I never thought that I would see two worthless, unwanted kids like you two in church."

"So what were you doing there, Nimrod?" Ham spoke up quickly.

Kenny, Smalls, and Timmy were sliding out of the booth on one side as Bo, Benny, Tommy, and Ham slid out on the other side.

"Good come back, Pork Chop." Phillips sneered. He waited till they all stood facing him before asking. "Do you all plan to make a fight?"

"What if we do, Dork?" Ham asked.

"I'm sorry, Porky," Phillips replied, "But if you never learned to count that's not my fault. But I see only nine of you and fourteen of us."

"We could take you any day!" Ham boasted, but shut up as Benny slapped him.
"It'd be more like seven on fourteen, Ham." Benny whispered, "This suit wasn't made for fighting and I don't think Bo can fight in a dress." He paused, thought for a moment, and changed his mind. "Well, not very well at least."

Ham frowned as he realized that he was right.

"Come one guys." He pouted, shoving his way to the door. "Let's get out of here. They're not worth our time."

The rest of the gang quickly followed Ham out the door. They started walking down the road when they heard Phillips yell "Get them!"

They paused and turned to see Phillips, his team, and the five other kids running after them.

"Run!" Benny ordered.

Bo started to run, but tripped in her heels.

"Crud!" she shouted.
She quickly removed the shoes and took off barefoot after the boys, her shoes in her hands.

"You're going to step on a nail or something!" Benny told her breathlessly as they ran.

"Well I can't run with these things on!" Bo replied.
She risked a look back and saw that Phillips and everyone else had gotten on there bicycles.

"They have bikes!" she shouted.

"Where's the closet house?" Smalls gasped.

"My house!" Benny replied.

They quickly altered there course and ran as fast as they could to Benny's house.

"Run losers! Run!" Phillips shouted as they drew closer.

Somehow, they all managed to outrun the kids on bikes and they flew into Benny's house, Benny slamming the door behind them.
"Benny." Mrs. Rodriguez said uncertainly as she and Mrs. Spice started at them. "Do I want to know?"

"It's nothing Mom." He gasped. "We'll be in my room."

"Leave the door open!" Mrs. Rodriguez yelled as they walked to Benny's room.

They just sat there for a minute. Benny, Ham, Yeah-Yeah and Smalls sat on the bed, Tommy, Timmy, Squints, and Kenny sat on the floor, and Bo sat in the only chair. After a few moments, Bo got up and looked out the window. She scanned the empty streets quickly.

"There gone." She announced as she sat back down.

"What was that all about?" Smalls asked. "I mean, we haven't done anything to them for them to be mad about."

"We beat them in the baseball game," Ham told him, "They carry a grudge."

"Not to mention that they had five extra people to our nine." Kenny added.

"More like seven." Squints replied, "No offence, but that suit doesn't look easy to fight in Benny. And Bo, you were having trouble walking, you wouldn't have been able to fight."

Bo frowned, but didn't object and Benny nodded in agreement. Kenny looked up at the clock.

"I better get going." He announced, standing up, "My Mom will be wondering where I am."

The rest of the team agreed and soon, everyone was gone. Bo and Benny walked into the living room where Mrs. Rodriguez and Mrs. Spice were drinking tea and talking quietly.

"Hey Mom, Mrs. Spice." Benny greeted.

"Hi Mrs. Rodriguez, Mrs. Spice." Bo echoed.

"Come on in you two." Mrs. Rodriguez forced a smile and motioned to the couch, "Sit down."

They sat down on the couch, opposite of the two women.

"Beauregard, Benny," Mrs. Spice started seriously, "We need to talk."