Here it is, the last chapter. I hope ya'll have liked this one. Thanks to Delilah Anne Marie and Bell Wing for the reviews. You guys rock!!! Disclamer: I own nothing but the DVDS.
CHAPTER 10 The End
"What do you think you're doing, Matty?" Mark Phillips shouted as they walked into the bedroom they were forced to share.
"What do you mean?" Matt asked, sitting down on his bed.
"You know exactly what I'm talking about!" Phillips practically screamed, "Kissing Rodriguez's sister?"
Matt just rolled his eyes.
"So what if I kissed her?" he asked, "You kiss that Rebecca girl every day."
"But she's not the sister of our enemies!" Mark growled.
"She's on the team too, you know." Matt couldn't help but say, "And if I remember right, she outplayed you by a landside."
"That's it." Phillips face had gone blood red, "You're off the team! Forever!"
"You don't have the authority to kick me off," Mat stood up and faced his step-brother, "For the last year I've put up with you're big mouth and I've said nothing. But look here, Mark. I really like Casey and I don't care what you or anyone else says. You don't have to kick me off the team, I quit."
Phillips just stared at him, his mouth open in surprise and shock.
"But…but you can't!" he stammered. "I mean it's…. it's… it's…"
"It's what dog breath?" Matt asked as he walked out of the room. "Go ahead and whine. I'm going to the pool."
He grabbed his swim trunks and walked out of the room and to the pool. Phillips just stood their in his room, trying to figure out what had happened.
///////////////////////At the pool////////////////////////////////////////////
"Hey guys!" Smalls called as Benny and Casey walked into the pool.
The sandlot team and the Tigers were all, oddly enough, having a small war in the water. And it wasn't a full out fight, It was like they were actually trying not to hurt each other too much.
As she always did, Casey jumped in by the diving board and swam back over just as Matt was walking in. He spotted Casey, smiled and jumped into the pool quickly.
"Hey Casey." He smiled as he waded over to stand by her.
"Hey Matt." Casey smiled back. "So how did it go with Phillips?"
"Well, I quit the team." Matt told her, "And left him their confused. How'd it go with Benny?"
"He's fine with us dating." Casey told him, "I have no idea what happened, but he's fine now."
Matt smiled and splashed her, starting a war between the two. The two teams spotted them splashing each other and an all out war broke out with every man for himself.
As they were leaving, Matt told the Tigers that he had quit. They seemed sincerely upset, but no one tried to talk him out of it. As the Tigers were leaving, Benny pulled Matt over to the side and had a private conversation.
"I heard how you quit the Tigers." Benny said slowly, "I've talked it over with the guys and we all agreed that you're welcome to play on our team. Yeah-Yeah is leaving soon, his parents are shipping him off to military school, and we'll need another player."
"You mean it?" Matt asked in surprise.
Benny nodded.
"My sister really likes you. And I can tell that you like her." He sighed. "I'm fine with you two dating and you being on the team. So what do you say? You in?"
"I'm in." Matt smiled at Benny and the two shook on it.
From that day on, Matt was on the team and he and Casey stayed together throughout high school and ended up getting married.
The sandlot kids slowly all left the town except for Squints. Matt and Casey lived in Los Angeles near where Benny played major league baseball. Everyone kept in touch and the old sandlot gang never fully separated. Once every year they would all get together and go back to the sandlot and spend a day at the sandlot and played baseball just like old times.