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Becky Michigan meets the boy of her dreams on her first day of ninth grade, a gorgeous blonde baseball player named Danny with crystal blue eyes, but no one else in the school ever heard of him. To make matters worse, Becky starts having dreams that she is the greatest pitcher on the planet, and when she throws an orange in the cafeteria at more than 90 miles per hour, she has some questions for the boy who keeps disappearing.
The stronger Becky’s feelings grow for Danny the faster she throws, and the faster she throws the less he shows up! Suddenly she is offered the opportunity to try out for the varsity baseball team, a shot at being popular for once, but does this mean she has to give up the hope of ever finding true love? All answers come to light out behind the high school at midnight, on an old overgrown ball field in the woods behind the real one, fifty feet off the third baseline. It is a magic field. One of dreams. Or possibly nightmares.
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There
was only one place left to sit in the crowded cafeteria, at the empty table by
the trash cans next to the concrete support beam that had a poster of Frederick
Douglass on it. It was an old science desk at the edge of the walking aisle
separating the two halves of the room, and one of its legs was broken at the
base. The wobble-table. For losers.
One
kid was sitting there, the Asian boy from English class. He had stuck his math
book under the short leg, and was politely sipping soup, robotic and rigid,
nothing else on his tray but a couple of pieces of fruit. Becky walked over,
pulled out the chair across from him, and slipped off her backpack.
“What’s
your name?” she said.
He
was startled, but clearly glad he had a visitor.
“Joe,”
he said. “Joey Chen.” He smiled then, and even though he had funny
teeth, the expression had an interesting effect, like craft-show glass, like
sidewalk art. His eyes glinted. “You,”
he said, “are Becky Michigan.”
She
shrugged.
“Are
you new here?”
He
looked down at his soup.
“I
am from China. I been here one year, three months, eleven days.”
Becky
sighed. A whole year and he was eating lunch alone. And counting the days.
“You
like this great food?” she said.
“No.”
“Me
neither.”
“And
I don’t like bullies,” he said. “This place is full of them.”
Becky
sighed again, and then something hit her in the ear. The projectile rolled and
wobbled across the table, settling at the far edge. It was a grape. A purple
grape.
Another
one struck her right on the end of the nose, leaving a hint of moisture, making
her blink stupidly, and yet another plinked off her forehead. So immature! Bullies,
oh yes, Joey had a point now didn’t he? She pushed back her chair and looked
over in the general direction of the assault. There, across the aisle and about
eighteen rows down, was Cody Hatcher, the big kid who had been teasing her in
English class, sitting at the edge of the table with what seemed to be four of
his idiot friends, all of them laughing like hyenas, one stamping his foot he
was so overcome with the hilarity of it all. Hatcher stopped and looked right
at Becky. He reached in front of him and took a purple grape off the stem. He put
it in his mouth and chewed real slow. Swallowed. Licked his top lip and winked.
Then his friends were laughing again, slapping him on the back.
Becky
didn’t think, she just acted. Joe didn’t have time to move. In a flash, she
reached across the table, knocked over his milk, grabbed his orange, and
pivoted back, side-stepping into the aisle. She had a split second to look at
her target, and Hatcher had his mouth open, all teeth, eyes up at the ceiling
he was laughing so hard.
She
kicked up a knee and spread her hands, throwing-arm dangling way low behind
her. There was a moment of perfect balance there, and then her body became a
machine: all hot fluid and angry levers. She stepped into it deep, cocked up
her arm, snapped her hips, and fired.
The
orange flew out of her hand as if on a clothesline. Even through the noise, she
could hear it hiss through the air, and heads turned with it as if in slow
motion. Hatcher had just enough time to adjust his eyes from the ceiling and
focus on what was coming. It hit him square in the forehead with a hard splat
and his hands flew
up.
It knocked him straight back out of his chair, and the fruit ruptured in a
blast of spray and peel.
People
roared. Gossip exploded, and Becky could hear a lot of “Did you see that?” and “Who is that girl?” and “What happened?” and “Did you see how freakin’ hard she
chucked that?” Everything was
echoing, sounding unreal, and the teachers on lunch duty were darting their
eyes all around to pinpoint exactly where the disturbance was. Becky got back
in her chair, and Joe had his mouth open.
Becky
was trying not to shake.
“He
had it coming,” she managed.
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