"Play ball!"

I was at pitchers mound, and let me tell you somethin, it was going to feel really good to whip those goofy smiles off the other teams face. No one has seen the heater I have been working on, on my own time. I could hear the little leagers taunting me from the dugout but hey, they have reason. They know their going to lose.

I swung my leg up in front of my face like a ballerina, brought my arm back, and pitched it hard and fast. And even though it was completely strait, they would have had to have a tennis racket to hit it.

I could see the little leagers in the dugout, looking like they just peed themselves, and the sandlot boys were somewhat frozen.

I pitched tons like that, and when it was our turn to bat, everyone got a homerun, so I was hoping I wouldnt mess up the winning streak. I was right after Benny and I took up position on homeplate. The pitcher sucked, and I hit it good and clean. It flew out right past second base and all the way to the wall.

I was running from second base to third now when Scott Phillips did something horrible. When the ball was passed to him, he ran at the side of me full force, sending his fist to my stomach and elbow to my nose. I let out a long groan as I fell to the ground. All the sandlot boys were now rushing from the dugout faster than I could pitch. I brought my hand to my nose and instantly came away with blood. Scott hovered above me. "Your out!"

And I dont think I have ever seen Benjamin Rodriguez move so fast. He pulled Scott back by the collar of his shirt and punched him so hard it made me dizzy.

I was one the ground with nine sandlot boys crowded around me. Yeah-Yeah was the one to speak first. "Alexis are you okay?"

I took the rag he handed me and held it to my nose. "Oh yeah, im fine." I paused and looked at Benny. "I dont know about Scott though." They all chuckled and got up from the ground. "I think they were going after the 'if you cant beat 'em, join 'em' trophy." They all laughed at that as we made our way to our bikes. My nose had stopped bleeding and I took the rag from it.

Benny talked to me as we were all hopping on our bikes. "Hey, in the dugout we were all tlaking about going to the carnival. You up to it?"

I smiled. "Of course! I think theres a lot of things you still need to learn about me Benjamin. One is that im up for anything." He smirked and we all rode home to get cleaned up.

~~~~~~~~~~~~Carnival~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Benny bought our tickets that night. Bertram had given everyone chewing tobacco, but i had declined his offer. I dont think anyof them know how horrible that stuff is. We got on the ride and I sat with Benny. And right before the ride started I leaned over and murmered to him. "Spit it out. Before the ride starts."

He looked at me like I was crazy. "Why?"

I sighed. "Its gonna be barf-o-rama and I dont want you throwing up on me. Because the others will take care of that because they dont have someone as helpful as me sitting next to them."

He spit it out right as the ride started. We went a few minutes with out problems, until I heard the boys in front of us start groaning. Uh oh. I threw half of my dads old rain coat over Benny. "Cover yourself, its gonna be any minute now." And just as we pulled it over both of or bodies...

SPLAT!

"Aww ewww!" I groaned.

Benny made a sound between disgusted and amused.

The ride stopped and everyone got off, Benny and I the only ones clean. The other boys didnt even say anything before groaning and heading home. When they were out of sight, I couldnt control myself. I started laughing so hard that I was really glad that I didnt have to pee at that moment. Then Benny joined in and we must have looked like an original circus act.

We finally contolled ourselves and straightened our bodies wiping tears from our eyes. I let out one more giggle and turned to Benny. "One more ride, I'll buy."

He turned to me with a smile. "Cool." He paused and smirked at me. "But I buy. Because I never got to get you that ice cream." He chuckled.

I groaned loud and obvious. "Dont remind me!" I heard him chuckle again and I nodded my head. "Okay, your buy."

"Great." He said as we jogged over to the ticket counter and he got two tickets. He threw his arm around my shoulders. "The lady's pick." He said in a thick-totally fake-italian accent.

I laughed. "Ever been on the kite flyer?"

He gave me a confused glance. "Nope."

I smiled and chuckled. "Come on then!" I grabbed his hand and started leading him to the ride.

When we got there, his look of confusion grew. "What do you do?"

I laughed again. "Lay down, on your stomach and hold on to the bars in front of you."

He nodded. "Okay." We both got on. They started the ride and we had a lot of fun. It was funny because, at first, you could totally tell Benny was scared. But of course he didnt show it. We got on our bikes and decided to go home, we were all supposed to have a camp out, but I guess thats not happening.