. THUNDER! Ayaahhayaayaayaa ... THUNDER!’I looked out at the pitcher, and he looked pissed. Instead of going to the batter’s box, I headed to the ...ound. Well, fuck me ... that got a reaction.“It’s all good,” I said, holding up my hands as the catcher, all the umpires, St. Joe’s coach and Moose all ran to the mound.“What do you want?” their pitcher asked.“I just wanted to tell you that we didn’t play the music. I wanted to tell you that we think you’ve got a great team and no disrespect was. “What are you smiling at?” Katie Matthews asks, trying hard not to smile back.“You,” he says.“What about me?”“You’re so fucking beautiful, even with all this shit going on.”She sits back and lets a scowl settle on her face. “Is that all you can think of right now?” She doesn’t dare hold back any of her anger.“Whoa, hang on a sec,” Jasper replies, waving his hands around in the air. He winces immediately afterward.“Serves your stupid ass right,” she says.He laughs for a second. “Thanks for. No I think your Mom is getting far too much enjoyment from teasing me. She guessed what we did this morning you know and even though she wasn’t upset and I would love an encore I think I will pass this time.” She kissed me and skipped over and into the pool. I wiped my hands on her towel and went in to see what Amy needed help with. On the way I got the ladder out of the garage.When I went into the family room Amy had a huge length of curtain material laid out across the floor and was busy. And there was another smell, too, one he’d smelled on the other boy once before. ‘He’s been drinking and smoking pot!’ he thought, suddenly a bit frightened. ‘God, I wonder if Sylvia’s drunk and stoned, too.’ He watched Paul, who was leering at Sylvia’s mother. ‘Hey, Momma, you’re lookin’ fine tonight,’ Paul exclaimed and started toward his girlfriend’s mother. ‘You wanna do some dirty dancin’ with me?’ ‘Ah…no…I…I’d rather…I’d rather not,’ Karen replied warily. She started backing away from.