Fortunately, baseball season began about the time that we were getting tired of the publicity. Though baseball was not such a big deal at our school, ...t still was enough to distract the kids away from us and to let us go back to being ourselves.I went out for baseball because I loved the game, though I was barely adequate as a player to make the team. I was a utility player at first or third base, mostly, though I would play anywhere but catcher if the coach would just put me into the game. The. He was still astonished by it.They left their quarters and walked hand-in-hand along the high-arched corridors, as they followed the happily chatting throng of white-haired Maliri women. They smiled and waved at Myriana, before their inquisitive eyes met his as well, and they greeted him in a similar friendly manner. Ceraden still found the way these stunning girls interacted with him to be deeply unsettling, with such open cheerfulness a radical departure from anything he’d witnessed from. You look up at the beard-man face, seeming furious and red. Only looking down at your body, he takes a grab at one of your breasts, pinning it from its leaps of joy. You reach up to touch his beard and get a few fingers scrap along the grizzle. He violently slaps it down, and pins it into the dirt. You whimper in shock, grimacing your eyes close, half-expecting a strike along the face. Blinking you open your eyes. You see straight-edge come to your ‘rescue’ again taking beard-man arms from. I knew for a fact that she had had several girlfriends as I had gone to her house to give her a shoulder to cry on over a couple of the breakups. She had never even hinted that she cared for me beyond the status of our friendship, still hadn't for that matter, I mean I knew she loved me, I just never knew she LOVED me. But what Josh said had the ring of truth and I just couldn't deal with it at the moment.In a fog I turned and walked past the struggling siblings to the curb. I stuck my arm out.