I thought he'd understand.When we were the only two left in the whole place, I ran out of the dugout and started running across the field yelling, "I ...ADE IT! I MADE IT!" And, I was right, Mike didn't mind. He was standing at second base watching me-and laughing-as I romped around the outfield.When I finally stopped, he walked up to me and said, "You doubted you would?" You never know. They didn't want a girl on the team, you know that-so, you never know." I knew," he told me."You're so sweet.. "Timothy paid the man and took the arrow. He walked home clutching it hisown woes forgotten for the moment as he felt so sorry for that crazyhomeless man. He clutched the arrow absentmindedly, as he walked feelingthe strangely heavy weight of the metal arrow. He made it home and saidhi to his mother, an intelligent and kind woman who owned a lucrativesmall business. She was not concerned with his absence being used toTimothy's long walks and simply welcomed him home. She handed him aplate of. He looked back ather and was horrified to see Tina and several other girls from theprevious evening's party had arrived. They were moving down to thesandy border of the lake, pointing at him and aiming their cell phonesin his direction, taking pictures. He blushed and ducked underwater,kicking away from them. When he surfaced he saw that his presence hadattracted other attention. There were several tall hunky guys in skimpybathing suits stepping into the water, nodding toward him and. The farther they went away from the den, the cleaner the trailer seemed to smell. Peyton smothered a sigh and told herself screaming in frustration wouldn’t help. She found herself recanting that thought when they reached his room. Caleb’s room was bare of anything apart from the four-drawer chest that had seen better days and a small cot shoved into the far right corner. No posters of his favorite bands or idols hung on the walls, there were no bookshelves or telescopes or anything of value in.