" Melinda, you're very young right now," she said. "Someday you'll understand that..." I hope I never understand anything the way you see it," I said ...cidly. "I will never understand how a woman who is married to a man who loves her totally can cheat on him with a man like Mr. Eddington. Do you even know half of the rumors about him? I mean you're clearly stupid, but are you THAT stupid? Mother, you're nowhere near the first woman or even the first woman in our school he's played around with.. The weeks passed and I still couldn’t stop thinking about her, but get this, I think she was thinking about me too. She would always look at me when she didn’t think I was looking and flirt with me a little here and there. Then there was one moment when she was looking at me and I turned around to look at her and she didn’t turn away. In that moment something changed between us. The intensity was too much to handle or believe, but I was mesmerized…I couldn’t look away. In my heart, my mind, my. ”I got up, pulled up my jeans from my ankles and took her in my arms, hugging her. “By the way, my name is Michael.”She reached down and shook my hand, “Glad to meet you, Michael,” she laughed. “Now let’s get out of here.”I followed Kathy through the kitchen as she flipped off the lights and then out the back door. We walked down a narrow gravel path and approached a small log cabin. It was dark except for a small spot light that suddenly came on from a motion detector.When we walked, I was. We would get together for about an hour, maybe do a little running and stretching. We pitchers would throw a little to loosen our arms. We'd take a little BP. We would laugh and talk over our favorite parts of the season. The state championship tournament began tomorrow, against Crest View High School, a school from about an hour and a half south of us. They were supposed to have an excellent pitcher, and were one of the top-hitting teams in the state this year. We had me, and we could hit.