Legacy ~ B. Rodriquez

Roni's problems

Ham takes a couple of practice swings as he hyped himself up. "Hamilton "The Babe" Porter. "Long-ball" Porter. Come on, Ruiz."

He stops swinging his bat and points to the center of the field, just like Roni and her dad did.

All the boys start laughing and Roni laughs the hardest. She was bending over holding her stomach as her hair covered her face.

"Yeah-yeah. Give him a hockey stick." Yeah-yeah taunts.

DeNunez pitches the ball to Ham who tries to hit it, but misses earning himself a strike.

Benny caught it the ball and stood

"Woah." He said in fake disbelief.

"You call that pitching?" An irritated Ham asks.

DeNunez laughs as Benny throws the ball to him.

"This is baseball, not tennis."

"Give him a tennis racket." Roni taunts Ham.

Ham takes a few practice swings. "Give me something I'm going to hit."

"All right, Ham. This is my Heater. I dare you too hit it." DeNunez says taunting Ham.

Roni laughs a little as she watches DeNunez wind up.

Ham takes a couple more practice swings as he mumbles. "You'll be sorry."

"Give that boy a bigger bat." Squints taunts.

DeNunez nods. "You want the Heater, I'll give it to you."

He gets ready to pitch as more taunts could be heard. "Give him a basketball. Maybe then he'll hit it."

DeNunez pitches the ball to Ham and he hits it over the fence into the scrapyard.

Ham drops his bat and claps. "Yeah! That's how you do it, Smalls."

Roni groans letting her hands drop dramatically.

"Ham, you idiot! Now we can't play no more!" as Benny yells out angrily.

DeNunez takes off his glove and throws it at Ham. "Great you, idiot!"

Everyone starts throwing their gloves at him as he runs through all the bases. "Hit me with the heater."

Squints hits Ham with his mitt as Bertram hits Ham with his hat. "Stupid idiot!"

Ham just smiles and jokes around. "Low and outside! Just like I like it!"

They all continue to hit Ham as Roni chuckles at the boys she calls her friends. She looks back at Benny and notices he was staring at her. Benny quickly turns away as a light blush forms on his face. Roni blushes and looks down as she smiles to herself.

The guys had made it over to Benny at home base as they kept hitting Ham.

"1932 called shot World Series by The Babe." Ham jokes, comparing his home run to a historical legend.

Roni smiled and went to join the fun but stopped when she saw Smalls walk over to the fence. He was doing what she tried to do 5 summers ago. He was trying to climb it.

Roni immediately ran in Smalls's direction and yells out for him to stop, but he doesn't listen. The boys finally stop hitting Ham when they noticed what Roni was doing and do that same. "No!"