Fortunately, there was only one person out walking his dog, heading in the other direction, so he couldn’t see anything, right?I tugged my dress dow... while Wallace fumbled with the keys. When he finally pushed the door open we nearly fell into the house as he and Louisa broke down laughing at my dishevelment.I tried to maintain my dignity as I strode to the stairs, but it was hard when I fell off one of my heels, which only brought more laughter. I threw one at Wallace, and was about to throw. There were a couple more errors by Matt and one by Eddie that let Park View close within five runs. We scored again, and by the time I came out of the game in the fifth, we were comfortably ahead by the score of 9-2. I was working on an earned run average of 0.00, and I gave Tanya a thumbs up when Coach came out to get me."So Coach," I slid over to sit next to him when we were out in the field in the eighth. "We don't have any other third basemen?" I'm open to suggestions," he said.I had no. He was wrong. As they ran into Sally's friends, they joined them in the shopping trek. Soon there was a small mob of teenagers, mostly girls, drifting from store to store. They were chattering like a bunch of magpies. It was mid-afternoon when Sally finally said, “Billy, I'm a little tired. Can we go somewhere else so I can rest my legs?” “Sure, Baby. I've got just the place. Let's go.” They stopped at a drive-in restaurant for burgers and fries. They were nearly finished eating when Sally. They asked to be excused from the table and headed off to their rooms for the night.Hank poured another cup of coffee for us, adding what appeared to be a rather healthy amount of a coffee liqueur to the cups and then a topping of whipped cream to boot. I didn't think I was in the mood for a drink but this tasted so good that I had another. We moved to the den where a fire was roaring in the fireplace. After a few minutes I actually began to relax. Thoughts of what had happened and what was to.