“Jay, I’ve got to go. My mom’s calling me for dinner. I’ll text you later,” Kira says over the phone.

“I’ll text you later then,” I replied.

“Bye.”

“Bye, babe.”

I climbed through my window and back into my room where Flyzik was talking to Alex. “He’s had to go a bit earlier than the rest of us for practice but were gonna leave in about ten minutes to make his game,” Flyzik explains.

“Is Rian’s first game today?” I ask him.

He jumps a bit as I said that. “Jesus, you scared me.”

“Most people call me Jack but you can call me that to,” I winked. He rolled his eyes and me and laughed a bit.

“But to answer your question, yes. Rian’s game is today,” he nods. “When you two and Zack get ready were gonna head towards the fields.”

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It was nearing the end of the third quarter when my stomach started growling. I nudged Flyzik’s arm to get his attention. “What?”

“I’m hungry,” I groaned.

“Me too,” Alex chimed in.

“Are we talking about food?” Zack asks.

“Yes,” Alex answers him.

“I want some to. I’ve been tempted to take that kid’s thing of nachos for the past five minutes,” he explains. I look at the kid he was pointing at and he looked to be about seven or eight years old. I shook my head at Zack and laughed.

Flyzik pulls out his wallet and hands me a twenty. “You guys go get whatever. Bring me back some nachos. Zack has me craving them now,” he says.

“Do you guys mind getting me some to? I don’t wanna miss the game,” Zack begs.

I nod at him. “Yeah. I don’t mind. Do you want me to get you something to or do you want to come with me?” I asked Alex.

He got up from his spot on the bench and said, “I’m coming with you.”

We climbed down the stadium together and started towards the concession stand. “Jack, can I tell you something without you freaking out on me?” Alex asks. His voice was shaking hard and I was surprised he got the sentence out without stuttering.

“I don’t see why not,” I shrugged. I stopped walking and looked at him. We were a good way away from the stadium and we still had a bit farther to walk to get to the concession stand but I figured he might want a bit of privacy with how scared he sounded.

“I know you’re happy with Kira and I’m not telling you this hoping that I’ll mess something up between the two of you but I really, really like you and I know your my foster brother and I shouldn’t feel that way but fuck it’s hard not to. I know you don’t feel the same way but I couldn’t not tell you,” he rambled. You are way to late.

I felt my heart jump to my throat. I wanted so badly to tell her that I felt the same way but the only words that came out of my mouth were, “You're right.” My heart is on fire again.

“What?”

“I don’t feel the same way,” I shook my head. I’m hurting him again. Just when things were starting to look up for me again I just had to go and screw him over. Nice going, Jack.

“I- I know that,” he stuttered. “I was just kinda hoping I was wrong.”

“Like you said, Im happy with Kira,” I lied. I’m miserable now that I know he likes me. Alex, why must you confuse me so much. So long, farewell, to the best of me.

“Im sorry for telling you I just- I don’t know why I told you. I-”

“Alex,” I stopped his rambling. He looked up at me with a broken expression and I sighed. “It’s fine. You’re starting to grow on me anyways. If you want, we can pretend like this conversation never happened.” Im my own worst enemy.

“Yeah. Thanks, Jack,” he smiled. I smiled back and gave him a hug. He hugged back even tighter and I didn’t want to let go, ever. I wanted to stay and hold him forever. It felt so right and when I let go I just wanted to hug him again.

“Food,” I exclaimed and started to walk towards concession again. Alex laughed and followed behind.

We stood in line for a bit then got our food. When we got back we gave Zack and Flyzik their nachos and I gave Flyzik his money back.

It was mid-fourth quarter when we sat down and our team, the Towson Generals, were in the lead by twenty points. The other team, the Dunbar Poets, is probably one of the worst baseball teams I’ve ever seen. Rian, he plays first base, has been super bored this entire game. He’s hit a home run every time he’s up to bat. The coach told Flyzik before the game started that Rian was the best player he’s ever had on his team.

Alex is avoiding me and decided to sit on the other side of Zack after we got back. I felt my heart fall out of my ass but I pulled myself together again, put on another mask, and faked a smile.

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